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Movie reviews
Review 2015 by RD Clark
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
Written by: Peter Craig & Danny Strong, from the novel by Suzanne Collins
Directed by: Francis Lawrence
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Donald Sutherland, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, Liam Hemsworth
Complete Cast & Crew here
Rated PG-13
Running time: 136 mins
Katniss … Read more
Review 2015 by RD Clark
The Martian
Written by: Drew Goddard, from the novel by Andy Weir
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Starring: Matt Damon, Jeff Daniels, Sean Bean, Kate Mara, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Chastain, Donald Glover
Completed cast and crew here
Rated PG-13
Running time: 141 mins
When a crew member of a Martian expedition … Read more
Review 2015 by RD Clark
The Intern
Written by: Nancy Meyers
Directed by: Nancy Meyers
Starring: Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Andrew Rannells, Rene Russo
Complete Cast & Crew here
Rated PG-13
Running time: 121 mins
A widower who is bored with his retirement takes a job as an intern in an Internet startup company. … Read more
Review 2015 by RD Clark
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Written by: Guy Ritchie, Lionel Wigram
Directed by:Guy Ritchie
Starring: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, Hugh Grant
Full cast and crew here
Rated PG-13
Running time: 116 Min
A CIA Agent is forced to team with his KGB counterpart in order … Read more
Review 2015 by RD Clark
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Written by: Christopher McQuarrie
Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie
Starring: Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin, Sean Harris
Full Cast & Crew here
Rated PG-13
Running time: 131 Mins
While under Congressional investigation and disavowal, the IMF stumble onto another … Read more
Review 2015 by RD Clark
Ant-Man
Written by:Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Adam McKay, Paul Rudd
Directed by: Peyton Reed
Starring: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Michael Peña
Full Cast and crew here
Rated PG-13
Running time: 117 mins
A thief gets a second chance at redemption, but first he must put … Read more
Review 2015 by RD Clark
Terminator Genisys
Written by: Laeta Kalogridis & Patrick Lussier
Directed by: Alan Taylor
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, Jason Clarke, J.K.Simmons
Complete Cast and crew here
Rated PG-13
Running time: 122 Mins
A soldier is sent into the past to save the mother of John Connor from being … Read more
Review 2015 by RD Clark
Jurassic World
Written by: Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Colin Trevorrow, Derek Connolly
Directed by: Colin Trevorrow
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy
Full cast and crew here
Rated PG-13
Running time: 124 mins
Forgetting every lesson learned from the first film, a … Read more
Review 2015 by RD Clark
Spy
Written by: Paul Feig
Directed by: Paul Feig
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Miranda Hart, Rose Byrne, Jessica Chaffin, Jason Statham, Jude Law, Peter Serafinowicz,
The complete cast and crew is here
Rated R
Running time: 120 mins
A CIA underling is sent into the field, when all of the available … Read more
Review 2015 by RD Clark
Movie title
Written by: David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by: Gil Kenan
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kyle Catlett, Saxon Sharbino, Kennedi Clements, Jane Adams, Jared Harris
Rated PG-13
Running time: 95 Mins
A family moves into a house and doesn’t start noticing that things are weird until it’s too late. Isn’t … Read more
Review 2015 by RD Clark
Mad Max: Fury Road
Written by: George Miller
Directed by: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris
Starring: Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Hardy and Zoë Kravitz’s boobs
Complete Cast and crew are here
Rated R
Running time: 120 Mins
A failed hero manages to get himself beat up and captured … Read more
Review 2015 by RD Clark
Avengers : Age Of Ultron
Written by: Joss Whedon, based on the characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Directed by: Joss Whedon
Starring: Forget it, look here instead
Rated PG-13
Running time: 141 mins
To sum up the plot: A villain enlists an army of nameless drones to … Read more
Review 2015 by RD Clark
Ex Machina
Written by: Alex Garland
Directed by: Alex Garland
Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac and some others that you hardly see!
