Romance

Eternity

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  • Title: Eternity
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As with A Big Bold Beautiful Journey released earlier this year, Eternity puts a supernatural twist on your basic romcom. After a full life Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) wakes up in a sort of train station for the afterlife one week after her husband Larry (Miles Teller) died. Returned to their ideal ages of themselves, each gets a week to choose a different perfect world in which to spend eternity, although those who can’t decide can choose to stick around the station which is where Joan’s dilemma arrives as her first husband Luke (Callum Turner), who died in the Korean War, has been doing that for 67 years waiting for the love of his life in order for them to wade into eternity together.

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The Thomas Crown Affair

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  • Title: The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
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1999’s remake of the 1968 film about a multi-million dollar heist is certain an improvement on the original trading in a lackluster bank heist for stylish museum thefts of fine art. Casting Pierce Brosnan is the middle of his James Bond run as the bored rich man who steals art for his own amusement, the film never hits the Ocean’s 11 level of cool but it certainly has some cachet. Opposite our thief we get Rene Russo as the insurance investigator suspicious of Thomas Crown who also starts dating him (first for access but later feelings do develop as the pair consistently trade barbs).

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Roofman

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  • Title: Roofman
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Based on true events, Channing Tatum stars as former soldier turned thief Jeffrey Manchester who robbed over 40 McDonald’s before being sent to prison only to escape and hide out for months inside a Toys”R”Us. Fairly early on in the film someone describes Manchester as both a genius in seeing and understanding the world and a complete idiot in terms of lacking basic common sense, and the theme of Roofman is exploring that idea.

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A Lot Like Love

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  • Title: A Lot Like Love
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Released 20 years ago, A Lot Like Love feels a bit forgotten by time. The romantic comedy starred Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet as affable and charming leads whose lives intersect every few years before finally realizing that each belongs with the other. Kutcher is in full shaggy dog mode, especially early as the good-natured but largely clueless dude compelled to see his “five-year plan” to fruition. Peet (perhaps in her most intoxicating on-screen performance) is the more spontaneous, but also emotionally-distant, burned often by love.

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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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