Here, it’s Lucy (Emily Browning, Sucker Punch), a college student so strapped for cash that she holds four jobs: working at a café, doing Xerox duties in an office, participating in a medical study that requires a balloon and tube to be fed down her throat, and blowing guys at a bar. A fifth gig […]
Sucker Punch
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The Hangover Part II
Bottom line: While this sequel doesn’t offer the surprise factor of its big brother of two summers ago, I still laughed. A lot. The “wolf pack” reassembles — somewhat reluctantly — for the wedding of mild-mannered dentist Stu (Ed Helms, TV’s “The Office“) to a lovely Asian woman (Jamie Chung, “Sucker Punch“), whose father hates […]
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The Hangover Part II
Bottom line: While this sequel doesn’t offer the surprise factor of its big brother of two summers ago, I still laughed. A lot. The “wolf pack” reassembles — somewhat reluctantly — for the wedding of mild-mannered dentist Stu (Ed Helms, TV’s “The Office“) to a lovely Asian woman (Jamie Chung, “Sucker Punch“), whose father hates […]
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Limitless
Then a chance meeting on the street with a former in-law introduces him to a wild, new experimental drug called NZT-48 that unlocks all of the brain’s synapses to make you super-smart and super-productive before the effects wear off. Suddenly, he’s not only on a creative spree, but making a fortune playing the stock markets, […]
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Sucker Punch
One of the worst-reviewed films of the year thus far, it likely will see its reputation repaired and popularity improved as time goes by. Once upon a time, everybody loathed “Blade Runner,” too. That’s not to say writer/director Zack Synder’s follow-up to “Watchmen” is any kind of masterpiece. Easily the least satisfying of his four […]
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Burning Palms
That’s a close-enough summation of “Burning Palms”; even then, the sleeper surprise offers many scoops of the unexpected. From the wonderfully devious mind of writer/director Christopher B. Landon (screenwriter of “Paranormal Activity 2” and “Disturbia,” and son of the late Michael Landon, who likely would be appalled) comes this anthology of five tales set in […]