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Movies Week in Review – May 19th – 24th

We saw some great movies this last week. If you’d like to know what we thought, click on the links below to read the full reviews. We started off the week with “The Water Horse,” a fanciful movie that investigates the legend of the Loch Ness monster and suggests one possible way it came to be in existence. We go back in time to World War II and see a young boy named Angus find a strange stone by the loch—a stone which turns out to be the egg of the mythical water horse. He cares for the creature until … Continue reading →

Shall We Dance (1937)

In the classic Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers film “Shall We Dance,” Astaire stars as Peter P. Peters, an American hoofer who has been masquerading as a Russian ballet star named Petrov. Having built up a fairly decent following for himself in Europe, he’s tired of the ballet scene and wants to do something different. Jeffrey, owner of the ballet troupe, is rather dismayed when he finds Peter tap dancing. Star of the stage Linda Keene (Ginger Rogers) has been touring Europe as well and it’s time for her to return to the States. The ballet troupe is sailing as well, and … Continue reading →