7.6

Source Code

2011, USA, France

• Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Arden, Cas Anvar, Russell Peters, Brent Skagford, Craig Thomas, Gordon Masten, Susan Bain, Paula Jean Hixson, Lincoln Ward, Kyle Gatehouse, Albert Kwan, Anne Day-Jones, Clarice Byrne, James A. Woods, Joe Cobden, Tom Tammi, Matt Holland, Jasson Finney, Kyle Allatt, Frédérick De Grandpré, Pierre Leblanc, Scott Bakula, Laura Atwood, Raynald Lapierre, Samuel Meadows
• Genre: Action, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Duncan Jones
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Colter Stevens, a US Army helicopter pilot whose last memory is flying in Afghanistan, wakes up on a commuter train. However, he discovers that he has assumed the identity of another man. 8 minutes later, the train explodes and Stevens finds himself in some kind of pod. He then talks to someone named Goodwin, who tells him he has to go back and find out who the bomber is. He is sent back to go through the whole thing again and attempts to find who the bomber is but fails. The bomb goes off and Stevens finds himself in the pod again. He is sent back another time, yet still cannot find out anything. When he returns, he asks what is going on. Goodwin and Rutledge, the scientist in charge, tell him that he is part of a project that can put someone in another person's consciousness during the last 8 minutes of their life. Stevens then asks why he cannot just stop the bomb. He is told that he is not going back in time but placed in the moment so he can find out who the bomber is and if there are any other targets. On the side, Stevens finds himself falling for the woman traveling with him while he is still in the other man's consciousness.

  7.2

Too Big to Fail

2010, USA

• Actors: James Woods, John Heard, William Hurt, Erin Dilly, Amy Carlson, Topher Grace, Ayad Akhtar, Cynthia Nixon, Kathy Baker, Edward Asner, Paul Giamatti, Beau Baxter, Ben Livingston, Erin Burnett, Chance Kelly, Chil Kong, Daniel K. Isaac, Billy Crudup, James Saito, Maria Bartiromo, Michael O'Keefe, Victor Slezak, Chandra Thomas, Tom Mason, Peter Hermann, Joey Slotnick, Bill Pullman, Evan Handler, Tony Shalhoub, Matthew Modine
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Curtis Hanson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A close look behind the scenes, between late March and mid-October, 2008: we follow Richard Fuld's benighted attempt to save Lehman Brothers; conversations among Hank Paulson (the Secretary of the Treasury), Ben Bernanke (chair of the Federal Reserve), and Tim Geithner (president of the New York Fed) as they seek a private solution for Lehman's; and, back-channel negotiations among Paulson, Warren Buffet, investment bankers, a British regulator, and members of Congress as almost all work to save the U.S. economy. By the end, with the no-strings bailout arranged, modest confidence restored on Wall Street, and a meltdown averted, Paulson wonders if banks will lend.

  6.0

She's the One

1996, USA

• Actors: John Mahoney, Edward Burns, Mike McGlone, Maxine Bahns, Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, Malachy McCourt, Leslie Mann, Amanda Peet, Anita Gillette, Frank Vincent, Beatrice Winde, Eugene Osborne Smith, Robert Weil, Tom Tammi, Raymond De Marco, Ron Farrell, Mark Belasco, Anne Marie Stefani
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Edward Burns
• Available languages:
  • English English.

How do siblings deal with each other in their targets? This is the question tackled in this movie. Blue-collared Mickey drives a New York taxicab since the breakup with his promiscuous ex-fiancée Heather two years ago. His younger, white-collared brother, Francis, cannot let Mickey forget the tragedy of the "hairy ass": (Mickey's image of his apartment floor of the guy having sex with Heather after walking in on them). Finding relief in driving his cab, Mickey meets an art student named Hope whom he marries after knowing her for only 24 hours. Mickey also meets his old lover Heather, and learns more about life itself as taxi fares in the course of a summer. Francis, a young Wall Street corporate raider, unhappy in his marriage to Renee and led by his infidelity, continues his shots at Mickey throughout the film, only to find himself a plot device that lends humor and lessons about marriage and brotherhood when he meets and starts an dangerous affair with Heather, despite Mickey's warnings that Heather is a gold-digging nymphomaniac who goes through sexual partners as often as a person changes clothes. Given Mickey's frame of reference on the past and his bride of 24 hours, it is no wonder that the two brothers, along with their father, an ego-eccentric and emotionally bereft bigot and a hard-core chauvinist who does not allow women aboard his fishing boat, learn about the strength of women, and their own lives.

  6.7

Sleepless in Seattle

1992, USA

• Actors: Tom Hanks, Ross Malinger, Rita Wilson, Victor Garber, Tom Riis Farrell, Carey Lowell, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Le Clanché du Rand, Kevin O'Morrison, David Hyde Pierce, Valerie Wright, Frances Conroy, Tom Tammi, Calvin Trillin, Caroline Aaron, Linda Wallem, LaTanya Richardson, Rosie O'Donnell, Tom McGowan, Steve Mellor, Marguerite Schertle, Dana Ivey, Brian McConnachie, Rob Reiner, Gaby Hoffmann, Matt Smith, Amanda Maher, Barbara Garrick, Victor Morris
• Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
• Director(s): Nora Ephron
• Available languages:
  • English English.

After his wife Maggie passes away, Sam Baldwin and his adolescent son Jonah relocate from Chicago to Seattle to escape the grief associated with Maggie's death. Eighteen months later, Sam is still grieving and can't sleep. Although Jonah misses his mother, he wants his father to get a new wife despite Sam having not even contemplated dating again. On Christmas Eve, Sam, on Jonah's initiative, ends up pouring his heart out on a national radio talk show about his magical and perfect marriage to Maggie, and how much he still misses her. Among the many women who hears Sam's story and falls in love with him solely because of it is Annie Reed, a Baltimore based newspaper writer. Annie's infatuation with Sam's story and by association Sam himself is despite being already engaged. But Annie's relationship with her straight-laced fiancé Walter is unlike her dream love life in the movie An Affair to Remember (1957). She even writes to Sam proposing they meet atop the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day. Back in Seattle, Sam has received hundreds of letters from women wanting to meet him. Jonah is excited by one letter in particular from Baltimore and will do whatever he needs to to get his father and Annie together. However, old fashioned Sam wants his future love life to be based on meeting a woman the traditional way, and he, in turn, becomes infatuated with an unknown woman he spots a few times in Seattle. Will magic happen twice in Sam's life, and if so will it be with this unknown woman or Annie?