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The Deal (2008) #151 Remove Directed by Steven Schachter. With William H. Macy, Meg Ryan, LL Cool J, Elliott Gould. A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli, but can only get financing if he casts a well-known action star. Production is halted however, when the lead actor is kidnapped, so the producer hatches a scheme with a struggling creative executive to save the star and the movie. |
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) #226 Remove Directed by Tony Scott. With Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj. Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime. |
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The Calling (2014) #485 Remove Directed by Jason Stone. With Susan Sarandon, Gil Bellows, Ellen Burstyn, Topher Grace. Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Fort Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a higher calling. |
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Julie & Julia (2009) #290 Remove Directed by Nora Ephron. With Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Chris Messina, Stanley Tucci. Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book. |
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The White Ribbon (2009) #306 Remove Directed by Michael Haneke. With Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur. Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible? |
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Clash of the Titans (2010) #298 Remove Directed by Louis Leterrier. With Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng. Perseus demigod, son of Zeus, battles the minions of the underworld to stop them from conquering heaven and earth. |
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The Calling (2014) #485 Remove Directed by Jason Stone. With Susan Sarandon, Gil Bellows, Ellen Burstyn, Topher Grace. Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Fort Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a higher calling. |
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The Reader (2008) #520 Remove Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain. Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. |
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Heat (1995) #162 Remove Directed by Michael Mann. With Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight. A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist. |
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Julie & Julia (2009) #290 Remove Directed by Nora Ephron. With Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Chris Messina, Stanley Tucci. Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book. |
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Despicable Me (2010) #373 Remove Directed by Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud. With Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews. When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better. |
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Despicable Me (2010) #373 Remove Directed by Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud. With Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews. When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better. |
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Catch-22 (1970) #211 Remove Directed by Mike Nichols. With Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel. A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions. |
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Damage (2009) #227 Remove Directed by Jeff King. With Steve Austin, Walton Goggins, Laura Vandervoort, Donnelly Rhodes. An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely of places. |
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St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009) #308 Remove Directed by Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson. With Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, David Tennant, Talulah Riley. The girls of St. Trinians are on the hunt for buried treasure after discovering headmistress Miss Fritton is related to a famous pirate. |
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012) #87 Remove Directed by Wes Anderson. With Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray. A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them. |
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The Boxtrolls (2014) #480 Remove Directed by Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi. With Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade. A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator. |
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Macbeth (2010) #309 Remove Directed by Rupert Goold. With Patrick Stewart, Kate Fleetwood, Oliver Burch, Suzanne Burden. Sir Patrick Stewart stars in a gripping Tony-nominated production. |
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The Iron Giant (1999) #270 Remove Directed by Brad Bird. With Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Aniston, Vin Diesel. A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy. |
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Philomena (2013) #518 Remove Directed by Stephen Frears. With Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Mare Winningham. A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent. |
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The Soloist (2009) #300 Remove Directed by Joe Wright. With Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander. A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper. |
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Promised Land (2012) #262 Remove Directed by Gus Van Sant. With Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski, Hal Holbrook. A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources. |
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) #226 Remove Directed by Tony Scott. With Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj. Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime. |
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Heat (1995) #162 Remove Directed by Michael Mann. With Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight. A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist. |
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Amazing Grace (2006) #321 Remove Directed by Michael Apted. With Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Romola Garai. The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade. |