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Movie Review: Bullet to the Head (2012)
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| Warner Bros. Pictures Runtime: 1 hour, 32 minutes Rated: R (for nudity, violence, and adult themes) Director: Walter Hill Writer: Alessandro Camon, Alexis Nolent Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Momoa, Christian Slater, Sung Kang Action | Crime | Thriller |
Cut any of the older Diehards or Tango and Cash or Lethal Weapon or any successful “odd couple” movie in half with regard to quality and that is about where Walter Hill’s Bullet to the Head comes in at. Being that we are done with 2012, I had high hopes for this one, but the big hitters aren’t always the ones to come last.
Movie Review: Django Unchained (2012)
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| Columbia Pictures - The Weinstein Company Runtime: 2 hours, 45 minutes Rated: R (for nudity, extreme violence and gore, and adult themes) Director: Quentin Tarantino Starring: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington Adventure | Drama | Western |
At about 3 hours long, Django Unchained is Quentin Tarantino’s latest mental sickness-inspired adventure of a slave named “Django” (Jamie Foxx) who is freed by a German dentist-turned-bounty hunter, “Dr. King Schultz” (Christoph Waltz) who helps Django rescue his enslaved wife from a cruel plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio) in Mississippi.
Movie Review: Flight (2012)
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| Paramount Pictures Runtime: 2 hours, 18 minutes Rated: R (for nudity, profanity, drug and alcohol use, and adult themes) Director: Robert Zemeckis Writer: John Gatins Starring: Denzel Washington, Nadine Velasquez, Don Cheadle, Tamara Tunie, Kelly Reilly Drama |
Flight is about Whip Whitacre (Denzel Washington), a seasoned commercial airlines pilot who is in denial about having a substance abuse problem. His ex-wife and son don’t want him around. No one he works with who knows him expects him to change, although one stewardess and friend he flies with who goes to church regularly (Tamara Tunie) keeps a pew warm for him.
Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
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| Columbia Pictures Runtime: 2 hours, 37 minutes Rated: R (for strong violence including brutal disturbing images, and for language) Director: Kathryn Bigelow Writer: Mark Boal Starring: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt Drama | History | Thriller |
Zero Dark Thirty is military talk for “half past midnight.” As a movie, it is just as alluring as its title. It is the story of the acquisition and assassination of Osama bin Laden with efforts going as far back as 2003 when getting reliable information from detainees as to key al-Qeada players was pronouncedly an unproductive task.
Movie Review: Lincoln (2012)
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| Dreamworks Pictures Runtime: 2 hours, 30 minutes Rated: PG-13 (for an intense scene of war violence, some images of carnage, and brief strong language) Director: Steven Spielberg Writers: Tony Kushner, Doris Kearns Goodwin Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn Biography | Drama | History |
Spielberg’s Lincoln draws much of its focus from a book by historian (and film consultant) Doris Kearns Goodwin entitled Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, and in a nearly three-hour timespan (and with the help of screenplay writer Tony Kushner), it stays on a path determined to let the perceived aura of Abraham Lincoln shine through.
Movie Review: Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)
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| Lionsgate Runtime: 1 hour, 32 minutes Rated: R (for strong grisly violence and language throughout) Director: John Luessenhop Writers: Adam Marcus, Debra Sullivan Starring: Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonde, Scott Eastwood Horror | Thriller | Mystery |
A girl travels to Texas to collect on an inheritance when just a day earlier she had no idea about it. She learns that a grandmother has just died that she didn't even know she had, which kinda makes mom and dad jerks for not telling her she was adopted all these years. With the edginess at home, we can practically feel the road trip to Texas coming on.
Movie Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
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| New Line Cinema Runtime: 2 hours, 46 minutes Rated: PG-13 (for extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence and frightening images) Director: Peter Jackson Writers: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage Adventure | Fantasy |
The Hobbit is Lord of the Rings-0, the official prequel to the series by J.R.R. Tolkien and the movies by Peter Jackson, this time with an intrepid host of adventuring dwarves looking to reclaim their home.
