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Just Cause (1995)

May 22, 2013 Leave a comment

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Directed by Arne Glimcher, A brutal murder is committed in the Florida Everglades. Eight years later, a principled Harvard law professor tries to save the convicted man on Death Row who swears he’s innocent of that crime. For the small-town detective who investigated the killing, however, there’s no question he caught the right man–and no last-minute intervention is going to keep that cold-blooded killer out of the electric chair. Someone is the mastermind of a deadly game… and all roads lead back to the site of that long-ago murder–where, this time, there are two intended victims.

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Hitchcock (2012)

November 15, 2012 Leave a comment

Directed by Sacha Gervasi, Based on a true story, A love story between influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho in 1959. Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho to explore the relationship between the legendary British director and his wife Alma Reville, who played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in the making of her husband’s terrifying 1960 classic Psycho.

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)

August 3, 2012 Leave a comment

Directed by Peter Webber, Based mostly on a true story, A speculative account of the life of Griet, a 16-year-old girl who appears in Johannes Vermeer’s painting of the same title. Set in 17th century Holland, Griet is employed by Vermeer as a housemaid to care for his six children, his jealous pregnant wife and his uncommunicative mother-in-law. Tensions arise when Vermeer’s wife suspects intimacy between her husband and the girl–and then climax, when the wife discovers that Griet borrowed her precious pearl earrings to sit for the now famous portrait.

Iron Man 2 (2010)

May 4, 2012 Comments: 2

Directed by Jon Favreau, The world is aware that billionaire inventor Tony Stark is the armored Super Hero Iron Man. Under pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military, Tony is unwilling to divulge the secrets behind the Iron Man armor because he fears the information will slip into the wrong hands. With Pepper Potts, and James “Rhodey” Rhodes at his side, Tony forges new alliances and confronts powerful new forces. Tony must contend with deadly issues involving the government, his own friends and new enemies.

The Avengers (2012)

May 4, 2012 1 Comment

Directed by Joss Whedon, The Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins. His team will need all their powers to save the world from disaster.

The Black Dahlia (2006)

February 8, 2011 Leave a comment

Directed by Brian De Palma, In 1946, the former boxers Dwight “Bucky” Bleichert and Lee Blanchard are policemen in Los Angeles. Lee has a good relationship with his chief and uses a box fight between them to promote the department and get a raise to the police force. They succeed and are promoted to homicide detectives, working together. Bucky becomes a close friend of Lee and his girlfriend Kay Lake, forming a triangle of love. When the corpse of the aspirant actress Elizabeth Short is found mutilated, Lee becomes obsessed to solve the case called by the press Black Dahlia. Meanwhile, Bucky’s investigation leads him to a Madeleine Linscott, the daughter of a powerful and wealthy constructor that resembles the Black Dahlia.

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