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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

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  • Title: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
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The brainchild of writer/director Kerry Conran, 2004’s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was an ambitious and stylish production featuring a small cast against digital background in much the way Sin City would do one year later. Capturing the feel of 40s futurism (such as that found in the 1939 World’s Fair) and the look and tone of classic serials and cartoons such as Fleischer Studios’ Superman – “The Mechanical Monsters,” it’s an amazing piece of filmmaking that despite its box office disappointment has earned a following over the past two decades.

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The Order

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  • Title: The Order (2024)
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Based on true events, The Order is a solid drama about burnt out FBI Agent Terry Husk (Jude Law) sent to the Pacific Northwest to take it easy in an assignment where nothing ever happens… until he connects a series of robberies with a radicalized offshoot of a white power organization with a charismatic leader (Nicholas Hoult) and big plans for changing the world.

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Anna Karenina

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  • Title: Anna Karenina
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“Sin has a price, you can be sure of that.”

anna-karenina-posterAttempting another historical adaptation of classic literature, while re-teaming with leading lady Keira Knightley (with whom he collaborated on both Pride & Prejudice and Atonement), director Joe Wright delivers the unexpected with an evocative and dazzling adaptation of Leo Tolstoy‘s legendary novel Anna Karenina.

Limited by budgetary considerations and an unwillingness to repurpose locations other adaptations of Tolstoy’s work, or those used by various recent historical dramas, Wright hit upon an extraordinary idea to breathe new life in the staid genre by staging a setting that transforms around its characters. The result is a game changer in how movies like Anna Karenina are told and a serious contender for the best film of 2012.

Set in Russia during the late 19th Century our story concerns rich socialite Anna Karenina (Knightley), her marriage to an honorable but bland government official (Jude Law), and her temptation and eventual affair with the far more dashing Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson).

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