Poolman (2023)

Title: Poolman
Rating: R
Directed by: Chris Pine
Written by: Chris Pine and Ian Gotler
Starring: Chris Pine, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Danny DeVito, Annette Bening, Aflamu Johnson, Stephen Tobolowsky, and John Ortiz
Release Date: 5/9/2024
Running Time: 100 minutes

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What did you think of this film?

Darren Barrenman is an unwavering optimist and native Angeleno who spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting to make his hometown a better place to live.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Frank, Michael, Dan, and Tony for this submission

Georgetown (2019)

Title: Georgetown
Rating: R
Directed by: Christoph Waltz
Written by: David Auburn
Starring: Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave, and Annette Bening
Release Date: 5/14/2012
Running Time: 99 minutes

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Ulrich Mott, an ambitious social climber, marries a wealthy widow in Washington D.C. in order to mix with powerful political players.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Hope Gap (2019)

Title: Hope Gap
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: William Nicholson
Written by: William Nicholson
Starring: Bill Nighy, Annette Bening, and Josh O’Connor
Release Date: 6/12/2020
Running Time: 100 minutes

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A couple’s visit with their son takes a dramatic turn when the father tells him he plans on leaving his mother.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Frank for this submission

Report, The (2019)

Title: The Report
Rating: R
Directed by: Scott Z. Burns
Written by: Scott Z. Burns
Starring: Adam Driver, Annette Bening, and Jon Hamm
Release Date: 11/15/2019
Running Time: 119 minutes

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What did you think of this film?

Based on actual events, idealistic staffer Daniel J. Jones (Adam Driver) is tasked by his boss Senator Dianne Feinstein (Annette Bening) to lead an investigation of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program, which was created in the aftermath of 9/11. Jones’ relentless pursuit of the truth leads to explosive findings that uncover the lengths to which the nation’s top intelligence agency went to destroy evidence, subvert the law, and hide a brutal secret from the American public.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Note: The credits include the real-life committee members and staffers who commissioned the torture report.

Special thanks to Frank and Gabe for this submission

Captain Marvel (2019)*

Title: Captain Marvel
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
Written by: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, and Geneva Robertson-Dworet
Starring: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Rune Temte, Algenis Perez Soto, Mckenna Grace, Annette Bening, Clark Gregg, and Jude Law
Release Date: 3/8/2019
Running Time: 123.5 minutes

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Set in the 1990s, Marvel Studios’ “Captain Marvel” is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that follows the journey of Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes. While a galactic war between two alien races reaches Earth, Danvers finds herself and a small cadre of allies at the center of the maelstrom.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? Yes

during the credits

We see Fury’s pager on some platform with the Captain Marvel symbol flashing. Then we cut to Captain America with a beard watching “missing” reports (as a result of the decimation) with Black Widow, he says what’s happened is like a nightmare, to which Black Widow says that she’s had better nightmares. James Rhodes comes in says that the thing (pager) has stopped flashing. They all gather around the pager, Rhodey says that it just stopped, Captain America says to reboot it and try again, Rhodey replies that they didn’t know what it did in the first place. Black Widow says that Fury knew what it did and they should just try again. The camera pans and we see Captain Marvel behind her asking: “Where’s Fury”. Also, near the end we see the text: Captain Marvel will return in Avengers: Endgame

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? Yes

after the credits

The camera shows Nick Fury’s desk from the end of the movie, Goose the cat jumps onto it, then starts regurgitating as if throwing out a fur ball, then it regurgitates the Tesseract.

Is this stinger worth waiting around for? Yes (No Ratings Yet)
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Memoriam: IN MEMORY OF
MAJOR STEPHEN “CAJUN” DEL BAGNO,THUNDERBIRD 4

Special thanks to auswar3ft for this submission

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Life Itself (2018)

Title: Life Itself
Rating: R
Directed by: Dan Fogelman
Written by: Dan Fogelman
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Olivia Cooke, Sergio Peris- Mencheta, Laia Costa, Alex Monner, and Mandy Patinkin
Release Date: 9/21/2018
Running Time: 118 minutes

