Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Les Miserables (2013) Movie Review

Watch Les Miserables Online. Plot: ‘Les Miserables’ is a musical drama film directed by Academy Award winning director, Tom Hooper. The film is based on the classic novel written by Victor Hugo with the same name. Many huge stars of Hollywood are acting in it, such as Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Boren Cohen and many others. Watch Les Miserables online and see a story of hope, broken dreams, passion, unrequited love, sacrifice and redemption, which is set in the 19th century France. ‘Les Miserables’ tests the human spirit to its core and shows how much a human can go through and still be hopeful for a better future. Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) is an ex-prisoner who was previously imprisoned for stealing bread is on a hunt again by a cruel and ruthless police officer Javert (Russell Crowe). Javert is in search for Jean for decades after he had broken his parole. The life of Jean takes a change when he agrees to take care of Cosette (Amanda Seyfried) daughter of a factor worker, Fantine (Anne Hathaway). Chase and run game between Javert and Jean for 2 decades consumes the men’s lives whereas Jean’s run takes him into the middle of 1832 June rebellion in Paris. Download Les Miserables and see the life of Jean Valjean who goes through a lot in his life and keeps on running for 2 decades from Javert after he breaks his parole.

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The be alive singing permitted the actors to achieve songs with unplanned gradation, quite than subsist obligatory to robust their faces to a separate vocal pathway. This immediacy gives the ballads the exhilaration of the stage, and the camera provides incredible Broadway never might, close-ups of the actors’ faces.

“I dreamed a Dream,” Fantine (Anne Hathaway’s) paean of loss, is delivered in its entirety, a capella, as a tense shot of Hathaway’s face. We perceive in every quiver of her mouth, and flash of her eyes, the despair, shame, and in the end, ferocity she feels that “life has killed the dream [she] dream[s].” Hathaway’s possess protect played the role lying on Broadway, and quit to dedicate herself to parenting.

Watch Les Miserables Movie Online. It’s correct that her daughter has a commanding emotional association to the role of protect who would do no matter which for her child. Yet, Hathaway gives complexity to a character that has before only been portrayed as a martyr. Hathaway’s Fantine has sarcasm when she leads a sailor to her bed, prissiness when she defends herself against additional factory workers, and sass when she rages against Jean Valjean for letting her subsist fired.

Likewise, Hugh Jackman, as Jean Valjean was indispensable to the film smooth life form completed. Hooper whispered, "Hugh has a kind of native grace and spirit as a human creature and a huge sort of ethical range and gentleness that is wholly suitable designed for this man departing resting on this spiritual journey.” Jackman’s performance carries the film further than its saccharine lyrics.
While nearly everyone of the cast has a musical the stage setting, a few voices are stronger than others. Jackman’s is unique. The film opens with, “Overture/Work Song” as Valjean and fellow shackled prisoners are required to labor similar to slaves. The film iconography is reminiscent of the Roman Empire, thus far Jackman’s quiet despair is additional reminiscent of Primo Levi’s Holocaust biography Survival in Auschwitz. Watch Les Miserables Online Free

The Italian version of Levi’s work is the supplementary apt, "What is a Man?" and Jackman’s wasted, tormented Valjean is the epitome of how a enormous deal a man can tolerate earlier than behind his humanity. We perceive him full to the edge and led back, in a performance persuasive an adequate sum of to deem in Valjean’s otherwise uncertain, and seemingly endless quest designed for salvation.
While a number of typeset and songs remain as camp and flat as the dramatic iterations — Sacha Baron Cohen (Thenardier) and Helena Bonham Carter (Madame Thenardier) are dated and derivative liability “Master of the House” — Samantha Barks as Eponine brings feminist great courage to a role that is regularly played only as a pathetic lovelorn schoolgirl. Russell Crowe’s Javert is also exposed to factually and symbolically saunter the line of moral certainty, manufacture his eventual epiphany added believable. Watch Les Miserables Movie Now

Parker (2013) Movie Review

Adapting material from one medium to another is never an easy proposition. Script to screen is perhaps the most dangerous transition of all as the phrase “the book was better” is so often a common sentiment. The waters are especially murky for an established character like Donald E. Westlake‘s Parker, the star of no less than 24 novels and a dozen or so mostly unofficial film appearances. Perhaps the most well-known is Mel Gibson’s Porter from the 1999 film Payback. Using a different novel as the source material, screenwriter John McLaughlin and director Taylor Hackford are bringing the Parker character back to the big screen this weekend in the aptly, if simply, titled Parker. Watch Parker Online | Watch Parker Online Free | Watch Parker Online Movie Stream Adapted from “Flashfire,” one of the more recent Parker novels, Parker sees our titular antihero (played by Jason Statham) teaming up with four other guys to rob the Ohio State Fair. Things go south after they make good their escape only to spring the news that they’re using the take as seed money on a bigger score. Parker, of course, just wants to walk away with his share like they agreed on. After a heated disagreement in a Surburban, the four send the weakest guy to shoot Parker. Thinking him dead, they move on to planning their big job in Palm Beach. Injured but not dead, Parker sets out to hunt the four men down and settle the score. Parker starts pretty strong following Statham as he arrives at the fairgrounds on the day of the robbery. The setup is told in flashback cutaways where we meet Claire (Emma Booth), Parker’s significant other, and her father, Hurley (Nick Nolte), Parker’s connection to the state fair job. We get a good sense of Parker’s character here, a man of his word who expects others to stick by theirs. The action is decent and the scene bodes well for the rest of the film. Unfortunately it’s mostly downhill from there. The film flounders a bit while Parker heals and looks for info on the whereabouts of his four former partners. It’s a collection of scenes that don’t add much and merely move the plot along blandly but not quickly enough. And then Jennifer Lopez shows up as the down-on-her-luck Leslie Rodgers. While she’s turned in good performances in the past, in particular in Out of Sight, she’s simply awful here. The Out of Sight comparison is likely to be on the minds of audience members who recall its similar locales and circumstances, but try as she might, Lopez just can’t make her character work this time. It would be unfair to lay all the blame at JLo’s feet though. A hefty portion should be shared by McLaughlin and Hackford. Neither seem quite sure what type of film they’re making. We are treated to scene upon scene beating us over the head with the mundane details of Leslie’s life and financial woes. At times, it feels like we’ve abandoned the Parker story entirely to instead tell the melodramatic story of Leslie’s fight to be an independent women after a nasty divorce. To those excited at the prospect of a new Parker film, filled with brutal violence and clever dialogue, these scenes are basically cinematic poison. One of the biggest problems is that aside from the first scene setups, we don’t get a good sense of Statham as the Parker character. He’s basically just playing Statham which is pretty much what he always does, and while it’s pretty close to Parker to begin with, it’s just not enough this time around. Certainly not the way Mel played it, over-the-top and maybe more than a little crazy. But even his motivations are muddled. Most of his actions could be chalked up to revenge, but it’s the money he’s owed that should be the driving force behind Parker’s actions. Hackford hollowly lets Statham do what he wants and makes no attempt to fully define the Parker character that we paid to see. The film stumbles its way towards its inevitable conclusion, but by this point it has exhausted all its good will. Which it does no less than 3 times before actually rolling credits. Thankfully the opening scene is halfway decent, because it may be the only thing keeping the film from being a total loss. Lopez is terrible and we spend far too much time with her character. She could be cut out completely and the film wouldn’t lose anything. It’s also far too long at just a hair under 2 hours. This story could easily fit in a nice, tidy 90 minute package. As it is, Parker starts strong but fizzles slowly and painfully until you’re begging for it to end. Watch Parker Online | Watch Parker Online Free | Watch Parker Online Movie Stream

Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters (2013) Movie Revie

Watch Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters Movie Online Free Streaming. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is a 2013 action-horror dark fantasy film with black comedy elements written and directed by Tommy Wirkola and filmed in 3D. It is a continuation to the German folk fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel", which was recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812. The film stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton in the titular roles of a brother-and-sister duo of professional witch hunters, with Famke Janssen as the deadly leader of a coven of evil witches that they seek out to destroy. Watch Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters Online Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Director: Tommy Wirkola Starring: Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen Release Date: Jan. 25, 2013 Synopsis: In this spin on the fairy tale, Hansel & Gretel are now bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. As the fabled Blood Moon approaches, the siblings encounter a new form of evil that might hold a secret to their past. Paramount's action-adventure yarn Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters ruled the roost in a sluggish session at the North American box office, largely distinguished by the ongoing slow march towards $100m by Silver Linings Playbook and Zero Dark Thirty. Jeremy Renner and the UK's Gemma Arterton play the leads in Hansel and Gretel, a dark fantasy adventure loosely based on the Grimm Brothers fairytale. I can only assume that Paramount, like every studio, is looking to launch a franchise here, so everything depends on how the movie fares in the next week or two. It has already notched up about $35m outside North America. Abandoned by their father deep in a forest, young Hansel and Gretel enter a gingerbread house and are nabbed by the old witch who resides in it. The witch forces Hansel to continuously eat candy while making Gretel prepare the oven, but the siblings outsmart her and shove her into the fire. Throughout the years after the incident, Hansel and Gretel become ruthless bounty hunters dedicated to exterminating witches. Their work is relatively easy because for an unknown reason, they are immune to spells and curses. Hansel, however, is diabetic as a result of his ordeal and needs to take a regular shot of a medicine every day. In Dead Snow, the film that put Wirkola on the radar of the bigger studios, the director brought a bit of verve to his violent action scenes and a hint of freshness to another recent Hollywood genre staple zombies! that shows little sign of dying out just yet. Hansel & Gretel lacks the spark, and the fun of his earlier effort, leaving audiences not so much with a moral of the story as with a question: It's aback to Chastain as "Zero Dark Thirty" is in third with a adumbration over $10 million. So far, Kathryn Bigelow's coursing for Bin Laden has banked $60 actor and counting. The loaded-with-stars ball "Movie 43" is the weekend's agrarian card. Apparently it appearance 12 altered storylines from 12 altered directors. It's addition of the non-screened films, and sounds like a alternation wreck. You've been warned. Also this weekend, Jason Statham teams up with Jennifer Lopez for "Parker", an activity blur that's duplicate from the 87 added flicks Statham's starred in. And how far as Jennifer Lopez collapsed in the blur world? She's almost featured in the film's ads. Watch Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters Online Free After accepting a aftertaste for claret as children, Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) accept become the ultimate vigilantes, hell angled on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel accept become the hunted, and have to face an angry far greater than witches Hansel & Gretel in 3D is an activity arranged beheld FX abounding adaptation of the admired Grimm Brothers' bogie tale. This acclaimed adventure is accepted about the apple from Japan to Germany to Australia. Cutting bend appropriate furnishings and ceaseless activity conductor this around-the-clock account into the millennium. The adventure takes abode adjoin the accomplishments of an bugged backwoods in Germany. The blur blends the gothic attitude of abracadabra with absurd creatures and alluring animal characters. Hansel & Gretel in 3D will acquaint the allegorical beings of Teutonic (Germanic) mythology. A accumulating of German history's a lot of belled and arresting characters will be apparent to avant-garde cine audiences for the aboriginal time. Watch Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters Online Free Watch Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters Online Free Watch Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters Online Free Watch Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters Online Free

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Mama (2013) Movie Review

Watch Mama Online Free. Mama is the lastest horror movie to carry the prestigious stamp of being “presented by Guillermo del Toro” – following in the tradition of such films as The Orphanage (2007) and Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010). Mama tells the story of Victoria (Megan Charpentier) and Lilly (Isabelle Nélisse), two little girls whose tragic family history leaves them stranded in the woods for five years’ time.

When their father’s twin brother, Lucas (Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), finally tracks the girls down, it seems like the reunion is a small miracle; although Lucas’ punk-rock girlfriend Annabel (Jessica Chastain) isn’t too thrilled with the sudden shift from starving artist to maternal figure. It doesn’t help things when Annabel begins to suspect that the girls may not have been fending for themselves out there in the woods. Something watched over them, and is still watching over them in their new home; an entity the girls only refer to (in secretive whispers) as “Mama.”

Typically with these “del Toro presents” films, the acclaimed filmmaker uses his clout to both support a creepy/frightening tale that caught his macabre attention, while also helping to showcase the work of a freshman feature-film director. Stepping up to bat this time is Andrés Muschietti, the writer/director who made the 2008 Mama short film that this feature-length version is based on. Muschietti proves himself to be a visual and conceptual talent, and his film is definitely boosted by the talent of Chastain (in her pre-Oscar nom days) and the two young actresses who serve as its stars. However, while the concepts, acting and construction of the film all show hints of great skill, the execution of the storyline is where Mama fails to capitalize on its own potential.

In terms of direction, Watch Mama Online Free is a pretty strong debut for Muschietti. The cinematography is dark but vibrant (full of earthen tones) and the sequences are all visualized and constructed in sharp, creative ways. Most of the film is confined to two locations (the woodland cabin where the girls are found and a house where Lucas, Annabel and the girls are living) but how Muschietti chooses to use these set pieces and the tight space therein is fairly smart and engaging most of the time. Instead of the usual ‘calm by day, scary by night’ progression, we instead get a lot of clever scare moments executed at all times of day (even broad daylight), using angles and framing to give even mundane moments (like doing laundry) a creepy edge.


At 100 minutes run time, Mama isn’t exactly epic in length – yet it still shows the sort of fatigue and confusion that can often appear when one tries to stretch a short film out to feature length (see also: Shane Acker’s 9). While short stories allow for the quick introduction and immediate payoff of great core concepts, longer formats of storytelling require a pacing and careful balancing of time and attention that Muschietti just can’t quite get right. What we do get is about 60 minutes’ worth of very good and effective ghost story, made to look less attractive by the 40 minutes of fat hanging off of its middle. It’s regrettable since there is so much that the film does well, but as it stands, Mama is just a fairly good time, and would not be a bad call as a future rental. Watch Mama Movie Online

Django Unchained (2013) Movie Review

Watch Django Unchained Online, Quentin Tarantino’s follow-up to the widely successful and critically acclaimed Nazi-killing business flick, Inglourious Basterds, once again sees the fan-favorite filmmaker take-on a controversial historical subject: this time American slavery.

Instead of tackling the sensitive topic as a reverent and grounded drama, the director (in typical Tarantino fashion) positioned his pre-abolition revenge flick as stylized genre fare – specifically a spaghetti western. Tarantino drew inspiration from Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci, especially his exceedingly violent 1966 film Django (about a man hunting his wife’s killer), in an effort to present the horrors of slavery with entertaining revenge fantasy irreverence. Does Tarantino successfully balance the intended historical insight with his usual stylistic influence and embellishment?

In spite of some exceptionally indulgent moments, Django Unchained is another sharp and enjoyable Tarantino effort. Fans of the filmmaker, as well as casual viewers who were drawn-in by Inglourious Basterds, will find plenty of the director’s trademark witty dialogue, quirky characters, as well as blood-splattering violence. Several thematic points are a little on-the-nose, even for a not-so-subtle writer like Tarantino, and a few unrestrained filmmaking choices distract from an otherwise immersive revenge tale. Still, while some moviegoers might be overwhelmed by the sheer amount of story material in the 165-minute tale, or roll their eyes at an especially intrusive onscreen appearance by the director himself, Django Unchained contains enough captivating performances, smart setpieces, and humorous/brutal social commentary to be an agreeable (and stylized) nod to the spaghetti western genre.

Loosely inspired by the tale of lost love and revenge in Corbucci’s Django film (actor Franco Nero even has an Unchained cameo), Tarantino’s latest movie follows recently freed slave, Django (Jamie Foxx), who joins with German bounty hunter, Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), in the business of killing bad people for money. Schultz recruits Django to help collect the bounty on the vicious (and especially hard-to-find) Brittle Brothers - promising to assist the former slave in a quest to rescue his wife Broomhilda Von Shaft (Kerry Washington) from one of the wealthiest and most dangerous plantation owners in the deep south, Francophile Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Like many Tarantino films, Watch Django Unchained Online Free wallows in the joy of vengeance (especially in a blood-soaked third act). The story plays to the director’s strengths, mixing savage and violent altercations with moments of light-hearted humor and sharp conversations between multilayered characters – framed with striking imagery. The early interactions between Schultz and Django, where the Doctor helps the former slave adjust to life as a free man, keep things light until the audience is fully immersed in the horrors of the time period – most notably Candie’s enjoyment of Mandingo-like slave-on-slave fighting.

On their own, these small hiccups don’t undercut the overall quality of Django Unchained; however, now that the director is tackling larger (and more contentious) subject matter, it may be time for him to show increased restraint when it comes to implementing trademark cameos and his music sensibilities (among other recurring Tarantino mainstays). This round, some long-standing Tarantino filmmaking staples actually lesson the impact of a few important story beats – putting the director in the spotlight, not the onscreen drama.

Watch Django Unchained Movie Online is an intriguing mix of mass-market appeal that Tarantino enjoyed with Inglourious Basterds and playful/unrestrained storytelling that, with Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction, first made him a fan-favorite filmmaker. As a result, there’s a disconnect in Tarantino’s latest offering that sometimes weakens the overall strength of the story. That said, any minor missteps aren’t enough to entirely distract from the unique Django Unchained experience – which successfully pays homage to its spaghetti western inspiration and disturbing source material with sharp performances, entertaining characters, as well as poignant violence.

A Haunted House (2013) Movie Review

There is smart stupid and then there is just plain stupid. Then there is A Haunted House, which blazes its way into a whole new category of stupid: Painfully, epically stupid. Other descriptive words and phrases that come to mind? Immature. Hard to sit through. Unfunny. Straight to video while you Watch A Haunted House Online.

OK, that last one was just wishful thinking. A Haunted House is definitely hitting theaters, oddly enough, in the movie wasteland known as January and not around Halloween where it more fittingly belongs. But 2013 is off to a pretty awful start with this horrific misfire.

I recently had the honor of meeting Marlon Wayans in person for an interview and I really feel he is an extremely talented, gracious man. He was naturally funny and also took the time to meet and greet a group of children who were getting a tour at the museum in which the interview took place.

I don't fault him for the kind of humor he is attempting. It's just that this time around, very little worked.

The premise, I guess, was half-inspired, meant as a compliment. A Haunted House is a riff on the "found footage" genre of horror film, made popular again most recently with films like Paranormal Activity. In a different, recent interview, Marlon Wayans observed that very few black people tend to be in these types of horror movies. So what would happen if a ghost or ghoul decided to haunt the house of a black couple? Could be funny, right?

This question is answered, when you Watch A Haunted House Online Free as are many others that weren't even asked. Marlon Wayans and Essence Atkins play a young couple just moving into a new (albeit haunted) home. The ghost farts in bed, has sex with them and wreaks havoc on their house. Marlon's first reaction? To move. Immediately. Like, pack the car and get gone. Had the movie only ended there. It's never explained why then, in the very next scene, the couple is back and living with their new supernatural nemesis. Or maybe it was explained, half-heartedly.

This is a film where the wife kicks the invisible being in his "ghost balls." Where Marlon feigns having sex with a stuffed animal. Where farts are funny, not once, but in several scenes throughout the film. Not exactly high-brow stuff.

They call in a priest (Cedric the Entertainer) to lift the demon spirit from their house. They bring in a home security expert (David Koechner) to equip the house with cameras. They call in a psychic (a closeted Nick Swardson) to communicate with the ghost. They even call in a gang of thugs, to kick the apparition off of their turf.

None of these talented comedians are able to rid the house of the spirit, or breathe any sort of life into this sophomoric script.

I happen to be a big fan of the parody genre, from the classics like Airplane and The Naked Gun (one of my all-time favorite films), to more recent successful parodies such as Not Another Teen Movie, Scary Movie or even the low-budget Parody Movie. But for every Hot Shots, there is a Mafia!. For every I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, there is an Epic Movie. And for every Loaded Weapon 1, there is A Haunted House.

Sometimes, a funny idea doesn't carry with it the proper weight to pull off a feature-length film and is maybe best left as a skit or a punchline on stage. A Haunted House is a film containing one joke that has even fewer laughs. Watch A Haunted House Movie Online

Gangster Squad (2013) Movie Review

Watch Gangster Squad Online. The trailers for Gangster Squad proudly tout stylized noir crime drama grounded in a ”based on a true story” plot setup – promising an unrelenting tale of L.A. cops and mobsters. However, anyone familiar with the source material, Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles from journalist Paul Lieberman, will likely remember a comparatively subdued chronicle of events (albeit with flashy and exciting language). As a result, there’s a significant contrast between the “real” story (even though Lieberman included his own elaborations) and the one depicted onscreen – as actual events and people have been exaggerated to fit Hollywood gangster movie tropes.

Still, an amplified tale of the Gangster Squad has the potential to be a great mobster drama – alongside similar offerings like The Untouchables, The Departed and LA Confidential. Does director Ruben Fleischer successfully balance that “true” story intrigue with impactful onscreen drama and entertaining characters for a great (albeit embellished) movie experience? Catch on Watch Gangster Squad Online Free

Fleischer is best known for the flashy and tongue-in-cheek dramedy Zombieland, so it’s not surprising that Gangster Squad is a hyper-stylized take on the gangster genre. The movie utilizes a mix of fictional and real-life characters, and marries slow-motion gun fights, exploding cars, and neck-snapping fisticuffs with a very grounded and serious moral tale about men of power and the horrors of heroism. Watch Gangster Squad Online Free The combination lands Gangster Squad in an awkward grey area: a number of charming performances and memorable one-liners make the film engaging, but plot holes and shortsighted character actions leave an underwhelming overall impression. Worst of all, the focus on style-over-substance impairs nearly all of the intended opportunities for genuine emotional connection or striking ideas about Gangster Squad morality – as if Fleischer put too much energy into nodding to noir genre staples without also offering any fresh or unique ideas.

Watch Gangster Squad Online. Lieberman’s Tales from the Gangster Squad first appeared in the LA Times back in 2008 as a seven-part series chronicling a band of eight covert law enforcement agents attempting to free Los Angeles from the clutches of organized crime during the 1940s and 1950s. Fleischer’s film tightens that activity window as Police Chief Bill Parker recruits former war veteran and no-nonsense cop Sergeant John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) for a last ditch, no-holds-barred effort to destroy a criminal network built by mobster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn). O’Mara, with the assistance of his wife Connie O’Mara (Mireille Enos), selects five other do-gooder cops to join his team – Captain Coleman Harris (Anthony Mackie), Sergeant Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), Detective Conway Keeler (Giovanni Ribisi), Detective Navidad Ramirez (Michael Peña), and Detective Max Kennard (Robert Patrick) - each man possessing a skill set and personal reason for joining the fight against Cohen.

Watch Gangster Squad Movie. The story provides a very straightforward series of developments and moves competently from point to point. Gunfights and criminal encounters dot from one iconic Los Angeles locale to the next, and the modern CGI visuals provide a striking retro look at the city. A beautiful set-piece in a Chinatown-like setting replaces the infamous “Theater Shooting” scene that was scrapped after the Aurora, CO theater tragedy – and, in spite of the delay, still successfully conveys the magnitude and recklessness of Cohen’s reign of terror.

Download Gangster Squad Movie. The film version of Cohen depicts a ruthless monster that only cares about expanding his influence and power by any means necessary, and Penn presents an enjoyable and believable interpretation of the mobster (who was no saint in real life, either). Some moviegoers may be distracted from time to time by Penn’s prosthetic make-up, but in this world of flashy neon sets and numerous fedora hat-tips, a stiff-faced villain is right at home. The performance won’t set a new standard for layered mobster characters, but Cohen is a cruel touchstone for the story at hand – one that helps highlight interesting shades of moral ambiguity in members of the Gangster Squad.

Broken City (2013) Movie Review


Broken City plunges us headlong into the zoo of modern New York City, where we find disgraced ex-cop Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) working as a paparazzi-style private eye, taking beatings and earning ire, while being stiffed on payment by deadbeat customers. Billy gets a chance to return to the big leagues when his old acquaintance, Mayor Hostetler (Russell Crowe), calls him in for a favor: follow Cathleen Hostetler (Catherine Zeta-Jones), the mayor’s wife, to find out who she is having an affair with. Watch Broken City Online Free

Billy thinks the gig is easy money, but when his investigation is implicated as part of a high-profile murder, Taggart gets wise to a chess game of power involving politics, corruption and urban plight, in which he is just a pawn.

With Broken City, director Allen Hughes (Book of Eli) and newcomer screenwriter Brian Tucker had pretty lofty ambitions – but unfortunately, those ambitions are thwarted by a film that falls flat on its face in terms of both directorial and narrative execution. It’s a shame, because there is more thought and intelligence woven into this crime drama tale – only that wisdom is somehow lost in translation to the screen.

Download Broken City Movie. While marketed as a standard hard-boiled crime thriller, the movie is in fact an attempt at more subtle and layered commentary on many areas of city life. The title of the film is the biggest clue into what Hughes and Tucker are going for: “Broken City” is a general reference to the hypocrisies and injustices of “the system” that governs every level of urban America – as well as serving as a reference to the “broken” people who exist within that system. It could’ve been a scathing and effective commentary on very real issues (much like Se7en used crime-thriller conventions in its sly commentary on the squalid state of urban America in the ’90s); but instead, what we get is a somewhat scatter-brained narrative, populated with characters who are so compromised or unsympathetic (in one way or another) that it’s hard to root for or relate to any of them.

Watch Broken City Online. Both Wahlberg and Crowe turn in good performances (Crowe especially hams it up with his pseudo-New Yorker accent and braggadocio) – but again, those performances are only bringing to life misconceived characters in a flawed narrative, so it’s hard to applaud them all that much. Billy should be our protagonist, but with his on-and-off again alcoholism, indiscriminate brutality, questionable morals (and implied homophobia), it’s hard to know how to take the character, all things considered. Somewhat less murky is Crowe’s status as the villain in the piece – but given the surrounding characters, even a clear-cut bad guy seems less bad (comparatively speaking) by the time the end credits roll.

Glee Season 4 Episode 11 Preview

Glee is on a long holiday break and is set to return on January 24th. In the meantime, here are a few spoilers for the next THREE episodes AND MORE to tide you over!

Sadie Hawkins – Episode 11 – Airs January 24 - The official FOX episode summary:

“McKinley’s Sadie Hawkins dance offers several gleeks a rare chance to feel empowered. Sam and Blaine investigate a possible cheating scandal at Sectionals. Kurt makes a new friend at NYADA.”
The girls of the glee club organize a Sadie Hawkins dance at McKinley High, in which the girls ask out their dates, leading to interesting couplings among the members of New Directions. Meanwhile, Sam is convinced that the Warblers cheated at Sectionals, and he makes it his mission to find the evidence. Also, Kurt attempts to find his niche at NYADA in the all-new “Sadie Hawkins” episode of GLEE airing Thursday, Jan. 24 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (GLE-411) (TV-14 D, L)
“When McKinley throws its first Sadie Hawkins dance, it offers some of the girls a rare chance to feel empowered, while the boys experience the opposite end of the spectrum. In an attempt to make new friends at NYADA, Kurt ignores Rachel’s advice and contemplates joining a club with a dubious reputation. As Rachel and Brody’s relationship continues to move forward, sexy sparks fly between Kurt and a charming upperclassman. Meanwhile Sam looks for proof the Warblers cheated at Sectionals; the love-triangle between Marley, Jake and Kitty heats up with unexpected results; and two gleeks confess their secret crushes.

