Director J Blakeson Staring Chloë Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, Gabriela Lopez Rated M Score 2/6 Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth decimated. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother. Okay this one was adapted from a 2013 novel written by American author Rick Yancey…
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Extraction
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Director Steven C Miller Staring Bruce Willis, Kellan Lutz, Gina Carano Rated MA Score 2/6 A former CIA operative is kidnapped by a group of terrorists. When his son learns there is no plan for his father to be saved, he launches his own rescue operation. Even though I was unfamiliar with director Steven C…
A Walk in the Woods
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Director Ken Kwapis Staring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson Rated M Score 3/6 After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends. This another movie that can be…
Captain America: Civil War
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Director Anthony Russo & Joe Russo Staring Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson Rated M Score 5/6 Political interference in the Avengers’ activities causes a rift between former allies Captain America and Iron Man. As you should all know by now is that I’m not the biggest comic book fan (so I am in…
Eddie the Eagle
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Director Dexter Fletcher Staring Taron Egerton & Hugh Jackman Rated PG Score 5/6 The story of Eddie Edwards, the notoriously tenacious British underdog ski jumper who charmed the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics. The rule of thumb that we are going to have to use for these sort of bio-pics is that if the…
Eye in the sky
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Director Gavin Hood Staring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman Rated M Score 6/6 Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare. When asked at a…
He Never Died
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Director Jason Krawczyk Starring Henry Rollins, Booboo Stewart, Kate Greenhouse Rated MA Score 4/6 He Never Died follows Jack (Henry Rollins) in his battle with cannibalism and mental sobriety. An exceptionally prolonged life has brought detachment from social interactions. The fuse is lit when Jack’s past comes back to rattle him. Jack must now walk…
Allegiant
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Director Robert Schwentke Starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels Rated M Score 2/6 After the earth-shattering revelations of Insurgent, Tris must escape with Four beyond the wall that encircles Chicago, to finally discover the shocking truth of the world around them. When thinking about the relationship between the filmmakers of these movies and their…
The Huntsman: Winter’s War
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Director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan Staring Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chastain, Emily Blunt & Charlize Theron Rated M Score 2/6 As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades, Eric the Huntsman, who previously aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna, and his forbidden lover, Sara, set out to stop them. I get that there is a…
Where to Invade Next
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Director Michael Moore Rated M Score 6/6 Review by Tanteliz Moore plays the role of ‘invader’, visiting a host of nations including Italy, France, Germany and Tunisia to commandeer policies and ideas that will improve prospects in America. What he finds is that the solutions to America’s most entrenched problems already exist in the world—they’re…