Category: Ratings
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Drive Angry gives me a few good reasons I shouldn’t shoot it in the face
Drive Angry – 2011 Directed by Patrick Lussier Starring Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner, Katy Mixon, David Morse, Billy Burke, Tom Atkins Written by Lussier and Todd Farmer This film is bad in the most glorious way possible. It is offensive, crude, dumb, overly violent and wholly unbelievable. What else can one expect, though,…
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Battle: Los Angeles fights a valiant war with the power of cliche
Battle: Los Angeles – 2011 Director Jonathan Liebsman Starring Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Ramón Rodríguez, Bridget Moynahan, Ne-Yo, Michael Peña Written by Chris Bertolini Rule#31 – Whenever a movie about an alien invasion starts mid-battle, and you know we have to go back to the beginning, the beginning needs to be exciting. Rule#548 – It’s never…
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Just Go With It: Many lies, many hugs, much learning = not much of a movie.
Just Go With It – 2011 Directed by Dennis Dugan Starring Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Brooklyn Decker, Nicole Kidman, Dave Matthews, Nick Swardson Written by Allen Loeb, Timothy Dowling When Jennifer Aniston looks back on her career and wonders why she never hit it big, I wonder if it will be her acting talent she…
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X-Men: First Class is the pinnacle of the series
X-Men: First Class – 2011 Directed by Matthew Vaughn Starring Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Rose Byrne, January Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Oliver Platt, Kevin Bacon Written by Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stenz, Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn Somewhere along the way, they decided to step it up a notch. The last couple of X-Men films, while…
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Kung Fu Panda 2 joins the Mt. Rushmore of animated features
Kung Fu Panda 2 – 2011 Directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson Featuring the voices of Jack Black, Seth Rogen, Angelia Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Gary Oldman, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, David Cross, Michelle Yeoh, Danny McBride, Dennis Haysbert, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Victor Garber, James Hong Written by Jonathan Aibel, Glen Berger The original Kung Fu Panda…
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The Tillman Story demonstrates when morale is not moral
The Tillman Story – 2010 Directed by Amir Bar-Lev Narrated by Josh Brolin “It’s horrible to lie,” states Pat Tillman’s mother, Dannie, states about half way through The Tillman Story. This may be seen as anachronism in the world of politics, but when the military stands in as the protector of untruths, the feeling changes.…
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Animal Kingdom is a slow burn with no way out
Animal Kingdom – 2010 Written and Directed by David Michôd Starring Guy Pearce, Jacki Weaver, James Frecheville, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Luke Ford, Sullivan Stapleton There is a point in Animal Kingdom, where protagonist Joshua “J” Cody (Frecheville), in the bathroom of his girlfriend’s parents’ house, has finally pieced together what the fate of his family…
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Cool Papa E Reviews Marvel’s The X-Men / Wolverine Movies
Many are hailing this coming week’s X-Men: First Class as the best Marvel movie ever. Everything I have seen so far looks fantastic. Now is as good a time as any to check what we’ve seen so far from the X-Men Series of films. This list will be comprehensive within the next couple of weeks,…
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Faster: In which The Rock is really pissed at a minimal rate of speed.
Faster – 2010 Directed by George Tillman, Jr. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thorton, Carla Gugino, Tom Berenger, Moon Bloodgood, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Maggie Grace, Mike Epps Written by Joe and Tony Gayton There is a prologue to the movie Faster in which Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is getting out of prison. He looks real hard…
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Gnomeo and Juliet: For those of you who want to introduce your kids to Shakespeare through old Elton John songs
Gnomeo and Juliet – 2011 Directed by Kell Asbury Featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Jason Statham, Ozzy Osborne, Maggie Smith, Patrick Stewart, Ashley Jensen, Julie Walters, Richard Wilson Written by John R. Smith, Richard Sprackling Now for the something I never wanted to see category: a film about Gnomes with…
Ebert Did It Better: Gasbag Reviews 