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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Hobbit – The Battle of The Five Armies

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 60% (Critics) / 80% (Audience)
Directed By: Peter Jackson
Written By: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Lee Pace, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly and Luke Evans
Studio: Warner Bros.
Synopsis: Bilbo and Company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the terrifying Smaug from acquiring a kingdom of treasure and obliterating all of Middle-Earth. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Nightcrawler

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 95% (Critics) / 87% (Audience)
Directed By: Dan Gilroy
Written By: Dan Gilroy
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed and Bill Paxton
Studio: Open Road Films

Synopsis: When Lou Bloom, a driven man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Warrior’s Way

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 29% (Critics) / 47% (Audience)
Directed By: Sngmoo Lee
Written By: Sngmoo Lee
Starring: Dong-gun Jang, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush and Danny Huston
Studio: Rogue
Synopsis: In the 19th century, a warrior named Yang (Jang Dong Gun) is ordered to kill the last member of an enemy clan—a baby. He refuses the mission and flees with the child to a dilapidated town in the American West. Despite his attempts, his master closes in on him and he must fight to protect the child and his newfound comrades: Ron (Geoffrey Rush), the town drunk, and Lynne (Kate Bosworth), both of whom have a tragic past. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Annie

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A (Critics) / 88% (Audience)
Directed By: Will Gluck
Written By: Will Gluck and Aline Brosh McKenna
Starring: Quvenzhané Wallis, Cameron Diaz, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale and Jamie Foxx
Studio: Sony Pictures
Synopsis: A foster kid, who lives with her mean foster mom, sees her life change when business tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Tusk

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 40% (Critics) / 52% (Audience)
Directed By: Kevin Smith
Written By: Kevin Smith
Starring: Justin Long, Michael Parks, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez and Johnny Depp
Studio: A24 Films
Synopsis: When podcaster Wallace Bryton goes missing in the backwoods of Manitoba while interviewing a mysterious seafarer named Howard Howe, his best friend Teddy and girlfriend Allison team with an ex-cop to look for him. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Babadook

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 96% (Critics) / 93% (Audience)
Directed By: Jennifer Kent
Written By: Jennifer Kent
Starring: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall
Studio: IFC Films

Synopsis: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Reviews: The Guest

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 91% (Critics) / 80% (Audience)
Directed By: Adam Wingard
Written By: Simon Barrett
Starring: Dan Stevens, Sheila Kelley, Maika Monroe and Lance Reddick
Studio: Picturehouse Films
Synopsis: A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Wolfcop

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 71% (Critics) / 86% (Audience)
Directed By: Lowell Dean
Written By: Lowell Dean
Starring: Leo Fafard, Amy Matysio, Jonathan Cherry
Studio: CineCoup Media
Synopsis: As a series of strange and violent events start happening, an alcoholic policeman realizes that he has been turned into a werewolf as part of a larger plan, so he investigates with the help of his partner and his friend. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: I, Frankenstein

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 3% (Critics) / 40% (Audience)
Directed By: Stuart Beattie
Written By: Stuart Beattie and Kevin Grevioux
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Yvonne Strahovski, Jai Courtney and Miranda Otto
Studio: Lionsgate Films
Synopsis:Frankenstein’s creature finds himself caught in an all-out, centuries old war between two immortal clans. – (Source)

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V/H/S Viral – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 71% (Critics) / 81% (Audience)
Directed By: Justin Benson, Gregg Bishop, Aaron Moorhead, Marcel Sarmiento, Nacho Vigalondo
Written By: Justin Benson, Gregg Bishop, Aaron Moorhead, Marcel Sarmiento, Nacho Vigalondo, T.J. Cimfel, Ed Dougherty, David White
Starring: Justin Welborn, Emmy Argo, Emilia Ares Zoryan
Studio: Magnet Releasing
Synopsis:After watching on the news that an out-of-control ice cream truck is being chased by the police around the upper LA area, killing people and wrecking havoc among the way, a group of teens hell-bent on capturing the next viral video set out to chase the van. Things go from bad to worse when the content inside the van is revealed to be several tapes with bizarre stories, including that of a deranged illusionist who, after obtaining a demon-powered cloak, sets out on a killing spree; a garage scientist that manages to build a machine and open the door to a parallel world, where he and his double find out that their worlds are dangerously different; and the story of teenage skaters who unleash hordes of demonic foes after desecrating a ritual site in Tijuana. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Zombeavers

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 50% (Critics) / 96% (Audience)
Directed By: Jordan Rubin
Written By: Jordan Rubin and Al & Jon Kaplan
Starring: Rachel Melvin, Cortney Palm, Lexi Atkins and Rex Linn
Studio: Epic Pictures
Synopsis: ZOMBEAVERS is an action-packed horror/comedy in which a group of college kids staying at a riverside cabin are menaced by a swarm of deadly zombie beavers. A weekend of sex and debauchery soon turns gruesome as the beavers close in on the kids. Riding the line between scary, sexy and funny, the kids are soon fighting for their lives in a desperate attempt to fend off the hoard of beavers that attack them in and around their cabin. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Interstellar

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 73% (Critics) / 89% (Audience)
Directed By: Christopher Nolan
Written By: Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine and John Lithgow
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Synopsis:A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. – (Source)

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