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The Hunt (2020)
Directed by Craig Gobel Written by Nick Cuse & Damon Lindelof Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Amy Madigan, Glenn Howerton, Ethan Suplee, Emma Roberts, Sturgil Simpson, Reed Birney, Steve Coulter, Wayne Duvall. A group of individuals awaken to find themselves in a field. They all have gags locked into their mouths, and having been given a small array of weaponry, they…
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Breakdown (1997)
Directed by Jonathan Mostow Written by Jonathan Mostow & Sam Montgomery Kurt Russell, JT Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan, MC Gainey, Jack Noseworthy, Rex Linn, Ritch Brinkley, Moira Sinese, Jack McGee. In my re-watch of the mid 1990’s films, is a tense action thrill ride from the get go, right up until the closing credits. Russell plays Jeff, who is moving cross country with wife…
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Gunpowder Milkshake
Directed by Navot PapushadoWritten by Navot Papushado & Ehud Lavski Karen Gillan, Chloe Coleman, Lena Heady, Angela Bassett, Carla Gugino, Michelle Yeoh, Paul Giamatti, Ralph Ineson, Adam Nagaitis, Michael Smiley. Samantha is left by her hit-woman mother Scarlet, in a diner as a child. Fifteen years later, she has joined the same company called The…
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Contact
Director Robert ZemeckisWritten by James V Hart & Michael Goldenberg.Story by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerrit, John Hurt, James Woods, Jena Malone, David Morse, William Fichtner, Geoffrey Blake, Angela Bassett, Jake Busey, Rob Lowe. Her whole life Dr Ellie Arroway has been searching the airwaves for communication. As a…
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Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Written and Directed by Martin McDonagh Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken, Zelko Ivanek, Tom Waits, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko, Michael Pitt, Michael Stuhlbarg. Marty (Farrell) is an alcoholic screenwriter with writers block, who is best friends with Billy (Rockwell). Billy and his friend Hans (Walken) are partners in a dog-napping business where…
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Nobody (2021)
Director Ilya NaishullerWriter Derek Kolstad Bob Odenkirk, Aleksey Serebryakov, Connie Neilsen, Christopher Lloyd, Michael Ironside, Colin Salmon, RZA. Long time married man Hutch (Odenkirk) is living a monotonous and repetitive life. His job is boring, his son tolerates him and his marriage is hanging by a thread. One night his family is a target of…
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The River Wild (1994)
Director Curtis HansonWriter Denis O’Neill Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, Joseph Mazzello, John C Reilly. In this mid 90’s action thriller we see the story of former thrill seeker Gail (Streep), now a middle aged housewife with a troubled marriage. She has planned a white water river travel for her son’s (Mazzello) birthday, having…
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In Bruges
Written and Directed by Martin McDonagh Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésey, Jordan Prentice, Thekla Reuten, Željko Ivanek. In McDonagh’s first feature film, we are introduced to Ray and Ken (Farrell and Gleeson), two Irish hit-men being ordered to hide out in the town of Bruges, at Christmas, (it’s in Belgium) by their…
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Guns Akimbo (2020)
Written & Directed by Jason Howden Daniel Radcliffe, Samara Weaving, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Ned Dennehy, Grant Bower, Edwin Wright, Rhys Darby. Miles (Radcliffe) lives a fairly ordinary life as a computer programmer, in a post modern and alternate to ‘real life’ city. He enjoys ‘trolling’ people on internet comments sections. One night he logs onto…
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Pinocchio (2022)
Director Robert ZemeckisWritten by Robert Zemeckis, Chris Weitz, Carlo Collodi (original story) Tom Hanks, Cynthia Ervio, Lewin Lloyd, Luke Evans, Voice cast – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Benjain Evan Ainsworth, Lorrain Bracco, Keegan-Michael Key. Remake of the classic cartoon, has widowed clockmaker and woodcarver Geppetto make a marionette of a young boy, based on his late son,…
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Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express Directed by Kenneth BranaghWritten by Michael Green (novel by Agatha Christie) Kenneth Branagh, Tom Bateman, Olivia Coleman, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Odom Jnr, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley. In 1934, famous Belgian Detective Hercule Poirot (Branagh) has just solved a case in…
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Scream 2
Director Wes CravenWritten by Kevin Williamson David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Jamie Kennedy, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Laurie Metcalf, Elise Neal, Jerry O’Connell, Timothy Olyphant, Liev Schreiber, Jada Pinkett-Smith (as Jada Pinkett), Omar Epps, David Warner, Duane Martin, Rebecca Gayheart, Portia DeRossi, Heather Graham, Tori Spelling, Luke Wilson. Two years after the events of the…
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Django Unchained
Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino Jaimie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson, Kerry Washington, Walton Goggins, James Remar, Don Johnson, Franco Nero, Dennis Christopher, Laura Cayouette. In Tarantino’s seventh film, he delves into the horrible nature of slave trading in 1858. Foxx plays the title Django, having been freed by the German…
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Meg (2018)
Director Jon TurtletaubWritten by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Cliff Curtis, Ruby Rose, Robert Taylor, Winston Chao, Page Kennedy, Jessica McNamee, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Sophia Cai, Masi Oka, When a research team trying to discover the secrets of the deepest parts of the ocean accidentally unleash a long believed extinct…
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Batman Returns (1992)
Director Tim Burton Written by Daniel Waters, Sam Hamm & Bob Kane (characters) Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough, Pat Hingle, Michael Murphy, Cristi Conaway, Andrew Bryniarski, Vincent Schiavelli, Paul Reubens, Diane Salinger. Follow up to 1989’s Batman, is quite a bit darker, and has a more gothic tone. It has…
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