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Directed by Nick Cassavetes, this adaptation of author Nicholas Sparks’ bestselling novel revolves around Noah Calhoun’s (James Garner) regular visits to a female patron (Gena Rowlands) of an area nursing home. Rather than bore her with the inanities of everyday life, Calhoun reads from an old, faded notebook containing the sweeping account of a young [...]
The year is 1348. Europe has fallen under the shadow of the Black Death. As the plague decimates all in its path, fear and superstition are rife. In this apocalyptic environment, the church is losing its grip on the people. There are rumors of a village, hidden in marshland that the plague cannot reach. There [...]
Shot in a vérité style, TrollHunter is the story of a group of Norwegian film students that set out to capture real-life trolls on camera after learning their existence has been covered up for years by a government conspiracy. A thrilling and wildly entertaining film, TrollHunter delivers truly fantastic images of giant trolls wreaking havoc [...]
The problem with ‘The Veteran’ is that it lacks focus. Indecisively jumping all over the place between different genres and irrelevant plot lines, the film has a scatter-gun approach that doesn’t hit any of its targets. The narrative just ends up feeling disjointed, which allows very little emotional investment. It is hard to understand what [...]
It was a little disconcerting to attend the North American premiere of George Clooney’s “The Ides of March,” a theatrical and atmospheric fable of American political corruption, in an enormous theater packed with Canadians. Of course the story of idealism poisoned into cynicism, or the clash of political and philosophical ideas transformed into a game [...]
Another good movie is released this year and it was proudly entitled as “Money Ball”. Since the whole world is fascinated by different sports, the script player has thought of something connected to what we are into today. This is a 2hr and 6min movie and is rated as PG-13. It is categorized as drama [...]
For those who are waiting to see another good suspense story, here is the movie entitled “Dream House”. This is a suspense thriller about a family that unknowingly moves into a home where grisly murders were committed only to find themselves the killer’s next target. Successful publisher Will Atenton quit a high power job in [...]
Get ready to fasten your seatbelt as you are to watch a gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future, where the sport of boxing has gone hi-tech. The “Real Steel” movie stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton. He is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, eight-foot-tall steel robots [...]
As we all know that social networking is very “in” now. If you are a “facebook” addict, then you should watch this newly released movie entitled “The Social Network”. We will see the movie as revolving around the storyline of Mark Zuckerberg, an undergraduate of Harvard University. He is a computer programming genius. As he [...]
Bruce Willis is one of the famous Hollywood stars and is set this year to give us another class film entitled “Red”. It is based on the comic story under the same title. Many of us will wonder why it has the said title. We will all see why as we watch it on bi [...]