Director Mike Hodges Staring Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow Rated PG Score 3/6 A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth. I was familiar to the soundtrack to Flash Gordon before I even watched the movie,…
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Life of Pi
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Director Ang Lee Staring Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Rafe Spall & Gérard Depardieu Rated PG Score 6/6 After a cataclysmic shipwreck, young Pi Patel finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with only one other survivor – a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Bound by the need to survive, the two are cast…
Wreck-it Ralph
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Director Rich Moore Starring John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch & Alan Tudyk Rated PG Score 6/6 A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives. Okay, considering that I do not have…
Iron Man 3
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Director Shane Black Staring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Guy Pearce Rated M Score 3.5/6 When Tony Stark’s world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution. Although it would be good to see that the third movie was directed by Jon Favreau so that…
GI Joe Retaliation
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Director Jon M. Chu Staring Dwayne Johnson, D.J. Cotrona & Channing Tatum Rated M Score 1/6 Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by the President’s order, and the surviving team members face off against Zartan, his accomplices, and the world leaders he has under his influence. Ok, another toy…
Oz the Great and Powerful
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Director Sam Raimi Staring James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz Rated PG Score 4/6 When small-time magician Oscar Diggs pulls one flimflam too many, he is hurled into the fantastical Land of Oz, where he must somehow transform himself into the great and powerful Wizard – and just maybe into a better man as well.…
Time After Time
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Director Nicholas Meyer Starring Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner Rated M Score 6/6 H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer’s time machine to escape his time-period. Ok, for the record this one was suggested by the guy at the friendly neighbourhood DVD store.…
Django Unchained
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Director Quentin Tarantino Staring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington Rating MA Score 6/6 With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. Ok, it has been a few days since I saw Django Unchained,…
Hotel Transylvania
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Director Genndy Tartakovsky Staring Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Andy Samberg Rating PG Score 3/6 Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count’s teen-aged daughter. Okay, I was struck with an uneasy feeling while watching this one.…
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
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Director Peter Jackson Staring Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen and Richard Armitage Rated M By Kato A younger and more reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out on a “unexpected journey” to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of Dwarves to reclaim a their stolen mountain home from a dragon named Smaug. Pretty good movie. They…