Director Ron Howard Starring Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson Rated M Score 4/6 Based on the 1820 event, a whaling ship is preyed upon by a sperm whale, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days, thousands of miles from home. In the Heart of the Sea is based on Nathaniel Philbrick’s 2000 book…
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Tekken: Kazuya’s Revenge
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Director Wych Kaosayananda Starring Kane Kosugi, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Rade Serbedzija Rated MA Score 0/6 Suffering from amnesia, a young man trying to discover his true identity is kidnapped by an underground crime organization and turned into a ruthless assassin. With Kazuya’s Revenge, there is a small lesson for filmmakers about the titles of their films.…
Spectre
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Director Sam Mendes Starring Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux Rated M Score 5/6 A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.…
Batman: Assault on Arkham
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Director Jay Oliva & Ethan Spaulding Staring Kevin Conroy, Neal McDonough, Hynden Walch Rated M Score 3.5/6 Batman works desperately to find a bomb planted by the Joker while Amanda Waller hires her newly formed Suicide Squad to break into Arkham Asylum to recover vital information stolen by the Riddler. I suppose in a lot…
Japanese Film Festival: Library Wars The Last Mission & The Ninja War of Torakage
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For this particular review I thought I would do something a little different and review two movies in one post. I suppose there are two reasons for doing this because even though they are not sequels I watched them back to back at the Japanese Film Festival and well because I can. Director Shinsuke Sato…
Japanese Film Festival: The Big Bee
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Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi Starring Daisuke Fukushima, Kôhei Furukawa, Ryuji Ichiyama, Naoya Kinoshita, Tadashi Ohsumi, Takeshi Sakamoto, Jun’ichi Sakomoto & Isao Takeda Rated Unclassified 15+ Score 5/6 They have 8 hours to save Japan from nuclear disaster. An unmanned helicopter is captured, and the hijacker threatens to crash it into a nuclear power plant if his…
Sicario
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Director Denis Villeneuve Starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro Rated MA Score 5/6 An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico. Before we get to far into things a few pieces of…
Rollerball (2002)
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Director John McTiernan Starring Chris Klein, Jean Reno, LL Cool J Rated M Score 2/6 The big thing in 2005 is a violent sport which can have some pretty serious consequences… like dying. For those of you out there who might not of realized it but this (was first released in 2002) and the 1975…
Big Game
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Director Jalmari Helander Staring Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson Rated M Score 3/6 A young teenager camping in the woods helps rescue the President of the United States when Air Force One is shot down near his campsite. It should be noted that there is a tie novel for the movie written by…
Back to the Future Trilogy
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Director Robert Zemeckis Staring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd Rated PG Score 6/6 This might be a little different to most of my other reviews for the simple reason that with this revisit I’m rolling three movies into one review, if this review is written with any degree of success is yet to be seen.…