 Rating: 2 out of 5 starsGenre: Drama
Run Time: 1 hour, 50 minutes (Rated R) Starring: Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Alex Pettyfer, Cody Horn, Joe Manganiello, Olivia Munn, Kevin Nash Directed by Steven Soderbergh (Haywire, Contagion, Ocean’s Eleven, Traffic, Erin Brockovich) Opens locally Friday, June 29th, 2012 From the opening scene of Magic Mike – when a naked and chiseled Channing Tatum stumbles out of bed and over two women, his bare ass in plain sight – there is no mistaking the target audience of director Steven Soderbergh. This is a film about masculine men intended to motivate flocks of women to fill up their local theaters in an excited frenzy. I guess there are much more harmful ways to spend a girls’ night out.
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 Rating: 5 out of 5 starsGenre: Comedy
Run Time: 1 hour 46 minutes, Rated R Starring: Seth McFarlane (voice of Ted), Patrick Stewart (narrator), Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Joel McHale, Giovanni Ribisi, Sam J. Jones, Jessica Barth Directed by Seth McFarlane (feature-film debut, creator of TV’s Family Guy) We learn in Ted that there is nothing more powerful than a young boy’s wish…except for an Apache helicopter, I mean, those things are pretty damn powerful. Ted is a fully original and adult take on a premise as old as time. Young John Bennett (Bretton Manley, or Mark Wahlberg as a grown-up) makes a wish one night that his teddy bear, Ted, could become alive and be his best friend forever. Be careful what you wish for.  Rating: 2 out of 5 starsMuch hype and anticipation has preceded Brave, the newest animated film from Pixar featuring their first female lead. The film is aptly named in that it is a drastic departure in tone and spirit from many of other lighter, comedic films in the Pixar canon. This film is dark and daring. The studio also supposedly re-wrote its entire animation formula to give Brave an impressive look and feel of an unmatched quality compared to its predecessors.
 Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Run Time: 1 hour 41 minutes, Rated R Starring: Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Adam Brody, Tonita Castro, Connie Britton, Rob Corddry Written & Directed by Lorene Scafaria (feature film debut) In the opening scenes of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Dodge (Carell) and his wife are tuned into a radio station seated in their car. The announcer on the radio tells them that the space shuttle Deliverance has just blown up. Deliverance was mankind's last hope at destroying a gigantic asteroid that will destroy Earth and mark the end of humanity. But stay tuned to this station for your favorite classic rock hits. And with that, the end begins, and there has never been a more accurate end-of-the-world survival story than this.  2012 Warner Bros Pictures. Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Run Time: 2 hours 3 minutes, Rated PG-13 Starring: Juliann Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bryan Cranston, Mary J. Blige, Malin Akerman Directed by Adam Shankman (Bedtime Stories, Hairspray (2007), The Wedding Planner) A wise man once said that every rose has its thorn, and Rock of Ages definitely has its fair share is sticking points. This big-screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical delivers as an homage to all things rock and roll circa the 1980s, suited perfectly for anybody who remembers the era of big hair and bigger rock personalities.  Rating: 5 out of 5 starsGenre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Run Time: 1 hour 34 minutes, Rated PG-13 Starring: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, Harvey Keitel, Bob Balaban, Frances McDormand Directed by Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox) Moonrise Kingdom is a fantastic film full of laughs and full of heart. Directed by Wes Anderson, it is also unmistakably a Wes Anderson film. Anderson has got to be one of the most distinct filmmakers of our time, with an odd visual style all his own. There are very few filmmakers today - Quentin Tarantino is another that comes to mind - where you could catch only a few seconds of any one of his films and know who made it.  Rating: 5 out of 5 starsGenre: Comedy, Drama
Run Time: 1 hour 27 minutes, Rated R Starring: Greta Gerwig, Joel Kinnaman, Zoe Lister Jones, Hamish Linklater, Bill Pullman, Debra Winger Written by Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister Jones Directed by Daryl Wein (Breaking Upwards) Greta Gerwig is a special kind of actress. The new indy-film queen really burst into our collective radar opposite Ben Stiller in 2010's Greenberg, and since then she has made it a habit to play quirky every-woman to near perfection.  Rating: 5 out of 5 starsGenre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Run Time: 1 hour 25 minutes, Rated PG Starring (voices of): Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Frances McDormand, Andy Richter, Jessica Chastain, Bryan Cranston, Martin Short Written by Eric Darnell and Noah Baumbach Directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon The third time is definitely the charm when it comes to the animated Madagascar franchise. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted is original, hilarious, meaningful and clearly one of the best animated films so far in 2012.  Rating: 3 out of 5 starsGenre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Run Time: 2 hours and 4 minutes, Rated R Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green Written by Jon Spaihts (The Darkest Hour) and Damon Lindelof (TV’s Lost) Directed by Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, American Gangster, Robin Hood) Despite some efforts by the filmmakers to distance themselves from the comparison, make no mistake: Prometheus is firmly a prequel to Ridley Scott’s classic 1979 film, Alien (which went on to spurn three sequels by different directors). In some interviews leading up to the release of Prometheus, Scott has said that his new film shares “strands of Alien’s DNA, so to speak,” and after you watch Prometheus you will learn that this is a very clever if cryptic description.  Rating: 3 out of 5 starsGenre: Comedy, Drama
Run Time: 1 hour and 36 minutes, Rated R Starring: Catherine Keener, Jane Fonda, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chace Crawford, Elizabeth Olsen, Nat Wolff Directed by Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Her Alibi, Double Jeopardy, Mao’s Last Dancer) In the opening scene of Peace, Love & Misunderstanding, Sara (Catherine Keener) is unexpectedly told out of the blue that her husband wants a divorce. In a bit of shock, she grabs her two teenage kids, Zoe (Elizabeth Olsen) and Jake (Nat Wolff), and the three head off to stay with Sara’s hippy mother Grace (Jane Fonda). |
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