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Valkyrie – A Movie Review

December 29, 2008December 29, 2008 John Action, Adventure, Bill Nighy, Biopic, Bryan Singer, Drama, Tom Cruise, Tom Wilkinson, War

A proud military man, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is a loyal officer who serves his country all the while hoping that someone will find a way to stop Hitler before Europe and Germany are destroyed. Realizing that time is running out, he decides that he must take action himself and joins the German resistance. Armed with a cunning strategy to use Hitler’s own emergency plan – known as Operation Valkyrie – these men plot to assassinate the dictator and overthrow his Nazi government from the inside.

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Wall-E – A Movie Review

December 29, 2008January 2, 2009 John Andrew Stanton, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Pixar, Sigourney Weaver

After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, Wall-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named Eve. Eve comes to realize that Wall-E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet’s future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, Wall-E chases Eve across the galaxy.

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Cadillac Records – A Movie Review

December 28, 2008December 28, 2008 John Adrien Brody, Beyonce Knowles, Biopic, Chess Records, Darnell Martin, Drama, Jeffrey Wright, Musical

The rise and fall of Chess Records, which launched the careers of Muddy Waters, Etta James and Chuck Berry. Leonard Chess scoured the South, checking out the various blues scenes and selling records from the back of his Cadillac.

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Step Brothers – A Movie Review

December 28, 2008December 29, 2008 John Adam McKay, Comedy, John C. Reilly, Will Ferrell

Brennan Huff, a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old, lives with his mother, Nancy. Dale Doback, a terminally unemployed forty-year-old lives with his father, Robert. When Robert and Nancy marry and move in together, Brennan and Dale are forced to live with each other as step brothers. As their narcissism and downright aggressive laziness threaten to tear the family apart, these two middle-aged, immature, overgrown boys will orchestrate an insane, elaborate plan to bring their parents back together. To pull it off, they must form an unlikely bond that maybe, just maybe, will finally get them out of the house.

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Milk – A Movie Review

December 27, 2008December 27, 2008 John Allison Pill, Biopic, Drama, Emile Hirsch, Gus Van Sant, Harvey Milk, James Franco, Josh Brolin, Milk, Sean Penn

His life changed history. His courage changed lives. In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into public office in America. His victory was not just a victory for gay rights; he forged coalitions across the political spectrum. From senior citizens to union workers, Harvey Milk changed the very nature of what it means to be a fighter for human rights and became, before his untimely death in 1978, a hero for all Americans. Milk charts the last eight years of Harvey Milk’s life. This is an important story.