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Ellis and Neckbone are two 14-year-old best friends, looking for adventure and purpose in their small Southern town. They find it in a man named Mud, an outlaw on the run from bounty hunters and police, as they befriend him and agree to help him reunite and run away with his one true love, Juniper. Mud is the perfect summer movie, steeped mile high in Southern charm. Director Jeff Nichols recreates adolescent summer, with long days and first loves. The coming-of-age genre is a staple for most film lovers, but Mud might be the best one since Stand By Me. Few films perfectly encapsulate what...
This follow-up to the 2009 film picks up shortly after its predecessor left off: Kirk (Chris Pine) is still at the helm of the Enterprise, Spock (Zachary Quinto) is his first officer, and they’re in the midst of a mission to spare a primitive civilization from incineration. In attempt to save Spock’s life after he gets stuck in the centre of an about to erupt volcano, Kirk defies the Starfleet prime directive by allowing the planet’s cave person-like inhabitants to see the USS Enterprise swoop in to the rescue. Kirk fibs about the incident to his commanding officer, while Spock writes...
Ambitious young Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) moves to New York and into a bungalow in West Egg at the height of the ’20s stock market boom. His neighbor in the nouveau-riche section of Long Island is the mysterious Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) who throws nightly barn burners that attract all the see and be seen people of the day, but spends most of his time yearning for his long lost love–and Nick’s cousin–Daisy (Carey Mulligan), who lives directly across the water in an East Egg estate with her rich brute of a husband Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton). Daisy loves Gatsby...
Things are not going well for Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr). He’s been crippled by nightmares and panic attacks since his brush with death while fighting with The Avengers, and now there appears to be a new threat (Ben Kingsley) on the horizon, targeting him and his constant, sleep-depriving need to upgrade his Iron Man suits. What’s more, his paramour Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) is being wooed by a past co-worker (Guy Pearce) who seems to have an axe to grind with Tony stemming from a long past encounter between the two. When a major attack is launched against Tony...
In the age of Google Maps and computer nano calculations, it sounds quaint for a scientist to drift across the ocean on a wooden raft to prove a hypothesis. Only 66 years ago, however, a Norwegian explorer named Thor Heyerdahl built such a raft, named it Kon-Tiki, and cruised from Peru to Polynesia – across 6900 kilometres of ocean. Before 1947, the scientific community had decided that the Polynesian islands had been populated from Asia 1500 years earlier. Heyerdahl spent ten years in Polynesia, and from the locals’ folklore and a big hunch, he concluded that the accepted theory was...
After an ice age sets in, killing off the majority of the population, rag tag groups of survivors huddle together in underground civilizations, braving the extreme weather and waiting for rumours about a thaw to materialize somewhere on their satellite map. Amongst the survivors is Briggs (Laurence Fishburne), the unofficial “mayor” of the colony, Sam (Kevin Zegers), a young man who’s content to follow Briggs’ lead, Sam’s girlfriend Kai (Charlotte Sullivan) and Mason (Bill Paxton), a blowhard who likes to shoot first and ask questions later. When a distress call comes in from the nearest colony (over a day’s walk...
Ellie (Diane Keaton) and Don (Robert DeNiro) have been divorced for ten years, since he cheated on her with her best friend BeBe (Susan Sarandon). Don and BeBe have been together ever since and Ellie has been galivanting around the world trying to find peace with herself. She returns to the gorgeous New England house that she and Don built together for the first time in a decade for the wedding of their adopted son Alejandro (Ben Barnes) to the daughter (Amanda Seyfried) of their longtime neighbours Barry and Muffin (David Rasche and Christine Ebersole). Also on hand for the...
Danny Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) and his buddy Adrian (Anthony Mackie) are bodybuilders who work as trainers at a hot gym in Miami. They are really, really into their bodies, and they just want the rest of their lives to match their physical excellence. When ex-con Paul (Dwayne Johnson) comes to their gym looking for work, Danny has a brilliant idea to make them all rich, quick. Soon, the trio are elbow deep in some inept plans to kidnap a rich client of Danny’s (Tony Shaloub), so that they can force him to sign over all his property and cash to...
In Oblivion, Tom Cruise stars as Jack, a veteran stationed on what remains of planet Earth to repair security drones. The planet has become uninhabitable due to ecological disaster and nuclear war. Jack and his mission partner, Victoria (Andrea Riseborough), protect mining installations from Scavs, aliens who seek to destroy all humans and their tech. When Jack finds a human survivor in a crash landed spaceship, he begins to question everything he knows. Not surprisingly, the film is very derivative of the creative team’s previous work, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Wrapping in just enough ideas of persistent...
To The Wonder opens with Neil (Ben Affleck) and Marina (Olga Kurylenko) in France, walking the streets of Paris and the low tides of Mont Saint-Michel Island. Marina and her 10-year-old daughter leave France and move with Neil to the flatlands of Oklahoma. While Neil works collecting samples of earth and water in construction zones she spends lonely days dancing in empty rooms and walking through open fields. The couple is struggling with their new domesticity and Marina’s daughter with her new, friendless life in America. Neil rekindles his friendship with a high school friend named Jane (Rachel McAdams), distancing...
Ryan Gosling has sacrificed himself to his own heart-throbby blankness. Reprising a doppelganger version of his role in Drive, Gosling opens The Place Beyond the Pines in leather jacket and bleached blonde hair. Luke is his name, and stunt motorcycling is his game. When Luke finds out that he made a baby with local gal Romina (Eva Mendes), he decides to quit his traveling fair gig and settle down. But Romina already has a new man and Luke has no earning power without his wheels. So he starts robbing banks. A dumb idea to begin with, Luke’s crime spree gets...
Simon (James McAvoy) is an art auctioneer at a large auction house. To pay off a significant gambling debt, he joins forced with a gang led by Franck (Vincent Cassel) to steal a Goya. During the heist Simon is hit in the head hard enough to cause amnesia and when it is revealed that he has double crossed the gang, a hypnotherapist (Rosario Dawson) is hired to try to recover his memory of where the painting is. Trance is pretty standard Danny Boyle— bright colours, fast cuts and a great soundtrack – and of course, his cast is excellent. Vincent...
