Director Craig Moss Starring Danny Trejo, Danny Glover, Andrew Divoff Rated MA Score 1.5/6 Frank Vega teams up with grumpy old agoraphobic Bernie Pope to kick ass and clean up the streets of L.A. For those of you who have come late to this franchise (yes there is a proper trilogy for these movies) the…
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Seventh Son
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Director Sergei Bodrov Staring Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, Jeff Bridges Rated M Score 2/6 Young Thomas is apprenticed to the local Spook to learn to fight evil spirits. His first great challenge comes when the powerful Mother Malkin escapes her confinement while the Spook is away. Before I get too far into things there is…
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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Director John Madden Staring Dev Patel, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Richard Gere, Judi Dench Rated PG Score 5/6 As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy – posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals – Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel. As we all know, a…
Jupiter Ascending
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Directors The Wachowskis Staring Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne Rated M Score 2/6 In a bright and colorful future, a young destitute caretaker gets targeted by the ruthless son of a powerful family, who lives on a planet in need of a new heir, so she travels with a genetically engineered warrior to the…
The Interview
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Director Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen Staring James Franco, Seth Rogen, Randall Park Rated MA Score 1.5/6 Dave Skylark and producer Aaron Rapoport run the celebrity tabloid show “Skylark Tonight.” When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to…
50 Shades of Grey
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Director Sam Taylor-Johnson Starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Ehle Rated MA Score 2/6 Literature student Anastasia Steele’s life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey. Before I get to my review I have a small amount of housekeeping to take care of. For starters a message to Today show host…
The Gambler
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Director Rupert Wyatt Starring Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Lange & John Goodman Rated MA Score 5/6 Lit professor and gambler Jim Bennett’s debt causes him to borrow money from his mother and a loan shark. Further complicating his situation is his relationship with one of his students. Will Bennett risk his life for a second chance?…
Kingsman: The Secret Service
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Director Matthew Vaughn Staring Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Taron Egerton & Samuel L Jackson Rated MA Score 4.5/6 A super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius. For a moment, I’d like to focus on…
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
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Director Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez Starring Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin Rated MA Score 3.5/6 Some of Sin City’s most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants. Okay, considering that I don’t read a lot of graphic novels I cannot say with any degree of certainty whether or not…
What we do in the Shadows
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Director Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi Staring Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh Rated M Score 3/6 Follow the lives of Viago, Deacon and Vladislav – three flatmates who are just trying to get by and overcome life’s obstacles-like being immortal vampires who must feast on human blood. Hundreds of years old, the vampires are…