Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 74% (Critics) / 77% (Audience)
Directed By: Bill Paxton
Written By: Brent Hanley
Starring: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey and Powers Boothe
Studio: Lions Gate Films
Synopsis: A man confesses to an FBI agent his family’s story of how his religious fanatic father’s visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed “demons.”
(Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 58% (Critics) / 56% (Audience)
Directed By: Wes Craven
Written By: Kevin Williamson
Starring: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin and David Arquette
Studio: The Weinstein Company/Dimension
Synopsis: In Scream 4, Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill (played by Emma Roberts) and her Aunt Kate (Mary McDonnell). Unfortunately Sidney’s appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface, putting Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, along with Jill, her friends, and the whole town of Woodsboro in danger. (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 22% (Audience)
Directed By: Kaare Andrews
Written By: Paul A. Birkett
Starring: Jessica Lowndes, Julianna Guill and Ryan Donowho
Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Synopsis: After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural force. (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 22% (Critics) / 60% (Audience)
Directed By: James McTeigue
Written By: Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare
Starring: John Cusack, Alice Eve, Ben Gleason and Luke Evans
Studio: Relativity Media
Synopsis: When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s works, a young Baltimore detective joins forces with Poe to stop him from making his stories a reality. (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 33% (Critics) / 25% (Audience)
Directed By: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Written By: Nicolás Casariego and Jaime Marques
Starring: Clive Owen, Carice van Houten and Izán Corchero
Studio: Millennium Entertainment
Synopsis: Two children living in different countries are visited nightly by a faceless being who wants to take possession of them. (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 82% (Critics) / 89% (Audience)
Directed By: Joss Whedon
Written By: Joss Whedon
Starring: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres and Chiwetel Ejiofor
Studio: Universal Pictures
Synopsis: A band of renegades on the run in outer space get in more hot water than they anticipated in this sci-fi action-adventure adapted from the television series Firefly. (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 83% (Critics) / 94% (Audience)
Directed By: Gareth Evans
Written By: Gareth Evans
Starring: Iko Uwais, Ananda George and Ray Sahetapy
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Synopsis: A SWAT team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs. (Source)
Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Raid – Redemption”
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 44% (Critics) / 80% (Audience)
Directed By: Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg
Written By: Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg
Starring: Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott, Eugene Levy
Studio: Universal Studios
Synopsis: In the comedy American Reunion, all the American Pie characters we met a little more than a decade ago return to East Great Falls for their high-school reunion. In one long-overdue weekend, they will discover what has changed, who hasn’t and that time and distance can’t break the bonds of friendship. It was summer 1999 when four small-town Michigan boys began a quest to lose their virginity. In the years that have passed, Jim and Michelle married while Kevin and Vicky said goodbye. Oz and Heather grew apart, but Finch still longs for Stifler’s mom. Now these lifelong friends have come home as adults to reminisce about-and get inspired by-the hormonal teens who launched a comedy legend. (Source)
Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: American Reunion”
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 37% (Critics) / 55% (Audience)
Directed By: Tim Story
Written By: Don Payne and Mark Frost
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon and Laurence Fishburne
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Synopsis: The Fantastic Four learn that they aren’t the only super-powered beings in the universe when they square off against the powerful Silver Surfer and the planet-eating Galactus. (Source)
Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Fantastic Four – Rise of The Silver Surfer”
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 23% (Critics) / 56% (Audience)
Directed By: Tom Shadyac
Written By: Steve Oedekerk
Starring: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Wanda Sykes and Lauren Graham
Studio: Universal Pictures
Synopsis: 40-Year-Old Virgin star Steve Carell reprises his role as preening newscaster Evan Baxter in this heavenly sequel to the 2003 Jim Carrey comedy hit. Shortly after television anchorman-turned-U.S. congressman Evan Baxter (Carell) relocates his family from Buffalo to Northern Virginia, God (Morgan Freeman) reveals to him that a devastating flood is coming and the planet is about to be cleansed once again. Later, when Baxter accepts the responsibility of building a great ark and his rapidly changing physical appearance begins to draw media attention, his skeptical family attempts to discern if his actions are driven by delusion or divine intervention. (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 57% (Critics) / 89% (Audience)
Directed By: Michael Bay
Written By: Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, John Turturro and Josh Duhamel
Studio: Dreamworks
Synopsis: The interstellar battle between the Autobots and Decepticons rains destruction down on planet Earth as director Michael Bay adapts Hasbro and Takara’s popular Transformers franchise into a big-budget, live-action summer tentpole extravaganza in this ambitious sci-fi action feature. (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 85% (Critics) / 88% (Audience)
Directed By: Gary Ross
Written By: Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins, and Billy Ray
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Hemsworth, Lenny Kravitz, and Donald Sutherland
Studio: Lionsgate
Synopsis: Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister’s place for the latest match. (Source)
Continue reading “Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Hunger Games”
Crustula 