The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) Download Movie

Works wonderfully as a popcorn picture.. Except for Connery, who is every inch the lion in winter, nothing here feels authentic.. Even if, per Wilde, all art is quite useless, it need not be quite as useless as this.. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen just plain reeks.. This is awfulness of an utterly assembly-line nature.. In a summer of big-budget sequels, prequels, remakes and homages, no film is more ambitiously derivative -- or dramatically unsatisfying -- than Stephen Norrington's The ...

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) Watch Streaming

The longer the movie goes, the more its 133 minutes prove wearing.. Performances are solid throughout, with the actors managing to straight-face their way through some truly inane dialogue.. It plays like a salvage job, with all the attendant compromises. Though the film is laden with backstory and exposition, not much actually happens onscreen.. Scorsese's film is a richly illustrated lesson in cinema history and the best argument for 3-D since James Cameron's Avatar.. When it's all done we're ...

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) Play Movie

A surprise package of fun, fright and untamed imagination.. The parade of creatures Del Toro and his team have come up with as this scenario unfolds, starting with a tour of the legendary Troll Market that one-ups the Mos Eisley cantina scene in Star Wars, will make you want to tip your hat in wonder.. Bruce Willis plays the CEO of a futuristic resort where perfectly human-looking androids exist to fulfill their clients' deepest, darkest desires - none of which, it can safely be said, involve wa...

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Howl's Moving Castle (2004) Full Movie Streaming

With such an unfocused, impenetrable center, the film grows dull.. A strange delight awash in visual splendor, understated humor and clever body-and-soul transmogrifications among its bonny band of weirdos.. There is giggling, belly-laughing, and gasping to be done watching Howl's Moving Castle.. The procession of enchanting and spectacular images is intoxicating.. What a moveable feast of delights.. So richly detailed and colorful that one almost aches from the beauty.. Absolutely one of the gr...

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Hell & Back (2015) Download Full

The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. The best movie I've ever seen. amazing in every acting of the players as real and natural.. I really like this movie. thank you. I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense of the word and I'm not WHO Easily could be convinced with good action no matter how big and famous. I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to ...

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Iron Man 2 (2010) Download Movie

Downey still has plenty of moments of charm (nobody kicks a car aside as casually as this guy), and most of the action sequences are lively and fun.. A visual triumph.. Superhero Stark remains intriguing.. Most of the charm of "Monsters Inc." comes from its vocal cast.. The action sequences are fun, though not as exhilarating as in the 2008 original, and the dialogue can be zingy.. Supple and technologically sophisticated entertainment.. Though a bit indulgent of its star power at times, Monster...

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King Kong (2005) Full Movie Streaming

Men sporting bronzer and spewing cliches in British accents while battling evil and dealing with cheesy special effects.. At three hours, Jackson's Kong is too bloated and digressive to match the pure adrenaline of the first film, perhaps the finest B-movie ever made.. [A] cacophonous, frivolous adaptation of Ubisoft's Arabian Nights-themed video-game series.. Silly, pointless and obscenely overproduced.. Kong has heart, and he's willing to show it in a movie made with wit, excitement and moment...

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The Boxtrolls (2014) Online Streaming

There are many more delighted 'Ewwws' than too-easy 'Awws' in this charming, if a tad cynical, feature from the creators of Coraline and ParaNorman.. It's a world that runs in a parallel universe akin to that of Charles Dickens, with creatively named characters involved in seemingly outlandish adventures in a Victorian-era city where a moral or two plays out in the end.. Like one of its wondrously designed steampunky contraptions, "The Boxtrolls" is a marvelous thing to behold, and watch spin, e...

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Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) Watch Streaming

What dooms Snow White and the Huntsman is ultimately not how over the top it is, but how dull it is.. Somewhat like Forrest Gump on a high colonic.. It's gentle and pleasing and I appreciated the mixture of oddness, whimsy and emotion that informs Burton's search for the place where truth and fiction meet.. There will be lots of versions of Theron's evil queen running around West Hollywood this Halloween; it's a performance that's one part Tilda Swinton to 30 parts Faye Dunaway, the sort of over...

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Pacific Rim (2013) Watch Streaming

If you thought there was only so much to be done with ice and snow as visual fields, think again along the lines of prismatic crystals, epic storms and fantastical structures built on water's gift for freezing itself into see-through art.. I really like this movie. thank you. After a long cycle of action movies in which the protagonists spend most of their downtime introspecting about their heroic obligations, Pacific Rim is something different: a heart-warming team-building exercise.. Most impo...

