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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: Tolkien Finale Features Bilbo and Allies in Epic Showdown
The Battle of the Five Armies is the third and final chapter in The Hobbit series and is based on the fantasy novel of the same name by J.R.R. Tolkien.…
Wild: Reese Witherspoon Stars in Adaptation of Bestselling Memoir
Cheryl Strayed’s (Reese Witherspoon) life went into a tailspin after the untimely death of her mother (Laura Dern). The grief stricken 22-year-old became emotionally estranged from the people closest to…
Birdman: Fading Star Tries Broadway Comeback in Dramatic Comedy
A couple of decades ago actor Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) was on top of the showbiz food chain. However, the former box office star’s stock has been declining after playing…
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1: An Uneventful Movie Is a Setup for the Finale of the Series
In recent years movie studios have split their adaptations of finales from young adult book series — most notably, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Twilight: Breaking Dawn…
Interstellar: Astronauts Seek Alternate for Earth in Post-Apocalyptic Adventure
Christopher Nolan is one of my favorite directors, and four of his pictures have made my annual Top Ten List; including Memento, The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, and Insomnia. However,…
Whiplash: Prodigy and Professor Square-Off in Mesmerizing Drama
Nineteen-year-old Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller) got more than he bargained for when he entered mythical Shaffer Conservatory. The prodigy had expected that the best music school in the country would…
Nightcrawler: Gyllenhaal Great as Freelancer in Search of Grisly News Videos
Petty thief Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) was eking out a living selling stolen scrap metal to junkyards until the day he stumbled upon a legitimate line of work when he…
Dear White People: Social Satire Looks at Race Relations in the Ivy League
The academics are tough enough at Winchester University, a mythical Ivy League institution. It’s too bad that black students there also have to worry about making themselves comfortable socially. That’s…
The Best of Me: High School Sweethearts Reunite in Adaptation of Best Seller
The true test of a good tearjerker movie is whether or not it moves you to tears. And this movie managed to make me cry in spite of myself. As…
The Judge: Downey and Duvall Make Amends in Courtroom Drama
Hank Palmer (Robert Downey, Jr.) is a successful criminal defense attorney with a good reason to hide his humble roots. It seems he was a rebellious child who frequently landed…
