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Now on Home Video: ‘Black Mass’ with Johnny Depp, ‘Steve Jobs’ Starring Michael Fassbender
Black Mass (2015)
Black Mass (2015)
Stars: Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kevin Bacon, Jesse Plemons, Peter Sarsgaard, Rory Cochrane, Adam Scott, Dakota Johnson, and Corey Stoll
Director: Scott Cooper
Genre: Drama, Crime, Biography
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from Warner Bros. Pictures: In 1970s South Boston, FBI Agent John Connolly (Edgerton) persuades Irish mobster Jimmy Bulger (Depp) to collaborate with the FBI in order to eliminate their common enemy: the Italian mob. The drama tells the story of this unholy alliance, which spiraled out of control, allowing Whitey to evade law enforcement while consolidating his power and becoming one of the most ruthless and dangerous gangsters in Boston history.
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Steve Jobs (2015)
Steve Jobs (2015)
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Katherine Waterston, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Jeff Daniels
Director: Danny Boyle
Genre: Drama, Biography
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from Universal Pictures: Witness the founder of Apple like never before. Steve Jobs paints an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at the epicenter of the digital revolution, backstage in the final minutes before three iconic product launches.
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Trumbo (2015)
Trumbo (2015)
Stars: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, John Goodman and Michael Stuhlbarg
Director: Jay Roach
Genre: Drama, Biography
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from Universal Pictures: In 1947, Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) was Hollywood’s top screenwriter until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. TRUMBO (directed by Jay Roach) recounts how Dalton used words and wit to win two Academy Awards and expose the absurdity and injustice of the blacklist, which entangled everyone from gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) to John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.
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Criminal Activities (2015)
Criminal Activities (2015)
Stars: John Travolta, Michael Pitt, Dan Stevens, Christopher Abbott, Edi Gathegi, Rob Brown, and Jackie Earle Haley
Director: Jackie Earle Haley
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Motion Picture Rating: Unrated
Synopsis from Image Entertainment: Criminal Activities tells the story of four young men who, while acting on an inside tip, invest in a ‘sure thing’ only to discover the deal going south which putting them in trouble with the mob.
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The 33 (2015)
The 33 (2015)
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin, Lou Diamond Phillips, Mario Casas, Juan Pablo Raba, Kate del Castillo, Cote de Pablo, Bob Gunton, and Gabriel Byrne
Director: Patricia Riggen
Genre: Drama, Biography
Motion Picture Rating: PG-13
Synopsis from Alcon Entertainment and Phoenix Pictures: In 2010, the eyes of the world turned to Chile, where 33 miners had been buried alive by the catastrophic explosion and collapse of a 100-year-old gold and copper mine. Over the next 69 days, an international team worked night and day in a desperate attempt to rescue the trapped men as their families and friends, as well as millions of people globally, waited and watched anxiously for any sign of hope. But 200 stories beneath the surface, in the suffocating heat and with tensions rising, provisions—and time—were quickly running out.
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Labyrinth of Lies (2014)
Labyrinth of Lies (2014)
Stars: Alexander Fehling, André Szymanski, and Friederike Becht
Director: Giulio Ricciarelli
Genre: Drama
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from Sony Pictures Classics: Germany 1958. Reconstruction, economic miracle. Johann Radmann (Alexander Fehling) has just recently been appointed Public Prosecutor and, like all beginners, he has to content himself with boring traffic offenses. When the journalist Thomas Gnielka (André Szymanski) causes a ruckus in the courthouse, Radmann pricks up his ears: a friend of Gnielka’s identified a teacher as a former Auschwitz guard, but no one is interested in prosecuting him. Against the will of his immediate superior, Radmann begins to examine the case – and lands in a web of repression and denial, but also of idealization. In those years, “Auschwitz” was a word that some people had never heard of, and others wanted to forget as quickly as possible. Only the Prosecutor General Fritz Bauer (Gert Voss) encourages Radmann’s curiosity; he himself has long wanted to bring the crimes committed in Auschwitz to the public’s attention, but lacks the legal means for a prosecution. When Johann Radmann and Thomas Gnielka find documents that lead to the perpetrators, Bauer immediately recognizes how explosive they are and officially entrusts all further investigations to Radmann. The young prosecutor devotes himself with utmost commitment to his new task and is resolved to find out what really happened back then. He questions witnesses, combs through files, secures evidence and allows himself to be drawn into the case to such an extent that he is blind to everything else – even to Marlene Wondrak (Friederike Becht), with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love. Radmann oversteps boundaries, falls out with friends, colleagues and allies, and is sucked deeper and deeper into a labyrinth of lies and guilt in his search for the truth. But what he ultimately brings to light will change the country forever.
