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‘Oblivion’ Review

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Fresh-off his role as “Jack Reacher”, Tom Cruise plays another Jack – astronaut Jack Harper – in the sci-fi adventure “Oblivion”, – which part post-apocalyptic action film and part futuristic soap opera. The year is 2077. 60 years earlier our Moon was destroyed by enemy aliens, intent on taking-over Earth. Without the Moon our planet […]
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’42’ Review

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Jackie Robinson is considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of all-time. But more than that, Robinson’s breaking of baseball’s color-barrier, becoming the first African-American to play in the major leagues, established him forever as a great American hero. The number 42 is synonymous with Robinson and his legacy. The movie “42” hit […]
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‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ Review

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“The Place Beyond the Pines” is a generational crime drama from director Derek Cianfrance. He re-teams with his “Blue Valentine” star Ryan Gosling, who plays Luke. He’s a motorcycle daredevil rider who performs in a traveling carnival. Luke meets-up with former girlfriend Romina (Eva Mendes). He soon finds out that has a child with Romina […]
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‘Jurassic Park 3D’ Review

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“Jurassic Park” is one of Steven Spielberg’s greatest achievements and most popular films. It’s also one of the highest-grossing movies of all-time, making a whopping $915 million worldwide back in 1993. Well, (as Samuel L. Jackson’s character says in the film) “hold onto your butts” because the Oscar-winning thriller is back on the big screen in 3D for […]
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‘The Sapphires’ Review

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“The Sapphires” is a little gem from Australia that’s making a lot of noise here in the US. The film received a 10-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival last May, which didn’t go unnoticed by The Weinstein Co. which picked it up. On the surface, you might think it’s simply a rip-off of […]
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‘The Host’ Review

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“The Host” is the latest film adaptation of a fantasy novel that tween and teen girls turned into a Bestseller. In case you’re not aware, The Host was written by Stephenie Meyer, who’s also the author of The Twilight Saga. That book series became one of the most popular film series of all-time, though the […]
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‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Review

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“G.I. Joe: Retaliation” is the sequel to 2009’s “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” and is once again based on the classic Hasbro action figures. “Retaliation” was supposed to come out on June 29, 2012, but just weeks before Paramount decided to delay the film for nine months, even after they had spent millions on […]
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‘Admission’ Review

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“Admission” has been promoted as a romantic comedy. It stars Tina Fey and Mr. Rom-Com himself: Paul Rudd (seriously, look at his IMDb page). But, in truth, “Admission” isn’t what the trailers and commercials tried to make it out to be. In fact there may not be a genre for this film. Fey plays Portia, […]
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‘The Croods’ Review

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“The Croods” is DreamWorks Animation’s first film of 2013 (they followed with “Turbo” 4-months later). It’s directed by Kirk DeMicco (“Space Chimps”) and two-time Oscar nominee Chris Sanders (“How to Train Your Dragon”, “Lilo & Stitch”). While “The Croods” isn’t as funny or charming as any of those films, it is visually stunning and has […]
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‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’ Review

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Steve Carell and Jim Carrey are two of Hollywood’s funniest actors. And they’ve worked together in some big films – “Bruce Almighty” and the animated “Horton Hears a Who”. They’ve teamed-up once again as rival magicians in the comedy, “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone”. Carell plays the title character who, as a boy back in the […]
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