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Apollo 18

September 2nd, 2011
Apollo 18 

 

Apollo 18

Rating: ★★★½☆

Movie: Apollo 18 (2011)

Studio : Dimension Films

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Runtime : 87 min

Website : apollo18movie.net

Rating : PG-13

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Review:

Two astronauts (Warren Christie and Lloyd Owen) are sent on a secret mission to the moon to determine why NASA had deemed the lunar surface unsafe and cancelled all future missions. In the real world, this was due to funding issues which shut down the program in 1972, but this revisionist look at the space program shows that there was something far more sinister afoot than a lack of coin. And the Department of Defense wanted to know what it was. The filmmakers then supposedly found 80 hours of footage, which was classified but leaked out for the world to know in what I guess is a shout out to Wikileaks. Read more…

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Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

August 31st, 2011
Dont Be Afraid of the Dark 

 

Dont Be Afraid of Dark

Rating: ★★★★☆

Movie: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2011)

Studio : Miramax

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Runtime : 99 min

Website : dontbeafraidofthedark.com

Rating : R

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Review:

Sally (Bailee Madison) is a young girl, who was sent to her father Alex (Guy Pearce) when she didn’t want her anymore. But Alex has a new girlfriend Kim (Katie Holmes) that isn’t fond of the idea of suddenly being saddled with a child. But Kim has little choice and the family settles back down in a gothic mansion that Alex is remodeling. But Blackwood Manor has a horrific past and when Sally goes exploring, she finds that they are not alone. That there are voices coming up through the vent, voices that try to convince her that they are friends and they need to be let out of their prison. The moppet tries to tell her father, but he’s too busy in his work to pay any attention and Kim doesn’t believe her. And so she finds comfort from the isolation in these odd whispers that come from below, so much comfort that she lets them out, bringing horrible results to the family. Read more…

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Colombiana

August 30th, 2011
Colombiana 

 

Colombiana

Rating: ★★★☆☆

Movie: Colombiana (2011)

Studio : EuropaCorp

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Runtime : 107 min

Website : www.colombiana-movie.com

Rating : PG-13

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Review:

When a mob boss in Bogota, Columbia feels that her family has betrayed him, he orders everyone killed and believes that is what happened. But what he doesn’t know is that the young daughter Cataleya (Amandla Stenberg) survived. Taken in by her uncle, she learns the ways of being a professional killer and by the time she’s an adult (Zoe Saldana), she is very good at what she does. But there is only one target she’s interested in, and that’s the one that murdered her parents. In order to root him out, she leaves clues that catch the attention of not only him, but of the FBI as well. Read more…

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Conan the Barbarian

August 24th, 2011
Conan the Barbarian 

 

Conan the Barbarian

Rating: ★★☆☆☆

Movie: Conan the Barbarian (2011)

Studio : Lionsgate

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Runtime : 113 min

Website : conanthebarbarianin3d.com

Rating : R

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Review:

In this origin story of the Cimmerian warrior, Conan the Barbarian is shown from his bloody birth on the battlefield, literally cut out of his mother’s stomach by his father (Ron Perlman) to his training as a young warrior (Leo Howard) to his final transformation into the man (Jason Momoa) who would become a legend. It seems that an evil sorcerer Kahlar Zym (Stephen Lang) wants an ancient mask that holds horrific powers, but pieces of it were scattered to different Cimmerian villages after the war to keep the power from ever being used again. His searching brings him to Conan’s village, where the boy’s father is killed right before his eyes and Conan vows to get his revenge. But Zym discovers that the mask’s power has one other requirement, the blood of a descendant of the tribe for which it was forged and so he sends his witchy daughter (Rose McGowan) to find her. But when Conan rescues her from the evil sorceress, he finds himself in a web of not only barbaric events but magical ones as well. Read more…

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