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Synopsis: At forty-something, straight-laced Cal Weaver is living the dream--good job, nice house, great kids and marriage to his high school sweetheart. But when Cal learns that his wife, Emily, has cheated on him and wants a divorce, his "perfect" life quickly unravels. Worse, in today's single world, Cal, who hasn't dated in decades, stands out as the epitome of un-smooth. Now spending his free evenings sulking alone at a local bar, the hapless Cal is taken on as wingman and protege to handsome, thirty-something player Jacob Palmer. In an effort to help Cal get over his wife and start living his life, Jacob opens Cal's eyes to the many options before him: flirty women, manly drinks and a sense of style that can't be found at Supercuts or The Gap. Cal and Emily aren't the only ones looking for love in what might be all the wrong places: Cal's 13-year-old son, Robbie, is crazy about his 17-year-old babysitter, Jessica, who harbors a crush on Cal. And despite Cal's makeover and his many new conquests, the one thing that can't be made over is his heart, which seems to keep leading him back to where he began.

Starring: Steve Carrell,
Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon, Crystal Reed, Marisa Tomei and Joey King
Directed by: Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
U.S. Rating: PG-13

I should start mentioning that having such an amazing cast, you couldn't expect anything less than a pretty entertaining and funny film.

Crazy Stupid Love is a fresh and light comedy about a forty-something man called Cal with a pretty standard and boring life. He finds his wife Emily has been cheating him with her co-worker, David. Knowing this situation affected his personal and marital life, his wife can't handle it anymore and asks him for a divorce. After moving into his own apartment, Cal begins frequenting a bar night after night, talking loudly about his divorce. There, he meets a young handsome guy called Jacob, that is a successful womanizer. Jacob noticed Cal talking about his divorce and rapidly offers him some help to get over the situation and be successful with women. He teaches him how to dress, how to talk and how to act towards women. Cal starts learning the lessons and become a different man, having more interaction and encounters with other women.

In the meantime, Jacob meets Hannah, a cute girl that refuses his flattering invitations. Later, they meet again and Jacob falls in love with Hannah.

Cal and Emily have a 13 year-old son, Robbie, who is deeply and crazy in love with his babysitter, Jessica. Jessica is a 17 year-old girl, daugther of Cal and Emily's best friends. Jessica, at the same time, is secretly in love with Cal. Cal will always encourage Robbie to go and fight, never stop chasing his dream and find his love, but Jessica always rejects him, because... She's in love with Robbie's father.

All these love situations will converge in just one single and hilarious situation that will make the whole film worth to watch and have a really good entertaining time and some hysterical laughs.

A simple but fresh plot, played by an amazing cast. A film worth to watch and enjoy on the big screen and some more times after coming on DVD. Totally recommended!

I would rate this movie with a 3.5/5

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Synopsis: As a teenager in Queens, Jonathan White (the son of a cop killed in the line of duty) committed a horrible crime, only to be bailed out by a detective who was his father's former partner. Sixteen years later, Jonathan, now a cop, is living a happy life with his wife and daughter in Long Island, when a newspaper publishes an anonymous letter describing the details of the his horrible secret, throwing his life into a tailspin.

Release Date: November 4th, 2011

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Synopsis: In a ruthless battle for power, several yakuza clans vie for the favor of their head family in the Japanese underworld. The rival bosses seek to rise through the ranks by scheming and making allegiances sworn over sake. Long-time yakuza Otomo has seen his kind go from elaborate body tattoos and severed fingertips to becoming important players on the stock market. Theirs is a never-ending struggle to end up on top, or at least survive, in a corrupt world where there are no heroes but constant betrayal and vengeance.

Release Date: December 2nd, 2011

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Synopsis: At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson.

Release Date: October 15th, 2011

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Fox Searchlight released the first trailer for the upcoming "elderly" romantic comedy film, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy and Dev Patel. Such an amazing cast! And it looks actually pretty funny!

Synopsis: A story set in Bangalore and centered around the workers and residents at Dunroamin, a home for the elderly.

Release Date: March 9th, 2012

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The new film 50/50, starring Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, will be released at the end of this month. The official trailer has been around for a while and I finally has posted here. The film is a light dramedy focused on a different point of view on the life of those who fight cancer.

Synopsis: Inspired by personal experiences, "50/50" is an original story about friendship, love, survival and finding humor in unlikely places. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen star as best friends whose lives are changed by a cancer diagnosis.

Release Date: September 30th, 2011

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Synopsis: An ex-cop and now wanted fugitive who stands on the ledge of a high-rise building while a hard-living New York Police Department hostage negotiator tries to talk him down. The longer they are on the ledge, the more she realizes that he might have an ulterior objective.

Release Date: January 13th, 2012

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Synopsis: Danielle, the dirty girl of Norman High School in Norman, Oklahoma, circa 1987. When Danielle's misbehavior gets her banished to a remedial class, she is paired on a parenting project with Clarke, an innocent closet-case with no friends. Danielle is determined to get to California to find the father she's never met, and Clarke is desperate to escape being sent to military school by his homophobic dad. Together, the mismatched misfits light out for California, and discover each other and themselves through a funny and serendipitous friendship.

