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Almost Human – Poliziotteschi
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Read more: Almost Human – PoliziotteschiSacchi shoots an old guy and, to make a show of his unparalleled meanness, disregards the two females present and forces the remaining man to fellate him at gunpoint.
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The World’s End
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Read more: The World’s EndA fully networked, modular, information based panopticon that knows what’s best for you, and doesn’t really care for dissent or drunken hooligans. Am I talking about the current British government or the ink blooded robots that are the obstacles of Pegg and Frost’s comedy duo?
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Cat People (1942 Val Lewton)
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Read more: Cat People (1942 Val Lewton)Cat People was one of the biggest hits of 1942. It competed favorably with Casablanca in the box office. The reason in part is because Cat People is the anti-vamp film. A more realistic title for the film might be Fear of a War Bride.
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Kickass 2
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Read more: Kickass 2More violence, less fun. This film comes off like a script written by a third grader that believes that saying the word motherfucker 100 times will magically transform you into Quentin Tarantino.
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Planes (2013)
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Read more: Planes (2013)Rated G, 92 wasted minutes of your life Fair Value Rating of Planes: -$4.50. If I have to sit through a full-length recruitment ad for the US Navy, the least they can provide is either a dogfight or a homoerotic volleyball scene. This film had neither. I understand the purpose of Disney’s film Planes.…
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Elysium
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Read more: ElysiumWhenever he is on screen, Kruger seems as likely to kill his audience as anyone on screen with him. Whether stirring steaks on the braai with his ninja sword or…
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The Conjuring
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Read more: The ConjuringA greatest hits medley of ghost movie tropes, this may be the finest episode of R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps ever made.
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Maniac (2012)
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Read more: Maniac (2012)Luckily, the film arrives at last the proverbial fireworks factory and ends on the same high note that Lustig and Savini hit three decades ago…
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The Smurfs 2
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Read more: The Smurfs 2One scene where Jokey Smurf delivers a bomb package to a room full of schoolchildren, remarking that the ‘war for Christian purity is about to begin’ was kind of over the top. Still, the theater could not help but burst into applause when Papa Smurf called Treblinka a ‘Zionist lie’.
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The Wolverine (2013)
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Read more: The Wolverine (2013)126 Minutes, PG-13 for atomic devastation, seppukku, miscellaneous Japanese persons getting disemboweled. Fair Value Rating of The Wolverine: $11.50. Wolverine’s the best at what he does- and what he does is stabbing a lot of people. Director James Mangold’s first superhero flick manages an entertaining midsummer adventure with Disney’s favorite mutant cyborg, Wolverine. By casting…