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Archive for December, 2017
6404.The Florida Project
Dec 30th
Nominated for 1 Golden Globe.
Genre: Drama
Directed by: Sean Baker
Starring: Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe
Plot: Halley lives with her six year old daughter Moonee in a budget motel along one of the commercial strips catering to the Disney World tourist clientele outside Orlando, Florida. Halley, who survives largely on welfare, has little respect for people, especially those who cross her, it an attitude that she has passed down to Moonee, who curses and gives the finger like her mother. Although the motel’s policy is not to allow long term rentals, Bobby, the motel manager, has made arrangements for people like Halley to live there while not undermining the policy as he realizes that many such tenants have no place to go otherwise. Halley, Moonee and Moonee’s friends, who live in the motel or others like it along the strip and who she often drags into her disruptive pranks, are often the bane of Bobby’s existence, but while dealing with whatever problem arises, Bobby has a soft spot especially for the children and thus, by association, their parents, as he knows that Moonee and others like her…
6403.The Stolen
Dec 30th
Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | Western
Directed by: Niall Johnson
Starring: Alice Eve, Jack Davenport, Graham McTavish
Plot: Charlotte Lockton, a wealthy, upper class, English immigrant, chooses to forgo all of her home luxuries to find her kidnapped baby son. She navigates her way through the unruly and wild world of the gold rush in 1860’s New Zealand, finding unlikely friendship amongst the hustlers, whores, Maori Warriors and Chinese Miners. But in the end, she must face the man who took the boy – and become the woman she never thought she’d be.
6402.Killer Christmas
Dec 30th
Genre: Horror
Directed by: PeterPaul Shaker, Tony Shaker
Starring: PeterPaul Shaker, Freya Lund, Tony Shaker
Plot: A slow-burn suspense Christmas horror where six friends explore an abandoned hotel near a Christmas tree lot only to find themselves being murdered one-by-one by someone in a Santa mask.
6401.The Adventure Club
Dec 29th
Genre: Family
Directed by: Geoff Anderson
Starring: Billy Zane, Kim Coates, Gabrielle Miller
Plot: With the discovery of an ancient puzzle box, a Boy, with the help of his friends, begins an adventure to find his fortune.
6400.Scramble
Dec 28th
Genre: Crime
Directed by: Noah Scott (as Noah Edward)
Starring: Courtney Gains, Chelsea Gilson, Irina Voronina
Plot: SCRAMBLE interweaves a story full of gangsters, guns, prostitution and love. After his girlfriend is kidnapped by an UNDERGROUND prostitution ring, Frank and his buddy borrow RANSOM money from a psychopathic billionaire junkie. As repayment, the two friends are sent on a series of quests confronting ruthless gangsters and delivering dead bodies. Meanwhile, the prostitution ring is under attack by a fierce killer (Puckler) and a renegade escort. When the two ganglands collide, can Frank survive this savagely funny ride or is his destiny doomed to crash?
6699.Mr Roosevelt
Dec 28th
Genre: Comedy
Directed by: Noël Wells
Starring: Noël Wells, Nick Thune, Britt Lower
Plot: fter a loved one falls ill, struggling comedian Emily Martin returns to her college town of Austin, Texas and must come to terms with her past while staying with her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.
6697.Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Dec 27th
Nominated for 6 Golden Globes.
Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Directed by: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell
Plot: THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI is a darkly comic drama from Academy Award nominee Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson), the town’s revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell), an immature mother’s boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing’s law enforcement is only exacerbated.
6694.The Red Maple Leaf
Dec 26th
Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Directed by: Frank D’Angelo
Starring: James Caan, Robert Loggia, Martin Landau
Plot: On a seemingly worry-free Ottawa morning, young Jenni Adams, daughter of U.S. Ambassador Patrick Adams, is snatched from right under the nose of her Secret Service detail. The blatant act has left the American authorities searching for answers with powerful pressure coming at them from every side. From senators all the way up to the President of the United States, the hunt is on to find this girl alive and return her to her family.
