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Plot Summary: The beloved team from Moscow's Claude Monet restaurant is thrust into a high-stakes mission: cook a state dinner for two presidents. What follows is a parade of mishaps, personal dramas, and shenanigans abroad, best appreciated by those already deeply invested in the characters from the TV series. Russian Title: Кухня в Париже (Kukhnya v Parizhe) Director: Dmitriy Dyachenko Writers: Dmitriy Yan, Vasiliy Kutsenko, Pavel Danilov, Igor Tudvasev Based on: Kitchen (TV series) by Dmitriy Dyachenko, Zhora Kryzhovnikov and Anton Fedotov Starring: Dmitry Nazarov as Viktor Barinov, the head chef Mark Bogatyryov as Maxim "Max" Lavrov, a cook Yelena Podkaminskaya as Viktoria "Vika" Goncharova, the restaurant's director Dmitry Nagiyev as himself, the owner of both restaurants Oleg Tabakov as Petr Barinov, Viktor's father and head chef of the restau...

Director: Luc Besson Producer: Virginie Besson-Silla Screenplay: Luc Besson Starring: Scarlett Johansson as Lucy Morgan Freeman as Professor Norman Choi Min-sik as Mr. Jang Amr Waked as Pierre Del Rio Music: Éric Serra Cinematography: Thierry Arbogast Editing: Julien Rey Release Date: July 25, 2014 Running Time: 89 minutes Language: English/Taiwanese Mandarin/Korean/French   ***SPOILER ALERT*** Revisiting Lucy Here we are with another movie revisit, this time for "Lucy," the follow-up to "The Family." When I first saw this film in 2014, I was very critical of its scientific aspects (I’ll leave my 2014 comments below). However, watching it now, I found myself having fun! It’s stupid but entertaining, and I’m giving it a higher score. This is one o...

Mommy is a 2014 Canadian drama film directed by Xavier Dolan. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize. The film won nine Canadian Screen Awards at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015, including Best Motion Picture and ten Jutra Awards at the 17th Jutra Awards, including Best Film. It was also Best Foreign Film at the 40th César Awards. Mommy was selected as the Canadian entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mommy_(2014_film) A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household. source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3612616/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** A Polarizing Director and Soundtrack KRASNAYA: He's a young 27-year-old French-Canadian director with his own recognizable style; alway...

Plot Summary: A young British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a terrifying riot on the streets of Belfast in 1971. Unable to tell friend from foe, the raw recruit must survive the night alone and find his way to safety through a disorienting, alien and deadly landscape. Director: Yann Demange Writer: Gregory Burke Starring: Jack O'Connell Sean Harris David Wilmot Richard Dormer Paul Anderson Charlie Murphy ***SPOILER ALERT*** A Slow Burn Into The Streets of Belfast PRESET C: A cool movie, that at first it seems a bit slow but then.. bam, shit gets pretty intense and I was immersed in the story of Gary Hook. It feels very real and scary because those things really happened, and boy soldiers like Gary were thrown into the streets with next to no preparation for dealing with what was going on back then. FREDDY: Yeah, I've al...

Plot Summary: A man and a woman, secretly in love, alone in a room. They desire each other, want each other, and even bite each other. In the afterglow, they share a few sweet nothings. At least the man seemed to believe they were nothing. Now under investigation by the police and the courts, what is he accused of? Director: Mathieu Amalric Writer: Georges Simenon (novel), Mathieu Amalric Starring: Mathieu Amalric Léa Drucker Stéphanie Cléau ***SPOILER ALERT*** A "Meh" Erotic Thriller FREDDY: Erotic? meh. Thrilling? meh. Worth the watch? meh. Short, Sweet, and Revealing FREDDY: The best thing in the movie is it's length, short, it doesn't hurt and it has enough time to show us some titties. Exhibitionism and Unanswered Questions FREDDY: Those guys were such exhibitionists, everyone in that city knew that they ...

Plot Summary: In the 1960s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 1980s, he is a broken, confused man under the 24-hour watch of shady therapist Dr. Eugene Landy. The film is presented in a parallel narrative covering these two specific time periods in Wilson's life. Director: Bill Pohlad Starring: Paul Dano John Cusack Elizabeth Banks Paul Giamatti ***SPOILER ALERT*** A Melodramatic but Affecting Biopic FREDDY: Yeah, I'm a sucker for music artists biographies and mental disorder films. This isn't the most amazing biopic out there; sometimes it can get a bit too melodramatic. But, it got me. I was very emo when the real Brian Wilson appeared at the end. My emo buzz got crushed pretty quick though, because my dear companion said the movie was complete boring crap when I asked her for ...

Cuban Fury is a 2014 romantic comedy film starring Nick Frost, Rashida Jones and Chris O'Dowd. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Fury 1987: A 13 year old natural born dancer with fire in his heels and snakes in his hips is working himself up to explode all over the UK Junior Salsa Championships. But then: a freakish bullying incident on the mean streets of London robs him of his confidence, and our young hero finds his life diverted down a very different path. So it is that 22 years later, an adult Bruce Garrett finds himself out-of-shape and unloved - trapped in a downward spiral of self-pity, repression and Nando's take-outs. Only Julia, his smart, funny, gorgeous new American boss, gives him reason to live. But she's untouchable. Out of his league, so he imagines, with her perfect smile and perfect life. Unknown to Bruce however, Julia has issues all of her own. Luckily for him, she also has a secret passion. source: http://www.imdb.com/title/t...

I Origins is a 2014 American science fiction drama film written, directed, and produced by Mike Cahill. The independent production premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014. It won the Best Feature Length Film Award at the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya on October 11th, 2014. During press interviews for the film, Cahill spoke of plans to go ahead with a sequel to I Origins, saying "There's a sequel in the works. It's not scripted. We're not in production yet, but we set up at Fox Searchlight". source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Origins A graduate student, Ian Gray, is researching the evolution of human eyes with Karen and Kenny, in order to discredit creationists by proving that eyes have evolved. Seven years later, when the hospital takes an iris scan of his son and enters into the database, they appear to match with another person's eyes, which suggested that their son may be some sort of rein...

Housebound is a 2014 New Zealand comedy horror film that was written and directed by Gerard Johnstone, and his feature film directorial debut. The film had its world premiere on March 10, 2014 at South by Southwest and stars Morgana O'Reilly as a woman sentenced to house arrest in a potentially haunted house. Johnstone was first inspired to create a horror film after watching Ghosthunters on television and received additional inspiration from classic films such as The Changeling and The Legend of Hell House. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housebound Kylie Bucknell is forced to return to the house she grew up in when the court places her on home detention. However, when she too becomes privy to unsettling whispers & strange bumps in the night, she begins to wonder whether she's inherited her overactive imagination, or if the house is in fact possessed by a hostile spirit who's less than happy about the new living arrangement. source: http://www.imd...