Harry Brown

The film starts off with footage of a teenager on a scooter as he confronts a young mum and shoots her dead, and then a gang forcing one teenager to get high on drugs. It’s horrible stuff, but there must be a good reason for it, surely? We are brought to the flat of older [...]

Letters to Juliet

Sophie Hall (Amanda Seyfried), an aspiring magazine writer, travels to the romantic city of Verona in Italy with her boyfriend restaurateur, Victor (Gael Garcia Bernal), on a pre-wedding honeymoon—home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet from the classic story of Romeo and Juliet.  She joins a group of volunteers who are responding to letters to [...]

The Back-Up Plan

Most movies about romance have the typical plot of a couple meeting, getting married, then having a family. However, in this film we have a reverse order of events where a single woman has given up on finding romance and decides to go it alone and become artificially inseminated. Little does she know that fate [...]

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

In this time of the economy and new laws, it was appropriate to have a documentary about how one man understood the power of Congress.  That man was Jack Abramoff, who swindled numerous people out of $45 million, and had no real goals to make the world better, only just be the No.1 lobbyist. Directed by [...]

Lovers of Hate

Made to both creep you out and make you laugh, this film is about two brothers and their sibling rivalry.  With serious scenes like from a thriller, and its offbeat humor, Lovers of Hate is well acted and holds the audience’s attention. Written and directed by Bryan Poyser, the film starts with an odd scene with a [...]

Waking Sleeping Beauty

It’s hard to imagine that at one time Walt Disney Pictures was losing money after several expensive and critical disappointments, what with it having once been the king of animation.  But as Walt Disney himself said, “The state of the art was waning,” in the 1980′s, and Disney executives were questioning over whether or not they [...]

Chloe

Nowadays trust seems to have become an issue with people, especially when even celebrity marriages that are supposed to be picture perfect, like Tiger Woods’, reveal unfaithful spouses. So what is a good way to make sure that a spouse is cheating? Lure them with the exact things that will trap them – someone who [...]

How To Train Your Dragon

After a young boy, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (the voice of Jay Baruchel from the recent She’s Out of My League), who lives in Berk, finds a little wounded dragon in a forest, he is determined to catch one and train it to prove to his father that he is a Viking. When he becomes [...]

Hot Tub Time Machine

After John Cusack and a friend go to the aid of a buddy when they try to commit suicide, they all go away to a mountain lodge for a fun weekend. When they fall into a magic hot tub they are soon shocked to see their reflections in the mirrors, with their crazy hairstyles and [...]

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