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  Side Effects Movie Review (Video)

  February 8, 2013 at 9:01 pm

  There’s a thriller on the loose and a chilling indictment of the nation’s pharmaceutical industry. Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh is behind this thriller that shows you what can happen when prescription medications like antidepressants go haywire in, Side Effects. Rooney Mara plays a woman with a lot going on in her life, her husband, Channing Tatum, is getting out of prison, she’s in a financial crisis as well and in deep depression. Her psychiatrist Jude Law, subscribes an experimental [...]

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  Zombie romance is cold in Warm Bodies

  February 1, 2013 at 10:53 pm

  The latest zombie movie out shows you that you don’t have to have a pulse to fall in love. Good girl meets ghoul in the latest romantic comedy called Warm Bodies. Nicholas Holt plays a teenage zombie slacker who falls head of heals in love with Teresa Palmer, who is very much alive. Somehow the chemistry between the two works even though the flirting can be a bit awkward. You never really know what thoughts are lurking behind those blank [...]

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  The Last Stand keeps Schwarzenegger on his feet (movie review)

  January 18, 2013 at 11:37 pm

  Arnold is back from being a two term governor to playing a small-town sheriff. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays semi-retired sheriff in an sleepy southwest border town. He and his motley crew must now stop a notorious drug kingpin from escaping into Mexico in The Last Stand. The bullets fly, there is plenty of action, but the star looks a bit rusty. You quickly come to the realization that this film is undeniably ludicrous. Look, Arnold has never been a good actor [...]

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  Gangster Squad misses the mark (movie review)

  January 12, 2013 at 2:46 am

  A group of pretty boy cops go all ‘gangsta’ to take down a mob boss that looks a lot like Spiccoli from Fast times at Ridgemont High. A chicago gangster moves out to Los Angeles, killing his was to the top only to be met be a few honest cops in Gangster Squad. Sean Penn over acts as the main bad guy while the good guys include Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Makie, Robert Partrick, Michael Pena, and [...]

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  The Impossible is intensely entertaining – movie review

  January 4, 2013 at 9:05 pm

  An impossible journey to the core of the human heart in the true life story of a family swept away in one of the worst natural disasters in our lifetime. A family of five begin their winter vacation in Thailand, looking for some fun in the sun. Soon their holiday turns into a nightmare as a giant tsunami rises up from the ocean and sweeps them away in The Impossible. Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor head up this cast that [...]

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  Django Unchained is outrageously entertaining !

  December 28, 2012 at 10:18 pm

  Director Quentin Tarantino pays a tribute to the spaghetti western, and it’s a shoot ‘em up, rootin’ tootin’ fun ! It’s funny, offbeat, and brutal. Based in the american south during the times of slavery, Jamie Foxx straps on a six shooter or two, some cowboys boots and hat in Django Unchained. Foxx’s Django character is taken by a bounty hunter, played to Christoph Waltz. They set out to get a few outlaws then they set their sites on getting [...]

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  Jack Reacher is in Cruise control

  December 21, 2012 at 9:12 pm

  Tom Cruise plays an ex Army investigator who puts the smackdown on just about everyone he meets. Cruise delves out the punishment as an ex-miltary guy roped into a murder investigation. He’s got to take out the bad guys, save the girl, and find the real killer in ‘Jack Reacher’. The Jack Reacher book series has been  popular for years, now its moving to the big screen under Cruise control, as a quiet and deadly man. Cruise is the rare [...]

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  The Hobbit truly is an unexpected journey

  December 14, 2012 at 2:38 am

  Hold onto your hats kids, we’re heading to middle earth again with Peter Jackson and company. After years of waiting its finally coming to theaters, Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Bilbo Baggins, a kicked back happy go lucky hobbit, joins Gandolf the Grey and 13 dwarves on a dangerous quest to reclaim their homeland and their treasure from “Smaug” the dragon. The film is a staggering 160 minutes, but unlike any of the Lord of the Rings Films, [...]

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  Playing for Keeps has no game

  December 7, 2012 at 4:03 pm

  The only wide released movie this week is so bad there is a good chance it’s on the way to home video by Christmas. Gerard Butler plays a divorced ex-jock who needs to be a father to his kid in the terrible romantic comedy Playiing for Keeps. Jessica Biel plays his ex-wife who just happens to be getting remarried. Uma Thurman and Cahterine Zeta-Jones play a couple of horny housewives who can’t resist Butler. Dennis Quaid has a small role [...]

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  Killing Them Softly borders on overkill

  November 30, 2012 at 9:48 pm

  Brad Pitt plays a hitman who is sentimental and deadly. Brad Pitt is a hitman brought in to restore some much needed street credibility to a weak looking mob syndicate in Killing them Softly. Pitt prefers to kill victims “softly” from a distance rather than watching them get “touchy feely” up close. While trying to fix things he works alongside local mob lawyer Richard Jenkins. James Gandolfini, resurrects the spirit of Tony Soprano as a boozing, hooker-loving hit man who [...]

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