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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) #316
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Directed by Stephen Sommers. With Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer. |
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Halloween II (2009) #316
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Directed by Rob Zombie. With Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie. Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister. |
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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) #316
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Directed by Neal Brennan. With Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, David Koechner, James Brolin. Used-car liquidator Don Ready is hired by a flailing auto dealership to turn their Fourth of July sale into a majorly profitable event. |
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A Serious Man (2009) #318
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Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed. Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking. |
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Away We Go (2009) #318
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Directed by Sam Mendes. With John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Allison Janney, Carmen Ejogo. A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time. |
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My Sister's Keeper (2009) #324
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Directed by Nick Cassavetes. With Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin, Walter Raney. Anna Fitzgerald looks to earn medical emancipation from her parents who until now have relied on their youngest child to help their leukemia-stricken daughter Kate remain alive. |
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Booky's Crush (2009) #324
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Directed by Peter Moss. With Rachel Marcus, Megan Follows, Stuart Hughes, Dylan Everett. The Thomsons - parents Thomas and Francie, and children Willa, Arthur, Beatrice (nicknamed Booky) and Jakey - are a loving working class family living in the Depression era in Toronto. It's September and the new school year has just started. Willa has thoughts of attending medical school after she graduates, despite the family not having the money to send her. Arthur is showing aptitude in ... |
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Margot (2009) #329
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Directed by Otto Bathurst. With Anne-Marie Duff, Penelope Wilton, Con O'Neill, Lindsay Duncan. At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ... |
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Enid (2009) #329
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Directed by James Hawes. With Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew Macfadyen, Denis Lawson, Claire Rushbrook. Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family. Whilst training as a teacher after the Great War she sends her stories to publishers, one of whom, Hugh Pollock,takes her on and also marries her. They have two daughters but Enid is a terrible mother, letting a nanny rear them whilst she, ironically, ... |
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Formosa Betrayed (2009) #337
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Directed by Adam Kane. With James Van Der Beek, Wendy Crewson, John Heard, Will Tiao. An FBI agent while unveiling a series of international conspiracy is embroiled in a set of political intrigue. |
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Up (2009) #365
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Directed by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson. With Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer. Seventy-eight year old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his home equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway. |
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A Christmas Carol (2009) #370
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Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Steve Valentine. An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions. |
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Astro Boy (2009) #378
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Directed by David Bowers. With Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Charlize Theron. When an android replica of a boy is rejected by his aggrieved creator, he goes off to find his own identity in an adventure that would make him the greatest hero of his time. |
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) #396
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Directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller. With Anna Faris, Bill Hader, Bruce Campbell, James Caan. A local scientist is often regarded as a failure until he invents a machine that can make food fall from the sky. But little does he know, that things are about to take a turn for the worst. |
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Glorious 39 (2009) #400
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Directed by Stephen Poliakoff. With Romola Garai, Eddie Redmayne, Juno Temple, Toby Regbo. The adopted daughter of a privileged British politician uncovers a family secret in the weeks leading up to World War II. |
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Where the Wild Things Are (2009) #402
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Directed by Spike Jonze. With Max Records, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker, Pepita Emmerichs. Yearning for escape and adventure, a young boy runs away from home and sails to an island filled with creatures that take him in as their king. |
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Invictus (2009) #402
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Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Mofokeng. Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup. |
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Harry Brown (2009) #402
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Directed by Daniel Barber. With Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, David Bradley, Charlie Creed-Miles. An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice. |
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Ninja Assassin (2009) #402
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Directed by James McTeigue. With Rick Yune, Naomie Harris, Rain, Joon Lee. A young ninja turns his back on the orphanage that raised him, leading to a confrontation with a fellow ninja from the clan. |
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The Hangover (2009) #462
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Directed by Todd Phillips. With Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha, Ed Helms. Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding. |