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Michelle Pfeiffer radiates as the classy prostitute who takes up with the son (Rupert Friend) of one of her collegues (Kathy Bates); not without consequences.

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Selected 60’s songs fuel the demonstrative backdrop for this 1980’s  graphic novel that re-unites a group of retired superheroes after one of their own, “The Comedian” (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is murdered.  Fans  will applaud their favorite characters, the cerebral sociopath, Rorschach  (Jackie Earle Haley), the big, blue, naked, Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), alluring Silk Spectre II (Malin [...]

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Kate Winslet and Leonardo DeCaprio play passionate against  volatile, as a Connecticut couple raising two young children in the mid 1950’s, frustrated by their entrappment in suberbia.  Sam Mendes (Winslet’s husband) directs the reunited stars (from the 1997 film ”Titanic”) in Justin Haythe’s adaptation of the 1961 novel by Richard Yates.
 
 

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David Hare’s screenplay (based on Bernhard Schlink’s book) shifts audiences from a young German boy’s (David Kross) sexual initiation with an older woman (Kate Winslet) to his encounter with her a decade later at a war crimes trial where she appears as one of the defendants. Brilliant performances are directed by Stephen Daldry and [...]

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Platonic roommates Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) are behind on rent and utilities and determine that producing a porn video is the best way to raise cash quickly. Depending upon your tolerance for toilet humor, you’ll find more than a few laughs in Kevin Smith’s new comedy that mixes business, friendship, fun, [...]

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Sensual Manhattan college professor (Ben Kingsley) explores his psyche and mortality when he hooks up with one of his students (Penélope Cruz). Isabel Coixet directs her stars with a heavy hand, lightening up with well placed supporting characters (Dennis Hopper and Patricia Clarkson) in this personal drama based upon Philip Roth’s novel, The Dying [...]

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  Popular Czech writer/director, Jiri Menzel adapts Bohumil Hrabal’s quirky profile of waiter/aspiring millionaire, Jan Dite played by Ivan Barnev (the charming younger Jan) and Oldrich Kaiser (older reflective Jan).  The characters, including a plethora of beautiful women, flow through the film  during, before, and after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, providing a uniquely entertaining backdrop for Jan’s random [...]

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Four fast friends (Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon) coming into their 40’s deal with matters of love, marriage, and fidelity in the course of numerous wardrobe changes. Fans of the TV show love it.
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Be prepared to squirm in your seat as you sit through the true story of Barbara Daly Baekeland (Julianne Moore) and her twisted relationship with her husband Brooks (Stephen Dillane), heir to the inventor of Bakelite, and their son Tony (Eddie Redmayne ), who narrates.
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Writer, Jason Segel creates continuous comedy when he casts himself in the lead role as Peter Bretter, a musician who flies to Hawaii after being dumped by his TV actress girlfriend (Kristen Bell), only to find that she is booked at the same hotel with her new boyfriend.
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 Swiss born director, Marcel Langenegger draws out a lackluster script about a dull accountant (Ewan McGregor) whose night life picks up when he meets a flashy egocentric (Hugh Jackman) at the firm he is auditing. Despite the quality male leads and steamy sexual scenes (including Michelle Williams), this convoluted drama only accelerates in the fourth [...]

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Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have crafted an engrossing caper, assuming facts that might have been the basis for the gag order on London’s “unsolved” Baker Street bank robbery in 1971. The complex character development provide audiences with numerous angles, so don’t feel corrupt if you find yourself rooting for the [...]

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A shy young Chinese girl (Wei Tang) transforms herself into a sophisticated insider during the World War II Japanese occupation of Shanghai. Ang Lee’s lengthy political piece, also featuring Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Joan Chen lightens up on the heavy drama only occasionally to showcase explicit sex scenes that leave nothing to the [...]

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