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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Black Mass



Whitey Bulger: Take your shot but make it your best. 'Cause I get up, I eat ya.

Black Mass
Starring Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Kevin Bacon, Benedict Cumberbatch
Written by Mark Mallouk, Jez Butterworth
Directed by Scott Cooper
Plot: The violent true story of the notorious criminal Whitey Bulger and his relationship with the FBI as an informant. 

"Johnny Depp will probably get an Oscar nod for his performance, but there is not much else to this film."

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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Exodus: Gods and Kings


Moses: Follow me and you will be free. Stay and you will perish.


Exodus: Gods and Kings
Starring Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Aaron Paul
Written by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Jeffrey Caine, Steven Zaillian 
Directed by Ridley Scott
Plot: The story of Moses and how he rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh, Ramses, and sets 600,000 slaves free.

"Epic entertainment... Bale, Edgerton, and Ridley Scott deliver!"

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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Zero Dark Thirty



C.I.A. Director: Who are you?

Maya: I'm the motherfucker that found this place. Sir.



Zero Dark Thirty
Starring Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt
Written by Mark Boal
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Plot: The chronicle of a tenacious CIA operative and her decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden - the man people believe is behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

"An excellent, tense historic thriller. Fascinating and very engaging filmmaking from the team of Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal."

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

The Great Gatsby


Nick Carraway: You can't repeat the past.

Jay Gatsby: Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can.



The Great Gatsby
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire
Written by Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce; based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald             
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
Plot: We experience the past and lifestyle of a millionaire who is obsessed with a former lover through the perspective of a Midwestern war veteran.

"Some great looking costumes and a soundtrack produced by Jay-Z make the latest telling of Fitzgerald's classic an enjoyable one."

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