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Very Last Day by Parker Millsap
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The Very Last Day is the sophomore from Parker and boldly showcases the growth in both Millsap's...
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Kate Spade New York: She: Muses, Visionairies and Madcap Heroines
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The fourth book in kate spade new york's successful series, SHE: muses, visionaries and madcap...
Dumplin'
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Comin' Right at Ya: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel
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A six-foot-seven-inch Jewish hippie from Philadelphia starts a Western swing band in 1970, when...
Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives
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Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with...
Music Essays
Gareth von Kallenbach (968 KP) rated Morning Glory (2010) in Movies
Aug 8, 2019 (Updated Aug 8, 2019)
Diane Keaton brightens the screen looking great while completely selling her role as the eager morning television show anchorwomen, Colleen Peck. The unexpected Harrison Ford adds a rough edge as the once great journalist and now subpar anchorman, Mike Pomeroy. However, it is rising actress, Rachel Adams, as the determined Becky, who stole the show.
Morning Glory offers exactly the amount of oddness one might expect from a film with action star Harrison Ford as a news guy. Yet somehow the story is sweet and mildly uplifting and, on occasion, laugh out loud funny.
The plot is not brilliant, new, or even all that imaginative, still the film is unique. Morning Glory oddly brings to mind “Little Black Book” all be it in a much lighter and less romantically driven tone. In fact the romance element is so light in this film that it is much more likely to fall in the drama/comedy category, with romance taking a backseat to the real focus of the film: the challenges of work-obsessed Becky.
Mashed firmly between an decent episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show and the Dolly Parton classic “9 to 5”, Morning Glory is a one-of-a-kind take on a story that is increasingly all too familiar. Without the unnecessary bells and whistles so often thrown in to modern cinema, Morning Glory keeps the audience watching and sometimes even laughing.
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I Love You Like a Brother by Alex Lahey
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I Love You Like A Brother is the highly anticipated album from Melbourne's Alex Lahey. After...
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