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STILLWATER Director: Tom McCarthyStarring: Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin, Camille Cottin, Lilou Siauvaud Matt Damon’s new film, Stilwater, finds him leaving every trace of his Massachusetts upbringing behind to play an Oklahoma dad with a complicated family life. Damon plays Bill Baker, a construction worker whose work is light and would like to get back into the oil industry. He’s had a rough life, which is further complicated by the fact his daughter Allison, played by Abigail Breslin, is serving prison time for the murder of her girlfriend. She’s always proclaimed her innocence, and now Bill heads back to Marseille, France hoping to re-open the caseRead More →

10 January
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AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY Director: John Wells Starring: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Julianne Nicholson, Juliette Lewis, Chris Cooper, Margo Martindale, Ewan McGregor, Abigail Breslin, Dermot Mulroney, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sam Shepard Did you have some family drama over the holidays? People acting crazy around the dinner table? Just wait until you meet the Weston family. Your family will seem a whole heck of a lot more normal after you spend a few hours with the Westons. Patriarch Beverly (Shepard) is an alcoholic and former poet who can no longer tolerate his marriage to Violet (Streep). After thirty plus years and three daughters, the love they once hadRead More →

10 May
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AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY Director: John Wells Starring: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis, Abigail Breslin, Ewan McGregor, Dermot Mulroney, Chris Cooper, Sam Shepard, Margo Martindale, Benedict Cumberbatch When I first heard that Goddess Meryl Streep had been cast as Violet, the pill-popping matriarch of the Weston family, I thought of no one better that could play that role for the big screen adaptation of the Tracy Letts play. After Violet’s husband Beverly (Shepard) goes missing, the whole family gathers together in the house they grew up in order to find him. To call this family dynamic dysfunctional would be an understatement. Movies adapted from stageRead More →