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West Side Story (2021)

Steven Spielberg directs a new big-screen adaptation of the acclaimed stage musical with West Side Story. In 1957 Manhattan, the street gangs of the caucasian Jets and Puerto Rican Sharks fight for control of San Juan Hill on Manhattan’s West Side. The gang leaders of Riff (Mike Faist) and Bernardo (David Alvarez) are ready to…

First Man

First Man

The journey to bring man to the moon is documented in First Man. Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) is an aeronautical engineer, who joins the NASA space program to bring a man to the moon. With his worried wife Janet (Claire Foy) home to care for his family, Armstrong joins fellow astronauts Ed White (Jason Clarke), Buzz Aldrin (Corey Stoll), and…

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Ant-Man and the Wasp

The pint-sized superhero gets a new partner in Ant-Man and the Wasp. In the aftermath of the events of Captain America: Civil War, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) has been placed under house arrest by the FBI, while Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and his daughter Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) are wanted fugitives. When he has a dream that features…

Ant-Man

Ant-Man

An ex-con becomes a size changing superhero in Ant-Man.  Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is a cat-burglar, who has just been released from prison.  Desperate to be reunited with his daughter, Scott accepts a burglary job from his old cellmate Luis (Michael Peña) and ends up stealing a strange suit that causes Scott to shrink down…

The Bourne Legacy

The Bourne Legacy

While most would automatically assume The Bourne Legacy is a reboot of the Bourne franchise, it is more a side-story that takes place during and after the events of The Bourne Ultimatum. It turns out that Jason Bourne and the Treadstone and Blackbriar programs that created him were just a small peace of a larger network of…