The Babadook (2014) Download Full

This is a really scary movie.. One of those incongruous Franken-films that's simultaneously bombastically brutal and treacly.. The Babadook makes everyday domestic life seem like the most natural possible place to encounter monsters of every description, including the monsters that we ourselves have the capacity to become.. Sometimes you go to a movie and know from the first image that whoever made it knows what she's doing. You don't need convincing. You're there with her. Jennifer Kent's The B...

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Full Movie Streaming

Wolverine's backstory was good stuff -- but after the falling out with Schreiber, the story loses its center and it gets wobbly.. Jackman's committed performance keeps the movie on track, though Huston and Schreiber are strictly on autopilot.. . What a wasteful shame.. Alas, there's nothing quite memorable here: much of the combat is just a whirl of movement photographed up close. As the X-Men series has progressed, the startling poetic extravagances of the first film have given way to flesh-pou...

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Dawn of the Dead (2004) Download Full

The remake, from first-time director Snyder, keeps much of the gore and loads up on the laughs, but eschews all pretence at cultural criticism in favour of high-octane, almost nonstop action.. The joke isn't fresh, but it holds up well in this crackling remake of George Romero's 1978 sequel to Night of the Living Dead.. ... bloody good fun.. [Sarah Polly] pretty much owns the picture, beginning with a slam-dunk prologue that establishes right off that this isn't your dad's Dawn, despite a plot t...

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Flight (2012) Download Full

This is a movie that might have been a great drama at four hours with a more ambitious script and a director with a vision or something to say.. "Out of the Furnace" offers a bleak vision of America's rural economic woes before flattening out into a routine thriller about good men doing bad things.. The best thing that can be said about "Safe Haven" is there is a cute romance in there somewhere.. If the downbeat plot is depressingly familiar, it's partly salvaged by the quality of the performanc...

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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) Play Streaming

In a Hollywood landscape where so much action cinema in plagued with sameness, I can not in good conscience give anything with this level of inspired design an entirely negative review.. An epic about saving humanity that feels more manufactured than human.. A cautionary tale about the dangers of squandering resources that wastes its own talent.. It's like one of those bad "Star Trek" episodes, when Gene Roddenberry stopped everything on the bridge so he could lecture us about the Cold War.. Any...

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Insidious (2010) Watch Streaming

The half-dozen chapters vary in length and subject matter, but not in style or the efficiency of their message.. The movie misfires as often as it connects.. It was the '80s. You really had to be there. Preferably with low expectations.. Here's a better-than-average spook house movie, mostly because Insidious decides it can haunt an audience without spraying it with blood.. Aesthetically, Insidious operates at the level of a decent high school video project.. You never lose interest for a moment...

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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) Download Movie

Betrays the author's intent and makes wholesale changes in the well-known plot.. It's quite entertaining.. G.I. Joe is a loud but proficient slab of explode-o-rama summer blockbuster nonsense, perfectly entertaining if you like that sort of thing, extremely skippable if you don't.. It's just stupid and inept, which are not uncommon traits at the tail end of the summer movie season.. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is as polished and entertaining as war-mongering toy commercials get.. Old-form moviem...

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