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State Of Play (2009)

Plot: Congressman Stephen Collins’ (Affleck) hopes of becoming his party’s next presidential candidate are put in jeopardy when his mistress (and former research assistant) is found dead. Working a series of seemingly unrelated murders, the Congressman’s former campaign manager, Cal McCaffrey (Crowe) - now an investigative journalist - finds himself tasked with solving the case. Based on the 2003 BBC mini-series of the same name.

 
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★★☆☆☆ Hancock (2008)

Plot: A homeless superhero who has fallen out of favor with the public (Smith) meets a PR guy (Bateman) who wants to revitalize his image.

 

★★½☆☆ Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (2007)

Plot: Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium is the strangest, most fantastic, most wonderful toy store in the world. In fact, it’s a magic toy store and everything in it comes to life–including the store itself. The Emporium asks only one thing of its customers–you must believe it to see it.

 

★★★★☆ The Kingdom (2007)

Plot: When a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Saudi Arabia, FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury (Foxx) quickly assembles an elite team and secretly negotiates a 5-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing. Once there, however, they discover themselves hamstringed by Saudi officials, who don’t appreciate them poking their noses in what they consider to be a local matter.

 
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★½☆☆☆ Starsky & Hutch (2004)

Plot: In the 70’s, Detectives Starsky (Stiller) and Hutch (Wilson) are two totally different cops - and now they are partners. When they hear of a big drug shipment coming in to their city, they must put aside their differences to catch the big villain behind it all (Vaughn). Luckily, local informer Huggy Bear (Dogg) is along to help out these two.

 
  
     
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