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My Week with Marilyn
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Rated: R for some language Running Time: 1 hour 39 minutes Genre: Drama Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Williams, Emma Watson, Judi Dench, Dominic Cooper, Eddie Redmayne Directed by: Simon Curtis Watch Trailer
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Opens Friday, 2/24
Friday: 4:40, 9:35 Sat & Sun: 11:00, 4:40, 9:35
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Oscar-nominated for Best Actress Golden Globe winner: Best Actress
Before the Oscars this Sunday, we are giving everyone one more chance to see Michelle Williams in her amazing portrayal of Marilyn Monroe.
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of 'The Prince and the Showgirl'. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Aurthur Miller (Dougray Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as My Week with Marilyn this is the story of that week. When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life; an idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
Michelle Williams doesn't just survive. Called upon to glow, she glows. Her performance doesn't solve all the riddles of that personality; none could, and it's for the best that Williams doesn't try.-San Fransico Chronicle
What an extraordinary thrill to leave a movie exhilarated instead of drained, sated instead of empty, rejuvenated instead of depressed. It's a magical experience. -Rex Reed
The movie seems to be a fairly accurate re-creation of the making of a film at Pinewood Studios at that time. It hardly matters. What happens during the famous week hardly matters. What matters is the performance by Michelle Williams. -Roger Ebert
The performance is both an eerie imitation and a touching revelation. Oscar voters who overlooked Williams for her camouflage roles in "Brokeback Mountain," "Wendy and Lucy" and "Blue Valentine" should now throw diamonds at her feet. -St. Louis Post Dispatch
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Rated: R for disturbing violence and behavior, some sexuality and language Running Time: 1 hour 52 minutes Genre: Drama, Thriller Cast: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell Directed by: Lynne Ramsay Watch Trailer
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A suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller, Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin explores the factious relationship between a mother and her son. Tilda Swinton, in a bracing, tour-de-force performance, plays the mother, Eva, as she contends for 15 years with the increasing malevolence of her first-born child, Kevin (Ezra Miller). Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, We Need to Talk About Kevin explores nature vs. nurture on a whole new level as Eva's own culpability is measured against Kevin's innate evilness. Ramsay's masterful storytelling simultaneously combines a provocative moral ambiguity with a satisfying and compelling narrative, which builds to a chilling, unforgettable climax.
“Acting doesn't get much better than the subtly brilliant display put on by Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"That the film works so brilliantly is a tribute in large part to the actors." -Roger Ebert
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
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Rated: PG13 Running Time: 1 hour 52 minutes Genre: Drama, Comedy Cast: Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas Directed by: Lasse Hallstrom Watch Trailer
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When Britain's leading fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a consultant (Emily Blunt) to help realize a sheikh's (Amr Waked) vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert, he immediately thinks the project is both absurd and unachievable. But when the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary (Kristin Scott Thomas) latches on to it as a "good will" story, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible.
With a wickedly wonderful cast of characters--including a weasel-like spin doctor, a missing soldier and his intrepid fiancée, and Dr. Jones's own devilish wife--Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is the whimsical story of an unlikely hero who discovers true love, finds himself first a pawn and then a victim of political spin, and learns to believe in the impossible.
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