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Just watched Kingsman and it was a blast. Witty dialogue and phenomenal action. Just a whole lot of fun.
 
Exclusive: Over a Dozen Brutal Images from THE DEAD LANDS
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I had not yet heard of The Dead Lands when these exclusive images landed in my inbox but, after checking out the trailer, I?m very much onboard. James Cameron describes the film thusly, ?A powerful and primal coming of age story that?s an absolute adrenaline rush, The Dead Lands is far more than just a great action movie ? it?s great cinema.? I haven?t seen the entire movie by any means, but based on these stills and the very NSFW trailer, I have a feeling he?s onto something.

Check out The Dead Lands images and trailer below. The film was written by Glenn Standring and directed by Toa Fraser. It stars James Rolleston, Lawrence Makoare, Te Kohe Tuhaka, Xavier Horan, George Henare, Raukura Turei and Rena Owen. Magnet releases The Dead Lands in theaters and on VOD on April 17th.


Here?s the official synopsis:

Hongi (James Rolleston) ? a Maori chieftain?s teenage son ? must avenge his father?s murder in order to bring peace and honour to the souls of his loved ones after his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery. Vastly outnumbered by a band of villains, led by Wirepa (Te Kohe Tuhaka), Hongi?s only hope is to pass through the feared and forbidden Dead Lands and forge an uneasy alliance with the mysterious Warrior (Lawrence Makoare), a ruthless fighter who has ruled the area for years.
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Review: Triumphant And Visceral Cannes Winner And Doggy Revenge Film ‘White God’

But they’re small niggles in what is, overall, a triumphantly idiosyncratic film with smarts and visceral impact in equal measure. The “four legs good; two legs evil” dichotomy is blood-boilingly effective, to the point of making us turn species-traitor in our sympathies, and like all good revenge narratives, we have to suppress the urge to stand and cheer when the bad guys get their bloody, gory comeuppance. We want our support and appreciation of "White God," whose title of course riffs on the Sam Fuller dogs-and-racism movie "White Dog," duly noted, because it makes worryingly plausible this kind of anthropomorphic rebellion, and when “Rise of the Planet of the Dogs” becomes a real thing, we want our new canine overlords to know whose side we’re on. [A-/B+]
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Oh, man.
 
THE CONNECTION: Exclusive Images from the Crime Thriller Starring Jean Dujardin
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Today, we’re pleased to debut four exclusive images from The Connection. The film is based on a true story and stars Jean Dujardin as a magistrate trying to bring down the most notorious drug smuggling operation in history: The French Connection. This operation was turned into a minor film in the 1970s you may have heard of; The Connection is the European side of that story.

I’m fascinated by this film not only because of the plot, but by what it represents for Jean Dujardin’s career. He won the Oscar for Best Actor, but has stayed away from major roles in American pictures as opposed to his fellow French Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard, who has struck a balance between French features and American films. That’s not a criticism of Dujardin’s choices; simply an observation of how he’s gone in an unexpected direction.
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First Look: Johnny Depp Goes Gangster In As Whitey Bulger In 'Black Mass'

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Hoping that this one is a bit of a return for Depp.
 
Review: SKIN TRADE Trades On Ensemble Face-Kicking

Although Skin Trade boasts an impressive cast of welcome personalities (Ron Perlman as The Heavy, Peter Weller as The Chief, Michael Jai-White as Another Fighting Man worth watching), it's hamstrung in multiple ways...

The problem is, as this tired formula is un-ironically brought back to us in 2015, all its well-charted cliches and poor simplicity is made all the more apparent by being spread so thinly across so many heroic leads, Lundgren and Jaa, each off in their own non-intersecting stories for the longest time.
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Etc. Shame, as it has a lot of awesome people in it.
 
‘San Andreas’ Is About One Buff Man’s Unstoppable Love For His Busty Daughter In A Time Of Earthquakes
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Aside from that, it’s refreshingly simple. The Rock just has to save his ex-wife and daughter, he doesn’t have to solve Earthquakes. And a movie about huge thrills, huge muscles, and incredible breasts doesn’t have to pretend to be a cautionary tale of mankind’s hubris. There’s enough drama in watching Alexandra Daddario’s clothes slowly disappear. First, she’s wearing two tank tops, then one tank top, then the tank top is wet, then she’s underwater, frantically breast-stroking toward the camera. I see what you’re doing here, San Andreas, and I like it. The Ongoing Saga Of Alexandra Daddario’s Tank Top is as compelling as any of the stunts, and a smart screenwriter like Carlton Cuse clearly recognized that time was better spent inventing reasons for The Rock to lift stuff and for Alexandra Daddario’s clothes to come off than on coming up with redemptive character arcs.

San Andreas is too much and just enough in nearly ideal proportion. Short of one obnoxious British boy, it was just about perfect. (God, if only The Rock would’ve shoved a crumpet in his mouth and kicked him off a plane).

It’s not the highest praise to say that San Andreas reinvigorates the genre, when that genre is “dumb Roland Emmerich movies,” but it turns out, watching The Rock’s muscles get bigger while Alexandra Daddario’s outfits get smaller is a pretty good foil for CGI.

Grade: B
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SAN ANDREAS Review
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On the one hand, everything Ray does is understandable because he’s a father who will do anything to save his daughter, especially following the tragic circumstances that led to his split from Emma. But the film positions him as beyond selfish and myopic in his quest. He practically steals a rescue chopper, and later proceeds to swipe a car, a plane, and a boat. Along the way he helps almost no one other than telling a group of people to get next to a building to weather an aftershock. Ray Gaines does what we expect him to do as a father and nothing more.

But “more” is what we demand from Dwayne Johnson, a man who cannot be contained by only one moniker. He’s charisma is as big as his brawn, and when you cast him opposite an earthquake he needs to strike back with more than theft and some fancy driving/flying skills. Johnson is a special—and in some ways underappreciated—actor, and while San Andreas taps his dramatic chops (he has a moving monologue that Peyton kind of steps on by constantly cutting to Gugino’s reaction), that’s not what the movie needs. It needs a guy who’s big enough and strong enough to save tons of people including his daughter in the span of an afternoon. It needs a guy who treats California falling into the ocean like just another day at the office. San Andreas needs The Rock.

Rating: C+
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