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Movies with Sean Means for September 9, 2016

Artsies:

Phantom Boy (PG) 84 Minutes – 2 Stars

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Leo has a secret. A mysterious illness has transformed him into a phantom boy, able to leave the confines of his body and explore the city as a ghostly apparition. While in the hospital, he befriends Alex, a New York City cop injured while attempting to capture a nefarious gangster who has taken control of the city’s power supply, throwing the metropolis into chaos. Now they must form an extraordinary duo, using Leo’s phantom powers and Alex’s detective work to foil the plot and save New York from destruction.

Director: Alain Gagnol , Jean-Loup Felicioli

Starring: Fred Armisen, Audrey Tautou, Jean- Pierre Marielle

 

The People Vs Fritz Bauer (R) 105 Minutes – 3 Stars

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN5PvNQq86E]

Germany, 1957. Attorney General Fritz Bauer receives crucial evidence on the whereabouts of SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann. The lieutenant colonel, responsible for the mass deportation of the Jews, is allegedly hiding in Buenos Aires. Bauer, himself Jewish, has been trying to take crimes from the Third Reich to court ever since his return from Danish exile. However, with no success so far due to the fierce German determination to repress its sinister past. Because of his distrust in the German justice system, Fritz Bauer contacts the Israeli secret service Mossad, and, by doing so, commits treason. Bauer is not seeking revenge for the Holocaust–he is concerned with the German future.

Director: Lars Kraume

Starring: Burghart Klaussner, Ronald Zehrfeld

 

I Am Not A Serial Killer (NR) 104 Minutes – 3 Stars

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Sixteen-year-old John Wayne Cleaver (Max Records, Where the Wild Things Are) is not a serial killer-but he has all the makings of one. Keeping his homicidal tendencies and morbid obsessions with death and murder in check is a constant struggle that only gets harder when a real serial killer begins terrorizing his sleepy Midwestern town. Now, in order to track down a psychopath and protect those around him, John must unleash his darkest inner demons. Based on the cult novel by Dan Wells, this twisted, genre-bending thriller co-stars Christopher Lloyd and Breaking Bad’s Laura Fraser.

Director: Billy O’Brien

Starring: Max Records, Christopher Lloyd

 

Our Little Sister (PG) 128 Minutes – 3 1/5 Stars

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Three sisters Sachi, Yoshino and Chika live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father absent from the family home for the last 15 years dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral and meet their shy teenage half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them. Suzu eagerly agrees, and a new life of joyful discovery begins for the four siblings.

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda

Starring: Haruka Ayase

Fartsies:

The Dissapointments Room (R) 100 Minutes – NOT SCREENED

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj-0VXWuCRk]

In this psychological thriller from the director of Eagle Eye and Disturbia, Dana and David move from Brooklyn to a once-grand southern mansion with their 5 year old son looking for a fresh start. But Dana’s discovery of a secret room unleashes unexplainable events that test her sanity and slowly reveal the home’s terrifying past.

Director: D.J Caruso

Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Mel Raido

 

When the Bough Breaks (PG-13) 93 Minutes – NOT SCREENED

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws74Ie4fMc8]

John and Laura Taylor (Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall) are a young, professional couple who desperately want a baby. After exhausting all other options, they finally hire Anna (Jaz Sinclair), the perfect woman to be their surrogate – but as she gets further along in her pregnancy, so too does her psychotic and dangerous fixation on the husband. The couple becomes caught up in Anna’s deadly game and must fight to regain control of their future before it’s too late.

Director: Jon Cassar

Starring: Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall

 

Sully (PG-13) 96 Minutes – SCREENING WEDNESDAY NIGHT

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Tom Hanks stars in this thrilling portrait of heroic airline pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, re-enacting his incredible successful emergency landing of an Airbus A320 full of passengers on the Hudson River.

Director: Clint Eastwood

Starring: Tom Hanks, Laura Linney, Aaron Eckhart

 

The Wild Life (PG) 90 Minutes – 1 1/2 Stars

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNCjU9VEuNc]

From the over-exuberant parrot Mak to the snack-obsessed tapir Rosie, from the persnickety echidna Epi to the acrobatic pangolin Pango, from the ditzy goat Scrubby to the commonsensical kingfisher Kiki and the always-cool chameleon Carmello, things are larger-than-life on a tropical isle that is pure wild animal paradise. Then Robinson Crusoe, a marooned human, arrives in the midst of a furious storm, and their lives are forever changed by this bewildering new “creature.” No matter their differences, castaway human and quirky animals embark on an hilarious new adventure, building the island’s first tree-house and surviving together. But when two conniving members of the animal kingdom–the savage cats Mal & May–pounce into a battle for control of the island, Crusoe and his animal posse must uncover the true power of friendship against all odds (even savage cats).

Director: Vincent Kesteloot

Starring: Kaya Yanar, Cindy aus Marzahn, Aylin Tezel

 

For the Love of Spock (NR) 111 Minutes – 3 Stars

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZcIWWjLVZ8]

Last year, just before Thanksgiving, I approached my dad, Leonard Nimoy, about the possibility of working together on a film about Mr. Spock. I had skimmed through some of the books on the making of Star Trek and felt there was so much more to explore about the creation and development of Mr. Spock. And the timing seemed right, as the 50th anniversary of Star Trek the original series was not that far away. Dad agreed that now was the right time, and that he was 100% committed to collaborating with me on this project. He also reminded me that we were (then) just days away from the 50th anniversary of the start of production on “The Cage,” the original pilot for Star Trek in which dad first appeared as Mr. Spock.

Director: Adam Nimoy

Starring:  Leonard Nimoy

 

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