Gran Torino Clint Eastwood :: USA :: 2008 :: 1h55 Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is a retired factory worker and war veteran, who lives in a gang-infested run-down neighbourhood, where he dislikes almost everyone and everything besides his own house. His life is filled with a near-perfect cliché of American redneck tough existence: arrogance, ignorance, [...]
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Last Chance Harvey Joel Hopkins :: USA, UK :: 2008 :: 1h33 Harvey (Dustin Hoffman) is a disillusioned jingle-writer from New York. When his daughter is to marry in London, he flies over to be confronted with his failed parenting and his ex-wife’s harmonious new life, with husband, their daughter and future son-in-law. Desperate to hide from [...]
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Miracle at St. Anna Spike Lee :: USA :: 2007 :: 2h36 The movie has one main topic- that the country which waged war, the USA, against a racist, fascist regime, Nazi Germany, may have had a few unresolved racial issues of their own. This central thesis is wrapped up in a bickering-amongst-themselves all black [...]
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Outlander Howard McCain :: USA :: 2008 :: 1h55 An alien space craft comes crashing down from the heavens into a picturesque Norwegian lake. It is the 7th century AD and the country is inhabited by small groups of Vikings living in protected villages. Kainan (James Caviezel) climbs out of his craft and swims to the surface. [...]
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Revolutionary Road Sam Mendes :: USA :: 2008 :: 2h05 Based on the first book by Richard Yates of the same title (1961), Revolutionary Road is set in a post-war Connecticut. The young couple Frank and April Wheeler, struggle with the pressures of 1950s conformity. Trying to set out a path of their own, one [...]
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Valkyrie Bryan Singer :: USA, Germany :: 2008 :: 1h50 The movie opens in Tunisia, during World War 2. We see Colonel Claus von Stauffenburg (Tom Cruise) writing that he is appalled by mass murder of Jews, by military command and his realisation that he can not find a single general to oppose Hitler. After being wounded [...]
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Religulous Larry Charles :: USA :: 2008 :: 1h41 US comic and television host Bill Mahler argues against religion in this one-sided appeal to unite US atheists. Interviews with religious representatives and random believers -Muslims, Christians, Jews, Scientologists, and variations- in the USA, Israel, the Vatican and the Netherlands are inter sped with mocking commentary [...]
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W Oliver Stone :: USA :: 2008 :: 2h From his student fraternity days to meetings in the White House, Oliver Stone’s biography is not a very uplifting film to watch, neither is it particularly informative. We see George W Bush (Josh Brolin) as a drunken cowboy in Texas who, after scraping by at university, [...]
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The Day the Earth Stood Still Scott Derrickson :: USA :: 2008 :: 1h42 Huge alien ships land on earth, with Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) stepping out as their representative. Klaatu is an emotionless, robotic type of alien in a human form, but with superpowers adapted to each moment. He is helped along by giant robot [...]
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