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Promised Land
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Matt Damon hasn't exactly been resting on his laurels since he struck gold with his screenplay for 1997's Good Will Hunting - he's one of the most accomplished and respected actors of his generation. After a lengthy absence from screenwriting (he hasn't had a script produced since 2002's Gerry), Promised Land sees him back at the keyboard with new writing partner John Krasinski (better known as Jim from "The Office"). Steve Butler (Damon) is a salesman for an energy company called Global Crosspower...

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Gangster Squad
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There's something about the noir genre that, when done right, just works so well. Combining colorful characters with intense shootouts, these tales of hardboiled detectives and femme fatales become testaments to a bygone era of cinema. Gangster Squad, the new film from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer, is not such a movie, although it almost gets away with a passable impersonation. Set in 1949, Gangster Squad tells the alleged true story of the Los Angeles Police Department's last stand against Mickey...

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The Guilt Trip
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Road trips are an exciting adventure everyone, young and old, relishes. Then there is the dreaded road trip that includes your parents, one, or both. Spending hours in a car with them, regardless of how much love you them, can be torturous. For Seth Rogen's character Andrew, a road trip with his overbearing, smothering, and opinionated mother Joyce, played by none other than Barbra Streisand, is going to be the longest eight days of his life in The Guilt Trip. These eight days also just happen to be the...

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Silver Linings Playbook
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Life doesn't always go according to plan...Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything -- his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and father (Robert DeNiro) after spending eight months in a state institution on a plea bargain. Pat is determined to rebuild his life, remain positive and reunite with his wife, despite the challenging circumstances of their separation. All Pat's parents want is for him to get back on his feet - and to share their...

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Not Fade Away
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While David Chase's name may not be a household word, his legacy most certainly is; he was the creative mastermind behind HBO's "The Sopranos," one of the most popular cable television shows in history. His first crack at a feature film is somewhat of a departure from the seedy underbelly of the organized crime world - it's a rock and roll fantasy called Not Fade Away. Taking its name from a Buddy Holly song, Not Fade Away is the story of a group of high school friends who live in the New Jersey suburbs...

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Broken City
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Broken City is a political thriller that has all the makings of a successful film. It has star power, intrigue, and a slow burn mentality, but somewhere along the way it loses faith in its audience's ability to unravel a good mystery. At the center of Broken City's story is Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg), a former NYPD cop who spends his time, like all good former cops, as a Private Detective. Taggart is barely scraping by, so when the Mayor of New York, Nick Hostetler (a sandy blonde Russell Crowe), hires...

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Mama
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As a producer, Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark) has a knack for coming up with projects that are not only original, but extremely frightening. Mama is no exception, providing a uniquely terrifying experience. The opening of Mama sees a man named Jeffrey (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau from "Game of Thrones") murder his wife, kidnap his two daughters and run away to a secluded cabin. He is about to kill both of the girls and himself, but is stopped by...something. Five years...

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Jack Reacher
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The stage is set for Jack Reacher with nothing more than ambient sound. A lone sharp shooter sets up in a parking garage. He peers through his scope across the river at the people walking, sitting, or playing with a child. His breath is rhythmic as he sets his target and the bullets begin to fly, killing five people at random and just as quickly getting away in his van. Then the police arrive, and the suspect caught--or has he been? "Get Jack Reacher" is suspect Barr's request, and Reacher need not be...

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Safe Haven
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Nicholas Sparks is in an enviable position. As a writer, he knows that any book he writes will fly off the shelves. As a producer, he knows that his audience will come to see any movie made from one of his novels, even one as bad as Safe Haven. Katie (dancer Julianne Hough, who also has had turns in Rock of Ages and the remake of Footloose) is the new girl in Southport, North Carolina. Alex (the Transformers franchise's Josh Duhamel) is a lonely father of two who has lost his wife to cancer. The pair...

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Texas Chainsaw 3D
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There is little doubt that Tobe Hooper's original 1974 version of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is one of the pinnacles in horror history. Like all successful horror films, TCM has spawned both inferior sequels and serviceable reboots. Director John Luessenhop (Takers) ignores all of the other entries into the series with his newest installment, Texas Chainsaw 3D starting up right where things left off in 1974. Texas Chainsaw 3D opens five minutes after the conclusion of the original with Sheriff Hooper...

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Cloud Atlas
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Cloud Atlas is an ambitious, genre-crossing epic from the dream-team filmmaking alliance of Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) and the Wachowski brothers (The Matrix creators, billed as Andy and Lana Wachowski since Laurence is now Lana). The film is actually six different stories, set centuries apart, that run concurrently. The earliest is the story of a stowaway slave on a ship in 1849. The next is about a young musician who aligns himself with an older, more established composer in 1936 Europe. Another tale...

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Beautiful Creatures
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Combining two of the most sought after premises in a movie can create catnip for a specific audience demographic. Beautiful Creatures, the film adaptation of the best selling YA novel of the same name, is one such product. It has the forbidden romance between teenagers, due to the girl being a witch and the boy a mere mortal, as well as the sorcery and witchcraft, with dangerous consequences lurking around every plot twist. The movie may be a quick jaunt of a story, without much build-up or introspection...

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Side Effects
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Side Effects is a provocative thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily's psychiatrist (Jude Law) - intended to treat anxiety - has unexpected side effects.
Parker
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Stop me if you've heard this one before. In his newest film, Parker, Jason Statham plays the title character, a criminal with a skewed sense of morality that reluctantly joins up with the wrong crowd and seeks revenge when they do him wrong. Yes, Parker is yet another Jason Statham vehicle meant not to engage the mind but to get the men cheering as blood spews and the woman hooting as Statham removes his shirt numerous times. What makes Parker unique, if you could even say that, is its layered storytelling,...

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Dark Skies
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It is the honest truth that I do not cover very many, if any, horror movies. This is in part thanks to the incredible James Jay Edwards whom I refer to as the "FilmFracture Horror Aficionado." But it is also because I do not care much for modern day horror movies. The remakes of classic horror films aggravates me and the original ideas never appeal to me on any level, usually. Perhaps I have grown out of loving horror movies, and if that is the case it is a sad thing to accept. In order to remember what...

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