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I Have Recently Watched...
The following are the films I've recently rented from LOVEFiLM:
The Troll Hunter(2010, MOMENTUM PICTURES)

“Whilst investigating a series of suspicious bear killings, a group of students track a mysterious 'hunter' who wants nothing to do with them and attempts to shake them off his trail. Sheer ...”
Starring: Otto Jespersen, Knut Nærum, Hans Morten Hansen, Johanna Morck, Tomas Alf Larsen, Robert Stoltenberg, Glenn Erland Tosterud
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Rise of the Planet of the Apes(2011, 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT)

“An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.”
Starring: James Franco, Freida Pinto, Tom Felton, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Andy Serkis, Chelah Horsdal, David Hewlett
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Melancholia(2011, FUSION MEDIA SALES)

“Lars Von Trier's MELANCHOLIA, a meditation on depression and the end of the world, stars Kirsten Dunst as an emotionally troubled newlywed named Justine, whose sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) ...”
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgard, Udo Kier
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
In a Better World(2010, FUSION MEDIA SALES)

“Winner of the 2011 Oscar & Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Film, IN A BETTER WORLD is a gripping drama about revenge and the power of forgiveness from internationally acclaimed director Susanne ...”
Starring: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Wil Johnson, Satu Helena Mikkelinen
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Super 8(2011, PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT)

“From J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg... In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was ...”
Starring: Elle Fanning, Amanda Michalka, Kyle Chandler, Ron Eldard, Noah Emmerich, Gabriel Basso, Zach Mills
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
X-Men - First Class(2011, 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT)

“Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch enemies, they were closest ...”
Starring: James McAvoy, January Jones, Rose Byrne, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz, Bill Milner, Kevin Bacon
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
London River(2009, SHOWBOX MEDIA)

“After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attack on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at ...”
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Lesley Manville, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec(2010, ELEVATION)

“Legendary director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Leon) transports us to the wild days of early Twentieth Century Paris, where feisty young writer Adele Blanc-Sec embarks on thrilling missions to ...”
Starring: Louise Bourgoin, Mathieu Amalric, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Paul Rouve
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Another Year(2010, MOMENTUM PICTURES)

“Another Year is a touching comedic drama which follows happily-married couple Tom and Gerri and their dysfunctional friends and family over four seasons; a grown son who can't seem to meet the right ...”
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville, Stuart McQuarrie, David Bradley, Imelda Staunton, Oliver Maltman, Peter Wight
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
I Want To See...
The following films are in my LOVEFiLM rental queue:
A Separation(2011, FUSION MEDIA)

“Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin goes ...”
Starring: Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi, Leila Hatami, Kimia Hosseini
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Cell 211(2009, ELEVATION SALES)

“The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot-the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ...”
Starring: Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann, Antonio Resines, Manuel Moron
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Fright Night(2011, WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT)

“Teenager Charley Brewster (Yelchin) guesses that his new neighbor Jerry Dandrige (Farrell) is a vampire responsible for a string of recent deaths. When no one he knows believes him, he enlists Peter ...”
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, David Tennant, Imogen Poots, Toni Collette, Asim Ahmad
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Kill List(2011, ELEVATION)

“Simmering marital tensions and unexpected complications weigh heavily on the conscience of a seasoned contract killer in this dark thriller from DOWN TERRACE director Ben Wheatley. An ex-soldier in ...”
Starring: Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley, MyAnna Buring, Emma Fryer
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
The Guard(2011, ELEVATION)

“Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson, IN BRUGES) is a small-town cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humour, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no ...”
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
The Whistleblower(2010, HIGH FLIERS)

“A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peace-keeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex scandal.”
Starring: Monica Bellucci, Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, David Hewlett, Rayisa Kondracki
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Tyrannosaur(2011, ELEVATION)

“"Tyrannosaur" is the story of Joseph a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of ...”
Starring: Peter Mullan, Eddie Marsan, Olivia Colman, Ned Dennehy, Sian Breckin, Paul Popplewell, Julia Mallam, Sally Carman, Lee Rufford, Paul Conway
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
We Need to Talk About Kevin(2011, FUSION MEDIA SALES)

