Insurgent (2015) Full Streaming

Taken for what it is, Insurgent is a vast improvement over the franchise's first installment, mostly thanks to expansion in two arenas: budget and scope.. Unlike Divergent, which required pages of premise-establishing exposition, Insurgent is more purely action-centric, as the hunters hunt and the hunted flee through the trees, hopping freight trains, trying to elude capture.. The action sequences are well done, some of the visuals are spectacular, and at it's heart Insurgent is wrestling with s...

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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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Cars (2006) Download Movie

Cars made me want to hop in my jalopy and to head out to Route 66, bypassing the boring interstate highways that made the Mother Road redundant.. Along came the interstate, apparently, and ruined everything. Just like that darned Internet, I guess, or that superhighway stuff, or those dumb movies they make with computers nowadays.. It thunders ahead with breezy abandon, scoring big grins on its way.. It's beautiful to look at. The talking cars feel more alive than talking cars should.. Though th...

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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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