FILM CHALLENGE: 136) Exam

136) ExamDirector: Stuart HazeldineYear: 2009Plot Summary: Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a windowless room, an Invigilator gives them eighty minutes...

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FILM CHALLENGE: 135) All The President's Men

135) All The President's MenDirector: Alan J. PakulaYear: 1976Plot Summary: Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation.Released only two years after the Watergate scandal...

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FILM CHALLENGE: 134) The Town

134) The TownDirector: Ben AffleckYear: 2010Plot Summary: Doug MacRay was born and raised in Charlestown, a blue-collar neighborhood in Boston, where crime is a part of life. Charlestown is the world's capital for carjacking, kidnappings, and armed robberies....

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FILM CHALLENGE: 133) Aliens

133) AliensDirector: James CameronYear: 1986Plot Summary: After Ellen Ripley survived her disastrous ordeal nobody believed her story about the aliens on the planet LV-426. However, approximately 50 years later, the colony was completely destroyed. The...

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FILM CHALLENGE: 132) Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex

132) Everything You Always Wanted To Know About SexDirector: Woody AllenYear: 1972Plot Summary: Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex by David Reuben.While...

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FILM CHALLENGE: 131) The Wrestler

131) The WrestlerDirector: Darren AronofskyYear: 2008Plot Summary: A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.A thumping 80s soundtrack and the roar of audiences complement a...

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Predicting The Oscars 2011: Best Actor

Best Actor In A Leading RoleJeff Bridges - True GritJim Broadbent - Another YearRobert Duvall - Get LowColin Firth - The King's SpeechMark Wahlberg - The FighterWith Jeff Bridges still fresh in everyone's memory for winning the award last year in Crazy...

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FILM CHALLENGE: 130) The Tenant

130) The TenantDirector: Roman PolanskiYear: 1976Plot Summary: A quiet and inconspicuous man (Trelkovsky) rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly...

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FILM CHALLENGE: 129) Paris, Texas

129) Paris, TexasDirector: Wim WendersYear: 1984Plot Summary: A man wanders out in the desert not knowing who he is until his brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his wife and son four years...

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FILM CHALLENGE: 128) Exit Through The Gift Shop

128) Exit Through The Gift ShopDirector: BanksyYear: 2010Plot Summary: Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post—hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely...

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FILM CHALLENGE: 127) The Damned United

127) The Damned UnitedDirector: Tom HooperYear: 2009Plot Summary: A look at one of the most successful managers in Britain, Brian Clough, who took Derby County to Division One and later risked his career in a turbulent 44-day reign as the coach of Leeds...

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FILM CHALLENGE: 126) Made In Dagenham

126) Made In DagenhamDirector: Nigel ColeYear: 2010Plot Summary: A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.Made In Dagenham is not a work of art by any...

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And the winner at TIFF is...

For the last three years, the winner of the Toronto Film Festival has either gone on to either be one of the biggest movies during award's season or has actually picked up the top prizes.Last year, the hard-hitting drama Precious won the TIFF's People Choice Award and later found itself nominated in many of the big categories at both the Oscars and the Golden Globes. Moreover, Danny Boyle's movie...

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End Of The Month Review - August To September

Top 10 Films Of The Month 10. In The Loop Director:Armando Ianucci Year:2009 My review:"Not only the single sharpest political satire that has graced the big screen since Dr. Strangelove, but it's also one of the funniest movies that recent cinema has...

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