Category: Ratings
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CPE & Em review Mirror Mirror: Bread is meat
Mirror Mirror – 2012 Director Tarsem Singh Starring Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer, Lily Collins, Nathan Lane, Mare Winningham, Michael Lerner, Sean Bean, Lisa Roberts Gillan, Danny Woodburn, Martin Klebba, Sebastien Saraceno, Jordan Prentice, Mark Povinelli, Joe Gnoffo, Ronald Lee Clark Screenplay by Marc Klein and Jason Keller CPE’s Review: Julia Roberts has waited for a role like this…
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Piranha 3DD is the best DD movie ever
Piranha 3DD – 2012 Director John Gulager Starring Danielle Panabaker, Matt Bush, David Koechner, Chris Zylka, Katrina Bowden, Gary Busey, Christopher Lloyd, David Hasselhoff Screenplay Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunston, Joel Soisson “Josh cut off his penis because something came out of my vagina.” Piranha 3DD is like the people who arrive at the party when most of the cool…
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Gone is a mediocre thriller, PG-13 style
Gone – 2012 Directed by Heitor Dhalia Starring Amanda Seyfried, Daniel Sunjata, Jennifer Carpenter, Wes Bentley, Sebastian Stan, Katherine Moenning, Michael Paré Screenplay by Allison Burnett Here’s for not being a victim. The protagonist from the movie Gone had been kidnapped, nearly killed and lived to tell about it. She wasn’t believed. Instead of accepting this, she changes her life, becoming…
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Jeff, Who Lives at Home and searches for a reason…while smoking pot
Jeff, Who Lives at Home – 2012 Written & Directed by Jay and Mark Duplass Starring Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Susan Sarandon, Judy Greer, Rae Dawn Chong, Evan Ross Two brothers. Both idiots, but in different, depressing ways. Jeff (Segel) lives with his mother (Sarandon) and spends much of his time contemplating the movie Signs. Signs is…
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Project X: For all of those who never enjoyed a High School party at another’s expense
Project X – 2012 Directed by Nima Nourizadeh Starring Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Alexis Knapp, Dax Flame Screenplay by Matt Drake, Michael Bacall “Oh my God,” says the guy holding the camera, “Dude that sign f#$@ing worked.” Of course it did, because it’s part of the script. Project X is a movie with many qualities.…
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island; There will be a third.
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island – 2012 Director Brad Peyton Starring Josh Hutcherson, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Michael Caine, Vanessa Hudgens, Luis Guzman Screenplay by Brian and Mark Gunn Luis Guzman has been in a bunch of good films, and he has done well in them. Films like The Limey, Carlito’s Way, Boogie Nights, Traffic and Dreamer. He’s…
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The Dark Knight Rises: A full return on investment
The Dark Knight Rises – 2012 Directed by Christopher Nolan Starring Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marian Cotillard Screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan Christopher Nolan made a wise choice with the ending of The Dark Knight when he decided to imbrue two of the integral characters with…
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Wrath of the Titans plays like Resurrecting the Greek Champ
Wrath of the Titans – 2012 Directed by Jonathan Liebesman Starring Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Danny Houston, Rosamund Pike, Bill Nighy, Édgar Ramírez, Toby Kebbell Screenplay Dan Mazeau, David Leslie Johnson So, taking for granted that one is fully aware of what they are to expect while watching Wrath of the Titans, they definitely get that here. Perseus…
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CPE and Em: The Amazing Spider-man may not be necessary, but it is good.
The Amazing Spider-Man – 2012 Directed by Marc Webb Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Embeth Davidtz, Chris Zylka Screenplay by Alvin Sargent, Steve Kloves, James Vanderbilt There is a moment when Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) takes the obligatory bullet early on, but not early enough,…
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ted has the stroke of genius for those not immersed in Family Guy
ted – 2012 Directed by Seth MacFarlane Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, MacFarlane (voice), Giovanni Ribisi, Joel McHale, Patrick Warburton, Matt Walsh Screenplay MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, Wellsley Wild I have seen, perhaps, 2 episodes of The Family Guy. When it came out, I was caught up in The Simpsons and the humor seemed derivative. Then I got married,…
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