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Night at the Museum: The Secret of the Tomb - Review

Night at the Museum: The Secret of the Tomb – Review

Night at the Museum can be everything an audience wants from a family film for the whole brood. Secret of the Tomb delivers adequately in the way a third film should, with heart, care and laughter.

Larry the night guard is still living the dream caring for the exhibits, and familiar characters, that come alive at night at the Museum of Natural History, thanks to the Tablet of Ahkmenrah. But magic…

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Evil Dead (2013)

There was a ton of speculation among the fan waves around this flick.The director Fede Alvarez had close to no prior directorial portfolio besides a few short films but that didn’t stop him from making one of the best horror films I’ve seen in decades. Grab the popcorn and turn out the lights, I hope you’re squeamish.

Evil Dead opens with a series of questions like: “Who is this girl running in…

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Focus (2015) - Review

Focus (2015) – Review

If you think too much about the film Focus, the film begins to unravel as the glaring pitfalls and weaknesses pile up well after the film concludes.

Jess (Margot Robbie) is an ingénue thief, boosting wallets and watches in New York City. When her latest mark Nicky (Will Smith) turns out to be a veteran con man, she rebounds quickly and pleads to be his apprentice. Nicky declines and is on his way…

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Killer Mermaid (Nymph) - Review

Killer Mermaid (Nymph) – Review

Netflix has really upped its game in terms of supplying an ample variety of B-movies on its repertoire. So it should be no surprise that a Serbian film called Mamula…I mean Nymph…I mean Killer Mermaid would make itself available.

As a B-movie, Killer Mermaid had a lot of potential going for itself: a cheeky poster highlighting the audience’s interest for B-movies by showcasing a killer mermaid,…

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Think Like A Man Too - Review

Think Like A Man Too – Review

Fans of the original will have fun with the sequel Think Like A Man Too – and Archon Cinema Reviews is guilty as charged.

In Think Like A Man audiences got to see the dynamics of men and women in a relationship power struggle, utilizing the ideas and themes in Steve Harvey‘s best selling novel. In Think Like A Man Too we do not get to see the next step to this power struggle, though it touches…

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Wild Card - Review

Wild Card – Review

Based on a novel by William Goldman, already made into a movie in 1986 called Heat, Wild Card is just your basic tale set in Sin City.

Wild Card is a movie of deception, and not in its plot, but how its distribution company attempts to hoodwink the audience into watching this film. How might you ask? How doesn’t it hope to mislead and dupe the unsuspecting viewer is a better question. Firstly,…

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Serena - Review

Serena – Review

Serena is a bunch of melodramatic nonsense masked as a worthy Hollywood feature film – when in reality it is just a bigger budgeted soap opera set in a historical time period.

George Pemberton (Bradley Cooper) is trying to build a timber empire in North Carolina in 1929. While in the Northeast he meets a captivating woman named Serena (Jennifer Lawrence) and marries her. Together, the newly…

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The Woman in Black 2 - Review

The Woman in Black 2 – Review

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death is pretty much everything that is wrong with horror sequels.

Quite frankly, The Woman in Blackwas not that scary as a horror film – but then again, it wasn’t really trying to be a horror film. The original Woman in Black was a suspenseful eerie old-school haunting that relied upon mood and production and low expectations. The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death…

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The Boy Next Door - Review

The Boy Next Door – Review

There are some films that never see the light of day, unfortunately The Boy Next Door was not one of those films, but boy, it should have been!

Jennifer Lopez plays a mother and wife named Claire whose husband has a tenacity for secretaries. With her marriage on the rocks, her best friend and co-worker Vicky (Kristin Chenoweth) implores her to explore the single life. Vicky didn’t mean sleeping…

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Beyond the Lights - Review

Beyond the Lights – Review

Gina Prince-Bythewood writes and directs Beyond the Lights – her most recent film project that weaves love and ambition.

Noni (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is on the path for super-stardom – featured on several tracks with top rapper Kid Culprit. She’s playing the game, being notorious and selling an image and even has the token Mom-ager (Minnie Driver), but creatively feels like she is drowning. Unable to…

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Interstellar - Review

Interstellar – Review

Set in the not-so-distant future, Interstellar tells of an Earth with increasingly scarce and depleted resources and humanity on the brink of potential extinction.

The human race faces certain death as the land and planet they have called home is racked with drought, famine and an unstable climate. What follows is the common tale of survival as scientists and astronauts must look across the…

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Virunga - Review

Virunga – Review

The Oscar nominated documentary Virunga explores the conflict for natural resources in the Central African country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the unintended but deadly consequences for the UNESCO-designated Virunga National Park, a World Heritage Site, caught in the middle of the skirmish.

The documentary, directed and written by Orlando von Einsiedel, says Virunga is about the…

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Taken 3 - Review

Taken 3 – Review

Taken 3 is your average sequel of badassery.  With the powerful and attention grabbing success of Taken, it was no wonder that a sequel would be made. Taken 3 follows the formula of succession and checks all the little boxes of sufficiency but misses ‘wow’.

Let’s get one thing straight: the Taken films are not revolutionary nor Academy Award level cinema – they are action films that are purely…

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Fifty Shades of Grey - Review

Fifty Shades of Grey – Review

You might be surprised by this fact, but this twenty-something female never read the 50 Shades series by E.L. James. As a member of the novel’s target demographic fan base, you know the group that allegedly goes gaga for this crap, let me break it down for you folks out there.

Even if you avoided hearing about Fifty Shades of Greywith a fervent effort, you probably were susceptible to some…

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Review

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Review

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is the sequel to the 2011 remake of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a continuation of the 2001 Planet of the Apes.

It is ten years after a deadly pandemic swept the United States. Scattered in settlements are the survivors, barely holding on, one such settlement is in San Francisco where fuel levels are at a critical level. A group goes out to search for an…

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Finding Vivian Maier - Review

Finding Vivian Maier – Review

Finding Vivan Maier is a documentary about the reclusive and mysterious woman who devoted her life to taking photography, and yet, never let any of it be seen.

Written and directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, Finding Vivan Maier tells of John Maloof’s journey to discover this odd woman’s life and to ensure her legacy is remembered.  The documentary is sure to be a hit amongst avid…

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Tangerines (Mandariinid)- Review

An Estonian elder named Ivo has stayed behind in the Apkhazeti region of Georgia despite the advancement of the war around him. Most Estonians have left the region for their homeland, but Ivo remains and is helping his friend Margus who is staying to harvest a large crop of tangerines.

With the battle between Georgians against the Abkhazian side closing in around them, their homes become caught…

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