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Movie Review – Aloha (2015)

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Aloha, 2015. Directed by Cameron Crowe. Starring Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride and Alec Baldwin. SYNOPSIS: A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him. We […]

Movie Review – Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

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Mad Max: Fury Road, 2015. Directed by George Miller. Starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whitely, Nathan Jones, Megan Gale, Zoe Kravitz, Riley Keough, Josh Helman, Jennifer Hagan, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Courtney Easton. SYNOPSIS; In a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, two rebels just might be able to restore […]

Movie Review – Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

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Avengers: Age of Ultron,2015. Directed by Joss Whedon. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Bettany, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, James Spader, Thomas Kretschmann, Cobie Smulders, Claudia Kim, Andy Serkis, Don Cheadle, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba, Hayley Atwell and Linda Cardellini. SYNOPSIS: When Tony Stark […]

Second Opinion – Fast & Furious 7 (2015)

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Fast & Furious 7, 2015. Directed by James Wan. Starring Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Ludacris, Tyrese Gibson, Lucas Black, Jordana Brewster, Kurt Russell, Jason Statham, Ronda Rousey, Tony Jaa, Nathalie Emmanuel, John Brotherton and Djimon Hounsou. SYNOPSIS: After the death of his brother, Deckard Shaw (Statham) aims to take revenge by […]

Movie Review – Unfinished Business (2015)

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Unfinished Business, 2015. Directed by Ken Scott. Starring Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco, Sienna Miller, Nick Frost and James Marsden. SYNOPSIS: A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails […]

Joss Whedon clashed with Marvel executives, wanted Spider-Man in Avengers: Age of Ultron

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Joss Whedon has gone on record saying that he will not be returning to write or direct Avengers: Infinity War due to fatigue settling in, but there may be more to it than that. It is now coming out that Whedon had to argue with Marvel executives on Avengers: Age of Ultron to keep some scenes […]

Movie Review – Ex Machina (2015)

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Ex Machina, 2015. Written and Directed by Alex Garland. Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander and Sonoya Mizuno. SYNOPSIS: A young programmer is selected to participate in a breakthrough experiment in artificial intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breathtaking female A.I. Desire, lust, and love are undoubtedly some of the strongest emotions that […]

Flying iceberg kills grazing horse on Fast & Furious 8 set

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We promise this isn’t satire or some hilariously cruel and early April Fools joke. During filming of an Icelandic car chase on Fast and Furious 8, a makeshift plastic iceberg exploded into range of a grazing horse, subsequently breaking its leg. The poor beauty had to be put to sleep. Another horse was also injured, […]

Avengers: Infinity War will feature 68, not 67, different characters

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Earlier this year, Anthony and Joe Russo made an off-the-cuff remark that Avengers: Infinity War would contain a whopping 67 characters. Well, it seems that they were off with their estimates… by one. During a panel at Wizard World Comic-Con Cleveland, Joe and Anthony Russo took a moment to clarify that Avengers: Infinity War “features 68 […]