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The Big Year
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The Big Year is a movie about bird watching. Or, as they call it in the movie, Birding. It follows the exploits of Brad Harris (played by Jack Black from Tenacious D and The School of Rock), Kenny Bostick (Owen Wilson from Wedding Crashers) and Stu Preissler (Steve Martin from, well, everything) as they embark on what is called a "big year" by birders. A big year is what it's called when a birder tries to sight as many different species of North American birds in a calendar year as possible. Bostick is...

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In Time
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Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) lives in the ghetto zone of an imagined future with his mother Rachel (Olivia Wilde). In the future no one ages past twenty-five, so Will's mother looks like she should be his girlfriend. The initial reaction when he calls her Mom makes one cringe; later on when others introduce him to their mother, wife, and daughter and they all look the same age it becomes silly. Will and his mother struggle each and every day to pay the bills. The currency is time, literally, and when...

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Drive
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Director Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive's main character does not have a name, he is simply known as the "Driver" (Ryan Gosling). A stuntman by trade, as well as a mechanic, Driver moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. The opening of the film highlights such, as Driver is on the phone with a new client explaining the methods in which he works. He gives you a five-minute window, within this five-minute window he is yours, any time after or before and you are on your own. It is in your best interest...

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Dream House
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Will Atenton has just moved into his Dream House. Will (Daniel Craig, otherwise known as James Bond) quits his job as an editor at a publishing company and joins his wife Libby (Rachel Weisz from The Mummy) and their two daughters at their new suburban home. Not long after they move in, the girls start seeing a strange man outside their window. When Will catches some teenagers holding a seance in his basement, he chases them away, but not before learning that the last family to live in the house was murdered....

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Real Steel
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Set in the not-too-distant future, Real Steel depicts a world where boxing (and all other forms of human combat sports) has been outlawed. Not wanting to stop watching mutual combat, people have taken to building robots to fight for them. Hugh Jackman (Wolverine from the X-Men movies) is Charlie Kenton, a retired boxer who travels around with his fighting robot, entertaining people for money. After a couple of tough losses, Charlie finds himself with a pile of parts that no longer resembles a robot. Charlie...

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Happy, Happy
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Everyone is happy, happy in Happy, Happy, on the surface. Elisabeth (Maibritt Saerens) and her husband Sigve (Henrik Rafaelsen) have recently moved to a small town with their adopted son Noa (Ram Shihab Ebedy). Their new neighbors are the friendliest lot, or at least one of them is in particular, Kaia (Agnes Kittelsen); Kaia's husband Eirik (Joachim Rafaelsen) isn't all that interested. Kaia is bursting with happiness, and wants nothing more than to befriend Elisabeth and Sigve immediately, going so far...

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Restless
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Gus Van Sant is as hit-and-miss of a director as there is working today. For every well-written, insightful Good Will Hunting that he makes, he seems to balance it out with a shameful waste of time like Psycho. Although it has potential, his new film, Restless, falls into the latter category. Restless tells the story of Enoch Brae (played by Henry Hopper, son of the late, great Dennis Hopper), a young man who spends his time tracing chalk outlines of himself on the street and attending the funerals...

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Paranormal Activity 3
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A person's life is full of firsts. The first time you ride a bike, or jump off a swing. Your first date, and the inevitable first kiss. There is even the first time you feel butterflies in your stomach, and blame fate for the good, or bad, thing that has just happened to you. For movie critics, and viewers, the types of firsts you experience are a tad different. There is the first time you cry watching a film. There is the first time you jump out of your seat in terror during a horror movie--and everyone...

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Dirty Girl
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Accompanied by her closeted gay buddy (Jeremy Dozier), a promiscuous teenager (Juno Temple) sets out to find her long-absent father.
Toast
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Toast is the story of British food critic Nigel Slater's childhood. Nigel (played by two actors - newcomer Oscar Kennedy is the young Nigel, while Freddie Highmore from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory portrays the teenaged Nigel) is a young boy obsessed with food. He frequents the local shops to ogle the cuisine, he looks at pictures in cookbooks under his covers at night, and he tries to talk his mother into buying more than just canned food for them to eat. Unfortunately, his mother (British television...

