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  • October 2009

  • 6

    Surrogates (2009)

    Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Willis) is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others’ surrogates.

    2009-10-14 10:49 0.3
  • 6

    The Invention of Lying (2009)

    A comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain.

    2009-10-14 10:47 0.3
  • 9

    Away We Go (2009)

    A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.

    2009-10-06 20:54 0.3
  • 9

    Toy Story (1995)

    A cowboy toy is profoundly threatened and jealous when a fancy spaceman toy supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.

    2009-10-06 20:53 0.3
  • September 2009

  • 6

    Creation (2009)

    English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to find a balance between his revolutionary theories on evolution and the relationship with religious wife, whose faith contradicts his work.

    2009-09-29 12:17 0.3
  • 6

    The Soloist (2009)

    A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Julliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.

    2009-09-29 12:16 0.3
  • 4

    Gamer (2009)

    Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments...

    2009-09-16 12:15 0.3
  • 7

    Adventureland (2009)

    A comedy set in the summer of 1987 and centered around a recent college grad (Eisenberg) who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.

    2009-09-15 13:55 0.3
  • 7

    Julie & Julia (2009)

    Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.

    2009-09-15 13:53 0.3
  • 8

    District 9 (2009)

    An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology.

    2009-09-13 13:51 0.3
  • 7

    Priceless (2008)

    A womanizing jewel thief tries to reform his ways by reuniting with his former girlfriend-turned-single mother while running from vicious mobsters.

    2009-09-09 21:04 0.3
  • 9

    (500) Days of Summer (2009)

    An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman (Deschanel) who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man (Gordon-Levitt) who falls for her.

    2009-09-08 10:31 0.3
  • 6

    Funny People (2009)

    When seasoned comedian George Simmons learns of his terminal, inoperable health condition, his desire to form a genuine friendship cause him to take a relatively green performer under his wing as his opening act.

    2009-09-08 10:22 0.3
  • 7

    Michael Clayton (2007)

    A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.

    2009-09-06 21:04 0.3
  • 7

    Definitely, Maybe (2008)

    A political consultant tries to explain his impending divorce and past relationships to his 11-year-old daughter.

    2009-09-02 20:26 0.3
  • August 2009

  • 8

    The Hurt Locker (2008)

    Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb

    2009-08-31 21:27 0.3
  • 5

    The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)

    A romantic drama about a Chicago librarian with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage.

    2009-08-24 21:30 0.3
  • 4

    I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)

    A nerdy valedictorian proclaims his love for the hottest and most popular girl in school – Beth Cooper – during his graduation speech. Much to his surprise, Beth shows up at his door that very night and decides to show him the best night of his life.

    2009-08-23 21:00 0.3
  • 9

    Inglourious Basterds (2009)

    In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

    2009-08-23 17:31 0.3
  • 7

    Bugsy Malone (1976)

    A gangster movie where all the gangsters are children. Instead of real bullets they use "splurge guns" that cover the victim in cream...

    2009-08-16 15:52 0.3

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The A-Team

If you’ve seen the original TV series, like me, you’re probably intrigued to know how this box office version compares. I loved the TV series, I loved the fact it was a little bit absurd, that they could make a tank out of just a wheel, a battered up old car and some drain piping, it was silly but in a good way. The A-Team was over the top, fun and entertaining, it never took itself too seriously and that was the point.

So what’s this version of the A-Team like? Well, in one word, disappointing. Yes there were some OK moments but these were few and far between. It’s not a bad film but it just didn’t do it for me. I was left thinking ‘why wasn’t that as good as I hoped?’

We pick up the four soldiers in various parts of Mexico half way through a mission. After successfully complete this mission we jump to Iraq where the team have formed a very successful alpha unit with many missions under their belts. They are then asked to perform one final mission in Iraq to recover plates for printing 100 dollar bills that were used to print a…

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