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Charlie and the Serial Admirer

Wednesday: The Oxford Murders (2008)                Martin is a grad student who comes to Oxford University in hopes of working with the famed Professor Seldom. He is staying with a friend of Seldom's. Her daughter lives in the house as well. Not long after Martin moves in she is killed and her body is discovered by Martin and Seldom. It is the first of several murders each with a coded message. Martin and Seldom have to work together to find the killer. I thought this movie was alright. It was trying too hard to be intelligent.  Friday: The Amateur (2025)          A CIA decoder, Charlie, is onto something big. Then his wife, while on a business trip in London, gets taken hostage and killed in a terrorist attack. His supervisors are not acting fast enough. They don't seem motivated at all to arrest the people behind the attack. Charlie forces them to get him training so he can hunt down the killers on his own. They ag...

Superman and the Dinosaurs

 Saturday: Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)       Zora is a covert operative. She gets hired by a man, Martin, who works for a pharmaceutical company that wants to use dinosaur DNA to develop groundbreaking medicine. He needs Zora to help put together a team to go to an abandoned research facility on an island. There they will get the DNA they need from the dinosaurs that live there. Along with people she's worked with before they also hire a scientist, Dr. Loomis. They head off to the island. Little do they know what really happened on that island. I thought this movie was alright. The writing wasn't very good. Also the acting wasn't the best. Sunday: The Double Life of Veronique (1991)         This is a French and Polish film. Veronique is a French aspiring singer. While in town one day she sees a young woman getting on a bus who looks exactly like here. She feels a connection between them. Veronique lands an audition at a well known theater....