Insights from the Cinematic World: life

Sisters

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler reunite for Sisters, the new comedy about two disconnected siblings summoned home to clean out their childhood bedroom before their parents sell the family house.

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LIFE

LIFE explores the genesis of and layers behind Stock’s famous pictures, published the day before the Times Square premiere of East of Eden and James Dean’s overnight stardom.

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By the Sea

In its style and its treatment of themes of the human experience, By the Sea starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is reminiscent of European cinema and theater of the ’60s and ’70s—with its concentrated, lean storytelling style, spare dialogue and intimate, often disquieting atmosphere.

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Love the Coopers

Charlotte Cooper (DIANE KEATON) has one simple holiday wish…for her family to have the memory of a perfect Christmas. But four generations of the Cooper clan gathering under the same roof is anything but perfect.

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Our Brand is Crisis

“Our Brand is Crisis” takes a timely and satirical look at the high-stakes gamesmanship behind the scenes of a presidential campaign, seen through the eyes and actions of the strategists-for-hire who are pulling the strings.

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Reminiscent of his use of Forrest Gump’s own, unusual, voice to augment the narrative in that film, director Robert Zemeckis has Philippe Petit himself narrate moments in The Walk to add insight—especially to his inner thoughts on the wire.

The Walk

The Walk, an epic, big-screen cinematic spectacle, gives moviegoers the chance to go where only one man has been or ever will be – 110 stories in the air, on a wire, walking between the towers of the World Trade Center.

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Sicario

In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent [Emily Blunt] is enlisted by an elite government task force official [Josh Brolin] to aid in the escalating war against drugs.

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The Perfect Guy

The Perfect Guy offers a fascinating glimpse into the dark side of human relationships. But with all the cyber methods we have available now, the things that happen to Leah (Sanaa Lathan) in this movie are all too real, it’s not a fantasy, this could actually happen

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90 Minutes in Heaven

Pastor Don Piper died January 18, 1989 when a semitractor truck crushed his car. Declared dead by the first rescue workers to arrive on the scene, Don’s body lay under a tarp for the next 90 minutes. Don’s soul, meanwhile, was experiencing love, joy, and life.

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Learning to Drive

Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley star in this feel-good, coming of (middle) age comedy about a mismatched pair who help each other overcome life’s road blocks —festival circuit favorite Learning to Drive, which was chosen the Audience Award runner-up at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

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Straight Outta Compton

In 1987, five young men—Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, DJ Yella and MC Ren, transformed their frustration and anger about life in their inner-city Los Angeles neighborhood into the most powerful weapon they had: their music.

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Pixels

As kids in the 1980s, Sam Brenner (Adam Sandler), Will Cooper (Kevin James), Ludlow Lamonsoff (Josh Gad), and Eddie Plant (Peter Dinklage) saved the world thousands of times – at 25 cents a game in the video arcades. Now, they’re going to have to do it for real.

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