The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
- Directed by: Morgan Spurlock
- Starring: Morgan Spurlock
- Plot: ”A documentary about branding, advertising and product placement that is financed and made possible by brands, advertising and product placement.”
Review: Bah, advertising doesn’t work … Ok, someone get me a Coke! (A)
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One Day
- Directed by: Lone Scherfig
- Starring: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson
- Plot: ”After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day.”
Review: The title’s misleading … it feels way longer than one day. (C-)
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Fright Night
- Directed by: Craig Gillespie
- Starring: Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Toni Collette (and yes, David Tennant)
- Plot: ”A teenager suspects that his new neighbor is a vampire. Also, yes, his neighbor is a vampire.”
Review: Well, it wasn’t good … but devilishly entertaining. (B)
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50/50
- Directed by: Jonathan Levine
- Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogan, Anna Kendrick
- Plot: ”A comedic account of a 27-year-old guy’s cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.”
Review: An unbelievable sleeper indie hit … like Juno but with cancer. (A+)
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The Help
- Directed by: Tate Taylor
- Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer
- Plot: ”A look at what happens when a southern town’s unspoken code of rules and behavior is shattered by three courageous women who strike up an unlikely friendship.”
Review: *sobs* Damn you white guilt! (A-)
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Buried
- Directed by: Rodrigo Cortés
- Starring: Ryan Reynolds
- Plot: ”Paul is a U.S. contractor working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it’s a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.”
Review: Shove Reynolds in a box? Gladly! … except for this film. (A-)
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Let Me In
- Directed by: Matt Reeves
- Starring: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz, Richard Jenkins
- Plot: ”A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian.”
Review: Sucks? Hell no, I sank my teeth into this baby. (A-)
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The Company Men
- Directed by: John Wells
- Starring: Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper
- Plot: ”The story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company - and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.”
Review: You think you getting fired would be depressing? Watch this. (B-)
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The King’s Speech
- Directed by: Tom Hooper
- Starring: Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush
- Plot: ”The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.”
Review: The movie was decent, but Colin Firth left me … speechless. (B+)
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The Art of the Steal
- Directed by: Don Argott
- Plot: “A Documentary that follows the struggle for control of Dr. Albert C. Barnes’ 25 billion dollar collection of modern and post-impressionist art.”
Review: Greed, fraud, conspiracies - screw fiction, truth is way more cinematic! (A)
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