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During a reconnaissance mission in Kuwait before the start of Desert Storm, a U.S. Army patrol was ambushed by Iraqi forces. Somehow, Sgt. Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) managed to fight off the attackers — as well as their helicopter support — and then led his own men to safety. ForContinue Reading

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The Last Samurai tells the story of Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), an American war hero who finds himself in Japan training an army for the Emperor. The Emperor (Shichinosuke Nakamura) is attempting to modernize 1876 Japan in a Western fashion and needs to put down a rebellion by the samuraiContinue Reading

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Following 1999’s South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Trey Parker and Matt Stone return to the big-screen with Team America: World Police, a movie satirizing the world as it exists today. To make it even more interesting, it’s all done with puppets. In this brutally funny send-up of Jerry Bruckheimer’sContinue Reading

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In my review of 2002’s blockbuster, Spider-Man, I said that it was good but it missed the mark on a few key elements: the villain’s motivation and the love story. Sam Raimi must have read my review because the sequel, aptly named Spider-Man 2, not only fixes those problems butContinue Reading

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Delayed from its original February release date, Kill Bill: Vol. 2 continues the story from (surprise!) Kill Bill: Vol. 1, which was released last November. That story, of course, concerns the unnamed bride (Uma Thurman) who was left for dead at the hands of Bill (David Carradine) and a team of assassins followingContinue Reading