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Sucker Punch is the latest project from director Zack Snyder, who brought the movies 300 and Watchmen to the big screen. Snyder’s description of the film is “Alice in Wonderland with machine guns”. This movie kicks butt! The “wonderland” that Baby Doll, Australian actress Emily Browning, falls into is a mental institution in the 1950’s. She’s sent there by her evil stepfather and is scheduled to be lobotomized in 5 days. In those 5 days she conspires with her fellow inmates to escape the asylum. One of the girls is played by High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens. She’s a real surprise standout in the movie as Blondie, one of Baby Doll’s fellow prison girls. The five females use a fantasy world in their imagination to escape the daily abuse in the asylum and to hatch a plan to get them out of there. It’s in the fantasy world where all of the action happens. This crew of girls fights monsters, dragons, giant ninjas and undead Nazi soldiers. Five hot chicks with swords swinging...

Paul is ET meets sex, drugs and Rock and Roll! In Paul non stop laughs follow a runaway alien and two British geeks who come to the US for a holiday of trekking to all the famous UFO hotspots. The two super geeks get more than they bargained for when they come to the aid of the victim of a car crash and instead come face to face with the escaped alien. The two Brits are played by Nick Frost and Simon Pegg who were previously paired in the comedies Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead. The two actors are fall down funny as the straight men to the huge eyed, ill mannered and often naked alien, Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen). The movie is filled with pop culture references and inside sci-fi jokes like when Paul asks for some Reese’s Pieces when his two travel companions hit the mini mart for snacks or when, in a flash back scene, Steven Spielberg gets tips on making ET from the real extra terrestrial. There are also a few surprise appearances in the movie. This movie is just flat out funn...

Coming out this weekend The Lincoln Lawyer starring Matthew McConaughey as he plays a lawyer who conducts business from the backseat of his Lincoln town car for high-profile clients in Beverly Hills. As he travels between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers — they're all on Mickey Haller's client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence it's about negotiation and manipulation. So when a Beverly Hills playboy gets arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Mickey to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years It's a defense attorney's dream. And as all the evidence begins to stack up, Mickey comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career. Then things change as someone close to him is murdered and Mickey discovers that his search ...

Mars Needs Moms uses the latest technology in capture animation. It’s a Disney movie but it was produced by the studio of Robert Zemeckis, who brought us Forrest Gump and Back to the Future. The technology, paired with the 3D animation, blurs the lines between animation and real action on the big screen. It’s an amazing experience. Mars Needs Moms focuses on Milo, a 9 year old boy that thinks his life would be much less complicated if his mom wasn’t in it. His wish comes true when his mom is kidnapped by Martians in the middle of the night. He stows away on the ship and travels to Mars to try and save his mom. On the planet he meets a fellow human who lives in the garbage pit with the rest of the Martian men. The Martian men play and dance all day while the Martian women run the surface of the planet. Likewise, Martian boys are exiled to the dump while each girl Martian is assigned to a nanny to be cared for and nurtured. Mars Needs Moms to program the robot care ...

No this movie has nothing in common with the famous fairy tale, although Valerie does have a grandmother (Julie Christie) who lives alone in the woods and whose odd behavior catch the eye of the werewolf hunters. This movie is Set in a medieval village that kinda reminds you of a generic middle age time setting that is haunted by a werewolf. This Renaissance festival like film unfolds in an isolated town that for years has suffered from the depredations of a werewolf. Valerie (Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a outsider, orphaned woodcutter, Peter (Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. For years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offer...

For years, there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world - Buenos Aires, Seoul, France, Germany, China. But in 2011, what were once just sightings will become a terrifying reality when Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world's great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his new platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they've ever encountered before. What really works for Battle: Los Angeles is how grounded in reality it is, the entire first minute follows the characters enjoying everyday life until that first scene of the strange “meteors” hitting the battleship. The impact of that hit emanates into the feeling of anxiety watching the events unfold. Even though the film takes place in Los Angeles with a platoon of Marines fighting for survival, but in the background the ...

My review for Hall Pass was almost the shortest review in the history of movie reviews. My first reaction was to simply write a three letter review, “O.M.G.”! However, I felt it was my responsibility to explain a bit more about why this is such an “O.M.G.” movie! First, it’s not a good “O.M.G.” as in “wow, look at that beautiful cinematography” or “gosh, that is such a poignant scene”. It was more like, “O.M.G., what in the world am I watching?” The movie trailer tells the entire story. A couple of guys, Owen Wilson and , grow bored with married life and both receive “Hall Passes”, a week off from marriage, from their wives. Both wives think the men will act like freed house cats and immediately return to the safety of their homes. Oh, but instead the men spread their wings and try to hook up with all of the hot young honeys that they’ve been denied. Instead of comedy, vulgarity follows the men for the rest of the movie. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by the ex...

Imagine the kind of dreamy marvel that might emerge if Salvador Dali and Sergio Leone teamed to remake "Chinatown" with a cast comprised entirely of lizards, snakes and other desert creatures. Cue a Greek Mariachi chorus to moves from a Gonzo playbook, fueled by visual effects to rival "Avatar," and you've got some idea as to the surreal storytelling delight that is Gore Verbinksi's latest. "Rango" is, through and a through, a great piece of filmmaking, arriving in a final form that doesn't begin to feel in any way watered down or a retread of what's worked in the past. Maybe that's because it wears its references on its sleeve and unapologetically asks the audience to embrace whatever clichés and archetypes the film may offer with loving arms or be left – near literally – in the dust. After finding himself lost and alone in on the edge of a highway in the middle of a desert, a chameleon (Depp) with acting aspirations finds the pe...