Director Ryan Coogler Staring Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson Rated M Score 3.5/6 The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed. For those of you keeping track this is the seventh movie in the…
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Bridge of Spies
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Director Steven Spielberg Starring Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda Rated M Score 5/6 During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to first defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Gary Powers. We…
Maggie
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Director Henry Hobson Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson Rated M Score 4/6 A teenage girl in the Midwest becomes infected by an outbreak of a disease that slowly turns the infected into cannibalistic zombies. During her transformation, her loving father stays by her side. Going into this I was completely unfamiliar with director…
Crimson Peak
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Director Guillermo Del Toro Starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston Rate MA Score 4/6 In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house…
The Dressmaker
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Director Jocelyn Moorhouse Staring Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving Rated M Score 5/6 A glamorous woman returns to her small town in rural Australia. With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong. I’m not overly familiar with director Jocelyn Moorhouse’s…
Japanese Film Festival: Princess Jellyfish & 100 Yen Love
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Okay, now for the last two movies that I saw on the Canberra Leg of the Japanese Film Festival. Yes it’s true that I had originally planned to see five movies at the festival but a complimentary ticket from one of the people running the festival because they appreciated that I had seen so many…
Black Mass
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Director Scott Cooper Starring Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson Rated MA Score 5/6 The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf. Before we get…
The Martian
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Director Ridley Scott Staring Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig Rated M Score 4/6 During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he…
Child 44
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Director Daniel Espinosa Starring Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace Rated MA Score 5/6 A disgraced member of the military police investigates a series of nasty child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union. Child 44 was adapted from a 2008 novel of the same name by Tom Rob Smith of the same name and is…
Sicario
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Director Denis Villeneuve Starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro Rated MA Score 5/6 An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico. Before we get to far into things a few pieces of…