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- By Loron Hays
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for fantasy action violence, some frightening images and brief sensuality.
Runtime: 118 mins.
Director: Louis Leterrier
Writer: Travis Beacham and Phil Hay
Cast: Sam Worthington; Liam Neeson; Ralph Fiennes.
Tagline: The Clash Begins 2.4.2010
Genre: Action | Adventure
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- By Christopher Symonds
MPAA Rating: PG for thematic material, language and a mild suggestive moment.
Runtime: 105 mins.
Director: tom Vaughan
Writer: Robert Nelson Jacobs.
Cast: Harrison Ford; Brendan Fraser; Keri Russell
Tagline: Don't hope for a miracle. Make one.
Genre: DramaExtraordinary Measures feels like one those weepy-eyed, made-for-TV kleenex melodramas from decades past.
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- By Frank Wilkins
Beginners is an oddball little delight from Thumbsucker filmmaker Mike Mills, that begins where it ends. We first meet Oliver (Ewan McGregor) as he’s clearing out the house of his recently deceased father Hal (Christopher Plummer)...
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- By Emily Strong
Is it ever too late to start over? So, what would you do if your father came out of the closet at the age of 75 years old? Well, if you’re writer/director Mike Mills, you make a movie about it. And while this is might sound like some cheap shot of exploiting the oppression that his father endured ...
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- By Loron Hays
Hey Ho, Let’s Go! Thank God for Paul Bartel (who plays Mr. McGree, the music teacher) at Vince Lombardi High School in this 1979 cult classic. According to Rock n Roll High School’s production history, it was his idea to bring The Ramones on board this teenage comedy. Originally, the ...
Read more: Rock n' Roll High School – 40th Anniversary Collector’s Steelbook Edition (1979)
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- By Frank Wilkins
We all have that one childhood memory that haunts us to this very day. For me it was the sudden rattling of trash cans, tools, and boxes as everything came crashing down in my parents’ carport when I came home late one night as a young teenager ...
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- By Loron Hays
Modern crime capers don’t get much better than Steven Soderbergh’s slick take on Elmore Leonard’s Out of Sight, which now lands on 4K Ultra HD thanks to Kino Lorber Studio Classics and Universal and includes a Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master which has been approved and ...
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- By Loron Hays
The man with the hat is back! And this time in 4K. Complete with a sparkling new HDR-10 and Dolby Vision 4K transfer with state-of-the-art Dolby Atmos for the best sound quality possible, Paramount offers fans of Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones a 4-movie Steelbook collection, with ...
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- By Emily Strong
“Try to look more bereaved.” This isn’t how funerals are supposed to go. Or is it? Offering something arguably more realistic and touching than any other mopey, water-works-filled funeral sequence/movie we have seen before, Juzo Itami’s The Funeral does anything BUT try to make ...
Read more: The Funeral: Criterion Collection (1984) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
“You'll never be big time because you're small time in your heart.” Vaudeville: a long-lost form of entertainment that couldn’t hold its own against the rising popularity of the movies and also eventually to television sets becoming a staple in homes. Relatively short-lived ...
Read more: For Me and My Gal: The Warner Archive Collection (1942) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
Well, they say everything is bigger in Texas, including its films, apparently. A giant story. A giant load of themes. Giant characters with giant lifestyles. And certainly, a giant runtime. If anything, this is a film that certainly does live up to its name ...
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- By Loron Hays
Welcome to the house where dreams dance and race alongside the speeding cars in Amarcord. If you understand that reference to the small Italian coastal town of Federico Fellini’s 1973 comedy then this is DEFINITELY the movie for you. James Preble (Kentucker Audley), a ...
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- By Emily Strong
When exactly are you supposed to have your life all figured out? Some people know straight out of high school with their college and career paths plus future family plans laid out step-by-step. For other people, it’s perhaps during or after those college years of barely being an adult with some ...
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- By Loron Hays
Wow. A HUGE existential hurdle has just been crossed by a person who was raised on the set of the original film. Makes sense then that the Ghostbusters story here in Ghostbusters: Afterlife is told from the viewpoint of a child discovering the truth about their own ghostbusting grandpa ...
Read more: Ghostbusters Afterlife - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
“You’re insane…but you might also be brilliant.” When does a joke go on for too long? Isn’t the point to make the audience laugh? If you’re a comedian, then the answer to the latter would most likely be “yes.” But if you’re Andy Kaufman, then the answer is “no.” He never claimed to be a ...
Read more: Man on the Moon: 2K Restoration (1999) - Blu-ray Review
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