The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) Director: Jon Amiel Starring: Bill Murray, Joanne Whalley, Peter Gallagher In “The Man Who Knew Too Little”, Wallace Ritchie is mistaken for an American spy on a mission to stop the assassination of world peace leaders. The movie follows the comical blockbuster store manager turned secret agent as […]
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Locke (2013) Director: Steven Knight. Starring: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson. Plot: One man with the perfect career and a perfect family is about to put it all on the line with a series of phone calls in a matter of hours. “When I left the site just two hours ago I had a
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The Running Man (1987) Director: Paul Michael Glaser Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Jesse Ventura. Plot: In a dystopian future where convicted criminals must fight to the death in a live game show called ‘The Running Man’, Ben Richards, a man wrongly convicted of a shooting massacre, must fight to survive and
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Woman in Gold (2015) Review Plot: Maria Altmann engages in a legal battle with the Austrian Government for the restitution of the famous Adele painting by Klimt which had been taken from her family home during WW2. Director: Simon Curtis Cast: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Max
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Jaws (1975) Director: Steven Spielberg. Starring: Roy Schneider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss. Plot: The chief of a small summer town enlists the help of a local fisherman and an out of town marine scientist to hunt down a massive Great White Shark that has been terrorising the locals. It’s been 40 years since the movie that
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Human: Extended version VOL. 1 (2015) Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand “Human” is a three volume feature film directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand in conjuction with Good Planet Foundation, Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, and Google. It asks questions like: What makes us human? Love? Laughter? Sadness? Curiosity? Our ability to feel or our ability to relate? I’ll admit, at first, I
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Legend (2015) Director: Brian Helgeland Starring: Tom Hardy; Emily Browning Plot: A look at the life of the Kray twins from the perspective of Reggie’s wife Frances during the peak of their lives in 1960s London. View image | gettyimages.com The last gangster biopic I saw was Goodfellas. There’s just something about glamorizing real-life gangsters that I
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Leap Year (2010) Director: Anand Tucker Writers: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont Starring: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott Plot: Anna has a perfectly scheduled life with a long-term boyfriend, Jeremy, to match. After he fails to propose, she plans a trip to surprise him in Dublin to honor an old Irish tradition of a woman
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Song of the Sea (2014) Director: Tomm Moore Screenwriter: William Collins Starring: David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Lisa Hannigan, Fionnula Flanigan, Lucy O’Connell, Jon Kenny This is an extremely charming and moving Oscar nominate children’s movie that I want to share with everyone. Song of the Sea is based on Celtic mythology concerning mostly selkies sea creatures which
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) Director: Chris Columbus Stars: Logan Lerman; Alexandra Daddario; Brandon T. Jackson. Plot: Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, finds out he’s a demigod when he’s accused of helping his father steal Zeus’ lightning bolt. He and his friends, Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, and Grover Underwood, satyr,
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