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MOVIE REVIEW: The 15:17 to Paris

MOVIE REVIEW: The 15:17 to Paris

The true story of the heroes who stopped a radical from killing everyone on the train from Amsterdam to Paris.  Instead of telling you the cast list, Director Clint Eastwood made the choice to have the real life heroes play themselves, I’ve to tell you that this film stars the heroes themselves. First off.  If I were scoring the bravery of these three Americans who brought down the terrorist who…

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Event if The Crown ends I would not be surprised if Peter started writing another series or another film on Netflix.

I can’t wait for another period piece. Just what the world needs ... not

And of course he will write more he has a contract with Netflix so unless Netflix goes bankrupt it will happen

I rather follow up on other writers and directors work like Veena Sud, David Mills, Dorothy Blyskal, J.R Cole, Fatih Akin, Zhangke Jia, Michael Haneke, Claire Denis etc..

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Elenco: Spencer Stone - ele mesmo[5] Anthony Sadler - ele mesmo[5] Alek Skarlatos - ele mesmo[5] Mark Moogalian - ele mesmo[6] Isabelle Risacher Moogalian - ela mesma Judy Greer - Joyce Eskel Jenna Fischer - Heidi Skarlatos Ray Corasani - Ayoub El-Khazzani Chris Norman - ele mesmo P. J. Byrne - Mr. Henry Tony Hale - Coach Murray Thomas Lennon - Michael Akers Jaleel White - Garrett Walden Vernon Dobtcheff Matthew Barnes

filme dathe: Direção Clint Eastwood Produção Clint Eastwood Jessica Meier Tim Moore Kristina Rivera Roteiro Dorothy Blyskal Baseado em The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes, de Jeffrey E. Stern Spencer Stone Anthony Sadler Alek Skarlatos Música Thomas Newman Christian Jacob Cinematografia Tom Stern Edição Blu Murray Companhia(s) produtora(s) Warner Bros. Pictures[4] Village Roadshow PicturesMalpaso Productions Distribuição Warner Bros. Pictures Lançamento 9 de fevereiro de 2018 Idioma língua inglesa

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SINOPSE E DETALHES Quando um terrorista invade o trem n° 9364 da Thalys a caminho de Paris, três amigos norte-americanos - Anthony Sadler, Alex Skarlatos e o piloto da Força Aérea Spencer Stone - se esforçam para imobilizar o extremista, armado com um fuzil AK-47, e evitar uma enorme tragédia.

Título original: The 15:17 to Paris Distribuidor: WARNER BROS.

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My God is Bigger Than Your Statistics – The 15:17 to Paris (Film Review)

My God is Bigger Than Your Statistics – The 15:17 to Paris (Film Review)

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In Episode 3 of Cinescope Today, Chad and Seth talk about The 15:17 to Paris!

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Portrayed by the Heroes who Lived it, Watch Trailer for Clint Eastwood's 'The 15:17 to Paris'

Portrayed by the Heroes who Lived it, Watch Trailer for Clint Eastwood’s ‘The 15:17 to Paris’

  “Once you begin to realize who you really are then you begin to discover how you’ve been given authority over your life.” “Don’t try to take any shortcuts. Do what you know is right.” In the face of fear ordinary people can do the extraordinary. ‘The 15:17 to Paris’ is based on the true story that took place in the early evening of August 21, 2015 when American soldiers discover a terrorist…

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The 15:17 To Paris, el genio Clint Eastwood llevará al cine el atentado fallido de París-Amsterdam

The 15:17 To Paris, el genio Clint Eastwood llevará al cine el atentado fallido de París-Amsterdam

Clint Eastwood es uno de los directores más importantes del cine actual desde hace muchísimos años, una leyenda viviente del séptimo arte, un inmortal. Cuando confirmamos que está preparando una nueva película como director saltan todas nuestras alarmas porque sabemos que puede ser una verdadera maravilla.

