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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Battleship

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Battleship Movie
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 36% (Critics) / 56% (Audience)
Directed By: Peter Berg
Written By: Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber
Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker and Liam Neeson
Studio: Universal

Synopsis: Peter Berg produces and directs Battleship, an epic-scaled action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force in this film inspired by Hasbro’s classic naval combat game. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Dictator

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The Dictator Movie Review
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 61% (Critics) / 64% (Audience)
Directed By: Larry Charles
Written By: Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Jason Mantzoukas and Ben Kingsley
Studio: Paramount Pictures

Synopsis: The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed. (Source)

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Game of Thrones Scene of the Week: Little Orphan Arya

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“A Man Without Honor” was a bit heavier on dialog than action and the best scene for me was the further adventures of Little Orphan Arya and her ward Daddy Lannister. Tywin Lannister is surrounded by generals yet he can only have deep, meaningful conversations with a tweenage girl he has just met. That this man of great intellect and power is surrounded by so many idiots has been shown in previous episodes and this exchange was just extra fun. The two characters went back and forth with Tywin making it known that he is aware when Arya is lying … Continue reading Game of Thrones Scene of the Week: Little Orphan Arya

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Trailer of the Day: Excision

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A disturbed and delusional high school student (AnnaLynn McCord) with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother. – IMDb

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Cover Me Monday: Jolene

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With a nod to blogging brethren jmount43 for the recommendations, I present to you this week’s cover songapalooza featuring Dolly Parton’s classic “Jolene” sung by both nascent alterna-folk singer Mindy Smith and the Norah Jones side band The Little Willies.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Dark Shadows

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 41% (Critics) / 58% (Audience)
Directed By: Tim Burton
Written By: Seth Grahame-Smith and John August
Starring: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloë Grace Moretz, Helena Bonham Carter and Eva Green
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Synopsis: Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. (Source)

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The Unholy Trinity of Bad Movie Mothers

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Mrs Gump gives a genteel and southernly “Bless Their Hearts” to the horrible moms on this list

While most of the world is honoring the best of motherhood on this Mother’s Day, I thought I’d take a different angle and look at the worst examples of mothering to ever be put on film. So put down the sappy Hallmark cards and last minute bouquet of flowers and click through to see the trio of worst movie mothers ever! Happy Mother’s Day!

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Game of Thrones Scene of the Week: Whoop That Trick

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Tyrion slapping Joffrey

This week’s scene of the week was too easy to pick…nothing is better than watching that little putz Joffrey get abused and this scene was especially satisfying because he got both humiliated and put in his place in quick succession.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Avengers

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The Avengers
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 94% (Critics) / 96% (Audience)
Directed By: Joss Whedon
Written By: Joss Whedon and Zak Penn
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston and Samuel L. Jackson
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Synopsis: Marvel Studios presents Marvel’s The Avengers-the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins. (Source)

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