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Run All Night (2015) R-16

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From imdb : Mobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon(Liam Neeson) has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: with his estranged son, Mike( Joel Kinnaman ), whose life is in danger, or his longtime best friend, mob boss Shawn Maguire(Ed Harris), who wants Mike to pay for the death of his own son(Boyd Holbrook). Director:   Jaume Collet-Serra Writer:   Brad Ingelsby Even with all the violence, this is a very touching story about the love of fathers and their children, friendship and atonement. I never expected to like this film.  We were there in SM Aura for several reasons and it just so happened that they showed this film a couple of days before its US screening. We got attracted with the poster and of course, with Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, Joel Kinnaman and Common. When the movie was starting, I thought I was going to hate it and I am glad that I was wrong. There were a lot of nail-biting scenes and some parts put me to the edge of my...

FROZEN, the milder Snow Queen story by DISNEY (2013) 3D

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" She's my sister, she would never hurt me . "-Princess Anna It's been more than two months  since I've watched this movie at the new mall in Barangay BF Homes and I still have a hang over.  As my friend Kristen said that glorious day we watched the movie(not together), if TANGLED was great, this is even better.   As of late I have watched this movie three times.  Once with my folks, once with a friend  and once with my nephew(who watched it for the nth time). It's such a beautiful adaptation.  Even if it is an animation, it's real as real could be.  Yes, the people  looked like dolls, but the story was weaved so well.  If I may say so, even better than the original. The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen made scary stories for kids.  They made most, if not all, stepparents evil to the core.  That's so unfair(I actually wrote something about this before)! Hans Christian Andersen's SNEEDRONNINGEN or Th...