Interstellar

Interstellar

In some 60 odd years, the Earth has become a dry and dusty place. Some kind of biological crop killer has killed almost every product, and only corn remains.

On a small farm in a small town, we find Cooper, a former NASA pilot and an incredibly smart man who’s career has been reduced to farming (just like everyone else’s). They call themselves the caretaker generation as the world tries to sit tight, try to make as much food as possible, and hope the rain comes back next year.

But NASA knows it won’t.

When Cooper and his aspiring-scientist daughter Murph stumble upon a set of coordinates that lead them to a secret NASA base, Cooper’s old teacher Professor Brand, Brand’s daughter, and a collection of other leading scientists have a plan; a last ditch effort to try and save the human race. Just a few year’s distance away from Earth, near Saturn, a wormhole appeared 14 years ago; 10 years ago, NASA sent 12 astronauts through it to a distant galaxy with the hope that they would find a planet suitable for human life. There were a few promising finds, and now Cooper and his new crew must bring the supplies necessary to create human life on one of these planets, and hopefully, help find a way to bring those on Earth to their new home planet.

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X-Men: Days of Future Past

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The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.

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Director: Bryan Singer

Writer[s]: Simon Kinberg, Jane GoldmanMatthew Vaughn,

Starring: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas HoultPeter Dinklage, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Evan Peters

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2000’s X-Men might be the most important comic book movie ever made, in that it was the launching point for this generation of blockbuster comic book movies, which have been without a doubt the biggest genre of summer films for the past three or four years. After the original X-Men trilogy stumbled in it’s third and final installment [which seems to be the standard for comic book films now, with Spiderman 3 and Iron-Man 3 both scoring worse than their previous installments], the focus was switching towards individual hero films, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine was born to start the new trend. But after some early pirating troubles, rushed production, and other issues, the film was considered a failure, and the X-Men were looking wholly defeated. That was when another first was made: 2011’s X-Men: First Class. A prequel to the original trilogy, First Class found an entirely new cast, save Hugh Jackman, to play the same characters and bring all of the origin stories together into one film. And it worked. First Class is probably the best X-Men film to date. Finally, as people awaited a follow-up to First Class, people wondered how they would move forward in time towards when the original X-Men took place with this new cast. In one last final original, first-of-its-kind film, the creators of First Class combined the First Class cast with the original trilogy to create the biggest ensemble action/adventure film cast ever put together in: X-Men: Days of Future Past.

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Godzilla (2014)

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The world’s most famous monster is pitted against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity’s scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.

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Director: Gareth Edwards

Writer[s]: Max Borenstein, Dave Callaham

Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Ken Wantanabe, David Strathairn, Sally Hawkins

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Godzilla is an icon. While technically not being the first monster movie ever, it has got to be the most recognizable, and definitely the most practiced [this current film is the 29th (literally) film featuring the creature]. While being this popular, however, it has still never been truly modernized before this attempt, unless you want to include the atrocious slandering that was 1998’s Godzilla, but it would be best to soon forget that pile of garbage. It’s damn time we got a quality franchise film from the modern era, and that is what we have got ourselves here.

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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A day-dreamer escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker are threatened, he takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.

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Director: Ben Stiller

Writer[s]: Steve Conrad

Starring: Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Shirley MacLaine, Kathryn Hahn, Sean Penn

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, originally a short story written by James Thurber and appearing in The New Yorker, which was also made into a movie in 1947, has been floating around Hollywood for almost 20 years. It was very nearly made in the mid 90’s with Jim Carrey set to star and Ron Howard set to direct, but it was never finalized. And now in the past few years, with several actors eyed for the role of Walter Mitty, including Jim Carrey again, Owen Wilson, Mike Meyers, and Sascha Baron Cohen [who was actually offered the role]. Over time, Ben Stiller was given the role, and even became director after Gore Verbinski backed out.

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The Wolverine

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When Wolverine is summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, he is embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHG5emr77Ds

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Director: James Mangold

Writer[s]: Mark Bomback, Scott Frank

Starring: Hugh Jackman, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Brian Tee, Hal Yamanouchi, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Will Yun Lee

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With the total dominance of film the past few summers that is Marvel, it’s hard to imagine one franchise being as big as The Avengers and all of their individual films that has been going on as long. Well, actually, there is one: one character that has been in five films before 2013; one actor that has reprised a comic book role for over ten years, longer than the zombie and vampire fad that swept through television and film, and longer than the entire Harry Potter series. As you clearly know by the review you’re reading, I’m talking about Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. This is his sixth appearance as Wolverine, starting with X-Men in 2000, and ending [?] with 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Jackman has been a staple and an example for all of comic book films in our generation, and he finally has his own standalone film set in the present.

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