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Free passes to the Baltimore screening of The Way Way Back. Way!

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Mmm, summer movies.  All that lovely air conditioning.  Tons of popcorn.  And a good movie?  Yes please.  So when we got word of this promo, we jumped on it.  The movie The Way Way Back is a must for folks who are fans of Little Miss Sunshine and Juno; it’s from the studio that gave us those cool films!  Interest piqued?  Yeah it is.

The synopsis, from our groovy PR gurus:

THE WAY, WAY BACK is the funny and poignant coming of age story of 14-year-old Duncan’s (Liam James) summer vacation with his mother, Pam (Toni Collette), her overbearing boyfriend, Trent (Steve Carell), and his daughter, Steph (Zoe Levin).  Having a rough time fitting in, the introverted Duncan finds an unexpected friend in gregarious Owen (Sam Rockwell), manager of the Water Wizz water park. Through his funny, clandestine friendship with Owen, Duncan slowly opens up to and begins to finally find his place in the world – all during a summer he will never forget.

Ready to get your hands on some passes?  Read on my friends.  Read on….

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Movie Review: World War Z

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 Look — up in the sky!  It’s a bird!  It’s a plane!  No, it’s a zombie leaping out to try to grab your helicopter!  Man you’ve gotta hate when that happens.  While a few folks in the theater seemed to giggle, the rest of us got our good ol’ fashioned creep on.  Because World War Z perfectly melds the action and horror genres, coming up with something nobody wants to see in a horror movie, a fully functioning hybrid.  And with the PG-13 rating there’s not much gore in this film.  I didn’t really miss it, I never had the time to think about it.  Yeah, there’s that much action.   if you’re looking for an action-packed popcorn fest that’s low on gore but crammed with zombies?  Honey, buy that extra-large popcorn right now.

Much has been said of the many rewrites, script-doctoring and post-production shuffles World War Z went through.  However, the final product shows no wear and tear in that regard.  This is the thinking man’s horror film, something that demands that you sit back and absorb how things work in our world — and in the natural kingdom — in order to get the most out of your spooky.  Since Hollywood loves to throw down comparisons (and let’s face it, so do I), I’d say you can think of this as The Walking Dead meets Contagion.

World War Z doesn’t go for the cheap gore (though I am a fan of that kinda thing) or booga-booga scares.  It takes Gerry (Brad Pitt, in a wonderfully down-to-earth role) and his family through hell as they try to escape a sudden and inexplicable outbreak of a virus so horrible that it takes you from bite to death to undeath/resurrection by virus in 12 seconds.  The virus runs the show, taking control of human beings and turning them into one-man virus armies with one goal; to spread the virus.  Teeth clack ominously, mobs of infected/zombies hurl themselves at a wall so others may make it over and infect the living.  World War Z hired researchers to give the film a feeling of something that could actually happen.  “If everyone was infected with the same virus, they would exhibit collective behavior,” says biologist David Hughes, a scientist this film hired to get a handle on how a virus may turn us into running, biting machines.  Seeing that idea played out on the big screen?  Ulp.

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Free Baltimore Screening: The Heat – 6/25

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It’s June.  Time to head to the movie theater, if only for the a/c.  But how about heading to the theater because the movie sounds cool?  Or in this case, hot; we’ve got screening passes to The Heat y’all!

From our PR posse:

Uptight FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) and foul-mouthed Boston cop Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy) couldn’t be more incompatible. But when they join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected: buddies. From Paul Feig, director of “Bridesmaids.”

C’mon; Bullock and McCarthy?  You know it’s gonna be crazy fun.  I loved Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality, and I’ll watch Melissa McCarthy read the phone book.

Read on for how to score yourself a pass!

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Free passes: Baltimore screening of White House Down

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Summer movie season is here y’all!  And so why not save a few bucks and catch a free screening?  I knew y’all would be down with that.

We’ve got screening passes to the June 25th Baltimore area screening of White House Down.  Jamie Foxx as POTUS?  I’m guessing the D is still silent….

From our lovely and talented PR folks:

In Columbia Pictures’ White House Down, Capitol Policeman John Cale (Channing Tatum) has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx). Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation’s government falling into chaos and time running out, it’s up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.

It’s directed by Roland “Heck yeah I made aliens IBM compatible” Emmerich, of Independence Day, so you know it’s gonna be a popcorn-palooza.  (What?  I love ID4.  It’s absurd, but damn if it doesn’t get me Every Single Time.)

Read on for how to score yourselves a pass!

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Baltimore Screening: World War Z – June 18, 2013

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Just when you thought it was safe to not shoot shuffling hordes in the head…. Wanna get in on how to save the world from the zombie invasion?  Of course you do.  And we’re here to help, with free passes to the Baltimore screening of World War Z.  Squee!  Yeah, I squee’d.  I’m excited, I won’t lie.

From the fabulous folks that bring us all our PR goodies:

A former UN investigator is thrust into the middle of trying to stop what could be the end of the world.  Worldwide destruction sends him around the globe seeking clues about what they are fighting and what it will take to defeat it, as he tries to save the lives of billions of strangers, as well as his own beloved family.

And don’t forget to check out the trailer.  Because it’s kinda awesome.  Plus, it’s PG-13, so there’ll be more gangbusters than gore, methinks.  Which means you don’t have to pass on munchies.  You’ll be able to keep ’em down.

