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My Week With Marilyn
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My Week with Marilyn is the story of Colin Clark (played by Eddie Redmayne, Black Death's Osmund), a third assistant director on The Prince and the Showgirl, and his experiences with Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams from "Dawson's Creek") on and off the set of the Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh from Valkyrie) directed film. Fresh off the plane from America, Marilyn initially shows up as a high-maintenance, Hollywood movie star amongst a cast of snooty British thespians. At first, Olivier asks Colin...
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Five Star Day
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The daily horoscope, it appears in the majority of newspapers, is available as an application on your phone, via your favorite social network, and if you Google the word "horoscope" you will receive over 1,270,000 results. Obviously, horoscopes are a popular topic for the world-at-large; their validity is questionable, and while many may like the idea of a fated existence the preconceived notion that given what day you were born during the year will inevitably decide your personality traits, and what type...
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Margin Call
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The year is 2008, the financial industry has been booming for years, and one of the leading financial companies is about to change everything. A fictionalized telling of the 24-hours that preceded the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis that was felt globally but began in the United States, Margin Call is a dramatic thriller. When a report is completed that shows the company facing losses that will cripple them plans are set in motion to decide just how they can get themselves out of the mess. People...
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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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Take Shelter
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The LaForche family lives a simple small-town existence in Ohio. Curtis (Michael Shannon) works for a construction company, his wife Samantha (Jessica Chastain) a stay-at-home mother to their deaf daughter who also makes hand-sewn items she sells on the weekends at a fair. Every morning the family has breakfast together, and the love in the air is contagious. The LaForche family is the ideal family, but all of this is about to change with the first of many dreams.
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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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The Ides of March
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In The Ides of March, George Clooney plays Democratic Presidential Hopeful Mike Morris, whose campaign is being run by veteran manager Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman from Capote) and idealistic press secretary Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling, who's having a busy year with Crazy, Stupid, Love and Drive). Paul and Stephen realize that Morris must win the primary in Ohio in order to keep his hopes of getting the Democratic nomination alive, and they'll stop at nothing to do it. Morris' competition's campaign...
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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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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.
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Dolphin Tale
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Dolphin Tale is based on the true story of Winter, a dolphin that was injured by a fishing trap and had to have her rear tail removed due to infection. It is also about the relationship between Winter and the young boy, Sawyer Nelson (Nathan Gamble), who assisted in the rescue of her on the beach in Florida. Dolphin Tale falls right in line with films centered around animal care, rescue, and bonding, such as Free Willy. It is an emotional roller coaster, and not purely because of Winter's story alone.
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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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Machine Gun Preacher
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The opening scene of Machine Gun Preacher takes place in the Sudan, Africa, 2003. A village is being attacked, women murdered, children abducted, machine gun blast blaring, and the screams of the innocent echoing throughout the burning village. This is the place where the real-life Sam Childers will soon find himself, of his own free will and because of his unwavering passion to help those who are being mistreated for the benefit of a rebel army.
Flashing back a few years the film introduces us to...
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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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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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Warrior
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Two brothers with a difficult past find themselves pitted against one another in all out war of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) in Warrior. Tommy (Tom Hardy) and Brendan Conlon (Joel Edgerton) have lived separate lives for the past 14 years. Tommy fled their abusive father with their mother, becoming her caretaker, while holding on to the anger and hatred he felt towards his father as well as his brother Brendan who stayed behind. Brendan has built a life for himself with a wife and two daughters. He is a school...
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Fright Night
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Charley Brewster (The Beaver's Anton Yelchin) is a normal high school kid living in suburban Las Vegas. He's got a cool mom (Toni Collette from The Sixth Sense), a hot girlfriend named Amy (Imogen Poots from 28 Weeks Later) and a vampire that just moved in next door to him. Charley's friend Evil Ed (Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who was Red Mist in Kick-Ass) tries to warn him about his new neighbor, a charming stud named Jerry Dandridge (Colin Farrell from Horrible Bosses), but Charley doesn't believe him....
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One Day
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July 15th, days in the life of Dex and Emma that are remembered over the course of more than twenty years. The idea of looking back on just one day in two people's relationship is very much a forlorn conception. What can you possibly learn about two people, and their feelings for one another, the heartbreaks and successes of life, by only looking at one day a year? As One Day communicates to the viewer, a great deal can be learned and great investment in the characters achieved with these brief glimpses...
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Senna
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Formula One driver Ayrton Senna was a marvel to watch on the track. His instincts spot on, his ability to wow an audience guaranteed, and his off-track demeanor always one of composure and graciousness. Senna was not a proud champion, but a very proud man; one who would go on to break records on the track, as well as fight battles behind the scenes for fair practices and a slow destruction of the political nature of the sport. All the while maintaining a humble and religious existence in his home life,...
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Final Destination 5
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About halfway through Final Destination 5, Tony Todd (better known from Candyman, and also a veteran of the first three Final Destination movies) delivers the line, "I've seen this before." So have we, Tony. So have we.
For those unfamiliar with the Final Destination films, they basically all have the same story; just before a horrible catastrophe, one of the characters has a vision that the disaster is going to take place and saves a group of people. These people, who have "cheated death," spend the...
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The Help
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Adapted from the bestselling novel by Kathryn Stockett The Help is set during the 1960s, in Jackson, Mississippi. A story about race, respect, and taking a chance in order to make a difference, Director and Screenwriter Tate Taylor's film is something of grandeur. Focusing on three women in particular, The Help offers insight into what it was like as a Black maid during this era in Mississippi, as well as being a White unmarried female with career aspirations that exceed finding a husband and having babies...
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes
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"Apes alone, weak. Apes together, strong."
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is almost shockingly better than you would expect it to be as the seventh film in a science fiction series about humanity getting its comeuppance from a bunch of "damn, dirty apes." Set in a modern day San Francisco that passes eight years into the near (but very recognizable) future, >Rise is the story of Will (James Franco), a research scientist at Gen Sys pharmaceuticals who has devised a cure for Alzheimer's, the same disease...
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Cowboys & Aliens
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Set in 1873. Cowboys & Aliens starts with Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig, who is also James Bond) waking up in the Arizona desert with no memory and a big, metal bracelet on his arm. When he makes it to the nearest town, he discovers that he is wanted by the law. Before being arrested, he meets a mysterious woman named Ella (played by Olivia Wilde from "House"), who seems to know who he is and claims to "need" him. While Jake is being turned over to federal marshals, a powerful cattle farmer named Colonel...
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Point Blank
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They don't make movies like this anymore. Point Blank harks back to the 70s action crime thrillers that were more about the thrill and suspense of solving the mystery than blowing up cars and jumping from helicopters to get the viewer excited.
In Point Blank Samuel (Gilles Lellouche) is studying to become a Nurse when he has the unfortunate timing of being on staff in the hospital when an attempted murder occurs on one of his patients. He saves the man's life, only to have his house invaded and his...
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