Director Josh Boone Staring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort & Nat Wolff Rated M Score 4/6 Two teens, both who have different cancer conditions, fall in love after meeting at a cancer support group. For those of you keeping score at home, no I haven’t read the novel The Fault in our Stars, but at 32…
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Drama Movie Reviews
Dracula Untold
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Director Gary Shore Staring Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper & Sarah Gadon Rated M Score 1/6 As his kingdom is being threatened by the Turks, young prince Vlad Tepes must become a monster feared by his own kingdom in order to obtain the power needed to protect his own family, and the families of his kingdom.…
Fury
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Director David Ayer Starring Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman Rated MA Score 5/6 April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Out-numbered, out-gunned, and with a rookie soldier…
Brick Mansions
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Director Camille Delamarre Starring Paul Walker, David Belle, RZA Rated M Score 1/6 An undercover Detroit cop navigates a dangerous neighborhood that’s surrounded by a containment wall with the help of an ex-con in order to bring down a crime lord and his plot to devastate the entire city. For those of you who are…
A Fighting Man
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Director Damien Lee Staring Dominic Purcell, James Caan, Louis Gossett Jr., and Famke Janssen Rated M Score 5/6 An aging fighter in search of redemption steps into the ring with a hungry young pugilist with something to prove. If you hold the Rocky movies as the formula standard of what to expect a boxing movie…
Draft Day
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Director Ivan Reitman Starring Kevin Costner, Chadwick Boseman, Jennifer Garner Rated M Score 4.5/6 At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men…
Around the Block
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Director Sarah Spillane Starring Christina Ricci, Matt Nable, Daniel Henshall & Hunter Page-Lochard Rated M Score 4.5/6 An Aboriginal boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family. Meanwhile his high school drama teacher must practice what she teaches if she is to succeed in her personal and professional…
All is lost
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Director J.C Chandor Starring Robert Redford Rated M Score 5/6 After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face. I was not overly familiar with Director J.C Chandor’s work All is lost is the second movie that he…
Boys of Abu Ghraib
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Director Luke Moran Starring Luke Moran, Sean Astin & Sara Paxton Rated MA Score 5/6 An American soldier deployed at Abu Ghraib finds himself behind the walls of the infamous Hard Site, where he develops a secret friendship with an Iraqi detainee. One thing that I have always wondered about movies that are real life…
42
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Director Brian Helgeland Starring Chadwick Boseman, T.R. Knight, Harrison Ford Rated PG Score 6/6 The story of Jackie Robinson from his signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in 1945 to his historic 1947 rookie season when he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Ok, I have to admit that there was a large…