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Vice
Vice – Dick Cheney (Christain Bale) looked like a Casper Milquetoast but in actuality was one of the most powerful and ruthless politicians in D.C., especially as VP under George W. (Sam Rockwell). He was a master of manipulation, using focus groups to find out what would trigger the public; and had an ability to […]
Welcome to Marwen
December 22, 2018
Welcome to Marwen – After being beaten to “within an inch of his life”, Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carell) created an alternate world with dolls and GI Joe’s. In it, he’s Capt. Hogie, WWII hero, surrounded and protected by kick-butt women ( Janelle Monae, Eliza Gonzalez, Gwendoline Christie, Leslie Zemeckis). All these dolls are dressed in […]
Last Flag Flying
December 3, 2017
Last Flag Flying – Larry “Doc” Shepard (Steve Carell) recruits two Vietnam-era Marine buddies Sal (Bryan Cranston) and Richard (Laurence Fishburne) to help him collect his son’s body from Dover Air Force Base. Doc was told his son died a hero in Iraq. A young Marine (J. Quinton Johnson) admits Larry, Jr. was just buying […]
Café Society
August 5, 2016
Café Society – It’s the 1930s and awkward, insecure Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) wants to start his life in glamorous Hollywood. His uncle Phil Stern (Steve Carell) is a big movie mogul there and gives Bobby a job as his errand boy. Bobby falls in love with Phil’s secretary Vonnie (Kristen Stewart). A little catch […]
The Big Short
December 24, 2015
The Big Short – How can you take a book about the dull mortgage banking industry’s unscrupulous practices and turn it into an entertaining movie? You pair director Adam McKay with a slew of top actors, and use people like Chef Anthony Bourdain to describe collateralized debt obligation aka CDOs by comparing them to three-day-old […]
Freeheld
October 18, 2015
Freeheld – A love story between a detective and a mechanic. Both are women, and therein lies the rub. Laurel (Julianne Moore), a constant smoker, is diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and wants to assign her pension to her partner Stacie (Ellen Page). Even though the law in New Jersey gave the county the […]
Foxcatcher
December 23, 2014
Foxcatcher – A true story about one of the rich DuPonts who lured a couple of Olympic gold medal wrestling winners to his lair. John duPont (Steve Carell) is a strange bird who’s into ornithology and wrestling. He starts with Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) and after getting him hooked on cocaine, he turns to older […]
The Way, Way Back
September 12, 2013
The Way, Way Back – A good family movie about 14-year-old Duncan (Liam James) who’s spending the summer with mom Pam (Toni Collette) and her boyfriend Trent (Steve Carell). Duncan is going through an awkward stage, a bit of a dork and doesn’t like Trent. There’s plenty of reason to not like Trent, he’s the biggest a-hole […]
Despicable Me 2
July 8, 2013
Despicable Me 2 – Gru (Steve Carell) is domesticated now, raising the three little girls and running a jam and jelly-making factory with the help of Dr. Nefario (Russell Brand) and the minions. The AVL comes calling. They feel his former villain abilities can be useful in saving the world from a deadly potion PX41 […]
Hope Springs
August 9, 2012
Hope Springs – When husband Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) rejects Kay’s (Meryl Streep) timid advances, she decides it’s time for couples counseling. After 31 years of marriage, they’re in separate bedrooms and Arnold seems content, not really happy, but content with that. Kay, however, wants to bring back intimacy and some life into their life. […]
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