De acuerdo a Deadline, el cineasta llevará al cine el atentado fallido de París-Amsterdam…

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Elenco: Spencer Stone - ele mesmo[5] Anthony Sadler - ele mesmo[5] Alek Skarlatos - ele mesmo[5] Mark Moogalian - ele mesmo[6] Isabelle Risacher Moogalian - ela mesma Judy Greer - Joyce Eskel Jenna Fischer - Heidi Skarlatos Ray Corasani - Ayoub El-Khazzani Chris Norman - ele mesmo P. J. Byrne - Mr. Henry Tony Hale - Coach Murray Thomas Lennon - Michael Akers Jaleel White - Garrett Walden Vernon Dobtcheff Matthew Barnes

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SINOPSE E DETALHES Quando um terrorista invade o trem n° 9364 da Thalys a caminho de Paris, três amigos norte-americanos - Anthony Sadler, Alex Skarlatos e o piloto da Força Aérea Spencer Stone - se esforçam para imobilizar o extremista, armado com um fuzil AK-47, e evitar uma enorme tragédia.

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Elenco: Spencer Stone - ele mesmo[5] Anthony Sadler - ele mesmo[5] Alek Skarlatos - ele mesmo[5] Mark Moogalian - ele mesmo[6] Isabelle Risacher Moogalian - ela mesma Judy Greer - Joyce Eskel Jenna Fischer - Heidi Skarlatos Ray Corasani - Ayoub El-Khazzani Chris Norman - ele mesmo P. J. Byrne - Mr. Henry Tony Hale - Coach Murray Thomas Lennon - Michael Akers Jaleel White - Garrett Walden Vernon Dobtcheff Matthew Barnes

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15h17 - Trem para Paris filme completo dublado: 8 de março de 2018 / 1h 34min / Drama, Suspense Direção: Clint Eastwood Elenco: Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos Nacionalidade EUA

SINOPSE E DETALHES Quando um terrorista invade o trem n° 9364 da Thalys a caminho de Paris, três amigos norte-americanos - Anthony Sadler, Alex Skarlatos e o piloto da Força Aérea Spencer Stone - se esforçam para imobilizar o extremista, armado com um fuzil AK-47, e evitar uma enorme tragédia.

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Meet the <b>writer</b> from Easton who penned Clint Eastwood's 'The 15:17 to Paris'

In the spring of 2015, Dorothy Blyskal had quit her corporate job and was writing Facebook posts begging for an entry-level position in show business. Less than three years later, she walked the red carpet for the premiere of “The 15:17 to Paris,” the Clint Eastwood-directed movie that she wrote. http://ift.tt/2sC5F75

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Biography / Drama / • 94 minutes Starring: Ray Corasani Alek Skarlatos Anthony Sadler Spencer Stone and others. Writer: Dorothy Blyskal (screenplay by) Anthony Sadler (based on the book by) Alek Skarlatos (based on the book by) Spencer Stone (based on the book by) Jeffrey E. Stern (based on the book by) Released • 09 Feb 2018

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The 15:17 to Paris Dir. Clint Eastwood, U.S., Warner Bros.

Like Sully, Clint Eastwood?s The 15:17 to Parisis about a moment of decisiveness in which an average American man became a hero. And like American Sniper, it is about the making of that hero by the part of America that both Fox News viewers and New York Timeseditors think of when they think of ?the real America.? Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler, who in 2015 charged down a gunman preparing to massacre the passengers of the Eurostar train they were on as the last leg of a backpacking trip, and who play themselves onscreen (quite stiffly), are shown as products of American mythmaking. They soak up their grandfathers? war stories, recruitment ads, and other Clint Eastwood movies: Stone at one point wears a Man with No Name t-shirt, and has a Letters from Iwo Jimaposter in his childhood bedroom alongside one for Full Metal Jacket. Clint has been derided in some quarters for these small vanities, but they?re perfectly apt for a movie in which real life and movie life interact in ways that are frequently awkward, frequently touching, and always singular.

In making a feature film out of an event that unfolded in slightly more time than Sully?s United Flight 1549 was airborne, Eastwood now focuses primarily on the lead-up, rather than the aftermath. Drawing from the trio? Shadows on the Wall , screenwriter Dorothy Blyskal?a production assistant on Sullygetting her feature screenplay credit?places their friendship on a collision course with destiny. At the time, Stone was an active-duty Air Force airman, Skarlatos a National Guardsman who had returned from a deployment in Afghanistan, and Sadler a student at Cal State. The film begins in Sacramento, where Stone and Skarlatos, two academic strugglers raised by single moms, meet Sadler, a mischievous fellow misfit at their Christian academy.

