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Rated PG-13 for thematic material, violence, terror and frightening images, and brief strong language.Starring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne and Ty SimpkinsDirected by James Wan (Death Sentence and Saw)Insidious means intended to entrap or beguile… and I’m feeling pretty beguiled right about now.This horror film is the terrifying story of a family who shortly after moving discover that dark spirits...
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Directed by Rupert Wyatt (The Escapist)Starring James Franco, Andy Serkis, John Lithgow…Rated PG-13 for violence, terror, some sexuality and brief strong language.Planet of the Apes, Beneath Planet of the Apes, Escape from Planet of the Apes… you’d think we’d be tired of all these freaking apes by now, right?Wrong.This marvelous origin story is going to bring audiences back to...
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Directed by Jon FavreauStarring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde…Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of western and sci-fi action and violence, some partial nudity and a brief crude reference.Probably just what you expect from a film with this title.At least no one can say, “We’ve seen this before!” This movie, if anything, was original in premise. Aliens come to...
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Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, disturbing images and brief strong language.Starring Paul Bettany, Maggie Q, Cam Gigandet and Karl UrbanDirected by Scott Stewart (Legion)Definitely not cute Twilight-like vampires in this one. A legendary Warrior Priest from the last Vampire War now lives in obscurity among the other downtrodden human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities ruled...
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Rated PG-13 for some violent content.Starring James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Evan Rachel Wood, Kevin Kline and Justin LongDirected by Robert Redford (Lions for Lambs, The Legend Of Bagger Vance, and The Horse Whisperer)I love history…I hate political (liberal) movies.In the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the...
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Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action.Starring Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Hugo Weaving and Samuel L. JacksonDirected by Joe Johnston (The Wolfman, Jurassic Park III, Jumanji and Honey, I Shrunk The Kids)Captain America is a superhero everyone can root for.Captain America: The First Avenger focuses on the early days of the...
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Rated PG-13 for some sequences of intense action violence and frightening images.Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert GrintDirected by David Yates (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)I’m not a fan of the Potter films...but this one was pretty entertaining. The final...
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