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December’s One Sentence Movie Reviews

January 1, 2015 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

December brings to cinemaphiles its usual array of big rep films. Most this year are over-hyped and overblown. Marketing can get us in the theater but can’t make us love one. I use a 5-finger (high-five) rating system where 5 is outstanding, 4 very good and worth seeing, 3 is mediocre, with 2 not worth […]

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2015 Predictions for Professional Selling

December 20, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I was recently asked to see what lies ahead in professional selling. Here’s what I wrote: Ocean Palmer’s Top 5 Predictions for 2015 Demand for Value Creating Salespeople will Significantly Increase As companies continue to focus on top-line revenue growth, the global and domestic market need for sales professionals who can communicate, establish, grow, and […]

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November Movies: Seven One-Sentence Reviews

November 30, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

As temperatures chill the movie business heats up and this year is no exception. This is “actor and Oscar season,” when better films feed into theaters across the nation. These seven films are all playing now and one in particular — Whiplash — is outstanding. I use a “5 finger” scoring system, with 5 being […]

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One Sentence Film Reviews for October: the Lucky 7

November 2, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

As autumn leaves and winter gathers its winds, so change the types of films that arrive in the theater. This is “actor season,” when better films supplant the tapestry of summer choices. These seven films are all out now and one in particular is outstanding. I use a “5 finger” scoring system, with 5 being […]

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Coming Full Circle: A Peek at the Road Not Taken

October 8, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I recently passed a milestone birthday, a big event for me but I rose that morning wondering if anyone would notice. By sundown I felt like George Bailey in A Wonderful Life. Friends can do that for a man. Mine did. My work has taken me around the world and the world that day shared […]

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September’s One Sentence Film Reviews

October 7, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

As autumn arrives and the leaves begin to change, so does the types of films that arrive in the theater. This is the onset of “actor season,” when better films supplant the weeds of summer. These five are out now and all five feature great actors. I use a “5 finger” scoring system, with 5 […]

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13 Late Summer Movie Reviews — in One Sentence Each

September 15, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I write screenplays and rarely watch TV but love to go the movies for a very simple reason: All is possible inside a dark theater. In late summer our local cinemas show little films, niche releases, foreign imports, and blow-’em-up, smash ’em up big budget action films. Viewers should be choosy: the pickings is a […]

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Summer Movies: A Dozen One-Sentence Reviews

August 19, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I write screenplays and rarely watch TV but love to go the movies. This is the summer season, so our local cinemas are sprinkled with little films, niche releases, foreign imports, and blow-’em-up, smash ’em up big budget action films. The pickings are hit and miss. Below are one-sentence reviews for a dozen recent releases. […]

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Time Stops for Only the Greats: the Loss of Robin Williams

August 13, 2014 by Ocean Palmer 1 Comment

“No man is an island.” — John Donne, 1572-1631 Donne, an English poet and cleric in the Church of England, wrote that famous line in “Meditation XVII,” a work whose name seems poignantly appropriate as the world grieves the loss of actor Robin Williams. That Williams chose to exit stage right two days ago on […]

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My Handsome Chestnut Miracle

July 20, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

About the time Rory McIlroy sank his final putt to win the Open Championship and become the planet’s second happiest man, I was preoccupied as the first. Since days drag but years fly, I opted to spend Rory’s back nine driving to rural northern Colorado to say goodbye to Piggy Church, a four-year-old Thoroughbred gelding […]

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