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Saturday, April 27, 2013

Movie Reviews: Is 'The Company You Keep' One of the Best Films of 2013?

A '60's radical goes on the run in his 70's to clear his name.

The "The Company You Keep" is playing in several theaters in Gwinnett: AMC Sugarloaf Mills and AMC Colonial 18, both in Lawrenceville; Carmike 12 in Snellville; and Regal Mall of Georgia in Buford. For more local movie ideas, use the Moviefone link at the top of this file.  When Sharon Solarz, a former member of the radical Weather Underground (Susan Sarandon) is arrested, her capture sets in motion a twisted series of events. Nick Sloan (Robert Redford), a clean cut, upright attorney in Albany, refuses to take her case, which leads to an ambitious young newspaper (yes, they do still exist) reporter, Ben Shepard (Shia LaBoeuf), outing Sloan as another member of the Weather Underground wanted for killing a guard during a bank robbery. To …

Friday, March 29, 2013

'G.I. Joe: Retaliation': The Rock Delivers in Action Thriller

The sequel to "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Roadblock.

Check out the MoviePhone search tool above to find a theater near you. The premise, courtesy of the film's official website: A follow-up to the 2009 blockbuster "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," which grossed over $300 million worldwide. In "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," the team is not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra, but they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence. See "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" at these Gwinnett movie theaters: Here's what critics are saying:   "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of combat violence and martial arts action throughout, and for brief sensuality and language. The film runs 110 minutes. You might also be interested in reading:  …

Thursday, January 10, 2013

'Zero Dark Thirty' Seamlessly Weaves Fact with Fiction

“Zero Dark Thirty” chronicles a long trail of frustration, leading to fragmentary gains and, at last, to success, on the night of May 1, 2011

"Zero Dark Thirty" was generating controversy long before it hit the movie theaters nationwide on Friday. Director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal were criticized for showing CIA agents torturing inmates information leading to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. The movie claims to be factual, and the CIA insists that torture wasn't part of the mix. Bigelow and Boal also were thought to have allegedly obtained classified information, which they claim they didn't do. The movie follows a CIA female operative, Maya (Jessica Chastain), over the 10 years the U.S. hunted for Osama Bin Laden. She survives bombings and attacks, pouring over her computer and trying to assemble a coherent argument about Bin Laden's whereabouts…

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Judd Apatow's "This is 40" - Should You See It?

This movie begins where "Knocked Up" left off.

Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) and their two daughters,  8-year-old Charlotte (Iris Apatow) and 13-year-old Sadie (Maude Apatow) live in fashionable, affluent Brentwood in fashionable Los Angeles. Both Pete and Debbie are turning 40 -- though she refuses to accept she's getting older. His record label and her boutique are both tanking, they have financial troubles (as much as those with Beemers can) and their sex life went south long ago. Their daughters fight with each other, and the older girl rolls her eyes at her parents and their silly rules. It's a typical family--a white, privileged, affluent family, complete with Pete's mooching dad and Debbie's estranged father. The movie is playing in theaters throughout Gwinnett …

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Want to See the Hobbit? Here's What the Critics Say

The movie is playing in theaters throughout Gwinnett County this weekend.

After the success of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, director Peter Jackson has filled in the backstory by producing "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," the story of Bilbo Baggins and his adventures below and above ground. Jackson has done so...for hours, breaking the original little story into nine hours of film. The first movie is a flashback, with the older Bilbo (Ian Holme) talking with Frodo (Elijah Wood). We soon see the wizard Gandalf (Sir Ian McKellan) drawing a younger Bilbo (Martin Freeman) into an adventure that involves a long journey to a distant land, lots of dwarfs, trolls, orcs, elves, a dragon and, of course, more Gollum (the wonderful Andy Serkis). It's probably a good idea to read JRR Tolkien's books, including the …

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