Our 6 Top new movies Nov 15st – 29th include the highly anticipated winner of the TIFF  People’s Choice Award and Venice Best Screenplay Philomena. The Armstrong Lie also at TIFF & Venice is a powerful must see doc on Lance Armstrong’s rise and fall. The Hunger Games is the second in Suzanne Collins internationally popular sci-fi trilogy with an amazing ensemble cast headed by Jennifer Lawrence. Delivery Man brings comedy to the lineup with Vince Vaughn. Also out this month: Nebraska a drama from the award winning director of The Descendants, Alexander Payne and the thriller Homefront — James Franco’s most recent project.

Delivery Man

Nebraska

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Homefront

The Armstrong Lie

Philomena

Delivery Man

Fri Nov 22nd

Genre: Comedy

Director: Ken Scott

Studio: DreamWorks Pictures

Starring: Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt, Cobie Smulders, Bobby Moynihan, Jack

Synopsis: “Delivery Man” is the story of affable underachiever David Wozniak (Vince Vaughn), whose mundane life gets twisted in a knot when he finds out that he fathered 533 children via sperm donations he made twenty years earlier. In debt to the mob, rejected by his pregnant girlfriend, things couldn’t look worse for David when he’s hit with a lawsuit from 142 of the 533 twentysomethings who want to know the identity of the donor. As David struggles to decide whether or not he should reveal his true identity, he embarks on a journey that leads him to discover not only his true self but the father he could become as well.

#deliveryman

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Nebraska

Fri Nov 22nd

Genre: Drama

Director: Alexander Payne

Studio: Paramount Vantage

Starring: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, Bob Odenkirk, Stacy Keach, June Squibb

Synopsis: Director Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants) takes the helm for this black and white road trip drama starring Bruce Dern as a tempestuous Missouri father who’s convinced he’s won a million dollar magazine sweepstakes, and Will Forte as the son who grudgingly agrees to drive him to Nebraska to claim his winnings.

#nebraska

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Fri Nov 22nd

Genre: Sci Fi Action

Director: Francis Lawrence

Studio: Entertainment One

Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jena Malone, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson

Synopsis: THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE begins as Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a “Victor’s Tour” of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) – a competition that could change Panem forever.

 #thehungergames

@TheHungerGames, @eOnefilms, @Hibbits, @myetvmedia

 

 

Homefront

Wed Nov 27th

Genre: Thriller

Director: Gary Fleder

Studio: VVS Films

Starring: Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder, Kate Bosworth, Rachelle Lefevre

Synopsis: A former drug enforcement agent, Phil Broker (Jason Statham) a family man who moves off the grid with his daughter, to a seemingly quiet bayou backwater to escape his troubled past. However, Broker’s world soon becomes anything but quiet once he discovers that an underbelly of drugs and violence riddles the small town. Soon, a sociopathic methamphetamine kingpin, Gator Bodine (James Franco) puts Broker and his daughter in harm’s way forcing Broker back into action in order to save his family and the town.

 #thriller #vvsfilms

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The Armstrong Lie

Fri Nov 29th

Genre: Doc

Director: Alex Gibney

Studio: Mongrel Media

Starring: Lance Armstrong

Synopsis: Lance Armstrong’s story was legend. He’d beaten cancer and went on to win seven Tour de France titles. Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) masterfully follows the rise and fall of the disgraced legendary cyclist Armstrong for four years starting with the 2009 Tour de France, making use of his extraordinary access to attain rare interviews with former teammates, alleged doping mastermind Dr. Michele Ferrari, and Armstrong himself.

 #thearmstronglie, #mongrelmedia #TIFF

@alexgibneyfilm, @TIFF_NET, @myetvmedia

See Full review & interviews with the filmmakers

Philomena

Fri Nov 29th

Genre: Drama

Director: Stephen Frears

Studio: Entertainment One

Starring: Steve Coogan, Judi Dench

Synopsis: Philomena is the true story of one mother’s search for her lost son. Falling pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena was sent to the convent of Roscrea to be looked after as a “fallen woman”. When her baby was only a toddler, he was taken away by the nuns for adoption in America. Philomena spent the next fifty years searching for him in vain.

Then she met Martin Sixsmith, a world-weary political journalist who happened to be intrigued by her story. Together they set off for America on a journey that would not only reveal the extraordinary story of Philomena’s son, but also create an unexpectedly close bond between them.

 #theweisnteincompany, #philomena #entertainmentone

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See full (no spoiler) review & exclusive interviews Judi Dench, Steve Coogan & Steven Frears:

 

 

Christophe Chanel