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…
Movie Reviews
Skyfall
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Directed by Sam Mendes Staring Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem and Naomie Harris Rated M Score 4.5/6 Bond’s loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her, bringing MI6 under attack Finally I have gotten a chance to get off my and ass and see Skyfall, I know what you might think…
Pitch Perfect
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Director Jason Moore Staring Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow and Rebel Wilson Rated M Score 3/6 Beca, a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school’s all-girls singing group. Injecting some much needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in a campus competition. All right, I am…
High School
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Director John Stalberg Starring Matt Bush, Sean Marquette and Adrien Brody Rated MA Score 4.5/6 A high school valedictorian who gets baked with the local stoner finds himself the subject of a drug test. The situation causes him to concoct an ambitious plan to get his entire graduating class to face the same fate, and…
Magic Mike
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Directed by Steven Soderbergh Staring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer and Olivia Munn Rated MA Score 2.5/6 Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money. For the record, yes I did skip watching Magic Mike…
Red Dawn
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Directed by Dan Bradley Starring Chris Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas and Josh Hutcherson Rated M Score 1/6 A group of teenagers look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers. The release of the remake of Red Dawn prompted me to revisit the ’84 version of the movie. Now though the original movie…
The Change Up
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Directed by David Dobkin Staring Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds and Olivia Wilde Rated MA Score 2/6 Dave is a married man with two kids and a loving wife , and Mitch is a single man who is at the prime of his sexual life. One fateful night while Mitch and Dave are peeing in a…
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2
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Directed by Bill Condon Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner Rated M Score 4.5/6 After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi. Okay, finally this film franchise has been put to…
The Raven
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Directed by James McTeigue Staring John Cusack, Alice Eve and Luke Evans Rated MA Score 5/6 When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s works, a young Baltimore detective joins forces with Poe to stop him from making his stories a reality. This movie is a brilliant piece of what could…
Argo
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Director Ben Affleck Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman Rated M Score 6/6 A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran. This movie is based on events that transpired during the 444 day Iran Hostage Crisis that last from November 4,…