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Won’t Back Down
Won’t Back Down is an energizing movie about an unlikely pair who band together to gain support for taking over a school that has been struggling for years. Many of the teachers have become complacent, and the students just aren’t pushed to their true potentials. One parent, Jamie, played by Maggie Gyllenhaal, is a single [...]
Butter
Every once in a while a movie so impossibly ludicrous comes along that my faith in the moviemaking industry is tested. Such is the case with the movie Butter which follows a young girl, appropriately named Destiny, as she squares off against a power-hungry hausfrau in a statewide butter-sculpting competition. How a plot like this [...]
End of Watch
Every once in awhile a movie will come along and completely shock people. End of Watch is one of those movies. With a marketing campaign roughly 1/16 of what The Avengers’ was, David Ayer’s film hits theaters this weekend without much buzz. Once people leave the theater that will change. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña [...]
The Words
When it all comes down to it, life is just a choice between words and fiction, or at least that’s how Dennis Quaid sees it. Now at this point, many of you are thinking, “Wait, I thought The Words was that movie with Bradley Cooper!” It is, don’t worry. The trick with Brian Klugman and [...]
Lawless
I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while, and it didn’t disappoint. I wasn’t sure what to expect from Lawless, given its vague title and chaotic trailer, but the cast they’ve assembled here should be enough to pique anyone’s interest. The story is about 3 brothers: Forrest (Tom Hardy; The Dark Knight Rises), [...]
Red Hook Summer
Veteran director Spike Lee’s new movie Red Hook Summer is (A): A coming-of-age story about a young, black, middle-class boy from Atlanta who calls himself Flik; (B): Lee’s thrashing of black folks about their social and cultural shortcomings or (C): Lee’s campaign platform and speech were he to run for public office. No matter what [...]
Solomon Kane
A man trying to find peace and redemption in a violent and tumultuous time, such is the story of Solomon Kane. With the Devil on his trail, Kane tries to redeem himself as a warrior, a son, and a Puritan. With three redemptive narratives packed into a movie just short of two hours, Solomon Kane [...]
Hermano (Brother)
Marcel Rasquin’s Hermano (Brother) is an exceptional first feature and another gem in Music Box Theatre’s catalog of foreign films. A baby is found in a trash heap by a young mother and her son, in which they decide to take him and raise him as their own. Flash forward 16 years later and the [...]
The Expendables 2
In case you haven’t heard, Sylvester Stallone made a sequel to “The Expendables.” You know what he called it? “The Expendables 2.” Cool, huh? You know what else? There are a lot more old 80′s action heroes in it, plus a couple of guys from, like, this past decade, even. You know what else? They [...]
Sparkle
The movie that Whitney Houston fans everywhere have been waiting for is now playing in wide release. Sparkle is another movie about a girl group who just happens to live in Detroit and who aspire for the big time in the music field. It is a remake of the original 1976 film starring Lonette McGee, [...]
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