2014 PG-13 DramaOscar winner: Best Song
Plot: Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1965 civil rights march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery, this stirring historical drama highlights the courage of the marchers as they withstand racist and violent attacks by the police.
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2015 R Rom Com- Director
- Christian Ditter
Plot: Best friends from the time they were tykes, Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart remain close as adults. Although each takes a different partner, an intimate attachment between them lingers -- one that could dramatically affect the course of their lives.
Review: This movie looks sweet and reminds me of the movie One Day. Claflin is definitely one to watch, and I had no idea Lilly Collins wasn't a Brit (born there with a British dad but raised in the U.S.). Looking forward to seeing this.
Rating: TBD
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2014 R Biopic
4X Oscar nominee: Cinematography, Costumes, Score, Production Design
Director:
Mike LeighWriter:
Mike Leigh (screenplay)
Plot: This incandescent biographical portrait of famed 19th-century painter J.M.W. Turner spotlights his artistic genius, along with the eccentric and frequently insensitive behavior that he exhibited in his private life.
Review: I always enjoy films about art. Timothy Spalling is a great, often underrated, actor who I'm glad to see in a lead role.
Rating: TBD
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2015 PG-13 MusicalChicago International Film Festival nominee: Audience Choice Award
- Cast
- Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan
- Director
- Richard LaGravenese
Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USA
Plot: Telling their story through song, novelist Jamie and his actress wife Cathy retrace the blossoming and decay of their five-year romance from opposite ends of the timeline and meeting in the middle -- with Jamie's marriage proposal.
Review: I love musicals in film & Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan has a really good voice, but I've never cared for his acting. I love the premise as well.
Rating: TBD
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2015 PG-13 Drama & True Story- Director
- Sean McNamara
- Plot: The journey of 4 undocumented Mexican-American high school students from Phoenix, AZ who form a robotics club and are led by their teacher with nothing but spare parts and a dream to compete against MIT in a National Underwater Robotics Competition.
Review: I love true underdog stories.
Rating: TBD
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2014 PG Action Adventure- Cast
- Garret Dillahunt, Jake Abel, Tom Felton
- Director
- Brian Falk
Plot: After their torpedo bomber crashes into the ocean during a World War II scouting mission, three crewmen end up in a life raft without food or water -- and sharks closing in. With safety 1,000 miles away, they must keep their wits intact to survive.
Review: I wonder if this is supposed to be like Unbroken. I wanted to see more of the time at sea and thought that part in and of itself would make a good movie. I'll get to see it I guess.
Rating: TBD
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2014 PG-13 Drama- adaptation of the play by August StrindbergChicago International Film Festival nominee: Audience Choice Award
- Director
- Liv Ullmann
Plot: At her family's rural estate, young Julie spars with and seduces her father's handsome valet in an intense encounter that stretches over the course of a summer night before reaching a shocking conclusion.
Review: This acting looks amazing, and I'm very curious what's going to happen at the end. What tragedy befalls these three.
Rating: TBD
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(My Picks)
May 1
Legally Blonde (2001): Starring Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson and Selma Blair. When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined.
Shameless Season 1 (2011): Starring Emmy Rossum, William H. Macy and Ethan Cutkosky. An alcoholic man lives in a perpetual stupor while his six children with whom he lives cope as best they can.
Shameless Season 1 (2011): Starring Emmy Rossum, William H. Macy and Ethan Cutkosky. An alcoholic man lives in a perpetual stupor while his six children with whom he lives cope as best they can.
May 3
Royal Pains Season 6 (2014): Starring Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Constanzo and Reshma Shetty. An unfairly discredited but brilliant diagnostic surgeon winds up working with his cheesy brother in the Hamptons as a concierge doctor to the uber-rich and ultra-elite.
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