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Movie 43
Release: Friday, January 25, 2013 (limited) [Theater] Two or three months’ worth of frenzied anticipation. . . . . for THIS?!?! What a waste of my time, and of an excellent cast! As if the audience...
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Olympus Has Fallen
Release: Friday, March 22, 2013 [Theater] Olympus Has Fallen….just short of being a pretty incredible action flick. Undercut by dumbed-down dialogue, unconvincing characters, and a thirst for blood...
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Man of Steel, meet the Dark Knight. . . ?
Apparently, this was not the Comic Con to miss. As things were getting wrapped up at the Warner Brothers booth at the 2013 edition of the big geek-fest (trust me, I’d go if I could afford to), they...
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Sequel-itis: Hollywood’s Got it Bad
Hey all, I figured this might be an appropriate place to throw in a plug for an oft-overlooked little nook of this page, the Newslice/newsfeed column (found up top in the nav-bar). After learning...
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Cheating on the Movies: The Delivery Man
Release: Friday, November 22, 2013 [in my head] Since this officially makes duplicate movie/concept numero dós for this calendar year (Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down being the other culprits....
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47 Ronin
Release: Christmas Day 2013 [Theater] Ryan Gosling recently got an entire movie dedicated to him just staring for the entire duration of the film, so Keanu Reeves shrewdly hopped into that line next...
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The Act of Killing
Release: Friday, July 19, 2013 (limited) [Netflix] Abundant are the films that, post-viewing, make you grateful for the experience, even though they took you far outside your comfort zone. There are...
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Transcendence
Release: Friday, April 18, 2014 [Theater] Lol, uh. . .wut? Well, this WAS supposed to be the ‘don’t-give-up-yet-on-Johnny-Depp’ movie, one that would give the colorful thespian room to breathe without...
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TBT: Accepted (2006)
Well today, I went from this to that, and that to this and that to that and finally from this to this. It’s been a struggle. While all this dilly-dallying is going on, there are kids going back to...
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Tusk
Release: Friday, September 19, 2014 [Theater] Distributor: A24 Films No walruses were harmed during the making of this film, though you better believe the human component didn’t fair so well....
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NOOOOvember 2014: Digital Shortbread
Tom: Wahoo!!! Cara’s great November-related blogathon NOOOvember is in full swing and guess who has joined the ranks? Me! I have contributed a review (a different version) of my awful experience with...
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Mortdecai
Release: Friday, January 23, 2015 [Theater] Distributor: Lionsgate Directed by: David Koepp Charlie Mortdecai has a sensitive gag reflex. He endearingly calls it a ‘sympathetic gag.’ After seeing...
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SHITFEST 2015: SEX TAPE (2014)
Tom: Oh yes I did. Ladies and gentle Ipes, I apologize for the belated re-blog here but it is finally with my great pleasure that I’m able to put this scathing review of one of the most horrendous...
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Get Hard
Release: Friday, March 27, 2015 [Theater] Distributor: Warner Bros. Directed by: Etan Cohen It speaks to the talents of Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart that Get Hard gets funny at all. This is easily one...
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Jurassic World
Release: Friday, June 12, 2015 [Theater] Distributor: Universal Directed by: Colin Trevorrow This movie makes me nostalgic for the days of Jurassic Park III and The Lost World. Jurassic World has...
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The Brothers Grimsby
Release: Friday, March 11, 2016 [Theater] Written by: Sacha Baron Cohen; Phil Johnston; Peter Baynham Directed by: Louis Leterrier There’s something about Sacha Baron Cohen that really makes you feel...
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The Do-Over
Release: Friday, May 27, 2016 (Netflix) [Netflix] Written by: Kevin Barnett; Chris Pappas Directed by: Steven Brill I will never be duped by another Adam Sandler movie again. I will never be duped by...
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Special Correspondents
Release: Friday, April 29, 2016 (Netflix) [Netflix] Written by: Ricky Gervais Directed by: Ricky Gervais I’m suspicious of any movie that literally ends with the line “This is like the end of a...
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London Has Fallen
Release: Friday, March 4, 2016 [Netflix] Written by: Creighton Rothenberger; Katrin Benedikt; Christian Gudegast; Chad St. John Directed by: Babak Najafi London Has Fallen was a theatrical release I...
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Why Him?
Release: Friday, December 23, 2016 [Theater] Written by: John Hamburg; Ian Helfer Directed by: John Hamburg My biggest gripe with Why Him? It's actually not that it represents yet another painfully...
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