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‘Elysium’ Review

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“Elysium” is writer/director Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up to his 2009 Best Picture Academy Award nominee “District 9”. He teams-up again with that film’s breakout star, Sharlto Copley, who joins Oscar winners Matt Damon and Jodie Foster in yet another of 2013’s movies in which Earth is no longer a great place to live. Let’s spin the […]
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‘2 Guns’ Review

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In what was a summer of the “action crime comedy”, “2 Guns” pulled-off this genre better than some (“R.I.P.D”, “The Heat”) and not as good as others (“Red 2”, “White House Down”). But even though it features two big stars, “2 Guns” is unnecessarily too complex, and ends-up being too ridiculous for its own good. […]
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‘Fruitvale Station’ Review

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“Fruitvale Station” won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for drama at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It depicts the real-life events involving Oscar Grant on New Year’s Eve 2008 and New Year’s Day 2009 in Oakland, CA. What happened sparked a tremendous amount of outrage and controversy, and the film currently has […]
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‘The Heat’ Review

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Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock and Academy Award nominee Melissa McCarthy team-up for the female buddy-cop comedy “The Heat”. This movie was originally scheduled to open on April 5th, but Fox decided to push the film’s release to the summertime hoping for bigger box office. Unfortunately they didn’t put-out a new trailer, so we’ve been […]
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‘This Is The End’ Review

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“This Is The End” marks the directorial debut of comedian/actor Seth Rogen and longtime writing partner Evan Goldberg. The two also co-wrote this screenplay. They decided to go all-out and make a raunchy, creative, offensive and at times quite funny adult comedy about a subject that isn’t so funny: The End of the World. The […]
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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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‘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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‘A Good Day to Die Hard’ Review

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“A Good Day to Die Hard” is the fifth installment in this loooong-running series. Seriously, the original came-out 25 years ago! But Bruce Willis can still kick butt. Sadly, that’s not enough to make “DH5” a winner. Once again Willis plays (now veteran) NYC cop John McClane. He learns that his son Jack (played by […]
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‘Stand Up Guys’ Review

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Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Alan Arkin – three of Hollywood’s most respected veteran actors. Together they have a total of 3 Oscars, 6 Golden Globes, and 5 SAG Awards. And they star together in the action dramedy “Stand Up Guys”. No, it’s not about stand-up comedians, though they do all get to deliver some […]
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