A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

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  • Title: A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
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Set in a world not unlike our own, albeit one with a bit more magic underneath, Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie star as two single New Yorkers who meet at a wedding of mutual friends. While that may sound like a pretty typical setup, the road to the wedding (and the road home) are anything but normal. David and Sarah each make use of an odd car rental agency using old cars and yet highly advanced GPS (voiced by Jodie Turner-Smith) which knows where each of them need to go. After both agree to go on a big bold beautiful journey, the pair are reunited and begin a series of adventures that will take them into each other’s pasts reliving key moments of their lives.

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All The President’s Men

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  • Title: All The President’s Men
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AMC Theatres’ release of All The President’s Men in select theaters is timely not only in honoring the passing of Robert Reford but in terms of current events with a corrupt administration hiding its crimes and going on an attack against the press and the First Amendment. Released in 1976, the film follows hungry reporters Bob Woodward (Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) looking into the Watergate break-in and uncovering a story so large it would eventually lead to the resignation of Nixon a year later.

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Afterburn

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  • Title: Afterburn
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After spending more than 15 years in development hell, this post-apocalyptic action flick finally sees the light of day. Set a decade after the world has fallen into chaos when a solar flare destroys most of the world’s technology, and various warlords arise to fight over what is left, Dave Bautista stars as a treasure hunter who continues to put his skills to work finding rare and lost items for the local would-be king (Samuel L. Jackson).

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The Long Walk

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  • Title: The Long Walk
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Set in dystopian present where the United States Government has been replaced by a totalitarian regime (something which seems scarily prescient given our current circumstance), The Long Walk follows a group of “volunteers” on a grueling contest to walk continuously over hundreds of miles until only a single winner remains standing (with the quick and brutal murders of any contestants who fall off the pace). Adapted from a Stephen King novel, the film has many of the same themes of King’s The Running Man, or other films such as The Hunger Games and Death Race, making social commentary on a corrupt system and the gamification of life for ordinary people turning survival into entertainment.

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