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Flickedup.com review “The Mechanic”

January 28, 2011 at 5:20 pm

This testosterone drenched action film is filled with explosions, gun play, and good old fashioned ass-whuppins. Jason Statham is one mechanic who doesn’t need a tune up quite yet, in The Mechanic ! Adapted from the 1972 Charles Bronson film with the same name, Jason Statham takes on the role of the perfect assissination machine in “The Mechanic”. From one fatal encounter to the other Statham lives the life of a lonely, soulless hired hitman. His only real relationship is [...]

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Flickedup.com review ‘The Rite’

January 28, 2011 at 1:03 pm

The actor best known as Hannibal Lecter embodies yet another creepy role, this time as an exercist. Is it Sir Anthony Hopkins or is it, Satin ? Anthony Hopkins plays a veteran exorcist specialist who takes in a young priest apprentice in “The Rite”. The film charts the education of Michael Kovak, played by newcomer Colin O’Donoghue. He’s a recent seminary graduate who is shipped off to Rome for advanced training as a front-line soldier in the war against Satan. [...]

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Flickedup.com review ‘No Strings Attached’

January 21, 2011 at 3:22 pm

Oscar frontrunner Natalie Portman plays a horny young doctor who uses Ashton Kutcher, as her sex buddy. I am not making this up, one of the best young actresses of our time is in a movie with the guy from “Punked”. The two play two longtime acquaintances who agree to use each other’s bodies for around-the-clock, emotion-free, sex in “No strings attached”. The more they have sex the more the lines on blurred on their relationship as friends. Thus a [...]

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Flickedup.com review ‘ The Green Hornet’

January 15, 2011 at 9:05 pm

The latest super hero to enter the ring is the Green Hornet starring, gulp, Seth Rogan ? The film is in 3-D, but will it leave an unwanted buzz for moviegoers ? One day,hopefully soon, 3-D will be exposed for the sham that it is : a visual gimmick that charges moviegoers higher ticket prices and offers nothing from a narrative standpoint. Until then, let there be mediocre action movies like the “Green Hornet” Based on the 1930s radio show, [...]

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Flickedup.com review ‘The Dilemma’

January 15, 2011 at 1:52 pm

Vince Vaughn and Kevin James team up for a buddy movie, but is it funny ? That’s the dilemma with the new film The Dilemma. The two play good friends with an issue. It seems as thought Vaughn’s character catches the wife of James’ character red handed and cheating on his best buddy, thus a predicament and the title of the film. Winona Ryder plays the cheating spouse, Jennifer Connelly plays Vaughn’s lady, and Queen Latifa co-stars as an automobile [...]

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Flickedup.com review “Country Strong”

January 7, 2011 at 5:46 pm

An oscar winner and a country superstar team up for a movie that is out of tune and out of touch. Country Strong is a film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, a country superstar trying to bounce back from rehab, and Tim McGraw, the husband manager. McGraw, who for some reason doesn’t sing one note in the film, pressures Paltrow to go on tour to boost her career. While on tour Paltrow embarks on an affair with a young singer (played by [...]

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Flickedup.com review “Season of the Witch”

January 7, 2011 at 2:45 pm

Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman star in a muddled medieval drama filled with movie clichés, crazy battle montages and the black plague. Cage and Perlman play the role of 14th century Crusaders who return home from a lengthy quest to find Europe in the grip of the Black Death in SEASON OF THE WITCH. Christopher Lee plays a cardinal who orders Cage and Perlman to transport an accused witch to a remote monastery where an ancient ritual will hopefully end [...]

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Flickedup.com review “Little Fockers”

December 26, 2010 at 12:56 pm

That dysfunctional family with an unusual last name tacks on a third film and milks it for all its worth. Ben Stiller and Robert DeNiro go toe to toe…again…in “Little Fockers” In the first film…”Meet the parents”…we met the inlaws…in the second film “Meet the fockers”…the inlaws meet each other…now in the third film…kids are brought into the mix. Sure there is star power, which includes Blythe Danner, Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Streisand, Owen Wilson, Teri Polo, Jessica Alba, and yes [...]

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Flickedup.com review “True Grit”

December 26, 2010 at 12:55 pm

The Dude takes on a roll made famouse by the “Duke” in an updated film of a classic western tale that may be better than the original. Academy award winner Jeff Bridges takes on the role of Rooster Cogburn in “True Grit”. I was unsure as to whether or not Bridges could pull off playing Cogburn, a role made famous by John Wayne in 1969… but…he does…and it stays true to the Charles Portis original story thanks to the vision [...]

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Flickedup.com review “Gulliver’s Travels”

December 26, 2010 at 12:50 pm

Jack Black is back…this time as a “rock-n-roll” giant…I call his latest film “toilet humor” on a large scale. He takes on the 18th century adventure classic “Gullivers Travels”…in 3D. In a modern twist Black plays the role of Gulliver who works in the mail room in a Manhattan newspaper. He finally gets his shot to be a writer with the help of the Travel Editor (Amanda Peet). His first assignment is to Bermuda where, on the way there, he [...]

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