Director Keanu Reeves Starring Keanu Reeves, Iko Uwais, Tiger Hu Chen Rated 4.5/6 Rated MA A young martial artist’s unparalleled Tai Chi skills land him in a highly lucrative underworld fight club. This was an interesting choice for Keanu Reeves’ first movie as a director, purely because of the use of Tai Chi, considering that…
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Cockneys vs. Zombies
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Director Matthias Hoene Starring Rasmus Hardiker, Harry Treadaway, Michelle Ryan Rated MA Score 6/6 A gang of bank robbers fight their way out of a zombie-infested London. If you came across this one at your friendly DVD store I can understand that you might give this one a wide berth judging just purely title and…
World War Z
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Director Marc Forster Staring Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz Rated M Score 3.5/6 United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself. I have not read the book that inspired World War Z,…
Halo 4: Forward unto Dawn
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Director Stewart Hendler Starring Tom Green, Anna Popplewell, Enisha Brewster Rated M Score 3.5/6 UNSC Cadet Thomas Lasky must conquer his inner fears and join forces with super-soldier John-117 to take down a massive faction of the Covenant. For the record I have not played any of the games of the Halo franchise, but for…
Flash Gordon
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Director Mike Hodges Staring Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow Rated PG Score 3/6 A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth. I was familiar to the soundtrack to Flash Gordon before I even watched the movie,…
Air Force Two
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Director Brian Trenchard-Smith Staring Mariel Hemingway, David Keith, David Millbern Rated M Score 0/6 When the Vice President’s plane goes down near a remote Pacific island, he is kidnapped by rebel forces and held for ransom. It is up to his female Secret Service agent and a press secretary to infiltrate the camp and save…
The Great Gatsby
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Director Baz Luhrman Staring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire & Joel Edgerton Rated M Score 6/6 Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby’s circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy. I…
Fast & Furious 6
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Director Justin Lin Staring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker & Dwayne Johnson Rated M Score 3.5/6 Hobbs has Dom and Brian reassemble their crew in order to take down a mastermind who commands an organization of mercenary drivers across 12 countries. Payment? Full pardons for them all. Okay, the sixth film of the franchise is finally…
This is 40
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Director Judd Apatow Staring Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Maude Apatow Rated MA Score 2.5/6 A look at the lives of Pete and Debbie a few years after the events of Knocked Up. I kind of wish that I did not invest my time to watch this movie. Granted it is not a complete clusterfuck of…
Life of Pi
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Director Ang Lee Staring Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Rafe Spall & Gérard Depardieu Rated PG Score 6/6 After a cataclysmic shipwreck, young Pi Patel finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with only one other survivor – a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Bound by the need to survive, the two are cast…