Read on for exactly how to get some face time with Brad Pitt and the zombies!

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World War Z! Muse! London! Pictures!

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Yippee — it’s June!  And you know what that means?  No, not an even more excessive use of exclamation points from me.  It means that we’re thisclose to seeing World War Z on the big screen!  Another exclamation!  Worth it!

Ahem.  Anyway, the World Premiere was in London and it looked (like I missed it) awesome.  And bonus for all you music lovers out there; Muse held a concert.  Yeah, I know; I like ’em too.  Panic Station, anyone?  Yeah baby.  Oh; Muse has a song on the WWZ soundtrack.  Which is just one more plus in that film’s column, if you ask me.

A few pics from the event, to make it seem like you were there.  Just try to brush the Pop-Tart crumbs off your gym shorts first.  It’ll give you that classy feel.  And you’ll be one step ahead of me.

World War Z opens June 21, 2013.  Let ’em come!  Another exclamation!  Maybe this is the month of heightened excitement?

Movie Review: After Earth

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Father and son.  Is there anything more adorable?  Well, maybe a puppy licking ice cream.  But really, the theme of father and son is something that tends to warm the cockles of anyone’s heart.  And since warm cockles is a good thing (so I’ve heard; as I don’t know what a cockle is, I’ll take that as truth) wouldn’t the team of Jaden Smith and his father Will be just a cute fest of awesome?  Well….

Cute fest?  Yes.  Absolutely.  Awesome?  Um, not so much.  Their new movie After Earth isn’t bad.  The problem is After Earth isn’t particularly good either.  Sorry M. Night Shyamalan, you’ll have to look to your next directorial effort for redemption from The Last Airbender.  Or The Lady In The Water.  Or The Happening.  Perhaps a vacation to rejuvenate is in order?  I hear stone massages are the bomb.

Speaking of bombs, After Earth takes place after we humans crapped up the planet we call home.  And much like locusts, we then flew off to someplace else (and probably crapped that up too), leaving Earth to go do it’s own thing.  A thousand years later, Earth is Darwin’s theory come true, with all sorts of evolved beasties turning our once habitable planet into a danger zone of the highest order.  Heck, humans can’t even breathe the air comfortably anymore, as Earth’s atmosphere is too low in oxygen to support the current crop of folks.  Meanwhile, on the planet humans now call home, there are dangerous beasties too; aliens called Ursa that can carve us up like deli meat and sniff us out based on our fear are hunted by the Ranger Corps.  Nobody embodies the Ranger Corps better than living legend Cypher Raige (Will Smith).  Problem is, his young wanna-be Ranger son Kitai (Jaden Smith) lacks the discipline necessary to “Ghost” — turning off fear so the alien beasties can’t find you — and isn’t making the grade.  But Cyper decides to bring Kitai on a training mission or something (honestly, it’s tough to care enough to remember) and when things go wonky, guess where they crash land?  With a captured Ursa on board?  That totally gets loose?  With Kitai the only one that can save his dad?  Yeah, you’re absolutely right.

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Baltimore Screening: The Internship – 6/4/2013

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Hi everybody!  Feels like summer, right?  Well, that means heading to the theater (I like the air conditioning.  Don’t judge me.)  How about heading out to catch a screening of The Internship?  Thought so!

Here’s the deets on the film, from our beloved PR folks:

THE INTERNSHIP stars Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn as salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. Trying to prove they are not obsolete, they defy the odds by talking their way into a coveted internship at Google, along with a battalion of brilliant college students. But, gaining entrance to this utopia is only half the battle. Now they must compete with a group of the nation’s most elite, tech-savvy geniuses, to prove that necessity really is the mother of re-invention.

 

The Internship opens wide on June 7th, 2013.  Read on for how to score yourself a pass!

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Baltimore Screening: The Kings of Summer

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Okay, second screening of the day.  Because I love you!  This time it’s to The Kings of Summer.  Because yay, summer!  And because we’ve got 100 passes to give away!  Double yay!

And because I’m super busy today (okay, it’s because I have a very sick kitty.  And I’m a hover-kitty-human/mom) I’m just popping the code up.  Cool?  Thought so.

But first, the synopsis from IMDb:

Three teenage friends, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land.

What: Screening passes to The Kings of Summer

Where: Baltimore area (as always, winners will get the exact deets)

When: Wednesday, June 5th

Why:  Again, summer!

How: GOFOBO y’all.  Hit up www.gofobo.com/rsvp and enter code GFE6HNG

Good luck everyone, and happy pre-Memorial Day weekend!

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This Is The End — free screening, Baltimore!

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This is the end.  No, I’m not channeling Jim Morrison.  Nor am I suddenly worried about End Times.  In fact, I’m kinda psyched about it.  Why?  Because This Is The End is coming!  C’mon; you’ve seen the trailer, and it looks hilarious.  Who doesn’t love when actors make fun of themselves?  Add an apocalyptic theme and it’s Denise catnip.  And I’m betting it’s catnip to you too, because I’ve got free passes to the advance screening.  Yeah baby, the end of the world is free.

From IMDb:

While attending a party at James Franco’s house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse.

Hello; EMMA WATSON is facing the apocalypse!  With an axe!

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And if you’re not dying to see how Craig Robinson deals with the end of the world, I don’t wanna know you.  So read on for how to score yourself some passes…before it’s too late.
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