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Movie of the Week
It's only Tuesday, but I'm ready to name my Movie of the Week

Owning Mahowny -- This movie came out in 2003 to little avail. If it were to come out today, I guarantee that it would have made a ton of money in the theaters because of its plot around gambling as well as the great acting of Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The story centers around a degenerate gambler Dan Mahowny (Hoffman) who gets deeper and deeper into debt because of his compulsive gambling habits. Mahowny is a banker in the film and he sets up fake bank loans to fund his habit.

As his debts mount, he goes on a rollercoaster ride of being in the red and black continuously. Throughout he shows all of the typical addictive gambler indicators throughout the movie...like not being able to stop gambling when he's up....like thinking that the next big score is right around the corner....like making making bigger and bigger bets to get back into the black. Or another scene in Las Vegas where Mahowny his friend to hold onto money that he's won and not give it back no matter what he says. After Mahowny loses all of his money, he threatens his friend into giving the money back to him and then he proceeds to lose that money.

I would highly recommend this film to practically anyone as it's a great character story of just what can happen to a person who lets gambling run their life.



Inside Man -- Going into watching this movie with Denzel Washington and Clive Owen, I was expecting a decent movie. What I got was a great movie. Although I haven't figured out the ending yet, I would highly recommend giving this movie a rental.


As the name of the movie indicates, it deals with an inside job to rob a bank. But the robbers weren't planning to rob money from the bank. That's all I'll say about that. I'm not much for people spoiling movies for others.

Nacho Libre - I don't even know what to say about this movie. My wife and I usually like these type of random, off-centered movies, but this was just atrocious. It was simply way too random and all over the place. Sloppy script, dumb scenes...the works. It was one of those movies that you turn off halfway through....which is exactly what we did. It was so bad, that I am not even taking the time to find movie graphic to accompany this piece.

Until next time...