Sunday, March 13, 2011

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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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Just Another Pandora's Box

Bandit Ronald Cheng effortlessly pulls out the magic sword belonging to Fairy Athena Chu, and Fairy Sun Li who lives by love, is drawn as moth to flame by this deja vu-like infatuation. As Sun Li chases after the Ronald Cheng, who just wants to get away from this "rotten peach blossom", the Pandora's Box opens a doorway into another time zone.





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Starring:
Huang Bo, Ronald Cheng, Sun Li, Sandra Ng,
Directed by: Jeff Lau
Genres: Action/Adventure, Art/Foreign, Comedy and Science Fiction/Fantasy
Running Time: 90 mins.

IMDb Users Rating: 5.0/10 (246 votes)
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Monday, February 21, 2011

The Rite

An American seminary student who attends exorcism school at the Vatican finds faith through encounters with demonic forces.














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Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Rutger Hauer, Anthony Hopkins, Colin O'Donoghue, Alice Braga
Directed by:
Mikael Hafstrom
Genres: Drama and Adaptation
Running Time: 2 hr. 7 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for disturbing thematic material, violence, frightening images, and language including sexual references
Yahoo! Critics: C-
IMDb Users Rating: 6.2/10 (2,442 votes)
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Rebound

Sandy, upon discovering her husband's infidelity while watching her son's birthday video, leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. She gets an apartment that's above a coffee house where she befriends one of the workers, Aram, a guy whose wife only married him so she could get a green card. Aram's family thinks he's wasting his life and education by working in the coffee house. Soon after moving into the apartment, Sandy hires Aram to be her nanny while she takes on work for the first time since her children where born. It isn't long when Aram and Sandy find they get along wonderfully and start to date. But the question is: is their relationship real or is it, in fact, just a rebound for both of them?

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Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Justin Bartha, Stephanie Szostak, Jake Cherry, Andrew Cherry
Directed by:
Bart Freundlich
Genres: Comedy and Romance
Running Time: 95 min.
MPAA Rating: Rated R for language, some sexual content and brief drug use
Yahoo! Critics: B
IMDb Users Rating: 6.4/10 (7,628 votes)
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