Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Veronica Mars

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 76% (Critics) / 98% (Audience)
Directed By: Rob Thomas
Written By: Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero
Starring: Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Chris Lowell, Gaby Hoffmann and Enrico Colantoni
Studio: Warner Bros

Synopsis: Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown – just in time for her high school reunion – in order to help her old flame Logan Echolls, who’s embroiled in a murder mystery. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Nymphomaniac Vol. 1 & 2

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 86% (Critics) / 90% (Audience)
Directed By: Lars von Trier
Written By: Lars von Trier
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin and Shia LaBeouf
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

Synopsis: A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Journey To The West – Conquering The Demons

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 75%% (Audience)
Directed By: Stephen Chow and Chi-kin Kwok
Written By: Stephen Chow and Chi-kin Kwok
Starring: Qi Shu, Zhang Wen, Bo Huang
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

Synopsis: A story centered on Tang Sanzang, a Buddhist trying to protect a village from three demons, his emerging feelings for Miss Duan, the demon hunter who helps him repeatedly, and Sanzang’s transformative encounter with the Monkey King. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: RoboCop (2014)

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 48& (Critics) / 65% (Audience)
Directed By: José Padilha
Written By: Joshua Zetumer
Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley and Samuel L. Jackson
Studio: Sony Pictures

Synopsis: In 2028 Detroit, when Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) – a loving husband, father and good cop – is critically injured in the line of duty, the multinational conglomerate OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Knights of Badassdom

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 61% (Audience)
Directed By: Joe Lynch
Written By: Kevin Dreyfuss and Matt Wall
Starring: Ryan Kwanten, Steve Zahn, Peter Dinklage, Danny Pudi, Margarita Levieva and Summer Glau
Studio: Entertainment One Films

Synopsis: KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM follows three best friends (Peter Dinklage, Steve Zahn and Ryan Kwanten) and dedicated LARPers (Live Action Role Players) as they take to the woods to reenact a dungeons and dragons-like scenario fresh out of the mythical Middle Ages. Trouble arises after they unwittingly conjure up some serious evil in the form of a blood-lusting Succubus, from the pits of hell. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Nurse 3-D

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 69% (Critics) / 47% (Audience)
Directed By: Douglas Aarniokoski
Written By: Douglas Aarniokoski and David Loughery
Starring: Paz de la Huerta, Katrina Bowden, Judd Nelson and Corbin Bleu
Studio: The Film Arcade

Synopsis: By day Abby Russell is a dedicated nurse, someone you wouldn’t hesitate to trust your life with. But by night, her real work begins…using her smoldering sexuality she lures cheating men to their brutal deaths and exposes them for who they really are. When a younger nurse starts to suspect Abby’s actions and compromises her master plan, Abby must find a way to outsmart her long enough to bring the cheater you’d least expect to justice. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Lego Movie

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 95% (Critics) / 93%% (Audience)
Directed By: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Written By: Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Starring: Chris Pratt, Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman and Will Ferrell
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Synopsis: An ordinary LEGO mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary Master Builder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil LEGO tyrant from gluing the universe together. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Stalled

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 36% (Audience)
Directed By: Christian James
Written By: Dan Palmer
Starring: Dan Palmer, Antonia Bernath, Tamaryn Payne |
Studio: Uncork’d Entertainment

Synopsis:A janitor gets trapped in a women’s restroom and encounters an all-out attack by a horde of zombies. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Justice League – War

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 86% (Audience)
Directed By: Jay Oliva
Written By: Heath Corson
Starring: Sean Astin, Michelle Monaghan, Christopher Gorham, Alan Tudyk, Shemar Moore and Jason O’Mara
Studio: Warner Home Video

Synopsis:Based on the graphic novel by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee, seven heroes must band together for the first time to stop an alien invasion. – (Source)

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Remake Rumble: Flowers In The Attic (1987) vs Flowers In The Attic (2014)

The 411: This psychological thriller, based on the popular 1979 V.C. Andrews novel of the same name, focuses on the four Dollanganger children and their mother who find themselves having to move into their wealthy grandparents estate after their father dies suddenly. Once at their grandmother’s house the children are imprisoned in the attic which is just the start of the cruel treatment they receive from the religiously fanatical old woman.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Jack Ryan – Shadow Recruit

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 63% (Critics) / 67% (Audience)
Directed By: Kenneth Branagh
Written By: Adam Cozad and David Koepp
Starring: Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley and Kenneth Branagh
Studio: Paramount Pictures

Synopsis:Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Raze

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 58% (Critics) / 47% (Audience)
Directed By: Josh C. Waller
Written By: Robert Beaucage, Kenny Gage and Josh C. Waller
Starring: Zoë Bell, Rachel Nichols, Tracie Thoms, Doug Jones and Sherilyn Fenn
Studio: IFC Films
Synopsis: A young woman is abducted by an elite, secret society and wakes to find herself in the company of fifty other women who are, just like her, forced to fight for their lives in an unimaginable hell. – (Source)

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