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Sinners

  Finally saw "Sinners." All the people I knew at work were talking about this movie. The news and the awards shows talked about it. So I watched it. It's not really my kind of movie. I was afraid that that it was a horror movie, and really, no, it isn't. I was hoping more about the history of the black people and the history of dance and the history of music and I did see some of that but not enough. I get that Remmick, played by Jack O'Connell, wants everyone to be a family. Black, white, Asian (Chinese back in that time) - didn't matter. He was right: Jim Crow South, yeah the white man would try and succeed in taking that Jut Joint away from them eventually. Not to see the black man, or black brothers, succeed and make money like they did in Chicago. The brothers are Smoke and Stack, both played by Michael B. Jordan, come on the scene from Chicago and this town in the South knows them. They are wary of them. But they give them a chance. The town comes out t...

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

 First time I've ever seen this movie. It's cute. The female dinosaur was pretty scary at first, but she did warm on me. Sid is just as stupid as ever, and common sense is not in his DNA. But he loves those kids. He really wants to be a mother/parent. He wants to be the caretaker, even in the first movie. So it's kinda sweet. But everything really revolves around the baby coming. Manny and Ellie are going to have a baby. Manny is freaking out and Ellie perfectly fine. But they encounter dinosaur eggs. And a mother dinosaur. And a new adventure to find Sid who has been taken by the Mother Dinosaur. And there's a bigger dinosaur out there...and lava. Lots of lava. And very small, very fast predators. The small group band together and meet up with a survivor named Buck. Buck has one good eye and a lot of survivor skills. He and Diego get on pretty well, as Diego is also a single male trying to make it in the world. But can they? If they go off on their own, will they survi...