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Suicide Squad
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - August 10, 2016 01:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsEarlier this year DC brought Batman back to the big screen in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Now it's time for his nemesis to get the spotlight. Suicide Squad stars villains like Joker, Harley Quinn, Deadshot, and Enchantress -- a group of bad people who may be able to do some good. The ch...
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - March 29, 2016 21:29 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsIt took fifteen years of development, but now the World's Finest heroes are together on screen with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Can the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel share the screen? The box office was big but the audience divided. Now join Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob for this review t...
Watchmen
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - March 23, 2016 00:37 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsWatchmen was an acclaimed '80s comic series. It helped legitimize comics as a literary medium, and remained a bestseller for over 20 years. Yet with its complex, nonlinear narrative, all attempts to adapt it to film had failed to launch. But in 2009 director Sack Snyder, fresh off his success on...
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - March 15, 2016 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsAfter the success of the X-Men superhero properties were in demand. But before hero teams like Justice League, Watchmen, and Avengers could assemble, there was The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Sean Connery's Allan Quatermain leads a cadre of literary figures including Tom Sawyer, Dr. Jecky...
Justice League of America
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - March 01, 2016 20:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsDC has had over 15 years of television dominance. From Smallville to Arrow, The Flash, and Supergirl, the heroes of DC Comics have come to life on the small screen. But not every attempt to bring the comics to life succeeded. Birds of Prey was cancelled early, and David E. Kelley's Wonder Woman ...
Legends of the Superheroes
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - February 24, 2016 00:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsIn 1976 Wonder Woman spun into America's homes on CBS. In 1978 Superman took flight in theaters. So to capitalize on this success Hanna-Barbera brought a live-action Superfriends to TV with Legends of the Superheroes! This TV special was split into two episodes, one an adventure and the other a...
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - August 04, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsIn Tom Cruise's fifth Mission: Impossible film he finally goes up against the original television series' legendary foe -- The Syndicate. This evil group of spies and assassins has infiltrated the globe and is prepared to start a revolution. With the IMF disbanded for dangerous and risky tactic...
Mad Max: Fury Road
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - May 18, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsIt's been 30 years since the last Mad Max film, but creator George Miller was compelled to go again into the post-apocalyptic Outback. The film suffered production troubles, extensive reshoots, and eventually had to film with a new star: Tomy Hardy as Max. But now the movie is on screens and b...
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - May 05, 2015 06:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsThe 2015 summer movie season kicks off in a big way with the next Marvel Cinematic Universe film Avengers: Age of Ultron. Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, the Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye are back in front of the camera, all again under the direction of geek god Joss Whedon. But with three su...
Furious 7
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - April 07, 2015 06:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsUniversal thought the Fast and Furious franchise was unstoppable. With each new sequel grossing more than the previous installment, they fast tracked Furious 7, even if it meant losing long time series director Justin Lin and new star The Rock. But when Paul Walker died before the movie was com...
Fast & Furious 6
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - March 31, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsWith Fast Five director Justin Lin opened the car racing franchise up to a wider audience. With in his final film in the series, Fast & Furious 6, Lin tried to continue that trend, setting Vin Diesel's group of likeable outlaws against a European terrorist. The action set pieces were bigger, a...
Fast Five
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - March 24, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsDirector Justin Lin had one thought going into his third Fast and Furious movie--what if they didn't make it a Fast and Furious film. Rather than focusing on fast cars and racing, Fast Five becomes an action film involving drug dealers and spectacular chases. Culling a cadre of characters from ...
Fast and Furious
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - March 17, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsAfter the third Fast and Furious movie crashed at the box office the series could have run out of gas for good--until original stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker returned to give it a jump start! With the two headliners returning, as well as supporting cast Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster,...
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - March 10, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsThe third Fast and Furious film took a sharp turn, leaving the series' previous actors in the dust to tell a new story about a rebellious teen racing on the streets of Tokyo. The series has a new star, a new style of racing, and a new director in Justin Lin--who would return for three more Fast ...
2 Fast 2 Furious
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - March 03, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsWhen The Fast and The Furious raced up the box office Universal Pictures thought they had a franchise on their hands and hit the NOS for a sequel--with or without Vin Diesel. So for 2 Fast 2 Furious Paul Walker returns as Brian O'Connor, once again going undercover to bring down a criminal maste...
The Incredibles -- A Now Playing Bonus Review
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - February 27, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsPixar films including Toy Story, Monsters Inc., and Finding Nemo, had been smash hits. But could this success that worked on toys, fish, bugs, and beasts, work for a movie starring a roster of human characters? That was the risk they took with The Incredibles -- Pixar's first superhero film. T...
