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Now Playing: Suiting Up for ‘Gangster Squad’

Bryan Kluger — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:00:06 +0000

[Editor’s Note: This week, Bryan Kluger joins us here in the blog to help out with some theatrical review coverage. Please give him a warm welcome. -JZ] ‘Gangster Squad’ lacks character or storytelling depth, but with its amazing cast of actors, over-the-top violence and cartoony vibe, I left the theater highly entertained. Rather than playing...

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Now Playing: Marky Mark and the Smuggling Bunch

Luke Hickman — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:00:57 +0000

Have you ever seen a movie with a simple plot that becomes unnecessarily complicated just to add drama? That’s what you’re getting with ‘Contraband’. There’s one task that our central characters could do in the beginning of the movie to make the whole problem go away, but then there wouldn’t a feature-length movie to made,...

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Now Playing: Fear and Loathing in Puerto Rico

Luke Hickman — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:00:17 +0000

Based on the trailer, you’d probably expect ‘The Rum Diary’ to be little more than ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas‘ with some new scenery and the drugs swapped out for alcohol. While there are definitely similarities between the two, ‘The Rum Diary’ is (somewhat) more driven by plot than random actions, which makes it...

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