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Starring: Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, and David Oyelowo Directed by: J.C. Chandor Screenplay by: J.C. Chandor    It's New York City, 1981.  The city is full of crime and a very dangerous place.  Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac), an immigrant businessman, is running a successful heating oil company.  He's about to close a deal that would allow him to be even more profitable by buying a waterfront shipping yard.  He needs more money before the sale is finalized, but when he needs the money most, something goes wrong.    People are starting to assault Morales's truck drivers and stealing the oil inside them.  Thugs are also coming to Morales's home and threatening him and his family.  Abel is worried about working too hard to find out who's doing it because his company is already so successful that he's caught the eye of the District Attorney's office.  His wife, Anna (Jessica Chastain) who comes from a mob family isn't afraid to ...

2014 was a good year for movies based on the lives of soldiers in the US military with remarkable lives.   Early on in the year, there was Lone Survivor starring Mark Wahlberg; a film that tells the story of Marcus Luttrell, a soldier in Afghanistan whose platoon was ambushed.   This film tells the story of Luttrell’s platoon and how he is the sole survivor from the attack.   At the end of the year, there were two films that I will focus on for this article, American Sniper starring Bradley Cooper and directed by Clint Eastwood, and Unbroken starring Jack O’Connell and directed by Angelina Jolie.   Both films portray soldier whom many people think of as heroes in their respective wars. American Sniper             American Sniper is the story of Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL during the war in Iraq who served four tours there.   He became known as “the legend” among the Marines because of his record number of...