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FILMS IN WIDE RELEASE
THE
CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
“I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins
“Benjamin Button,” adapted from the classic 1920s story by F. Scott
Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards. A man,
like any of us, unable to stop time. We follow his story set in New Orleans from
the end of World War I in 1918, into the twenty-first century, following his
journey that is as unusual as any man’s life can be. Directed by David Fincher
and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Tilda Swinton, Taraji P. Henson,
Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, “Benjamin Button,” is a time
traveler’s tale of the people and places he bumps into along the way, the
loves he loses and finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what
lasts beyond time.
9.4/10
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Adapted from the legendary comic strip, THE SPIRIT is a
classic action-adventure-romance told by genre-twister FRANK MILLER (creator of
300 and SIN CITY). It is the story of a former rookie cop who returns
mysteriously from the dead as the SPIRIT (Gabriel Macht) to fight crime from the
shadows of Central City. His arch-enemy, the OCTOPUS (Samuel L. Jackson) has a
different mission: he’s going to wipe out Spirit’s beloved city as he pursues
his own version of immortality. The Spirit tracks this cold-hearted killer from
Central City’s rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept
waterfront … all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to
seduce, love or kill our masked crusader.
8.7/10
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A proud military
man, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is a loyal officer who serves his country
all the while hoping that someone will find a way to stop Hitler before Europe
and Germany are destroyed. Realizing that time is running out, he decides that
he must take action himself and joins the German resistance. Armed with a
cunning strategy to use Hitler’s own emergency plan – known as Operation Valkyrie
– these men plot to assassinate the dictator and overthrow his Nazi government
from the inside.
With everything in place, with the future of the world, the fate of millions and
the lives of his wife and children hanging in the balance, von Stauffenberg is
thrust from being one of many who oppose Hitler to the one who must kill Hitler
himself.
9/10
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An adventure comedy starring ADAM SANDLER as Skeeter Bronson,
a hotel handyman whose life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells
his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. He attempts to take
advantage of the phenomenon, incorporating his own aspirations into one
outlandish tale after another, but it’s the kids’ unexpected contributions
that turn Skeeter’s life upside down.
9/10
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The year is 1991 the Grogan’s are a just married couple with
a new house in Florida and are both successful journalists. Eventually the
Grogans plan to start a family; however after an unsuccessful attempt at looking
after a plant Jenny Grogan decides they should get a dog to hone their skills at
parenthood. Enter Marley the lovable hyperactive golden Labrador retriever
puppy. After many failed attempts at training Marley and then even being kicked
out of obedience school the Grogans discoverer that Marley is a free spirit but
one with all the right intentions at heart. Despite being a gundog Marley is
petrified of loud bangs; but most of all thunderstorms and will tear apart the
house if left alone in one. As time goes by the Grogans family grows and Marley
becomes the life and soul of the family and teaches the family some important
life lessons.
9/10
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FILMS IN LIMITED RELEASE
During a weekend in which Harvey Shine (Hoffman) travels to
London for his daughter’s wedding, her first learns that he’s lost his job back
in New York, then he discovers he won’t be the man giving away the bride at the
ceremony. The one good thing that happens — his meeting Kate (Thompson), a
prickly but nevertheless enchanting Londoner — might be the beginning of some
much-needed change in Harvey’s life.
7.5/10
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Frank and April, a married
couple in the 1950s, have always seen themselves as special, different, ready
and willing to live their lives based on higher ideals. So, as soon as they move
into their new house on Revolutionary Road, they proudly declare their
independence from the suburban inertia that surrounds them and determine never
to be trapped by the social confines of their era. Yet for all their charm,
beauty and irreverence, the Wheelers find themselves becoming exactly what they
didn’t expect: a good man with a routine job whose nerve has gone missing; a
less-than-happy homemaker starving for fulfillment and passion; an American
family with lost dreams, like any other. Driven to change their fates, April
hatches an audacious plan to start all over again, to leave the comforts of
Connecticut behind for the great unknown of Paris. But when the plan is put in
motion, each spouse is pushed to extremes–one to escape whatever the cost, the
other to save all that they have, no matter the compromises.
9.2/10
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