365 Films Challenge - Day 24
Hugo - 2011
Summery: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 an automaton.
Genre:Adventure/Drama/Family
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: 5/5
Starting:Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz and Christopher Lee
365 Films Challenge - Day 23
The Social Network - 2010
Summery:Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking website that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
Genre: Biography/Drama
Director: David Fincher
Stars: 5/5
Starting: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake
365 Films Challenge - Day 22
The Iron Lady - 2011
Summery:An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.
Genre:Biography/Drama
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Stars: 4/5
Starting: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent and Richard E. Grant
365 Films Challenge - Day 21
Midnight in Paris - 2011
Summery:A family travel to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple who are forced to confront their differing views of a perfect life.
Genre: Comedy /Fantasy/Romance
Director: Woody Allen
Stars: 5/5
Starting: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, and Kathy Bates
365 Films Challenge - Day 20
Avatar - 2009
Summery:A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Genre: Action/Adventure/Fantasy
Director: James Cameron
Stars: 5/5
Starting:Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, and Sigourney Weaver
365 Films Challenge - Day 19
X2 - 2003
Summery:The X-Men band together to find a mutant assassin who has made an attempt on the President’s life, while the Mutant Academy is attacked by military forces.
Genre: Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi
Director:Bryan Singer
Stars: 4/5
Starting:Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, and Halle Berry
365 Films Challenge - Day 18
X-men - 2000
Summery:Two mutants come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
Genre: Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi
Director: Bryan Singer
Stars: 4/5
Starting: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, and Ian McKellen
365 Films Challenge - Day 17
Breakfast Club - 1985
Summery:Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: John Hughes
Stars: 5/5
Starting: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, and Molly Ringwald
365 Films Challenge - Day 16
Blue Valentine - 2010
Summery:The film centers on a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.
Genre: Drama/Romance
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Stars: 4/5
Starting: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, and John Doman
365 Films Challenge - Day 15
Bruce Almighty - 2003
Summery: Bruce complains about God too often is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world.
Genre: Comedy/Drama/Fantasy
Director: Tom Shadyac
Stars: 3/5
Starting:Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, and Morgan Freeman
