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Shuffling On My iPod: The Arcs

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Black Keys frontman/keyboardist/lyricist Dan Auerbach has put together a very cool side project called The Arcs that is a fully collaborative band made up of Auerbach and some notable indie music notables like Richard Swift, Homer Steinweiss, Nick Movshon, Kenny Vaughan, Leon Willis and members of the group Mariachi Flor De Toloache. If that eclectic grouping wasn’t interesting enough it turns out that the inspiration behind most of the songs on The Arcs’ LP are inspired by the Floyd Mayweather/Manny Pacquiao fight from earlier this year. At least something good has come from that shitty over-priced borefest because I have enjoyed all the songs I have heard from The Arcs so far with the posted song, Stay In My Corner, being my current favorite.

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 66% (Critics) / 80% (Audience)
Directed By: Guy Ritchie
Written By: Guy Ritchie and Lionel Wigram
Starring: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander and Jared Harris
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Synopsis: In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons. – (Source)

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Hot Pursuit – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 8% (Critics) / 39% (Audience)
Directed By: Anne Fletcher
Written By: David Feeney and John Quaintance
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara and Robert Kazinsky
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Synopsis: An uptight and by-the-book cop tries to protect the outgoing widow of a drug boss as they race through Texas pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen. – (Source)

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Remake Rumble: Fantastic Four (2005) vs Fantastic Four (2015)

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The 411: A group of scientists get transformed into super-beings must do battle with a friend turned foe as they try to come to grips with their new found abilities.
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Trailer of the Day: Deadpool

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A former Special Forces operative turned mercenary is subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers and adopts the alter ego Deadpool. – Source

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Trainwreck – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 85% (Critics) / 77% (Audience)
Directed By: Judd Apatow
Written By: Amy Schumer
Starring: Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson and Tilda Swinton
Studio: Universal Pictures
Synopsis: Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy. – (Source)

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Trailer of the Day: Goodnight Mommy

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In the heat of the summer. A lonesome house in the countryside between woods and corn fields. Nine-year-old twin brothers are waiting for their mother. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before. The children start to doubt that this woman is actually their mother. It emerges an existential struggle for identity and fundamental trust. – Source

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Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 93% (Critics) / 93% (Audience)
Directed By: Christopher McQuarrie
Written By: Christopher McQuarrie and Drew Pearce
Starring: Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Synopsis: Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate – an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF. – (Source)

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Justice League: Gods and Monsters – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 99% (Audience)
Directed By: Sam Liu
Written By: Alan Burnett
Starring: Benjamin Bratt, Michael C. Hall, Tamara Taylor, C. Thomas Howell and Jason Isaacs
Studio: Warner Bros. Animation
Synopsis: In an alternate universe, very different versions of DC’s Trinity (Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman), who operate outside of the law, are framed for murders of prominent scientist and the government decides to take them out. – (Source)

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Charlie’s Farm – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 78% (Audience)
Directed By: Chris Sun
Written By: Chris Sun
Starring: Tara Reid, Nathan Jones, Kane Hodder
Studio: Shoreline Entertainment
Synopsis: In an effort to do something different, four friends head into Australia’s outback to explore Charlie’s Farm, the site where a violent family met their end at the hands of an angry mob. Despite all warnings, they persist in their horror-seeking adventure. – (Source)

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Final Girl – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 92% (Audience)
Directed By: Tyler Shields
Written By: Adam Prince, Stephen Scarlata, Alejandro Seri, Johnny Silver
Starring: Abigail Breslin, Alexander Ludwig and Wes Bentley
Studio: Cinedigm Entertainment
Synopsis: A man teaches a young woman how to become a complete weapon. 13 years later, at 18 she will approach a group of sadistic teens who killed blonde women for unknown reasons. The hunting season begins. – (Source)

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This Seems Like A Really Bad Way To Start A Marriage

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If you absolutely have to get married then stick to the tried and true method of a simple walk down the aisle and a recitation of vows followed by a reception where everyone gets drunk off of cheap booze and the bride and groom end up going into massive debt.
Bit for the love of Pete stop the nonsense with the dance routines and choreographed shenanigans because they never end well and sometimes a groom will cold-cock his new bride with a mistimed back flip.  And that can only lead to a higher probability of the marriage ending in divorce within a year.

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