The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - One of my top 5 films of 2013, the second installment in The Hunger Games series gets a new director and better storytelling as the odds turn away from Katniss's favor. She and Peeta are once more thrown into the arena, this time against former winners of the previous Hunger Games. President Snow is constantly watching her and there's a rebellion brewing, with Katniss the face of it all. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jenna Malone, Sam Claflin, Woody Harrelson, and Elizabeth Banks.
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12 Years a Slave - The 2014 Best Picture Winner, and also in my top 5 picks of 2013, 12 Years a Slave follows the true story of Solomon Northrup from freedom to slavery and back again. He is tricked, sold into slavery, and moved to Louisiana where he is forced to endure mistreatment, terrible working conditions, and the harshness and cruelty of slavery. A meaningful and hard film to watch, but nevertheless important and integral to our society. The film stars Chiwetel Ijiofor, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Paul Dano.
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Oldboy - The Spike Lee remake follows the same story of a man obsessed with getting revenge after he finally leaves his prison to find out why he was kidnapped and put away in solitary confinement for no good reason. The film stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Samuel L. Jackson, and Sharlto Copley.
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The Grandmaster - It begins as the story of Ip Man, the legendary teacher of Bruce Lee and a master of the Wing Chun school of kungfu. It becomes the portrait of a bygone era and a lost world. The film stars Tony Chiu Wai Leung, Wang Qingxiang, Song Hye Kyo, Zhang Jin, and Ziyi Zhang.
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Hours - The late Paul Walker's final film before his untimely death, Hours tells the story of a man who's wife has just given birth to a premature baby. Needing the ventilator to stay alive, he has to stay by the baby's side when the electricity goes out and he can only use the generator by cranking every few minutes. All of this is happening in the wake of Hurrican Katrina as the man and his child wait to be rescued in a dire situation. The film also stars Genesis Rodriguez, Nancy Nave, and Shane Jacobson.
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The Last Days on Mars - On the last day of a mission to Mars, something astounding is discovered: evidence of fossilized bacteria. An astronaut disobeys orders in order to gain more samples but when astronauts start disappearing, the crew suspects that there is much more danger involved with the sample they found than they could have imagined. The film stars Liev Shreiber, Elias Koteas, and Olivia Williams.
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12 Years a Slave - The 2014 Best Picture Winner, and also in my top 5 picks of 2013, 12 Years a Slave follows the true story of Solomon Northrup from freedom to slavery and back again. He is tricked, sold into slavery, and moved to Louisiana where he is forced to endure mistreatment, terrible working conditions, and the harshness and cruelty of slavery. A meaningful and hard film to watch, but nevertheless important and integral to our society. The film stars Chiwetel Ijiofor, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Paul Dano.
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Oldboy - The Spike Lee remake follows the same story of a man obsessed with getting revenge after he finally leaves his prison to find out why he was kidnapped and put away in solitary confinement for no good reason. The film stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Samuel L. Jackson, and Sharlto Copley.
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The Grandmaster - It begins as the story of Ip Man, the legendary teacher of Bruce Lee and a master of the Wing Chun school of kungfu. It becomes the portrait of a bygone era and a lost world. The film stars Tony Chiu Wai Leung, Wang Qingxiang, Song Hye Kyo, Zhang Jin, and Ziyi Zhang.
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Hours - The late Paul Walker's final film before his untimely death, Hours tells the story of a man who's wife has just given birth to a premature baby. Needing the ventilator to stay alive, he has to stay by the baby's side when the electricity goes out and he can only use the generator by cranking every few minutes. All of this is happening in the wake of Hurrican Katrina as the man and his child wait to be rescued in a dire situation. The film also stars Genesis Rodriguez, Nancy Nave, and Shane Jacobson.
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The Last Days on Mars - On the last day of a mission to Mars, something astounding is discovered: evidence of fossilized bacteria. An astronaut disobeys orders in order to gain more samples but when astronauts start disappearing, the crew suspects that there is much more danger involved with the sample they found than they could have imagined. The film stars Liev Shreiber, Elias Koteas, and Olivia Williams.
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