These early scenes are excruciating, marked by placeholder dialogue no children would ever say?expository for young Spencer and Alek and silver-tongued, with lots of conditional clauses, for Anthony. These scenes are enlivened only by stripped-down turns from comic actors doing their shtick without the jokes: Thomas Lennon as a smug, prissy fundamentalist principal, and Toby Hale as a toxically ineffectual gym teacher who is ?in a moodtoday, whoo!? Hale, especially, with the pathos behind his pettiness, would fit right into another recent on-screen Bush-era Sacramento Christian school, Lady Bird?s Immaculate Heart. Here, as in that film (and in America at large), class is somewhat difficult to parse, given that the visible trappings of middle-class life go hand-in-glove with anxiety bordering on the existential. Stone?s mother (Judy Greer) appears to own her detached home, and given the lengths to which the film goes to manufacture ?stakes,? 17 to Paris Movie Review can bet that if she was underwater on her mortgage we?d hear about it. But Greer effectively puts across the precarious mental state of a single mother of a tearaway kid?no one to take over when you?re tired, so you?re always skating along the very edge of rage to keep from shutting down completely.

Such deftness is atypical of a movie that will entertain the kind of viewer who updates the ?Goofs? section of movies? IMDb pages. (Remember the rubber baby in American Sniper?) Greer and Jenna Fischer, as Mama Skarlatos, fare worse once the child actors are replaced by the real Stone and Skarlatos: Eastwood makes no real attempt to correspondingly age their mothers up by ten years, and the actresses appear more tentative when thrust into scenes opposite their suddenly Large Adult Sons. And the dialogue feels at times almost purposefully cringeworthy: when Stone tells Sadler about the college basketball player who ?dunked on this fool? (the characters often watch, and desultorily narrate, televised sports) or when Greer shuts down a teacher trying to force ADD medication down her kid?s throat, saying, ?My God is bigger than your statistics,? it?s like the movie is daring you to feel superior to it.

The filmmaking, as square as the characters, courts its viewers with obvious avowals of shared values. Stone prays, as a child and again at the film?s denouement, ?Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.? The boys pester cool teacher Jaleel White for old WWII battle plans, dress in camo, and play war games?though the arsenal of Airsoft guns the pubescent Stone lays out on his bed may not signal innocent enthusiasm to every viewer. These two strands, the devout and the martial, eventually come together in a purpose-driven life: after Stone, pudgy and aimless, meets a military recruiter, he identifies his higher calling as serving and saving lives in the Air Force?s totally rad Pararescue unit. This American hero?s origin myth is located not within the already rugged American milieu of rodeo, as in American Sniper, but at a Jamba Juice, where Stone?s Hot Topic goth coworker reminds him that the smoothie he comped his recruiter is coming out of his own tip money. It?s as unpromising a location as the Times Square Irish bar, playing the late local news, where Sully has his epiphany. The filmmaking in Eastwood?s latter-day ripped-from-the-headlines stories feels radically unprocessed, the stuff of modern life transcribed simply and faithfully: the Eurozone train travel scenes here, with their wheel bags and fast-fashion slip-on shoes crisscrossing station platforms, recall Sully?s version of flight, always grounded in Hudson News and the heft of carry-on luggage.

It?s frankly astonishing that Eastwood, disciple of ?Don and Sergio,? would film a scene in which a couple of beefy bros in shorts buy and eat gelato at a tourist-trap stand in Venice. Stone and Sadler, spending this leg of their long-planned European trip with a solo-flying American chick they?ve been trying to flirt with, pick out their flavors (hazelnut!), pay the man, and make growly approving nom-nom sounds. But the ice cream ismore exciting for being eaten in Venice; somewhere amidst the dudes? performative gelato ecstasy is a glimmer of awareness that this is a special time in their lives. You may be reminded at this juncture that military service is one of the few engines of upward social mobility left in this country, or of what a privilege it is to be a member of the minority of Americans who hold valid passports, or to have access, as Sadler does, to the kind of credit that could fund a latter-day Grand Tour.

Like anyone else, these Americans abroad relate to the greatness of Rome and the Renaissance through the means with which their life experience has provided them. They are notably more animated at the Coliseum than the Spanish Steps, having seen Gladiator. Their marveling at all the ?old shit? there is in Europe isn?t ignorance, it?s gratitude?an awareness that they should mark the moment by saying something, however much their dutiful sightseeing is compromised by hangovers from last night?s city-center rave excursion with a bunch of Erasmus students. (Though even there, what constitutes ?epic? is a fully clothed Stone getting up on a stripper pole and sliding down it very slowly.)

