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Sci-Fi Lockout Movie Review

The movie is set some 50-plus years in the future, but a lot of things remain the same. Pearce is ex-agent Snow who discovered some double-crossing in a CIA-like operation — but instead of getting a promotion he ended up doing jail time for murder. The movie opens as agency investigators are trying to beat him into revealing where to find a briefcase that holds some state secrets. But it only serves to bloody his face, strengthen his resolve and sharpen his comic timing. Meanwhile, Read more ...
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James Cameron's 'Titanic' in 3D

James Cameron's cinematic epic Titanic has returned to the big screen converted to 3D. Cameron has once again engineered the rare effective — and even tasteful! — use of 3-D technology. In the early underwater scenes, when a robot-cam pokes around the wreck of the Titanic, with Bill Paxton and his team of hipster techies hovering in anticipation, the ocean debris flies right out at the audience. That, however, is the only time in the movie that Cameron uses 3-D to conjure a comin'-at-ya Read more ...
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Let the Games Begin "The Hunger Games"

Lionsgate has debuted, via Yahoo, the final trailer (and Super Bowl spot) for Gary Ross' The Hunger Games, based on the popular book series, and it's shorter than the last trailer and doesn't reveal much we haven't seen yet. Jennifer Lawrence stars as Katniss, and she's joined by Josh Hutcherson as Peeta, Liam Hemsworth as Gale, Elizabeth Banks as Effie, Woody Harrelson as Haymitch, and Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman, who gets some good lines in this. I'm glad they're not showing too much Read more ...
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