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Two Days, One Night
A disconsolate mother and wife (Marion Cotillard) receives her walking papers at her factory job and is told by management the only way to retain her position i... Read more
Posted on 20 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Frank
A would be musician (Domhnall Gleeson) rescues a suicidal keyboardist and falls in with the band, led by an inscrutable vocalist (Michael Fassbender) who never... Read more
Posted on 19 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Hardcore
When the daughter of a staunchly religious midwestern businessman (George C. Scott) goes missing on a bus trip to California, it is quickly revealed by the aid... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Night Will Fall
At the close of World War II, the British government assembled a team of filmmakers (which included Alfred Hitchock) to capture the liberation of several... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Calvary
A humble and reputable Catholic pastor (Brendan Gleeson) hears confession from a troubled young man who claims he was abused by a priest as a child and vows to... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Venus in Fur
An arrogant playwright (Mathieu Amalric) is about to lock the theater doors following a frustrating day of casting the female lead in his latest play when an... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Irrational Man
A college student (Emma Stone) is drawn towards the latest faculty newcomer at her idyllic Newport college: a brilliant, burned out, suicidal philosophy... Read more
Posted on 10 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Nymphomaniac (Vols. I and II)
A woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is found beaten in an alley by a lonely stranger (Stellan Skarsgard) who takes her home, providing food and shelter, while she... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Virunga
A meager and underfunded though determined group of park rangers defend the gorilla inhabitants of their forested Congo terrain from poachers and other... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Hannah Arendt
When Adolf Eichmann was captured by Israeli forces in Argentina and taken to Yagur to stand trial for war crimes, German Jew intellectual Hannah Arendt took a... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Double
A government pencil pusher (Jesse Eisenberg) finds his life in free fall with no sign of solid ground when the latest hire at his grim agency turns out to be hi... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
As the IMF faces Congressional oversight and inclusion in the CIA, Ethan and friends are forced to thwart another threat of global domination, this time led by ... Read more
Posted on 05 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Southpaw
A Brooklyn orphan (Jake Gyllenhaal) sits undefeated atop the light heavyweight world with his foster care sweetheart (Rachel McAdams) by his side until his... Read more
Posted on 04 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
River's Edge
A high schooler strangles his girlfriend and fetches his friends to regard her unclothed, unburied body on the shielded river bank who in turn respond with... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Umberto D
A pensioner lives alone in his bare one room apartment, his little dog his only companion with occasional visits from a pregnant teen maid. Read more
Posted on 02 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
As Caesar and his army of super apes set up their forested encampment, both exterior threats from the surviving human populace and dissension within his own... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Red Desert
Like all Antonioni films I've encountered, Red Desert is cold, empty, and somewhat turgid, dealing with upper class alienation (here a depressed dissatisfied... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Dirty Pretty Things
A Nigerian doctor (Chiwetel Ejiofor) exiled from his own country and living illegally in London, drives a cab by day and works a hotel front desk by night,... Read more
Posted on 30 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Amadeus
Antonio Salieri (F.Murray Abraham), former court composer for Emperor Joseph II (Jeffrey Jones) and perfectly average musician, broods in madness, jealousy,... Read more
Posted on 29 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Under the Skin
An alien life form assumes the guise of a seductress (Scarlett Johansson) who travels around Glasgow, luring lonely and eager young men to her residence and... Read more
Posted on 28 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES