My reviews and views on the movies . . . new and old . . .

Posts tagged “Drama

How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2012) Review

The film opens with a car chase and two men in clown masks being chased by police. The driver (Gibson) then proceeds to crash over a fence . . . but not just any fence this fence is the border between the US and Mexico.

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Brief Encounter (1945) Review

Laura Jesson is what appears to be a happily married woman with two children, but everything is not as it seems when we are shown a brief affair in flashback form with Dr Alec Harvey.

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The Hunger Games (2012) Review

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The Beaver (2011) Review

Walter Black has a few problems when splitting up from his wife, struggling to cope with depression he adopts The Beaver as his means of communication. With a different accent he communicates with everyone through the beaver.

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For Love of the Game (1999) Review

An aging pitcher Billy Chapel who is on his way out of baseball when his team has been sold and he will be the first player to be traded. But before that happens he goes in search of the perfect game, against none other than the Yankees.

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Music of the Heart (1999) Review

The story of Violin teacher Roberta Guaspari and her struggle to keep the program in Harlem for school children.

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The Switch (2010) Review

Wally and Kassie have been friends for years, after attempting to date each other. Once Kassie announces her decision to have a child, using a sperm donor everything changes. After the I am getting pregnant party Kassie leaves to have her son.

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A Dangerous Method (2011) Review

The relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud helps launch psychoanalysis but Russian patient Sabina Spielrein comes between them.

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The Woman in Black (2012) Review

A young lawyer Arthur Kipps must travel to a remote village to sort out affairs of a house, which he quickly discovers has a rather terrifying story to go with it. The vengeful ghost of scorned woman is still inside . . .

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The Vow (2012) Review

A car accident puts Paige into a coma, when awakening she has severe memory loss. Her husband Leo must work to win back her heart, as she cannot remember the previous five years of her life.

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The Muppets (2011) Review

The much-loved Muppets are back on the big screen! They must reunite to save their old theatre from a greedy oil tycoon, with the help of three fans.

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The Descendants (2011) Review

Matt King’s world is turned upside down when his wife ends up in a coma after a boating accident. This sees him reconnect with his two daughters and start the grieving process.

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Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (2009) Review

An emotional drama about a woman Emilia (Portman) who after having an affair marries the man after he gets a divorce and has a hostile relationship with her stepson due to his mother’s influence.

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The Artist (2011) Review

Silent movie star George Valentin has his world turned upside down when talking pictures are introduced. We are taken on the journey with him in an incredible film which really does show that actions speak louder than words!

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) Review

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Craig) is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander (Mara), a young computer hacker.

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Arthur Christmas (2011) Review

What if Santa Clause went hi-tech and one little girl come Christmas morning was not going to have a present to open from Santa?

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Dream House (2011) Review

A family moves into a new house but everything is not as it seems when it unfolds that a family was killed in the house years earlier.

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My Week with Marilyn (2011) Review

Colin Clark spent a week with Marilyn Monroe when she was in England filming The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier.

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Anonymous (2011) Review

What if William Shakespeare did not write any of his works and Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford had instead . . .

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Real Steel (2011) Review

In the near future in a world which wanted more than human boxing – as it was no longer seen as violent enough, robots now compete in the fights. Destroying each other into lots of pieces.

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Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) Review

Cal Weaver (Carell) must rebuild his life after finding out about his wife’s affair when she wants a divorce. He must reconnect with his children and meets Jacob Palmer (Gosling) who helps him change his image.

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Warrior (2011) Review

Tommy (Hardy) suddenly returns home to his father Paddy (Nolte) and asks him to be his trainer again to take part in a mixed martial arts competition. But his brother Brendan (Edgerton) who he has not seen for years is also taking part, despite being a physics teacher.

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Eat, Pray, Love (2010) Review

A story about a woman who realises that her life is not as she would have wanted. Starting by leaving her husband and the unhappy marriage she finds herself in, to take a year out to find herself and learn what life truly means.

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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) Review

Gordon Gekko (Douglas) is now out of prison and trying to rebuild his life, his empire and relationship with his daughter Winnie (Mulligan). Using her stock broker boyfriend Jake Moore (LeBeouf) to do all of this.

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