The Burial (2023): Movie Review

                                                                    

Jim's Review

Willie E. Gary ( Jamie Fox) is a lawyer of luxury who has always been a winner and show it off with his planes and cars, that is until Jeremiah Joseph O'Keefe shows up with a special situation.

The dramatic adventure begins as Willie E Gary takes on a case that will have its twists and mega turns that will affect everyone on both sides

Based a true story director Maggie Betts brings this story some heart and lots of laughs throughout the film.

The climatic end will have you at the edge of your seat saying How much? just tell me please... Don't worry all will be revealed in due time..

9 out of 10 stars

About film

The Burial is a 2023 American legal drama film directed by Maggie Betts and written by Betts and Doug Wright. It is loosely based on the true story of lawyer Willie E. Gary and his client Jeremiah Joseph O'Keefe's lawsuit against the Loewen funeral company, as documented in the 1999 New Yorker article of the same name Jonathan Harr

The Walk (2015): Movie Review

                                                                          

       Jim Pagiamtzis Review
       Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Phillippe Petit a walker who had dream to tightrope across the Twin Towers in New York in 1975. 
            An ambitious film that will have your fearing of heights just by watching it form the beginning to the climatic end!

  8 out of 10 stars

        Movie plot:
Philippe Petit, a French street performer, dreams of performing daring stunts. He attempts to walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York on a tightrope.


                                          

American Made (2017): Movie Review

                                              

           Jim Pagiamtzis
             Tom Cruise plays Barry Seal a TWA pilot who was recruited by the CIA do work for them, that was just the beginning. The was the beginning of adventure that to work for so many people and make massive amounts money that lead him to the white house.

               Tom is brilliant as always bringing this true story to life! 

          8 out of 10 stars!


             Movie Plot:
           Barry Seal, a TWA pilot, is recruited by the CIA to provide reconnaissance on the burgeoning communist threat in Central America and soon finds himself in charge of one of the biggest covert CIA operations in the history of the United States. The operation spawns the birth of the Medellin cartel and almost brings down the Reagan White House.








                                      

Hacksaw Ridge (2016): Movie Review

                                                              

             Jim Pagiamtzis review
           Spectacular film with an amazing cast Desmond T. Doss (Adam Garfield) had a belief that he will not fire a weapon and his journey began to trust himself that he would not do so. 
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              Amazing actions sequences and kudso to Mel Gibson and his team for telling this great story

        10 of 10 stars

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               Movie plot
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White Boy Rick (2018): Movie Review

                                                              

        

                     Jim Pagiamtzis Review
                         Spectacular true story about Rcik Wersche Jr and the journey he went on in the early 1980's.  His father  Rick Sr (Mathew McConaughy) was selling guns and his son got in to deep into drugs. The FBI recurited him to get intelligence and money some glory.

               This went from bad to worse and the FBI got what they wanted but Rick Wershe went to jail anyways. At the age of 16 he went to jail and was released in 2017.

                  9 out 10 stars



                          Movie Plot:
                 Rick Wershe is a single father who's struggling to raise two teenagers during the height of the crack epidemic in 1980s Detroit. Wershe sells guns illegally to make ends meet but soon attracts attention from the FBI. Federal agents convince his son, Rick Jr., to become an undercover drug informant in exchange for keeping his father out of prison. When young Rick gets in too deep, he finds himself seduced by the lure of easy money and becomes a drug dealer himself.


                                           
                       

Tag (2018): Movie Review

                                                   

    Jim Pagiamtzis Review:
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            8 out of 10 stars
 
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        Movie Plot:
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Emotion drama, journey to freedom, family matters.              

                                                              

            Jim Pagiamtzis review
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       10 of 10 stars


            Movie plot
       
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Dunkirk (2017): Movie Review

                                                           

         Jim Pagiamtzis Review
     Cinematic masterpiece Christopher Nolan captures action in the air, in the sea and on the beach. You are there in the action as the bullets fly all over.

   8 of 10 stars


          Movie plot:
        In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. Under air and ground cover from British and French forces, troops were slowly and methodically evacuated from the beach using every serviceable naval and civilian vessel that could be found. At the end of this heroic mission, 330,000 French, British, Belgian and Dutch soldiers were safely evacuated.
                                          

Movie Review: Chappaquiddick (2018)

                                                           
    Jim Pagiamtzis review:
        Political thriller of untold true story of accident that occured at Chappaquiddick Island. Sentator Ted Kenndy (Jason Clarke) went on late night car ride with Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara).
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   Movie Plot

  On July 18, 1969, Sen. Ted Kennedy drives his car off of a bridge on Massachusetts' Chappaquiddick Island. The accident results in the death of passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year-old campaign strategist who worked for Kennedy. The ongoing investigation into the mysterious and scandalous events forever alters his political legacy -- and ultimately changes the course of presidential history.




                                        

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  Jim Pagiamtzis Review:
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Movie Plot:

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