Showing posts with label Suspense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Suspense. Show all posts

Non-Stop

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Bill Marks is a washed up Air Marshal who doesn’t like to fly. During a transatlantic flight, he receives a text demanding 150 million dollars be paid into an account or a passenger will be killed every twenty minutes. When the threat comes true, the flight is thrown into chaos. The frantic hunt for the killer gets ugly when one of the suspects turns out to be Bill Marks himself.  Read More>>>
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

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Tom Clancy’s character Jack Ryan has been the hero of several feature films:  The Hunt for Red October, Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games, and The Sum of All Fears.  Now played by Chris Pine in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, a young Ryan is recruited by the CIA for his analytic skills and Marine background.  He follows the lead of some strange financial goings-on, and finds evidence of a Russian plot to commit a terrorist act within the United States and destroy the U.S. economy. Read More>>>
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The Ring

Jenna Kim Jones


Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, disturbing images, language and some drug references; 115 min; Directed by Gore Verbinski

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What Lies Beneath

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Claire Spencer (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an empty nester and her husband works long hours, leaving her alone most of the time in her newly renovated home.  Mysterious things begin to happen that lead her to think it is haunted…or that she is crazy.  Read More>>>
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Cloverfield

Jenna Kim Jones


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Homeland

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After eight years, Nicholas Brody has returned home from being held captive in Iraq. Now a hero to America with the exception of Carrie Mathison, CIA , who thinks his loyalty may have “turned”.   Read More>>>
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Bones

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This TV series follows the anthropologist Temperance Brennan as she and FBI agent Seeley Booth find out what happened to victims of murder when all they have left are the bones. Interestingly this TV series is (loosely) based on the professional life of anthropologist Kathy Reichs.  Read More>>>
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Now You See Me

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When a rising group of magicians called the Four Horsemen steal money from a bank through magic, the FBI scrambles to make sense of it. A professional magic debunker is called in to help figure out how the money stealing tricks are done. As more money disappears, the magicians are forced to run from the law and the investigators realize that someone else may be behind the magic.  Read More>>>

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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In the fourth of the Harry Potter books things really start to take a dark turn; Harry returns from summer vacation to find he has unknowingly been entered as a contestant for the Tri-Wizard cup which involves three schools and dangerous tasks to win the title and the cupRead More>>>

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A Beautiful Mind

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This beautiful film is (loosely) based on the biography of mathematical genius John Nash and his struggles with paranoid schizophrenia and the effects it had on his career, marriage and family life.  Read More>>>


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Safe Haven

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A young woman runs from a mysterious past and lands in a quiet town where she can start over. SAs luck would have it, starting over just so happens to involve a good looking widower with two kids and a past of his own. Will these two lovers be able to find their own happily ever after? Watch, if you must, and find out.  Read More>>> post signature

Tweens & Teens Movie Night Activity: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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“Even in the wizarding world, hearing voices isn't a good sign.”

Harry Potter is warned about going back to school at Hogwarts by Dobby the House Elf, because there are bad things happening there. Things start with a House Elf visiting him at his muggle home and lead to confusing attacks on students and a creepy voice that only Harry can hear. Gather your family and friends to watch the 2nd movie in the Harry Potter series and find out what happens when the Chamber of Secrets is opened.  Read More>>>
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Family Movie Night Activity: Nancy Drew

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“I’d Rather Be Sleuthing!”

Nancy Drew has just come off of a big case when her dad drags her to L.A. for one of his business trips.  Nancy pledges to be a “normal” teenage girl for the trip and stay away from any mystery solving.  But the world of sleuthing is just too enticing, especially when the house they rent is filled with mysteries, murder, money, and mayhem. Join Nancy in some mayhem of your own for this Family Movie Night Activity! Read More>>>

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The Pelican Brief

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Two Supreme Court Judges have been murdered and the feds have yet to name a suspect.  A young law student, Darby Shaw, (Julia Roberts) is having an affair with her professor who once worked with one of the judges and thinks she might be onto who would have wanted them dead.  She writes what is known as “The Pelican Brief” and her theory makes it all the way to the White House, striking a chord with the Administration.  Once her theory gets out, her only ally is Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington) an ambitious news reporter willing to use his resources to get to the bottom of the story.  Read More>>>

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Paycheck

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Ben Affleck plays a genius engineer who gets paid top dollar to create products that will wipe out the competition. The only catch is that when he’s done with a project, he agrees to have his memory of that two month time period wiped clean out of his mind. Two months at a time is no big deal, but when someone comes to him and offers him an 8 digit salary to do a 3 year project, he’ll not only loose three years of his memory, he may even lose his life. Will he be able to put together the pieces of his missing memory in order to save his life? Read More>>> post signature

Alex Cross

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Alex Cross is a detective created by writer James Patterson and played in several movie adaptations by Morgan Freeman. Those Freeman movies were potboilers at best, but at least they had Morgan Freeman. In Alex Cross, Tyler Perry takes the eponymous reins to chase a brutal, torture-loving serial killer (Matthew Fox) who has targeted rich, influential victims. When Cross and his team interferes with the killer’s plans, the killer makes it personal.
 
 
 
 

The Bone Collector

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A Collector's Piece?

Four years after Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) become quadriplegic he's on a case again from the confines of his apartment and high-tech hospital bed. He'll enlist the help of rookie detective Amelia Donagy (Angelina Jolie) to be his eyes and ears on each crime scene.

Sherlock: Season 1

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The BBC reboots Sherlock Holmes, transplanting him and his faithful assistant Watson into a modern London setting. Sherlock’s powers of observation and deduction are invaluable to the police when they get stumped, but his sociopathic tendencies make him a bit obnoxious to everyone he meets. Dr. Watson, a war vet, finds a sense of purpose and adventure with his unique companion and together, they tackle the toughest crimes London has to offer.

Safe House

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In Safe House, young CIA agent Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) has manned the same boring safe house in loneliness for a year, yearning for a field job or at least wanting a visitor. Boredom ends when he hosts the CIA’s most wanted rogue agent Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington), and a group of assassins attacks the fortification. Weston escapes with Frost and races to the next safe house with killers at his heels and an enigma by his side.