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PROMISED LAND

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Gus Van Sant Stars: Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski, Hal Holbrook, Rosemarie De Witt, Titus Welliver, Tim Guinee, Lucas Black, John Coyle, Scoot McNairy. Josh Fox’s eye-opening Oscar-nominated 2010 documentary Gasland explored the frightening environmental impact of “fracking”, a controversial hydraulic process used by energy giant Halliburton in digging [...]

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THE BOURNE LEGACY

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Tony Gilroy Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Denis Boutsikaris, Donna Murphy, Stacy Keach, Scott Glenn, Michael Chernus, Oscar Isaac, Zeljko Ivanek, Corey Stoll, David Strathairn, Joan Allen, Albert Finney, Paddy Considine, Shane Jacobson. This is the fourth film in the popular series about Jason Bourne, the amnesiac rogue [...]

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MARGARET

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Kenneth Lonergan Stars: Anna Paquin, J Cameron Smith , Jean Reno, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Damon, Matthew Broderick, Jeannie Berlin, Kieran Culkin, Alison Janney. Margaret is another post 9/11 drama that explores complex issues of right and wrong, guilt and justice, retribution, and is almost operatic in its structure. Lisa Cohen [...]

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HAPPY FEET TWO

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: George Miller Stars: voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Alecia (pink) Moore, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Common, Sofia Vergara, Hugo Weaving, Richard Carter, Magda Szubanski, Anthony La Paglia, Ava Acres, Benjamin Flores jr. George Miller (Mad Max, etc) returns to the snow covered climes of Antarctica and the [...]

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WE BOUGHT A ZOO

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Cameron Crowe Stars: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Colin Ford, Thomas haden Church, Elle Fanning, Patrick Fugit, Angus Macfadyen, Elizabeth Jones, John Michael Higgins, Peter Riegert.   We Bought A Zoo is a wonderfully saccharine, sweet, cliched and family friendly drama from Cameron Crowe, the former Rolling Stone journalist turned filmmaker, [...]

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CONTAGION

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Steven Soderbergh Stars: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bryan Cranston, Elliott Gould, Jennifer Ehle, Demetri Martin, John Hawkes, Larry Clarke, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Enrico Colantani. Steven Soderbergh flits back and forth between his low budget, independent and more experimental films like The Girlfriend [...]

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THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: George Nolfi Stars: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, John Slattery, Terence Stamp, Anthony Mackie, Michael Kelly, Shoreh Aghdashloo.   There have been some great movies based on stories written by prolific, Hugo-Award winning sci-fi writer Phillip K Dick – Minority Report, Total Recall, the animated A Scanner Darkly, and of course [...]

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HEREAFTER

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Clint Eastwood Stars: Matt Damon, Cecile de France, Frankie McLaren, George McLaren, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jay Mohr, Richard Kind, Derek Jacobi. Even at the age of 80 Clint Eastwood is certainly one of the most prolific directors still working at the moment, and he continue to defy attempts to pigeonhole [...]

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