The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) Full Streaming

Finding Nemo is laced with smart humor and clever gags, and buoyed by another cheery story of mismatched buddies: a pair of fish voiced by Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres.. Be forewarned: Whether through ego, avarice, or unchecked enthusiasm, Jackson has wandered deep into the realm of fan fiction.. Finding Nemo works terribly hard for every scrap of charm or humor it imparts.. I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense of the wor...

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) Watch Streaming

Craig has settled into a well-suited, grim-reaper role. Even when James flirts and trysts, his creased face suggests an unmovable weight.. The James Bond franchise turns 50 with a stellar entry that fires on all cylinders as an action picture but also casts a modest glance backward to its illustrious past.. The effect of so many Oscar-calibre actors speaking the generic dialogue is like watching pro ballplayers play T-ball.. Collins and the Lawrences have crossed the uncanny valley separating im...

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Total Recall (2012) Online Streaming

. The best stuff in Jumper comes early, while the movie is still busy explaining its scenario. It's only when all the pieces are in place and the story actually kicks in that things start to fall apart, and quickly.. . The remake has no grace notes, or grace, no nuance, no humanity, no character quirks, no surprises in the dialogue and no humor .... The effects look great, but is that even worth noting when smart high-schoolers can make monsters on their laptops? What movie's effects don't look ...

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Conan the Barbarian (2011) Watch Full Movie

Even for those missing their Harry Potter fix, this is some weak, watered-down stuff.. Rent the original instead.. Percy is a lot like a certain bespectacled young wizard - sans the lightning-shaped scar. It's too bad his adventures don't have the same enchanting quality.. "Sea of Monsters" is diverting enough - the director, Thor Freudenthal, is savvy with effects and keeps his young cast on point - but it doesn't begin to approach the biting adolescent tension of the Harry Potter movies. Momoa...

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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Play Streaming

The conceptual sci-fi of the original series is nowhere to be found, though you might enjoy watching the skinny young actors approximate their counterparts from the 60s; Chris Pine is especially good as Captain Kirk.. For all its reckoning with mass destruction, this franchise's vision of a future Earth remains optimistic. The film mixes the iconically familiar with the futuristic.. The film is, for whatever else it might be, one of the funniest of the Star Trek entries.. Abrams boldly goes into...

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Clash of the Titans (2010) Play Streaming

It doesn't soar (though Pegasus the winged horse is captivating).. Apparently the gods need better agents.. At the moment when Sam Worthington, trapped inside a giant scorpion, sword-hacked his way through the dorsal carapace and poked the upper half of his body through the opening as if it were a sunroof, I fell in love with Clash of the Titans.. If you're into Greek mythos, or action, or slightly cheesy (but knowing) humor, then this should prove an adequate source of entertainment.. It doesn'...

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Brave (2012) Download Movie

Youngsters with a taste for adventure will no doubt overlook the movie's workmanlike outlines and applaud its spirited, self-reliant heroine, who proves to be as appealingly unruly as her tumble of Titian curls.. It starts with a great story - of love and politics, time travel and mystical pathways between planets - badly sucked dry.. The Pixar name used to mean something. And it never quite meant pleasantly safe, safely forgettable movies like this.. The story, with its patchwork of plots (invo...

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