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Review: Haywire

January 23, 2012

Steven Soderbergh enters the action genre with Haywire, starring former American Gladiator and MMA fighter Gina Carano. As you might expect when you have an MMA fighter for your star, the fights are great, but what about the rest of the movie?

Review: Contraband

January 19, 2012

Mark Wahlberg stars as a master smuggler in Contraband but he should have smuggled a sense of fun and a script that wasn’t completely full of heist movie cliches.

Review: Immortals

November 15, 2011

Coming from the producers of 300, can Immortals live up to that film’s gory, stylish, slow motion heavy action or is it more in line with something like the mediocre Clash of the Titans remake?

Review: In Time

November 1, 2011

In Time has an interesting premise (you only age until 25 and then have to work to earn more time) but can that translate to an interesting movie?

Review: Real Steel

October 11, 2011

Delivering summer fun in the middle of October is (*terrible pun alert*) a knockout with fantastic special effects and the ever charming Hugh Jackman in the lead.

Review: Area 51

September 27, 2011

Area 51, released on DVD last week, is a collaboration between After Dark Films and SyFy channel and is probably the most competent SyFy original movie to date.