The trailer for “Guardians of the Galaxy” debuted in February, and its peculiar tone, coupled with its liberal use of Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling,” made it the one summer blockbuster I was verifiably tingly to see.
Christopher Lawrence
Christopher Lawrence is the movie critic for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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An ordinary young woman is given extraordinary powers when she ingests too much of a designer drug. It sounds like something Stan Lee and John Belushi might have concocted. Unfortunately, the reality is twice as nutty and roughly half as entertaining.
During the annual 12-hour nightmare known as The Purge, virtually every crime known to man is legal.
Oh, sure, they’re adorable when they’re little, wearing tiny outfits, learning sign language and scampering about the house like itty-bitty Parkour experts. Then, the next thing you know, they’re all grown up and taking the world by storm in “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.”