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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Prisoners

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 78% (Critics) / 90% (Audience)
Directed By: Denis Villeneuve
Written By: Aaron Guzikowski
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Paul Dano, Terrence Howard and Melissa Leo
Studio: Warner Bros.

Synopsis: When Keller Dover’s daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family? – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Cottage Country

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 67% (Audience)
Directed By: Peter Wellington
Written By: Jeremy Boxen
Starring: Tyler Labine, Malin Akerman, Lucy Punch, Sabrina Grdevich and Dan Petronijevic
Studio: Whizbang Films

Synopsis:Todd (Labine) wants everything to be just perfect at the family cottage where he plans to propose to Cammie (Akerman). But things go awry with the arrival of Todd’s slacker brother Salinger (Petronijevic) and his free-spirited girlfriend Masha (Punch). When Todd accidentally dispatches his irksome sibling with an axe, Cammie is determined not to let murder stand in the way of their happiness. – (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: 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: 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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Thank God It’s Wednesday!

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This was a good week for me as I found myself liking pretty much everything on my pull list and the selections for this post run the gamut from a day in a dog’s life to a new book from an industry heavyweight to the return of the World’s Finest team to a coda for one of the worst miniseries ever that is actually pretty enjoyable.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Odd Thomas

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 77% (Audience)
Directed By: Stephen Sommers
Written By: Stephen Sommers
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Nico Tortorella, Addison Timlin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Willem Dafoe
Studio: Freestyle Releasing

Synopsis: Stephen Sommers adapts Dean Koontz’s best-selling book Odd Thomas with this Fusion Films production concerning a clairvoyant 20-year-old (Anton Yelchin) who discovers a dark secret about a stranger in his hometown. Willem Dafoe, Patton Oswalt, 50 Cent, and Addison Timlin co-star. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Call

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 41% (Critics) / 70% (Audience)
Directed By: Brad Anderson
Written By: Richard D’Ovidio
Starring: Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin, Morris Chestnut and Michael Imperioli
Studio: Sony Pictures

Synopsis: When a veteran 911 operator takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, she realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl’s life. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Superman Returns

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 75% (Critics) / 67% (Audience)
Directed By: Bryan Singer
Written By: Michael Dougherty, Bryan Singer and Dan Harris
Starring: Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey and James Marsden
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Synopsis: After a long visit to the lost remains of the planet Krypton, the Man of Steel returns to Earth to become the people’s savior once again and reclaim the love of Lois Lane. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Under The Bed

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 83% (Audience)
Directed By: Steven C. Miller
Written By: Eric Stolze
Starring: Jonny Weston, Gattlin Griffith, Peter Holden
Studio: Xlrator Media

Synopsis: Every child knows about the monster under the bed-Neal Hausman’s mistake was trying to fight it. Neal (Jonny Weston, Chasing Mavericks) has returned from a two-year exile following his tragic attempt to defeat the monster, only to find his father ticking ever closer to a breakdown, a new stepmother who fears him, and his little brother Paul (Gattlin Griffith, Green Lantern, Changeling), terrorized by the same monster. While Neal and Paul work together to try and fight the nocturnal menace, their parents are taking desperate measures to get the family back to normal. With no support from their parents, the brothers have nothing to rely on but each other, and courage beyond belief. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Hatchet 3

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HATCHET III continues the tale of the now-iconic villain Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder). As a search and recovery team heads into the haunted swamp to pick up the pieces and carnage left behind from the first two films, Marybeth (Danielle Harris) hunts down the true secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left the ghost of Victor Crowley haunting and terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Man of Steel

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 58% (Critics) / 82% (Audience)
Directed By: Zack Snyder
Written By: David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan
Starring: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon and Russell Crowe
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Synopsis: A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind. (Source)

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