The Movie Diary

Mercy me!

By Dom Cioffi The other day I had half an hour to kill so I grabbed my iPad, flopped down on the couch and fired up my Netflix app. After perusing for a bit, I came across one of my […]

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The Movie Diary

An inside look

By Dom Cioffi I took my family to Washington, D.C., this past weekend to roam the monuments and museums located within our nation’s capitol. Both my wife and I were looking forward to immersing ourselves within the history, science and […]

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The Movie Diary

A brave new world

By Dom Cioffi My son graduated from elementary school last week. I never thought you could graduate from elementary school. I just thought it ended and the next year you started middle school. But apparently, times have changed. It turned […]

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The Movie Diary

Double trouble

By Dom Cioffi Margreet Zelle knew how to get attention. Born into an affluent family in the Netherlands in the latter 1800s, Margreet was accustomed to the finer things that wealth and privilege had to offer. However, when her father’s […]

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The way we were

By Dom Cioffi I always used to find it funny when I heard adults talk about reading the obituaries. Scanning the daily paper to see who died simply came across as a morbid activity to me. And then I ended […]

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Young at heart

By Dom Cioffi For as far back as I can remember, I have had a persistent need to win. It didn’t matter if it was baseball, darts or a game of Go Fish, my mindset has always been focused on […]

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The Movie Diary

When the well runs dry

By Dom Cioffi There are certain things in the developed world that are easy to take for granted: the relative safety we experience, the medical care available to us, and the food we have access to. But the one thing […]

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A brush with fame

By Dom Cioffi During the recess after my freshman year of college, several of my friends and I decided to head to Cape Cod to work for the summer. The idea was to rent a beach house for three months, […]

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The Movie Diary: Riding high

THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON By Dom Cioffi Sitting directly on the border between North and South Carolina is an amusement park called Carowinds. It has all the usual trappings of a modern-day theme park with fun activities, incredibly over-priced […]

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The Movie Diary

Welcome to the machine

By Dom Cioffi It was an inexpensive, under-sized, tobacco sunburst acoustic guitar whose brand name is now long lost to memory. In essence, it was an incredibly forgettable conglomeration of wood and wire… but it was the catalyst for a […]

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