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- DirectorRidley ScottStarsHarrison FordRutger HauerSean YoungA blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.Multiple versions were released throughout 1982, and then followed by additional versions through subsequent years, finally evolving into the final version in 2007. In the beginning of the film, I was introduced to a mundane plot. Four dangerous humanoids, called replicants, working on a space colony, had escaped back to Earth. A specialized police officer, called a blade runner, was sent to find and terminate the replicants. Then the film became far more complicated. A fifth replicant, already on Earth and not dangerous, was introduced. I found myself having difficulty defining how the replicants were not exactly human and why the fifth was more human than the other four. The visuality throughout the film was stunning. The ending was puzzling. What started out as dull ended as exciting.
- DirectorFrank MillerQuentin TarantinoRobert RodriguezStarsMickey RourkeClive OwenBruce WillisAn exploration of the dark and miserable Basin City and three of its residents, all of whom are caught up in violent corruption.This film features extreme and gruesome violence, non-stop, from start to finish. How can one watch this film without experiencing post-film nightmares. One can do so because the violence is so far over the top that it is obviously not real. Most of the massive blood spilled is hardly upsetting, in a black and white mode. The male heroes, tricky to define as such, hold women on a pedestal. Perverts, especially the yellow man, who treat women badly, do pay. The repetitive theme wears one down towards the end of the two-hour film. Otherwise, there is really nothing of importance to divulge about the film.
- DirectorFrank MillerRobert RodriguezStarsMickey RourkeJessica AlbaJosh BrolinSome of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
- DirectorJames MangoldStarsHugh JackmanPatrick StewartDafne KeenIn a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary Logan leads a quiet life. But when Laura, a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety.
- DirectorNeill BlomkampStarsSharlto CopleyDavid JamesJason CopeThirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth to find refuge. Separated from humans in a District 9, they are managed by Multi-National United. When a field agent contracts a virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place to hide.
- DirectorBen AffleckStarsBen AffleckBryan CranstonJohn GoodmanActing under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
- DirectorLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne MossWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTakashi ShimuraKeiko TsushimaFarmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.I lived on USA military bases in Japan, post WWW II, for the first 17.5 years of my life. There was no USA television for the majority of that time, so I enjoyed watching a lot of Samurai television shows. This film was especially well done, so many years ago, as compared to the average Samurai films.
- DirectorDavid MackenzieStarsChris PineBen FosterJeff BridgesToby is a divorced father who's trying to make a better life. His brother is an ex-con with a short temper and a loose trigger finger. Together, they plan a series of heists against the bank that's about to foreclose on their family ranch.This is a low key but engaging film about a father trying to reach across life difficulties to bring a gift to his children.
- DirectorJohn HamburgStarsPaul RuddJason SegelRashida JonesFriendless Peter Klaven goes on a series of man-dates to find a Best Man for his wedding. But, when his insta-bond with his new B.F.F. puts a strain on his relationship with his fiancée, can the trio learn to live happily ever after?This is a typical, hokey, modern day, romance movie with which one experiences a sprinkle of delight.
- DirectorFrank CoraciStarsAdam SandlerDrew BarrymoreChristine TaylorRobbie, a singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both engaged, but to the wrong people. Fortune intervenes to help them discover each other.This is a 90s comedic, musical, romance. Alexis Arquette performs a play on Boy George musical pieces with an unusual slow cadence. I interpreted Drew Barrymore as playing Drew Barrymore with her likable lisp and bright smiling face. Do not miss the end credits to experience listening to the obscure musical piece "Video Killed The Radio Star" performed by a group called "The Presidents of the United States of America". Also do not fret as there is even more!
- DirectorTodd PhillipsStarsBreckin MeyerSeann William ScottAmy SmartFour college buddies embark on a road trip to retrieve an illicit tape mistakenly mailed to a female friend.When first I watched National Lampoon's Animal House, I felt mesmerized by the innovation and humor in a comedy I believed represented a new subgenre. Since then, there have been quite a few similar films along the same line. Road Trip represents one of those and did not live up to the archetypical Animal House standard. However, there were a number of comic sequences in Road Trip which qualified as Animal House grade. Overall, I did not experience boredom.
- DirectorDavid MarmorStarsNicole Brydon BloomGiles MattheyTaylor NicholsAfter moving to Los Angeles, a young woman discovers her seemingly friendly apartment complex is actually home to a dangerous cult.This seems to be psychotherapy in the form of violent brainwashing. It is interesting that the main protagonist was unable to procure a refill for her medication, through presumed regular channels, which likely only made her experience all the worse.
- DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsTimothy BottomsJeff BridgesCybill ShepherdIn 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsEmily BluntJosh BrolinBenicio Del ToroAn idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
- DirectorSam MendesStarsTom HanksTyler HoechlinPaul NewmanA mob enforcer's son in 1930s Illinois witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsAl PacinoSean PennPenelope Ann MillerA Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.
- DirectorAbel FerraraStarsChristopher WalkenDavid CarusoLaurence FishburneA drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsAaron Taylor-JohnsonTaylor KitschBlake LivelyPot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsBob HoskinsHelen MirrenPaul FreemanAn up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsSean PennBenicio Del ToroNaomi WattsA freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con.
- DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsMel GibsonHeath LedgerJoely RichardsonPeaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMatthew ModineR. Lee ErmeyVincent D'OnofrioA pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJoan CrawfordJack CarsonZachary ScottA hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.