Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Core

The Core Movie Review
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 42% (Critics) / 41% (Audience)
Directed By: Jon Amiel
Written By: Cooper Layne and John Rogers
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Tchéky Karyo, DJ Qualls and Delroy Lindo
Studio: Paramount Pictures

Synopsis: The only way to save Earth from catastrophe is to drill down to the core and set it spinning again. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Evan Almighty

Evan Almighty
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)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: ATM


Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 11% (Critics) / 29% (Audience)
Directed By: David Brooks
Written By: Chris Sparling
Starring: Alice Eve, Josh Peck and Brian Geraghty
Studio: IFC Films

Synopsis: On a late night visit to an ATM, three co-workers end up in a desperate fight for their lives when they become trapped by an unknown man. (Source)

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Bad Movies That Rock: Tuff Turf

Devil Horns Rating:

3dh

What’s It About?

A troubled teen moves across country from the suburbs of Connecticut to the mean streets of some unnamed slum in Los Angeles Valley. Immediately upon his arrival he draws the ire of the local gang leader and develops an attraction with the gang leaders girlfriend that leads to a series of run-ins with the gang and a final battle that only one will walk away from.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 42% (Critics) / 35% (Audience)
Directed By: Rod Lurie
Written By: Rod Lurie
Starring: James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, James Woods
Studio: Sony Pictures/Screen Gems

Synopsis: A Los Angeles screenwriter David and his actress wife Amy relocate to her family home in a small town in the deep South after her father’s death. Before long old conflicts and relationships begin to boil leading to an explosive confrontation that the transplanted couple may not survive.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Devil Inside

The Devil Inside
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 7% (Critics) / 29% (Audience)
Directed By: William Brent Bell
Written By: William Brent Bell & Matthew Peterman
Starring: Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman and Evan Helmuth

Synopsis: This documentary style film follows a woman as she treks to Italy to discover what exactly happened to her mother 20 years ago during an exorcism.

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Rob Zombie’s Halloween – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 24% (Critics) / 64% (Audience)
Directed By: Rob Zombie
Written By: Rob Zombie
Starring: Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell and Tyler Mane
Studio: MGM

Synopsis: Rocker-turned-director Rob Zombie tries his hand at expanding on the John Carpenter property about a homicidal killer who returns to his hometown on Halloween to find and kill his last remaining relative.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Snakes On A Plane

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 68% (Critics) / 55% (Audience)
Directed By: David R. Ellis
Written By: John Heffernan
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Marguiles, Nathan Phillips, Bobby Cannavale
Studio: New Line Cinema

Synopsis: An FBI agent has to save the passengers on a flight from Los Angeles to Hawaii from the deadly snakes released on the plane as part of a plan to stop the witness under his protection from testifying against a mob boss.
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Bad Movies That Rock: Tales From The Hood

Devil Horns Rating:

3dh

What’s It About?

BOYZ N THE HOOD meets TALES FROM THE CRYPT in this alternately horrific, funny, and socially conscious anthology film. The four grim vignettes are framed by the tale of three street hoods who break into Mr. Simm’s inner-city funeral home to find a stash of drugs. The mortician puts them off, by telling them a few eerie stories about his “patrons.” (Source)
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Arena – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A (Critics) 25% (Audience)
Director: Jonah Loop
Writer: Tony Giglio and Michael Hultquist
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Kellan Lutz and Johnny Messner
Studio: Stage 6 Films

Synopsis: ARENA is an action flick that finds TWILIGHT‘s Kellan Lutz as David Lord a former marine turned paramedic and semi-pro rugby player being forced into gladiatorial combat by Samuel L. Jackson, the nameless head of a “Fight Club to the death” show called Death Games that is broadcast online.

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Bad Movies That Rock: Sleepaway Camp

Devil Horns Rating:

3dh

What’s It About?

After a horrible boating accident kills her family, Angela, a shy and sullen young girl, moves in with her eccentric Aunt Martha, alongside her protective cousin Ricky. One summer, Martha sends the kids to Camp Arawak. Soon after their arrival, a series of bizarre and increasingly violent accidents begins to claim the lives of various campers. Who is the twisted individual behind these murders? The disclosure of the murderer’s identity is the most shocking climax in the history of American cinema. (Source)

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Bad Movies That Rock: My Bloody Valentine

Devil Horns Rating:

3dh

What’s It About?

Twenty years ago in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a fatal mining disaster occurred on Valentine’s Day while key members of the crew were decorating for a party. The sole survivor of the accident killed the absentee crew members and warned the town never to have another Valentine’s Day celebration. When a group of teenagers decides that the the town has gone without a party long enough and begin planning one, a murderous maniac in mining gear begins dispatching townsfolk in bloody and creative ways. (Source)

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