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Movie Review: To Rome With Love

I struggle every year to find something fun to do for my birthday. This year was the first year in many that I actually worked on my birthday. But that didn't stop Jenn and I from enjoying my birthday festivities. After an amazing happy hour at Yard House we walked over to the Island Cinema to see To Rome with Love.

Jenn and I have become big fans of Woody Allen movies over the last couple of years with two of our favorites in Match Point and Midnight in Paris. Going into To Rome With Love I had tempered expectations with all of the less then stellar reviews. However I am hear to say that I loved it. Not to the same extent of the movies mentioned earlier but still a great fun movie.

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Ranking the Rocky Movies

If you know me even in the slightest bit you will know that I love Rocky. Since I can remember as a kid I would sit and watch Rocky 1-5 in marathon sessions all the time. I love the story. I love the character. I love the boxing. There is so much about these movies that just get me pumped. Thinking of the now six movies makes me want to sit down and watch them again.

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Book Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire

I read the first book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series almost two years ago. I really enjoyed the book but then got fully engrossed into the epic Game of Thrones series and kind of forgot about the Millennium Series. Well now that I am caught up on George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy series I went back and purchased the second book in the series The Girl Who Played With Fire.

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