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April 12, 2024

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

Paramount Pictures released Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit on January 17, 2014. Kenneth Branagh directed the film starring Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, and Keira Knightley.

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September 4, 2023

Star Trek Beyond (2016)

Paramount Pictures released Star Trek Beyond on July 22, 2016. Justin Lin directed the film starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Karl Urban.

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November 25, 2021

Rise of the Guardians (2012)

Jack Frost awakens from a frozen pond with amnesia. He has no recollection of how he got there.

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December 29, 2020

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

The golden lasso is back after gestating through almost a year of movie release hell.

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December 26, 2020

Film and Plot Synopsis In this second installment to the Wonder Woman film series, Diana lives amongst the population of the world in 1984. Now an anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., Diane encounters an ancient artifact that has the power to grant the most desired wish of anyone who touches it. She also becomes friends with the timid and insecure Barbara Ann Minerva. When Diana touches the artifact and restores her one true love, Steve Trevor, to life, she also discovers that the wish also comes at a cost…Diana’s strength and power. However, will Diana choose to have a life with Steve or to continue to be Wonder Woman? ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Movie Summary The summary below contains spoilers. The film begins with a flashback to when Diana Prince (Lilly Aspell) is a young girl on Themyscira Island. Diana is competing in a multi-stage athletic competition against much older Amazons and holding her own. Diana takes a short cut during one of the competitions and is subsequently disqualified. Queen Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen), Diana’s mother, and Antiope (Robin Wright), Diana’s aunt, lecture her on the importance of truth. The film then flashes forward to 1984, sixty-six years after …

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April 27, 2020

Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

In the year 2259, Captain James T. Kirk is demoted and removed from command of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise after he violates the Federation’s Prime Directive.

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April 2, 2020

Star Trek (2009)

In the 23rd Century, the U.S.S. Kelvin investigates what their sensors indicates is a lighting storm in space.

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March 15, 2020

Z for Zachariah (2015)

Film and Plot Synopsis Z for Zachariah takes place in the wake of a nuclear war. A young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly been driven mad by radiation exposure and his desperate search for others. A fragile, imperative strand of trust connects them. But when a stranger enters the valley, their precarious bond begins to unravel. ‘Z for Zachariah’ Movie Summary The summary below contains spoilers. In Z for Zachariah, Ann Burden (Margot Robbie) is a survivor of a nuclear holocaust that has wiped out virtually all of mankind on Earth. She lives on her family farm which is in a valley surrounded by mountains. The valley is protected from the nuclear radiation by the rocky hillsides, favorable weather patterns, and a large ground water supply. One day Ann encounters the first person that she has seen in months. The man, John Loomis (Chiwetel Ejiofor), is an engineer who has traveled the wasteland looking for a safe place to rest. John has been able to survive the wasteland with the assistance …

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October 7, 2018

Hell or High Water (2016)

2016’s Hell or High Water is a present day take on the western film genre; complete with bank robbers, wise-cracking Rangers, gun fights, cowboys, Indians, casinos, and small towns.

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