Movies about losers tend to fall into one of two categories. Either the characters are "lovable losers" who are able to elicit the viewer’s sympathy and desire to see the characters grow and change for the better; or the characters are so frustrating to watch that you want to grab them by the shoulders and shake them, yelling for them to snap out of it. Unfortunately, Arthur Newman falls into that latter category.
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Bruce Willis squares off against a Bruce Willis-esque Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Looper, a time bending action-thriller that not only exceeds its lofty expectations, but serves up one of the best sci-fi stories of the last decade.
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From the director of What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Cider House Rules, Chocolat and The Shipping News comes Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, a low-key romantic drama about two people who find chemistry through the oddest of avenues: a project to introduce salmon fishing into the deserts of Yemen. Hence the title.
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Your brother’s dead. Your brother’s girlfriend, who is also your best friend, tells you to go to her cabin for a weekend to get away from things. You sleep with her lesbian sister. You find out your best friend is in love with you. Best weekend or worst weekend ever? Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister tackles just such a scenario and offers audiences one of the most engaging movies of the year.
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A man and a woman meet, fall in love, get engaged. The next step is obvious. Obvious, but not easy. Between career opportunities and unexpected family situations, the initiation process to their next stage in life – the wedding – keeps getting pushed back, a victim of life’s little ironies and twists. The Five-Year Engagement looks at the ups and downs of their relationship, capturing the funny moments along the way. Unfortunately, the movie also feels like it is five years long.
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The Five-Year Engagement, from comedic duo Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller (whose last collaboration was the hilarious Forgetting Sarah Marshall), comes to theaters this Friday. The movie, which stars Segel and Emily Blunt, is about an engaged couple who just can’t find their way to the other end of the aisle. We’ve added 30 new images to The Five-Year Engagement photo gallery – check them out now!
There are few things more classic than the tale of “Romeo and Juliet”. The timeless love story has been read or seen in some form or another by the vast majority of educated audiences. But never like this. Never animated, acted out by gnomes. Ladies and gentlefolk, I introduce to thee Gnomeo & Juliet.
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Many say finding the right romantic partner is fate, but what if fate has other plans? In The Adjustment Bureau, a rising political star (Matt Damon) meets and falls in love with a woman (Emily Blunt) – but discovers that by being together, both their fates are put in jeopardy.
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Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? Matt Damon stars in the thriller The Adjustment Bureau – in theaters March 4, 2011 – as a man who glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else. To get it, he must pursue the only woman he’s ever loved across, under and through the streets of modern-day New York.
Golden Globe-winner Emily Blunt stars as England’s longest serving monarch in The Young Victoria, a period-piece drama whose biggest claim to fame may be the seriously cocky acceptance speech the film’s costume designer gave after winning an Oscar. But we won’t hold that headshaking moment against it, as The Young Victoria is a surprisingly well done movie, if a little light on any memorable material.
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I just watched the new movie trailer for the upcoming film Sunshine Cleaning, and it looks pretty good. From the producers of Little Miss Sunshine (their next film is called The Dark in the Darkness), the movie is about two house-cleaners (Amy Adams and Emily Blunt) who decide to open their own crime scene cleaning business to rake in the real dough. Puking at the smell of dead people occurs.
As with the aforementioned Oscar-nominated film, Sunshine Cleaning just likes like a nice, laid back comedy that never takes itself too seriously while still delivering a “serious” story and believable characters. Adams and Blunt are both on a roll right now, so I hope this one does well.
Here’s the Sunshine Cleaning movie trailer:
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