Author Archives: grace abonillo

The X-Files: I WANT TO BELIEVE

When a group of women are abducted in the wintry hills of rural Virginia, the only clues to their disappearance are the grotesque human remains that begin to turn up in snow banks along the highway. With officials desperate for any lead, a disgraced priest’s questionable visions send local police on a wild goose chase…

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mama mia

20 year old Sophie (Seyfried) is preparing to marry her boyfriend Sky (Cooper) at her mother’s hotel on an island in Greece. She seemingly has it all — a carefree life, a loving fiance, and happy friends — but one thing has been missing all her life: a father. Her only wish now is to…

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step brothers

Brennan Huff (Will Ferrell) is a thirty-nine-year-old who has never left home and lives with his divorced mother, Nancy Huff (Mary Steenburgen). Dale Doback (John C. Reilly) is a forty-year-old who also has never left home and lives with his widower father, Dr. Robert Doback (Richard Jenkins). Both of them are unemployed and have been…

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the DARK Knight

Summary: (Spoiler free) Bruce Wayne/Batman (Christian Bale) continues to eliminate crime in Gotham City with the help of Lt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart). The Dark Knight wants to finally get rid of organized crime for good and be free of their corruption. Batman soon finds that a new…

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movie watchers

This Message Will Self-Destruct in 5 … 4 … 3 … This will be my last column for Movies.com. I know, poignant. I started writing here in October of 2005, and I think I’ve seen and written about a thousand movies since then. And that’s a slight underestimate. It’s probably even more than that. I…

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Movie Watchers

This Message Will Self-Destruct in 5 … 4 … 3 … This will be my last column for Movies.com. I know, poignant. I started writing here in October of 2005, and I think I’ve seen and written about a thousand movies since then. And that’s a slight underestimate. It’s probably even more than that. I…

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