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Married since Oct. 1989 to a wonderful man I've known since I was a kid.
In 2011 made the big move out west having lived in the DC Metro area our entire lives. Adopted two young little dogs in 2012 and we are enjoying life with our new family.
Enjoy reading, cooking/baking, blogging, walking, keyboard playing, singing, talk radio
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Orphan Horse (2018)
Nice film to watch with my elderly mother
Picked up a copy of the DVD for cheap at the store because it sounded like an interesting and wholesome movie. We were pleasantly surprised. Yes, some of it was predictable, but it was still pretty clever how the story played out and things were tied together. It was not "draggy" at all, and held our interest throughout. There were a couple of times where we actually cheered. But you should also have a tissue handy.
The only real criticisms we had was that there were no subtitles (Mom is hard of hearing, and wears aids) and even when the volume was turned way up on her TV some of the dialogue was missed, even by me.
But overall, it was a nice escape -- especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lately we've been doing takeout lunch and a new movie, and this one fit the bill nicely.
Alpha (2018)
Enjoyable, couldn't wait to come home to my dogs
The pacing was a bit slow in the first part of the movie. That said, the first few minutes were exciting and well done. They wanted to grab you, and cleverly did a look-back on the previous week, and it took off from there.
It is subtitled throughout which I thought would be a plus for my mother who has diminished hearing, but she also has macular degeneration, and was challenged with the color of the text vs the background at times, but she did enjoy it very much.
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Thoroughly absorbing.
This seems like a slow-moving film when you step back from it, but I honestly did not realize the passage of time as I became utterly involved with this absorbing film. Since that first viewing 4-5 years ago, no matter how many times I see it I'm always misty-eyed at the end, with a renewed sense of my own mortality, and a renewed appreciation of what I have in life. How many movies can one say that about? This is a very well done film, with outstanding performances by all.