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The Movie Reviews

Tonight we saw “Big Eyes,” the story of Margaret Keane, who painted the soulful children with huge eyes and doleful expressions. It turns out that her husband took
all the credit for her paintings, and when she divorced him, he lied in court about doing that. She won the suit and left him in the dust of oblivion when people found
out he actually couldn’t paint at all, and everything he supposedly “painted” was done by others, whose signatures he painted over with his own name. “Keane” wasn’t
even his real name, either. It was 4 stars for the acting and the story. I had no idea about this until we watched this movie.

Then, “Wild Card” with my favorite tough guy, Jason Statham, who is a sort-of enforcer for the good guys. He’s very good at beating up the bad guys, but his dream
is to go to Corsica with enough money to buy a really nice yacht and live on it forever. He wins really big at Blackjack, but he loses it all again. He is nearly killed
by a mob brat, Milo Ventimiglia, but Jason wins out in the end. It was definitely 4-star material.

Some people who reviewed it didn’t like it, but they were comparing it to “Heat,” which had the same story line but with Burt Reynolds in the Jason Statham part.