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From The Interview Movie Official Website One of the most controversial films to ever be screened is now available on +Netflix . The Interview , starring best friends James Franco and Seth Rogan as an entertainment interview team looking to be taking seriously as real journalists who score an interview with Kim Jong Un. Rogan and Franco have become synonymous with stoner comedies ever since doing Pineapple Express together. This film with them two will make fans think of the original stoner duo, Cheech and Chong in The Corsican Brothers or any of their earlier films. As one would expect there is plenty of toilet humor and if you should find yourself snowed in by a potential blizzard, it serves its purpose. As far as being controversial, it really isn't if you have a sense of humor.  By now most people know the controversy was over threats of what would happen if the film was released to theaters. Luckily, we have the Internet and if you did not want to pay a separate ch...

Photo: FX Both The Strain TV series and book have been written about and praised here in the B-Board Jungle, so it's exciting to know a teaser trailer is out. Granted, sitting around the TV in the summer is not popular but the show usually runs well into the fall. No one is rushing anything here but if you're a fan of the show, season two looks to get way more exciting then the first season. If you haven't seen the teaser trailer check it out below. A book  2 review was done and a book 3 review should be up soon, it's hard to get through..Eph is a main focal point in it and he's hard to stay interested in.

from official Facebook page Ever since Stanley Kubrick's 2 001: A Space Oddessy movie fans and the genre of self aware artificial intelligence in science fiction is hard not to watch. Automata starring Antonio Banderas as an insurance adjuster for a giant corporation that makes robots brings an interesting skew in a commonly told story. Automata is combination of I, Robot meets District 9 in that it takes place in a fictional future earth with a class not being recognized for their work. Banderas doesn't let anyone down with his performances so his acting is great in this film. Also, it's nice when actors play roles different from what they are known for as his character, Jack is an expecting father looking for a better life. The film has some action sequences and gun play in it but Jack is more victim in this film and doesn't take part in it. The visuals by director Gabe Ibanez are well done and the effects of the robots are very believable with it's...

3 Days to Kill is a film about a top level government operative who finds out he has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. It stars Kevin Costner as the protagonist and it's about time he plays a role fitting for his age. The film has its moments in action and some laughs but over all it take a little long to get to the point. The title suggests his limited time to reconcile with his family, mainly the daughter he was not around for while playing top level assassin. The film takes place in France which is probably the only nod they give to Luc Besson who originally wrote the story. You can see Besson's influence in the film but you can also see why he would hand off the story to someone else to make. It really isn't his best work. 3 Days to Kill took me about three days to watch in pieces as it did not hold my interest for the running time. It's streaming on +Netflix right now if you have the time to kill, but so is a lot of other stuff.

Foxcatcher (2014) Sony Pictures  There is a book written by Jon Ronson called, The Psychopath Test . It covers how many big companies put people in power that are psychopathic according to the  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders  ( DSM ). This film represents an example of the subject matter of that book. Mark Schultz and his brother David have taken the sport of wrestling to its pinnacle, The Olympic Games. They both have earned gold medals and continue to coach and compete in their beloved sport but there seems to be issues among the brothers about one living under the other's shadow. Enter Jon Eluthére du Pont, millionaire philanthropist and wrestling enthusiast and his new hobby, coaching athletes. The film covers a journey among the Schultz brothers and du Pont in an invisible struggle for power that becomes deadly. Wrestlers most likely will know the outcome of this true story and the performances of Channing Tatum and Mark ...

Photo from LionsGate Ever see a film and think, "they must've had money to burn". Things that make you think this might be rushed story lines, cliche lines and characters, and straight nonsense. This film has all of those things and begs a third question, Why would Aaron Eckhart do this film? This film had ridiculously labeled good guys and bad guys which consisted of gargoyles and demons. It really had nothing to do with Frankenstein that mattered.  It could have been any character to fill in the blank but someone decided on Frankenstein's monster played by Eckhart. They sum up his backstory within the first five minutes of the film. The true story is the war between the gargoyles meant to protect humans and demons, who are just always bad. To give you an idea of the deep thinking involved in making this film, there is a Demon Prince and a Gargoyle Queen. This film should have been a Sci Fi channel release and Eckhart needs to pick better roles if he wants to...