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The Lost City of Z

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 7/10/2017 9:57 PM EDT
Eldorado, the elusive city of gold has been searched for many times over. Considered to be located somewhere in the Amazon jungle, explorers have risked life and limb to try and find it. Unsure if one explorer, Percy Fawcett was actually looking for El Dorado but he was an avid explorer and claimed to have found remnants of a long gone ... Read More

Léon: The Professional

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 7/10/2017 3:49 PM EDT
Luc Bessson (La Femme Nikita) has been writing and making films since the early 1980's but in 1990 he became more of a household name with the release of Leon: The Professional and The Fifth Element. Highly stylized action films, they captured the imagination like none others had before. With his latest film, Valerian and the City o... Read More

Fate of The Furious

(Nathan M Rose) 7/10/2017 2:35 PM EDT
In 2001 a summer film entitled The Fast & The Furious was unleashed on audiences worldwide. To-date that film has become one of the world's most beloved franchises spewing not one or two but seven sequels. The latest, Fate of The Furious comes to the home entertainment market this month.Fate of The Furious starts out a ... Read More

The Fifth Element

(Nathan M Rose) 7/10/2017 10:27 AM EDT
With Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets coming out later on this month Sony Entertainment has released two of his critically acclaimed films Leon: The Professional and The Fifth Element on 4K UHD Blu-ray timed to concede with the new release.For those who are yet unfamiliar with The Fifth Element, the film, ... Read More

Smurfs: The Lost Village

(Nathan M Rose) 7/10/2017 8:51 AM EDT
Smurfs, those lovable blue creatures created by Belgian comics artist Peyo, are back on the silver screen again. This time in Smurfs: The Lost Village we meet an entirely new colony Smurfs.Gone is the live action/cg hybrid that graced the first two films. This time we are thankfully immersed totally in the world of CG and the Smurfs.Every... Read More

Their Finest

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 7/9/2017 8:54 PM EDT
The year was 1940 and World War two was raging all throughout Europe. The United States had yet to become involved but England was enmeshed in the fighting. Every night there were air raids, bombs destroying cities and civilians getting killed. Men were being called upon to enter the military to help fight and women were entering ... Read More

Absolutely Anything

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 7/5/2017 2:22 PM EDT
Robin Williams (Good Morning Vietnam) was a comedic genius who left us all too soon. He was truly one of a kind. He could famously go off on a tangent and make almost anything funny. You couldn't help but smile and laugh when you saw his standup routines and he made a name for himself in major motion pictures even winning an Oscar... Read More

The Belko Experiment

(Nathan M Rose) 7/5/2017 10:04 AM EDT
Welcome to The Belko Experiment. Brought to you by the Belko corporation. A look into the human psyche when survival is on the line. Your participation is welcome. All you have to do is be the last one to survive out of your co-workers.It is with this premise that one finds itself watching The Belko Experiment, a film from ... Read More

Money

(Allison Hazlett-Rose) 6/28/2017 8:56 AM EDT
They say money is the root of all evil. Some people will do anything to get it while some of those who have it will do anything to keep it (or get more). It can certainly make life easier in some ways but harder in others and it is the rare individual who is left untouched by its appeal. Writer Josep Ciutat and Director Martin Rosete ex... Read More

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

(Nathan M Rose) 6/26/2017 4:44 PM EDT
In 2011, Twentieth Century Fox re-imagined the very popular 1968 -1974 films and television series called The Planet of The Apes. Rise of the Planet of The Apes took a different slant on the classic story and it seemed to pay off. Once again, the subject matter was a hit with audiences so naturally, in 2014, they created a seq... Read More