Quiet City (Movie Watch)

Jamie's lost. She’s come to New York to visit her friend Samantha, but Samantha's nowhere to be found & now Jamie is alone in the city. Charlie just quit his job & isn’t sure where he’s going next. Their paths cross late at night on an empty subway platform & from this chance encounter an unlikely connection is formed. Together they share 24 hours drifting from late night diners, to city parks, to abandoned apartments, to a party & art gallery deep in the heart of industrial Brooklyn. Delicately realized with generous humanity, QUIET CITY offers hope for intimate connection in a world that grows larger by the day.

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4 Months 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Movie Watch)

During the final days of communism in Romania, transpiring over the course of a single day, two college roommates Otilia & Gabita are busy preparing for a night away. But rather than planning for a holiday, they are making arrangements for Gabita’s illegal abortion and unwittingly, both find themselves burrowing deep down a rabbit hole of unexpected revelations.

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Paranoid Park (Movie Watch)

An unsolved murder at Portland’s infamous Paranoid Park brings detectives to a local high school, propelling a young skater into a moral odyssey where he must not only deal with the pain and disconnect of adolescence but the consequences of his own actions.

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Beaufort (Movie Watch)

BEAUFORT chronicles the final days of an Israeli army unit’s tense, painful withdrawal from a strategic 12th century fortress near the Lebanese border in 2000, marking the end of nearly two decades of controversial occupation. Based on a true story, director Joseph Cedar confronts the difficult questions raised by Israel’s military strategy in Lebanon but also, more broadly, the sacrifices of young soldiers and the futility of war.

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Graded)

After a devastating break-up with his girlfriend TV sitcom star Sarah Marshall, a heartbroken & depressed Peter heads to Hawaii, for a little vacation to try his best to forget every detail of his relationship with Sarah. But love laughs at Peter, because Sarah is vacationing in the same exclusive resort as Peter, along with her new boyfriend.

Graded: B

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Spiral (Movie Watch)

A reclusive telemarketer, whose dysfunctional friendship with his boss is alleviated when a whimsical co-worker enters his life. But as he begins to sketch his new friend’s portrait, disturbing feelings from his past threaten to lead him down a path of destruction.

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Snow Angels (Movie Watch)

Annie’s marriage to Glenn has ended. A man with a troubled past, Glenn used to drink but has since found Jesus Christ & lives with his parents. Hoping to rebuild his life by getting a job selling carpet, Glenn also tries to reconnect with Annie as he shows up to visit their very young daughter. A film for grown-ups, SNOW ANGELS is about a precise moment on a cold winter morning when Glenn & Annie’s past catches up with their future. For them nothing will ever be the same.

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The Orphanage (Movie Watch)

Laura returns to the house where she was raised, and decides to transform it into an orphanage. Soon, her son, Simón, makes an invisible friend.

Grade: A -
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Heath Ledger (April 4, 1979 – January 22, 2008)

Australian actor Heath Ledger, a Oscar & Golden Globle nominiee, has died at the age of 28. Ledger was found unconcious in his fourth-floor apartment at 421 Broome Street in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. He was found today at 3:26 p.m. EST by a housekeeper and a massage therapist, both had entered the bedroom to find him face down and unconscious at the foot of his bed with sleeping pills on a nearby night table. Police have stated that they also found prescription medication in the bathroom and that there were "no obvious signs" of suicide, nor did they suspect foul play.

Update: January 23, 2008 (Australian time), Ledger's parents and sister—who learned of his death from a radio broadcast—appeared outside Ledger's mother's house in Applecross, a riverside Perth suburb, and read a short statement to the media:

We, [Heath's family], confirm the very tragic, untimely and accidental passing of our dearly loved son, brother and doting father of Matilda, who was found in a peaceful sleep in his New York apartment by his housekeeper at 3:30pm [New York Time]. We would like to thank our friends and everyone around the world for their kind wishes at this time. Heath has touched so many people on so many different levels during his short life, but few had the pleasure to truly know him. He was a down-to-earth, generous, kind-hearted, life-loving and unselfish individual who was an extreme inspiration to many. Please now respect our family's need to grieve and come to terms with our loss privately.

In reaction to his death, former partner Michelle Williams was reported as saying that she was "devastated" at the loss and had boarded a plane to New York City.

Filmography
Paws
Clowning Around
Blackrock
10 Things I Hate about you
Two Hands
The Patriot
Monster's Ball
A Knight's Tale
The Four Feathers
The Order
Ned Kelly
Casanova
Brokeback Mountain
Nautica
The Brothers Grimm
Lords of Dogtown
Candy
I'm Not There
The Dark Knight
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (In production at time of death)
Tree of Life (Never Completed)

Doomsday (Graded)

In "Doomsday," a deadly plague, known as the "Reaper Virus," has broken out, killing hundreds of thousands in its wake. In desperation, the British Government evacuates as many survivors as it can out of the infected area, and then builds a wall, preventing the remainder from escaping. Thirty years later, with the wall still up and the victims all but forgotten, the virus breaks out again. The Government decides to send a crack team of operatives, led by Major Eden Sinclair, into the hot zone to investigate the possibility of a cure.

Grade: C

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Brad Renfro (July 25, 1982 – January 15, 2008)

Actor Brad Renfro, whose career began promisingly with a break out role at the age of 12 but then rapidly faded as he struggled with drugs and alcohol, was found dead today in his Los Angeles apartment. Reportedly having spent the previous night drinking with friends, Renfro was found dead by roomates of an apparent overdose mix of alcohol & Xanax. Although an official cause of death has yet to be determined as an overdose with the autopsy still scheduled.

Brad Renfro was a street-smart Tennessee schoolboy plucked from obscurity in 1993 to play the title role in “The Client.” The film’s success brought him instant stardom, but struggles with drugs and alcohol dogged his career. He is survived by one son, known only as "Y Renfro".


Filmography
The Client
Tom and Huck
The Cure
Sleepers
Telling Lies in America
Apt Pupil
2 Little, 2 Late
Skipped Parts
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Happy Campers
Bully
Tart
Ghost World
American Girl
Deuces Wild
The Job
Hollywood Flies
Mummy an' the Armidillo
The Jacket
10th and Wolf
The Informers

Romulus, My Father (Movie Watch)

It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.

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Hancock (Movie Watch)

A hard-living superhero who has fallen out of favor with the public enters into a questionable relationship with the wife of the public relations professional who's trying to repair his image.

Grade: B
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The Time Traveler's Wife (Movie Watch)

A Chicago librarian, who has a genetic disorder that causes him to time-travel when he is under duress, tries to build a life with the woman he loves. Though his disorder causes him to vanish for long periods.

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