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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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…
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…
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…
The Day
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Director Douglas Aarniokoski Staring Shawn Ashmore, Brianna Barnes and Ashley Bell Rated MA Score 4/6 A group of five people working to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic future discover what they think is a safe, abandoned farmhouse, but they soon find themselves fighting to stay alive as a gang of bloodthirsty predators attack. When I…
Bangkok Bound
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Director Todd Bellanca Staring Casey T. Evans, Tom Arnold and Nick Faltas Rated MA Score 5/6 A former American boxer now exiled in Bangkok, is forced to confront his violent past after meeting a mysterious fight fan from his hometown. If you go out hunting for this you will need to know that Bangkok Bound…
Seeking a Friend for the end of the world
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Director Lorene Scafaria Staring Steve Carell, Keira Knightley and Melanie Lynskey Rated M Score 2/6 As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a…
Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden
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Director John Stockwell Staring Cam Gigandet, Anson Mount and Freddy Rodríguez Rated MA Score 3/6 A group of Navy SEALs come to learn the identity of their target: Osama bin Laden. I often wonder when films about important historical events such as the killing of Osama Bin Laden if filmmakers should immediately make the movie…
El Gringo
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Director Eduardo Rodriguez Starring Scott Adkins, Petar Bachvarov, Zahary Baharov and Christian Slater Rated MA Score 3/6 A man crossing into Mexico with a satchel of $2,000,000, and a bloody past, finds himself under sudden attack in the sleepy town of El Fronteras. El Gringo is the type of movie that you would watch when…
My Way
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Directed by Je-kyu Kang Starring Dong-gun Jang, Jô Odagiri and Bingbing Fan Rated MA Score 5/6 Inspired by a true story. Jun Shik works for Tatsuo’s grandfather’s farm while Korea is colonized by Japan, but he has a dream to participate in Tokyo Olympics as a marathon runner. Tatsuo also aims to become a marathon…