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Nebraska (2013) #256
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Directed by Alexander Payne. With Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk. An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize. |
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Gravity (2013) #257
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Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. With Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Orto Ignatiussen. A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space. |
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Sunshine on Leith (2013) #258
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Directed by Dexter Fletcher. With Paul Brannigan, George MacKay, Kevin Guthrie, Jane Horrocks. Two soldiers return home to Edinburgh to resume their romantic and family lives. |
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Closed Circuit (2013) #259
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Directed by John Crowley. With Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent, Ciarán Hinds. A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy. |
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Believe (2013) #261
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Directed by David Scheinmann. With Jack Smith, Brian Cox, Natascha McElhone, Anne Reid. A young, gifted football player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby, who comes out of retirement to help the boy and his teammates. |
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Blue Jasmine (2013) #263
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Directed by Woody Allen. With Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Sally Hawkins. A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn't bringing money, peace, or love... |
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42 (2013) #265
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Directed by Brian Helgeland. With Chadwick Boseman, T.R. Knight, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie. The story of Jackie Robinson from his signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in 1945 to his historic 1947 rookie season when he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. |
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Captain Phillips (2013) #266
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Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener. The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. |
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Sunshine on Leith (2013) #267
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Directed by Dexter Fletcher. With Paul Brannigan, George MacKay, Kevin Guthrie, Jane Horrocks. Two soldiers return home to Edinburgh to resume their romantic and family lives. 'High' |
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The Lone Ranger (2013) #268
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Directed by Gore Verbinski. With Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson. Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice. |
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The Great Gatsby (2013) #271
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Directed by Baz Luhrmann. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire. A writer and wall street trader, Nick, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby. |
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The Wolverine (2013) #276
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Directed by James Mangold. With Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima. When Wolverine is summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, he is embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons. |
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Iron Man Three (2013) #382
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Directed by Shane Black. With Robert Downey Jr., Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle. When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution. |
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The Wipers Times (2013) #409
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Directed by Andy De Emmony. With Ben Chaplin, Patrick FitzSymons, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Steve Oram. Just after the First World War Fred Roberts goes for a job as a newspaper journalist and tells the sub-editor how, in the trenches in 1916, he discovered a printing press in working order. Helped by ex-printer Sergeant Harris and with his friend Jack Pearson as his assistant, he sets up the Wipers Times - the name coming from the soldiers' pronunciation of the town Ypres. Despite disapproval from... |
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The Spirit of '45 (2013) #425
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Directed by Ken Loach. With Winston Churchill, Tony Benn, Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan. A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society. |
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Frozen (2013) #429
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Directed by Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee. With Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad. When the newly crowned Queen Elsa accidentally uses her power to turn things into ice to curse her home in infinite winter, her sister, Anna, teams up with a mountain man, his playful reindeer, and a snowman to change the weather condition. Disney |
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The Secret Life of Mary Poppins: A Culture Show Special (2013) #436
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60min. In 1964 the Mary Poppins film premiered in Hollywood to world acclaim. But one person loathed it. She was PL Travers, the author of the books. To coincide with the release of Saving Mr Banks, this Culture Show special presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell explores the dark and complex life of the writer. Her twenty year battle with Walt Disney, the strange adoption of her child (he was one of twins) and how the film version overshadowed her writings but made her rich. With contributions from Emma Thompson, Cameron Mackintosh and PL Travers's granddaughter. |
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Saving Mr. Banks (2013) #437
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Directed by John Lee Hancock. With Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell. Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen. |
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Mandariinid (2013) #453
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Directed by Zaza Urushadze. With Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nüganen, Giorgi Nakashidze, Misha Meskhi. War in Georgia, Apkhazeti region in 1990. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in. aka Tangerines |
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Finding Vivian Maier (2013) #487
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Directed by John Maloof, Charlie Siskel. With Vivian Maier, John Maloof, Daniel Arnaud, Simon Amédé. A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers. |