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Movie Review: THE SMURFS 2

THE SMURFS 2 movie poster | ©2013 Sony Pictures

Rating: PG Stars: Neil Patrick Harris, Katy Perry, Hank Azaria, Jayma Mays Writers: J. David Stern, David N. Weiss, Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Karey Kirkpatrick Director: Raja Gosnell Distributor: Sony Release Date: July 31, 2013 Rarely do I get to sit with my 10-year-old daughter and enjoy a movie equally as much as she does. But, alas, I did just that watching THE SMURFS 2. A fun and tender story about choosing how you want to live your life and that family isn’t necessarily something you are born into. SMURFS 2 opens with the diabolical Gargamel (Hank Azaria) plotting to […]Read On »


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JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE FLASHPOINT PARADOX Highlights this week in Blu-ray and DVD Releases

JUSTICE LEAGUE FLASHPOINT PARADOX | (c) 2013 Warner Home Video

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE FLASHPOINT PARADOX – In the DC Universe there are a number of different alternative reality plotlines or limited series or films. In fact, DC comics does alternate reality so many times it is hard to keep them all straight from the multiverse to crisis […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE WOLVERINE

THE WOLVERINE movie poster | ©2013 20th Century Fox

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Hugh Jackman, Hiroyuki Sunada, Famke Janssen, Will Yun Lee, Rila Fukushima, Tao Okamoto, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Haruhiko Yamanouchi Writers: Mark Bomback and Scott Frank Director: James Mangold Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Release Date: July 26, 2013 The major problem with THE WOLVERINE is not that the title character – or for that matter, Hugh Jackman, the actor who plays him – cannot headline a feature film. Wolverine, aka Logan, an immortal mutant whose skeleton has had the metal adamantine added to it, has proven to be a compelling figure, both in the Marvel Comics that introduced him and […]Read On »


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TRANCE Highlights this week in Blu-ray and DVD Releases

TRANCE | (c) 2013 Fox Home Entertainment

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: TRANCE – An auctioneer at a high profile auction house has a dangerous secret. Not only is he planning the heist of this life with some high-priced thugs to steal a piece of art valued at $25 million but his past keeps catching up with him after […]Read On »


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Movie Review: RED 2

RED 2 movie poster | ©2013 Summit Entertainment

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Byung Hun Lee, Mary-Louise Parker, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Neal McDonough, Brian Cox Writers: Jon Hoeber & Erich Hoeber, based on characters created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner Director: Dean Parisot Distributor: Summit Entertainment Release Date: July 19, 2012 One of the main thoughts one has while watching RED 2 is that Helen Mirren is awesome. This isn’t exactly news, but every moment she’s onscreen here, firing two guns simultaneously as if she’s in a Quentin Tarantino shoot-‘em-up with an expression that says, yes, this is going just as she […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE CONJURING

THE CONJURING movie poster | ©2013 Warner Bros./New Line

Rating: R Stars: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor Writers: Chad Hayes & Carey W. Hayes Director: James Wan Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: July 19, 2013 THE CONJURING is a bit of an oddity. It is undeniably scary, yet takes what feels like a lot of time out to do some very on-the-nose bits about faith and marriage. It’s a bit like if THE EXORCIST was remade by one of those “this is good for you” religious TV channels. Ed and Lorraine Warren (played here by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, respectively) were a real-life married couple […]Read On »


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DVD/Blu-ray Review: WOULD YOU RATHER

WOULD YOU RATHER | ©2013 IFC Midnight

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Brittany Snow, Jeffrey Combs, Sasha Grey, Enver Gjokaj, John Heard, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Eddie Steeples, Charlie Hofheimer Writer: Steffen Schlachtenhaufen Director: David Guy Levy Distributor: IFC Midnight Release Date: Blu-ray/DVD July 9, 2013 In the game Truth or Dare, there are unspoken third and fourth options – a player can lie or opt out. No such possibilities exist in WOULD YOU RATHER, where a “game” of choices quickly escalates into mutilation and murder. The set-up: Iris (Brittany Snow), hard-working but broke, is desperate to save her depressed brother, who will die if he doesn’t get very […]Read On »


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THE HOST Highlights this week in Blu-ray and DVD Releases

THE HOST | (c) 2013 Universal Home Entertainment

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: THE HOST – Not a big fan of the TWILIGHT franchise and this is indeed a better love story than that highly popular and well criticized films by Stephanie Meyer. But THE HOST is actually quite a bit better than the previous series she is more known […]Read On »


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TV Movie Review: SHARKNADO

SHARKNADO poster | ©2013 Syfy

Stars: Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Cassie Scerbo, Jaason Simmons, Aubrey Peeples, Chuck Hittinger, John Heard Writer: Thunder Levin Director: Anthony C. Ferrante Network: Syfy Channel Original Airdate: Thursday, July 11 @ 9 PM [Full disclosure, SHARKNADO is directed by Assignment X  founder Anthony C. Ferrante, but he allowed us to review the film anyway] Important fact: sharks are in fact relatively delicate creatures that would not survive oxygen deprivation, chlorine, the Los Angeles sewage system or other environmental disruptions depicted here; to the extent they did survive, they would be fighting to breathe, not trying to consume everything in sight. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ABSENCE

ABSENCE movie poster | ©2013 Cinedigm

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Erin Way, Eric Matheny, Ryan Smale, Stephanie Scholz Writers: Jimmy Loweree & Jake Moreno Director: Jimmy Loweree Distributor: Cinedigm Release Date:  theatrical July 5, 2013;VOD August 6, 2013 Any low-budget movie that gets theatrical distribution deserves applause for the twin accomplishments of being completed and being seen. ABSENCE is also likely to strike some fond chords forSouthern Californians, who will recognize the freeways and environments, if perhaps not specific locations. However, in what seems to be an effort to avoid horror movie conventions, director Jimmy Loweree and his co-scenarist Jake Moreno fail to replace the conventions […]Read On »


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