The A.V. Club
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Ellen Page is directing movies now. Fill in this space with your own witty banter: ___________.
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The adaptation takes its premise painfully literally, resulting in a series of unlikely developments guaranteed to get hardcore zombie-movie fans frothing with rage—if they don’t doze off first.
You know what, between Warm Bodies and Bullet To The Head, maybe just don’t go to the theater this weekend.
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Tough guys with a code. Punishing bare-knuckled brawls. Broken glass. Some bluesy licks from Ry Cooder. These are the elements of a Walter Hill action movie.
We will say this about the Bullet To The Head, Walter Hill’s new Sylvester Stallone vehicle: It sticks to a formula.
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Scott Tobias writes about why we’d rather have fiascos than failures and why we so often resort to the “gentleman’s F.” Turns out it’s not just to annoy our readers.
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Today’s real Dispatches From Direct To DVD Purgatory headline: The surreally incompetent Not Another Not Another Movie is beneath contempt. We swear Nathan Rabin is really a sweetheart.
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Disney announces new Special Edition of the future where there are no more 3-D Star Wars prequels
In their place, Disney has digitally restored a feeling of cautious optimism.
Is it a trick? I feel like it has to be a trick.
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Hollywood’s trash, our treasure: 17 salvageable flops from the late-winter dumping ground
I feel like the first half of this could be an alternate slogan for The A.V. Club.
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In other words, 2015 means nothing to him.
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It isn’t a movie so much as a mechanical process.
Tasha Robinson was not that into Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.
