Tagged: juan recommends

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Bridesmaids (2011)

Bridesmaids may seem like your typical wedding-driven comedy, but turns out to be anything but – delivering prime performances from a cast of hilarious women.

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Scream 4

In the fourth installment of Wes Craven’s Scream series, Sidney returns for to town for the fifteenth anniversary of the Woodsboro massacres, only to find a new Ghostface wreaking havoc.

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Mildred Pierce (HBO Miniseries)

HBO’s 5-part mini-series is a re-adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel of the same name, which tells the story of suffering mother Mildred, who does everything in her power to give everything she didn’t have in life to her daughter Veda.

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Submarine (2011)

Submarine’s set in the same era lampooned in Darkplace, that of the 80s, complete with mullets and VHS throwbacks. But the comedy here is of a gentle, wry nature, unconcerned with mockery, and really the film could be set anywhere between the 1960s and now thanks to its wonderfully timeless feel.

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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is an action/comedy/romance film based on the graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim, created by Bryan Lee O’Malley, directed by Edgar Wright, and starring Michael Cera as the main character.

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Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time tells the story of Makoto Konno, your typical, tomboy-ish high school student. One day Makoto falls in a classroom and she suddenly has the ability to travel through time as she wishes.

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Rushmore

Rushmore is the second feature-length film in director Wes Anderson’s filmography, telling the story of Max Fischer, a very unlikeable, precocious, extracurricular overachieving teenager from a private school obsessively in “love” with Ms. Cross.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

In Year 3, Harry Potter must go back to Hogwarts to course his third year in magical school, but after an angry outburst against the Dursleys and a chance encounter with a big black dog, he finds out a crazy dark wizard follower of You-Know-Who called Sirius Black is out to get him.

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Blue Valentine

Blue Valentine chronicles the life span of a relationship between Dean, a hard-working, chilled man, and Cindy, whom he meets at her grandma’s nursing home.