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The Expendables

The Expendables
4

Sylvester Stallone continues his 80′s movie revival with this all out, balls to the wall action flick. Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) leads the “Expendables”, a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), martial arts expert Yin Yang (Jet Li), heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar (Terry Crews), demolitionist Toll Road (Randy [...]

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REVIEW: Shank – PS3

REVIEW: Shank – PS3
4

Shank is a 2d side scrolling beat-em-up which looks very like if you took Streets of Rage and any Rodriguez or Tarantino film and it had a baby. You play as Shank, a man on a mission of revenge against the Butcher. Who in the first scene kidnaps your girlfriend with the intent on doing [...]

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Date Night

Date Night
1.5

Steve Carell and Tina Fey try to bring their successful TV comedy chops to this pretty unfunny film. Phil and Claire Foster (Steve Carell & Tina Fey) have been married for several years.  Their days consists of  taking care of their children, going to work, coming home and then going to bed.  They sometimes find [...]

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Repo Men

Repo Men
3

Finally there’s a Jude Law movie actually worth watching as he stretches his action chops in this future thriller which is almost a great film. In the future, a company called “The Union” has extended our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs.  The only downside is that if you fail to pay then they [...]

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Madden NFL 11 Review

Madden NFL 11 Review
3.5

Madden NFL 11′s tagline is: “Simpler, Quicker, Deeper”, and most of that is true compared to the previous Maddens. I’m going to start by disclosing that I’m not the biggest sports games fan out there, infact I’m not really into the whole sports thing, but I think I’d give Madden NFL 11 a go as [...]

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I Love You Phillip Morris

I Love You Phillip Morris
4

Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor make a great couple in this funny true story which hits the heart as well as the funny bone. Steven Russell (Jim Carrey) is happily married to Debbie (Leslie Mann) and a member of the local police force until a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life.  Steve [...]

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Grown Ups

Grown Ups
2

Adam Sandler is back but this time he’s brought his mates for a movie that looks like it was more fun making it than actually watching it. After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former team-mates, Lenny (Adam Sandler), Eric (Kevin James), Kurt (Chris Rock), Marcus (David Spade) and Rob [...]

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REVIEW: Kane and Lynch: Dog Days(Xbox360)

REVIEW: Kane and Lynch: Dog Days(Xbox360)
2.5

Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days’s release will likely be met by confusion by a few people. “Didn’t that come out in January?” they’ll ask. No, that was Army of Two: 40th Day, another co-op shooter sequel set in Shanghai. Another similarity between the games is that their predecessors were released at a time when [...]

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From Paris with Love

From Paris with Love
2.5

John Travolta hams it up in this Luc Besson produced action flick that doesn’t bring anything new or interesting to the genre. James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is a personal aide to U.S. Ambassador in France but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA.  He wants to become [...]

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Salt

Salt
4

Angelina Jolie is back with a vengeance in this full on action flick directed by veteran movie director Phillip Noyce. Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a CIA agent and is highly respected especially by her boss, Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber).  Out of the blue, a Russian spy, Vassilly Orlov (Daniel Olbrychski) walks into their offices [...]

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