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True Grit

Starring: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Hailee Steinfeld Screenplay written and directed by: Joel and Ethan Coen      "Punishment comes one way or another".  Finally, a western, one of my favorite types of movie.  There haven't been many (if any) westerns in 2010, but what a way to end the year with an awesome film, "True Grit".      Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) is only fourteen years old when her father is killed by a man named Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin).  She wants to avenge her father's murder by bringing Chaney to justice, but the best way to get him is with the help of U.S. Marshal Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn (Jeff Bridges).  Soon after they set off to find Chaney, a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf (Matt Damon) joins them to bring Chaney to justice in Texas for murdering a state senator.  Will their mutual benefit to catching Chaney help them or hurt them in finding him?  Will he be brought to justice for what he's done?      A p

Tron: Legacy

Starring: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, and Olivia Wilde Directed by: Joseph Kosinski Written by: Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz "The Grid. A digital frontier.  I tried to picture clusters of information as they move through the computer.  What did they look like?  Ships? Motorcycles?  Were the circuits like freeways?  I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see.  And then, one day, I got in." -Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges).  This visual stunner and action drama, and sequel to the 1982 Tron is sure to thrill almost anybody who sees it.     When Kevin Flynn, CEO of ENCOM, gets trapped inside his computer creation and nobody knows what happened to him, it takes 20 years for anyone to see him again, when his son Sam (Garrett Hedlund) goes inside the grid to find him.  Inside, he finds a digital world created by Flynn's program designed to create this world, Clu (also Jeff Bridges).  Sam is treated like a program once inside the grid, but there's one proble