Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Place Beyond The Pines

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 81% (Critics) / 81% (Audience)
Directed By: Derek Cianfrance
Written By: Derek Cianfrance and Ben Coccio
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Dane DeHaan and Ray Liotta
Studio: Focus Features

Synopsis:A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Dead Before Dawn

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 80% (Audience)
Directed By: April Mullen
Written By: Tim Doiron
Starring: Devon Bostick, Christopher Lloyd, Martha MacIsaac and Brandon Jay McLaren
Studio: Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment

Synopsis:A bunch of college kids accidentally unleash an evil curse that causes people to kill themselves and turn into Zombie Demons, aka ZEMONS! (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Host

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 9% (Critics) / 54% (Audience)
Directed By: Andrew Niccol
Written By: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, Max Irons and William Hurt
Studio: Open Road Films

Synopsis: When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, Melanie will risk everything to protect the people she cares most about, proving that love can conquer all in a dangerous new world. (Source)

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Trailer of the Day: The World’s End

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Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind’s only hope for survival. – IMDb

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Tomorrow When The War Began

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 64% (Critics) / 61% (Audience)
Directed By: Stuart Beattie
Written By: Stuart Beattie
Starring: Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Lincoln Lewis and Phoebe Tonkin
Studio: Freestyle Releasing

Synopsis:Seven Australian teenage friends from a small town go on a camping trip to be with nature. During their trip, they see military aircraft fly overhead. What they didn’t know was their country was being invaded by another country. Returning home, they discover that they are at war. With no training, they band together to fight the enemy. (Source)

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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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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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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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Trailer of the Day: Pacific Rim

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When an alien attack threatens the Earth’s existence, giant robots piloted by humans are deployed to fight off the menace. – IMDb

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Juan of the Dead

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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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Trailer of the Day: Only God Forgives

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Julian, a drug-smuggler thriving in Bangkok’s criminal underworld, sees his life get even more complicated when his mother compels him to find and kill whoever is responsible for his brother’s recent death. – IMDb

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