Brad Pitt
1) Unity Temple
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There are great buildings and there are great restorations. Sometimes, both come together.
Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright's Modern Masterpiece, is an homage to America's most renowned architect. The 55-minute film by Lauren Levine follows the challenging $25 million restoration and revival of Wright's first public commission and the painstaking efforts to bring the 100-year-old building back to its original beauty.
Wildly experimental for its...
2) Kalifornia
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Tense, chilling, psychodrama and darkly comic road movie. Graduate student and his girlfriend set out on a cross-country roadtrip to research a book they are writing on serial killers. Along the way, they pick up an ex-con and his girlfriend who will take them on a ride they'll never forget.
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Brad Pitt stars in this touching story about a young American searching for the cure to a rare skin disease that will kill him if he is exposed to light. In a small town on the Adriatic, a local healer has provided him with a cure but it's a cure that can only last for three days. Realizing that this may be his only chance to break free from the prison of his illness, Rick decides to live those three days to the fullest. Rick finds respite in the...
5) The Mexican
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A man tries to transport an ancient gun called The Mexican, believed to carry a curse, back across the border, while his girlfriend pressures him to give up his criminal ways.
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
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John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.
8) 8
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An unconstitutional proposition.
An unprecedented decision.
An all-star cast.
Starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Martin Sheen, 8 is written by Academy Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar) and directed by acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner.
The play is a powerful account of the case filed by the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) in the U.S. District Court in 2010 to overturn Proposition
...10) The Big Short
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Based on the true story of four outsiders who saw what the big banks, media and government refused to: the global collapse of the economy. A bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of banking, where everyone and everything is in question.
11) Sleepers
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Four ordinary boys. A harmless prank gone awry. Their childhood innocence forever shattered, they vow to avenge its loss in the haunting drama Sleepers. Sentenced to spend time at a reform school for their reckless behavior, four basically good boys from a bad neighborhood suffer a horrible fate while there. Forced to perform unspeakable acts by the very adults entrusted to watch over them, the young quartet barely survives the ordeal. A decade and...
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Hollywood's Stories volume 7
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Growing up surrounded by show-business elite, a career in acting was a natural fit for Gwyneth Paltrow. For three decades, she starred in, and has been a part of, multiple success stories on film. Her acting career aside, Mrs. Paltrow also created, and runs, her own branded company, Goop, that has developed into a very prosperous business.
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After 40 years, Tom Cruise's exuberance for creating films remains buoyant. A dedicated actor of immeasurable talent, Cruise has overcome overwhelming odds and personal conflict to continue to push the envelope in filmmaking. Exposing ones' heart to the world through their work is not only risky business, as far as Cruise is concerned, it is the only way to achieve an end that feels complete.
14) Cool World
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When Jack Deebs was behind bars he found escape by creating Cool World, a cartoon series featuring a vixen named Holli Would. The flesh proves weaker than ink, however, as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas.