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The Equalizer

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  • Title: The Equalizer
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The EqualizerBased on the 80s television show of the same name, The Equalizer stars Denzel Washington as a retired military officer with a mysterious past attempting to live a normal life. That normalcy is shattered when an acquaintance (Chloë Grace Moretz) is hospitalized by her pimp (David Meunier) sending Robert McCall in search of justice which will lead him on a one man crusade against crooked cops and the Russian mob.

Washington feels a bit out of place here in a script by Richard Wenk more befitting Steven Seagal in the prime of his B-movie action days. Unsure at times whether it wants to be a drama or old school action/revenge flick, The Equalizer is at its best when it allows McCall to take off the gloves and get to work (such as the movie’s climactic sequence involving several inventive deaths using various implements at the Home Depot where McCall is currently employed).

Eventually the ridiculous scope of what McCall’s quest gets the better of the screenwriter as the script ends in a ludicrous epilogue following the retail warehouse final battle. When it keeps McCall’s actions smaller, and a bit more plausible, the movie has more success.

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News and Notes

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News and NotesUSA Today is reporting Wally West will race into the New 52 Universe later this Spring in The Flash Annual #3 which follows the confirmation that Stephanie Brown will also make her first New 52 appearance in Batman: Eternal #3

Variety is reporting that A24 has purchased the distribution rights to Laggies after its premiere at Sundance this weekend. The film starring Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Sam Rockwell should see release later this summer

The Playlist has a review for writer/director Richard Linklater‘s Boyhood starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette which was filmed over the course of 12 years and should receive at least a limited theatrical release from IFC Films later this year

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Chloë Grace Moretz does it the American Way

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Chloë Grace Moretz does it the American WayPromoting her remake of Carrie, Chloë Grace Moretz is the cover girl for the October issue of the American Way. In the cover interview the actress discusses being drawn to darker roles, her five older brothers, growing up a tomboy, Hugo, her older brother Trevor’s influence on her career, Kick-Ass and Kick-Ass 2, her desire to produce, Dark Shadows, dealing with her celebrity, remaking the original Carrie, being home-schooled, and growing up. You can find the pics from her photo shoot inside.

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Kick-Ass 2

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  • Title: Kick-Ass 2
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Kick-Ass 2The work of comic writer Mark Millar (Wanted, Kick-Ass) is an acquired taste. Although he writes super-hero comics, complete with brightly-colored masks and spandex, his gritty nihilistic visions often don’t paint a very rosy picture of the world which he seems to believe are predominantly filled with irrevocably fucked-up human beings.

Realizing this, the original Kick-Ass movie made some big changes to the source material. The choice to undercut some of the more gruesome elements with humor worked in its favor (as it does with the sequel). However, the sequel is also stuck with a couple of large plot changes that have to be addressed in Kick-Ass 2.

The first movie saw Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) get the girl (something not even considered a remote possibility in the original work). The problem of what to do with Katie (Lyndsy Fonseca) is easily handled as the movie quickly, much to my disappointment, writes Fonseca’s character out of the movie never to be heard from, or spoken of, again.

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Summer Movie Preview

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summer-preview-2013

The beginning of May, which is now less than two weeks away, officially starts the Summer movie season with big budget action flicks, comedies, and sci-fi films hitting the theaters every week until the end of August. This year’s crop brings us the end of the world (at least three times), post-apocalyptic futures, zombies, giant robots, sequels, monsters, super-heroes, aliens, Greek mythology, men of steel and iron, action, Minions, animated racing snails and planes, old spies back in the game, a hearty Hi-Yo Silver, and new takes on the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Shakespeare. Here’s a look at the big movies of the summer (with a handful of smaller films that just may be worth a look, too).

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