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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) Watch Streaming

Director Robert Zemeckis once again harnesses a new technology to an engaging fable in this digitally animated adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's holiday tale.. Not only do Van Allsburg's darkly magical illustrations come to glorious life in the film; so, too, do his familiar words.. While there are some amusing moments involving the film's stellar cast of second bananas, the "quirky" and utterly artificial love story at its center makes Armageddon feel like the preferable option.. One of the ye...

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) Full Movie Streaming

It's hard to pinpoint the cause of the problem, but Walter's story never engages.. Stiller's attempt to braid together introspection and humor kept me engaged and curious, even when I wasn't quite sure what he was setting out to do.. Sometimes you see failed films and think, well, they tried for this or that but couldn't pull it off. After seeing Ben Stiller's version of the venerable James Thurber story, I don't know what the film was trying for.. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is star/direc...

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) Full Streaming

It's a big, bold, schizophrenic pageant that still manages to work on a surprising number of levels -- creative liberties and indulgences be damned.. Unless you're intimately familiar with the so-called Marvel universe (or you really love CG explosions), little of this will resonate.. "The First Avenger" was a work of art, while "The Winter Soldier" is serviceable entertainment.. While more than enough praise has been poured on Jackson and his singular gift for CG spectacle, Martin Freeman deser...

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Seventh Son (2015) Full Streaming

It's a loud, joyless mess.. "Seventh Son" delivers exactly what it promises: Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore slumming in a laughably generic sword-and-sorcery almost-epic.. Seventh Son is brisk and unpretentious, though the fact that these two qualities can be considered remarkable probably says more about the state of modern genre filmmaking than it does about the movie itself.. Seventh Son may try to harness alchemy and witchcraft, but sadly, there's no magic here.. No masterpiece, but a welco...

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Treasure Planet (2002) Watch Streaming

If Treasure Planet falls short of Lion King's classic status, it still proves there is plenty of room in animation for movies that aren't geared exclusively to 8-year-olds.. Sci-fi meets sea-faring fantasy, and the mix isn't half bad.. Enjoy the spectacle.. Better than OK, but no Spirited Away.. Despite more betrayal and loyalty than a Chris Carabba box set, there's no real good or evil here.. I think kids will find it really entertaining, and parents will find it amusing enough.. Treasure Plane...

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The Incredible Hulk (2008) Download Movie

The climax is a bit of a yawn, but most of what precedes it is vigorous and sharp.. Look deeply into Stardust and all you see is a slightly diluted Princess Bride, and a happily-ever-after you've seen a dozen times before.. An overstuffed, overlong epic with a tongue-in-cheek approach that repeatedly begs unfavorable comparisons with The Princess Bride.. A more satisfactory adaptation of the spirit of Stan Lee's Marvel character.. Digital spectacle is both too much and too little, and it's begin...

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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) Full Streaming

Not only is it not funny, it's offensive.. Think you're too hip for Japanese anime about a lost ten-year-old girl whose parents turn into snorting pigs? Get over it.. An innocuously smutty road comedy starring Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston.. This time the exposition is so thick that everyone except acolytes may tune out.. a movie written by a committee, too long, but the cast carries it a long way, these mild virtues don't quite add up to a recommendation, but if you said you wanted to see...

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Eragon (2006) Watch Streaming

A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. I really like this movie. thank you. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. The best movie I've ever seen. amazing in every acting of the players as real and natural.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. Every minute of this a...

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Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) Online Streaming

A succession of chases and fanciful combats, more akin to Dungeons & Dragons than to Carroll, leads to a peculiarly truncated climax. The 3-D effects are enjoyable, but the added depth can't make up for deficits in the concept or the plot.. Much of Carroll's magical nonsense remains, even if Burton's film wobbles at the gates of anarchy and ends up being a more average affair than many might expect.. Captain America: The First Avenger is pretty good, insofar as it's not nearly as terrible as it ...

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Jupiter Ascending (2015) Download Full

Jupiter Ascending's early cleverness dries up quickly, especially when Kunis is offscreen, leaving us with just another incoherent sci-fi spectacle.. A movie so jaw-droppingly awful that you can't wait to see what happens next (and that was without the use of mood-altering substances on my part).. Upon exiting, my wearied delight with Jupiter Ascending coexisted with pure bafflement. But I exited knowing that I'd seen a movie no other filmmaker could have made.. The universe that the writers-dir...

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