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ENTER MORTDECAI-MOVIE-REVIEW 1 MCT

Good mystery, bad comedy

By Allison Wagner · Wednesday, Jan. 28,2015 10:18 p.m.

“Mortdecai” Grade:  C Angry Russians, scary terrorists, and stolen Nazi art, in a film full of typical characters, “Mortdecai” is not so typical.   Filled with slap-stick humor and lavish sets, “Mortdecai” takes the viewer across the world, getting the main character in all sorts of trouble.  Johnny Depp transforms himself into the character of Charlie Mortdecai, a pompous, British, shady art dealer with a mustache awaiting its day of reckoning.

ENTER BOYNEXTDOOR-MOVIE-REVIEW 3 FR

Creepy day in the neighborhood

By Lexia Banks · Wednesday, Jan. 28,2015 10:11 p.m.

“The Boy Next Door” Grade: D If I pay for the U-Haul, will “The Boy Next Door” please move away? Jennifer Lopez dips back into the acting pool as Claire Peterson, a high school English teacher going through a divorce.

Whites, camera, action

Whites, camera, action

By Lexia Banks · Wednesday, Jan. 21,2015 8:28 p.m.

There are two days a year that every movie lover has marked on their calendar, possibly circled in red pen, maybe some arrows pointing at them and more than likely they have programmed some reminders into their phones for the weeks ahead: their mom’s birthday and the Academy Awards. The Oscars are like Christmas for cinephiles.

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'Broad City' pushes buttons

By Griffin Leeds · Wednesday, Jan. 21,2015 8:21 p.m.

“Broad City” (S02E02) “Heat” Grade: A- The world feels a little bit funnier as the psychedelic bubble letters flood the screen.  That's right, “Broad City” is back.  The season two premiere of the Comedy Central femme-tastic comedy starring Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson and produced by Amy Poehler featured all that a fan could ask for: Seth Rogen, trip sequences, kittens and more reasons to hate homebody Matt Bevers, who is played by John Gemberling.  The show was pretty typical to the style seen in its previous and beloved debut season.

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'Tetsuo & Youth' is a 'wordsmithing playground'

By Sam Beishuizen · Wednesday, Jan. 21,2015 8:19 p.m.

Lupe Fiasco is back. And in case you’ve forgotten, he’s here to remind you how freaking clever he is with his latest album Tetsuo & Youth. The 16-track album sounds as if it’s exactly what the Chicago emcee has been trying to make for years.

ENTER MOVIE-BLACKHAT-MANN 3 LA

Mann fails to rebuild reputation in 'Blackhat'

By Dylan Corbeill · Wednesday, Jan. 21,2015 8:17 p.m.

"Blackhat" Grade: D+ Michael Mann is a director known for creating exceptionally intense, atmospheric, and emotionally-driven films of every caliber imaginable...well, once in a while anyway.  While he is responsible for bringing the 1995 epic crime drama “Heat” to the screen, which he is mostly known for as well, there have been other films of equal potential that fell flat on their faces (Miami Vice, Manhunter, Public Enemies).  Plagued with a bout of awkward sequences, mind-numbingly boring dialogue accompanied by stagnant acting, Mann seemed like he was trying too hard to regain his footing.

ENTER WEDDINGRINGER-MOVIE-REVIEW-ADV16 4 MCT

'The Wedding Ringer' cliché but still funny

By Allison Wagner · Wednesday, Jan. 21,2015 8:14 p.m.

“The Wedding Ringer” Grade: C+ When emotionally and mentally invigorating movies are flooding the screen during Oscars season, there are always one or two to save us from taking ourselves too seriously.

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Smashing Pumpkin's album fails to deliver

By Dylan Corbeill · Wednesday, Dec. 10,2014 8:27 p.m.

'Monuments to an Elegy' D It’s not too hard to figure out why the Smashing Pumpkins, as well as other like-minded acts of the 90s, became so massively popular during its decade in the limelight.

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WikiLeaks retold

By Ciara Doll · Wednesday, Dec. 10,2014 8:09 p.m.

"Citizenfour" A Spies. Code breakers. International scandal.  Aspects found in almost any action film.  But this is no fictionalized drama.  This is the very real and very dangerous world of whistleblowing, as told through the first-hand account of Edward Snowden’s NSA leak in Laura Poitras’s “Citizenfour.” The film tells the true story of Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, two journalists who receive encrypted emails from an anonymous government source, claiming to have top-secret information regarding the largest security operations in the United States.

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"The Theory of Everything" review

By Allison Wagner · Wednesday, Dec. 10,2014 8:08 p.m.

“The Theory of Everything” B Promise me you’ll give yourself 20 minutes before judging this movie.  “The Theory of Everything” tells the love story of Stephen and Jane Hawking.  It has a little something for everyone - drama, romance, medicine and science flood the screen and all intertwine themselves so perfectly, you won’t even realize it’s happening. But seriously, give yourself 20 minutes before coming to this conclusion. Stephen Hawking, played by screen by Eddie Redmayne, and Jane Wilde, played by Felicity Jones, meet at college party.  Relatable, yes.

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