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GIVEAWAY: Jack the Giant Slayer Blu-ray combo pack, ends 6/22

Jack the Giant Slayer came out in theaters in March, and I gave it a "Yes" review - it was a fun movie, and Nicholas Hoult was great for the part of Jack.

Warner Bros. is proud to announce the arrival of Jack the Giant Slayer released on DVD & Blu-ray on June 18, and I have one copy to give away to one of my lucky readers!

Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of this life to stop them and rescue the princess!

The question is... are you courageous enough to rescue the princess? Are you brave like Jack? Take the quiz to find out!



GIVEAWAY:
One Yes/No Films fan will win a copy of Jack and the Giant Slayer, which includes a Blu-ray, DVD, and Ultraviolet copy of the film.

Enter via the Rafflecopter form below. Contest will end on Saturday, June 22nd, at 11:59pm EST, and winners will be emailed on June 23rd and have 24 hours to respond to my email, or an alternate winner will be chosen. U.S./Canada only, please.

Good luck!

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Man of Steel

I will admit off the bat that I've only seen one of the Superman movies - Superman Returns, in 2006, starring Brandon Routh. I've been meaning to watch the Christopher Reeve movies - I love him in Somewhere in Time, which was also filmed in Michigan, at the Grand Hotel - but never got around to it. That being said, I appreciate a good superhero/action movie, and Man of Steel is that, to the max. Rabid fans of the Superman movies may feel compelled to contrast and compare with the older versions, but Man of Steel stands out on its own as a fun movie, with great 3D.

The action starts on Superman's home planet, Krypton. His parents, Jor-El (Russell Crowe) and Faora-Ul (Antje Traue), know that Krypton is crumbling around them, and make the difficult decision to send their newborn son, Kal-El, into space, towards a planet to which they've never been. At the same time, Krypton's leaders are being overthrown by General Zod (Michael Shannon), a former friend of Jor-El's, who is angry that Jor-El sent Kal-El, the only "traditional" newborn to be born in Krypton in hundreds of years, into space; Zod - SPOILER - kills Jor-El for his actions. Zod is also punished, however, and he and his henchmen (and women) are sent to a black hole of sorts, banished from the planet - even though Krypton soon ceases to exist.

Back on Earth, the newborn is found and adopted by the Kents, Martha (Diane Lane) and Jonathan (Kevin Costner), and they soon figure out that he has special abilities. He's aboard a school bus with classmates one day when the bus plunges into an icy river, and he manages to drag it to safety, saving his classmates. Jonathan tells Clark that he needs to hide this part of himself because the world isn't ready to see it ... but when that day comes, he will be able to use his powers for good, and impact many people.

This is the End

This is the End is both the weirdest and maybe the funniest movie you will see all summer. However, it had a lot of raunchy/gross stuff in it, which is not really my thing, so I loved half of the movie and wasn't really impressed with the other half. I also didn't know that it was a horror comedy (though maybe if I had watched the second red band trailer for it, I would have figured that out ...), and a lot of the "horror" parts were gross, although I will admit some were very funny as well. The moral: proceed at your own risk.

This movie is packed with stars playing themselves. The core players, however, are Seth Rogen, who picks his friend Jay Baruchel up at the airport, where he's in visiting from Montreal; Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Jonah Hill, and James Franco. The film starts off where Seth brings Jay to a party at Franco's house, even though Jay isn't really keen on going; Seth wants to introduce Jay to everyone. Everyone except Jay is having a good time, and Jay runs off to the corner store to go buy cigarettes; Seth follows him. While there, the earth starts to shake, and bright lights beam people up to the sky, but Seth and Jay are not affected. They go back to Franco's house and then more signs of the "apocalypse" start to happen, with about 2/3 off the party falling into holes/cracks in the ground. The six main stars, however, manage to make it through, and they hole up in Franco's house and try to figure out both what is happening and how they will survive.

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The Kings of Summer

There were approximately 5,023 screenings of The Kings of Summer, formerly titled Toy's House, but I wasn't able to see it until this week, at the AMC John R (those seats are fabulous!). The movie is a coming-of-age film, and is done very well; it has a Michigan connection, too, as its director, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, grew up in Royal Oak. Although it had more minor laughs than real "laugh out loud" moments, the film will make you reminisce about your own childhood, and it's a movie you won't want to miss at the theater this summer.

Joe (Nick Robinson) and his friend Patrick (Gabriel Basso) are sick of living with their parents. They've just finished their freshman year of high school, and their living situations are "awful," according to them - Joe's dad (Nick Offerman) is still getting over his wife's death, and Patrick's parents (Megan Mullally and Mark Evan Jackson) are driving him crazy. One night, Joe finds a secluded spot in the woods nearby his house, and decides that he and Patrick should build a house there and live parent-free for the summer. The misfit Biaggio (Moises Arias) somehow ends up joining them, and the three of them live blissfully for a bit - until a girl (Erin Moriarty) starts to cause a riff in Joe and Patrick's friendship.

The Purge

I was intrigued by the premise of The Purge, which states that for one night - twelve hours - any and all crime is legal, and emergency services as well as police will not be active. It brings to mind many questions: would you participate in the purge? If you did, would it be something simple, like stealing, or something more serious, like murder? And would you be nicer to your friends and neighbors during the year, knowing that they could get revenge on you that one night if you were not? The movie attempts to answer some of these questions, but unfortunately doesn't give as much back story as I would have liked.

James Sandin (Ethan Hawke) is a security systems salesman, and sales leading up to March 2022, another yearly purge, have been great. He and his wife, Mary (Lena Headey), recently added an addition onto their home, and their two kids, Charlie and Zoey (Max Burkholder, Adelaide Kane) are happy and healthy. They prepare to go into lockdown mode as they do every year for the purge, and they turn on the video cameras outside their home as well as their state-of-the-art security system. Everything is going fine until Charlie sees a man (Edwin Hodge) running down the street, yelling for help; Charlie decides to disable the security system and let him into their home. There's some Purgers that aren't too happy that they took away their "prey," though, and they're determined to get the man out of the Sandin house, at any cost.