First look at “Jack the Giant Slayer” starring Nicholas Hoult

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Nicholas Hoult as Jack in “Jack the Giant Slayer.”

This is the year’s second fairy tale turned into action/adventure film. I’m not sure if I’m all that excited about “Jack the Giant Slayer,” but it wouldn’t take much to be more entertaining than “Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters” and this film features star on the rise Nicholas Hoult (“Warm Bodies“) and the ever dependable Ewan McGregor (“The Impossible“) and Stanley Tucci (“The Hunger Games“).

‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End’ review

There’s good and bad news about ‘‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.” The good is that great title aside, it’s easily a more entertaining, enjoyable escapade than last year’s convoluted and slapstick-esque ‘‘Dead Man’s Chest.” [2012 Flash Forward:  Oh yo ho ho, how I hated that movie, but the film made $423 million nationally to place #8 on the all-time highest grossing list in the U.S.  without the benefit of 3D seriously jacking up ticket prices, so somebody must have liked it. If nothing else it proved Depp was a serious box office draw after “Curse of the Black Pearl.”]

Review: Wrath of the Titans

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Perseus, played by SAM WORTHINGTON, battles Kronos in scene from Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ action adventure “WRATH OF THE TITANS,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

I’m not one to rave about a sequel simply because it’s better than its lame predecessor, but Wrath of the Titans is in every conceivable manner a more entertaining and enjoyable follow-up to the 2010 Clash of the Titans and this time offers a fun outing actually worth seeing.