“Based on the million-selling Orange Prize winning novel by Lionel Shiver and directed by acclaimed film-maker Lynne Ramsay, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN is an emotional thriller starring Academy Award ...”
Starring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Siobhan Fallon, Ezra Miller
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
The Ides Of March(2011, ENTERTAINMENT ONE)

“An ambitious press secretary works overtime to land his candidate in office, but quickly becomes a victim of backroom politics in director George Clooney's adaptation of the play by Beau Willimon. ...”
Starring: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Max Minghella, Jeffrey Wright, Ewan Bourne
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
The Help(2011, WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT)

“A 1960s-era Mississippi debutante sends her community into an uproar by conducting a series of probing interviews with the black servants behind some of her community's most prominent families. ...”
Starring: Christopher Lowell, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howar, Jessica Chastain, Mike Vogel, Allison Janney, Sissy Spacek
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Weekend(2011, PECCADILLO PICTURES)

“Two men wonder if they've found love or just had a drunken hookup in this drama from British director Andrew Haigh. Russell (Tom Cullen) is gay, but most of his friends are straight, and after a long ...”
Starring: Laura Freeman, Jonathan Race, Johnny Wright, Tom Cullen, Chris New
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
The Awakening(2011, TECHNICOLOR DISTRIBUTION SERVICES)

“Nick Murphy's gothic horror feature-debut THE AWAKENING is set in the post-World War I England of 1921 - not long after the devastating Spanish Flu outbreak; a time in which people were increasingly ...”
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Isaac Hempstead Wright
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Hugo(2011, ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO)

“Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and a robot.”
Starring: Chloe Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Ray Winstone, Jude Law
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Contagion(2011, WARNER HOME VIDEO)

“Steven Soderbergh presents this look at what happens when an infectious disease threatens humanity through varied viewpoints from an ensemble cast, including Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Jude Law, ...”
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Carnage(2011, ELEVATION SALES)

“A drama follows the story of two couples (Foster and Reilly, Winslet and Waltz) who come together one evening to discuss the behaviour of their children, only for things to quickly become heated... ...”
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
127 Hours(2010, 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT)

“127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's (James Franco) remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in ...”
Starring: James Franco, Lizzy Caplan, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Clemence Poesy, Kate Burton, Darin Southam, Elizabeth Hales, Norman Lehnert, Priscilla Poland
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Black Swan(2010)

“Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother ...”
Starring: Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, Sebastian Stan, Janet Montgomery, Barbara Hershey, Toby Hemingway
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Cure(1997, TARTAN VIDEO)

“A stunningly original take on the traditional serial killer film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CURE follows the determined and tortured trail of detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) as he races against time and ...”
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Jane Eyre(2011, UNIVERSAL PICTURES)

“Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender star in the romantic drama based on Charlotte Bronte's classic novel, from acclaimed director Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre). In the story, Jane Eyre flees ...”
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, Judi Dench, Emily Haigh
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Martha Marcy May Marlene(2011)

“Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.”
Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes, Hugh Dancy, Brady Corbet, Louisa Krause
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Never Let Me Go(2010, 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT)

“As children, Ruth (Knightley), Kathy (Mulligan) and Tommy (Garfield), spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to ...”
Starring: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins, Nathalie Richard, Andrea Riseborough, Ella Purnell, Hannah Sharp, Izzy Meikle-Small
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Shame(2011)

“Brandon is a 30-something man living in New York who is unable to manage his sex life. After his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment, Brandon's world spirals out of control. From director ...”
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
Somewhere(2010, UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK)

“A hard-living Hollywood actor re-examines his life after his 11-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.”
Starring: Michelle Monaghan, Benicio Del Toro, Elle Fanning, Stephen Dorff, Laura Ramsey, Aurelien Wiik, Angela Lindvall
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
The Descendants(2011, 20th Century Fox Filn Co. Ltd)

“A land baron tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife suffers a boating accident.”
Starring: George Clooney, Judy Greer, Beau Bridges, Matthew Lillard, Robert Forster, Shailene Woodley, Mary Birdsong, Nick Krause, Amara
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
The Future(2011)

“When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.”
Starring: Miranda July, Hamish Linklater
Links: IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Wikipedia
