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Starring: Matt Damon, Cecile De France, Bryce Dallas Howard Directed by: Clint Eastwood Written by: Peter Morgan      What happens to us when we die?  It's a question we all have asked at one point or another in our lives.  We ask it because we are afraid of facing death although we know it is inevitable.  Clint Eastwood and Peter Morgan have come up with an interesting take on this difficult question with "Hereafter".      Marie LeLay (Cecile De France) plays a talking head for a French news network caught in a tsunami that she barely survives at the opening of the film.  Marcus (Frankie McLaren) plays a London schoolboy who's brother is killed.  George Lonegan is a blue collar worker in San Francisco who used to be a psychic.  So what do these three people have to do with one another?  They have all been touched by death in one shape or form.      This is a film that probably won't be ...

Starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, and Helen Mirren Directed by: Robert Schwentke Written by: John Hoeber and Erich Hoeber           Who would have ever thought that this cast would ever play roles as retired CIA agents called back into action?  Who would have ever thought that Helen Mirren would be in an action comedy?  I certainly wouldn't have but I was certainly entertained by this film.       This is an exciting film based on a graphic novel from DC comics called RED: Retired Extremely Dangerous.  When I first heard about this, I questioned how something like this would work because the actors they chose for these roles are not actually old.  The cool thing is that this cast works well together considering that they are all really big names.  We are seeing the rise of movies with "all-star" casts these days and this is no exception.  Great actors like Willis and M...

Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Justin Timberlake Directed by David Fincher Written by Aaron Sorkin    "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies."  This film is an interesting take on the historical genre.  Normally we would think of something that happened long ago, whether or not it happened in our lifetime.  "The Social Network" is interesting because it's about the violent founding of something that seemingly everyone around us uses, Facebook.    It is fantastically written and the acting was excellent, especially Jesse Eisenberg.  He plays the role of Mark Zuckerberg, an undergraduate student at Harvard University who is breaking up with his girlfriend in the very first scene of the movie.  The dialogue that Sorkin uses makes Zuckerberg sound like a pretty big jerk, especially for this first scene.  I enjoy when actors really get into their character and it's clear that Eisenberg enjoyed ...