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John Wick

John Wick review

Keanu Reeves kills it as a legendary assassin forced out of retirement, in what's easily one of the coolest and most original action movies of the year.
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The Walking Dead weekly recap: ‘Strangers’ in a strange land

The cannibals of Terminus return and gain a big, fat, barbecued leg up over Rick's group of survivors.
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The Walking Dead weekly recap: There’s ‘No Sanctuary’ in the season premiere

Lines are drawn in the sand between the good guys and the bad guys as AMC's ratings monster returns for its fifth season premiere.
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The Strain weekly recap: ‘The Master’ lacks teeth in the season finale

FX's vampire drama ends with a whimper; can season two pick up the pieces, or is the damage done?
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The Strain weekly recap: Everybody wins with ‘Last Rites’

Ephraim Goodweather, Abraham Setrakian, and the rest of the cast of FX's The Strain taste victory in one of the show's most triumphant hours in weeks.
The Equalizer

The Equalizer review

Denzel Washington's hard R-rated action thriller is like Liam Neeson's Taken, with more personality and a deadlier villain.

The Strain weekly recap: Bad parenting plagues ‘The Third Rail

Ephraim Goodweather decisively loses the Father of the Year award during the latest episode of FX's The Strain.
The Maze Runner

The Maze Runner review

Less Hunger Games or Twilight and more Law & Order meets Lost, The Maze Runner features strong performances in a strongly-rendered world, albeit with a messy final twist.
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A Walk Among The Tombstones review

Liam Neeson leads the way through a sleepy thriller about serial killers in New York City circa 1999.
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The Strain weekly recap: Time runs out for Eph’s ‘Loved Ones’

Ephraim Goodweather resumes the search for his missing wife, and he doesn't like what he finds, as the mystery of The Strain continues.

The Strain weekly recap: The will to live has not ‘Disappeared’

Abraham Setrakian faces clear and present (and past) dangers in an all-new episode of The Strain, titled "The Disappeared."
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The Strain weekly recap: Lighting up the ‘Creatures Of The Night’

Ephraim Goodweather and Abraham Setrakian lose an old friend, but gain a new ally, on the latest pulse-pounding hour of FX's vampire thriller.
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The Strain weekly recap: Old debts are paid on ‘For Services Rendered’

The latest hour of 'The Strain' sees the bitter blood feud between Abraham Setrakian and Thomas Eichorst at its earliest days, all the way back in a Poland concentration camp in 1944.
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Sin City: A Dame To Kill For review

Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez return to Sin City's familiar sights and sounds of violence — and while there's beauty in its brutality, there's undeniable ugliness, too.
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The Strain weekly recap: ‘Occultation’ moons New York

Vampires run rampant throughout New York City on the latest episode of FX's The Strain.
The Expendables 3

The Expendables 3 review

Less a movie and more a playdate, The Expendables 3 is pretty boring and kind of embarrassing, except when it's the Wesley Snipes show.
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The Strain weekly recap: The truth shall set all ‘Runaways’ free

Ephraim Goodweather wakes up to the reality of the vampire plague, as it swarms across Manhattan in the fifth episode of The Strain.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles review

Leonardo leads and Michelangelo farts all over the new Ninja Turtles movie from director Jonathan Liebesman and producer Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes.
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The Strain weekly recap: Vampire-slaying is ‘Not For Everyone’

A growing sense of danger pervades the fourth episode of The Strain as some major characters struggle with a rapidly deteriorating situation in New York.
Guardians of the Galaxy

Guardians of the Galaxy review

The newest Marvel Studios movie isn't the most emotionally complicated blockbuster of the year, but it wins for sheer fun an entertainment value.
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The Strain weekly recap: Everyone is lying to you

"Liar, liar, head on fire extinguisher." Everything witnessed on this week's new episode of The Strain was little more than a baldfaced lie.
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Planting bloody handprints is all in a (long) day’s work for Guillermo Del Toro

The acclaimed filmmaker walks Digital Trends through the set of his new haunted house movie, set to premiere in October 2015.
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The Strain weekly recap: ‘The Box’ contains an ancient blood feud

The second episode of The Strain paints an even darker portrait of humanity's future, but also introduces hope in the form of a new character (and Lost vet).
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The Strain weekly recap: Love Is All You Need On ‘Night Zero’

'Night Zero' kicks off our first weekly recap of The Strain, the FX vampire series adapted from the book trilogy by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes review

Hail Caesar! Rich characters and performances, technological innovation, and a powerful perspective on war and peace combine to create one of the year's very best films.
Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Transformers: Age Of Extinction review

Michael Bay's fourth film in the record-breaking, robot-smashing blockbuster franchise is definitely a movie that exists.
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Game of Thrones Weekly Recap: Suffer ‘The Children’ at the close of Season Four

We recap the newest episodes of Game of Thrones each week. The series' best season has come to an end, marked by the fall of one Lannister and the rise of another.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller on leaping from animation to Jump Street

The 22 Jump Street filmmakers tell Digital Trends about how they met, what they learned while working together on Clone High, and how they use crippling fear as an empowering motivator.
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The Signal Review

The Signal dives down the rabbit hole to tell a provocative science fiction story that scrawls meanings on the walls of the mind with a heavy pen.
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22 Jump Street Review

Directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller put Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum back on the case -- like, almost the exact same case. Don't worry, it works.
Edge of Tomorrow

Edge of Tomorrow review

Tom Cruise dies and dies some more in director Doug Liman's adaptation of the Japanese novel All You Need is Kill, a film that marries the best of Groundhog Day and Starship Troopers.
XMen Days of Future Past

X-Men Days of Future Past review

X-Men: Days of Future Past is The Avengers of X-Men films, a big, bad “inbetweenquel” that’s packed with familiar faces and deep-cut nods from two different continuities.
Godzilla movie review

Godzilla review

Godzilla is a tale of sweeping destruction with Bryan Cranston delivering one of the best blockbuster performances in recent years, but it lacks a human heart.
Neighbors movie

Neighbors review

For all the raunchy college hijinks and neighbor-vs-neighbor tomfoolery, director Nicholas Stoller finds a human heart in Neighbors’ filthy fun.