Release Date: October 7th, 2011

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Synopsis: As America's top cop for five decades, J. Edgar Hoover oversaw the creation of the FBI, helped popularize fingerprints and other forensic evidence, and wielded nearly unchecked authority to manipulate evidence and investigate supposed enemies of the state such as Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

Release Date: November 11th, 2011

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Synopsis: A small town newspaper reporter writes about three California gray whales trapped in the Arctic Circle in that unites a Cold War-era United State and USSR in an effort to rescue them.

Release Date: February 3rd, 2012

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Synopsis: In Alaska, an oil drilling team struggle to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wild. Hunting the humans are a pack of wolves who see them as intruders.

Release Date: January 27th, 2012

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I'm deeply impressed with Jackie Chan's latest film, 1911. Directed by Jackie Chan and Li Zhang, starring Jackie Chan, Bingbing Li and Winston Chao. For all films with Jackie Chan I've watch, and as a big fan of is work, I must say that this is... by far... the best film. It looks amazing! Can't wait to watch it.

Synopsis: At the beginning of the 20th century, China is in a state of crisis. The country is split into warring factions, the citizens are starving, and recent political reforms have made matters worse, not better. The ruling Qing Dynasty, led by a seven-year-old emperor and his ruthless mother, Empress Dowager Longyu (Joan Chen), is completely out of touch after 250 years of unquestioned power. With ordinary citizens beginning to revolt openly, the Qing Dynasty has created a powerful, modern army (the "New Army") to quash any rebellion. But weapons are expensive, and desperate for cash, the Qing leaders are trading anything they can get their hands on with foreign countries... and selling China

Release Date: October 12th, 2011

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Synopsis: A poor young English boy named Heathcliff is taken in by the wealthy Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy. Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte.

Release Date: November 11th, 2011 (UK)

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Ben Styler is back with such an amazing cast for an action comedy film called, Tower Heist. Starring Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick, Téa Leoni and Michael Peña. I see it like the comedy side of Ocean's Eleven, so I'll be patiently waiting for this one!

Synopsis: After the workers at a luxury Central Park condominium discover the penthouse billionaire has stolen their retirement, they plot the ultimate revenge: a heist to reclaim what he took from them.

Release Date: November 14th, 2011

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Synopsis: At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson.

Release Date: October 15th, 2011

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Synopsis: Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal, undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds an unexpected calling as the savior of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children. When ex-biker-gang member Sam Childers makes the life-changing decision to go to East Africa to help repair homes destroyed by civil war, he is outraged by the unspeakable horrors faced by the region's vulnerable populace, especially the children. Ignoring the warnings of more experienced aide workers, Sam breaks ground for an orphanage where it's most needed--in the middle of territory controlled by the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a renegade militia that forces youngsters to become soldiers before they even reach their teens. But for Sam, it is not enough to shelter the LRA's intended victims. Determined to save as many as possible, he leads armed missions deep into enemy territory to retrieve kidnapped children, restoring peace to their lives - and eventually his own.

Release Date: September 30th, 2011

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Synopsis: Set in suburban Toronto, the film tracks a young man struggling between traditional Indo-Canadian family expectations and his dreams of hockey stardom.

Release Date: September 23rd, 2011

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Synopsis: 1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost. Everything she knew in unravels as the 'missing' begin to show themselves.

Release Date: November 11th, 2011

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Here's the first complete trailer (4 minutes!) for the upcoming thriller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Starring Daniel Craig, Stellan Skarsgard, Rooney Mara, Elodie Yung and Christopher Plumme. With such an excellent cast and an strong plot, I couldn't expect less than an amazing remake film.During the advance screening of the film Straw Dogs (in the U.S.), the audience had the opportunity to watch 8 minutes from this film and every single one said they were impressed, so I'm sure it will be one of the great films to watch by the end of the year.

Synopsis: A journalist-turned-detective and his female associate get tangled up in the underworld when he is hired to write the saga of a powerful family.

Release Date: December 21st, 2011

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Synopsis: A desperate young man assumes a false identity in order to enter a high-stakes underworld game of Russian Roulette in order to pay off his debts. In this game of power, violence, and chance wealthy men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of shooters who take aim at each other, armed with nothing more than a bullet in the chamber.

Release Date: October 28th, 2011

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Synopsis: Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day's work for Wilee, the best of New York's agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie -- super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and suicidal nutcases who risk becoming a smear on the pavement every time they head into traffic.

But a guy who's used to putting his life on the line is about to get more than even he is used to when a routine delivery turns into a life or death chase through the streets of Manhattan. When Wilee picks up his last envelope of the day on a premium rush run, he discovers this package is different. This time, someone is actually trying to kill him.

Release Date: January 13th, 2012

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Synopsis: A journey across the icy snows of Alaska in mid winter to meet the school friends, family, and Republican colleagues that in previous days gave their heart and souls to the charismatic, charming, intoxicating ex-hockey mum.

But it's not all plain sailing. People are frightened to talk, Wasilla makes Twin Peaks look like a walk in the park. It's a devout evangelical community -- 76 churches with a population of only 6 thousand, and the Crystal meth capitol of Alaska.