The rosy view of ugly Americans abroad?the camera?s eye follows the characters? up the legs of Euro hotties in discos and hostels?precedes a rosy view of Americans intervening in an attempted Islamic-fundamentalist terrorist attack. During this time of extraordinary political bad faith, it?s healthy to remember that traits like bravery and self-sufficiency and the desire to be useful are virtues that can be motivated by any number of belief systems. For all the presumption, exclusion and machismo of Stone?s dreams of Eastwoodian cowboy/solider gallantry there is something very moving in his reaction when he?s told that a poor vision test will keep him out of Pararescue. That he won?t get to be one of the gallant elect who makes a difference, and will have to find his life?s meaning all over again.

Essentially, Stone wants to be a character in a Clint Eastwood movie?and for much of The 15:17 to Paris, this unfulfilled ambition animates the film's form as much as it does its content. Stone, Skarlatos, and Sadler's simulation of their own genuine lifelong friendship is notably unconvincing, full of camera-shy gravelly-voiced diffidence and hilariously basic half-speed evocations of everyday interactions. Even the self-aware Sadler, who talks through his selfie-stick framings in faintly visible quotations marks, is so far from being a natural camera presence that the distance between the banality of life and the sublime of cinema seems practically unbridgeable. This sense that transcendence is elusive to us mere mortals is the explicit subject of the film. Stone, looking out over rooftops in Venice, proclaims that he feels as if the world is ?catapulting? him toward some great event, some reckoning?a part in a story that will itself be told and retold. But for nearly its entirety, The 15:17 to Parisinhabits the gap between lived and imagined experience?something more frequently the purview of microindie cinema. I?m thinking of Aaron Katz?s Cold Weather, whose mumblecore characters find themselves caught up in a neo-noir mystery, or Wild Canaries, Lawrence Michael Levine and Sophia Takal?s role-play remake of Manhattan Murder Mystery. In fact, Wild Canaries, with its occasional precise slapstick bits and tart dialogue, is a more polished piece of cinema than the new Eastwood movie?until the very classical action set piece climax, when Clint?s filmmaking chops snap back into place like William Munny?s killer instinct, and Stone finds the culmination and validation of his desire to serve God and country, after the frustrating day-to-day of school and basic training.

After planting glimpses of the train attack between act breaks throughout the film, Eastwood mounts an uninterrupted restaging, beginning with the scuffle outside the bathroom, the single pistol shot, and the assault rifle drawn before Stone?who has been crouched in wait behind his seat, watching in intense close-up, his blank, uncinematic face suddenly evocative in its focus?makes his move. The close-quarters scuffle is largely constrained to the aisle of a single train car, which becomes a channel for the will of the participants. Stone tackled the assailant after his rifle jammed; Eastwood gives us the moment in a clean shot-reverse shot, with Stone charging, seatbacks vaguely visible in widescreen telephoto, and then his target, the full length of the rifle running across the center of the frame, the shot already lined up. Eastwood makes it entirely clear that Stone is running toward the moment of his death, and that in this sacrifice he has, finally and decisively, found his life?s purpose. An instinct born and nurtured in a gun-crazy Christian nation is elevated to a state of grace.

And yet. The triumphant story of The 15:17 to Parisimplicitly thumbs its nose at attitudes like that of the ectomorphic German bike-tour guide who, earlier in the film, snidely tells Stone that the Russians, not the Americans, were closing in on Berlin at the close of WWII: here, Team America really is the world?s police. Blyskal and Eastwood cherry-pick incidents to justify not just the feature length but also Stone?s sense of ?catapulting? toward his moment: Stone unarmed and impotent during a false-alarm lockdown at his military base, and then finally finding the Air Force fulfilling as he develops the jiujitsu skills that will serve him so well on the train. Thus it seems as if the characters of The 15:17 to Parisseek out a grand narrative as much as they rise to it.

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Clint Eastwood is an icon. There's no debate here, his impact on Hollywood as an actor, producer, and director cannot be overstated. His last three films have been about everyday heroes that have managed extraordinary feats of courage and it seems his goal is to counteract the superhero culture prevalent in Hollywood today. I for one, am not averse to this endeavor. Many of these stories should be told, American Sniper and Sully were great stories and made for dramatic and interesting films. Unfortunately The 15:17 to Paris is, not one of those films.

