Sunday, March 27, 2011

Conviction

When Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, his sister Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is innocent, Betty Anne puts herself through high school, college and, finally, law school in an 18 year quest to free Kenny. With the help of best friend Abra Rice, Betty Anne pores through suspicious evidence mounted by small town cop Nancy Taylor, meticulously retracing the steps that led to Kenny's arrest. Belief in her brother - and her quest for the truth - pushes Betty Anne and her team to uncover the facts and utilize DNA evidence with the hope of exonerating Kenny.

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Starring: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Minnie Driver, Melissa Leo, Ari Graynor
Directed by:
Tony Goldwyn
Genres: Drama and Biopic
Running Time: 1 hr. 37 min.

MPAA Rating: R for language and some violent images
Yahoo! Critics: B
IMDb Users Rating: 7.2/10 (6,968 votes)
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Life as We Know It

Holly Berenson is an up-and-coming caterer and Eric Messer is a promising network sports director. After a disastrous first date, the only thing they have in common is their dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter, Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in the world, Holly and Eric are forced to put their differences aside. Juggling career ambitions and competing social calendars, they'll have to find some common ground while living under one roof.



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Starring: Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas, Alexis Clagett, Brynn Clagett
Directed by:
Greg Berlanti
Genres: Comedy, Drama and Romance
Running Time: 1 hr. 52 min.

MPAA Rating: PG 13 for sexual material, language and some drug content
Yahoo! Critics: C-
IMDb Users Rating: 6.2/10 (9,617 votes)
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Hereafter

Three people are touched by death in different ways. George is a blue-collar American who is trying to reject using his psychic ability to connect with those who have died. On the other side of the world, Marie, a French journalist, has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. And when Marcus, a London schoolboy, loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each on a path in search of the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might--or must--exist in the hereafter.

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Starring: Matt Damon, Cécile De France (II), Jay Mohr, Bryce Dallas Howard, George McLaren
Directed by:
Clint Eastwood
Genres: Drama, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller
Running Time: 126 min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for disturbing disaster and accident images, and for brief strong language
Yahoo! Critics: B+
IMDb Users Rating: 6.9/10 (15,062 votes)
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Takers

A notorious group of criminals continue to baffle police by pulling off perfectly executed bank robberies. They are in and out like clockwork, leaving no evidence behind and laying low in between heists. But when they attempt to pull off one last job with more money at stake than ever before, the crew may find their plans interrupted by a hardened detective who is hell-bent on solving the case.






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Starring: Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon, Michael Ealy, Idris Elba
Directed by:
John Luessenhop
Genres: Action/Adventure and Crime/Gangster
Running Time: 1 hr. 47 min.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, a sexual situation/partial nudity and some language
Yahoo! Critics: C
IMDb Users Rating: 5.8/10 (11,056 votes)
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Monday, March 14, 2011

You Again

Successful PR pro Marni heads home for her older brother's wedding and discovers that he's marrying her high school arch nemesis, who's conveniently forgotten all the rotten things she did so many years ago. Then the bride's jet-setting aunt bursts in and Marni's not-so-jet-setting mom comes face to face with her own high school rival.





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Starring: Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver, Odette Yustman, Victor Garber
Directed by:
Andy Fickman
Genres: Comedy
Running Time: 1 hr. 45 min.

MPAA Rating: PG for brief mild language and rude behavior
Yahoo! Critics: D+
IMDb User Rating: 5.4/10 (5,449 votes)
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Sunday, March 13, 2011

I Spit On Your Grave

Writer Jennifer Hills takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson. They break into her cabin to scare her. However, what starts out as terrifying acts of humiliation and intimidation, quickly and uncontrollably escalates into a night of physical abuse and torturous assault. But before they can kill her, Jennifer sacrifices her broken and beaten body to a raging river that washes her away. As time passes, the men slowly stop searching for her body and try to go back to life as usual. But that isn't about to happen. Against all odds, Jennifer Hills survived her ordeal. Now, with hell bent vengeance, Jennifer's sole purpose is to turn the tables on these animals and to inflict upon them every horrifying and torturous moment they carried out on her... only much, much worse.

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Starring: Daniel Franzese, Chad Lindberg, Rodney Eastman, Andrew Howard, Jeff Branson
Directed by:
Steven R. Monroe
Genres: Suspense/Horror and Remake
Running Time: 1 hr. 48 min.

MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Yahoo! Users Rating: B+
IMDb Users Rating: 6.3/10 (6,119 votes)
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The Next Three Days

Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison. Refusing to be deterred by impossible odds or his own inexperience, John devises an elaborate escape plot and plunges into a dangerous and unfamiliar world, ultimately risking everything for the woman he loves.

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Starring: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Brian Dennehy, Moran Atias
Directed by: Paul Haggis
Genres: Drama, Thriller, Adaptation and Remake
Running Time: 2 hr. 2 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, drug material, language, some sexuality and thematic elements
Yahoo! Critics: C+
IMDb Users Rating: 7.4/10 (15,403 votes)
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Saturday, March 5, 2011

The Social Network

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.


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Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Joseph Mazzello, Armie Hammer
Directed by:
David Fincher
Genres: Comedy, Drama and Biopic
Running Time: 2 hr.

MPAA Rating: PG 13 for sexual content, drug and alcohol use and language
Yahoo! Critics: A
IMDb Users Rating: 8.1/10 (97,429 votes)
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Friday, March 4, 2011

127 Hours

Centers on Aron Ralston, an American climber whose arm got trapped under a boulder while hiking in Utah, and who, after waiting five days, decided the only chance he had for survival was to amputate his own arm.











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Starring: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Clemence Poesy, Kate Burton
Directed by:
Danny Boyle
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama and Sports
Running Time: 1 hr. 33 min.

MPAA Rating: R for language and some disturbing violent content/bloody images
Yahoo! Critics: A-
IMDb Users Rating: 8.0/10 (44,970 votes)
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Beautiful Boxer

Based on the true story of Thailand's famed transgender kickboxer, Parinya Charoenphol. Believing he's a girl trapped in a boy's body since childhood, Parinya Charoenphol (affectionately known as Nong Toom in Thailand) sets out to master the most masculine and lethal sport of Muay Thai (Thai kickboxing) to earn a living and to achieve his ultimate goal of total femininity. Nong Toom life goes from his teenage years as a traveling monk, to grueling days in boxing camps, to explosive matches where he knocks out most of his opponents across Thailand and Japan.

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Starring: Assani Suwan, Sorapong Chatree, Orn-anong Panyawong, Kyoko Inoue, Sitiporn Niyom
Directed by:
Ekachai Uekrongtham
Genres: Action/Adventure, Art/Foreign, Drama, Biopic and Sports
Running Time: 1 hr. 58 min.

Yahoo! Users Rating: C+
IMDb Users Rating: 7.5/10 (1,701 votes)
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