Director David Twohy Staring Vin Diesel, Karl Urban, Katee Sackhoff & Matt Nable Rated MA Score 4/6 Left for dead on a sun-scorched planet, Riddick finds himself up against an alien race of predators. Activating an emergency beacon alerts two ships: one carrying a new breed of mercenary, the other captained by a man from…
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White House Down
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Director Roland Emmerich Staring Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal Rated M Score 3/6 While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders. This is the second white house being…
Astérix et Obélix: Au service de Sa Majesté
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Director Laurent Tirard Staring Gérard Depardieu, Dany Boon, Edouard Baer Rated PG Score 5/6 Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans. Believe it or not I actually have vague memories of being taken to see the original animated version when I was younger. One of the main…
District 9
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Director Neil Blomkamp Staring Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope Rated MA Score 6/6 An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology. Yes, I watched this one because Neil Blomkamp also directed the recently released Elysium, which…
Elysium
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Director Neil Blomkamp Staring Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley Rating MA Score 5/6 Set in the year 2154, where the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds. Ok,…
The Host
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Director Andrew Niccol Staring Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons, Jake Abel Rated M Score 2.5/6 When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, Melanie will risk everything to protect the people she cares most about, proving that love can conquer all in a dangerous new world. Once more into…
Rapture-Palooza
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Director Paul Middleditch Staring Anna Kendrick, Craig Robinson, John Francis Daley, Ken Jeong Rated MA Score 0.5/6 Two teens battle their way through a religious apocalypse on a mission to defeat the Antichrist. I seem to remember that in 1999 the release of Dogma was protested by such groups as the Catholic League. Considering the…
Oblivion
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Director Joseph Kosinski Starring Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko Rated M Score 3.5/6 One of the few remaining drone repairmen assigned to Earth, its surface devastated after decades of war with the alien Scavs, discovers a crashed spacecraft with contents that bring into question everything he believed about the war, and may even put…
Now you see me
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Director Louis Leterrier Staring Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher & Dave Franco Rated M Score 5.5/6 An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money. There is always something cool about watching a heist…
The World’s End
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Director Edgar Wright Staring Rosamund Pike, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman Rated MA Score 4.5/6 Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind’s only hope for survival. The thing that I love about Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s movies is that they…