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  • Movie Review ~ The Imitation Game

    The Facts: Synopsis: English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, helps crack the Enigma code during World War II. Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Allen Leech, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, Matthew Goode, Matthew Beard, Rory Kinnear Director: Morten Tyldum Rated: PG-13 Running Length: 114 minutes Trailer Review: Here TMMM Score: (8/10) Review:  As I said in my review of the trailer for

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  • Movie Review ~ Big Eyes

    The Facts: Synopsis: A drama about the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s. Stars: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Jason Schwartzman, Terence Stamp, Krysten Ritter Director: Tim Burton Rated:

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  • The Silver Bullet ~ The Imitation Game

    Synopsis: English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, helps crack the Enigma code during World War II. Release Date: November 21, 2014 Thoughts:  If you’ve had your ear to the awards circuit ground you’d be hearing lots of rumblings about The Imitation Game, a twisty true life thriller that winds through the shadows of code breaking

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  • The Silver Bullet ~ Amityville: The Awakening

    Synopsis: A single mother moves her three children into the haunted house not knowing of the house’s bloody history. Release Date:  January 2, 2015 Thoughts:  Though rarely mentioned in the same breath as multi-sequel franchise films like Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Halloween, the Amityville series of films never reached the

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  • The Silver Bullet ~ St. Vincent

    Synopsis: A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door. Release Date: October 24, 2014 Thoughts: When are they going to stop trying to remake As Good as It Gets? Did they learn nothing from, oh, the title of that

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  • The Silver Bullet ~ Paddington

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olf4StiBnmY Synopsis: PADDINGTON follows the comic misadventures of a young Peruvian bear with a passion for all things British, who travels to London in search of a home. Release Date:  December 14, 2014 Thoughts: It seems a true miracle that it has taken so long for literature’s favorite bear to make his big screen debut.

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  • The Silver Bullet ~ Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

    Synopsis: The town’s most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with some of its more reviled inhabitants. Release Date: August 24, 2014 Thoughts: Not exactly striking while the iron was hot, this sequel to 2005’s technically sound but pretty darn moody Sin City finally makes it to the big screen after almost a decade of false starts

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  • The Silver Bullet ~ The Giver

    Synopsis: In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the “real” world. Release Date: August 15, 2014 Thoughts: A bit surprising that it’s taken 20 years for Lois Lowry’s popular young adult novel

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  • The Silver Bullet ~ Grace of Monaco

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFYmYWa348c Synopsis: The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly’s crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco’s Prince Rainier III and France’s Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s Release Date:  TBA 2014 Thoughts: One of several high profile films that were originally scheduled

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  • The Silver Bullet ~ Kite (2014)

    Synopsis: When her cop father is killed, a young woman tracks the murder with the apparent help of his ex-partner. Release Date:  TBA 2014 Thoughts: Adapted from the popular 1998 Japanese anime, the US version of Kite has been through some less than breezy days in its way to the big screen.  Originally planned for 2008,

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