Director Quentin Tarantino Staring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington Rating MA Score 6/6 With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. Ok, it has been a few days since I saw Django Unchained,…
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Hotel Transylvania
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Director Genndy Tartakovsky Staring Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Andy Samberg Rating PG Score 3/6 Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count’s teen-aged daughter. Okay, I was struck with an uneasy feeling while watching this one.…
Next of Kin
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Director John Irvin Staring Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson and Adam Baldwin Rated M Score 3/6 Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself. Next of Kin really is not the most impressive of movies. It has…
Boot Tracks
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Director David Jacobson Staring Stephen Dorff, Michelle Monaghan and Willem Dafoe Rated M Score 1.5/6 Charlie Rankin, recently released from prison, seeks vengeance for his jail-house mentor William “The Buddha” Pettigrew. Along the way, he meets the ethereal, yet streetwise, Florence Jane. They embark on a unlikely road trip, careening towards an unlikely redemption and…
The Courier
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Director Hany Abu-Assad Staring Mickey Rourke, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Til Schweiger Rated MA Score 1/6 A specialist carrier is hired to deliver a mysterious case to the underworld’s most dangerous hitman. I am not familiar with Israeli director Hany Abu-Assad’s work and to be honest I really was not that impressed with this straight…
Underground: The Julian Assange Story
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Director Robert Connolly Staring Rachel Griffiths, Anthony LaPaglia and Alex Williams Rated M Score 3.5/6 A look at the early career of Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange. Okay, I deliberately missed watching this one when it was first run on Australian television. Part of me was expecting that The Julian Assange Story would have been done…
The River Murders
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Director Rich Cowan Staring Ray Liotta, Christian Slater and Ving Rhames Rated MA Score 2.5/6 A homicide detective, while investigating a series of murders becomes the prime suspect when the FBI uncovers his close personal ties to all the victims. In its own way The River Murders did come across as being a brutal movie.…
Hit & Run
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Directors David Palmer & Dax Shepard Starring Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell and Bradley Cooper Rated MA Score 5/6 A former getaway driver abandons his Witness Protection Program identity in order to help his girlfriend get a job interview in Los Angeles. His former crew, his ex-girlfriend and the inept United States Marshal assigned to him…
The Baytown Outlaws
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Director Barry Battles Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Eva Longoria and Thomas Brodie-Sangster Rated MA Score 5/6 When three redneck brothers agree to help a woman save her son from an abusive father, they become targets on the run from an odd cast of characters. It was a shame that 1970’s feel of the original trailer…
Gangster Squad
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Director Ruben Fleischer Starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Michael Peña, Robert Patrick, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Mackie and Emma Stone Rated MA Score 4.5/6 A chronicle of the LAPD’s fight to keep East Coast Mafia types out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and 50s. Guys considering that Ryan Gosling has been cast in…