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Since “The Exorcist”, only a few movies dealing with the same subject turned out to be decent enough. “The Rite” isn’t one of them. In fact, it would be unnecessary to talk about its premise, which sounds chilling at first. Think of it as “The Exorcist” meets “The Order”, minus the fun. “The Rite” offers absolutely nothing…

It’s all about Rio in this delightful animated movie about a domesticated Macaw named Blu (Voiced by a tremendous Jesse Eisenberg) who was whisked away from his homeland as a newborn and raised in frigid Minnesota by a loving human named Linda (Leslie Mann). Years later, a Brazilian naturalist shows up and explains that if…

I don’t know about you, but I’m a sucker for everything related to the 70’s, let alone Rock’ n’ Roll music. The movie, directed by Floria Sigismondi and based on the autobiography “Neon Angel”, chronicles the rise and inevitable fall of the all girl band The Runaways. Kirsten Stewart plays Joan Jett, a 17 year old girl…

Say what you will about Channing Tatum (“G.I Joe”, “Dear John”), but the dude totally kicks ass in “The Eagle”, playing Marcus Flavius, a Roman Centurion and son of a disgraced commander who disappeared along with the entire Ninth Legion and Rome’s beloved Eagle standard in the year 120 AD. Fast forward 20 years, Marcus…

It took me two months to finally decide to watch “I Am Number Four”, and I can honestly say that it wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be. It’s true that the story feels awfully familiar: there’s the high school kid who discovers he has powers, decides to use that to initially fend…

Evaluating any movie is a matter of personal taste. Filmmakers who deal with an idea that has been done so many times before might find it difficult to bring something new to the table. This is my way of saying that I couldn’t stand “Battle: Los Angeles”. In fact, I had a violent reaction to the film, which…

“The Resident” is a thriller that you’ve probably seen hundreds of times before. It’s not exactly a bad movie, as it kept me entertained for the entire 90 minutes, but it’s nothing special either. It would be best to describe it as Hitchcock-lite, as it is an old fashioned psychological thriller that falls short of…

  It wouldn’t be fair to call this movie a disappointment, for the simple fact that my expectations weren’t so high to begin with. The story will definitely keep you interested, but there’s nothing here we haven’t seen before plot wise. What we have is a group of old college friends who reunite for a wedding. The…

When it comes to british comedy, nobody does it quite like the hilarious Simon Pegg/Nick Frost duo. After the massive success of both “Shaun Of The Dead” and “Hot Fuzz”, the dudes are back in one of the funniest movies I’ve seen so far this year. In “Paul”, they play two british nerds on vacation…

“Last Night” deals with a subject that has been recycled countless of times: how easy it is to give in to temptation, and how thin the line is between “to betray or not to betray”. Here we find a married couple, Joanna and Michael (Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington) who flirt with the idea of cheating. They are moving…

One of the most fascinating thing about our existence is the fact that we know everything, but have forgotten most of it. We’ve been told countless of times that we only use a small portion of our brains. Now imagine what we could do if we were to put our entire brain online. Ultimate power,…

I loved Duncan Jones’s directorial debut “Moon”, so I was more than willing to accept the premise of his latest movie, about a former pilot (Jake Gyllenhaal)  who finds himself involved in a government program that requires him to travel repeatedly back to the same moment in time, searching for clues in a train in…

“London Boulevard” is a movie that looks good on the outside, yet you still end up wondering why the hell did you watch it in the first place. Every single element of it is right (from the actors to the writer), so why does it end up being so boring and uninvolving? Let’s start with the…