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Rated PG-13 for drug content and sequences of violence.Starring Dwayne Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Jon Bernthal, Barry Pepper and Benjamin BrattDirected by Ric Roman Waugh (Felon)Best Rock movie to date (with Faster a close second).In the fast-paced action thriller Snitch, Dwayne Johnson stars as a father whose teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking...
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Rated PG for thematic elements and some mildly scary action.Starring Chris Pine (voice), Alec Baldwin (voice), Hugh Jackman (voice), Isla Fisher (voice) and Jude Law (voice)Directed by Peter RamseyDreamworks does it again!More than a collection of the well-known childhood legends, Rise of the Guardians tells the story of a group of heroes – each with extraordinary abilities. When an...
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Rated PG-13 for intense scenes of fantasy action violence, some frightening images and brief language.Starring Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Warwick Davis, Ian McShane and Bill NighyDirected by Bryan Singer (Usual Suspects, X-men and Superman Returns)Fee-fi-fo-zzzzzzAn age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of...
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Rated PG-13 for some sexual situations, language and a brief intense image.Starring Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Dennis QuaidDirected by Gabriele Muccino (Seven Pounds and The Pursuit of Happyness)You can “keep” this one. Playing For Keeps is a romantic comedy about a charming, down-on-his luck former soccer star (Butler) who returns home to put his...
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Rated PG for sequences of action and scary images, and brief mild language.Starring James Franco, Michelle Williams, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Zach Braff and Abigail SpencerDirected by Sam Raimi (Spider-Man)Definitely pay attention to the man behind the curtain.Disney's fantastical adventure Oz: The Great and Powerful, directed by Sam Raimi, imagines the origins of L. Frank Baum's beloved character, the...
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Rated PG-13 for some violent images, sexual content and thematic material.Starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and Scarlett JohanssonDirected by Sacha GervasiThe least suspenseful Hitchcock movie ever!In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma, are at the top of their creative game as filmmakers amid disquieting insinuations about it being time to retire. To recapture his youth's artistic daring, Alfred...
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Rated R for strong violence and language.Starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pena, Emma Stone, Sean Penn, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Patrick and Nick NolteDirected by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less)I was expecting an updated Untouchables, what I got was unwatchable.Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this...
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