Taxgirl Goes Back To The Movies In 2025
Taxgirl Goes to the Movies is back, exploring the tax consequences hiding in your favorite films. Have a movie to nominate? Send it my way.
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I'm Going Back To The Movies!
It’s ba-a-ack! Back by popular demand, this summer, Taxgirl is going back to the movies! That’s right, with Memorial Day blockbusters waiting in the wings, I’m reviving my “Taxgirl Goes To The Movies” feature. Here’s how it works: From time to time, beginning after Memorial Day, I’ll choose a movie to review. It may be…
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Making The Switch
Sometime tomorrow, I’m pulling the switch and you’ll start to see my new and improved taxgirl site on Forbes. If you just can’t wait, you can check it out here, subscribe to the feed here and follow me on Forbes by clicking here. Of course, don’t forget about my Facebook page and twitter. In terms…
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Why Isn’t Taxgirl At The Movies?
Yeah, I wanna know, too. My best laid plans have gone awry – this has been one of the busiest summers that I can remember (that’s supposed to be a good thing, right?). I haven’t had a second to go to the movies. And since no one has inquired about Pixar’s “Cars”, the only movie…
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Taxgirl Goes To The Movies: The Shawshank Redemption
It’s part two of a taxgirl double-header! I’m wrapping up my summer of movies and tax with two more features. The final feature in the series is the 1994 film, The Shawshank Redemption. It has been consistently voted one of the top movies in American cinema and was nominated for seven Academy Awards (Best Actor…
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Taxgirl Goes To The Movies: Blow
It’s part one of a taxgirl double-header! I’m wrapping up my summer of movies and tax with two more features. The first is Blow, the 2001 movie based on the real-life story of George Jung, Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder and the Medellín Cartel. The film’s title comes from a slang term for the drug, cocaine….
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Taxgirl Goes To The Movies: Casablanca
Of all of the blog joints in all the towns in all the world, you had to click onto mine… Yeah, I know it’s bad but I couldn’t resist. It’s Casablanca. How can I be expected to write about a movie with such a classic line and not butcher it somehow? Today, I’m tackling the…
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Taxgirl Goes To The Movies: Trading Places
Next in my movie review series is one of my favorite movies, Trading Places, and not just because it was filmed in Philadelphia. While the plot is quite contrived, the acting is really funny – it’s Eddie Murphy back when he remembered what being a comedian meant. And Jamie Lee Curtis? This was just the…
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Taxgirl Goes To The Movies: Ratatouille
On July 4th, my husband and I did what hardly any parents I know do anymore: we went to the movies. That’s right. We braved the holiday crowds to see a movie. We figured that the early morning show would be empty – we were wrong. This movie (tops at the box office right now)…