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The element of surprise worked in the favor of 2010’s Kick-Ass. While the Rainn Wilson movie Super, which came out about the same time, took on a similar theme of everyday people trying to become superheroes — Kick-Ass benefite...
When we last saw super villain Gru (Steve Carell), he had just given up his evil ways to pursue a life of tranquility as father to three orphan girls. That’s essentially where 2010’s Despicable Me ended and the new sequel, Desp...
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, director Alex Gibney’s (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) documentary about WikiLeaks, begins with a few riffs from one of Julian Assange’s favorite songs — Midnight Oil’s “Blossom ...
This fancy driving franchise has reached the point where it’s virtually impossible to up the ante. The previous flick, 2011’s Fast Five, featured a scene in which the guys dragged a vault through town behind their souped-up rid...
We read Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables in French class, saw the musical stage adaptation three times and know most of the words to the non-stop sung dialogue, so we’re no strangers to the story of ex-convict Jean Valjean. Impriso...
Getting old is a bitch. At least that’s the point of This is 40, writer-director Judd Apatow’s sort-of sequel to 2007’s Knocked Up. The film centers on Debbie (Leslie Mann) and Pete (Paul Rudd), a couple (still) struggling with...
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