Dredd 3D — Remember when beloved comics properties like Judge Dredd were turned over to slumming, uncaring stewards like Sylvester Stallone? Now they become fall-doldrum “star vehicles” for the likes of Karl Urban to sink their teeth into between voice-over sessions for Star Trek video games. Ah, progress. (R)
[youtube 2AMMCPms2go] End of Watch — Reviewed this week. (R)
House at the End of the Street — The mother-daughter team of Elisabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence move into a new town and become embroiled in the aftermath of a killing that once went on right next door. Despite the familiar-sounding title, the movie is not a remake of The Last House on the Left, The Cabin in the Woods, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane or even The Shop Around the Corner. (PG-13)
[youtube 7V9thTmoc_s] Klown — Reviewed this week. (R)
The Master — Reviewed this week. (R)
Trouble With the Curve — An on-the-ropes baseball scout (Clint Eastwood) takes his daughter (Amy Adams) along on a trip to find new talent that could save his career. SPOILER ALERT: In the film’s hilarious climax, she falls and hits her head on a stadium seat, rendering her a vegetable and giving him two inanimate objects to argue with. (PG-13)
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This article appears in Sep 19-25, 2012.