6693.Marshall
Dec 26th
Genre: Biography | Drama
Directed by: Reginald Hudlin
Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson
Plot: About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.
6692.Call Me By Your Name
Dec 26th
Nominated for 3 Golden Globes.
Genre: Drama | Romance
Directed by: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg
Plot: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17- year-old young man, spends his days in his family’s 17th century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favor him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows with natural delights. While Elio’s sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24 year-old American college graduate student working on …
6691.Lady Bird
Dec 26th
Nominated for 4 Golden Globes.
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Directed by: Greta Gerwig
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Odeya Rush
Plot: Christine “Lady Bird” MacPherson is a high school senior from the “wrong side of the tracks.” She longs for adventure, sophistication, and opportunity, but finds none of that in her Sacramento Catholic high school. LADY BIRD follows the title character’s senior year in high school, including her first romance, her participation in the school play, and most importantly, her applying for college.
6690.I Tonya
Dec 26th
Nominated for 3 Golden Globes.
Genre: Biography | Drama | Sport
Directed by: Craig Gillespie
Starring: Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney
Plot: Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
6669.Blade Runner 2049 (100%)
Dec 26th
Genre: Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas
Plot: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
6689.Last Flag Flying
Dec 26th
2 wins & 5 nominations.
Genre: Comedy | Drama | War
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Starring: Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, Steve Carell
Plot: In 2003, 30 years after they served together in the Vietnam War, former Navy Hospital Corpsman Richard “Doc” Shepherd re-unites with ex-Marines Sal and Mueller on a different type of mission: to bury Doc’s son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War. Doc decides to forgo burial at Arlington Cemetery and, with the help of his old buddies, takes the casket on a bittersweet trip up the East Coast to his home in suburban New Hampshire.
6688.Pokemon The Movie I Choose You
Dec 22nd
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Directed by: Kunihiko Yuyama
Starring: Unshô Ishizuka, Rica Matsumoto, Sarah Natochenny
Plot: Ash Ketchum, a kid from Pallet Town, embarks on a journey across the Kanto region to become a Pokemon Master. With his partner Pikachu, who at first hated Ash. But the bond of Pikachu and Ash builds as they travel to beat gyms and enter the league of Kanto.
6687.Bright
Dec 22nd
Genre: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Directed by: David Ayer
Starring: Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, Noomi Rapace
Plot: Set in a world where mystical creatures live side by side with humans. A human cop is forced to work with an Orc to find a weapon everyone is prepared to kill for.
6686.Mark Felt The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Dec 22nd
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
Directed by: Peter Landesman
Starring: Liam Neeson, Diane Lane, Marton Csokas
Plot: The story of Mark Felt, who under the name “Deep Throat” helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1972.
6614.The Snowman (100%)
Dec 22nd
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg
When an elite crime squad’s lead detective investigates the disappearance of a victim on the first snow of winter, he fears an elusive serial killer may be active again. With the help of a brilliant recruit, the cop must connect decades-old cold cases to the brutal new one if he hopes to outwit this unthinkable evil before the next snowfall.
6590.The Foreigner (100%)
Dec 21st
Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller
Directed by: Martin Campbell
Starring: Katie Leung, Jackie Chan, Rufus Jones
Plot: The story of humble London businessman Quan (Chan), whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – is taken from him in a senseless act of politically-motivated terrorism. In his relentless search for the identity of the terrorists, Quan is forced into a cat- and-mouse conflict with a British government official (Brosnan), whose own past may hold clues to the identities of the elusive killers.
6684.Breathe
Dec 21st
Genre: Biography | Drama | Romance
Directed by: Andy Serkis
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Hugh Bonneville
Plot: When Robin is struck down by polio at the age of 28, he is confined to a hospital bed and given only a few months to live. With the help of Diana’s twin brothers (Tom Hollander) and the groundbreaking ideas of inventor Teddy Hall (Hugh Bonneville), Robin and Diana dare to escape the hospital ward to seek out a full and passionate life together – raising their young son, traveling and devoting their lives to helping other polio patients.
