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Mad Chance, Starboard Entertainment,

Nat Wolff, Selena Gomez, Mary-Louise Parker, Elisabeth Shue, Dylan McDermott, Lachlan Buchanan, Heather Graham, Ashley Rickards, Jason Lee, Austin Stowell

Rick Stevens (Nat Wolfe) has had a huge crush on the perfect girl, Nina Pennington (Selena Gomez), for as long as he can remember and now that she’s breaking up with the school jock and bully Kevin (Austin Stowell), now seems to be the time for him to make his move on her. But aside from Kevin wanting to kill him, everything else seems to go wrong in hilarious ways as the horny neighbor Pam Bender (Elisabeth Shue) has her eyes on him and even the Lithuanian mob is after him as he tries everything in his power to impress Nina in all the wrong ways.

Nick’s only 18, but he’s in every kind of trouble you can imagine. This makes for a pretty raucous comedy with a goodly number of laughs. Selena Gomez, who is longing for a bad girl role, got cast again and the churchgoing religious girl who can’t believe all the crap Nick’s into and as such she plays that pretty well. Nick’s friends and employer and even his enemies make for good fun, and Nick’s parents are just as nuts as the rest of them. All in all, this brings us a pretty good sized cast with each one adding to the merriment. Certainly not a record breaking piece of cinema, but good teen-age angst, getting into trouble at every turn type of humor that is probably more fun for older teens than for adults who are long past those years. This is worth the time if you’re interested in a naughty teen comedy with lots of toilet humor and not much redeeming value. Not a great film, but decent enough for a few laughs.

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Green Moon, Nu Boyana Viburno,

Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Dylan McDermott, Robert Forster

Jacq Vaucan (Antonio Banderas) is a futuristic insurance adjuster who works for the robot company checking out claims of bad behavior of his company’s robots. But as he notices some strange happenings, he realizes something really big is happening, and when he’s captured, the authorities think he’s gone rogue, but he’s really trying to get to the bottom of a problem that could jeopardize all of mankind.

This is a really had movie for me to review. On some counts, the story can turn a little boring and slow, and Antonio Banderas is perhaps not the most animated action star, but on the other hand, he does a pretty decent job of playing this guy’s role. He’s the reluctant hero in the story. There are many parts that are very interesting, and the suspense builds appropriately, and the ending is probably not what you’d expect. Just as soon as you figure out who the bad guy is, your choice is taken away. As he solves the mystery bit by bit, we get impatient along with him wanting to figure it out too. All in all it’s a little cerebral, and a bit of a thinking movie. Nowhere near the great Sci-Fi thrillers with enormous budgets, but yet a decent little thriller. I found, in the end, that I did enjoy the story, and even though as I went through it, I thought I wasn’t liking it, by the end I came to realize that I really did enjoy it. If you’re a fan of science fiction and like the futuristic world domination genre of sci-fi, then you can do a lot worse than this movie. I think sci-fi fans are goingt to really like it. I did.

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Movie Rentals Releasing Tuesday February 3, 2015

• The Best of Me [Click Here for Ed’s Review]
• Dear White People
• Dracula Untold
• Exists
• Hector and the Search for Happiness
• John Wick
• Ouija
• The Overnighters
• The Retrieval
• Starred Up
• Video Games: The Movie

Columbia Pictures, QED International, LStar Capital,

Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, Scott Eastwood, Jim Parrack

Don (Wardaddy) Collier (Brad Pitt) is commander of a tough bunch of soldiers and a tank. A rookie has been assigned to their platoon and he has no experience at all, but when they’re called into a mission far behind enemy lines in Germany in 1945, the set out to do their job. Badly outnumbered, their tank disabled, they were sent to defend a crossroads and not to let the German’s pass. Little did they know that an army of hundreds of German SS soldires and trucks are on their way to the corner. The have to decide whether to run for cover, or hunker down and fight to the death. We can figure out what they’re going to choose! This is a exciting and action filled WWII film with lots of drama and suspense.

This is the kind of roll Brad Pitt excels in. He’s really good at it. Now I must admit that war movies are not my favorite genre by any means. I don’t have a lot of personal experience that helps me relate to this kind of movie, but for a war film, this is an excellent one. Granted the odds are stacked too far against them and they pull heroic stuff out of thin air sometimes. But it is a very well written screen play, and the action seems very real and authentic. There’s some real blown up people special effects that almost turns your stomach, but at the same time, the realism is really authentic. I haven’t seen a good WWII film in a long, long time, and though I didn’t expect a lot out of this in these days of wishy-washy anti-war sentiment, it’s nice to see a good old American heroes film like this once in a while to remember times when we were really proud of the bravery of our soldiers in fighting evil and squashing it where it starts. In these days of “Let’s just talk to the terrorists and be nice to them, and then they’ll like us” diplomacy, and with an administration going all over the world apologizing for us everywhere, this was a good reminder of how it used to be when we stood tall and saluted our flag. Very good action, excellent story, great performances, wonderful effects. There’s just not anything wrong with the way they did this film. I recommend this one!

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