Movie Review: Life of Pi (2012)
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| 20th Century Fox Runtime: 2 hours, 7 minutes Rated: PG (for emotional thematic content throughout, some scary action, and sequences of peril) Director: Ang Lee Writers: David Magee, Yann Martel Starring: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain Adventure | Drama |
Ang Lee's Life of Pi is an adaptation of the 2001 novel by Yann Martel, one of the writers for the film, wherein a spiritually searching Indian boy from Pondicherry is lost in the Pacific ocean with a fully grown Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
Movie Review: Here Comes the Boom (2012)
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| Columbia Pictures Runtime: 1 hour, 45 minutes Rated: PG (for bouts of MMA violence, rude humor, and language) Director: Frank Coraci Writers: Kevin James, Allan Loeb Starring: Kevin James, Henry Winkler, Salma Hayek, Bas Rutten, Gary Valentine, Greg Germann Action | Comedy |
Every once in a while, an average family movie slips past the execs and winds up on the big screen somehow. It doesn’t deserve to be there, but it’s there anyway. This is what happened with Frank Coraci and Kevin James' Here Comes the Boom, in which James plays "Scott Voss," a burnt-out high-school biology teacher who gets into MMA (mixed martial arts) to save his school's soon-to-be-cancelled music department due to lacking funds.
Movie Review: 12/12/12 (2012)
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| The Asylum Runtime: 1 hour, 26 minutes Rated: R (for bloody violence, sexual content, nudity, language) Director: Jared Cohn Writer: Jared Cohn Starring: Sara Malakul Lane, Jesus Guevara, Steve Hanks Horror |
The movie is an apocalyptic horror film based on the date 12/12/12, which is the birth date of Satan’s fleshly incarnation. Less than ten days later (12/21/12), a young antichrist child will be ready to step up and rule the world. It’s another “evil baby” movie, but it at least tries to go in a new direction.
At the movie’s start, we watch as an almost totally nude female is tied to an alter and is rubbed down with oil of some kind before having her stomach cut open.
Drive Thru Review (2012) - (3)
Director: Todd Lincoln
Starring: Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton
Horror | Thriller
It’s been called one of the worst movies of the year – and it ain’t no cinematic treasure – but the premise behind The Apparition is more than a little scary (despite what you’ve heard). A host of things were done wrong here, and Greene is not a likable onscreen presence. But if you can watch with the lowest of expectations, you might come away with something. C-
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Movie Review: Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
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| Disney Pictures Runtime: 1 hour, 41 minutes Rated: PG (for some rude humor and mild action/violence) Director: Rich Moore Writers: Rich Moore, Phil Johnston Starring: John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch Sarah Silverman Animation | Comedy | Family |
Wreck-it Ralph is the movie about the video game, and unlike most movies that have anything to do with their video games, this one doesn’t suck. And many movies have only one hero, but this one has at least three. It’s center-most is “Wreck-it Ralph” (John C. Reilly, voice) who is nothing more than a blip of coding inside an arcade game where, as the bad guy, he is responsible for smashing apart a building, leaving the good guy, “Fix-It Felix” (Jack McBrayer, voice) to undo his damage and receive all the praise from the little coding blips that are the building tenants.
Movie Review: Rise of the Guardians (2012)
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| Dreamworks Animation Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes Rated: PG (for thematic elements and some mildly scary action) Director: Peter Ramsey Writers: David Lindsay-Abaire, William Joyce Starring: Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Isla Fisher Animation | Adventure | Family |
Rise of the Guardians is supposed to be a Christmas movie, but in actuality, it is an all-seasons movie about belief in The Easter Bunny (hugh Jackman, voice), Santa Claus (Alec Baldwin, voice), the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher, voice), the Sandman, and Jack Frost (Chris Pine, voice). But I would be remiss if I forgot to mention the role of the Moon who serves here as the heavenly host’s appointee to select earth’s guardians. Yes, that’s right, guardians—and all this time, you thought Santa and friends were just joyful gift-givers on earth.
Movie Review: Pitch Perfect (2012)
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| Universal Pictures Runtime: 1 hour, 52 minutes Rated: PG-13 (for sexual material, language, and drug references) Director: Jason Moore Writers: Kay Cannon, Mickey Rapkin Starring: Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Rebel Wilson Comedy | Music | Romance |
Young “Beca” (Anna Kendrick) is a freshmen at Barden University, but as much as she finds herself surrounded by new people and potential friends, she is more wrapped up in her own little world of music. She carries her computer with an advanced sound program on it and large headphones around nearly everywhere. Mostly estranged from dad through “stepmonster” (her own term of anti-endearment for the step-mom), she isn’t all that easy to get to know, but compared to her new roommate, she comes in just likable enough.
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