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Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Lucy

Lucy is the new film by director Luc Besson (Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element) staring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman. Lucy is a woman living in Taipei, Taiwan, who is forced to be a drug mule for the mob. A drug implanted in her body inadvertently leaks into her system, which allows her to

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Movie Issues: Captain America The Winter Soldier

The first Marvel movie of 2014 has arrived, and not just with a bang, it comes in with a bang, boom, and pow! Captain America: The Winter Soldier is here. And not only did it deliver in every way a Marvel fan would want, it manages to make an already great movie universe even better and brighter.

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Movie Issues: Her

Spike Jonze’s new drama, Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson, is the story about a lonely writer who, after a devastating break-up, develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that is designed to meet his every need. This soon ponders the nature of love in the impending virtual world. It dares to

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Leland Pierce

Review: Don Jon

Joseph Gordon-Levitt pulls the trifecta in Don Jon: writing, directing, and starring in a movie about a dude coming to grips with the vapid nature of his existence and the difference between love and what transpires in smut films. He finds that real sex doesn’t measure up to the fantasy of online pornography, where he

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