In the early evening of August 21, 2015, the world watched in stunned silence as the media reported a thwarted terrorist attack on Thalys train #9364 bound for Paris--an attempt prevented by three courageous young Americans traveling through Europe. The film follows the course of the friends' lives, from the struggles of childhood through finding their footing in life, to the series of unlikely events leading up to the attack. Throughout the harrowing ordeal, their friendship never wavers, making it their greatest weapon and allowing them to save the lives of the more than 500 passengers on board.

I would like to pause for a moment and state, plainly, that Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, and Alek Skarlatos are truly heroes and on that August afternoon, they selflessly diverted what may have been a horrible massacre. Their story deserved to be told but it deserved to be told by someone else. Eastwood made a tragic mistake twice during the making of this movie. He went with the convoluted and plodding script by Dorothy Blyskal and he did not hire actors to portray the heroes. The three friends are natural around each other and they do an admirable job of delivering their lines. Unfortunately, the dialog is so pedestrian, and at times, laughable that I found myself being, annoyingly, pulled from the story to wonder why Clint would have allowed some of these lines to go unchanged.

For instance, at the beginning of the film, we see Spencer and Alek's mothers speak with their middle school teacher, who is trying to explain their potential ADD issues. The teacher is made to look like the enemy and when she explains the "Statistics" of children in their situation, Ms. Stone replies, heavy-handedly "My God is bigger than your statistics" before storming off, unchanged by reason. Other than the three young men, most of the rest of the cast are cardboard clichés, and they deliver dialog equally as trite and banal.

It takes about 75 minutes before we get to the action on the train, but when it does, the film switched gears and portrays a gritty, realistic view of what must have actually transpired onboard. It was a taut and realistic scene and left me wanting more. The film ends with the three Americans and one Englishman (we barely understand his role in the drama) receiving High Honors from the French President.

The Blu-ray is about what one would expect, shot on 2K 1080p, AVC-encoded Blu-ray, with great clarity of detail, especially when the friends are traveling throughout Europe, and I found the movie a little more interesting in the second half, due to the scenes in Germany and Amsterdam. It's obvious why Cinematographer Tom Stern (Flags of Our Fathers, Mystic River) is regarded as one of the best in the business. However, due to the almost documentary style of filming, there's little else to be wowed by.

The Audio is Dolby Atmos, Dolby TrueHD 7.1 and does a decent job of rendering dialog clearly. For an action film, there's little to no intense scenes, even the attempted hijacking is understated with a few gunshots.

As for the extras, there's only two of note, Making Every Second Count, a "making of" featurette which focuses on the action and challenges of filming on a moving train, and Portrait of Courage, focusing on the three friends and how they reacted to the events of that day.

Although the movie was extremely generic and "by-the-numbers", the three main actors involved deserve every ounce of attention, as well as awards. They performed selfless acts of bravery at a time when real heroes seem in short supply. I just wished the movie was able to live up to the drama of the real-life event.

Grade C-

About Leonard Buccellato Leonard became obsessed with horror movies at the tender age of 7 when he first saw the movie Blacula (which quickly scared the Hell out of him). From there, all bets were off, from Grizzly and Jaws to The Thing and E.T, his love of movies took on a life of its own. His passion for movies is matched only by his love of writing and literature.

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Wanting to know what new movies are playing at the local theaters this week? HottyToddy.com is proud to bring you a sneak preview from both of the Malco theaters in town!

Malco Oxford Studio Cinema

Peter Rabbit

Peter Rabbit’s feud with Mr. McGregor reaches new heights as both compete for the affections of a kind animal lover who lives next door.

I, Tonya

In 1991, talented figure skater Tonya Harding becomes the first American woman to complete a triple axel during a competition. In 1994, her world comes crashing down when her ex-husband conspires to injure Nancy Kerrigan, a fellow Olympic hopeful, in a poorly conceived attack that forces the young woman to withdraw from the national championship. Harding’s life and legacy instantly become tarnished as she’s forever associated with one of the most infamous scandals in sports history.

