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Movie Review: Dog

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The new movie “Dog” not only has the simplest title, but also the simplest story. A soldier who was friends with someone who was killed in Afghanistan is hired by his commanding officer to transport his dog across country to his funeral. From that point on, this entire movie is all about Channing Tatum transporting a German Shepard across country, with various dramatic and funny scenes along the way. This is the entire movie, that is hard to believe was greenlighted into a movie – but it was. Some of the scenes are funny, some are emotional and almost all of them are for hard core dog lovers. However, there is really no story here and not much of a movie.

I am surprised to see the relatively high ratings of 77% for such a simple film, my rating being in the 50% rating -giving this film a pass.

Movie Review: Uncharted

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The new movie “Uncharted” is one of those “Lets take some special effects ideas that tested well with other action movies, slap together a garbage script, throw Tom Holland (Spiderman) and Mark Wahlberg into the mix, make an exciting trailer involving people and large objects falling out of planes, and we have a good shot at turning a profit. The only problem with this kind of thinking is because there is no real story, its mostly a nightmare for the audience to sit through this.

This movie is nothing more than a stew of action scenes we have all seen in several Fast And Furious movies, Mission Impossible Rogue Nation and National Treasure movies. There are two keys that open doors that exist in different parts of the world, all culminating with finding gold inside two sunken pirate ships. The only good thing about this movie are some of the special effects at the end of the film, involving people, cars and huge objects falling out of planes. The final scenes involve huge helicopters that are carrying huge pirate ships – this must have been hard to shoot and cost a great deal of money. Its too bad that the film wasn’t 20 minutes long, just showing these last parts, because sitting through the first 80% of this mostly bad movie was at times unbearable.

I agree with the very low 38% ratings for Uncharted on Rotten Tomatoes and do not recommend this film.

Academy Award Nominations 2021

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Best Picture
”Belfast”
“CODA”
“Don’t Look Up”
“Drive My Car”
“Dune”
“King Richard”
“Licorice Pizza”
“Nightmare Alley”
“The Power of the Dog”
“West Side Story”

Best Director
Jane Campion, “The Power of the Dog”
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, “Drive My Car”
Kenneth Branagh, “Belfast”
Paul Thomas Anderson, “Licorice Pizza”
Steven Spielberg, “West Side Story”

Best Actress
Nicole Kidman, “Being the Ricardos”
Olivia Colman, “The Lost Daughter”
Kristen Stewart, “Spencer”
Penelope Cruz, “Parallel Mothers”
Jessica Chastain, “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”

Best Actor
Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Power of the Dog”
Andrew Garfield, “Tick, Tick … Boom!“
Will Smith, “King Richard” 
Denzel Washington, “The Tragedy of Macbeth”
Javier Bardem, “Being the Ricardos”

Best Original Screenplay
”Licorice Pizza”
“Belfast”
“Don’t Look Up”
“King Richard”
“The Worst Person in the World”

Best Adapted Screenplay
”The Power of the Dog”
“The Lost Daughter”
“CODA”
“Drive My Car”
“Dune”

Best Original Score
”Dune”
“The Power of the Dog”
“Encanto”
“Don’t Look Up”
“Parallel Mothers”

Actress in a Supporting Role:
Ariana DeBose, “West Side Story”
Kirsten Dunst, “The Power of the Dog”
Aunjanue Ellis, “King Richard”
Jessie Buckley, “The Lost Daughter”
Judi Dench, “Belfast”

Best Film Editing
”King Richard”
“Don’t Look Up”
“Dune”
“The Power of the Dog”
“Tick, Tick … Boom!”

Best Supporting Actor
Ciaran Hinds, “Belfast”
Troy Kotsur, “CODA”
Kodi Smit-McPhee, “The Power of the Dog”
Jesse Plemons, “The Power of the Dog”
J.K. Simmons, “Being the Ricardos”

Best Live Action Short Film
”The Long Goodbye”
“The Dress”
“Ala Kachuu – Take and Run”
“On My Mind”
“Please Hold”