Completer Cast & Crew here
Rated R
Running time: 110 mins
A programmer wins a chance to spend week with his boss in a secret, remote … Read more
Review 2015 by RD Clark
It Follows
Written by: David Robert Mitchell
Directed by: David Robert Mitchell
Starring: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Lili Sepe
Full cast & crew here
Rated R
Running time: 100 Mins
After making it with a guy she didn’t know as well as she thought, a young … Read more
Review 2014 by RD Clark
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Written by: screenplay & Matthew Vaughn
Based on the comic, “The Secret Service” by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons
Directed by: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Taron Egerton, Michael Caine, Samuel L Jackson, Sofia Boutella
Complete Cast here
Rated R
Running time: 129 mins… Read more
Well, to any who have noticed, THIS is the reason for the sparsity of posts lately.
That and the lack of any movies I’ve wanted to spend time and money on.
This is a “sandbox” RPG, meaning there is not fixed progression. You are dropped into the world and you go about doing the quests … Read more
Review 2014 by RD Clark
Predestination
Written by: Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig
Based on the story, “ ’—All You Zombies—’ ” by Robert A. Heinlein
Directed by: The Spierig Brothers
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor
Complete cast & crew here
Rated R
Running time: 1hr 37mins
A Temporal Agent that has been … Read more
Review 2014 by RD Clark
The Interview
Written by: Dan Sterling
Directed by: Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Randall Park, Lizzy Caplan, Diana Bang
Full Cast and crew are here
Rated R
Running time: 122 Mins
When a talk show host and his producer/buddy find that the leader of North … Read more
Review 2014 by RD Clark
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Written by:Peter Craig, Danny Strong
From the novel by Suzanne Collins
Directed by: Francis Lawrence
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Liam Hemsworth, Donald Sutherland, Natalie Dormer
Complete cast & crew here
Rated PG-13
Running time: 125 Mins
With the Capitol … Read more
Review 2014 by RD Clark
Big Hero 6
Written by: Jordan Roberts, Daniel Gerson, Robert L. Baird
Based on the characters from the Marvel Comic
Directed by: Don Hall, Chris Williams
Starring: (the voices of) Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, T.J. Miller, Daniel Henney, Jamie Chung, Damon Wayans Jr., Genesis Rodriguez, James Cromwell
For the complete … Read more
Review 2014 by RD Clark
Interstellar
Written by: Jonathan Nolan & Christopher Nolan
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Mackenzie Foy, John Lithgow, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Wes Bentley, V, Matt Damon, Michael Caine
Complete cast is here
Rated PG-13
Running time: 169 Mins
In a pre-apocalytic future, an ex-pilot/engineer is tasked with leading … Read more
Review 2014 by RD Clark
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Written by: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo
Directed by: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring: Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Zach Galifianakis, Naomi Watts, Andrea Riseborough
Complete cast here:
Rated R
Running time: 1 hr 59 min
An actor know … Read more
Review 2014 by RD Clark
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Written by: Rob Lieber, from the book by Judith Viorst
Directed by: Miguel Arteta
Starring: Ed Oxenbould, Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Dylan Minnette, Kerris Dorsey, Megan Mullally
Complete cast here:
Rated PG
Running time: 81 mins
On his 12th birthday, … Read more
Review 2014 by RD Clark
Guardians Of The Galaxy
Written by: James Gunn, Nicole Perlman –Based on the Marvel comic series
Directed by: James Gunn
Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Karen Gillian, Lee Pace, John C. Reilly, Michael Rooker
Complete cast here
Rated PG-13
Running time: 122 mins
An … Read more
Review 2014 by RD Clark
Lucy
Written by: Luc Besson
Directed by: Luc Besson
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-sik Choi, Amr Waked
Full Cast here
Rated R
Running time: 89 Mins
A woman is forcibly recruited as a carrier and has drugs sewn into her abdomen. When they start leaking, they cause her mind … Read more