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Adrianne Palicki as Wonder Woman

There is a very fine line you walk when making a superhero show, it is really easy to slip into camp and silly. Christopher Nolan (“Batman Begins” & “The Dark Knight”) and Jon Favreau (“Iron Man” & “Iron Man 2”) got it right, Joel Schumacher (“Batman Forever” & “Batman & Robin”) did not. When you …

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New Trailer: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Just to keep things up to date here is the latest trailer for “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” (or Pirates 4 if you’re keeping count). I still think this has potential to be a really fun film. I thought, when I first heard about the project, that it was a waste of time …

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Review – Battle: Los Angeles

There comes a time when you have to just sit back and accept the film that is being presented to you. “Battle: Los Angeles” is just that kind of movie. A loud, fast moving boy movie about marines fighting an alien invasion. If you are expecting deep character, magnificent writing or in-depth story telling you …

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Reader Review: The Warrior’s Way (2010)

Reader JamesFromMelbourne wanted to share his experiences with the movie, “The Warrior’s Way”. Directed by Sngmoo Lee and written by Sngmoo Lee and (an uncredited) Scott Reynolds. The film stars Dong-gun Jang, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush, Danny Huston and Tony Cox. JamesFromMelbourne Writes: A long time ago a comic book was made called Lone Wolf …

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Teaser Trailer: Conan the Barbarian

I get a really bad feeling about this film. But for good or bad here is the teaser trailer for the new “Conan the Barbarian” remake starring Jason Momoa, Stephen Lang, Said Taghmaoui, Rachel Nichols and Leo Howard. The film is directed by Marcus Nispel, who is such an impressively original  director he made “The …

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Trailer: Puss in Boots

Okay, I understand that “Shrek” was a big money making franchise and I understand you want to milk it with as many sequels as possible. But did one of the secondary characters really deserve their own film? Dreamworks seems to think so because here is “Puss in Boots” the new film starring that feisty latin …

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