Read more about the article ‘The Expendables 2’ review: A big old ’80s-flashback action cheese-fest
Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Terry Crews and Nan Yu in The Expendables 2

‘The Expendables 2’ review: A big old ’80s-flashback action cheese-fest

Ah, the nostalgia, watching action stars of the '80s stage a comeback! Saw The Expendables 2 last night, and I couldn't stop laughing at all these hulking, muscled men, tendons popping out, grunting through their lines. Their cheesy lines. It's so rife with cliches, glaring showdowns, ridiculously overblown action, bad plot devices and one-note, unspeakably evil villains that it's essentially one big cheese-fest poking fun of itself.

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Read more about the article ‘Gravity’ review: A stunning, literally cinematic masterpiece
Sandra Bullock (Ryan Stone) and George Clooney (Matt Kowalski) in Gravity

‘Gravity’ review: A stunning, literally cinematic masterpiece

Very few movies nowadays truly deserve the title "cinematic masterpiece"; but Gravity is one of them. You have to go to the cinema to view it to appreciate just how much of a masterpiece it is, and you have to watch it in 3D -- preferably in IMAX, but definitely in 3D. (And I'm speaking as someone who hates watching things in 3D.) Watching it in any other form -- on TV, on your computer; or even worse, your smartphones and tablets -- would be to rob yourself of an experience that movies have been trying to build themselves up to since the very beginnings of cinema: To immerse its viewers in an experience so akin to reality you feel you are amongst the characters on screen in that very moment.

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Read more about the article ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ review: When the White House falls, a Hero will Rise
Gerard Butler as former Secret Service agent Mike Banning on his one-man avenging quest in Olympus Has Fallen

‘Olympus Has Fallen’ review: When the White House falls, a Hero will Rise

I've been wanting to watch Olympus Has Fallen ever since I found out that Aaron Eckhart is playing the President in it. (Huge fan, handsome guy, wish he acted in more movies that weren't box-office failures.) And it lived up to its exciting promise.

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