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Netflix's The Kissing Booth (2018)

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A high school student finds herself face-to-face with her long-term crush when she signs up to run a kissing booth at the spring carnival. Initial release :  11 May 2018 Director :  Vince Marcello Written by :  Vince Marcello Based on :  The Kissing Booth; by Beth Reekles Music composed by :  Patrick Kirst Production company :  Netflix THE SOUNDTRACK Enough of reviving my old blog entries and pass them off as new ones...well, at least for now. Although released in May, it was only now that I saw it.  It was quite intense.  I am not sure, but I think this is the first time that I saw JOEY KING playing this kind of role.  Here she plays Elle, a newly voluptuous ninth grader who has the body of an eleventh grader, according to her.  During the first day of school she gets discovered by the male population of the school and instantly becomes popular because when her pants got ri...

Elevator Girl (2010)

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Director: Bradford May Writer: Jennifer Notas Shapiro  Music composed by: Stephen Graziano Two young people -- a successful lawyer whose career is moving fast and a free-spirited woman with a carefree approach to life -- meet when they're stuck in a broken elevator. Despite their very different lifestyles, sparks fly they hit it off immediately. But will love allow them learn to embrace each other's flaws? Stars Lacey Chabert  and Ryan Merriman . - The Hallmark Channel As friends or members of the family we have a tendency to write off some people as not good enough for our loved ones and still think we are not snobs or anything. Sometimes we even know we're snobbish, and meddle all the more.   Right from the start there was something so right between Libby(LACEY CHABERT) and Jonathan(RYAN MERRIMAN), but some of the people around them didn't think so.  The two are poles apart, but as the saying goes, opposite poles attract.  The two h...

Going in Style (PG)

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Lifelong buddies Willie (Morgan Freeman), Joe (Michael Caine) and Albert (Alan Arkin) decide to buck retirement and step off the straight-and-narrow when their pension funds become a corporate casualty. Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three men risk it all by embarking on a daring adventure to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.-WWW Release date: April 7, 2017 (USA) Director: Zach Braff Based on: Going in Style; Written and Directed for the Silver Screen by Martin Brest (1979) Based on the original story of Edward Cannon Music composed by: Rob Simonsen Cinematography: Rodney Charters 1979 There was something vaguely familiar about this movie, but I thought to myself maybe it just had the same theme or something.  Later, I checked it out and found out it was based on a George Burns et al movie of 1979. Even if this was(is) a remake or a re-imagining or something, it became an entirely new movie that's act...