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‘The Great Gatsby’ Review

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Director Baz Luhrmann’s films always seem to generate wildly mixed reactions, from his 1996 version of “Romeo + Juliet” to Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman’s romantic drama “Australia”. And who can forget the Oscar winning “Moulin Rouge!” Luhrmann’s latest, his take on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, The Great Gatsby, was supposed to be released […]
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‘Iron Man 3’ Review

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Last year “Marvel’s The Avengers” kicked off the Summer Movie Season and ended-up becoming 2012’s highest-grossing film, earning over $1.5 billion worldwide. This year “Iron Man 3” has the honor of launching summer. And while it’s not as much fun or exciting as that mega blockbuster, “Iron Man 3” is the most emotional and action-packed […]
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‘To the Wonder’ Review

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While I wasn’t a huge fan of director Terrence Malick’s 2011 Best Picture Oscar nominee, “The Tree of Life”, the trailer made for Malick’s latest film, “To the Wonder”, is fantastic. In fact, it’s one of the best trailers I’ve seen in a long time and it gave me hope that “To the Wonder” would […]
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‘Pain & Gain’ Review

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The tagline for the action dramedy “Pain & Gain” is “This is a true story”. The studio probably did that because, after seeing the film, most people won’t believe that the characters were real and the situations actually happened. Here’s another thing that’s true: Director Michael Bay’s first non-“Transformers” movie since 2005’s “The Island” is […]
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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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