The 15:17 to Paris

From Clint Eastwood comes “The 15:17 to Paris,” which tells the real-life story of three men whose brave act turned them into heroes during a high-speed railway ride. In the early evening of August 21, 2015, the world watched in stunned silence as the media reported a thwarted terrorist attack on Thalys train #9364 bound for Paris—an attempt prevented by three courageous young Americans traveling through Europe. The film follows the course of the friends’ lives, from the struggles of childhood through finding their footing in life, to the series of unlikely events leading up to the attack. Throughout the harrowing ordeal, their friendship never wavers, making it their greatest weapon and allowing them to save the lives of the more than 500 passengers on board. The heroic trio is comprised of Anthony Sadler, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, and U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone, who play themselves in the film. Starring alongside them are Jenna Fischer (“Hall Pass,” TV’s “The Office”); Judy Greer (“War for the Planet of the Apes”); Ray Corasani (TV’s upcoming “The Long Road Home”); PJ Byrne (“The Wolf of Wall Street”); Tony Hale (TV’s “Veep”); and Thomas Lennon (“Transformers: Age of Extinction”). Paul-Mikél Williams plays the younger Anthony, Bryce Gheisar plays the younger Alek, and William Jennings plays the younger Spencer. Eastwood (“Sully,” “American Sniper”) directs from a screenplay by Dorothy Blyskal, based on the book by Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone and Jeffrey E. Stern. Eastwood also produces the film, along with Tim Moore, Kristina Rivera and Jessica Meier. The film’s executive producer is Bruce Berman. Behind the scenes, the creative team includes frequent collaborators Tom Stern, who served as cinematographer on 13 of Eastwood’s previous films, and Deborah Hopper, who has served as Eastwood’s costume designer on 17 prior films; editor Blu Murray, who most recently cut “Sully,” and that film’s composer, Christian Jacob. Veteran art director Kevin Ishioka, whose work can be seen in “Sully” and in “Dunkirk,” serves as production designer. Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, a Malpaso production, “The 15:17 to Paris.” The film will be released in theaters on February 9, 2018. It will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.

Annihilation

Based on Jeff VanderMeer’s best-selling Southern Reach Trilogy, Annihilation stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny and Oscar Isaac. It was written and directed by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, 28 Days Later).

Death Wish

Dr. Paul Kersey is a surgeon who often sees the consequences of the city’s violence in the emergency room. When home intruders brutally attack his wife and young daughter, Kersey becomes obsessed with delivering vigilante justice to the perpetrators. As the anonymous slayings grab the media’s attention, the public begins to wonder if the deadly avenger is a guardian angel — or the Grim Reaper itself.

Every Day

Sixteen-year-old Rhiannon falls in love with A, a mysterious spirit who inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and A try to find each other on a daily basis, always unsure of what or who the next day will bring. Soon, the realities of loving someone who is a different person every 24 hours starts to take its toll, leaving Rhiannon and A to face the hardest decision either has ever had to make.

12 Strong

In the wake of Sept. 11, Capt. Mitch Nelson leads a U.S. Special Forces team into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission. Once there, the soldiers develop an uneasy partnership with the Northern Alliance to take down the Taliban and its al-Qaida allies. Outgunned and outnumbered, Nelson and his forces face overwhelming odds in a fight against a ruthless enemy that takes no prisoners.

The Greatest Showman

Inspired by the imagination of P. T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman is an original musical that celebrates the birth of show business & tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.

Fifty Shades Freed

Believing they’ve left behind the shadowy figures from the past, billionaire Christian Grey and his new wife, Anastasia, fully embrace their inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. Just as the Greys begin to step into their new roles, sinister events come to light and jeopardize their happy ending before it even begins.

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Black Panther

After the death of his father, T’Challa returns home to the African nation of Wakanda to take his rightful place as king. When a powerful enemy suddenly reappears, T’Challa’s mettle as king — and as Black Panther — gets tested when he’s drawn into a conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, the young king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people.

Early Man

A plucky cave man named Dug, his sidekick Hognob and the rest of their tribe face a grave threat to their simple existence. Lord Nooth plans to take over their land and transform it into a giant mine, forcing Dug and his clan to dig for precious metals. Not ready to go down without a fight, Dug and Hognob must unite their people in an epic quest to defeat a mighty enemy — the Bronze Age.

Game Night Max and Annie’s weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max’s brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party — complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it’s all supposed to be part of the game. As the competitors set out to solve the case, they start to learn that neither the game nor Brooks are what they seem to be. The friends soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaotic night.

Red Sparrow

Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Egorova emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, Dominika meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.

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The 15:17 To Paris

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FILM REVIEW Today I am reviewing the film, The 15:17 To Paris. A Drama, History, Thriller starring Ray Corasani, Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, Spencer Stone, Judy Greer, Jenna Fischer, and Irene White. The 15:17 To Paris Drama, History, Thriller Warner Bros Director: Clint Eastwood (directed by) Writers: Dorothy Blyskal (screenplay by) Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone and Jeffrey…