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Starring: Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford, Kiele Sanchez, and  Zoë Soul Directed by: James DeMonaco  Screenplay by: James DeMonaco       " Blessed be our New Founding Fathers for letting us Purge and cleanse our souls. Blessed be America, a nation reborn."       In the not too distant future, America has changed quite a bit.  A new government has come to power known as the New Founding Fathers, and has basically turned the American government into religion.  People are constantly saying the quote above.  The NFFA has established a new annual holiday called the Purge, where all crime, including murder, is legal for 12 hours.  Supposedly, the Purge has made America a more productive society and it does more good than harm.        The first film in the series came out last year, and follows an affluent family who lives in a gated community and their attempt to survive the purge inside their home....

Starring: Zach Braff, Kate Hudson, Joey King, Pierce Gagnon, Josh Gad, Mandy Patinkin, and Jim Parsons Directed by: Zach Braff Screenplay: Adam J. Braff and Zach Braff      Here's Zach Braff's decent movie about a rather unlucky guy.  Some might call him a loser, others might simply see him as unlucky.      Aidan Bloom (Zach Braff) is a struggling actor who's married and has two kids in Jewish day school, thanks to his father, Gabe (Mandy Patinkin), who is nice enough to pay for them to attend school.  Gabe is dying of cancer and needs the money used for putting the kids through school for his treatment.  His wife, Sarah (Kate Hudson), works but doesn't make enough to pay for private school.  While Aidan and Sarah decide whether or not to put their children in public school, Aidan does his best to homeschool them while he navigates various auditions.  Aidan must navigate a lot that is going on in his life.  On top of all t...

Starring: Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, and Toby Kebbell Directed by: Matt Reeves Screenplay by: Mark Bomback, Rick Jaffa, and Amanda Silver      A second movie to tell us how the Planet of the Apes really began.      At the end of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a disease broke out.  It killed off most of the human race and made apes into rather intelligent creatures, now led by Caesar (Andy Serkis).  By the time the story of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes starts, the remaining humans in San Francisco have joined together and live in a survivors colony inside the city.  But they need power that only a specific dam can provide, and that requires going into ape territory, just across the Golden Gate Bridge (the posters you see around town; they lie.  The Golden Gate Bridge is intact in the film, not destroyed, like the posters show).  Until now, the humans and the apes live in harmony and it seems as if t...

Starring: Chris Evans, Kang-ho Song, Jamie Bell, John Hurt, Ed Harris, and Tilda Swinton Directed by: Joon-ho Bong Screenplay by: Joon-ho Bong and Jaques Lob !!!!!!!!!!WARNING!!!!!!!  THIS IS THE REVIEW CORNER SPOILER ALERT SYSTEM!!!!!!!!  IF YOU INTEND TO SEE THIS FILM, DO NOT READ ON!!!!!!!!!      It's no secret that we are dealing with climate change in this day in age, so here's what it looks like in the long run if we fail to do anything about it.      The world has addressed climate change in this not too distant future world.  A cooling agent called CW-7 was released into the air with the hopes that it would return the earth's surface back to normal temperatures before climate change became a problem.  It cooled the planet, but to the point where all life went extinct, with the exception of the lucky few who boarded the train, Snowpiercer; a train that constantly travels on a railway that circles the globe.     ...