I hear that Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) has a crush on Blaine (Darren Criss) and Blaine has a crush on…somebody. Tumblr has been abuzz for weeks regarding Kurt and the charming love interest named Adam. ETA: @KecksExclusives reports Kurt will ask Adam out on a date. Chris Colfer calls Adam “charming, “ by the way. Nevertheless, I believe he’s just a detour before the return of Klaine.
ETA: The official FOX press release lists Damian McGinty, who plays Rory as a guest star….
Gerard Funk returns as the evil Warbler captain, Hunter Clarington. And Ashley Fink will be back to play Lauren, for the first she kissed off Puck (Mark Salling) in the Season 3 premiere. Wonder what she’s up to this time…

I was totes hoping the loss at sectionals would stick for the New Directions, as it would give the writers the opportunity to introduce new and INTERESTING story lines for the club. Unfortunately, it looks a “cheating scandal” will indeed be uncovered by SLAINE! You’ll see what I mean when we move on to the next episode…

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Suits Season 2 Episode 12 Preview

Upcoming episode of Suits season 2 will be Suits Season 2 Episode 12 “Blood in the Water”. SUITS “Blood in the Water” Season 2 Episode 12 airs Thursday Jan 24 at 10/9c pm on USA.
Episode Synopsis: The war with Daniel may be over, but the battle has left Pearson Hardman vulnerable, and Harvey must protect the firm from a rival whose attack seems as personal as it is professional.

Show Summary: “Suits” delves into the fast-paced, high-stakes world of a top Manhattan corporate law firm where Macht stars as legendary law partner, Harvey Specter, and SAG Award-nominee Adams stars as his brilliant, but not-technically-legal associate Mike Ross. Despite his lack of bonafide credentials, Mike’s photographic memory and encyclopedic legal knowledge make him an invaluable asset to Harvey.

The dynamic duo have managed to guard the secret thus far, but as the first season came to a close, Mike’s future hangs in the balance when his ex-best friend sets out to expose him to the firm’s top suit, Jessica Pearson (Torres).

But, Jessica could have bigger problems on her hands when the other half of Pearson Hardman, Daniel (guest star David Costabile) reemerges on the scene. Meanwhile, Mike’s love life has become complicated after he crossed the line with the firm’s best paralegal and his only friend in the office, Rachel (Markle). In addition to Costabile, guest stars for the season include Eric Close, John Finn, Margo Martindale and Rachel Harris.

Suits is a USA Network drama which premiered on June 23, 2011. The series stars Gabriel Macht, and Patrick J. Adams as two lawyers who, between the two of them, only have one degree. Macht stars as Harvey Specter, one of New York City's top attorneys and Adams portrays Mike Ross, whom Harvey chooses as his associate. Mike, a college dropout, never actually attended Harvard Law School as he claims with Harvey’s knowledge. Instead he relies on his eidetic memory and natural intelligence to help win cases.

Previously on Blind Sided Mike is still sharing a bed and getting high with Tess, even after the interruption from Rachel. Mike is then assigned a case of a young man named Liam (Reiley McClendon) who hit someone with his car while driving home from a party, then drove away. The memory of his own parents being killed by a drunk driver compromises Mike's ability to act in the best interest of his client. Harvey wants to celebrate Hardman's dismissal with his old colleague Zoe Lawford, but he finds that Zoe's brother has just dropped off his daughter, Olivia, on short notice. Meanwhile, Louis meets with Sheila (Rachael Harris), who already knows that he made senior partner and appears to be turned on by that fact. Louis asks for Sheila's help in landing a top-notch new associate from Harvard named Maria (Aarti Mann), but it's all for naught when Jessica makes up a "hiring freeze" to prevent Louis from getting what he wants.

Now what will happen on next episode, catch Suits season 2 episode 12 below!

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Grey's Anatomy Season 9 Episode 12 Preview

The lawsuit was settled in Grey's Anatomy Season 9, Episode 11: "The End Is the Beginning Is the End," but that's just the beginning of the drama. How will the hospital deal with potentially going bankrupt? Anyway if you miss last week episode, here is some recap As Bailey rushes to save Adele's life, everyone at the wedding wonders where she went; Arizona tells Callie that she wants to try to have sex for the first time since the plane crash. Cristina and Owen can't decide if they're going to go through with the divorce or not; While a motorcycle gang is brought to the hospital after a car accident. Everyone except Alex and Jo are paged to the hospital forcing them to spend time together; Shane begins wondering if April is trying to make a pass at him. Meredith and Bailey rush to save Adele's life, eventually having the surgery go well, and Bailey goes back to her wedding. Just as Callie and Arizona are about to take the next step, Arizona says that she isn't ready and that she doesn't want Callie to leave her, but Callie reassures her that she would never leave her. Stephanie and Jackson end up having sex, after they agree not to have sex, while Jo and Karev begin bonding over their mutual childhood of foster care; As Bailey gets back to her wedding, Richard shows up but tells her to go back to her new husband, Meredith walks over and Richard tells her that Adele died from a heart-attack.

