December 2015

Steve Jobs

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  • Title: Steve Jobs
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Steve JobsSteve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) has been the subject of several movies and documentaries in recent years. Aaron Sorkin‘s screenplay, based on the book by Walter Isaacson, isn’t your typical biopic. Rather than a look through the man’s life, Steve Jobs is instead a series of conversations between Jobs and the people closest to him behind-the-scenes at various product launches. Given how much has been covered about the man’s career, life, and personality the film’s choice skips over well-covered events such as the creation of Apple computers to focus on Jobs’ continual struggle to deal with the people closest to him.

Filling in gaps with montages and dialogue, the script focuses in on the Apple Macintosh launch in 1984, the NeXT Computer launch in 1988 following Jobs’ removal from Apple, and the launch of the iMac following Jobs return to Apple in 1998. Through these events we see Jobs’ relationships with longtime assistant Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet), Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen), John Sculley (Jeff Daniels), Andy Hertzfeld (Michael Stuhlbarg), and Chrisann (Katherine Waterston) and Lisa Brennan (played by Makenzie Moss, Ripley Sobo, and Perla Haney-Jardine).

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The Librarians and the Infernal Contract

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  • Title: The Librarians – And the Infernal Contract
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The Librarians and the Infernal Contract

Following the disappearance of an idealistic campaign volunteer (Kanani Rose Rogers) the Librarians head to a small New Hampshire town where an old friend (Michael Trucco) of Eve (Rebecca Romijn) is running against an incumbent Mayor (Matt Nolan) whose family has an ace-in-the-hole thanks to a deal with a devil (John de Lancie). To beat the devil the group will have to think outside of the box as the contract’s magical properties keep preventing the group from changing the outcome. It also doesn’t help when the other candidate decides that maybe the devil could help him win the election.

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Shaun the Sheep Movie

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  • Title: Shaun the Sheep Movie
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Shaun the Sheep MovieThe British stop-motion animated television series gets its own movie when a little farmyard tomfoolery leads to the Farmer (John Sparkes) getting lost in the big city with a nasty case of amnesia. So it falls on Shaun (Justin Fletcher) the sheep and the rest of his flock to find their missing friend and bring him home.

Shaun the Sheep Movie is a throwback screwball comedy as Shaun and his friends scour the city for the Farmer in ridiculous costumes, cause a break-out of an animal control center, and generally cause all kinds of mischief wherever they go. Completely dialogue free, the movie’s humor doesn’t miss a beat or need to rely on any form of exposition to tell its story. Marvelously animated, the film is a joy to behold.

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Once Upon a Time – Broken Heart

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  • Title: Once Upon a Time – Broken Heart
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Once Upon a Time - Broken Heart

“Broken Heart” wraps up the Camelot flashbacks in an episode that focuses on Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) taking naturally to his role as a Dark One both in Camelot and in Storybrooke following the return of his memory. We witness the casting to the curse, the reasoning behind Emma’s mindwipe of her friends and family, and the death of Merlin (Elliot Knight) and the hands of the Dark Ones. With Emma‘s (Jennifer Morrison) plans in shambles she have to do what she can to win back the trust of her loved ones starting with Henry (Jared Gilmore).

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