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Entertainment reviews and picks as only Lick an Ear's ear-licker herself can offer. Movie and other entertainment reviews with a fresh edge and a side of tongue, Onyx-style! Movie categories, rankings, synopses and ratings with a twist.

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Note: Lick's Picks entertainment and movie reviews contain personality, humor, sarcasm and personal opinions. Lick's Picks has no affiliation with any entertainment industry entity or group, so rest assured, Lick's entertainment reviews are based on personal opinion and review. Any errors made in movie specifics (i.e., year, MPAA rating, etc.) are strictly unintentional. Please direct questions, corrections or requests for a particular movie to be reviewed to Ms Onyx via the webmaster link on the bottom of the page. Many more reviews will be added periodically, so please stay tuned. This section, as well as the Lick an Ear site itself, continues to evolve...

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Adrenaline Rush (Action / Adventure)

300
10,000 B.C.
Beowulf
Blood Simple
Crimson Tide
Die Hard
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Doom
Dukes of Hazzard, The
Firm, The
Ghost Rider
Gladiator
Goodfellas
Hoodwinked
Hudson Hawk
Hulk
Incredible Hulk, The
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
King Arthur
King Kong
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
Lethal Weapon 3
Lethal Weapon 4
Matrix, The
Matrix Reloaded, The
Matrix Revolutions, The
Miami Vice
Mummy, The
Mummy Returns, The
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Poseidon
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Rise: Blood Hunter
Road House
Romeo Must Die
Serenity
Speed
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3
Spy Game
Superman Returns
True Romance
Twister
V for Vendetta
Wanted

Anywhere but Kansas (Sci-Fi / Fantasy)

Abyss, The
Aeon Flux
Contact
Dune (1984)
Dune (2000) (aka Frank Herbert's Dune)
Equilibrium
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Frank Herbert's Dune - see above: Dune (2000)
I Am Legend
Lady in the Water
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode II - The Attack of the Clones
Waterworld

Braces, Zits and Cheerleader Cliques (Teen)

Breakfast Club, The
Bring It On
Bring It On Again
Clueless
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Cruel Intentions
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Mean Girls
Pump Up the Volume
She's All That
Sixteen Candles

Buttered Popcorn (Drama)

9-1/2 Weeks
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
American Beauty
Annapolis
Aviator, The
Babel
Braveheart
Crash
Da Vinci Code, The
Departed, The
Factotum
Firewall
Flightplan
Forrest Gump
Fountain, The
Freedomland
Friends with Money
Hotel Rwanda
In Her Shoes
In the Cut
Interview with the Vampire
Invincible
Jeremiah Johnson
Jersey Girl
Last Kiss, The
Match Point
Melinda and Melinda
Pan's Labyrinth
Pay It Forward
Pearl Harbor
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Radio
Ray
Seven
Sixth Sense, The
Smoke
Troy
Two for the Money
Unfinished Life, An
Wall Street
We Are Marshall
Weather Man, The
World Trade Center
Year of the Dog

Careening Coaster (Horror)

1408
Alien
Alien: Resurrection
Alien³
Aliens
Amityville Horror, The (1979)
Bloodlust: Subspecies 3
Bloodstone: Subspecies 2
Bloodstorm: Subspecies 4
Carrie
Cave, The
Covenant, The
Exorcism of Emily Rose, The
Flatliners
Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
Hellraiser
Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth
Hellraiser 4: Bloodline
Hostel
Leviathan
Scream
Silent Hill
Subspecies
Venom

Flakes and Fruitcakes (Holiday...Christmas / Thanksgiving / New Years)

All I Want for Christmas (1991)
Bad Santa (or Badder Santa - unrated version)
Christmas Carol, A (aka Scrooge, 1951)
Christmas Carol, A (1999)
Christmas Story, A
Christmas with the Kranks
Elf
Family Man, The
Home Alone
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Home for the Holidays
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
Jingle All the Way
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Mixed Nuts
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Ref, The
Santa Claus: The Movie
Santa Clause, The
Santa Clause 2, The
Scrooged
Surviving Christmas
Trading Places
White Christmas

