Bad Santa 2 (2016)*

badsanta2feat — BS2-17603_CROP (l-r) Billy Bob Thornton stars as Willie Soke and Tony Cox as Marcus Skidmore in BAD SANTA 2, a Broad Green Pictures and MIRAMAX release. Credit: Jan Thijs / Broad Green Pictures / Miramax

Title: Bad Santa 2
Rating: R
Directed by: Mark Waters
Written by: Johnny Rosenthal and Shauna Cross
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Tony Cox and Christina Hendricks
Release Date: 11/23/2016
Running Time: 92 minutes

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What did you think of this film?
Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? Yes

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Pictures of Marcus being tea-bagged by Willie are shown.

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Lion (2016)*

Title: Lion
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Garth Davis
Written by: Luke Davies
Based on the novel by: Saroo Brierley and Larry Buttrose
Starring: Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel
Release Date: 11/25/2016
Running Time: 120 minutes

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What did you think of this film?
In LION, five-year-old Saroo (Sunny Pawar) gets lost on a train traveling away from his home and family. Frightened and bewildered, he ends up thousands of miles away, in chaotic Kolkata. Somehow he survives living on the streets, escaping all sorts of terrors and close calls in the process, before ending up in an orphanage that is itself not exactly a safe haven. Eventually Saroo is adopted by an Australian couple (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham), and finds love and security as he grows up in Hobart. As an adult, not wanting to hurt his adoptive parents’ feelings, Saroo (Dev Patel) suppresses his past, his emotional need for reunification and his hope of ever finding his lost mother and brother. But a chance meeting with some fellow Indians reawakens his buried yearning. Armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, Saroo sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? Yes

after the credits

The scene where Guddu is riding on top of the coal train as it emerges from a tunnel is shown again followed by the dedication “In loving memory of Guddu”

Is this stinger worth waiting around for? Yes (-2 rating, 2 votes)
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Dedication: In loving memory of Guddu

Allied (2016)

alliedfeat — Brad Pitt plays Max Vatan and Marion Cotillard plays Marianne Beausejour in Allied from Paramount Pictures.

Title: Allied
Rating: R
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Written by: Steven Knight
Starring: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Lizzy Caplan and Matthew Goode
Release Date: 11/23/2016
Running Time: 124 minutes

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What did you think of this film?
The story of intelligence officer Max Vatan (Pitt), who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beauséjour (Cotillard) on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Reunited in London, their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressures of the war.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Rules Don’t Apply (2016)

Title: Rules Don’t Apply
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Warren Beatty
Written by: Warren Beatty and Bo Goldman
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Haley Bennett, Candice Bergen, Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, Lily Collins, Steve Coogan, Alden Ehrenreich, Taissa Farmiga, Ed Harris, Megan Hilty, Oliver Platt and Martin Sheen
Release Date: 11/23/2016
Running Time: 126 minutes

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What did you think of this film?
An aspiring young actress (Lily Collins) and her ambitious young driver (Alden Ehrenreich) struggle hopefully with the absurd eccentricities of the wildly unpredictable billionaire Howard Hughes (Warren Beatty) for whom they work. It’s Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen, songwriter, and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey (Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes (Ehrenreich), who is engaged to be married to his 7th grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist.

Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes’ #1 rule: no employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes’ behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Mifune: The Last Samurai (2015)?

Title: Mifune: The Last Samurai
Rating: NR
Directed by: Steven Okazaki
Written by: Stuart Galbraith IV and Steven Okazaki
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Wataru Akashi, Kyôko Kagawa and Takeshi Katô
Release Date: 11/25/2016
Running Time: 80 minutes

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What did you think of this film?
A feature-length documentary about the life and films of legendary actor Toshiro Mifune, weaving together film clips, archival stills, and interviews with such luminaries as Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. Narrated by Keanu Reeves.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? Unknown

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Is this stinger worth waiting around for? Yes (-1 rating, 1 votes)
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Take, The (2016)

Title: The Take (aka. Bastille Day)
Rating: R
Directed by: James Watkins
Written by: Andrew Baldwin and James Watkins
Starring: Idris Elba, Richard Madden and Charlotte Le Bon
Release Date: 11/18/2016
Running Time: 82 minutes

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What did you think of this film?
A young con artist and former CIA agent embark on an anti-terrorist mission in France.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Frank for this submission

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Title: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: David Yates
Written by: J.K. Rowling
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Carmen Ejogo and Colin Farrell
Release Date: 11/18/2016
Running Time: 133 minutes

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What did you think of this film?
There are growing dangers in the wizarding world of 1926 New York. Something mysterious is leaving a path of destruction in the streets, threatening to expose the wizarding community to the No-Majs (American for Muggles), including the Second Salemers, a fanatical faction bent on eradicating them. And the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, after wreaking havoc in Europe, has slipped away…and is now nowhere to be found.

Unaware of the rising tensions, Newt Scamander arrives in the city nearing the end of a global excursion to research and rescue magical creatures, some of which are safeguarded in the magical hidden dimensions of his deceptively nondescript leather case. But potential disaster strikes when unsuspecting No-Maj Jacob Kowalski inadvertently lets some of Newt’s beasts loose in a city already on edge—a serious breach of the Statute of Secrecy that former Auror Tina Goldstein jumps on, seeing her chance to regain her post as an investigator. However, things take an ominous turn when Percival Graves, the enigmatic Director of Magical Security at MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), casts his suspicions on both Newt…and Tina.

