Directed by Mike Mitchell Staring Michael Angarano, Danielle Panabaker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kelly Preston & Kurt Russell Rating PG Score 4/6 Life for Will Stronghold, the son of legendary heroes Jet Stream and The Commander, has the tremendous expectation that he will go into the family business. He enters the high school for teenage super…
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Breaking Bounds
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Director Mark Harris Starring Kenneth Okolie, Dawn Halfkenny & Corey Hendrix Score 3.5/6 A young gay man from an affluent Ugandan family faces deportation after a brush with the law. If returned to his homeland, he’ll face the consequences of strict anti-homosexual persecution. As the case is taken to the courts, his Nigerian attorney also…
Tom Cruise: The Last Movie Star
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Director Tom O’Dell Starring Richard Roeper, AA Dowd, Dan Jolin , Bilge Ebiri, Scott Mendelson, Geoffrey Macnab Score 4/6 From “Top Gun” to the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, Tom Cruise becomes the world’s biggest movie star by risking life and limb to perform death-defying stunts. Okay, I will admit that after watching this I have a…
The Retirement Plan
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Director Tim Brown Stars Nicolas Cage, Ashley Greene, Thalia Campbell Rated MA Score 3/6 When Ashley and her young daughter Sarah get caught up in a criminal enterprise that puts their lives at risk, she turns to estranged father Matt, currently living the life of a retired beach bum in the Cayman Islands. Despite its…
The Fourth Musketeer
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Director Steve Lawson Stars Jonathan Hansler & Matt Ingram-Jones Rated PG Score 1/6 At the behest of his father, young d’Artagnan travels from rural Gascony to Paris, where he becomes embroiled in a devious plot between the King’s Musketeers and the Guardsmen of Cardinal Richelieu. Of the many adaptations of The Three Musketeers I’ve always…
The Three Musketeers
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Director Bill Thomas Stars James Cosmo, Michael Higgs, Sophie Craig Rated PG Score 0/6 Joined by an eager recruit to protect the King of France, three loyal swordsmen attempt to defeat an evil royal advisor and a seductive envoy plotting to overthrow the crown. Of the many adaptations of The Three Musketeers I’ve always been…
Retribution
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Director Nimród Antal Stars Liam Neeson, Noma Dumezweni, Lilly Aspell Rated M Score 3/6 A bank executive receives a bomb threat while driving his children to school that his car will explode if they stop and get out. For those of you who might be interested, Retribution is the third remake of Spain’s Retribution (…
The Warrant
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Director Brent Christy Starring Neal McDonough, Steven R. McQueen, Casper Van Dien Rated M Score 3/6 Civil War hero Sheriff John Breaker and his son reunite to arrest Union Army friend “The Saint.” Now a fierce gang leader, his raids threaten to bring the country back into conflict. Okay, It looks as if there is…
12 Rounds
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Director Renny Harlin Stars John Cena, Ashley Scott, Aidan Gillen Rated M Score 3/6 Detective Danny Fisher discovers his girlfriend has been kidnapped by an ex-con tied to Fisher’s past, and he’ll have to successfully complete 12 challenges in order to secure her safe release. I do remember watching this one around the time it…
The Machine
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Director Peter Atencio Stars Bert Kreischer, Mark Hamill, Iva Babic & Jimmy Tatro Rated MA Score 4.5/6 Bert’s drunken past catches up with him 20 years down the road when he and his father are kidnapped by those Bert wronged 20 years ago while drunk on a college semester abroad in Russia. I suppose I…