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RISE OF THE GUARDIANS

As an animation house, Dreamworks tends to rely heavily on a wash, rinse and repeat formula for its family entertainment, mixing light-weight storytelling with A-list star power and shallow pop culture...

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DJANGO UNCHAINED

The premise for Django Unchained seemed promising enough in the trailer: taking place a few years before the American Civil War, a freed slave (Jamie Foxx) collaborates with a German bounty hunter...

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PROMISED LAND

Gus van Sant has never shied away from making politically poignant films. Good Will Hunting tackled the long-lasting effects of child abuse, the fantastic Elephant delved into school shootings and Milk...

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THIS IS 40

This is 40, the spin-off sequel to the 2007 film Knocked Up, starts with Debbie (Leslie Mann) waking up and smoking a sneaky cigarette in her bathroom before going to join her husband and children for...

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JACK REACHER

“I’m not a hero. I’m a drifter with nothing to lose!” That amazing line, spouted by a surly Tom Cruise, is merely an appetizer for Jack Reacher, a veritable smorgasbord of stony-faced, hard-boiled...

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PARKER

Jason Statham is such a charismatic force-of-nature presence that it’s painful to see his considerable kick-ass talents pissed away on middling C-grade junk. Seemingly born a couple decades too late,...

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A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD

A Good Day to Die Hard is a chaotic portrait of one man’s wearying struggle to keep his head held high while braving a seemingly unconquerable bad situation. Unfortunately, this fifth time around, it...

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OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN

Had Steven Seagal not collapsed so spectacularly into the parodic fat Elvis phase of his career a couple decades ago, Olympus Has Fallen might have wound up being a really kickass Under Siege...

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G.I. JOE: RETALIATION

There’s one sequence in G.I. Joe: Retaliation that exemplifies exactly what a decent G.I. Joe movie should be: Brave ass-kicking good guys Snake Eyes (Ray Park) and Jinx (Elodie Yung) have kidnapped...

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SPRING BREAKERS

It takes balls to make a film that takes disapproving aim at an entire generation. However, it takes even bigger balls to fashion one that cleverly disguises itself as an empowerment message for those...

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PAIN AND GAIN

Despite years spent devolving into parody, there was always a sliver of hope that, given strong material, Michael Bay was capable of proving himself more than just a shallow exploiter of explosions....

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EVIL DEAD (REMAKE)

Evil Dead: A title every self-respecting horror fan cherishes and holds deeply to their heart. Remake: A word every self-respecting horror fan dreads hearing and with good reason, given the onslaught...

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ROCKSHOW

Summer is nearly here and as we dust off our festival boots and tattered copies of I’m With the Band, a familiar sense of nostalgia sets in. Good news, we can now come closer than ever to...

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MUD

There are few sensations more exhilarating for a cinema lover than the discovery of a bold, exciting new talent. With 2011’s haunting apocalyptic supernatural thriller/character study Take Shelter,...

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FAST & FURIOUS 6

The Fast and the Furious franchise is the rarest of cinematic beasts: a series that’s miraculously improving beyond the halfway marker to double-digit sequel numbers. 2011’s Fast Five was easily the...

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NOW YOU SEE ME

“The secret impresses no one. The trick you use it for is everything.” – Christian Bale, The Prestige In his captivating duelling illusionists tale, Christopher Nolan touched upon an essential truth...

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THE INTERNSHIP

What’s become of Vince Vaughn? Our great, lumbering, huckster motormouth, whose inspired rat-a-tat-tat stream-of-consciousness verbal diarrhea propelled hits like The Wedding Crashers and Swingers? I...

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DIRTY WARS

Jeremy Scahill would have us believe that he is America’s less creepy neo-noir answer to Julian Assange – but he isn’t. Director Rick Rowley’s new documentary on the disturbing and numerous misdeeds...

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WORLD WAR Z

Aimless, clumsy and held loosely together by ropes of superficial flesh and weak storytelling muscle, World War Z is a disappointingly inconsequential entry in the oft-fertile zombie sub-genre....

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JULY FILM

Events Sadly, few young film fans will ever be treated to the drive-in movie experience. However, FreshAirCinema and Chevron are partnering again to offer the next best thing as their Summer Cinema...

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