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(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 9/12/2014 12:52 PM EDT One of James Gandolfini's (The Sopranos) final movies, "The Drop", heads to theaters today, September 12, 2014. Gandolfini plays Cousin Marv a former tough guy bar owner in NY who now is reluctantly under the watch of the Chechnyan Mob. The mob uses his bar as one of many to make "the drop", a monthly payout by... Read More |
 
(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 8/29/2014 9:28 AM EDT As Above, So Below, the latest horror thriller co-written and directed by John Erick Dowdle (Quarantine, Devil) opens this week in theaters. Set in the catacombs under Paris, As above follows a team of explorers as they discover the horror under the City of Lights. While underground the explorers have visions of their pasts which haunt ... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 8/27/2014 9:19 AM EDT Proving you can't keep a good agent down, Pierce Bronson, 007 himself, has just gotten his license to kill reinstated in the new thriller, November Man. November Man, director by spy thriller veteran, Roger Donaldson (The Bank Job, The Recruit), based on the first in a thirteen part book series by author Bill Granger, is about a retied CIA... Read More |
(Judith Raymer) 8/14/2014 2:38 PM EDT The night the lights went out on…Lincoln Road. A power outage affected the entire block. In the theatre, The Expendables 3 continued to play. Like the proverbial cockroach. Except for the sound. The sound had cut out, and the crowd agreed that the film had just improved ten-fold. Should Stallone be bored e... Read More |
 
(Nathan M Rose) 8/7/2014 11:07 AM EDT For years various studios and companies have been trying to find a way to get the Teenage Mutant Ninja turtle property back on the big screen, and this August it will be finally accomplished by Platinum Dunes, Nickelodeon, and Paramount.The premise is simple – Four turtles and a rat come into contact with a mutagen agent that transforms then ... Read More |
 
(Judith Raymer) 7/31/2014 9:56 AM EDT Marvel Studios does it again! Cliche? Yes, and yes. About that...We begin by meeting Peter Quill/Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) as a young boy (not) coping with his mother's death, and abducted by an alien ship. Rather than deliver him (to whom, we have yet to discover…his extraterrestrial father, Jason, or one of his foes, perhaps)... Read More |
(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 7/31/2014 9:45 AM EDT Get on Up: the James Brown Story" combines drama, heart and great music to tell the fascinating life story of the Godfather of Soul. Chadwick Boseman (Draft Day) Plays the lead and Nelsan Ellis (True Blood) plays Brown's best friend Bobby Bird. Dan Aykroyd (Ghoptbusters, The Blues Brothers) portrays Brown's long time manager ... Read More |
(Paul Kates) 7/30/2014 11:05 AM EDT One of Ancient Greece's most popular myths is turned on its head with Brett Ratner's telling of Hercules. In Ratner's account, the son of Zeus is no more than a leader of a band of cut-throat mercenaries, working their way through life, until they each have enough gold to retire into a life they all desire.Once the predictable narrative that seems ... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 7/24/2014 4:06 PM EDT This week Universal Pictures hopes to breathe life into a dead summer with their new film Lucy. Lucy, stars Scarlett Johansson, is Luc Besson's (The Professional, The Fifth Element) latest action thriller. The premise although a little far fetched is simple. Lucy is a student studying abroad in Taipei who, through a series of mishap... Read More |
(Sean Ferguson) 7/18/2014 8:41 AM EDT When it comes to creating a comedy, there are many topics one could shy away from, but Porn has never been one of them. In fact, if done right, it could lend to a fun and interesting story, with major complications. Zack and Miri made a porno that didn't do so well, and yet Don Jon did nothing but watch them…to great success. So why woul... Read More |
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