Showing posts with label Thriller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thriller. Show all posts

X-Men Days of Future Past

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X-men: Days of Future Past begins in the future, and life isn’t exactly roses and rainbows for our superheroes. An ongoing full-blown war between the super mutants and regular humans is taking its toll, with the humans implementing giant humanoid robots that incorporate Mystique technology to adapt to and counteract mutant powers. The wonderfully wacky solution? Send Wolverine back to 1973 to stop humans from acquiring the technology and averting all future  Read More>>>
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The Signal

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A group of MIT students decides to track down a hacker that infiltrated their computer servers. Their investigation leads them to an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere Nevada. They are ambushed by unseen assailants and end up in quarantine in a mysterious, underground facility. While they are told they have been exposed to alien life and must be watched over, they start to feel more like prisoners than patients and hatch a plan to escape. Read More>>>
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Godzilla

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The people of earth scramble when ancient creatures awaken and wreak havoc on civilization. But for all humanity’s bombs and guns and planning, nothing seems to work to eradicate the marauding beasts of enormous size and power. The biggest of these is Godzilla, a massive lizard-like beast that is a super predator that can smash buildings with a single blow. As the clock ticks down, the survival of the earth rests on one desperate plan and one unexpected ally. Read More>>>
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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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3 Days to Kill

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Ethan Renner is a burned out CIA agent who finds out he has terminal cancer. He returns home to attempt to patch up the marriage and family life he has neglected, trying to get to know his bitter teenage daughter. But a top level agent finds Ethan and offers him a deal: if he does one last job he can have an experimental treatment for his disease that may extend the time he has for his family. He accepts, trying to juggle winning over his daughter and secretly hunting a terrorist.  Read More>>>

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Speed

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All In A Day’s Work!!

To serve and to protect, an oath that Jack took when joining the L.A. police force, and when an angry bomber terrorist threatens to blow up a crowded city bus, he’ll have to figure out a way to save the day!  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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Signs

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When a grieving farmer and his family wake up to find strange designs worked into their corn fields it’s a sign of strange and scary things to come. Can this farmer/father keep his family safe and find his faith all in one movie?  Read More>>>
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The Frozen Ground

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Based on a true story, The Frozen Ground follows the case of a serial killer in Alaska (John Cusack) who has abducted and killed several prostitutes. A State Trooper (Nicolas Cage) follows leads, including a would-be victim who escaped (Vanessa Hudgens), to build a case.  The problem:  While he knows who the killer is, there is no hard evidence linking him to the crimes.  If he arrests the killer, he runs the risk of losing the case, and the killer, for good.  Read More>>>

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Unbreakable

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Elijah Price is a comic book “enthusiast” who believes that all comic book stories are loosely based on historical facts. He also believes that David Dunn is his personal, matching opposite- the salt to his pepper, the hero to his villain.  Read More>>>
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Pain & Gain

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Based on a true story, Pain & Gain follows the exploits of a driven body builder (Mark Wahlberg) who enlists the help of two other he–men (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Anthony Mackie) to use their motivational techniques to bilk a wealthy spa patron (Tony Shalhoub). Unfortunately, they aren’t the brightest bulbs, and their hapless attempts spiral out of control, leading to dire, tragic consequences. Oh…and it’s a comedy.  Read More>>>

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Spider-Man

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Peter Parker leads a normal if not nerdy life, until he goes on a class field trip to OsCorp Laboratories where a radioactive spider bites him, giving him super human abilities.  Read More>>>
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Fight Club

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When our insomniac narrator meets Tyler Durden, the free-living soap maker, the two create a tight bond of friendship while also creating a fight club and asking questions about life and sanity.  Read More>>>

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Olympus Has Fallen

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The movie Die Hard with Bruce Willis was so successful it became a shorthand for any action–thriller featuring terrorists in self–contained places. Under Siege became Die Hard on a Battleship. Speed 2 became Die Hard on a Cruise Liner. Now, we have Olympus Has Fallen, which is Die Hard in the White House. This time, a large number of angry North Koreans invade the President’s home, taking him hostage. It’s up to one disgraced security operative (Gerard Butler) to “Willis” every one of them and save the free world.  Read More>>>
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The Company You Keep

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When a radical militant (Susan Sarandon) from the 1960s is apprehended by the FBI, a journalist (Shia LaBeouf) sees an opportunity to advance his career by digging deeper into the intrigue. His search uncovers a legitimate lawyer (Robert Redford) whose secret past is linked to an underground group that may have been responsible for a three–decades–old killing that occurred during a bank robbery.  Read More>>>
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