Trailer of the Day: Zero Charisma
An overgrown nerd who serves as Grand Master of a fantasy board game finds his role as leader of the misfits put into jeopardy when a new initiate enters the group. – IMDb
Category: Movies
It Is Mostly Marvel’s Fault That We Don’t Have A Wonder Woman Movie
What’s that you say? How can I blame Marvel Studios for Warner Brothers not making a movie of a DC Comics character? That makes no sense to you? Have I skipped my medication for the day?
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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Insidious Chapter 2
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
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)
Remake Rumble: I Spit On Your Grave (1978) vs I Spit On Your Grave (2010)
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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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Among Friends
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 38% (Audience)
Directed By: Danielle Harris
Written By: Alyssa Lobit
Starring: Alyssa Lobit, Jennifer Blanc, AJ Bowen, Christopher Backus and Kane Hodder
Studio: Grindstone Entertainment
Synopsis: Scream queen Danielle Harris steps behind the camera to direct this horror comedy about a group of young friends who are drawn together for a murder mystery party that quickly becomes a bloodbath. – (Source)
Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Riddick
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 59% (Critics) / 75% (Audience)
Directed By: David Twohy
Written By: David Twohy
Starring: Vin Diesel, Matt Nable, Katee Sackhoff, Dave Bautista and Karl Urban
Studio: Universal
Synopsis: Left for dead on a sun-scorched planet, Riddick finds himself up against an alien race of predators. Activating an emergency beacon alerts two ships: one carrying a new breed of mercenary, the other captained by a man from Riddick’s past. – (Source)
Trailer of the Day: RoboCop
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
Good, Bad & Ugly Review: All The Boys Love Mandy Lane
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 50% (Critics) / 36% (Audience)
Directed By: Jonathan Levine
Written By: Jacob Forman
Starring: Amber Heard, Edwin Hodge, Whitney Able, Luke Grimes and Anson Mount
Studio: Radius-TWC
Synopsis: Starring Amber Heard and Anson Mount, ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE is about a group of high-schoolers who invite Mandy Lane, “a good girl” who becomes the object of everyone’s affection after returning from summer break, to a weekend party on a secluded ranch. While the festivities rage on, the number of revelers begins to mysteriously drop one at a time. – (Source)
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Bad Movies That Rock: Zapped!
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What’s It About?
ZAPPED! is a teen sex-comedy spoof of the Stephen King/Brian DePalm film CARRIE, with Scott “Chachi” Baio as a high school science nerd who gains telekinetic powers from an experiment gone wrong. And since it is the early 1980s the main thing he uses those powers for his to expose as many high school girl boobs as he can.
Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Frozen Ground
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 58% (Critics) / 52% (Audience)
Directed By: Scott Walker
Written By: Scott Walker
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens, Dean Norris, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, and John Cusack
Studio: Lionsgate
Synopsis: THE FROZEN GROUND is inspired by the incredible true story that follows Alaskan State Trooper Jack Halcombe (Nicolas Cage) as he sets out to end the murderous rampage of Robert Hansen (John Cusack), a serial killer who has gone unnoticed for 13 years. As the bodies of street girls start to pile up in Anchorage, fear strikes a chord with the public. Risking his life, Halcombe goes on a personal manhunt to find the killer before the next body surfaces. When a seventeen year old escapee (Vanessa Hudgens) reveals key information about the case, Halcombe is finally on the trail of the killer. But will he catch him in time to save the next victim? – (Source)
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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: I Declare War
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 69% (Critics) / 64% (Audience)
Directed By: Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson
Written By: Jason Lapeyre
Starring: Siam Yu, Kolton Stewart, Gage Munroe
Studio: Drafthouse Films
Synopsis: Armed with nothing more than twigs, their imaginations and a simple set of rules, a group of 12-year-olds engaged in a lively game of Capture the Flag in the neighborhood woods start dangerously blurring the lines between make-believe and reality. Rocks = Grenades. Trees = Control towers. Sticks = Submachine guns. The youthful innocence of the game gradually takes on a different tone as the quest for victory pushes the boundaries of friendship. The would-be warriors get a searing glimpse of humanity’s dark side as their combat scenario takes them beyond the rules of the game and into an adventure where fantasy combat clashes with the real world. – (Source)
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