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Planes (2013)
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Read more: Planes (2013)Rated G, 92 wasted minutes of your life Fair Value Rating of Planes: -$4.50. If I have to sit through a full-length recruitment ad for the US Navy, the least they can provide is either a dogfight or a homoerotic volleyball scene. This film had neither. I understand the purpose of Disney’s film Planes.…
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Elysium
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Read more: ElysiumWhenever he is on screen, Kruger seems as likely to kill his audience as anyone on screen with him. Whether stirring steaks on the braai with his ninja sword or…
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The Conjuring
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Read more: The ConjuringA greatest hits medley of ghost movie tropes, this may be the finest episode of R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps ever made.
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Maniac (2012)
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Read more: Maniac (2012)Luckily, the film arrives at last the proverbial fireworks factory and ends on the same high note that Lustig and Savini hit three decades ago…
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The Smurfs 2
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Read more: The Smurfs 2One scene where Jokey Smurf delivers a bomb package to a room full of schoolchildren, remarking that the ‘war for Christian purity is about to begin’ was kind of over the top. Still, the theater could not help but burst into applause when Papa Smurf called Treblinka a ‘Zionist lie’.
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The Wolverine (2013)
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Read more: The Wolverine (2013)126 Minutes, PG-13 for atomic devastation, seppukku, miscellaneous Japanese persons getting disemboweled. Fair Value Rating of The Wolverine: $11.50. Wolverine’s the best at what he does- and what he does is stabbing a lot of people. Director James Mangold’s first superhero flick manages an entertaining midsummer adventure with Disney’s favorite mutant cyborg, Wolverine. By casting…
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Spring Breakers
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Read more: Spring Breakers“Why y’all actin’ ‘spicious?”
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Red 2 Movie Review – Welcome to the Age of Geriatric Action
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Read more: Red 2 Movie Review – Welcome to the Age of Geriatric ActionIf The Expendables was the final roar of a withered Tyrannosaurus Rex, Red 2 is more like a soft heave of breath as the dinosaur lays dying. Welcome to the decade of 100 male versions of Norma Desmond, all shot in bullet time. Welcome to the decade of geri-action.
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Jack Reacher: Action Review
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Read more: Jack Reacher: Action ReviewWhile he was doing memory exercises and push ups at the same time, we were watching football and masturbating at the same time. Now we join him in enjoying the fruits of his labor.
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Pacific Rim
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Read more: Pacific RimDo people even watch the movies they review anymore?