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‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ is a beautiful and emotional look at life in the bayou

“Once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in The Bathtub.”

BeastsSouthernWild2This is our introduction to Quvenzhané Wallis, who plays the 5-year-old Hushpuppy, a resident of the Bathtub in the Louisiana bayou. A bathtub is a community of the bayou that has been cut off by a levee. Little Hushpuppy lives with her father, Wink (Dwight Henry), a man struggling with his health as much as his anger issues. Together they struggle but they survive in their poor, ramshackle village. This is their life and they wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Horrible Bosses (2011) — Movie Review

Is it just me or is Jason Bateman in every other movie these days?  I’m pretty sure I saw him in the Battle of Hogwarts…anyway– he’s in Horrible Bosses, which is not a horrible movie.  I also think this is the first movie I’ve seen in theatres that had Kansas City native Jason Sudeikis in it.

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Examining Movies and TV with Tim (video)

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