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The Shining
Plot Jack Torrance, a wannabe writer takes up the caretaker position of the prestigious Hotel Overlook during the brutal Colorado winter. Bringing his wife and son, they are isolated for five months, and soon Torrance starts to unravel due to the isolation. Direction Stanley Kubrick directs, and this is my first Kubrick film so I…
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Richard Jewell
Plot During a concert for the opening of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, security guard, Richard Jewell, a wannabe police officer discovers a pipe bomb in a bag. Managing to avert disaster by getting people out the way, before it explodes, he becomes an overnight hero. The FBI, believing it to be ‘too coincidental’ – start…
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Split
Plot Three young women are kidnapped by Kevin Wendell Crumb, a man who they discover is living with Dissociative Identity Disorder, who has 23 identities within him, and are known collectively as The Horde. One of the identities, is Dennis, a borderline sociopath with OCD, is responsible for the kidnapping. He, who along with ‘Patricia’…
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Art of Self Defense
Plot Casey Davies is an accountant at a company. He is (almost) 36 (or 480 months), introverted, lives alone with his dog, and has no self confidence. One night he is attacked by a group on motorcycles, and almost killed. Seeking ‘vengeance’ he decides to take up Karate, and meets the Sensei who takes Casey…
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Civil War
Plot American has become embroiled in a modern Civil War. The government has all but been disbanded, and the US military have been at war with a group called the Western Forces. The WF, the coalition of the states of California and Texas are planning on storming the capital, and a group of four Press…
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Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
Plot Four armed men take the Pelham 123 train (leaving the Pelham train station at 13.23) hostage. The leader, Ryder orders dispatcher Walter Garber to get them $10m within the hour or he will start executing hostages. Soon a game of intelligent conversation between the two men begin, as the funds are organised and delivered.…
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