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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Down Under Double Feature

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TWO LITTLE BOYS
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 43% (Critics) / 95% (Audience)
Directed By: Robert Sarkies
Written By: Duncan Sarkies and Robert Sarkies
Starring: Bret McKenzie, Hamish Blake, Maaka Pohatu
Studio: Hopscotch Films

Synopsis: When Nige finds himself in a spot of bother after a series of unfortunate incidents, he is forced to ask Deano for help. The problem is Deano is not really the kind of guy you should turn to in a crisis. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: A Good Day To Die Hard

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 16% (Critics) / 82% (Audience)
Directed By: John Moore
Written By: Skip Woods and Roderick Thorp
Starring: Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch and Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Studio: 20th Century Fox

Synopsis: John McClane travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working to prevent a nuclear-weapons heist, causing the father and son to team up against underworld forces. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Safety Not Guaranteed

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 91% (Critics) / 82% (Audience)
Directed By: Colin Trevorrow
Written By: Derek Connolly
Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson and Karan Soni
Studio: Film District

Synopsis: From the producers of Little Miss Sunshine – When an unusual classified ad inspires three cynical Seattle magazine employees to look for the story behind it, they discover a mysterious eccentric named Kenneth, a likable but paranoid supermarket clerk, who believes he’s solved the riddle of time travel and intends to depart again soon. Together, they embark on a hilarious, smart, and unexpectedly heartfelt journey that reveals how far believing can take you. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Compliance

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Compliance
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 89% (Critics) / 66% (Audience)
Directed By: Craig Zobel
Written By: Craig Zobel
Starring: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

Synopsis: Becky and Sandra aren’t the best of friends. Sandra is a middle-aged manager at a fast-food restaurant; Becky is a teenaged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day (too many customers and too little bacon), a police officer calls, accusing Becky of stealing money from a customer’s purse, which she vehemently denies. Sandra, overwhelmed by her managerial responsibilities, complies with the officer’s orders to detain Becky. This choice begins a nightmare that tragically blurs the lines between expedience and prudence, legality and reason.
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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Last Stand

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 59% (Critics) / 67% (Audience)
Directed By: Jee-woon Kim
Written By: Andrew Knauer, Jeffrey Nachmanoff and George Nolfi
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville
Studio: Lionsgate

Synopsis: The leader of a drug cartel busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is a sheriff and his inexperienced staff.
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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Stand Up Guys

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Stand-Up-Guys
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 43% (Critics) / 94% (Audience)
Directed By: Fisher Stevens
Written By: Noah Haidle
Starring: Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Christopher Walken and Juliana Margulies
Studio: Lionsgate

Synopsis: A pair of aging con men try to get the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment — to kill his comrade.
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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Django Unchained

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Django-Unchained
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 89% (Critics) / 94% (Audience)
Directed By: Quentin Tarantino
Written By: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson
Studio: The Weinstein Co.

Synopsis: Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago. Django and Schultz’s search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of “Candyland,” an infamous plantation. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), Candie’s trusted house slave.
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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Bay

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The-Bay
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 77% (Critics) / 49% (Audience)
Directed By: Barry Levinson
Written By: Michael Wallach
Starring: Kristen Connolly, Jane McNeill and Kether Donohue
Studio: Roadside Attraction

Synopsis: Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.
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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Life of Pi

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life-of-pi
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 89% (Critics) / 90% (Audience)
Directed By: Ang Lee
Written By: David Magee
Starring: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan and Adil Hussain
Studio: 20th Century Fox

Synopsis: A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor … a fearsome Bengal tiger.
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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 65% (Critics) / 81% (Audience)
Directed By: Peter Jackson
Written By: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson
Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen and Richard Armitage
Studio: Warner Bros.

Synopsis: A younger and more reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out on a “unexpected journey” to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of Dwarves to reclaim a their stolen mountain home from a dragon named Smaug.
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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Cockneys vs Zombies

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 69% (Critics) / 89% (Audience)
Directed By: Matthias Hoene
Written By: James Moran and Lucas Roche
Starring: Lee Asquith-Coe, Georgia King, Michelle Ryan and Honor Blackman
Studio: StudioCanal

Synopsis: Two cockney siblings lead the residents of a quiet retirement community in a bloody war against the walking dead in this horror comedy from director Matthias Hoene. Andy (Harry Treadaway) and Terry (Rasmus Hardiker) were in the midst of robbing a bank to save the rest home where their grandfather lives when the zombie apocalypse struck East London. After arriving at the nursing home heavily armed and with cash in tow, the two brothers prepare to fight their way out with the assistance of some trigger-happy seniors. Michelle Ryan and Honor Blackman co-star.
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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Flight

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 77% (Critics) / 78% (Audience)
Directed By: Robert Zemeckis
Written By: John Gatins
Starring: Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly, John Goodman and Bruce Greenwood
Studio: Paramount Pictures

Synopsis: In this action-packed mystery thriller, Academy Award winner, Denzel Washington stars as Whip Whitaker, a seasoned airline pilot, who miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on that plane?
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