"Crooked House" (2018) Comedy Running Time: 95 minutes Written by: Rob McKittrick & Mark Steilen Directed by: Jeff Tomsic Featuring: Ed Helms, Jake Johnson, Annabelle Wallis, Hannibal Buress, Isla Fisher, Rashida Jones, Jon Hamm, Leslie Bibb, Jeremy Renner Sable: "What's the difference between Episcopalian and Lutheran?" Randy: "Episcopalians don't eat fish." Sable: "That's... pescatarian, that's... not a religion." Randy: "They're …
"Crooked House" (2017) Drama/Mystery Running Time: 95 minutes Written by: Julian Fellowes & Tim Rose Price & Gilles Paquet-Brenner Directed by: Gilles Paquet-Brenner Featuring: Max Irons, Terence Stamp, Glenn Close, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Abbington, Christina Hendricks, Julian Sands and Stefanie Martini Josephine: "The murderer is never the one you initially suspect." The last few years has seen a resurgence in the …
"Professor Marston and the Wonder Women" (2017) Drama Running Time: 108 minutes Written & Directed by: Angela Robinson Featuring: Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote, JJ Feild, Oliver Platt and Connie Britton William Moulton Marston: "She is beautiful, guileless, kind, and pure of heart. You are brilliant, ferocious, hilarious, and a grade A bitch. Together, you are …
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“Ocean's 8” (2018) Thriller/Comedy Running Time: 110 minutes Written by: Gary Ross & Olivia Milch Directed by: Gary Ross Featuring: Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Rihanna, and Helena Bonham Carter Parole Officer: "Good afternoon, Miss Ocean. As you know parole is a privilege." Debbie Ocean: "It’s a mistake. Uh, but it happened, and, um, if I were to be …
“Kodachrome ” (2017) Drama Running Time: 100 minutes Written by: Jonathan Tropper Directed by: Mark Raso Featuring: Ed Harris, Jason Sudeikis, Elizabeth Olsen, Bruce Greenwood, Wendy Crewson, and Dennis Haysbert Ben: "We're all so frightened by time, the way it moves on and the way things disappear. That's why we're photographers. We're preservationists by nature. We take pictures to stop time, to …
“Solo: A Star Wars Story” (2018) Sci-Fi Running Time: 135 minutes Written by: Jonathan Kasdan & Lawrence Kasdan Directed by: Ron Howard Featuring: Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Joonas Suotamo, and Paul Bettany Han Solo: "I heard a story about you. I was wondering if it's true." Lando Calrissian: "Everything you've heard about me is true." Was anyone really wanting …
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"The Bookshop" (2018) Drama Written & Directed by: Isabel Coixet Based on the novel by Penelope Fitzgerald Featuring: Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson and Bill Nighy From the novel:“Courage and endurance are useless if they are never tested.” To say that this movie represents aspects of life that are from a bygone age is an understatement, it is a period …
“Dark Crimes" (2018) Thriller Running Time: 92 minutes Written by:Jeremy Brock Directed by: Alexandros Avranas Featuring: Jim Carrey, Agata Kulesza, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kati Outinen, Zbigniew Zamachowski, and Marton Csokas Kozlow: “The river has an end and a beginning.” There is undoubtedly a dark side to Jim Carrey's professional and personal persona, which has never been fully explored on film, although he …
"Deadpool 2" (2018) Action Written by: Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick and Ryan Reynolds Directed by: David Leitch Featuring: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz, T.J. Miller, Brianna Hildebrand, and Jack Kesy Deadpool: "Sorry, I’m late. I was rounding up all the gluten in the world and launching it into space where it can’t not hurt us ever again." Here …
“Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story” (2017) Documentary Running Time: 88 minutes Directed by: Alexandra Dean Featuring: Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Diane Kruger and many others Hedy Lamarr: “People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, …
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“Game Night" (2018) Comedy Running Time: 110 minutes Written by: Mark Perez Directed by: John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein Featuring: Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Billy Magnussen, Sharon Horgan, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Michael C. Hall and Kyle Chandler Annie: [as Annie is playing with a fake gun, she quotes Pulp Fiction] "Any of you fucking pricks move, I'm gonna execute every motherfucking …
“Winchester" (2018) Horror Running Time: 99 minutes Written by: Tom Vaughan & The Spierig Brothers Directed by: The Spierig Brothers Featuring: Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke and Sarah Snook Arthur Gates: "It’s a gargantuan seven storied structure with no apparent rhyme or reason. Each maze of halls more confusing than the next. It’s under never ending construction. It’s built on …
“Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool” (2017) Drama Running Time: 106 minutes Written by: Matt Greenhalgh Directed by: Paul McGuigan Featuring: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Walters, Kenneth Cranham, Stephen Graham, Frances Barber and Leanne Best Peter Turner: "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Lauren Bacall when you smoke?" Gloria Grahame: "Humphrey Bogart. And I didn't like it then either." …
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"Tomb Raider" (2018) Action Written by: Geneva Robertson-Dworet & Alastair Siddons Directed by: Roar Uthaug Featuring: Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, and Kristin Scott Thomas Receptionist: "What’s your name?" Lara Croft: "Lara." Receptionist: "Surname?" Lara Croft: "Croft." As we get closer to the lucrative summer movie season in the US there are more and more movies …
"Black Panther" (2018) Action Written by: Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole Directed by: Ryan Coogler Featuring: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis Ulysses Klaue: "Tell me something. What do you know about Wakanda?" Everett K. Ross: "It's a Third-World country. Textiles, shepherds, cool outfits." Ulysses Klaue: "All a …
"I, Tonya" (2017) Drama/Comedy Written by: Steven Rogers Directed by: Craig Gillespie Featuring: Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Cannavale, Allison Janney Tonya Harding: "I mean, come on! What kind of friggin' person bashes in their friend's knee? Who would do that to a friend?" Towards the end of every year there are multiple films …
"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" (2017) Drama Written & Directed by: Martin McDonagh Featuring: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, John Hawkes and Peter Dinklage Willoughby: "I'd do anything to catch the guy who did it, Mrs. Hayes, but when the DNA don't match no one who's ever been arrested, and when the DNA don't match any other crime nationwide, and …
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"The Florida Project" (2017) Drama Written by: Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch Directed by: Sean Baker Featuring: Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Valeria Cotto, Christopher Rivera, and Caleb Landry Jones Moonee: [to tourist at ice-cream stand] Excuse me. Could you give us some change, please? The doctor said we have asthma and we have to eat …
“Patti Cake$” (2017) Drama Running Time: 108 minutes Written & Directed by: Geremy Jasper Featuring: Danielle Macdonald, Cathy Moriarty, Siddharth Dhananjay, McCaul Lombardi, Patrick Brana, Bridget Everett, Mamoudou Athie Patti: [to Barb] “Act your age.” Barb: [to Patti] “Act your race.” Firstly, it has to be said upfront that this debut film by music video …
“Wonder" (2017) Drama Running Time: 113 minutes Written by: Steve Conrad, based on the novel of the same name by R.J. Palacio Directed by: Stephen Chbosky Featuring: Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay Auggie Pullman: [voice over] "I know I’m not an ordinary kind of a kid, I’ve had twenty-seven surgeries. They help me to breathe, to see, …
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