Fossils (Classics)

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Doctor Zhivago
Gone With the Wind
Gaslight
Grease
How to Steal a Million
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Saturday Night Fever
Taxi Driver

Laughing Gas (Comedy)

11:14
40 Days and 40 Nights
40 Year-Old Virgin
American Dreamz
American Pie
American Pie 2
American Wedding
Big Bounce, The
Big Lebowski, The
Brady Bunch Movie, The
Break-Up, The
Bruce Almighty
Bull Durham
Clerks
Click
Devil Wears Prada, The
Dogma
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Evan Almighty
Godfather of Green Bay, The
Groundhog Day
I Love Trouble
I Think I Love My Wife
Just Visiting
Liar, Liar
Longest Yard, The (2005)
Look Who's Talking
Look Who's Talking Now
Look Who's Talking Too
Mallrats
Mamma Mia! The Movie
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Muriel's Wedding
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Napoleon Dynamite
Office Space
Once Bitten
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Raising Arizona
Rat Race
Relative Strangers
Saving Silverman
School for Scoundrels
Shanghai Knights
Shanghai Noon
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Ten, The
Thank You for Smoking
There's Something About Mary
Throw Momma From the Train
Thumbsucker
Very Bad Things
Very Brady Sequel, A
Wayne's World
Wayne's World 2
Wedding Crashers
Wild Hogs
Witches of Eastwick, The
You, Me and Dupree

Mixed Nuts (Spoofs / Parodies)

Date Movie
Epic Movie
Farce of the Penguins
Hot Shots!
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Not Another Teen Movie
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Scary Movie
Scary Movie 2
Scary Movie 3
Scary Movie 4
Spaceballs

Paint by Number (Children / Family)

Anastasia
Beauty and the Beast
Bridge to Terabithia
Chronicles of Narnia, The
Corpse Bride (aka Tim Burton's Corpse Bride)
Crocodile Hunter, The: Collision Course
Edward Scissorhands
Enchanted
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Garfield: The Movie
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Ice Age
Incredibles, The
Little Mermaid, The
Princess Diaries, The
Princess Diaries 2, The: Royal Engagement
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

What the F...ilm?! (Mystery / Suspense and WTF?!)

Angel Heart
Brazil
Butterfly Effect, The
Clockwork Orange, A
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eyes Wide Shut
Fargo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fight Club
Ladykillers, The
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Memento
Moulin Rouge
Number 23, The
Other Voices
Premonition
Prestige, The
Romance & Cigarettes
Run Lola Run
Running with Scissors
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Thirst, The
Trainspotting
Unknown
Usual Suspects, The

Whipped (Romantic Comedy / Romance)

50 First Dates
Adam & Eve (see below: National Lampoon's...)
Blast from the Past

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Bridget Jones's Diary
About Last Night
Dirty Dancing
Dog Park
Down With Love
Fever Pitch
Five Senses, The
Griffin & Phoenix (2006)
Head Over Heels
Just Friends
Kate & Leopold
Lake House, The
Little Black Book
Love, Actually
Must Love Dogs
My Best Friend's Wedding
National Lampoon's Adam & Eve
Notting Hill
Pretty Woman
Pride & Prejudice
Prime
Runaway Bride
Shopgirl
Six Days, Seven Nights
Something to Talk About
Sommersby
Third Wheel, The
Tristan & Isolde
Truth About Cats and Dogs, The
Two Weeks Notice
Unhitched
Wedding Singer, The
What Women Want

Earnote: Apologies for any errors in accuracy on movie details. Hopefully, if any, they're minor, but face it...I'm at least slightly flawed and highly irregular =p, so there probably are a few. It's tough when you're not only the researcher, but also the watcher, critic, writer and editor. I'd give myself a 200% raise if I could, but then again...$0.00 x 200% is still zero, isn't it?! Pfft!