The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) Full Streaming

This sequel is a triumph of production design: Philip Messina's settings are so detailed that they convey how the movie's dystopic U.S. functions beyond the story at hand, and Trish Summerville's costume design shows a similar degree of invention.. Though the romantic triangle provides the story's heart, it's the film's take on media as social control (Stanley Tucci returns as the unctuous TV host), sharp sense of action, and smart peformances that give Catching Fire its soul.. Katniss Everdeen'...

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Godzilla (2014) Watch Streaming

It's a smooth, sleek, technologically awe-inspiring 3-D blockbuster with a top-shelf cast (speaking middle-to-lower-shelf dialogue most of the time, to be sure, but they do it with style).. This Godzilla is ready for his close-up, and he looks pretty great in Imax 3-D.. The reboot perfectly illustrates the problem that has long haunted mediocre monster movies. When the big, scaly guys are on screen, it's a fun thrill ride. But when the humans are at the center of the action, things get scary - a...

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Need for Speed (2014) Full Streaming

Though later sequences lean a little too heavily on contemporary car flick cliches ... they are all nonetheless informed by a gee-whiz appreciation for gleaming cars and stunt driving ingenuity.. This movie is a complete bore.. With dozens of crashes, injuries and possible deaths caused by the street racers in Need for Speed, what stands out most is the story's callous disregard for human life.. What to say about a racing movie that's stuck in idle as drama? For starters, don't race to see it......

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End of Watch (2012) Play Streaming

Gyllenhaal and Pena are after a lived-in camaraderie and a street-level realism. Pena, especially, succeeds; you buy him every second.. Ayer and his cast appear to have so convincingly nailed the way these characters talk and act that you might not even notice the film slipping from workaday grit into out-and-out myth.. Both actors are marvelous -- this may be the most nuanced and far-ranging performance Gyllenhaal has ever given -- and writer-director David Ayer is unapologetically frank about ...

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Derailed (2005) Download Full

. "Transcendence" is a moronic stew of competing impulses - bad science meets bad sociology meets bad theology .... An ambitious and provocative piece of work that is intriguingly balanced between being a warning and a celebration.. Remember when paycheck-hungry actors were accused of phoning in a performance? Johnny Depp spins that for millennials in Transcendence by Skpying in his performance.. . Someone had to work extra hard to make a movie this bad with two likeable leads like Mr. Owen and ...

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Maggie (2015) Watch Full Movie

Edwards' expertise in the visual effects field manifests itself in the seamlessness of the computer-generated imagery, if not in its extraordinariness.. This Godzilla is ready for his close-up, and he looks pretty great in Imax 3-D.. The first truly joyous popcorn action movie of the season.. It's a smooth, sleek, technologically awe-inspiring 3-D blockbuster with a top-shelf cast (speaking middle-to-lower-shelf dialogue most of the time, to be sure, but they do it with style).. Will you have fu...

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White House Down (2013) Full Streaming

Emmerich isn't strenuous about setting a consistent tone. Action movie blow-ups are interlaced with dumb jokes and slapstick. He's an anything-for-effect guy, but some of his effects are none too effective.. However crass and mean-spirited this 2013 fantasy gets, the handling of fairytale conventions is sincere, which gives the film an emotional weight.. Demented, twisted and at times gonzo humorous, "Horns" is shamelessly amusing.. "White House Down" is solidly within its genre. In a deeper sen...

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