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Brad Pitt surprises fans at ‘World War Z’ screenings

Brad PittSummer movie season is rolling along and if you’re one of those people who buys into pre-release hype, the best is yet to come.

Right now, Brad Pitt’s “World War Z” is starting to create some solid and substantial buzz and the star is busy jet-setting around the globe to introduce special sneak previews for fans. Continue reading Brad Pitt surprises fans at ‘World War Z’ screenings

Interesting premise gets lost in all too familiar execution of ‘The Purge’

PURGE - FILM REVIEWWhat a horrifying thought, right? Allowing American citizens to purge their violent tendencies one night every year. What would you do? Would you give into that primal urge or would you do what you could to hide away and protect your family. It’s a premise ripe with possibilities but unfortunately, “The Purge” just kinda glosses over them in favor of becoming just like every other similar horror movie.

“The Purge” plays out like the bastard child of “The Hostage” and “The Strangers”, focusing on one family who is threatened by crazy wack jobs who are out to purge their urge, something that it seems like they’d probably do anyway.

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Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson back for laughs with ‘The Internship’

GoogleInternsIt might not be all that plausible that the characters played by Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn in “The Internship” are so completely clueless about today’s technology. But it’s a belief you will have to be willing to suspend, at least for the first half of the movie to get any real enjoyment out of it.

The good news here is that this movie, about two guys who lose their sales jobs and somehow manage to secure internships at Google, has a solid second half and proves that Vaughn and Wilson still have that great chemistry that helped make “Wedding Crashers” a comedy hit a few years ago.

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