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Category: Movies
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For Your Consideration: The Spectacular Now
If your best years were in high school, then you might want to re-think your life. The Spectacular Now is a coming of age romance, with a little more meat to it than just “boy meets girl…blah, blah, blah”. The two main characters, Sutter Keely, (Miles Teller) and Aimee Finecky, (Shailene Woodley) are complicated in…
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For Your Consideration: Enough Said
Enough Said is a romantic comedy that centers on some very normal, everyday, middle-aged people coping with things like divorce and the fast approaching empty-nest syndrome. Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as Eva, a massage therapist who has adjusted to being divorced, but a bit uneasy about her only daughter going off to college. The late James…
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For Your Consideration: Dallas Buyers Club
Matthew McConaughey stars as Ron Woodroof in this biographical drama set in the mid 80’s. Ron is a rodeo bull riding, hellraising, hustler, who thrives in a high-risk world. He takes his chances in with the bulls, the girls, the drugs, and the gambling, and manages to stay ahead of the consequences, until he goes…
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For Your Consideration mini reviews: The Act of Killing
The Act of Killing is as bizarre as it is gripping. This documentary, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, takes a very unconventional approach at getting the truth behind the mass killings made by Indonesian gangsters against those who were believed to be communists living in Indonesia.
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Hiddleston dominates ‘Thor: The Dark World’
Believe it or not, Chris Hemsworth’s outrageously chiseled bod wasn’t my favorite part of Thor: The Dark World. While our titular hero was gorgeous and entertaining, this second entry in the stand-alone Thor movies (those of the non-Avengers variety) was dominated by none other than Tom Hiddleston as Thor’s charmingly villainous brother, Loki.
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P.M. trailer showcases Colorado filmmakers
Chances are, most of you know I’m kind of a film nerd. In my nerdy travels, I worked at the Colorado Film Commission, where I met Ben Martinez. Now he and friends Dave Franco and Kris Simms have made a movie—and based on this trailer it looks like a good one! Check out the trailer…
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Can Franco do it all in ‘As I Lay Dying’?
James Franco not only directed and stars in ‘As I Lay Dying’, but he also co-wrote the adaptation of William Faulkner’s classic original novel. Franco’s diverse cast include Danny McBride, Logan Marshall Green, Tim Blake Nelson, Ahna O’Reilly, Jesse Hieman, Beth Grant and Jim Parrack.
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De Niro and Stallone can still throw down in ‘Grudge Match’
A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout — 30 years after their last match. Stars Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone.
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‘Homefront’ an action thriller staring Jason Statham and James Franco.
Sylvester Stallone wrote the script for ‘Homefront’ based on book by Chuck Logan. Jason Statham stars as a retired DEA agent, who moves to a small, quiet town for the sake of his young daughter. Once there, however, he quickly gets entangled with the local villain, a drug lord played by James Franco.
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Timberlake and Affleck go all in for ‘Runner Runner’
When a college student loses everything playing online poker, he believes he’s been cheated and hunts down the man responsible. That’s the just the start of Brad Furman‘s Runner Runner, which stars Justin Timberlake in the student role and Ben Affleck as the cheater. The two men team up, and before you know it, Timberlake’s…
