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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Escape From Tomorrow

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 58% (Critics) / 54% (Audience)
Directed By: Randy Moore
Written By: Randy Moore
Starring: Roy Abramsohn, Elena Schuber, Katelynn Rodriguez
Studio: FilmBuff

Synopsis: In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father’s sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Machete Kills

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 30% (Critics) / 61% (Audience)
Directed By: Robert Rodriguez
Written By: Robert Rodriguez and Kyle Ward
Starring: Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Amber Heard, Demian Bichir, Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson
Studio: Open Road

Synopsis: The U.S. government recruits Machete to battle his way through Mexico in order to take down an arms dealer who looks to launch a weapon into space. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Gravity

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 98% (Critics) / 90% (Audience)
Directed By: Alfonso Cuarón
Written By: Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón
Starring: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Synopsis: GRAVITY, directed by Oscar (R) nominee Alfonso Cuaron, stars Oscar (R) winners Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in a heart-pounding thriller that pulls you into the infinite and unforgiving realm of deep space. Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney). But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Byzantium

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 61% (Critics) / 53% (Audience)
Directed By: Neil Jordan
Written By: Moira Buffini
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley
Studio: IFC Films

Synopsis: Residents of a coastal town learn, with deathly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought shelter at a local resort. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: I Spit On Your Grave 2

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 0% (Critics) / 28% (Audience)
Directed By: Steven R. Monroe
Written By: Neil Elman and Thomas Fenton
Starring: Jemma Dallender, Yavor Baharov, Joe Absolom
Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment

Synopsis: Katie is trying to make it in the cutthroat world of modeling. When she innocently accepts an offer to have new photos taken for her portfolio, the experience quickly turns into an unthinkable nightmare of rape, torture, and kidnapping. When a twist of fate finally frees her from her captors – beaten, battered, bruised, and broken, she will have to tap into the darkest places of the human psyche to not only survive her ordeal, but to ultimately find the strength to exact her brutal revenge. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Fright Night 2

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 100% (Audience)
Directed By: Eduardo Rodriguez
Written By: Matt Venne
Starring: Will Payne, Jaime Murray, Sean Power
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Synopsis: By day Gerri Dandridge is a sexy professor, but by night she transforms into a real-life vampire with an unquenchable thirst for human blood. So when a group of high school students travel abroad to study in Romania, they find themselves ensnared in Gerri’s chilling web of lust and terror. Charley and “Evil” Ed must stop Gerri from drinking and bathing in the blood of a “new moon virgin,” which just so happens to be Charley’s ex-girlfriend, Amy. They enlist help from Peter Vincent, the vampire hunting host of a reality show called “Fright Night,” to drive a stake through Gerri’s plan and save Amy from a fate far worse than death. – (Source)

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Curse of Chucky – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

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Synopsis: After her mother’s mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to recent bloodshed and chaos. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Maniac

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 47% (Critics) / 52% (Audience)
Directed By: Franck Khalfoun
Written By: Alexandre Aja and Grégory Levasseur
Starring: Elijah Wood, Nora Arnezeder, America Olivo
Studio: IFC Midnight

Synopsis: As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop’s deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Prisoners

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 78% (Critics) / 90% (Audience)
Directed By: Denis Villeneuve
Written By: Aaron Guzikowski
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Paul Dano, Terrence Howard and Melissa Leo
Studio: Warner Bros.

Synopsis: When Keller Dover’s daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family? – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Insidious Chapter 2

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 37% (Critics) / 72% (Audience)
Directed By: James Wan
Written By: Leigh Whannell and James Wan
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey and Lin Shaye
Studio: FilmDistrict

Synopsis:The famed horror team of director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell reunite with the original cast of Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye and Ty Simpkins in INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2, a terrifying sequel to the acclaimed horror film, which follows the haunted Lambert family as they seek to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Jug Face

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 82% (Critics) / 37% (Audience)
Directed By: Chad Crawford Kinkle
Written By: Chad Crawford Kinkle
Starring: Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter, Kaitlin Cullum and Sean Young
Studio: Modern Distributors

Synopsis: Jug Face tells the story of a pregnant teen trying to escape a backwoods community when she discovers that she may be sacrificed to a creature in a pit. – (Source)

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Remake Rumble: I Spit On Your Grave (1978) vs I Spit On Your Grave (2010)

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The 411: A comely female writer heads to the seclusion of a country cabin to finish a novel and ends up being brutally gang-raped by a band of locals. After the attack she proceeds to get her revenge on her attackers, taking them out one-by-one.
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