Category: 2010s

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2010s / Comedy / Fantasy

Your Highness (2011)

Danny McBride (Up in the Air, The Heartbreak Kid) and James Franco (127 Hours, Spider-Man 3) star in this comedic fantasy sword-and-sorcery adventure that resembles a bad Mel Brooks farce (an opening scene with ‘midgets’ would...

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2010s / Science Fiction / Western

Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

An extremely loose, glossy adaptation of the relatively obscure 2006 independent studio graphic novel of the same name by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys & Aliens isn’t the first mash-up of Westerns and science fiction (Westworld, Wild Wild...

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2010s / Comedy

Cedar Rapids (2011)

Ed Helms plays Tim Lippe, an insurance salesperson who lived a highly sheltered life in a small town in Wisconsin. The insurance company’s top salesman (Lennon) suffers a fatal accident that showcases him as a...

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2010s / Comedy

Bad Teacher (2011)

This generically titled film is about, you guessed it, a bad teacher.  The only title more fitting would have been Bad Movie, though I suppose that might not be necessary, as any film where the...

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2010s / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance

Midnight in Paris (2011)

Owen Wilson stars as a Hollywood hack screenwriter named Gil, traveling to his favorite city, Paris, with his fiancée Inez (McAdams) and her parents, John (Fuller) and Helen (Kennedy).  Paris brings out the romanticized notions of...

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2010s / Action / Fantasy / Superhero

Thor (2011)

Hard to call it a superhero film when it is about a Norse god, but given its comic book pedigree, that it’s a Stan Lee and Jack Kirby creation, and Thor’s future inclusion in...

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2010s / Adventure / Drama

127 Hours (2010)

Acclaimed filmmaker Danny Boyle directs and co-writes the adaptation of the inspirational memoirs of Aron Ralston’s true-life tale of survival.  Ralston (Franco), an avid adventurist, became trapped during a fall in a crevice in...

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2010s / Action / Mystery / Science Fiction / Thriller

Source Code (2011)

Oh, how to relate the plot? Jake Gyllenhaal (Prince of Persia, Jarhead) stars as Air Force Captain Colter Stevens, a U.S. pilot in the War in Afghanistan who finds himself inhabiting the body of a...