Film review: BAD GRANDPA, from Built For Speed

Bad Grandpa is the latest prank-fest from those renowned purveyors of low-brow cinema, Jackass.  These guys having been putting their testicle-smashing, flesh-burning, skull-cracking stunts on film for over a decade but what may have once been shocking and edgy is now becoming familiar and predictable.  Perhaps aware of this, the group’s Johnny Knoxville has with Bad Grandpa, attempted to transplant

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Film review: THE LAST STAND, from Built For Speed

The Last Stand Having ditched politics (at least officially), Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to what he does best, ludicrous, NRA-approved, gun-worshipping action movies. In The Last Stand he’s back playing a noble, heroic, skull-stomping, right-wing authority figure blowing away those evil non-Americans. He’s Sheriff Ray Owens who presides over the Arizona back blocks town of Somerton. Police work in Somerton usually

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