No one destroys the world like director Roland Emmerich, and 2012 may very well be his masterpiece. Having wiped out humanity in Independence Day, Godzilla and The Day After Tomorrow, the director pul

There’s a meandering quality to Grant Heslov’s The Men Who Stare at Goats, an odd but entertaining semi-fictional look at a secret government program whose purpose was to train soldiers to

Film biographies, or bio-pics as they were called, were a staple of film studios of the ’30s and ’40s, particularly at Warner Brothers which perfected the formula of using A-List stars to

I wasn’t sure what to expect from the Michael Jackson documentary This is It but I didn’t anticipate being bored. However, that’s exactly how I felt sitting through this cobbled-toge

A trend has emerged where franchise filmmaking is concerned. Often, the second part of a given series of movies winds up being better than the first. So much time is spent in part one on the expositio

The premise of Scott Hicks’ The Boys are Back has movie-of-the-week written all over it. Joe Warr (Clive Owen), a dad who’s hardly ever around, finds himself adrift when he’s faced with raising his young son after wife succumbs to cancer.

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Foxx is Philadelphia District Attorney Nick Rice, a lawyer more interested in how many successful convictions he has under his belt rather than seeing justice done. He cuts deals with opposing counsel with nary a second thought, but that comes back to haunt him when he accepts a plea in a case where two lowlifes are on trial for killing Clyde Shelton’s (Butler) wife and daughter. Firmly believing that revenge is a meal best served cold, the incensed widower undertakes a 10-year plan in which he will have his vengeance not only on the pair who slaughtered his family but also on Rice and the justice system itself.

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