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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Hansel & Gretel – Witch Hunters

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 14% (Critics) / 61% (Audience)
Directed By: Tommy Wirkola
Written By: Tommy Wirkola
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen and Peter Stormare
Studio: Paramount Pictures/MGM

Synopsis:In this spin on the fairy tale, Hansel & Gretel are now bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. As the fabled Blood Moon approaches, the siblings encounter a new form of evil that might hold a secret to their past. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: This Means War

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this_means_war
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 26% (Critics) / 58% (Audience)
Directed By: McG
Written By: Timothy Dowling and Simon Kinberg
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox

Synopsis:The world’s deadliest CIA operatives are inseparable partners and best friends until they fall for the same woman. Having once helped bring down entire enemy nations, they are now employing their incomparable skills and an endless array of high-tech gadgetry against their greatest nemesis ever – each other. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Texas Chainsaw 3D

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 78% (Critics) / 84% (Audience)
Directed By: John Luessenhop
Written By: Adam Marcus, Debra Sullivan, Kirsten Elms and Stephen Susco
Starring: Alexandra Daddario, Trey Songz, Scott Eastwood, Tania Raymonde and Dan Yeager
Studio: Lionsgate Films

Synopsis:A young woman travels to Texas to collect an inheritance; little does she know that an encounter with a chainsaw-wielding killer is part of the reward. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Storage 24

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Storage-24
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 43% (Critics) / 25% (Audience)
Directed By: Johannes Roberts
Written By: Noel Clarke, Davie Fairbanks and Marc Small
Starring: Noel Clarke, Colin O’Donoghue, Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Laura Haddock
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

Synopsis: In London, a military plane crashes leaving its highly classified contents strewn across the city. Completely unaware that the city is in lockdown, a group of people become trapped inside a storage facility with a highly unwelcome guest. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Juan of the Dead

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juan-of-the-dead
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 78% (Critics) / 64% (Audience)
Directed By: Alejandro Brugués
Written By: Alejandro Brugués
Starring: Alexis Díaz de Villegas, Jorge Molina, Andrea Duro, and Andros Perugorría
Studio: Outsider Pictures

Synopsis: A group of slackers face an army of zombies. The Cuban government and media claim the living dead are dissidents revolting against the government. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Superman Unbound

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Superman-Unbound
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 100% (Audience)
Directed By: James Tucker
Written By: Bob Goodman
Starring: Matt Bomer, Stana Katic, Molly C. Quinn and John Noble
Studio: Warner Bros Pictures

Synopsis: An unstoppable android on the horizon. A mysterious fireball hurtling toward Earth. A fearless – and beautiful – reporter who will stop at nothing to get her story. It’s just another day for the heroic Man of Steel… only this time, for better or for worse, he has his unpredictable cousin, Supergirl, by his side. The gritty adventure begins as Superman learns about the ruthless force known as Brainiac, who has seized and miniaturized Krypton’s capital city of Kandor. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Lords of Salem

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 46% (Critics) / 42% (Audience)
Directed By: Rob Zombie
Written By: Rob Zombie
Starring: Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison, Jeff Daniel Phillips, and Judy Geeson
Studio: Anchor Bay Films

Synopsis: From the singular mind of horror maestro Rob Zombie comes a chilling plunge into a nightmare world where evil runs in the blood. The Lords of Salem tells the tale of Heidi (Sheri Moon Zombie), a radio station DJ living in Salem, Massachusetts, who receives a strange wooden box containing a record, a “gift from the Lords.” Heidi listens, and the bizarre sounds within the grooves immediately trigger flashbacks of the town’s violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the “Lords of Salem” returning for revenge on modern-day Salem? (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Pain & Gain

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painandgain
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 47% (Critics) / 65% (Audience)
Directed By: Michael Bay
Written By: Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie and Tony Shalhoub
Studio: Paramount Studios

Synopsis: From acclaimed director Michael Bay comes “Pain and Gain,” a new action comedy starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie. Based on the unbelievable true story of a group of personal trainers in 1990s Miami who, in pursuit of the American Dream, get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly wrong. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Oblivion

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oblivion
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 59% (Critics) / 67% (Audience)
Directed By: Joseph Kosinski
Written By: Joseph Kosinski, Karl Gajdusek and Michael Arndt
Starring: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Melissa Leo
Studio: Universal Pictures

Synopsis: One of the few remaining drone repairmen assigned to Earth, its surface devastated after decades of war with the alien Scavs, discovers a crashed spacecraft with contents that bring into question everything he believed about the war, and may even put the fate of mankind in his hands. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Alter Egos

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ALTEREGOS
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 24% (Audience)
Directed By: Jordan Galland
Written By: Jordan Galland
Starring: Kris Lemche, Brooke Nevin, Joey Kern and Danny Masterson
Studio: Phase 4 Films

Synopsis: Alter Egos takes place in a world in which superheroes have recently lost all government funding and public support. It centers on an under appreciated superhero who jeopardizes a dangerous mission with his own emotional crisis–his girlfriend is cheating on him with his alter ego. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: A Tale of Two Horror Movie Spoofs

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scarymovie5
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 5% (Critics) / 79% (Audience)
Directed By: Malcolm D. Lee
Written By: Pat Proft and David Zucker
Starring: Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex, Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan
Studio: The Weinstein Company

Synopsis:A couple begin to experience some unusual activity after bringing their newborn son home from the hospital. With the help of home-surveillance cameras and a team of experts, they learn they’re being stalked by a nefarious demon. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Sightseers

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sightseers
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 88% (Critics) / 93% (Audience)
Directed By: Ben Wheatley
Written By: Amy Jump, Alice Lowe and Steve Oram
Starring: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies
Studio: IFC Films

Synopsis:Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way – on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan. Tina’s led a sheltered life and there are things that Chris needs her to see – the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that separates these wonders in his life. But it doesn’t take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers and pre-booked caravan sites, not to mention Tina’s meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris’s dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him the wrong way, over a very jagged edge. (Source)

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