We've rounded up all of the juiciest spoilers for Season 9, Episode 12: "Walking on a Dream" right here, so you can have a glimpse into the future of Seattle Grace-Mercy West.
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A new face. The official synopsis for the episode says that this week "the Seattle Grace doctors are on edge when a new medical professional enters the hospital." We're assuming it’s Dr. Cahill (Constance Zimmer), who comes to the hospital to help it avoid bankruptcy, and rubs the docs the wrong way with her harsh cuts and new rules.

Arizona' phantom limb. Meanwhile, "Arizona struggles with the emotional and physical pain of a phantom limb. But don't worry, she'll be okay.

Meredith faces her fear. Also,"while battling pregnancy hormones, an overly-emotional Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo] is confronted with her worst fear." Which, based on this preview, is flying.
Grey's Anatomy Season 9 Episode 12 Synopsis: All of the plane crash victims are on edge when the judge reaches a decision regarding their case. The hospital is found guilty of negligence and each of the survivors is awarded $15 million in compensation; Derek starts playing ping-pong so he'll eventually be able to go back to surgery. Arizona butts heads with Avery when an old patient of Mark's shows up and Jackson doesn't want to do the same procedure Mark wanted to; Callie decides to throw a dinner for her and the rest of the plane crash victims. Dr. Bailey and April work on a set of patients who got hurt when the wife fell on the husband after trying to do a dance on a stripper pole; While Catherine comes into town and tries to convince Richard to go to lunch with her because she's worried about him. Jo and Alex begin growing closer, while Owen accidentally grabs Jo's breasts thinking it's Cristina; Cristina and Owen begin having sex even though they are divorced. Meredith, Richard and Heather work on a patient who eats her hair instead of arguing with her mother; At Callie's dinner, Meredith tells everyone that she's pregnant, as she can't drink the wine that Callie ordered. At the hospital Owen finds out that the insurance company won't pay the fifteen million dollars for the doctors because of a loop hole in the contract and the hospital paying for it would bankrupt them.

Catch the next new episode of Grey’s Anatomy on Thursday, January 24, 2013, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.

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The Vampire Diaries Season 4 Episode 11 Preview

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES Season 4 Episode 11 Catch Me If You Can Sneak Peek : A NEW DANGER — Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) is furious when Klaus (Joseph Morgan) tries to control him by putting Matt’s (Zach Roerig) life in danger. Damon (Ian Somerhalder) coaches Jeremy as he prepares to take on Klaus’ new vampires, but they find that Kol (guest star Nathaniel Buzolic) has beaten them to it. Kol makes it clear that he will stop at nothing to convince everyone to give up the search for the cure. Looking for a new ally, Rebekah (Claire Holt) reminds Stefan (Paul Wesley) that they were once close friends. When Sheriff Forbes (Marguerite MacIntyre) and Mayor Hopkins (guest star Rick Worthy) question Shane (guest star David Alpay) about his involvement in the Founders’ Council deaths, Bonnie (Kat Graham) steps in with questions of her own, and Shane’s responses push Bonnie to the edge of her powers. Elena (Nina Dobrev) negotiates with Klaus to keep Jeremy safe, but when danger suddenly appears from a totally unexpected enemy, Elena comes up with her own daring plan for Jeremy. John Dahl directed the episode written by Brian Young & Michael Narducci

Master con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. fools everyone into believing he’s a pilot, a doctor, and a — oh, this is about The Vampire Diaries episode? Never mind.

In Season 4, Episode 11, “Catch Me If You Can,” Klaus (Joseph Morgan) is still very interested in Jeremy’s (Steven R. McQueen) hunter progress. Being the impatient hybrid that he is, Klaus uses Matt (Zach Roerig) as bait to spur little Gilbert’s training. Good thing Damon (Ian Somerhalder) has been teaching the hunter new tricks.

Klaus has prepped a bunch of vampires for Jer to fight (and, presumably, kill), but Kol (Nathaniel Buzolic) pops up, extremely unsupportive of everyone’s “get the cure” cause. Meanwhile, Elena (Nina Dobrev) wants to keep her bro out of harm’s way, so she tries to strike a deal with the Original hybrid. A surprising new enemy makes her rethink the negotiation and come up with another plan. (Elena’s plans always work out, so we’re not worried.)

Parent-teacher conference! Sheriff Forbes (Marguerite MacIntyre) and Mayor Hopkins (Rick Worthy) want to know more about shady Professor Shane (David Alpay), thinking he may have something to do with the Founder’s Council explosion. (Still investigating that, Liz? Good for you.)
Bonnie (Kat Graham) is suddenly suspicious of the dude who’s been slipping her herbal refreshment for weeks and confronts Shane. Something crazy happens with her powers when he answers her questions.

Maybe Stefan (Paul Wesley) really does prefer blonds? First he was hanging with Caroline (Candice Accola), and now Rebekah (Claire Holt) wants to be his partner in crime.

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