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Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
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From small-town Iowa to the bright lights of Hollywood, Bucky Larson (Nick Swardson) believes his destiny to be that of an adult film star. This realization comes after he discovers his parents were "stars" in the porn industry in their younger years making over 86 films and establishing quite a following. Leaving his home in Iowa Bucky finds himself in Hollywood, and soon after "The Valley," aka the porn capital of the world. Lucky for Bucky he immediately makes friends with a cute diner waitress Kathy...

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Abduction
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For as long as he can remember, Nathan Harper (Taylor Lautner) has had the uneasy feeling that he's living someone else's life. When he stumbles upon an image of himself as a little boy on a missing persons website, all of Nathan's darkest fears come true: he realizes his parents are not his own and his life is a lie, carefully fabricated to hide something more mysterious and dangerous than he could have ever imagined. Just as he begins to piece together his true identity, Nathan is targeted by a team...

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Moneyball
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If there was ever going to be a movie about baseball that would define baseball, and not the physical sport of the game but the business side Moneyball would be the definitive go to picture. Based on a true story, and adapted from the novel Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, Moneyball is not about playing baseball, it is about how to win based on statistical and analytical choices when choosing a team--the computer program is the star of Moneyball. General Manager Billy...

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What's Your Number?
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Ally Darling (Anna Faris) has just broken up with yet another boyfriend, after making him vegetarian sausage for breakfast and then being told he will not accompany her to her sister's wedding--ouch! As a single woman in Boston Ally has dated a few men, but not so many that she ever thought she would be considered slutty, promiscuous or any other derogatory termed used for women who are not virgins, or close to being one. During a subway ride on her way home after being fired from her job Ally picks up the...

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Killer Elite
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Killer Elite stars Jason Statham as Danny Bryce, an ex-special ops agent-turned-mercenary who, after a botched job, decides to retire to the country. He is pulled back into the "business" when his friend and mentor Hunter (Robert De Niro) is kidnapped by an oil sheik (Rodney Afif). The sheik's demands are simple - he wants the British Special Air Service soldiers who killed each of his three sons dead, he wants the deaths to look like accidents and he wants videotaped confessions from each of them. If...

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Contagion
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"Day Two"...the beginning title over a well-worn Gwyneth Paltrow playing the role of Beth Emhoff. Beth is also the first documented case, Patient Zero, in the United States of what will become a global epidemic caused by an airborne virus science has never seen before. This virus is the focal point of Contagion and the film utilizes the procedural approach to such an occurrence more so than the emotional response of individuals. Contagion begins as any movie about a virus should begin, with the...

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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
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Guillermo del Toro knows scary. As a producer, writer and director he has been responsible for such horrifying films as Pan's Labyrinth, The Orphanage and Cronos. So when he says that the 1973 T.V. movie Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is the scariest movie ever aired on television, people listen. And when he wants to remake it, people let him. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark stars Katie Holmes (who found fame as Joey Potter on "Dawson's Creek") as an interior designer named Kim who, along with her architect...

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I Don't Know How She Does It
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Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker) does it all. She is a successful financial advisor, loving mother to her two children, and a wife who loves and supports her entrepreneurial husband Richard (Greg Kinnear) completely. I Don't Know How She Does It is the story about how Kate manages to do it all, and the film is a tribute to every women who manages to juggle her work and personal life in a way that may appear effortless but is anything but on the inside. We meet Kate in the midst of major life changes...

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Shark Night 3D
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The school semester has ended and what better way to let loose than a weekend trip to a lake house. For the group of friends from Tulane University it turns into a blood bath when, quite strangely, the lake is infested with sharks. Not just one shark, multiple types of sharks, and these sharks are hungry for young fresh meat. There isn't much you need to know about the plot of Shark Night as it is as basic as they come. One by one each character will become a gory mess in the lake water; their body...

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