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A Star Is Born, written, directed and starring Bradley Cooper 7 out of 10

  A Star Is Born, written, directed and starring Bradley Cooper 7 out of 10 This motion picture has enjoyed not just a success with the audiences that have rated it with an average of 8.2 out of 10 and with that placing it at number 212 on the Top Rated Movies list, but also with critics. These have been even more generous and appreciative with a Metascore of 88 out of 100. Therefore I am surely wrong in saying that this is just an ordinary, rather flawed motion picture. True, my teenage daughter was not impressed either,but two people against large audiences and many critics can and should be dismissed as unable to see what a glorious Star is Born there. However, I will say my piece and then you go watch it and see for yourself. Lady Gaga is too artificial, unnatural, improper, amateurish, bizarre, unpleasant even when she is supposed to make us weep to give this film a chances of have any significant value. Granted, the specter of the preposterous star with her meat dress and out...
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Limitless, Leslie Dixon- Screenplay and Bradley Cooper in the leading role

  Limitless, Leslie Dixon- Screenplay and Bradley Cooper in the leading role A different version of this note and thoughts on other books are available at: -               https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVa4_CsRStSBBDo4uJWT8BSWtTTn0N1E   and    http://realini.blogspot.ro/ I loved this film! And only wish I could take the substance and get the results: -            Learn Portuguese, to play the piano and eventually the stock market Eddie Morra is played to perfection by Bradley Cooper. After the initial success of The Hangover, Bradley Cooper has been better and better in remarkable films like: -            Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle and American Sniper Especially Silver Linings and American Hustle have been right up my alley, even if the performance in American Sniper...
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Managing Uncertainty by Michel Syrett and Marion Devine

  Managing Uncertainty by Michel Syrett and Marion Devine There are some quite interesting ideas in the book, even if I may not have the chance to use them in the practice of a business. For some reason, I enjoy reading about the likes of "The Smartest Guys in the Room".. I liked to to find out how a manager from Boeing turned around Ford, based on ...truth among other things.
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Difficulties With Girls by Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis is one of my favorite magnum opera, indeed, I admire all the works of the author, it is the second time I read this and the plan is to take all the about thirty books or so by this luminary and read them again – all the reviews on this and more than four thousand other features from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites, plus more than five thousand notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists are available on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

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  Difficulties With Girls by Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis is one of my favorite magnum opera, indeed, I admire all the works of the author, it is the second time I read this and the plan is to take all the about thirty books or so by this luminary and read them again – all the reviews on this and more than four thousand other features from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites, plus more than five thousand notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists are available on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html     10 out of 10   Lucky Jim https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/lucky-jim-by-kingsley-amis-author-of.html by Kingsley Amis is included on The All-TIME 100 Best Novels list, while it is ranked only 386 th on The Greatest Books of All Time page, and the problem is that other oeuvres by my favorite writer are way down in the hierarchy ...
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Bride of the Wind by Marilyn Levy Eight out of 10

  Bride of the Wind by Marilyn Levy Eight out of 10 This motion picture is surely not perfect, but it is however next to impossible to understand for yours truly why the critics have destroyed it. Granted, there seems to be a disharmony, an imbalance which was evident in the other direction recently, when the under signed has considered Crazy Rich Asians a terrible movie ( http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/11/crazy-rich-asians-based-on-novel-by.html ) while audiences and critics have celebrated it. I really do not see why The Austin chronicle has given The Bride only two stars out of five and it is especially ghastly to see Roger Ebert rating it with just half a star (?!), when that site is generous with any ludicrous, forgettable piece and then going on to say that “it is one of the worst biopics ever”. Come on! Give me a break! As they say in the movies favored by this very caustic expert, but only on the matter of The Bride. Anyway, if I did not love it to despair, I surely liked...
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Father of the bride, written- with four others - and directed by Charles Shyer 8 out of 10

  Father of the bride, written- with four others - and directed by Charles Shyer 8 out of 10 Steve Martin, Diane Keaton give solid performances in this motion picture, but it is Martin Short who steals the show, with an over the top rendition of Franck Eggelhoffer, a flamboyant, excessive and amusing wedding planner and coordinator. When George Banks hears his daughter is getting married, he can't believe his hears - it is true she is very young, in an age when people postpone matrimony and having children, at least in most of the West - and he is more than aggravated. Humor is already presented in the first few scenes, as the would be Father of the Bride prefers to shut himself from the incoming information... His daughter, Annie Banks, explains how she has met Bryan MacKenzie while in Italy and they have had such a great time, since the young man is marvelous... She keeps giving more details, but the frightened parent is not processing most, if any of it... Well into the Italian ...
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