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Skin Trade
East meets west and old action stars take on familiar roles in this indie action flick with Dolph...
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Toa Fraser on ‘The Dead Lands’, Uplifting New Zealand Cinema
Toa Fraser talks his Maori martial arts movie, 'The Dead Lands', and representing New Zealand cinema.
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The Dead Lands
The Dead Lands is a clichéd action film just packaged in a more interesting way, resulting in a...
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The Gunman
A downer of a movie that sleepwalks through action-thriller tropes and takes itself too seriously.
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Insurgent
Thrilling action sequences get buried by piles of painfully nonsensical plot machinations.
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Pierre Morel On ‘The Gunman’, Sean Penn, His Cerebral Brand of Action
'The Gunman' director Pierre Morel on Sean Penn's intensity, his cerebral approach to action, and the joy of...
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Run All Night
Liam Neeson spills blood yet again, and it's not half bad.
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Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
A true-story heist tale is entertaining, but lacking the gusto of the actual event.
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Kingsman: The Secret Service
Kingsman is a gloriously entertaining, sadistic 21st-century attitude adjustment for the sub-genre that Bond built.
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Peter Jackson's Middle Earth hexalogy ends with a mildly entertaining, mindless battle royale.
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
The third entry in the 'Hunger Games' series is the darkest yet, but sorely lacks purpose and feels...
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The Guest
If you’re familiar with Dan Stevens, it’s probably with his work on Downton Abbey as the kind-hearted English gentleman Matthew Crawley. Other...
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The Expendables 3
Sylvester Stallone and his band of aging muscle-buddies probably had a blast making The Expendables 3, the latest by-product...
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Guardians of the Galaxy
Most people–hell, most comic book readers–have little to no knowledge of the Guardians of the Galaxy, a team...
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Lucy
In a film like Lucy, Luc Besson’s new existential action flick starring Scarlett Johansson, the stakes are everything. High...