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Gone Girl

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Director: David Fincher Writer: Gillian Flynn (Screenplay and Novel) Ben Affleck (Nick Dunne), Rosamund Pike (Amy Dunne), Neil Patrick Harris (Desi Collings), Tyler Perry (Tanner Bolt), Carrie Coon (Margo Dunne), Kim Dickens (Detective Rhonda Boney), Patrick Fugit (Officer James Gilpin), David Clennon (Rand Elliott), Lisa Banes (Marybeth Elliott), Missi Pyle (Ellen Abbott), and Emily Rataijkowski (Andie Fitzgerald). Nick (Ben Affleck) and Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) 5th wedding anniversary is coming and Nick is expected to play there scavenger hunt game.  Nick seems a bit distressed, not wanting to be there, enters the bar that he co-owns with his sister, Margo (Carrie Coon).  They play a board game, while talking to her brother, behind her a collection of games thrown in a pile, a discussion about Amy (Rosamund Pike), the mood seems a bit dark.   On the way home, Nick (Ben Affleck) notices that his cat is outside, waving to the neighbor in gratitude, he proceeds ...

Godzilla (2014)

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Director: Gareth Edwards Writers: Max Borenstein & Dave Callahan Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Ford Brody), CJ Adams (Young Ford), Ken Watanabe (Dr. Ishiro Serizawa), Brayan Cranston (Joe Brody), Elizabeth Olsen (Elle Brody), Carson Bolde (Sam Brody), Sally Hawkins (Vivienne Graham), Juliette Binoche (Sandra Brody). The opening credits rolls to an old footage of nuclear tests sometime in the 1950s, the sequence makes it look like the film was recorded by an old projector, the white stripe shooting vertically while the film is running shows something large, a creature, a dinosaur from the past briefly emerges from the depths of the ocean.  The military wearing protective eye-wear, stand clear from the beast, they're trying to kill it, but it's strength absorbs the blasts, instead it angers the beast which submerged into the depths. 1999:  a Japanese researcher named Ichiro Serizawa (Ken Watanabe) and his assistant Vivienne Graham (Sally Hawkins) find readin...

The Nines

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Director: John August Writer: John August Ryan Reynolds (Gary/Gavin/Gabriel), Melissa McCarthy (Margaret/Melissa/Mary), Hope Davis (Sarah, Susan, Sierra), Ella Fanning (Noelle), David Denman (Parole Officer/Agitatated), Octavia Spencer (Streetwalker), Ben Falcone (Ben Falcone), Dahlia Salem (Dahlia Salem), John Gatins (John Gatins), and Andy Fielder (Moderator). The 2007 film the Nines starts off with Gary (Ryan Reynolds) a movie star, getting high on life.  Part One "The Prisoner" deals with this actor in a heap of trouble.  Gary is under house arrest because of his addiction problem and since he had burned his own home down, he resides in another place, where his P.R. and friend "handler", Margaret (Melissa McCarthy) pulls him out of yet another situation.  The strange thing is when Margaret (McCarthy) leaves, Gary meets a single mom next door, Sarah (Hope Davis) who lures him into believing that she is romantically interested in him.  Sarah the next ...

Annabelle

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Director: John R. Leonetti Writer: Gary Dauberman Ward Horton (John Gordan), Annabelle Wallis (Mia), Alfre Woodard (Evelyn), Tony Amendola (Father Perez), Kerry O'Malley (Sharon Higgins), Brian Howe (Pete Higgins). The Conjuring was about a family dealing with an enraged spirit or demon, it claimed the mother, which is horrible, especially when your family consists of all girls.  The women who was deemed possessed, had gone to a paranormal seminar which Ed and Lorraine Warren were the main speakers.  The Warren's had videos, proof of possessions, they even explained the stages to being possessed.  Carolyn Perron had confronted the Warren's about her situation, after that day the Warren's went to the families farmhouse, and conducted an investigation. Ed and Lorraine had told the family if indeed there is enough evidence then the next step is to contact the church and an ordained priest that has experience in exorcism will be here to cleanse the house.  The ...