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What did you think of this film?
As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes in Life Itself. Director and writer Dan Fogelman (“This Is Us”) examines the perils and rewards of everyday life in a multigenerational saga. Set in New York City and Carmona, Spain, Life Itself celebrates the human condition and all of its complications with humor, poignancy and love.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Michael for this submission

Seagull, The (2018)

Title: The Seagull
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Michael Mayer
Written by: Stephen Karam
Based on the play by: Anton Chekhov
Starring: Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Corey Stoll, Elisabeth Moss, Mare Winningham, Jon Tenney, Glenn Fleshler, Michael Zegen, Billy Howle, and Brian Dennehy
Release Date: 5/11/2018
Running Time: 98 minutes

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One summer at a lakeside Russian estate, friends and family gather for a weekend in the countryside. While everyone is caught up in passionately loving someone who loves somebody else, a tragicomedy unfolds about art, fame, human folly, and the eternal desire to live a purposeful life.

The estate is owned by Sorin (Brian Dennehy), a retired government employee, and his sister Irina (Annette Bening), a legendary actress of the Moscow stage. Irina is imperious, narcissistic and selfish, and anxious about holding on to her star status and the affections of her younger lover, Boris Trigorin (Corey Stoll), a successful writer of short stories. Irina constantly belittles her aspiring writer son Konstantin (Billy Howle), perhaps because his existence as a grown man reminds her that age is catching up with her. While he adores his mother despite her cruelty, Konstantin acts out his insecurity and anger by rejecting both her style of theatre and Boris’s writing, declaring them old-fashioned and banal. A dreamer, Konstantin declares he will create bold and superior new forms of theatre and literature.

Konstantin, who grew up on the estate, is head over heels in love with Nina (Saoirse Ronan), a beautiful and naïve local girl who dreams of being an actress. Nina is flattered when Konstantin gives her the starring role in his newly written play, but soon after encountering Boris, she rejects Konstantin, and pursues the handsome and famous writer instead.

Masha (Elisabeth Moss), the forlorn, black-clad, self-medicating daughter of Sorin’s estate manager Shamrayev (Glenn Fleshler) and his wife Polina (Mare Winningham), suffers an unrequited love for Konstantin, who insensitively spurns her. She scorns the insipid schoolteacher Medvedenko (Michael Zegen), who refuses to be discouraged by her rejection and accepts any crumbs of attention she drops him. Polina aches for the charismatic country doctor Dorn (Jon Tenney), who, pays her some attention, but still relishes the connection with Irina with whom he had an affair years ago. The elderly Sorin, long past any hope of romance, lives in a languid state of regret over roads not taken.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Special thanks to Frank for this submission

Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (2017)

Title: Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Rating: R
Directed by: Paul McGuigan
Written by: Matt Greenhalgh
Based on the memoir by: Peter Turner
Starring: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Kenneth Cranham, Vanessa Redgrave, and Stephen Graham
Release Date: 11/16/2017
Running Time: 105 minutes

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What did you think of this film?
The film follows the playful but passionate relationship between Turner (Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award®-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Bening) in 1978 Liverpool. What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort. Their passion and lust for life is tested to the limits by events beyond their control.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

20th Century Women (2016)

Title: 20th Century Women
Rating: R
Directed by: Mike Mills
Written by: Mike Mills
Starring: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Lucas Jade Zumann and Billy Crudup.
Release Date: 1/20/2017
Running Time: 118 minutes

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What did you think of this film?
Set in Santa Barbara, the film follows Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening), a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie (newcomer Lucas Jade Zumann, in a breakout performance) at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women in Jamie’s upbringing – via Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields’ home, and Julie (Elle Fanning), a savvy and provocative teenage neighbor.

Are There Any Extras During The Credits? No

Are There Any Extras After The Credits? No

Note: at the very end of the credits we see the text “J.M. + K.M. + M.A. + M.J. + H.M.”.

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

Tag: Annette Bening

Poolman (2023)

Georgetown (2019)

Hope Gap (2019)

Report, The (2019)

Captain Marvel (2019)*

Life Itself (2018)

Seagull, The (2018)

Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (2017)

20th Century Women (2016)

Rules Don’t Apply (2016)

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