The Other Guys

Detectivii newyorkezi Gamble şi Hoitz (Will Ferrell şi Mark Wahlberg) sunt condamnaţi la... o viaţă de birou. Se urăsc unul pe celălalt şi detestă monotonia slubjelor lor nesemnificative, mai ales că sunt forţaţi să trăiască în umbra a doi dintre cei mai mari şi mai tari poliţişti din oraş (Samuel L. Jackson şi Dwayne Johnson). Dar atunci când aceşti tipi duri refuză un caz, Gamble şi Hoitz văd în el o oportunitate. Acum, că au dat peste una dintre cele mai mari crime din ultima vreme, vor fi aceşti agenţi de rezervă în stare să rezolve cazul, fără să se omoare unul pe altul şi fără să distrugă întreg oraşul?
Simpatic filmul, dar plin de momente de retardati :))

Nota: 8/10

The Other Guys

Terry Hoitz's past mistakes in the line of duty and Allen Gamble's reluctance to take risks have landed them the roles of the "Other Guys", disgraced New York City police detectives relegated to filling out paperwork for cocky hero cops Danson and Highsmith. The mismatched duo must look past their differences when they take on a high-profile investigation of shady capitalist David Ershon and attempt to fill the shoes of the notoriously reckless officers they idolize.

Tower Heist

Ben Stiller şi Eddie Murphy sunt protagoniştii acestei comedii despre nişte simpli angajaţi la un complex luxos de apartamente care pun la cale un plan pentru a se răzbuna pe un escroc miliardar de pe Wall Street care le-a furat fondul de pensii.  De mai mult de 10 ani, Josh Kovacs (Stiller) e managerul unuia din cele mai luxoase complexuri de locuinţe din New York City. Maniac al supravegherii angajaţilor, şi nu numai, nu-i scapă nimic din ce se petrece acolo. În cel mai opulent apartament de la ultimul etaj al clădirii stă Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda), un mogul al finanţelor, acum arestat la domiciliu după ce a fost prins că a furat două miliarde din banii investitorilor.  Cei mai loviţi de escrocheria lui sunt, evident, angajaţii complexului, care au lăsat pe mâna lui administrarea fondului lor de pensii. În doar câteva zile Arthur e posibil să dispară şi să scape cu mâinile curate din ceea ce el consideră a fi “crima perfectă”. Aşa că e grabă mare pentru angajaţi să-şi pună în aplicare marele lor plan: vor să fure ceea ce ei sunt convinşi că se ascunde în apartamentului lui Arthur, şi anume... banii lor. Nefiind hoţi de profesie, au nevoie de unul care se pricepe, totuşi. Dar singurul pe care îl găsesc e doar un pungaş de doi bani - Slide (Murphy). Deşi amatori într-ale jafului, angajaţii sunt, însă, foarte buni la ceva: cunosc ca pe propriul buzunar clădirea.
Criminala vocea lui Casey Affleck !

Nota: 9/10

Tower Heist

Josh Kovacs is the manager of a residential apartment in New York. He is close to all the tenants, especially Arthur Shaw, a financier. One day Shaw is arrested by the FBI for fraud. Josh thinks it's a misunderstanding that can be resolved. But later he learns that the employees' pension fund which he asked Shaw to handle is gone. When one of the employees tries to kill himself, Josh's views of Shaw change. He goes to see him and loses his temper. He loses his job. The FBI agent in charge of Shaw tells him that Shaw might walk and recovering the pension fund is unlikely. She tells him that it's been rumored that Shaw has $20 million lying around if he needs it in a hurry. Josh thinks he knows where it is. So with two other employees who also lost their jobs and an evicted tenant, they set out to get into Shaw's penthouse to get the money. But they realize they need the assistance of someone who knows how to steal. So Josh asks a guy he knows is a thief named Slide to help them.

The Ledge

Filmul spune povestea unui barbat, care ameninta ca se va arunca de pe o cladire inalta, in timp ce un politist incearca sa tina situatia sub control.. filmul este destul de ok gandit cap-coada sau de fapt coada-cap, finalul deloc previzibil si cu un destin tragic

Nota: 10/10

The Ledge

A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills. Ultimately, as a test of faith, or lack of it, the believer forces the non-believer onto the ledge of a tall building. He then has one hour to make a choice between his own life and someone else's. Without faith in an afterlife, will he be capable of such a sacrifice?

The Killer Inside Me

Deşi pare calm, răbdător şi chiar plicticos, Lou Ford ascunde un secret întunecat şi sumbru, care îşi are rădăcinile în copilarie şi care îl transformă din când în când dintr-un om al legii într-un criminal sociopat şi maniac. În adolescenţă, Lou a abuzat sexual o fată şi a fost pe punctul de a fi trimis la închisoare pentru această infracţiune, însă fratele său adoptat pe nume Mike a luat vina asupra lui şi l-a salvat de ruşine. În prezent, Lou Ford are o relaţie amoroasă stabilă cu profesoara Amy Stanton, ceea ce nu îl împiedică să se implice într-o aventură de tip sado-masochist cu prostituata Joyce Lakeland. Atunci când bestia din el începe să ucidă oameni fără discriminare, este responsabilitatea unui procuror local să-l demaşte pe Lou Ford ca fiind un criminal psihopat.
Finalul mi s-a parut foarte interesant si bine gandit de scenaristi.

