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The Incredibles -- A Now Playing Bonus Review

Now Playing Presents: The DC Comics Movie Hitmen Retrospective Series - February 27, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Pixar 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 DC Comics Movie Hitmen Retrospective Series - February 24, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
An 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...

RED 2

Now Playing Presents: The DC Comics Movie Hitmen Retrospective Series - August 06, 2013 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, and all their surviving operatives get a sequel in their sixties with RED 2. Do newcomers Anthony Hopkins and Catherine-Zeta Jones inject fresh blood into this franchise, or has the joke gotten too old even for this crew? Listen and find out.

RED

Now Playing Presents: The DC Comics Movie Hitmen Retrospective Series - July 30, 2013 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
80s action star Bruce Willis may have gotten older, but he's still considered RED - retired and extremely dangerous. Do Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie have a laugh watching senior citizens strap on pistols to blow holes in the CIA's rep, or is this AARP action-comedy D.O.A.? Listen and find out.

The Losers

Now Playing Presents: The DC Comics Movie Hitmen Retrospective Series - July 23, 2013 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Comic book vets Chris Evans and Idris Elba have joined THE LOSERS - a ragtag band of mercenaries out to punish CIA baddie Jason Patric for a failed Bolivian mission. Should Avatar babe Zoe Saldana trust these C-stringers to get the job done, or should she just call the A-Team? Listen and find o...

V for Vendetta

Now Playing Presents: The DC Comics Movie Hitmen Retrospective Series - July 09, 2013 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Has sweet little Natalie Portman been palling around with terrorists? A masked swashbuckler known only as V For Vendetta hopes she'll help him rescue future London from dictators, but has Wachowski script tinkering disfigured this classic Alan Moore comic book as well? Listen and find out.

V For Vendetta

Now Playing Presents: The DC Comics Movie Hitmen Retrospective Series - July 09, 2013 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Has sweet little Natalie Portman been palling around with terrorists? A masked swashbuckler known only as V For Vendetta hopes she'll help him rescue future London from dictators, but has Wachowski script tinkering disfigured this classic Alan Moore comic book as well? Listen and find out.

A History of Violence

Now Playing Presents: The DC Comics Movie Hitmen Retrospective Series - July 02, 2013 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Viggo Mortensen looks like an unassuming small town diner owner, but to a crew of Philly hoods he's a thug with A History of Violence. Does director David Cronenberg split opinion in his radical reworking of the graphic novel? Listen and find out.

Road to Perdition

Now Playing Presents: The DC Comics Movie Hitmen Retrospective Series - June 25, 2013 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Tom Hanks is a cold blooded killer heading down the Road to Perdition, hoping to deliver his son from Irish mobsters he once considered family. Has director Sam Mendes made a comic book Godfather, or is this an offer that Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie easily refuse. Listen and find out.