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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 20% (Critics) / 62% (Audience)
Directed By: Jonathan Liebesman
Written By: Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec and Evan Daugherty
Starring: Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Synopsis:The city needs heroes. Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians. The future is grim until four unlikely outcast brothers rise from the sewers and discover their destiny as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Turtles must work with fearless reporter April O’Neil (Megan Fox) and her wise-cracking cameraman Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett) to save the city and unravel Shredder’s diabolical plan. – (Source)

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Remake Rumble: Oldboy (2003) vs Oldboy (2013)

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The 411: Kidnapped, held hostage for 20 years and framed for the murder of his ex-wife, a man sets out on a quest for answers and vengeance once released.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Frighteners

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 64% (Critics) / 71% (Audience)
Directed By: Peter Jackson
Written By: Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, Chi McBride, Dee Wallace and Jeffrey Combs
Studio: Universal
Synopsis:Charlatan Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) has genuine psychic powers, but he doesn’t use them to help people. Rather, he generates cases for his supernatural private-eye firm by harassing a group of hapless ghosts (including a dearly departed Wild West outlaw and an undead judge played by John Astin) into staging hauntings and poltergeists in the homes of likely marks. Bannister’s world turns on its head when he starts noticing real hauntings around town — ghostly assassinations that seem to be tied to the execution 20 years earlier of a brutal serial killer. Lucy Lunskey (Trini Alvarado), the wife of one unlucky victim, teams up with Bannister to get to the bottom of the killings and find out what shut-in Patricia Bradley (Dee Wallace Stone) and her witchy mother (Julia McCarthy) have to do with the sinister spree. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 91% (Critics) / 92% (Audience)
Directed By: Matt Reeves
Written By: Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Mark Bomback
Starring: Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Kirk Acevedo, Toby Kebbell and Andy Serkis
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Synopsis:A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth’s dominant species. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Purge – Anarchy

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 56% (Critics) / 67% (Audience)
Directed By: James DeMonaco
Written By: James DeMonaco
Starring: Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford, Kiele Sanchez and Michael K. Williams
Studio: Universal Pictures
Synopsis:The New Founders of America invite you to celebrate your annual right to Purge. The Purge: Anarchy, the sequel to summer 2013’s sleeper hit that opened to No. 1 at the box-office, sees the return of writer/director James DeMonaco to craft the next terrifying chapter of dutiful citizens preparing for their country’s yearly 12 hours of anarchy. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Transformers – Age of Extinction

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 18% (Critics) / 65% (Audience)
Directed By: Michael Bay
Written By: Ehren Kruger
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Stanley Tucci and Kelsey Grammer
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Synopsis: TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION begins after an epic battle left a great city torn, but with the world saved. As humanity picks up the pieces, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history…while an ancient, powerful new menace sets Earth in its crosshairs. With help from a new cast of humans (led by Mark Wahlberg), Optimus Prime and the Autobots rise to meet their most fearsome challenge yet. In an incredible adventure, they are swept up in a war of good and evil, ultimately leading to a climactic battle across the world. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Animal

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 29% (Audience)
Directed By: Brett Simmons
Written By: Thommy Hutson and Catherine Trillo
Starring: Keke Palmer, Jeremy Sumpter, Elizabeth Gillies, Joey Lauren Adams, Thorsten Kaye and Amaury Nolasco
Studio: Chiller Films

Synopsis:When plans for a weekend vacation hit a dead end, a group of close-knit friends find themselves stranded in unfamiliar territory, pursued by a menacing predator. Holed up in an isolated cabin, tensions mount as long-buried secrets are revealed. As the body count rises, the group must put their differences aside and fight for survival. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: 22 Jump Street

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 44% (Critics) / 29% (Audience)
Directed By: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Written By: Michael Bacall and Jonah Hill
Starring: Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube
Studio: Sony Pictures

Synopsis:After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don’t have to just crack the case – they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Almost Human

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 44% (Critics) / 29% (Audience)
Directed By: Joe Begos
Written By: Joe Begos
Starring: Graham Skipper, Josh Ethier, Vanessa Leigh
Studio: IFC Films

Synopsis:Mark Fisher disappeared from his home in a brilliant flash of blue light almost two years ago. His friend Seth Hampton was the last to see him alive. Now a string of grisly, violent murders leads Seth to believe that Mark is back, and something evil is inside of him. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Family

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 29% (Critics) / 42% (Audience)
Directed By: Luc Besson
Written By: Luc Besson and Michael Caleo
Starring: Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron and Tommy Lee Jones
Studio: Relativity Media

Synopsis:In the off-beat action comedy “The Family,” a mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the witness protection program after snitching on the mob. Despite the best efforts of Agent Stansfield (Tommy Lee Jones) to keep them in line, Fred Manzoni (Robert DeNiro), his wife Maggie (Michelle Pfeiffer) and their children Belle (Dianna Agron) and Warren (John D’Leo) can’t help but revert to old habits and blow their cover by handling their problems the “family” way, enabling their former mafia cronies to track them down. Chaos ensues as old scores are settled in the unlikeliest of settings in this darkly funny film by Luc Besson (Taken, Transporter). – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Edge of Tomorrow

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 89% (Critics) / 91% (Audience)
Directed By: Doug Liman
Written By: Christopher McQuarrie, John-Henry Butterworth and Jez Butterworth
Starring: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton and Brendan Gleeson
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Synopsis:The epic action of “Edge of Tomorrow” unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Major William Cage (Tom Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again…and again. But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt). And, as Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: 13 Sins

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 56% (Critics) / 49% (Audience)
Directed By: Daniel Stamm
Written By: Daniel Stamm and David Birke
Starring: Mark Webber, Devon Graye, Rutina Wesley and Ron Perlman
Studio: Radius-TWC

Synopsis:A cryptic phone call sets off a dangerous game of risks for Elliot, a down-on-his luck salesman. The game promises increasing rewards for completing 13 tasks, each more sinister than the last. – (Source)

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