Nota: 8/10

The Killer Inside Me

Sadism and masochism beneath a veneer of revenge. Lou Ford is a mild-mannered sheriff's deputy in a Texas oil town in the mid 1950's. His boss sends him to roust a prostitute living in a rural house. She slaps him; he hits her, then, after daily sex for the next few weeks, he decides it's love. She's devoted to him and becomes his pawn in a revenge plot she thinks is to shakedown the son of Chester Conway, the town's wealthy king of construction. Lou has a different plan, and bodies pile up as murder leads to murder. The district attorney suspects Lou, and Conway may have an inkling, but Lou stays cool. Is love, or at least peace, in the cards?

The Soloist

Un film cu 2 actori faini, dar cu o nota cam mica, mult prea mica pe IMDB ... Filmul surprinde viata unui scriitor de articole in ziar, care la randul lui scrie o poveste interesanta despre un om bolnav, dar foarte talentat. Filmul este foarte touching prin prisma povestii, poate parea previzibil de la inceput insa mie mi-a dat povestea peste cap :))

Nota: 9/10

The Soloist

In 2005, the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez more than his face from a recent bike accident was his pressing need for story ideas. That is when he discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a mentally ill, homeless street musician who possesses extraordinary talent, even through his half-broken instruments. Inspired by his story, Lopez writes an acclaimed series of articles about Ayers and attempts to do more to help both him and the rest of the underclass of LA have a better life. However, Lopez's good intentions run headlong in the hard realities of the strength of Ayers' personal demons and the larger social injustices facing the homeless. Regardless, Lopez and Ayers must find a way to conquer their deepest anxieties and frustrations to hope for a brighter future for both of them.

24 - Redemption

24 de fapt este un serial superb de actiune in care Kiefer Sutherland joaca impecabil. Filmul intervine intre sezoanele 6 si 7 si se spune ca e destul de important in tranzitia dintre cele 2 sezoane. Nu dureaza mult, surprinzator gandindu-te ca serialul are 24 de episoade a cate 45 de minute fiecare, bineinteles, actiunea fiind una mult mai complexa, ideea insa fiind atinsa foarte bine pentru zona in care s-a implicat, Africa si copiii exploatati dupa bunul plac...

Nota: 9/10

24 - Redemption

Set 18 months where Season 6 of '24' left off, former government agent Jack Bauer is in a self-imposed exile in the fictitious African country of Sangala where he hopes to escape from a U.S. investigation of him for his past methods, and to run from his past. Bauer works at a mission school for orphaned children run by his friend Carl Benton. The country is at the mercy of a rogue warlord general named Juma who is plotting a coup to overthrow the government and his right-hand man Colonel Dubaku, is abducting orphan boys and forcibly recruiting them into Juma's army. Bauer and Benton must work together to save the dozen or so boys and try to get them out of the country before Juma takes over. Meanwhile in Washington D.C., it is Inauguration Day where the outgoing President Noah Daniels is handing over the presidency to the first female president Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones). Hearing about the coup, Daniels wants to evacuate the country before it falls to the rogue general, while Taylor thinks otherwise. Elsewhere, Taylor's son Roger and his fiancée Samantha get wind of information from a friend about suspicious money transactions where he works at a local brokerage firm. But neither he or Roger are aware that a corrupt corporate mogul, Jonas Hodges, is plotting with General Juma to overthrow the government for monetary purposes and will do anything to keep his nefarious plans under wraps

Silver Linings Playbook

Un film de Oscar (ca tot sunt premiile in seara asta) care-ti ofera mai multe perspective din care poti privi filmul, implicit actiunea, Uitandu-ma cu alta persoana, (Hello Bogdana) am impartit pareri diferite, eu aveam impresia ca ei sunt personajele despre care chiar vorbesc, ea crezand ca ei impreuna se vindeca de nebunia lor, deznodamantul il puteti vedea la final, ideea e ca devine previzibil de la jumatate incolo. Ideea e draguta pentru ca imbina chiar ok dramatismul si nebunia lor cu momente comice la care nu te astepti.. (la final pe ring) :)))). Inclusiv titlul filmului este destul de interesant si urmeaza a fi descoperit pe parcurs, distributia la fel, una foarte buna.

