| EDMOND WILLIAM H MACY,JOE MONTEGNA,JULIA STILES |
| The story of a naive Manhatten businessman who goes on an odyssey of depravity through Times Square, as his life spirals out of control and he loses grip on reality. |
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| A pedophile finds the tables reversed when he is stalked and trapped by a resourceful and vengeful young woman. |
| BLOOD DIAMOND LEONARDO DICAPRIO JENNIFER CONNOLLY DJIMON HOUNSOU |
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| The voracious fight to mine conflict diamonds in Sierra Leone bring together a South African mercernary, a good hearted reporter and an African trying to save his family. |
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| 28 WEEKS LATER |
| Sequel to Danny Boyle's better 28 Days Later. Entertaining but lacks the story and good cast of the original. |
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| Will Farrell is great in intelligent comedies like this and Melinda & Melinda. Emma Thompson is great and Maggie Gyllanhaal steals the movie. Very funny. |
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| Hilary Swank's best since her Oscar win. Great true story about a teacher in an ineer city school, very well told, very smart script. |
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| Well done thriller/court room drama with stellar performances from Gosling and Hopkins. |
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| Brilliant, intelligent movie, similar in theme to American Beauty, about desperately unhappy people. Kate Winslett is superb. Very well told, very intelligent movie, great ensemble acting. |
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| Michael Mann returns to his roots with a very entertaining remake, but, the concept is too dated. Why dig out old ideas from the 80's, make a new movie. Still, it is well produced and acted, an entertaining action movie. |
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| Daniel Craig before Bond in a great stylish English gangster film, a la Guy Ritchie. The story is full of twists and turns, and the acting is great. |
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| Maggie Gyllanhaal is amazing in this tough story of a woman just out of prison, trying to put a life together and reconnect with her daughter. Superb acting throughout. |
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| Shooter, with Mark Wahlberg, is a well done action movie, albeit a poor version of the book on which it is based - Point Of Impact. |
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| The first of 3 movies by Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonz. A multi layered story that defies explanation. Superb acting. |
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| Another Spike Jonz movie, Jim Carrey wants to wipe all memories of Kate Winslett from his mind. |
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| One of the most unusual and novel movies - John Cusack finds a portal into John Malcovich's mind. Great cast and story. |
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| From the director of Babel, a story of tragedy, revenge and redemption. Very good story and great acting. |
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| Incredible drama of selfishness, self destruction and pride. Great story and acting. |
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| Clint Eastwood directs a brilliant story about 3 friends whose lives are marked by tragedy. Sean Penn and Tim Robbins are especially good. |
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| HALF NELSON RYAN GOSLING A teacher with a bad heroin habit connects with a student whose own life has been damaged by drugs. |
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| PAN'S LABYRINTHE Spanish, subtitled Set in Spain, at the end of the civil war, in 1944, a brutal Spanish army captain is determined to destroy the last of the republican insurgents in the mountains. He is enraged that they still have support among the populace and even in his own civilian staff. A young girl and her mother, who recently married the captain, are on their way to his mountain estate. The mother is dying from her pregnancy, and her daughter fears being left alone in the world. She discovers a fantasy world in which to escape, which may be real or just a product of her imagination. |
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| VOVLVER Spanish, subtitled Set in La Mancha province, the home of the director, a place of imagination and superstition, it is a story of family, lies, revenge. Penelope Cruz is very good. |
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| RUN LOLA RUN German, subtitled Told in 3 different scenarios with 3 different outcomes. Frenetic pace. Lola's idiot boyfriend has lost 100,000 marks belonging to a drug dealer and has 20 minutes to replcae it. Lola has 20 minutes to get the money or he is going to rob a supermarket. |
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| MR BROOKS Kevin Costner, William Hurt, Dane Cook, Demi Moore,Marg Helgenberger A serial killer with a sociopathic alter ego is compelled to kill despite his desire to stop, when his secret is discovered by a third party, who wants to be like him and become his partner in murder. |
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| SEXY BEAST Ben Kingsley, Ray Winstone A retired British gangster living in Spain is visited by a vicious thug who insists he join his old crew for a job in London. Violence ensues. |
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| THE LIBERTINE Johny Depp The true story of the second Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot, 1647-1680 advisor to the king, Charles 2 of England, poet and reknowned debaucher, who died from various STD's that ate his nose. In a time following the puritanism of Cromwell, he was known for his obscene verse and banished for his behaviour routinely, but, always brought back as he was one of the most educated and entertaining of the king's advisors. |
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| BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA Similar in theme to Pan's Labyrinthe, it tells a similar story to 2 children who create a mythical, fantasy world in the woods to escape from the real world where they are misfits who don't fit in. |
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| DAYS OF GLORY French, subtitled. A big budget French film about the north African soldiers who fought in the Free French army in Europe from the invasion of Italy to the liberation of France. They thought that their service would improve their status with the French, but, they were treated poorly in spite of their contributions on the battlefield. |
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| FINDER'S FEE James Earl Jones, Mathew Lillard, Ryan Reynolds The story of doing the right thing or not. A guy finds a wallet with a $6 million lottery ticket. Does he give it back or steal it? Mind games ensue as his friends arrive to play cards and several good twists before the ending. |
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| A MIGHTY HEART Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman Directed by Michael Winterbottom The best movie of 2007 to date, it is the story of the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street journalist, Daniel Pearl, by Islamic extremists. The performance by Angelina Jolie is the finest of her career. The story is superbly told in almost a documentary style or a procedural as she, the US embassy, the FBI and Pakistani security officials race against time to secure his release. |
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| KNOCKED UP Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl The best comedy of 2007, directed by Judd Apatow, who made The 40 Year Old Virgin. A very smart, witty, raunchy comedy. |
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| BLACK SNAKE MOAN SAMUEL JACKSON, CHRISTINA RICCI This is a great movie about the south, the blues, a story of redemption, a love story. Sam Jackson is a former blues musician turned farmer whose wife has just left him for his brother. Christina Ricci is a former abused promiscuous woman whose boyfriend is leaving for Iraq. She falls off the fidelity wagon and is left, almost beaten to death, on Jackson's property. He nurses her back to health and is determined to change her nature. |
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| THE LIVES OF OTHERS GERMAN (SUBTITLED) A story about life in East Germany in the early 1980's, the oppressive nature of the government and how the secret police, The Stasi, monitored the lives of just about every citizen. Most affected were artists, who were censored and prevented from expressing any political ideas. This story centers on one Stasi agent who has been tasked to monitor a playwright who is considered very pro socialism and pro GDR, and find evidence of his wrongdoing. He becomes too involved in the lives of his suspect and his firends, and discovers some very unsettling truths. |
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| THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM Directed by Paul Greenblass Starring: Matt Damon, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles, David Straithorn Very good action movie, better than 2, as good as the first, paced with break neck speed, non stop action. Very good performance from Matt Damon. |
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| THE QUEEN Directed by Stephen Frears Starring: Helen Mirren, James Cromwell A very good film covering the period around Tony Blair's election and the week of Diana Spencers death. The story is really the dysfunction of the royal family and the refusal to acknowledge what was going on in the country. It is primarily a character study of the principals involved, and Mirren's performance, Oscar winning, is amazing. |
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