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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Maleficent

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 48% (Critics) / 74% (Audience)
Directed By: Robert Stromberg
Written By: Linda Woolverton
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley and Sam Riley
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Synopsis:“Maleficent” explores the untold story of Disney’s most iconic villain from the classic “Sleeping Beauty” and the elements of her betrayal that ultimately turn her pure heart to stone. Driven by revenge and a fierce desire to protect the moors over which she presides, Maleficent cruelly places an irrevocable curse upon the human king’s newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Aurora is caught in the middle of the seething conflict between the forest kingdom she has grown to love and the human kingdom that holds her legacy. Maleficent realizes that Aurora may hold the key to peace in the land and is forced to take drastic actions that will change both worlds forever. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Savaged

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 75% (Audience)
Directed By: Michael S. Ojeda
Written By: Michael S. Ojeda
Starring: Amanda Adrienne, Tom Ardavany, Ronnie Gene Blevins and Marc Anthony Samuel
Studio: Raven Banner Entertainment

Synopsis:A deaf girl is brutalized by a murderous gang who are then hunted by her when the bloodthirsty spirit of an Apache warrior inhabits her lifeless body. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Chef

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 87% (Critics) / 89% (Audience)
Directed By: Jon Favreau
Written By: Jon Favreau
Starring: Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, Emjay Anthony Sofía Vergara and Scarlett Johansson
Studio: Open Road Films

Synopsis:A chef who loses his restaurant job starts up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: X-Men – Days of Future Past

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92% (Critics) / 95% (Audience)
Directed By: Bryan Singer
Written By: Simon Kinberg, Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Hugh Jackman
Studio: 20th Century Fox

Synopsis:The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Slither

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 86% (Critics) / 62% (Audience)
Directed By: James Gunn
Written By: James Gunn
Starring: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Gregg Henry, Tania Saulnier and Michael Rooker
Studio: Universal Pictures

Synopsis:A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Godzilla

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 72% (Critics) / 79% (Audience)
Directed By: Gareth Edwards
Written By: Max Borenstein and Dave Callaham
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Ken Watanabe and Bryan Cranston
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Synopsis:The world’s most famous monster is pitted against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity’s scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Sacrament

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 70% (Critics) / 90% (Audience)
Directed By: Ti West
Written By: Ti West
Starring: Kentucker Audley, Amy Seimetz, Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen and Gene Jones
Studio: Magnet Releasing

Synopsis: A fashion photographer is traveling to meet his sister at Eden Parish. Once there, his friends begin to film interviews with the Eden Parish inhabitants, all of whom speak of the commune in glowing terms. However, they soon discover that there is a sinister edge to the commune that belies the seemingly peaceful setting. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Pompeii

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 28% (Critics) / 42% (Audience)
Directed By: Paul W.S. Anderson
Written By: Janet Scott Batchler, Lee Batchler and Michael Robert Johnson
Starring: Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Kiefer Sutherland
Studio: Sony Pictures

Synopsis: A slave-turned-gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Camp Dread

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / NA (Audience)
Directed By: Harrison Smith
Written By: Harrison Smith
Starring: Eric Roberts, Felissa Rose and Danielle Harris
Studio: RLJ/Image Entertainment

Synopsis: The “Summer Camp” horror trilogy was one of the most popular franchises of the 1980s. However, the decade ended and so did director Julian Barrett’s career. Now Barrett plans to resurrect his gory series via a modern reboot patterned after reality filmmaking. With his former leading lady and an eclectic group of 10 young “contestants,” Barrett returns to the same locale where his old splatter-fests were filmed. When one of the campers is found savagely murdered, they realize there’s more at stake than just fame and fortune. Each of them is in a fight for their lives as they realize summer is over – forever. – (Source)

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Neighbors – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 91% (Critics) / 98% (Audience)
Directed By: Nicholas Stoller
Written By: Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O’Brien
Starring: Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Dave Franco and Zac Efron
Studio: Universal Pictures

Synopsis: A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 54% (Critics) / 77% (Audience)
Directed By: Marc Webb
Written By: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx and Sally Field
Studio: Sony Pictures

Synopsis: Peter Parker runs the gauntlet as the mysterious company Oscorp sends up a slew of supervillains against him, impacting on his life. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Amazing Spider-Man #1

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Written By: Dan Slott
Art By: Humberto Ramos
Cover By: Humberto Ramos
Publisher: Marvel Comics

Synopsis:The Greatest Super Hero of All Time RETURNS! The world may have changed since Spidey’s been gone, but so has Peter Parker. This is a man with a second chance at life, and he’s not wasting a moment of it. Same Parker Luck, new Parker attitude. Putting the “friendly” back in the neighborhood, the “hero” back into “super hero,” and the “amazing” back into “Spider-Man!” Also returning: The recharged and reenergized ELECTRO! – (Source)

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