Category Archives: Movies

Weekly movie reviews on the movies that matter by KevtheStampede. Because, you know, it matters.

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Let Me In starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Cara Buono, Elias Koteas directed by Matt Reeves With the recent explosion in popularity of vampires, it seems Hollywood is hard pressed to go more than a few months without making another movie about blood suckers. This then begs the question: Why go see this particular vampire flick? What makes [...]
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This…Is…Ga’Hoole!!!

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole starring Essie Davis, Joel Edgerton, Ryan Kwanten, Helen Mirren, Sam Neill, Richard Roxburgh, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham directed by Zack Snyder Zack Snyder is known mostly for his hard hitting R-Rated flicks such as 2006’s Dawn of the Dead remake, 300, and The Watchmen. All solid, [...]
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Apparently Greed IS Good.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps starring Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella, Charlie Sheen directed by Oliver Stone I guess it makes sense with the last two years of the United States’ economic woes that a film such as Wall Street would become relevant once again. Oliver Stone’s classic manifesto on corruption [...]
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Rob the Bank, Get the Girl

The Town starring Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Pete Postlethwaite, Chris Cooper directed by Ben Affleck When it comes down to it, you either really like Ben Affleck for films like Chasing Amy and Good Will Hunting, or you can’t stand him because of films like Jersey Girl or the much despised Gigli. Love [...]
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The Devil You Know…

Devil starring Chris Messina, Logan Marshall-Green, Jenny O’Hara, Bojana Novakovic, Bokeem Woodbine, Geoffrey Arend, Jacob Vargas, Matt Craven directed by John Erick Dowdle Seems that M. Night Shyamalan is at it again. This time, its a little multi-picture project that he is calling The Night Chronicles; Mr. Shyamalan is writing three horror scripts and giving them to other [...]
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Milla’s Irrelevant Evil

Resident Evil: Afterlife starring Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts, Boris Kodjoe, Wentworth Miller, Sienna Guillory directed by Paul W. S. Anderson Everyone loves a good zombie apocalypse story. Its one of the reasons that the Resident Evil video game franchise is so successful, along with its film adaptation and sequels. Afterlife looks to be interesting; not only is [...]
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The Reluctant Hitman

The American starring George Clooney, Thekla Reuten, Violante Placido, Johan Leysen, Paolo Bonacelli directed by Anton Corbijn George Clooney is a man of many faces; he’s played a hardened fishing captain in The Perfect Storm, a duped lawyer in Intolerable Cruelty, a sophisticated crook in Ocean’s Eleven, an aloof businessman in Up in the Air, and even a [...]
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Danny Trejo Leads La Revolucion!

Machete starring Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Michelle Rodriguez, Jeff Fahey, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson, Shea Whigham, Lindsay Lohan, Tom Savini directed by Ethan Maniquis and Robert Rodriguez When people left the theater after seeing 2007’s concept film Grindhouse, they were talking about one thing: the short trailer called Machete. The trailer was a fake, [...]
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A Modern (Complicated) Family

The Kids Are All Right starring Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson directed by Lisa Cholodenko There’s nothing quite like a good Dram-edy; they’ll keep you laughing all the way through, but still leave room for a solid catharsis before you walk away. There’s definitely nothing wrong with having a little fun while making [...]
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Piranhas…on a Boat…in 3D

Piranha 3D starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ving Rhames, Elisabeth Shue, Christopher Lloyd, Eli Roth, Jerry O’Connell, Steven R. McQueen, Kelly Brook, Adam Scott, Riley Steele directed by Alexandre Aja Upon first seeing the trailer for Piranha 3D, my jaw dropped and I wondered at how anyone could finance such an obvious piece of crap, much less pay for a movie [...]
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