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» GENRE Comedy » DIRECTOR Justin
Zackham (Going Greek)
» ACTORS Diane Keaton,
Robert De Niro, Susan Sarandon
The Big Wedding » GENRE Comedy/Drama » DIRECTOR Paul Andrew Williams » ACTORS Terence Stamp, Gemma
Arterton, Christopher Eccleston, Vanessa Redgrave
» GENRE Action/Thriller » DIRECTOR Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) » ACTORS Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart,
Angela Bassett
Olympus has Fallen
Gerard Butler plays a former Presidential bodyguard who happens to be inside the White House in the wake of the most personal terrorist attack lived by a US President. He bravely decides to join forces with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers.
Unfinished Song/ Song for Marion
Arthur (Terence Stamp) is a grumpy old man who loses his will to live when his wife Marion (Vanessa Redgrave) becomes terminally ill. Determined to make her last days as joyful as possible, he agrees to join her choir group, reluctantly mouthing the words to hits like Let’s Talk About Sex and unwittingly finding a strong support group that will stand him in good stead when the day he most fears, arises.
The Hangover Part 3
This time there’s no wedding to ruin, no bachelor party and no excuse to lose a tooth or get a tattoo. Still, boys will be boys and when this gang gets together, you can never underestimate the mess they are capable of getting themselves into.
» GENRE Drama/Thriller » DIRECTOR Chan-wook Park (I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK)
» ACTORS Nicole Kidman,
Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode
Stoker
When India’s father passes away in a tragic car accident, an uncle she never even knew she had comes to live with her and her mentally unstable mother. She grows infatuated by him but begins to suspect that he has ulterior motives. Still, she cannot wrest herself away from his arms.
Ellie (Diane Keaton) and Don (Robert De Niro) play a divorced couple who are forced to see each other again after 10 years when their adopted son, Alejandro (Ben Barnes) invites them to his wedding. When Alejandro announces that his biological mother, a strict Catholic, is attending the wedding, he asks Ellie and Don to act like they are still married, so as not to ruffle her religious feathers. The only problem is that Don is now living with Bebe, Ellie’s former best friend, who broke up their marriage and who is not about to allow Ellie to ‘rule the roost’ once again.
» GENRE Comedy » DIRECTOR Todd Phillips (Starsky & Hutch) » ACTORS Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms
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