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Warrior

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The film I watched this week was Warrior, witch was directed by  Gavin O'Connor who you may know from Pride And Glory and Tumbleweeds. Gavin was also one of the writers of Warrior along with Anthony Tambakie and Cliff Dorfman. Ok so lets have a quick re-cap of the story-line shall we. When Tommy Colon, an ex-marine, and the youngest son to an alcoholic former boxer returns home to Pittsburgh. When he hears about this mixed martial arts (MMA) competition called Sparta, he decides to go to the man who trained him when he was a child, his father. Unfortunately Sparta out the fighter on a collision course with his estranged older brother. Ok shall we start with the dad of these two men Paddy Colon who is played by Nick Nolte who you may know from his work on Cape Fear and The Thin Red Line. Paddy Colon was a serious alcoholic when his kids was younger and he was extremely abusive to his wife, even in fount of the children. The only thing that Paddy knows how to do is, 1 drink

Would You Rather

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The film I watched this week is Would You Rather, witch I'm sure that everyone has played in way or anther but I'm sure never like this. David Guy Levy directed this film but you may know him from his work on Terri and A Love Affair Of Sorts, and was written by Steffen Schlachtenhaufen who you may know from their work on the Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl film. Ok so lets have a quick re cap of the story, and I will try to keep spoilers out as always. Iris is desperate to help her sick brother, after their parents where is a accident that put her in charge of the house hold, income and all; but she has no job and has no skills and it trying to cut corners where she can with the food but mainly the medical bills. When her doctor tells her of an opportunity that could turn her whole life on its head. When she unknowingly agree to compete in a extremely deadly game of 'would you rather' or the pleasure of a extremely sadistic family called the

Airheads

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  The very strange movie I watched this time was Airheads witch was directed by Michael Lehmann who would may know from his work on the Heathers and 40 days and 40 nights. I was quite suppressing who wrote this to be honest as it was wrote by Rich Wilkes who i know from his work on xXx and xXx: State Of The Union so it was suppressing to see him do something like this.  Ok so lets have a quick re-cap of the story line and as always i try not to give away spoilers but if i do I am sorry; so Chazz, Rey and Pip are in the new and up coming band The Lone Rangers who are trying to get there demo played on the radio for the first time. Chaz does everything he can to get into record company to get someone anyone to listen to their new demo, when one day they decide that they are going to brake into a radio station to get their demo played on the air, when they end up in a hostage situation where they are the ones are holding everyone in the station hostage, with water guns. Ok s

The Wolf Of Wall Street

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So the film I watched this time is one that I wanted to watch for a very long time but i was always put off by how long it it, and that's The Wolf Of Wall Street. The Wolf Of Wall Street is directed by Martin Scorsese who you may know from his work of Goodfellas and Shutter Island, it was also written by Terence Winter who you may know from Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos and also it was based on the book written by Jordan Belfort about his life, yes this film is based on a true story. Ok so lets have a quick recap of the story line, based on the true story of Jordan Belfort the penny stockbroker from Long Island, who only ended up serving 22 months in a prison for defrauding investors in the 1990s security scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and the corporate banking world,also including the designer Steve Madden from Steven Madden Shoes. There is only two people who I really need to talk about in this film and that is Jordan Belort abd his partner in

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Detention

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Ok so the film I went to see this time was the brand new Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, and I don't think I have been to a cinema so full apart from when I went to see the midnight launch for a film. So The new Paranormal Activity was Directed by Gregory Plotkin who you may know fromm his work in The Insider and Fracture. Paranormal Activity was written by a large group of people, Jason Pagan, Andrew Deutschman, Adam Robitel and Gavin Heffernan.  Ok so lets have a quick re-cap of the film, and I did try my best to keep spoilers out so if there is any i do apologies. One day while Ryans brother Mike is staying over for the holidays, they are outside of the house putting up decorations when Ryan goes into a box to get move lights to hand from the pillars of the house when he this old camera that had been custom made by someone who used to live in this house. When Ryan uses the camera he notices that is picking up these strange shadows on the camera that no other c

About Last Night

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So the film I watched this time was About Last Night witch was directed by Steve Pink who you may know from his work in Hot Tub Time Machine and High Fidelity. About Last Night is a film based on a book by David Mamet called Sexual Perversity In Chicago but the film was written by Leslye Headland who you may know from their work in Bachelorette and Terriers. Ok so lets have a quick re-cap of the story line, so this film follows two couples Bernie and Joan and Danny and Debby as they journey from the bar to the bedroom and are eventually put it to the test in the real world. Ok so i wasn't sure who i was going to talk about the cast in the film as this film is so couple orientated so i thought i might try and talk about the couples instead of the single people. So lets start with Bernie and Joan, so Bernie is played by Kevin Hart who you may know from his work as a stand up comedian or from list such as The Wedding Ringer and Ride Along. Bernie and Joan met in a a club and

Child 44

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So the film I watched this week was child 44, which was directed by Daniel Espinosa who you may know from his work on Safe House and Easy Money. Child 44 was written by Richard Price who you may know from Clockers, Ransom and The Color Of Money. Ok so lets have a quick re-cap of the story line shall we, set in the Stalin ear of the Soviet union. Leo Demida is a security officer who has stumbled a-pone a series of child murders in a country where supposedly this sort of crime doesn't exist because " there is no murder in paradise". The state would not even concider or hear of a thing like a child murder let a lone a serial killer who only goes after children. Leo gets demoted and exiled for not turning in his own wife as a spy, he decides with just the help of his wife and his her general he would continue to purse the case. ok so lets talk about the main due-o in this film Leo and Raisa so let start off with our leading man shall we, Leo Demida is played by T