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Second Opinion – Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)

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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, 2016. Directed by Jake Szymanski. Starring Zac Efron, Adam Devine, Anna Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza. SYNOPSIS: Two hard-partying brothers place an online ad to find the perfect dates for their sister’s Hawaiian wedding. Hoping for a wild getaway, the boys instead find themselves out-hustled by an uncontrollable duo. Mike […]

10 Great Buddy Cop Movies Not Written or Directed By Shane Black

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To coincide with the release of The Nice Guys, Kieran Fisher recommends 10 other buddy cop movies worth checking out… This weekend marks the release of Shane Black’s new film The Nice Guys, starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as a law enforcement duo investigating a missing persons case.  It also sees Black return to […]

Movie Review – The Accountant (2016)

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The Accountant, 2016. Directed by Gavin O’Connor. Starring Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, John Lithgow, and Jeffrey Tambor. SYNOPSIS: As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise. Sometimes, too much going on in the script […]

Second Opinion – The Voices (2015)

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The Voices, 2015. Directed by Marjane Satrapi. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Anna Kendrick, Gemma Arterton and Jacki Weaver. SYNOPSIS:  Likeable factory worker, Jerry, pursues his office crush with the help of his evil talking pets, but things turn sinister when she stands him up for a date. “The voices made me do it.”.  Ah, the standard alibi for the psychotic serial […]

Movie Review – Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)

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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, 2016. Directed by Jake Szymanski. Starring Zac Efron, Adam Devine, Anna Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza. SYNOPSIS: Two brothers place an online ad to find dates for a wedding and the ad goes viral. Comedy is tricky to critique and judge, but if there is one constant, it is the […]

Movie Review – Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)

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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, 2016. Directed by Jake Szymanski. Starring Zac Efron, Adam Devine, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza and Sugar Lyn Beard. SYNOPSIS: Two brothers use the internet to find “good girls” to take to their sister’s wedding in Hawaii and are tricked into taking girls who party even harder than themselves. I’ll […]

Little Red Riding Hood featured in new Into the Woods clip

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With just two days to go until its Christmas release, Disney has dropped yet another clip from Into the Woods, this time featuring Lilla Crawford’s Little Red Riding Hood alongside The Baker (James Corden) and The Baker’s Wife (Emily Blunt). Check it out below… Into the Woods is a modern twist on several of the […]

Movie Review – Get a Job (2016)

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Get a Job, 2016. Directed by Dylan Kidd. Starring Miles Teller, Anna Kendrick, Bryan Cranston, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Nicholas Braun, Brandon T. Jackson, Alison Brie, Jorge Gargia, Jay Pharoah, Bruce Davison, Ravi Patel, Aaron Hill, Seth Morris, Marc Maron, John C. McGinley, Marcia Gay Harden, Greg Germann, Cameron Richardson, and John Cho. SYNOPSIS: Life after college […]

Justin Timberlake joins Anna Kendrick for musical animation Trolls

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Justin Timberlake has joined the cast of animated musical comedy Trolls, a new film from DreamWorks Animation based on the famous dolls. Timberlake joins the film as Branch, a troll who is hiding “his surprising true colours”. Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect 2) is also part of the cast as Princess Poppy, who journeys with Branch outside […]