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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Saturday Morning Mystery

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA% (Critics) / 59% (Audience)
Directed By: Spencer Parsons
Written By: Jory Balsimo, Kat Candler, Aaron Leggett, Jonny Mars and Jason Wehling
Starring: Ashley Spillers, Josephine Decker, Adam Tate and Jonny Mars
Studio: Xlrator Media

Synopsis:Four professional ghost hunters, who travel in a vintage van accompanied by their canine companion (sound familiar?), get far more than they bargained for when they investigate an abandoned schoolhouse with a mysterious past. – (Source)

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The Conjuring – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 85% (Critics) / 90% (Audience)
Directed By: James Wan
Written By: Chad and Carey Hayes
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor and Ron Livingston
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Synopsis:Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville. “The Conjuring” tells the true story of Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga), world renowned paranormal investigators, who were called to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Justice League – The Flashpoint Paradox

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 86% (Audience)
Directed By: Jay Oliva
Written By: James Krieg
Starring: Kevin McKidd, Justin Chambers, Michael B. Jordan, Ron Perlman, Nathan Fillion and C. Thomas Howell
Studio: Warner Home Video

Synopsis:Time travel rights a past wrong for Flash but creates a fractured reality where the Justice League never formed & the world is ravaged by war between Wonder Woman & Aquaman. Flash must team with a grittier Batman & Cyborg to restore the original timeline. – (Source)

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Thank God It’s Wednesday!

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This week’s stash brings with it the continuation of the big time Justice League crossover complete with a certain mysterious fan favorite finally getting some time in the spotlight; a new addition to already bursting at the seams vampire genre that is different from anything else on the market; and anew writer breathes life into a title that was D.O.A. under the pedestrian writing of its original author.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Killing Season

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 13% (Critics) / 30% (Audience)
Directed By: Mark Steven Johnson
Written By: Evan Daugherty
Starring: Robert De Niro, John Travolta, Milo Ventimiglia
Studio: Milennium Entertainment

Synopsis:Deep in the Appalachian Mountains, a reclusive American military veteran (Robert De Niro) and a European tourist (John Travolta) strike up an unlikely friendship. But when the tourist’s true intentions come to light, what follows is a tense battle across some of America’s most forbidding landscape proving the old adage: the purest form of war is one-on-one. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Europa Report

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 69% (Critics) / 95% (Audience)
Directed By: Sebastián Cordero
Written By: Philip Gelatt
Starring: Michael Nyqvist, Embeth Davidtz, Christian Camargo and Sharlto Copley
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

Synopsis:A unique blend of documentary, alternative history and science fiction thriller, EUROPA REPORT follows a contemporary mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa to investigate the possible existence of alien life within our solar system. When unmanned probes suggest that a hidden ocean could exist underneath Europa’s icy surface and may contain single-celled life, Europa Ventures, a privately funded space exploration company, sends six of the best astronauts from around the world to confirm the data and explore the revolutionary discoveries that may lie in the Europan ocean. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Orange Is The New Black

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Created By: Jenji Cohan
Starring: Taylor Schilling, Jason Biggs, Michelle Hurst and Kate Mulgrew
Studio: Netflix

Synopsis:From the creator of “Weeds” comes a heartbreaking and hilarious new series set in a women’s prison. Piper Chapman’s wild past comes back to haunt her, resulting in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Reviews: Pacific Rim

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Synopsis:As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Demented

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 67% (Audience)
Directed By: Christopher Roosevelt
Written By: Christopher Roosevelt
Starring: Kayla Ewell, Richard Kohnke, Ashlee Brian and Sarah Butler
Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment

Synopsis:Six college friends unite for a weekend getaway where they find themselves fighting for their lives after a terrorist attack turns the local residents into rage infused zombies. – (Source)

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Thank God It’s Wednesday!

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After a holiday break TGIW is back just in time for The Trinity War to get kicked off, two brand new books from Image that continue to cement that company’s place int he comic book world as the new Vertigo, the return of the World’s Worst Superteam and the Uncanny X-Men spend an entire issue talking…a lot.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Despicable Me 2

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 76% (Critics) / 89% (Audience)
Directed By: Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud
Written By: Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul
Starring: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Benjamin Bratt and Russell Brand
Studio: Universal Pictures

Synopsis:Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Hit & Miss

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Created By: Paul Abbott
Starring: Chloë Sevigny, Karla Crome, Reece Noi, Jordan Bennie, Peter Wight and Jonas Armstrong
Studio: Netflix

Synopsis:HIT AND MISS, from Paul Abbott, creator of Shameless and State of Play, is a high concept and ambitious new series that follows Chloë Sevigny as Mia, a contract killer with a secret: she’s a transgender woman. Mia’s life is sent into a tailspin when she receives a letter from an ex-girlfriend dying from cancer revealing that Mia fathered a son eleven years ago. Faced with a difficult decision, Mia becomes the guardian to a new family forcing her to mix her killer instincts with her newly developing maternal instincts. HIT AND MISS tells the story of a lethal killer at the heart of a troubled family and how all of their lives will be dramatically changed forever.
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