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Flight

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On October 14, 2011, Airline captain and recreational drug user Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) awakens in his Orlando hotel room with flight attendant Katerina Márquez (Nadine Velazquez) after a night of sex, alcohol, and very little sleep. After using cocaine to wake up, he boards SouthJet flight 227 to Atlanta. After Whip threads the plane […]

The Master

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This movie loosely depicts the early career of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. The film tells the story of Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), a damaged soul who seeks healing from a charismatic fraud (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) and finds what he is looking for. Freddie is a sex-obsessed alcoholic World War II veteran struggling […]

Fried Green Tomatoes

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Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is a woman having trouble in her marriage and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode (Mary Stuart Masterson) when she befriends Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy). Ninny tells […]

A Dangerous Method

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Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) arrives at the Burghölzli, the preeminent psychiatric hospital in Zurich, with a typical case of hysteria and begins a new course of treatment with the young Swiss doctor, Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender). He is using word association and dream interpretation as part of his approach to Freud’s radical new science of […]