3 Stars
Focus tells a story that could only transpire in the movies. This is a tale of con-artits but it’s told with the same cool detachment that tonally defined other similar adult themed capers like Out of Sight and The Thomas Crown Affair. It also share a romanticized view of criminals that was so prevalent in those titles too. Sure, the main characters are thieves but they are portrayed as cool — too cool, in fact, for this low-key film to develop much heat.
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4 Stars
The Book of Eli is the best apocalyptic, futuristic western throwback that I’ve ever seen. Who would have thought Denzel Washington, an Oscar winner and star of ‘important’ movies could conquer the wasteland wander role, too? Directed with loving homage to a variety of films, by one of our countries’ most underrated talents’,Allen & Albert Hughes. The visual aesthetic takes it’s cue’s from George Miller’s Road Warrior mixed with the airy vistas of Eastwood’s Unforgiven. For further proof look for the scene in which Deborah’s theme from Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time in America is whistled.
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Box Office Ace Predictions: 22 Jump Street, How to Train Your Dragon 2
News:
Gambit Could Debut in Solo Movie First
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Next Film Is I Walk With the Dead
Peyton Reed Named New ‘Ant-Man’ Director
‘Forrest Gump’ Getting IMAX Re-Release
‘Ghostbusters’ Getting Theatrical Re-Release, New Blu-rays
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ IMAX 3D Shows Will Feature Shifting Aspect Ratios
Study Says Streaming Will Overtake Physical Media Revenue in 2016
‘Jupiter Ascending’ Delayed Until February 2015
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The November Man
If I Stay
The Giver
Are You Here
Beneath
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Box Office Ace Predictions: The Heat, White House Down
News:
Jim Carrey disowns Kick Ass 2
James Gandolfini- Retrospective
Will Smith Too Expensive, Too Famous for ‘Independence Day’ Sequel
Rumor Mill: Dwayne Johnson Possibly Up For ‘Terminator 5′
Box Office Delorean:
May 2004 – TROY vs. World War Z
Box Office Weekend Breakdown: June 21-June 23, 2013
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2 Stars
As someone who freely admits to being fearful of roaming cattle on my jogs through the hills of California, After Earth taps into a certain primal fear of mine. The majority of the film tracks, young Jaden Smith through a series of encounters, escapes and near-death experiences with environmental predators. This is essentially a campfire tale, albeit one dressed up with a $135 million budget and given a snazzy sci-fi retrofit.
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Box Office Ace Predictions: Star Trek Into Darkness
News: Arnold Schwarzenegger Eyes The Toxic Avenger
Robert Downey Jr. Boards Jon Favreau’s Chef
Timur Bekmambetov Plans Squirrels
300: Rise of an Empire and All You Need is Kill Pushed Back
Will Smith Targets The Wild Bunch
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Riddick
Ender’s Game
Gravity
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3 1/2 Stars
Will Smith is a such a likable actor and audiences have become so accustomed to seeing him portray cocky winners, that experience the continual hardships that await him in The Pursuit of Happyness is emotionally exhausting. Christopher Gardner is a medical supply salesman in San Francisco during the early 1980s. Saddled with outdated equipment and mounting bills, Chris lives sale-to-sale depending on his hard work ethic to make ends meet. His wife decides that she has had enough and packs her meager belongings, though it is never clearly stated, it seems that an addiction or mental instability may have been a deeper issue than finances. However this leaves Chris the sole provider for himself and his six-year-old son, who attends daycare in Chinatown and seems frighteningly adjusted for the trauma he endures.
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This is my list of the top five best Alien Invasion movies. This has been an incredibly popular sub-genre dating back to the Orson Wells broadcast of 1938. Since 1977 there have been 35 Alien Invasion themed films released culminating in $4,171,019,251 at the global box-office. Many of the silver-screens biggest stars and directors have crafted or appeared in an Alien Invasion film at some point in their respective careers. The average Alien Invasion movie grosses $119,000.000 at the domestic box-office.
Signs (2002)Box Office Gross: $227,966,634 Adjusted: $0
Following the smash hit The Sixth Sense and the under-performing follow-up Unbreakable, directing phenom M. Night Shyamalan returns to the summer box office landscape that served as the backdrop for his cinematic breakthrough. In Signs, another paranormal outing for the writer-director, Shyamalan explores the eerie implications of a 500-foot crop circle that mysteriously appears on the Bucks County, PA farm of reverend Graham Hess (Mel Gibson). As Hess and his family (Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin) try to take stock of what the sign means, and how its message incorporates into their faith, they start to get the feeling they are not alone in the fields behind their house.
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Sounds like Whitemore’s alien fighting days aren’t over yet. As for Smith, I hope he returns, this is the movie that cemented him as a Hollywood star and proved that he could open big blockbusters. Earlier Fox pulled the 3D retrofit for Independence Day from its theatrical release schedule, something that happened with another Will Smith starrer I, Robot. We did at least get that as a 3D Blu-ray release, and I’m still hopeful that Independence Day still gets a 3D Blu-ray release, it’s one of the few 3D retrofits I was excited about, especially with the awesome July 4th slated release.
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3 Stars
The good news, the third film in the Men in Black franchise is a big improvement over the soft-boiled sequel. The bad news, the movie runs out of ideas early on then moves in fits and starts. MIB3 as it’s advertising campaign refers, is greatly benefited from the easy charisma of star Will Smith. His boundless energy and quick-witted line readings are just the shot of fun the film and audiences are looking for. After an extremely disjointed first act, the screenplay settles into a relaxed groove. The set-up this time, is that agent J (Smith) must travel back to 1969 to stop a disgusting creature from being jailed. It turns out the implications of the alien’s incarceration has dire affects on Agent K (Jones), and humanity at large. The time travel plot device is inserted to pair J with the 29 year old version of K (Josh Brolin).
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Agent J travels in time to MIB’s early years in the 1960s, to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history.
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