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‘Fast & Furious 6’ Review

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Start your engines! Believe it or not, “Fast & Furious 6” is my introduction to the “Ride or Die” franchise. However, I have done some research and learned that the first one was good, the second one was OK, the third one was awful, the fourth one was better, and the fifth one was great. […]
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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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‘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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‘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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