Now allied, Newt and Tina, together with Tina’s sister, Queenie, and their new No-Maj friend, Jacob, form a band of unlikely heroes, who must recover Newt’s missing beasts before they come to harm. But the stakes are higher than these four outsiders—now branded fugitives—ever imagined, as their mission puts them on a collision course with dark forces that could push the wizarding and No-Maj worlds to the brink of war.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

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Bleed for This (2016)*

bleedforthisfeat — BFT-D25-212 (Left to right) Ciaran Hinds, Miles Teller and Aaron Eckhart in BLEED FOR THIS. Photo credit: Seacia Pavao / Distributor: Open Road Films

Title: Bleed for This
Rating: R
Directed by: Ben Younger
Written by: Ben Younger, Angelo Pizzo and Pippa Bianco
Starring: Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart and Katey Sagal
Release Date: 11/18/2016
Running Time: 116 minutes

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After cocky Rhode Island boxer Vinny Pazienza (Miles Teller) takes a brutal beating from Junior Welterweight Champion Roger Mayweather in 1988, fight promoter Lou Duva (Ted Levine) urges him to retire. Instead, Pazienza moves up two weight classes under the guidance of his shrewd new trainer Kevin Rooney (Aaron Eckhart). Rooney’s radical strategy pays off when Pazienza, 14 pounds heavier, takes down French boxer Gilbert Delé in front of a hometown crowd to become Super Middleweight champion of the world.

Pazienza doesn’t have much time to relish the victory, however. Shortly after the bout, a head-on car crash leaves him with a broken neck. Initially told he may never walk again, doctors recommend spinal fusion surgery that would guarantee mobility but effectively end his boxing career. Pazienza chooses the far riskier “halo” spine-stabilization treatment, requiring him to wear a circular metal brace screwed directly into his skull for six months.

Recovering in the modest home he shares with his fiercely devoted father Angelo (Ciarán Hinds) and anxious mother Louise (Katey Sagal), Pazienza secretly starts weight training in the basement with the help of a reluctant Rooney, and begins to rebound emotionally as well as physically. Thirteen months after the accident, the man fondly known as “The Pazmanian Devil” returns to the ring to do battle with Super Middleweight Champion Roberto Duran (Edwin Rodriguez) in the biggest fight of his life.

What did you think of this film?

During Credits? Yes

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Video clips from documentaries and news/sports programs featuring Vinny and his halo are shown.

After Credits? No

Is this stinger worth waiting around for? Yes (-1 rating, 1 votes)
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Manchester by the Sea (2016)

Title: Manchester by the Sea
Rating: R
Directed by: Kenneth Lonergan
Written by: Kenneth Lonergan
Starring: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Gretchen Mol and C.J. Wilson
Release Date: 11/18/2016
Running Time: 137 minutes

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After the death of his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler), Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is shocked to learn that Joe has made him sole guardian of his nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges). Taking leave of his job, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea to care for Patrick, a spirited 15-year-old, and is forced to deal with a past that separated him from his wife Randi (Michelle Williams) and the community where he was born and raised. Bonded by the man who held their family together, Lee and Patrick struggle to adjust to a world without him.

What did you think of this film?

During Credits? No

After Credits? No

Nocturnal Animals (2016)

nocturnalanimalsfeat — Amy Adams stars as Susan Morrow in Tom Ford’s NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, a Focus Features release Credit: Merrick Morton / Focus Features

Title: Nocturnal Animals
Rating: R
Directed by: Tom Ford
Written by: Tom Ford
Based on the novel by: Austin Wright
Starring: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon
Release Date: 12/9/2016
Running Time: 117 minutes

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Susan Morrow (portrayed by Ms. Adams) lives an incredibly privileged yet unfulfilled life with her husband Hutton Morrow (Armie Hammer). One weekend, as Hutton departs on one of his too-frequent business trips, Susan receives an unsolicited package that has been left in her mailbox. It is a novel, Nocturnal Animals, written by her ex-husband Edward Sheffield (Mr. Gyllenhaal), with whom she has had no contact for years. Edward’s note accompanying the manuscript encourages Susan to read the work and then to contact him during his visit to the city. Alone at night, in bed, Susan begins reading. The novel is dedicated to her…

…but its content is violent and devastating, as Edward tells the tale of Tony Hastings (also portrayed by Mr. Gyllenhaal). Driving across a lonely stretch of Texas one night, Tony and his family are harassed by a trio of joyriders, and forced off the road into a confrontation initiated by the gang’s ringleader, the disturbingly insinuating Ray Marcus (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). Tony is all but powerless to act as his family is kidnapped and he is left stranded. When day breaks, Tony manages to reach the police for help, and laconic Lieutenant Bobby Andes (Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon) takes on the case. Andes forges a strong connection with the distraught Tony, and dedicates himself to pursuing the suspects once Tony’s worst fears are realized…

Moved by Edward’s writing, Susan cannot help but reminisce over the most private moments from her own love story with the author. Trying to look within herself and beyond the glossy surface of the life and career that she has made, Susan increasingly interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and re-awakens a love that she feared was lost – as the story builds to a reckoning that will define both the novel’s hero and her own.

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After Credits? No

Dedication: FOR RICHARD AND JACK

Chris

Bad Santa 2 (2016)*

Lion (2016)*

Allied (2016)

Rules Don’t Apply (2016)

Mifune: The Last Samurai (2015)?

Take, The (2016)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Bleed for This (2016)*

Manchester by the Sea (2016)

Nocturnal Animals (2016)

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