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This movie is an interesting thriller. Under the direction of Roman Polanski all the actors deliver good performances. Ewan McGregor’s character is hired to be a Ghost Writer for the Memoirs of the Former Priminister of England Adam Lang played by Pierce Brosnan. The previous Ghost Writer met with an untimely end and Ewan McGregor is hired to take his place. Suddenly he finds himself mixed up in a scandal and he doesn’t know who he can trust. His employer Adam Lang is accused of War crimes against England. His accuser is Robert Rycart played by Robert Pugh. Rycart is also a former employee of Adam Lang as well as a former friend. He wants Adam Lang to be charged with the torture of soldiers to extract information during the war. The soldiers were put on an air plane and tortured during the flight. The information for which the soldiers were tortured was to aid the Americans in the war.
England looked at him as a traitor because some of the tortured soldiers were British. Adam turns to America for help and they come to his defense. Ewan McGregor’s character finds some evidence that could incriminate Adam that was hidden his predecessor. So he follows the clues and he finds that all is not what it seems. He begins to question those that knew Lang back in College. He has to be sure if Adam Lang is guilty of the war crimes of which he is accused.
This film does tend to drag on a bit, but once it gets going it gets really interesting. The twists in this film will blow your mind and keep you guessing until the end and even then you are still guessing. Those that like a good mystery will enjoy this film. I am giving it 3 out of 5 popcorn bags.

Imagine living in a nice quiet town where everyone knows each other and nothing hardly ever happens. All that is about to change when a plane crashes in the town creek. As a result of the crash the town water is contaminated resulting in a deadly virus being released and infecting the town. This is what the characters in this movie must endure. The people infected become deranged killers with no emotion and they began killing anyone in their way. It is total chaos. Fear grips the whole town. You don’t know who is infected until I is too late. The nicest and quietest person transforms into a maniac ready to kill without warning. No one is safe and it seems the town is doomed.
All seems lost until the military arrives. Everyone feels relieved thinking they are saved, but looks can be deceiving. The real reason they are there is to contain the situation and prevent anyone from leaving so the disease stays in the town. They refer to the infected ones as the crazies. They shoot first and then destroy the bodies. There is no mercy and innocent non-infected people get caught in the cross fire no one is safe. Their only hope is to try to make an escape out of the town. This is no easy task with the military set to destroy anyone from the town. The deadly virus was made by the military as a biological chemical weapon. It was created to wipe out populations. They didn’t count on wiping out any American populations.
The fight to survive for the remaining few townsfolk is a thrilling journey. This movie will make you jump out of your seat, because you never know when one of the crazies will jump out. I am giving it 4 out of 5 popcorn bags.

This movie is easily one of this year’s best comedies. Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis both deliver the laughs. Sean William Scott also delivers the laughs as a burglar. Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan play Cops who have been partners for about eight years. They make a good team. Tracy Morgan’s character Paul is a married Cop obsessed with the thought that his wife is cheating on him to the extent that he has a hard time focusing on his job and paying attention to his surroundings especially when he is undercover. Bruce Willis’ character Jimmy is a divorced Cop with a daughter that’s about to get married. Jimmy always has to fix the messes that Paul gets him into.
This time Jimmy is in a fix and he needs to get some money quick to pay for his daughter’s wedding. Michelle Trachtenberg plays his daughter. So, he decides to sell his priceless baseball card worth about eighty three thousand dollars. He takes it to the sports memorabilia store to sell it. While Jimmy is in the store it is robbed by Sean William Scott’s character who tazers him to render him immobile and takes off with his valuable baseball card. Naturally Jimmy and Paul go after him and they eventually find him.
This is one of many hilarious moments in the film. They find him and use scare tactics on him to get information on what he did with Jimmy’s valuable baseball card. They find out that he sold the card to a collector. The collector turns out to be the leader of a dangerous Mexican drug outfit. Jimmy and Paul pay the drug dealer a visit and make a deal with him to retrieve a stolen car for him. They agree and the laughs just keep on coming. The scene where they talk to the car thief will have you rolling on the floor. I am giving it 4 out of 5 popcorn bags because it is big on the laughs.

In the case of this film the title can be deceiving, because this film is about so much more than a train station. It is about the life, love and marriage of a remarkable couple. This couple is very important not only to Russian culture but also to the world. Christopher Plummer plays the great Russian Novelist Tolstoy and Helen Mirren plays his wife Sofya. Both Helen and Christopher deliver brilliant performances. Set in Russia this film chronicles the last days of Tolstoy and shows an in depth glimpse into his life and his relationship with his wife, whom he loved very much. Tolstoy and Sofya were married over 4o years and they were the proud parents of 13 children. Tolstoy is widely known for his novels entitled War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Both of which have earned him world renowned success.
His philosophies inspired a whole new way of thinking. This produced many followers of Tolstoy called Tolstoyans. They believed in Tolstoy and they wanted his words and thoughts to forever be burned into the hearts and minds of the Russian people. They wanted him to belong only to them. The leaders of this movement disregarded Sofya as his wife and they constantly bumped heads with her. Sofya was not going to give up the love of her life. She wanted only to protect her family. She was like a Lioness protecting her family. Tolstoy was a Count and she a Countess and she wanted to live as such and uphold their name.
Tolstoy didn’t value such things; he believed that all men were created equal no matter what their station. In his will he gave up his rights to his literary work to the Russian people. Sofya was devastated. Tolstoy’s last days were spent at a train station. There Sofya came to him you could see and feel how much despite their differences of opinions they still loved each other. It was a very moving scene. I give this love story 4 out of 5 popcorn bags.

This film is set in Germany in a village. It is a foreign film with subtitles and it is in black and white. The title of the film really has nothing to do with the film. The film is about a village where accidents keep happening. The children of the village seem to be responsible at least that is how it seems. No one really knows who is responsible. The film is about 2 hours long. This is clearly too long to sit through a film where there is no resolution. The children are suspected of the crimes, but it is never proven. I was bored and disappointed with this film. Two hours of watching paint dry would have been more interesting. I cannot in good conscience give this film any popcorn bags at all. So, I’m giving it 0 out of 5 popcorn bags.