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‘The Rover’ Review

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“The Rover” is director David Michod’s follow-up to 2010’s “Animal Kingdom”, for which Jacki Weaver (“Silver Linings Playbook”) received an Oscar nomination. This grizzly crime drama debuted last month at the Cannes Film Festival, with praise galore for actors Guy Pearce and “Twilight”‘s Robert Pattinson. Their performances are the best thing about “The Rover”, which […]
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’22 Jump Street’ Review

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Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill teamed-up two years ago for the big screen revival of the 80s TV series “21 Jump Street”, which featured loads of action, laughs, and even a Johnny Depp cameo. That film was so successful that directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (who began 2014 with “The LEGO Movie”) decided to […]
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‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ Review

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DreamWorks Animation’s 2010 surprise hit “How to Train Your Dragon” was one of the Best Animated films of the year (second only to “Toy Story 3”) and is still one of the top-grossing and most impressive films for the studio. Four years later, DWA soars again with “Dragon 2”, a more dramatic, action-packed and visually […]
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‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Review

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“Edge of Tomorrow” is the Movie Mashup of the Year: A combination of “Groundhog Day” and “Independence Day”. In a near-future world in which aliens are about to wipe-out the human race, Major William Cage, an Army PR expert, is forced to become a soldier. He is killed almost immediately in his first battle, but […]
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‘Maleficent’ Review

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In recent years, Disney has enjoyed twisting-up some of the all-time classics, including the Sam Raimi”Wizard” prequel “Oz: The Great and Powerful”, and the behind the scenes story of the Mouse House’s own beloved “Mary Poppins” – “Saving Mr. Banks”. And this trend will continue next year with live-action remakes of animated treasures “Cinderella”and “The […]
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‘Locke’ Review

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The premise of “Locke” is simple, intriguing, and very anti-Hollywood: Tom Hardy (best known as Bane in “The Dark Knight Rises”) stars as Ivan Locke, a construction supervisor who decides to leave town and drive to London the night before the most important day of his career: a concrete pour for what will become England’s […]
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‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ Review

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The build-up to “X-Men: Days of Future Past” has been gigantic. For the first time, the mutant characters we’ve come to care about over the past 14 years, and their younger selves we were introduced to in 2011’s “X-Men: First Class”, come together. It was promoted as an “Avengers” in the “X-Men” universe. But after […]
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‘Blended’ Review

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Blend together typical Adam Sandler humor and a predictable script and you get one of the worst movies of 2014. The third time’s not the charm for the pairing of Sandler and Drew Barrymore in the romantic non-comedy, “Blended”. Sandler’s Jim is a widow with three daughters. His wife, who used to manage a Hooter’s […]
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‘Godzilla’ Review

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It’s the return of the classic Monster Movie with another reboot of “Godzilla”. This installment begins in 1999, one year after the previous big screen version, which was panned by critics and audiences. Following a few scenes in the Philippines, where fossils of a ginormous, dinosaur-like creature have been discovered, the story moves to Japan, […]
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‘Million Dollar Arm’ Review

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“Show me the fastball!” The most famous film about the life of a sports agent is 1996’s Oscar-winning football dramedy, “Jerry Maguire”. The last sports movie to win the Best Picture Oscar was the 2004 Clint Eastwood boxing drama, “Million Dollar Baby”. 10 years later, Disney uses 2/3 of that title for their newest “Based […]
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