Directed by Nick Willing Staring Charlie Rowe, Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel, Charles Dance, Q’orianka Kilcher & the voice of Keira Knightley Rated PG Score 6/6 Raised on the streets of turn-of-the century London, orphaned Peter and his pals survive by their fearless wits as cunning young pickpockets. Now, they’ve been rounded up by their mentor…
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Across the Line : The Exodus of Charlie Wright
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Directed by R. Ellis Frazier Staring Andy Garcia, Aidan Quin, Luke Goss & Mario Van Peebles Rated M Score 5/6 Charlie, a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz goes into self-imposed exile in Tijuana after his empire is revealed to have been a Ponzi scheme. While looking for the woman he abandoned there 25 years before,…
Footloose (2011)
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Directed by Craig Brewer Staring Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Andie MacDowell & Dennis Quaid Rated M Score 6/6 City kid Ren MacCormack moves to a small town where rock ‘n’ roll and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace. From the beginning, it is clear that director Craig Brewer has…
Little Murder
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Directed by Predrag Antonijevic Staring Josh Lucas, Terrence Howard and Lake Bell Rated M Score 6/6 In post-Katrina New Orleans, a disgraced detective encounters the ghost of a murdered woman who wants to help him identify her killer. There is odd yet very creative premise to this movie. Both the writers and director should be…
Mulan ( Hua Mulan )
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Directed by Jingle Ma, Wei Dong Staring Wei Zhao, Jaycee Chan and Rongguang Yu Rated M Score 5/6 The epic story of the Chinese girl-warrior, Mulan, who fights to defend her father. In watching this particular version of Mulan you need to know that you are entering a Disney free zone. That means you will…
Man on a Ledge
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Directed by Asger Leth Staring Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks and Jamie Bell Rated M score 6/6 As a police psychologist works to talk down an ex-con who is threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel rooftop, the biggest diamond heist ever committed is in motion. Granted Man on the ledge might seem a little slow…
Safe House
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Director: Daniel Espinosa Stars: Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds and Robert Patrick Rated M Score 6/6 When a CIA-operated safe house is targeted by a group of bad guys, the facility’s house-sitter is tasked with the dangerous job of moving the criminal who is being hidden there to another secure location. Seems to following in the…
Colombiana
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Directed by Olivier Megaton Staring Zoe Saldana, Michael Vartan and Callum Blue Rated MA Score 4/6 A young woman grows up to be a stone-cold assassin after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante…
The Descendants
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Directed by Alexander Payne Staring George Clooney, Shailene Woodley and Amara Miller Rated M Score 5/6 With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront the young real estate broker, who was having an affair with…
The Other end of the Line
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Directed by James Dodson Staring Jesse Metcalfe, Sara Foster and Anupam Kher Rated PG Score 4/6 An employee at an Indian call-centre travels to San Francisco to be with a guy she falls for over the phone. Right off the bat, I will have to say that this is another corny romantic comedy. That is…