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Admission
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On paper, it would seem that Admission brings a comedy dream team together. "Saturday Night Live" alumni Tina Fey has just wrapped up her successful sitcom "30 Rock," and Paul Rudd has successfully moved from sideman to main man with Our Idiot Brother and Wanderlust. So, are these two comedic geniuses effective when paired up? Well, yes and no...they're effective, just not in a comedic way.
Admission stars Tina Fey as Portia Nathan, an admissions counselor at Princeton University. While touring schools...
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Olympus Has Fallen
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Olympus Has Fallen is a movie that shouldn't work; yet somehow it does. Featuring a large cast of A-list talent, but a very B-movie premise, Olympus Has Fallen delivers the type of visceral action movie pleasures 2013 has been missing. In fact, it outdoes nearly every 2013 action movie combined.
Gerard Butler plays Mike Banning, a former Secret Service agent who's been looking to get back "in the game." After serving under President Asher (Aaron Eckhart) for his first term, Banning must make a harrowing...
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Come Out and Play
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In this day and age, it appears that no horror film is excluded from the reboot trend, no matter how obscure. The rehashing of old material can sometimes be a pointless exercise in futility. Other times, a modernization is just what is needed to push a story to its limits. Such is the case with Come Out and Play, a remake of 1976's Who Can Kill a Child? that truly benefits from its retooling.
Come Out and Play is the story of a young man named Francis (Ebon Moss-Bachrach from "Damages") and his pregnant...
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Phantom
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Following in the footsteps of Das Boot, The Hunt for Red October and u-571, Phantom takes place in the constricts and confines of a submarine. It's a naturally dramatic setting, but one that is difficult to pull off successfully. Phantom does a pretty good job of it, as long as the action stays on the sub.
Set in 1968 at the height of the Cold War, Phantom stars Ed Harris as Dmitri "Demi" Zubov, a Soviet submarine commander who, after having just returned from three months at sea, is ordered to take...
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Stoker
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South Korean director Chan-wook Park has built a career out of including graphic, violent images in his movies. He has achieved cult status for his Korean language films, particularly the "Vengeance Trilogy," consisting of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, and Lady Vengeance. His English language debut, Stoker, is somewhat Americanized, taking out much of the gore of his earlier work while keeping his directorial signature intact.
Stoker is the story of India Stoker (Alice in Wonderland's Mia Wasikowska),...
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Warm Bodies
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Since the pending zombie apocalypse is hip and in vogue right now, it's only right that zombies should crossover from the horror genre into other types of movies. However, as fashionable as zombies are, can a zombie romantic comedy really work? If Warm Bodies is any indication, the answer is yes.
Warm Bodies stars Nicholas Hoult (Clash of the Titans) as a zombie known only as R (because he can't remember the rest of his name) who, like all of his zombie friends, is destined to spend the post-zombie...
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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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Quartet
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Dustin Hoffman has spent his entire career in front of the camera, until now. His directorial debut is none other than a love song dedicated to Opera, and music in general of the "old" sort--or if you asked any of the retired musicians in Quartet they may say their type is "real" music. They are of course geriatric, living their final days in Beecham House, a charity sponsored home for retired musicians. Every inch of Beecham House is always alive with music, from the parlor to the gazebo hidden amidst the...
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