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Is Netflix’s Castlevania the first great video game adaption?
Typically in the movie industry, video game adaptations have failed to impress critics and audience members. Last year’s Warcraft and Assassin’s Creed took losses after neglecting to please video game fans. It’s always a risk when you release a high ...
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Free Fire may test your limits
Have you ever spent what felt like an eternity on something only to realize that time lost was relatively short? That's exactly how you may feel after sitting through the recent "action" film Free Fire, bizarrely attributed to Executive Producer ...
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War for the Planet of the Apes offers a strong conclusion to this trilogy
The conclusion to the prequel trilogy for the long-running Planet of the Apes franchise charges into theaters with War for the Planet of the Apes. In 2011, no one was expecting much from another Planet of the Apes movie after ...
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Our favorite web-slinger is back in action in Spider-Man: Homecoming
Well ... it’s time folks. We have received yet another reboot of our friendly neighborhood web slinger. This time around, Marvel Studios is involved so there’s hope for this take on Spider-Man. Tom Holland swings into the role of Peter ...
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The Big Sick brings a real-life love story to the big screen
To take a personal look into someone’s life in cinema is always a treat. When you get an inside view of that life told by the same person who lived it, it brings a whole new level of depth to ...
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Wish Upon may have you wishing for a more frightening movie
In the horror movies heyday of the 1980s, every movie had to be bigger and bloodier than the next, pushing the limits of the R-rating as far as the MPAA would allow. A lot of times directors would shoot extremely ...
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68 Kill :: Trailer
A punk-rock after hours about femininity, masculinity and the theft of $68,000.It started with a couple dead bodies and $68,000 in stolen cash. Chip Taylor's girlfriend Liza had the perfect plan to rip off her rich sugar daddy. It ...
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Preacher works some different ideas in its latest chapter
Preacher, Preacher, Preacher. We have questions. And comments. And concerns.So ... Hell.Not exactly what we pictured. I mean, put two people in a room and ask them about Hell and it's completely understandable their estimations are not going to be ...
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Smurfs: The Lost Village took me back to my childhood
"La, la, la, la, la, la ..." There was a time in the mid-80s when I was obsessed with singing a happy song and Smurfing my whole day along with those adorable blue creations by Peyo. My grandparents had recorded ...
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Everything is even more awesome in The LEGO Batman Movie
When The LEGO Movie hit screens, it surprised everyone with its bright, shiny, happy and extremely snarky humor, raising the bar for animated films aimed not just at kids. It gave us the earworm song "Everything Is Awesome" and the ...
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Win one of five copies of The Fate of the Furious on Blu-ray
The #1 action film in the world, The Fate of the Furious, goes full-throttle on home video from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The latest exhilarating installment of the nitro-fueled blockbuster action franchise features a gripping new storyline, the most outrageous ...
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Love Never Dies to premiere in Baltimore
Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre is pleased to announce that Love Never Dies will play its special preview engagement in Baltimore as the season opener of the 2017/2018 CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Hippodrome Broadway Series for a limited engagement from October 3 – ...
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