6683.You Me and Him
Dec 20th
Genre: Comedy
Directed by: Daisy Aitkens
Starring: David Tennant, Lucy Punch, Sarah Parish
Plot: In You, Me and Him we meet lesbian couple Olivia and Alex (Lucy Punch, Faye Marsay) who, despite their age difference, are very much in love. But as the question of pregnancy rears its head and their neighbour John (David Tennant) befriends them, they both start making some truly disastrous decisions.
6682.Pottersville
Dec 20th
Genre: Comedy
Directed by: Seth Henrikson
Starring: Christina Hendricks, Michael Shannon, Judy Greer
Plot: The plot centers on Maynard (Shannon), a beloved local businessman who is mistaken for the legendary Bigfoot during an inebriated romp through town in a makeshift gorilla costume. The sightings set off an international Bigfoot media spectacle and a windfall of tourism dollars for a simple American town hit by hard times.
6681.We Love You Sally Carmichael
Dec 20th
Genre: Comedy
Directed by: Christopher Gorham
Starring: Elizabeth Tulloch, Christopher Gorham, Paula Marshall
Plot: Readers across the world are in love with author Sally Carmichael’s series of romance novels that chronicle the epic love story between a human girl and a merman. But no one knows that Sally Carmichael is really Simon Hayes, a bitter, serious novelist – and Simon would like to keep it that way.
6680.Rebel In the Rye
Dec 20th
Genre: Biography | Drama
Directed by: Danny Strong
Starring: Zoey Deutch, Kevin Spacey, Nicholas Hoult
Plot: The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, “The Catcher in the Rye”.
6679.Battle of the Sexes
Dec 19th
Nominated for 2 Golden Globes.
Genre: Biography | Comedy | Drama | Sport
Directed by: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Starring: Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough
Plot: In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women’s movement, the 1973 tennis match between women’s world champion Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and ex-men’s-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) was billed as the BATTLE OF THE SEXES and became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time, reaching 90 million viewers around the world. As the rivalry between King and Riggs kicked into high gear, off-court each was fighting more personal and complex battles. The fiercely private King was not only championing for equality, but also struggling to come to terms with her own sexuality, as her friendship with Marilyn Barnett (Andrea Riseborough) developed. And Riggs, one of the first self-made media-age celebrities, wrestled with his gambling demons, at the expense of his family and wife Priscilla (Elisabeth Shue). Together, Billie and Bobby served up a cultural spectacle that resonated far beyond the tennis court, sparking discussions in bedrooms …
6678.Hedgehogs
Dec 19th
Genre: Animation
Directed by: Jianming Huang
Starring: Ian Hecox, Jenn McAllister, Anthony Padilla
Plot: The prideful and arrogant Bobby is the strongest hedgehog as well as the exception and rebellion in the whole hedgehog tribe. However, During his fight with “Tie Tui”, he accidently gets hurt, loses his memory and starts his mysterious journey.
6676.Beyond Skyline
Dec 15th
Genre: Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Directed by: Liam O’Donnell
Starring: Frank Grillo, Bojana Novakovic, Iko Uwais
Plot: A tough-as-nails detective embarks on a relentless pursuit to free his son from a nightmarish alien warship.
6517.The Lego Ninjago Movie (100%)
Dec 14th
Genre: Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family
Directed by: Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher
Starring: Jackie Chan, Dave Franco, Fred Armisen
Plot: Six young ninjas Lloyd, Jay, Kai, Cole, Zane and Nya are tasked with defending their island home, called Ninjago. By night, they’re gifted warriors, using their skills and awesome fleet of vehicles to fight villains and monsters. By day, they’re ordinary teens struggling against their greatest enemy: high school.