Who are the flying monkeys, the enemies, the friends, and most importantly -- are you with her or against her? Join the quest and for Christ's sake buy some thermals!

Release Date: September 30th, 2011

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Synopsis: Since Brian O'Conner and Mia Toretto broke Dom Toretto out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom. As they assemble their elite team of top racers, the unlikely allies know their only shot of getting out for good means confronting the corrupt businessman who wants them dead. But he's not the only one on their tail. Hard-nosed federal agent Luke Hobbs never misses his target. When he is assigned to track down Dom and Brian, he and his strike team launch an all-out assault to capture them. But as his men tear through Brazil, Hobbs learns he can't separate the good guys from the bad. Now, he must rely on his instincts to corner his prey... before someone else runs them down first.

Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Matt Schulze, Sung Kang and Dwayne Johnson
Directed by: Justin Lin
U.S. Rating: PG-13

Fast and Furious, one of my top favorite action franchise of all times. I waited for months for the release of this fifth edition and the waiting was totally worth. I personally think the franchise was basically going down after the third one. It was getting old just watching over an over new editions of tunning cars and same fast races. The great thing about the fourth, and especially, this fifth edition is that Director Justin Lin decided to give the franchise a smart turn from the first three films, turning the scripts into heist plots. He confirmed after releasing this fifth edition that next one will be all about a heist situation, and we can certainly confirm this with the very last scene on this film (after credits).

I did really enjoy the film on theaters, and even more now that I got it on BluRay, having the chance to watch it again and enjoy all the extra content available on the disc.

When Dominic Toretto is sentenced to jail, Brian and Mia break Dom's custody and all of them become a group of outlaws, they escape to Brazil, hiding in the Favelas.As soon as Brian and Mia arrive to their destination, they meet with Vince. During their first night, Vince convince Brian and Mia to help him on a job, where they had to steal a few cars and drive them back to their owner, Mr. Reyes. Brian and Mia meet Vince and Dom in the train where the cars were stored but right after the job starts, things went wrong.

Soon after everyone escapes from the train, they try to identify why Mr. Reyes wanted one of the cars back. They will find that the car has a memory car hidden on the GPS system that will show all the locations and information about Mr. Reyes' illegal business.

At the same time, Special Agent Hobbs arrives to Brazil with his small team to hunt Dom and his team and bring them back to justice in the US. During the first chase, Dom, Brian and Mia escape from two different groups: Agent Hobbs and his team, and Mr. Reyes' killers. Dom ask Brian and Mia to split and gather back together in the future, but Mia refuses because she is pregnant and doesn't want them all to split, but stay together, no matter what.

Dom and Brian have a conversation about their future and the importance of their families, and they decide to come with a plan to steal all Mr. Reyes' money ($100 million). They will need a team, and that's when all the old gang gets together. They start preparing the plan and putting all the small pieces in place to create and execute the perfect heist, since all the money was saved in a safe located at the police headquarters.

They move forward on their plan, but Hobbs gets closer and closer, until their plan gets in jeopardy. Hobbs captures Dom, Brian, Vince and Mia, but while Hobbs and his team are taking them to the airport, they face and ambush and Hobbs' team is killed. Dom, Brian and Vince save Agent Hobbs and when they all get back together, they decide to finish the job. Hobbs offers to help them and they go for the money, facing one amazing and extremely entertaining race on the streets of Rio de Janeiro with Dom and Brian being chased by the police.

At the end, they get all the money, hide in a paradisiac location and plan to go for a last race.

As said before, there's a key scene after the credits that will lead us to the possible story on Fast and Furious 6. If you haven't seen it yet, you can't miss it!

p.s.: I also have to say that "The Rock" rocked in this film. He brought back the action!

I would rate this movie with a 4/5

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It's time! The first Official Trailer for the upcoming comedy (oops! sorry!) film, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Down - Part 1, has been released. If you have taken some time to read some of my movie reviews, you might have had the opportunity to check what I think of The Twilight Saga. The funny part is that I've beeen getting more engaged with the latest films. The first film out, I watched it in DVD almost a year after getting to theaters. The second one, I watched it in DVD just a few months after it came to theaters. Eclipse was the only film I had the time to go and watch it personally in theaters, and I enjoyed it, because it was like watching a huge bad comedy. I'm pretty sure that Breaking Down won't change anything... We'll have a horrible acting performance by most of the cast, extremely cheesy scenes and lines, so I know I'll enjoy laughing while watcing this film.

Synopsis: Bella and Edward, plus those they love, must deal with the chain of consequences brought on by a marriage, honeymoon, and the tumultuous birth of a child... which brings an unforeseen and shocking development for Jacob Black.

Release Date: November 18th, 2011

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The third art of the Spanish horror franchise [REC] has been announced. The first teaser trailer has been released this last week and it promises to reveal the origins of the viral outbreak on several apartments on the previous two films. The film will be released in Spain next March 2012.

Synopsis: The origin of the deadly viral outbreak that turned tenants of an apartment building into zombies is revealed.

Release Date: March 30th, 2012

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