Friday, January 27, 2012
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Detachment

January 22, 2012
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Adrien Brody stars as a substitute high school teacher hired by the school’s principal Marcia Gay Harden to sub for one month while a new permanent teacher can be found.

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Haywire

January 22, 2012
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In “Haywire”, real-life female martial arts champion Gina Carano stars as Mallory Kane.

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Ten Best Films of 2011

December 12, 2011
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Michael The Moviegoer’s list of the Ten Best Films of 2011 :

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Albert Nobbs

December 12, 2011
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“Albert Nobbs” is the story of a woman who made a desperate choice to make her way as a man in a man’s world. He/She works as a service butler in a hotel.

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Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

December 12, 2011
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Thomas Horn (who won Teen Jeopardy) stars as the young boy Oskar Schell who loses his father (Tom Hanks) in the 9/11 attacks.

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Shame

December 12, 2011
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Fassbender plays a sex addict in McQueen’s film which is an in-depth character study of a man who “suffers” from sex addiction.

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New Year’s Eve

December 8, 2011
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In Garry Marshall’s 2-hour montage of aborted movie ideas Swank plays the girl responsible for making sure the Times Square ball will drop at midnight without a hitch. Naturally, it has a power failure.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

December 7, 2011
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The plot involves high-ranking members of British intelligence, among them George Smiley. After a mission in Budapest goes horribly wrong, Smiley becomes consumed with discovering who among them is a mole, a double agent spying for the Russians.

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War horse

December 3, 2011
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“War Horse” does for World War 1 what “Gone With The Wind” did for the American Civil War. It humanizes it by telling stories filled with real characters that we grow to care deeply for.

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The Iron Lady

November 26, 2011
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“The Iron Lady” is a vehicle for Meryl Streep to portray Margaret Thatcher, the UK’s prime minister from 1979 to 1990.

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