The Incredibles -- A Now Playing Bonus Review
Now Playing Presents: The Before Sunrise Retrospective Series - February 27, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPixar films including Toy Story, Monsters Inc., and Finding Nemo, had been smash hits. But could this success that worked on toys, fish, bugs, and beasts, work for a movie starring a roster of human characters? That was the risk they took with The Incredibles -- Pixar's first superhero film. T...
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Now Playing Presents: The Before Sunrise Retrospective Series - February 24, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAn undercover police officer infiltrates a group of thieves, but can he resist the lure of the subculture and do his duty? No, we're not talking the Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze film Point Break--we're reviewing the 2001 car racing film The Fast and The Furious. Starring Vin Diesel, fresh off th...
The Fast and the Furious
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - February 24, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsAn undercover police officer infiltrates a group of thieves, but can he resist the lure of the subculture and do his duty? No, we're not talking the Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze film Point Break--we're reviewing the 2001 car racing film The Fast and The Furious. Starring Vin Diesel, fresh off th...
Boyhood
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - February 10, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsThe making of this film is unlike any other: director Richard Linklater and his stars convened annually over the span of twelve years to make a movie about a boy growing into a man. The sheer scope and complexity of the project is enormous, but it was completed when Boyhood hit theaters in 2014...
Boyhood
Now Playing Presents: The Before Sunrise Retrospective Series - February 10, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe making of this film is unlike any other: director Richard Linklater and his stars convened annually over the span of twelve years to make a movie about a boy growing into a man. The sheer scope and complexity of the project is enormous, but it was completed when Boyhood hit theaters in 2014...
Before Midnight
Now Playing Presents: The Before Sunrise Retrospective Series - February 03, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's been 18 years since Céline and Jesse met on that Vienna-bound train, both in real life and for the two fictional characters played by Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke. But where has time taken these two characters? The Before... films are Richard Linklater's precursor to boyhood, returning with...
Before Sunset
Now Playing Presents: The Before Sunrise Retrospective Series - January 27, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt was unexpected that Before Sunrise, the 1995 indie romance film, would get a sequel. Long discussed by stars and director alike, the thought of Céline and Jesse reuniting on screen seemed impossible. Yet in in 2004, nine years after the original's release, audiences were able to reconnect wi...
Before Sunrise
Now Playing Presents: The Before Sunrise Retrospective Series - January 20, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt is rare for a romance film to get a sequel, but Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise actually got two! Released in 1995, the movie tells of two strangers, Jesse and Céline, and their one night together in Vienna. But nine years later the couple returned in Before Sunset, and then in 2013 their...
Interstellar
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - November 10, 2014 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsChristopher Nolan's film Interstellar tells of an Earth that is dying; those who don't starve to death will suffocate in an atmosphere turning toxic. Our only hope comes in the form of Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a farmer who crashes NASA's secret base thanks to mysterious messages from beyon...
Annabelle
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - October 10, 2014 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsLast summer's supernatural horror film The Conjuring scared up big profits for Warner Bros. Pictures. While ghostly Bathsheba terrorized the house, it was possessed doll Annabelle that stole the show. Now the porcelain poltergeist is back in her own spin-off film! The film scored much green in...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - August 12, 2014 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsPlatinum Dunes Studios has released more franchise reboots than original films, attempting to update horror classics Friday the 13th, The Amityville Horror, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre for a new generation. Their latest reboot is of a totally different sort--Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Can pr...
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - May 06, 2014 06:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsRhino. Electro. Green Goblin. In 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man the web head had a hard time defeating one bad guy, but now he is up against three. With The Amazing Spider-Man 2 director Mark Webb has an even harder challenge than rebooting the film series--he has to up the stakes while settin...
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - April 08, 2014 06:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsThe First Avenger is back in the latest film from the unstoppable Marvel Cinematic Universe. With a mysterious new assassin out to kill Captain America and S.H.I.E.L.D. turning on him, it's up to the Star Spangled man along with his friends Black Widow and new hero The Falcon to save the day. I...
Robocop (2014)
Now Playing Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series - February 18, 2014 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 272 ratingsRobocop is back! After two theatrical sequels that quickly declined in quality, a syndicated TV series, and a series of TV movies, the cyborg cop is back in theaters with a totally new take on the tale of Alex Murphy. Gone is Verhoeven's ultra-violence and satrical take on 80's business, and in...
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