Nota: 9/10

Silver Linings Playbook

Against medical advice and without the knowledge of her husband Pat Solatano Sr., caring Dolores Solatano discharges her adult son, Pat Solatano Jr., from a Maryland mental health institution after his minimum eight month court ordered stint. The condition of the release includes Pat Jr. moving back in with his parents in their Philadelphia home. Although Pat Jr.'s institutionalization was due to him beating up the lover of his wife Nikki, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Nikki has since left him and has received a restraining order against him. Although he is on medication (which he doesn't take because of the way it makes him feel) and has mandatory therapy sessions, Pat Jr. feels like he can manage on the outside solely by healthy living and looking for the "silver linings" in his life. His goals are to get his old job back as a substitute teacher, but more importantly reunite with Nikki. He finds there are certain instances where he doesn't cope well, however no less so than some others who have never been institutionalized, such as his Philadelphia Eagles obsessed OCD father who has resorted to being a bookie to earn a living, his best friend Ronnie who quietly seethes over the control wielded by his wife Veronica, and Veronica's widowed sister, Tiffany Maxwell, a recovering sex addict. In their fragile mental states, Pat Jr. and Tiffany embark on a love/hate friendship based primarily on what help the other can provide in achieving their individual goals. But they may reevaluate their goals as their relationship progresses.

The Kids Are All Right

Interesant storyline, 2 lesbiene, 2 copii(baiat,fata), un donator de sperma si o urmare cel putin interesanta :))) Film facut dintr-o singura faza, daca nu se intalneau copiii cu tatal lor biologic, nu era nicio urmare, de aici a pornit toata actiunea filmului, una destul de intensa zic :)))) Lucrul pe care l-am apreciat cel mai mult in film este accentul destul de puternic care se pune pe vin ! :)) mult vin ptr 90 de minute :))

Nota: 7/10

The Kids Are All Right

Nic and Jules are in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect relationship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield what she believes is control, whereas Jules, under that control, is less self-assured. During their relationship, Jules has floundered in her "nine to five" life, sometimes trying to start a business - always unsuccessfully - or being the stay at home mom. She is currently trying to start a landscape design business. They have two teen-aged children, Joni and Laser, Nic who is Joni's biological mother, and Jules who is Laser's biological mother. Although not exact replicas, each offspring does more closely resemble his/her biological mother in temperament. Joni and Laser are also half-siblings, having the same unknown sperm donor father. Shortly after Joni's eighteenth birthday and shortly before she plans to leave the house and head off to college, Laser, only fifteen and underage to do so, pleads with her to try and contact their sperm donor father. Somewhat reluctantly, she does. He is late thirty-something Paul, a co-op farmer and restaurateur. Despite his seemingly successful businesses, Paul has always shirked responsibility, most specifically in his personal life. After Joni and Laser meet with Paul, Nic and Jules learn what their children have done, and although they don't want Paul infiltrating their lives, they want to meet him especially as Joni and Laser seem to want to maintain some sort of relationship with him. As Paul's relationship with the entire family grows, which also includes him hiring Jules to design and construct his back yard, they have an effect on what he wants in life, and he in turn affects the family dynamic as well as each person's relationships outside of the family.

The Tall Man

N-am vazut-o de multa vreme pe Jessica Biel intr-un film si chiar ma gandeam cu cine seamana profesoara mea de marketing :)) iata ca am descoperit... filmul are un storyline trist, dar parca potrivit cu zona in care este filmat filmul... un satuc la fel de trist. Initial nu mi-am dat seama cine-i acel "personaj principal" de rapeste copii, dar apoi filmul ti-l ofera pe tava, e un film destul de ok...bunicel, ideea fiind deja foarte bine cunoscuta publicului larg, kidnapping ;d

Nota: 8/10

The Tall Man

This film is about a legend that has been started by the town folk of Cold Rock. Since the children in the town have been going missing, people have said it's an entity known as 'The Tall Man' who has been taking them. Julia Denning ('Jessica Biel' ) is the local nurse whose husband died years earlier. She is soon personally involved as her child is taken. She tries to track down where the child is taken, but finds that there's more to what's happening than she knew. The towns-folk start to turn on her and the truth comes out. But there's still more to the story--who is 'The Tall Man'? And what is the truth behind the disappearances?

The Watch

2 actori buni de comedie(stiller si vaughn) alaturi de al 3-lea considerat la fel (nu-l sufar pe jonah hill) intr-o comedie mai mult parodie destul de interesanta, cu unele faze tampitele, dar chiar funny :))))) ideea parca a mai fost folosita, constituirea unei echipe pentru aflarea si apoi indepartarea unui pericol (extraterestru acum :))). Distributia a contat mult pentru imaginea productiei.

Nota: 7/10

The Watch

In Glenview, Ohio, Evan is the manager of the Costco department store and married to Abby. When the Costco night watchman, Antonio Guzman, is mysteriously murdered, Evan organizes The Neighborhood Watch, a watch team with his suburban neighbors Bob, Franklin and Jamarcus to protect the neighborhood and find the killer of Antonio. Soon they discover that the murderer is an alien that is preparing to invade Earth, and they become the last hope of mankind on Earth