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Weekend Movie Guide 07/13: Does 'Ice' Age Well?
Set sail with ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT. Promotional image courtesy Blue Sky / 20th Century Fox.
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Pretty soon there'll be as many Ice Age movies as Land Before Times. Ten years after the first film (that's a scary thought), Ice Age: Continental Drift doesn't drift from the series' core leads. Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary & screwball saber-toothed squirrel Scrat - are all back. This time they're joined by even more musical mammoths - Keke Palmer, Heather Morris (Glee), Nicki Minaj & Drake - and saber-toothed singer J-Lo. Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) voices the villain, a prehistoric pirate ape.
Easy Money joins contemporaries Girl With The Dragon Tattoo & Headhunters in a slick Scandinavian cycle of violent crime. The thriller was a swimming success in its native country (where it's soon to receive a sequel), and may make a Killing on our shores given lead Joel Kinnaman's success on that AMC show. Here, Kinnaman plays JW, a business student who becomes a drug-runner to keep up with his elitist upperclassmen. But his greatest struggle comes when his Muslim-Albanian gang draws the ire of rival Serbian enforcers. Martin Scorsese (who knows a thing or two about violent crime thrillers) is already an avowed fan. Easy Money opens exclusively at the Nuart.
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