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by | September 28, 2015 · 3:53 pm

Staff Writer | Review: The Visit

M. Night Shyamalan just made a movie that doesn’t look like it outright sucks! I gots to see this!

He sat in the theater seat, popcorn and icee in hand— a total violation of his diet—waiting to see if the rumors are true. “Could it be?” our movie going hero thought. “Could this movie not be a total crapfest?!” The lights of the theater dimmed, he readied himself…  but first twenty minutes of trailers and commercials!

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….The movie credits rolled, the lights came up. 

“Mother of God” he said “Why did I wear my sunglasses the whole time?!”

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by | September 8, 2015 · 7:38 pm

Staff Writer | A Look Back at Summer Cinema

So it is now September, the limbo month, where movie goers don’t get any blockbusters worth the name and no real Oscar contenders are out yet.  Let’s take a look back at the summer and see what we learned from the biggest movies of the summer:

#1) Your creation will kill you. In most movies where this is a plot device, a human playing god in some way will get bitten in the ass, and this summer had plenty of ass biting. There were three killer Artificial Intelligence movies: Ex Machina, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Terminator Genisys (although, to be technical about it Ex Machina wasn’t a summer movie), plus Jurassic World’s supercharged killer–dinosaurs–just to hammer home the point. Continue reading →

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by | August 24, 2015 · 7:40 am

Staff Writer | Review: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

***** SPOILER ALERT *****
This review will be discussing plot points which may be considered spoilers. Consider yourselves warned.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E is a straight up man.

Growing up I never cared much for the Bond films or Mission Impossible movies. However, recently over the years my feelings towards these kinds of movies have softened—in most part due to the quality of two of the last three Bond films.  So, when I saw the trailers for The Man from U.N.C.L.E I was hooked. It looked slick, sexy and stylish, all elements that I feel have been missing in movies as of late.  Based on the mid-60’s TV series of the same name, that ran for 100+ episodes and starred Robert Vuangh (Bullitt (1968) and The Magnificent Seven (1960)) and David McCallum (NCIS), this movie was about a super-secret spy organization called U.N.C.L.E that teamed up an American CIA agent and Soviet KGB agent.

"The First Man(Men?) from U.N.C.L.E."

The First Man (Men?) from U.N.C.L.E.

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by | July 8, 2015 · 8:49 pm

Review: Terminator: Genisys

 ***** SPOILER ALERT *****
This review will be discussing plot points of movies which may be considered spoilers. Consider yourselves warned.terminator genisys

In case you haven’t noticed we are living in the days of the never ending franchises. It used to just be relegated to known B movie franchises, for the most part, like James Bond and Godzilla, but now it seems like every single blockbuster needs to be a trilogy and then get re-booted for three or four more. If there is one franchise the really needs to be put down it is The Terminator.

Terminator Genisys is the fifth movie in the time traveling killer robot franchise and while I don’t think any new entry will ever come close to the masterpiece of T2: Judgment Day we can at least hope for a good amount of old fashion mass property damage. I never really had any problems with T3 (other that it not being necessary), I’ve blocked out Terminator Salvation and I ignored the Sarah Conner Chronicles. As I thought about it there was nowhere for the franchise to go but up from Salvation.

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