Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Chico & Rita


Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92% (Critics) / 77% (Audience)
Directed By: Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal, and Fernando Trueba
Written By: Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Fernando Trueba
Starring: Eman Xor Oña, Limara Meneses and Mario Guerra
Studio: GKIDS

Synopsis: Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero – brings heartache and torment. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Underworld Awakening

Underworld Awakening
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 28% (Critics) / 68% (Audience)
Directed By: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein
Written By: Len Wiseman, John Hlavin, J. Michael Straczynski, Allison Burnett
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Michael Ealy, Stephen Rea and India Eisley
Studio: Screen Gems

Synopsis: Kate Beckinsale is back as leather clad vampiress Selene in the fourth installment of the Underworld movie franchise. This time out Selene has been cryogenically frozen for 12 years while the humans, now aware of the existence of vampires and lycans, have hunted the two species almost to extinction.

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The Walking Dead: 18 Miles Out Review


“18 Miles Out” can be described as a tale of two plots. One plot is action-packed and riveting while he other is dull and harkens back to the not so halcyon days of lounging around Herschel’s fair navel gazing with intermediate forays into the woods to search for Sophia…all the things about the first half of this season that made the viewer want to change the channel. Plot A focuses on Rick and Shane as they attempt to drop off Randall (the guy who got impaled on the fence last week) somewhere that he can have a chance to survive but not close enough that he can make his way back to the farm. Plot B focuses on Beth (who is no longer catatonic but still has the personality of doorknob) and the other women of the group except for Carol and Mrs Otis.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Demons Never Die

Demons Never Die
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 13% (Critics) / 41% (Audience)
Directed By: Arjun Rose
Written By: Arjun Rose
Starring: Robert Sheehan, Ashley Walters, Jennie Jacques and Tulisa Contostavlos
Studio: Exile Media Group

Synopsis: After a teenage girl seemingly commits suicide, her fellow students (who have formed a “suicide club”) decide to speed up their own suicide pact. But when members of group begin to be murdered by a knife-wielding killer, the teens must discover who is behind the mask as they come to the realization that they do in fact want to live.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Carnage


Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 71% (Critics) / 72% (Audience)
Directed By: Roman Polanski
Written By: Yasmine Reza, Roman Polanski and Michael Katims
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

Synopsis: After two boys have a fight on the playground their parents meet to work out the issue. What begins as a polite coming together for the children quickly devolves into truly messy situation.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Innkeepers


Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 76% (Critics) / 47% (Audience)
Directed By: Ti West
Written By: Ti West
Starring: Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis and George Riddle
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

Synopsis: On the last weekend before the Yankee Pedlar Inn closes its doors forever, two of the inn’s employees (and amateur ghost hunters!) are determined to prove that the legend of the haunted hotel is definitely real to disastrous results.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte


Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 84% (Critics) / 82% (Audience)
Directed By: Robert Aldrich
Written By: Henry Farrell and Lukas Heller
Starring: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Agnes Moorehead, Victor Buono, Mary Astor and Joseph Cotten
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Synopsis: Charlotte Hollis, an aging, eccentric, wealthy recluse is haunted by a years old terrifying family secret that threatens to not only be exposed when a long lost relative returns to town but to also drive Charlotte mad with guilt and remorse in this classic from 1964.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Charlie & The Chocolate Factory


Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 82% (Critics) / 52% (Audience)
Directed By: Tim Burton
Written By: John August
Starring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore and David Kelly
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Synopsis: Tim Burton takes a crack at the Roald Dahl classic about a poor boy who wins a tour of the most magical candy factory in the world.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: 1408


Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 78% (Critics) / 61% (Audience)
Directed By: Mikael Håfström
Written By: Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
Starring: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson and Mary McCormack
Studio: MGM/Dimension

Synopsis: Mike Enslin, writer who is famous for debunking claims of paranormal events, checks into the infamous room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. The room is purported to be a receptacle for paranormal energy and Mike is convinced that it is just a hoax to drum up business for the hotel. However, once Mike checks in he is faced with undeniable proof that the supernatural is real but he may not survive to write about it.

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The Walking Dead: Triggerfinger Review


Episode 2×09 picks up with Lori coming to in her overturned car with a very determined zombie trying to shove his head through a hole in her driver side window. This is a pretty cool bit of zombie shenanigans with the zombie so voraciously wanting to get to Lori that he is slicing flesh from his face as he keeps shoving his head through the broken window. Lori tries to climb out the other side of the car but her spindly limbs are totally incapable of holding her 89lbs so she has to get creative and breaks off the gear shift to shove into the zombies orbital socket. Now outside of the car and seemingly safe from danger, Lori doesn’t notice the second zombie shambling towards her until he actually gets his hands on her (how she didn’t hear him considering the foley artist went haywire with the zombie squishy moving noises is a mystery to me) but it didn’t matter because Lori went 2 for 2 in the zombie killing decathlon by taking the second zombie out even easier than she did the first. I am starting to wonder about just what the military was doing when the zombie outbreak began because if the poster child for “heroin chic” can dispatch two of the undead while possibly reeling from the effects of a concussion then there is no reason why a well-trained, heavily armed military force couldn’t have averted the zombie apocalypse completely.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Get On The Bus


Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 87% (Critics) / 70% (Audience)
Directed By: Spike Lee
Written By: Reggie Rock Bythewood
Starring: Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton, Hill Harper, Roger Guenveur Smith and Andre Braugher
Studio: Sony Pictures

Synopsis: The year is 1995 and a disparate group of black men are embarking on a cross country bus trip to the Louis Farrakhan organized Million Man March in Washington, D.C. in Spike Lee’s guerrilla-style docudrama.

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The Walking Dead: Nebraska Review


So THE WALKING DEAD is back to finish up season 2 with new show runner Glenn Mazzara in full control of the goings on of our favorite group of zombie apocalypse survivors. The first half of Season 2 ended with the revelation that poor, little lost Sophia was one of the undead Herschel had living in his barn which led to Rick putting a bullet right in her dead little noggin. “Nebraska” opens immediately after that shooting and the characters are all in shock and dismay with Herschel and Carol (Sophia’s mom) being neck and neck in the running for most crushed survivor on the farm. Herschel eventually runs off to the local juke joint to wet his whistle but not before telling Rick to take his band of merry men and “git off his propertah!!!!”; Carol deals with her grief by wandering through the woods…even her reaction to a major tragedy is reliably dull.

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