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In case you’re not familiar it, Jurassic Park is the story of archaeologists Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler who are invited to a tropical island to visit a dinosaur theme park created by eccentric billionaire John Hammond. The thing is, it’s not just dinosaur themed, its attractions are actual dinosaurs. While on the island, a greedy employee starts to mess with the security system, unleashing the awesome power of these 65 million year old creatures, while the human guests fight to survive. If you haven’t seen this film, the reason to see it in 3D is that this is probably...
Same old story. Five twenty-somethings head to a decrepit cabin in the woods, come across something creepy and unknowingly unleash an ages old evil that then stalks and gorily dispatches them before dawn. When the original Evil Dead was released in 1981, this was still pretty uncharted territory that was only just beginning to find popularity thanks to the Friday the 13th movies and the slew of “don’t go into the woods” films that followed. As a result, there was a freshness and strange purity that surrounded Sam Raimi’s career-making debut…something that’s just not possible to recapture in the cynical...
When G.I. Joe: Retaliation begins, the “Nanomite Wars” (from the kind of terrible first film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) are over and G.I. Joe has vanquished Cobra. The Joes are the primary military force of the United States, sent in on any mission where their specialized tactical expertise might be required. But Cobra wasn’t going to take annihilation sitting down. The Joes are framed for a major theft of nuclear weapons and terminated with prejudice (means blown up). Now only four Joes remain and they must fight to get their reputations back… and stop a madman. Like most...
Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan) is part of a group that’s rebelling against an alien species that has taken over the earth by inhabiting the bodies of humans, making them calm and peace-loving yet ultimately mindless citizens who do not challenge the status quo. When Melanie is captured while trying to lead the aliens away from finding her little brother, she’s inhabited by an alien called Wanderer. This being calmly begins searching Melanie’s thoughts for the location of the impossible to find rebel hideout as per the direction of The Seeker (Diane Kruger), a particularly vigilant member of the alien authority....
The saccharine Disney starlet Selena Gomez plays the least bad-ass of a group of four college girls who head out to Florida for spring break to get away from what they perceive to be the mind-numbing boredom of their nameless and nondescript hometown. The girls, however, don’t have enough money to fund their trip, so the other three (played by Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine — director Harmony’s wife — and Ashley Benson) rob a local store with squirt guns, a giant hammer, and a generous dose of profanity. After some fun in the Florida sun, the girls end up in...
Portia (Tina Fey) is an admissions officer at Princeton University and her life is outwardly perfect. When the head of a school (Paul Rudd) new to the Princeton admissions process approaches her about a prodigal student, she takes a special interest. Her interest only grows when she discovers that the prodigy might be the son she gave up for adoption in her first year of college, forcing her to take a number of professional risks – and turning her perfect life upside down. No matter what you might hear, Admission is definitely a rom-com. It’s just that instead of being...
Tucked away in their safe home, The Croods are a family who follow their father’s motto of ‘never not be afraid’. That doesn’t really allow for a lot of freedom, but when you’re cavemen, sometimes it’s safer that way. Eep (Emma Stone) is getting too old to hide away in a cave when night comes, but her father Grug (Nicholas Cage) is convinced that anything new is dangerous. When an earthquake destroys their home, The Croods are forced to follow Guy (Ryan Reynolds), a young stranger that Eep just met. Guy is convinced that the world is ending, so Grug...
Gerard Butler plays Mike Banning, a Secret Service Agent working for Benjamin Asher – The President of the United States (Aaron Eckhart) – and an adopted POTUS family member. Or, at least he is until one ominously snowy night when a car accident leaves the President’s limousine precariously dangling off a bridge, and Mike is unable to save Ben’s wife (Ashley Judd, in a brief but perhaps real-world foreshadowing role) from falling to her death. We jump ahead eighteen months, and Banning has been cast out of the Secret Service to work an unfulfilling desk job that leaves him longing...
A home invasion call to 911 goes wrong when operator Jordan Turner (Halle Berry) makes a mistake. Unable to work on the lines again, Jordan becomes a trainer for new recruits. Six months later, a call from Casey (Abigail Breslin), a young girl who has just been abducted, brings Jordan back onto the lines as she does everything to save Casey from her kidnapper. Jordan soon realizes that the kidnapper may have something to do with the 911 call that ended her career six months prior. The Call brings together a small, but impressive cast, and delivers some insanely tense...
Oz the Great and Powerful is another addition to the many stories about Oz, about a circus magician being thrust into the land of Oz, just in time to save all the good people from the wicked witches. Starring James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, and Mila Kunis, and directed by Sam Raimi, this is a film that’s been highly anticipated. Well, Hollywood, you ruined another one of my favourite things – witches. Nice going. I can’t remember the last time (if ever) that witches have been so boring – between the James Franco swooning and the indifferent performances, there was...
Colin Farrell stars in a new action-revenge flick directed by Niels Arden Oplev, the man behind 2009′s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Dead Man Down revolves around Victor (Farrell), a Hungarian immigrant who works for NYC mob leader Alphonse (Terrence Howard). When one of their own is found dead, the leader is out to find who is responsible, and why they are coming after him. But then along comes Beatrice (Noomi Rapace), an emotionally and physically scarred woman who witnessed Victor committing a murder, and blackmails him into carrying out her revenge on the man who injured her. While...
Snitch is the (inspired by a) true story of John Matthews (Dwayne Johnson), a father, husband, ex-husband and business owner whose life is turned upside down when his 18-year-old son is framed, arrested and convicted for drug possession and intent to distribute. The news of his arrest is only compounded by the news that based on the amount of drugs he was arrested with he must serve the mandatory minimum sentence. US mandatory minimum laws were created to impose unbelievably harsh penalties as a way to incentivize turning in other dealers and traffickers. Unfortunately, John’s son doesn’t have anyone to...
