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Former Disney Channel go-to-girl Vanessa Hudgens musses her hair and tattoos her hide for a grungy turn in Gimme Shelter, a film that disguises its right-wing, Christian fairy tale intentions beneath what it thinks is a tough, gritty facade of societal misgivings.  It’s the ...

I hope I am around to see the day that filmmakers in Hollywood can actually produce a gripping, enticing, and all around satiating Greek mythological epic. However, in their latest endeavor, The Legend of Hercules, disappointment reigns supreme once more. Every ...

Anyone tired of the reboot without reason?  If you’re not and like your money to support the generic, then Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is the movie for you.  The uninspired title tells you everything you need to know about this flick.  The character has been dormant ...

Writer/director Peter Berg, coming off the financially and critically disastrous Battleship, adapts the New York Times best-seller called Lone Survivor which tells the true story of the ill-fated Operation Red Wings mission, a combined joint military operation involving ...

When you think of a romantic comedy your brain doesn’t immediately turn toward science fiction.  Or does it?  After all, isn’t the dizzying aspect of falling into love comparable to a loss of gravity?  Certainly, with the right person, it can be. Her offers a new approach to the idea ...

“Ground control to Major Tom, your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong.” Indeed there is something wrong with The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. In this Ben Stiller directed adaptation of James Thurber’s 1939 short story; Stiller seems to miss his mark. Let us pause ...

With a swollen cast boasting no fewer than a half dozen A-listers – not to mention an equal number of character actors, there’s a lot of acting firepower vying for attention in John Wells’s August: Osage County. Fortunately for viewers, there’s ample material to go ...

Lake Bell, after surviving the supporting actress stranglehold for a number of years, breaks out on her own with In a World…, a movie she writes, directs, and stars in.  The movie subverts the romantic comedy genre by humorously tackling the male-dominated ...

There’s a bothersome disconnect between the story being told in The Book Thief and what we see on the screen. Set in a small German town during the years surrounding the beginning of World War II, as Hitler’s villainous reign of control for hearts and minds is ramping up ...

Matthew McConaughey is on a roll. A career that just a few years ago seemed headed towards irrelevance with a run of really bad romantic comedies, has since about-faced and now appears to be culminating with his Oscar-worthy turn in Dallas Buyers Club ...