Nicolas Cage Movie Review: **** Ghost Rider (2005)

 Ghost Rider is a Marvel Comic character, but not initially accepted into the MCU.  A motorcycle stunt rider, Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage)  sells his soul to the devil/Mephistopheles (Peter Fonda) to save his father, Barton Blaze (Brett Cullen) from cancer.   He is cured from cancer, but dies in an accident the same day.  The Devil indicates he fulfilled the contract and Nicholas Cage becomes the Ghost Rider and has to do the Devil's bidding.  This contract is activated when Black Heart (Wes Bentley) wants to defeat his father, the devil and take over hell.  Ghost Rider confronts this evil with people with their own powers.  Roxanne Simpson (Eva Mendez) is the woman Johnny Blaze is attracted to but obligations keep getting in the way.  She finally sees ghost Rider in action and begins to believe him.  Caretaker (Sam Elliott) is a past ghost Rider but on a horse, and provides support as well.  

This movie is strange for Marvel, but I think it is going to be a nice addition when he is accepted in the MCU Universe.  

Steven Spielberg/Tom Cruise Movie Review: ***^War of the Worlds (2005)

 This movie frustrated me to no end because there is such a wide disparity between the aliens and the humans.  In the end this movie is just hide and seek with the aliens slowly catching more and more people.  It seems just a matter of time before the catch up with Ray and his family.  Directed by Steven Spielberg.  

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  Tom Cruise

  Ray. The father who becomes the hope for survival
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  Dakota Fanning

  Rachel. Daughter of Ray
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  Miranda Otto

  Mary Ann. Ray's ex who has dropped the kids off for the weekend
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  Justin Chatwin

  Robbie. The son who doesn't like his father and runs off
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  Tim Robbins

  Harlan Ogilvy. A stange man they meet.  He wants to attack the aliens 
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Sandra Bullock Movie: **** 28 Days (2000)

 A very good movie a bout going through drug rehab.  A lot can happen in 28 days.  Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock) is ordered to rehab in lieu of jail.  For one thing she grows apart from her boyfriend, Jasper (Dominic West) who is into drinking and drugging, and she starts to see other people.  She meets Eddie Boone (Viggo Mortensen), a baseball player.  She also reconciles with her older sister, Lily (Elizabeth Perkins).  She ruined her wedding.  She does go through some trauma as her roommate, Andrea (Azura Skye) dies of an O.D.  

I think this movie does a good job of representing the rehab environment.  And it shows the change that can happen.  

Music Review: Pepe Aquilar, La Historia, Mis Exitos

Pepe Aquilar, La Historia, Mis Exitos, Balboa Records, USA, Discos Musart, Mexico, 2009. 

Pepe Aguilar has a very unique voce and his music almost sounds like country.  He sings some great ballads.  It has lots of story telling.  "Directo al Corazón" deals with a woman who left him high and dry for a richer companion.  "You left me for some coins, you didn't want to support my poverty."  "Por Mujeres Como Tu" "For women like you there are men like me". He sings of giving too much and his heart being crushed as a result.  He sings to sing a lot about relationships gone bad,  "Recuerdame Bonito" talks of the letter he writes to his girl goodbye.  "I'm leaving" "me voy". 

I hav e enjoyed this C.D. immensely.  He is a very good singer and plays music that can be in the background or the foreground.  

Movie Review: ***^ It Happened One Night (1934)

 Oscar Best Picture winner 1934.  Peter Warne (Clark Gable) is a reporter just fired, but is onto a big story.  Heiress Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) is running away to marry her intended, King Westley (Jameson Thomas).  Her father, Alexander Andrews (Walter Connolly) does not like the intended.  And so Warne travels with Elli. Andrews from Florida to New York keeping her safe and out of trouble with the hopes of scoring a big story.  And he comes up with the story but as will happen, plans get mucked up.

A cute movie with true love vs. convenient love.  The father discovers the true love and works to make it happen, letting his daughter know there is a car waiting she can use.  This is Runaway Bride the prequel.  

In Theaters: ***^ Daniel and the Fiery Furnace (2026)

 I enjoyed this movie.  I really liked the way they made the fire, and four people standing in the fire, so Jesus was with the three.  The King is forced to throw them in when some of his priests trick him to declare a law thag all must bo to the statue of the king.  Luckily God was able to intervene.  

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  Mena Massoud

  Daniel
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  Elijah Alexander

  King Nebuchadnezzar
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  Roberto Zenca

  Jeremiah. The prophet
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  Sophia Decaro

  Susanna. fictional sister of Jeremiah the prophet and friend of Daniel
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  Sunjay Midda

  Hananiah

  /Shadrach
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  Adam Lahraoui

  Mishael

  /Meshach
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  Zaki Ali

  Azariah

  /Abednego

Clint Eastwood Movie: ****^ Cry Macho

 This is an excellent Clint Eastwood directed, produced and starred in movie.  Mike Milo (Eastwood) is sent by his old boss, Howard Polk (Dwight Yoakam) to Mexico to retrieve his son.  He has legal issues and cannot go.  He finds the mother and talks to the boy's mother Leta (Fernanda Urrejola) who says if he can find the boy, he is free to take him.  He finds him Rafo (Eduardo Minett) at the cock fight.  He shows very little respect, but Milo is able to talk to him nd they go to his house to get his stuff, where the mother says he cannot go, but they go any way.  from this point they are on the run and have many adventures traveling.  The truck is stolen, and the travel back country with another car.  The Federales are after them as well, but say they were mistaken, Milo is not a drug runner.  They end up in a back country town with their car giving out again.  In the town Milo teaches Rafo about horse riding.  Milo had been a rodeo star.  

I rally like the character Milo, and the new life he finds with Marta (Natalia Traven) and her grandchildren.  Rafo decides to go with his father and Milo takes him to the border whee they meet him.  A good study of the effects of getting older and how to break down barriers.  Macho is the name of Rafo's rooster.  Rafo leaves the rooster with Milo.  Both Rafo and Milo find new lives and redemption.