Category: GENRE
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Monsters University [2013] ★★★
Not every sequel (or prequel) works. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons why director Dan Scanlon and his colleagues at Pixar put so much effort into “Monsters University, to validate its existence. It’s that love for animated films, along with creativity and seemingly boundless imagination, that makes this prequel so good. The movie’s strongest asset is definitely…
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The Last Exorcism Part II [2013]
The movie is called “The last Exorcism part II” and it’s a sequel to a mediocre 2010 movie of the same name. Were you really expecting something good? Didn’t think so. The story this time around focuses on Nell (the girl who was possessed in the first film) who is trying to rebuild her life…
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Arthur Newman [2012] ★★½
Colin Firth and Emily Blunt play Americans in this weird little movie from director Dante Ariola. “Arthur Newman” tells the story of one Wallace Avery (Firth as good as always), a man tired of his own existence who plans to fake his own death in order to change his identity. His new name (yep you guessed…
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Man Of Steel [2013] ★★★
Take a hike Brandon Routh, there’s a new Superman in town, and he’s younger, fiercer and stronger than ever before. Producer Christopher Nolan, who wrote the script with David Goyer, shows us a Superman caught in the act of inventing himself. The Man of Steel that Henry Cavill plays so potently in this fresh take is still discovering…
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The Internship [2013] ★★½
Sometimes a shamelessly silly comedy is all you want out of life. “The Internship” more than fills the bill. Is it cheesy? Heck yes. Is it predictable? You bet it is. But it’s also entertaining and really funny at times. Cheers to Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, who gave us “Wedding Crashers” aka one of the funniest films…
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Bullet To The Head [2013] and The Last Stand [2013] ★½
1- Bullet to the Head: This film is Sylvester Stallone’s way of saying “I make crappy movies but you pay to see them anyway”. He plays a hitman who teams up with a…wait for it… detective (Sung Kang from “Fast and Furious”) in order to bring down a common enemy. Can you guess what happens next? But…
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Now You See Me [2013] ★★
Ain’t that a kick in the head: “Now You See Me” has the coolest cast in town and a solid premise yet halfway through the film my mind started to wander. Instead of being pulled into the story I felt myself drifting away from it. The movie starts out promisingly enough though. In a companion piece to “Ocean’s…
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After Earth [2013] ★★
90 minutes may feel like 90 days in this slow and sometimes painfully boring post-apocalyptic movie from director M. Night Shyamalan, the perpetrator of such terrible films as “Lady in the Water”, “The Happening” and (oh dear Lord) “The Last Airbender”. In “After Earth”, Will Smith plays Cypher, the leader of Nova Prime, the planet…
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Epic [2013] ★★★
I said this once and I’ll say it again: I don’t ask a lot from animated features. As long as they’re entertaining, colorful and funny, I’m hooked. Chris Wedge, the director who brought us “Ice Age” and “Robots” has done it again with “Epic”. Here is an enjoyable, good-looking, funny animated feature destined to capture…
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The Hangover Part III [2013] ★½
Oh geez I really wanted to like this one. Instead, I left “The Hangover Part III” feeling dazed and cheated. So what the heck happened? Or to paraphrase Mr. Chow, “I want answers, motherfuckers!” How could such a good comedy degenerate into a sloppy, unfunny one? The first “Hangover” was one of the funniest films…
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Fast & Furious 6 [2013] ★★
The Fast and the Furious franchise ran out of gas halfway into “Tokyo Drift”. Yet the filmmakers decided to revive it by bringing back the original cast in 2009. Not a bad idea, especially if you’ve seen “Fast Five” (which remains my favorite so far). So what’s new here? Nothing much. But if you care about…
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Movie 43 [2013]
Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Anna Faris, Kieran Culkin, Emma Stone, Richard Gere, Kate Bosworth, Justin Long, Jason Sudeikis, Uma Thurman, Kristen Bell, Christopher “McLovin” Mintz- Plasse, Chloe Moretz, Gerard Butler, Sean William Scott, Johnny Knoxville, Halle Berry, Terrence Howard, Dennis Quaid, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks, Josh Duhamel and Seth McFarlane all…
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Emperor [2012] ★★½
Interesting slice of World War II history has Tommy Lee Jones and Matthew Fox (“Lost”, “Vantage Point”) assigned to help rebuild Japan after the war and bring Emperor Hirohito (Takata rô Kataoka) to trial for war crimes. It’s a minor picture for sure, with a great performance by Jones, who is definitely the best thing in…
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The Great Gatsby [2013] ★★★
Months before its release, everyone was already talking about Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby”. So expectations were high, perhaps a bit too high. Early reviews however have been inordinately pissy and there’s no doubt that the movie is too long at 142 minutes, too reliant on its own visual experience in the first half hour…
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Star Trek: Into Darkness [2013] ★★★½
Summer season is officially on with “Star Trek: Into Darkness”, a spectacular follow up to the 2009 movie starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and directed by J.J Abrams. I couldn’t be more surprised. After six TV series and 10 movies, the franchise has been milked so hard, it’s a wonder the idea hasn’t dried out and disintegrated. The…
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21 & Over [2013] ★½
Remember “Superbad” in 2007 and “The Hangover” in 2009? If so, you’ll feel like you’ve already seen “21 & Over”, except that it isn’t funny or original at all. The movie features two morons who surprise their friend with a visit for his 21st birthday. The guy has an important medical school interview early the next morning…
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Scary Movie 5 [2013]
Maybe you thought since Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan poke fun at themselves that this fifth installment would be double the fun. Not a chance. On a scale of 1 to 10 on the laugh meter, “Scary Movie 5” is a negative 10. A stupid, unfunny and shamelessly lazy farce packed with tired, cringe-inducing jokes…
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Trance [2013] ★★★
Danny Boyle follows up “Slumdog Millionaire” and “127 Hours” with this juicy, mind bending thriller. He and his screenwriters have crafted the kind of twisty tale we don’t see very often nowadays. James McAvoy plays Simon, a London auctioneer who teams up with art thief Franck (Vincent Cassel, as good as always) to steal Goya’s masterpiece, “Witches in…
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Silent Hill: Revelation [2012]
Ugly follow-up to the 2006 movie finds Sean Bean trying to protect his daughter Heather (Adelaide Clemens) after his wife Rose (Radha Mitchell) rescued her from Silent Hill and then disappeared. Later on Dad himself is abducted so it’s up to Heather and her friend Vincent to get him back. Another video game becomes a silly excuse…
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Iron Man 3 [2013] ★★★
Just when you wanted to forget all about the ”Iron Man” franchise (yes, part 2 sucked), along comes this primal blast of a second sequel, a potent reminder of what jazzed us about the first “Iron Man” film and the Marvel comics that inspired it. Must have been really hard coming up with a second sequel to a movie everyone…
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