Director Luc Besson Starring Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-sik Choi Rated MA Score 5/6 A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic. The last science fiction movie that I remember that Luc Besson was involved in was the District…
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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…
The Expendables 3
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Director Patrick Hughes Starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews Rated M Score 2/6 Barney augments his team with new blood for a personal battle: to take down Conrad Stonebanks, the Expendables co-founder and notorious arms trader who is hell bent on wiping out Barney and every single one of his…
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…
Guardians of the Galaxy
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Director James Gunn Starring Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana and Dave Bautista Rated M Score 3.5/6 Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser. I’m not overly familiar with Writer/Director James Gunn’s…
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…
Age of The Dragons
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Director Ryan Little Starring Danny Glover, Vinnie Jones, Corey Sevier Rated M Score 1/6 Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick, is recreated in a world where Captain Ahab and his crew search for a Great White Dragon. I can understand the filmmaker’s logic behind making a change to Melville’s 1851 novel Moby Dick, being that…
Hercules
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Director Brett Ratner Starring Dwayne Johnson, John Hurt, Ian McShane Rated M Score 3/6 Having endured his legendary twelve labors, Hercules, the Greek demigod, has his life as a sword-for-hire tested when the King of Thrace and his daughter seek his aid in defeating a tyrannical warlord. After recently watching The Legend of Hercules starring…
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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…
In the Blood
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Director John Stockwell Starring Gina Carano, Cam Gigandet, Danny Trejo Rated MA Score 4/6 When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible. Whoever compared this to Taken shouldn’t have especially considering that Taken went on to humiliate itself…