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House at the End of the Street (2012)

Synopsis:

House at the End of the Street (2012) is a horror thriller movie directed by Mark Tonderai and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Max Thieriot, Gil Bellows and Elisabeth Shue.

Seeking a fresh start, newly divorced Sarah (Elisabeth Shue) and her daughter Elissa (Jennifer Lawrence) find the house of their dreams in a small, upscale, rural town. But when startling and unexplainable events begin to happen, Sarah and Elissa learn the town is in the shadows of a chilling secret. Years earlier, in the house next door, a daughter named Carrie-Ann (Eva Link) killed her parents (Krista Bridges and John Healey) in their beds, and disappeared—leaving only a brother, Ryan (Max Thieriot), as the sole survivor. The neighbors explain that Carrie-Ann ran into the woods after the double murder and, though her body was never found, it was believed she drowned in the nearby dam. Ryan now lives alone in the house; the neighborhood hates him because his house drives down their property values. They want to purchase his house and demolish it, but Ryan won't sell the house.

Weaver (Gil Bellows), a local police officer, appears to be Ryan's only supporter. Against the wishes of Elissa’s mother, Elissa and Ryan begin a relationship after he offers her a ride while she was walking home in a storm. He tells Elissa that he accidentally injured Carrie-Ann while they were swinging one day, giving her brain damage and making her extremely aggressive. For his safety, Ryan was sent away from home to take care of a sickly aunt and didn’t return home until after the murders. It is revealed to the viewer early in the film that Ryan has secretly been taking care of Carrie-Ann in a hidden room beneath a trap door in the laundry room. Carrie-Ann attacks him when he enters the room, and after sedating her, he tells her about Elissa and that he wants Carrie-Ann to leave Elissa alone. As the relationship between Ryan and Elissa progresses, Carrie-Ann escapes the room on two occasions and appears to attempt to attack Elissa. During the second escape attempt, Ryan accidentally kills Carrie-Ann while trying to hide her from some local students. In his grief, Ryan visits a diner where a Penn State student waitress (Jordan Hayes) attempts to comfort him.

While visiting Elissa’s battle of the bands at the local high school, several high school students vandalize Ryan’s car and then attack him. While defending himself, he breaks the ankle of one of the students (Nolan Gerard Funk) and then runs home. The remaining students announce they're going to burn his house down. Elissa drives Ryan's broken car home and stops the fire, but while inside finds Ryan's secret room. Opening the door, she is attacked by Carrie-Ann right as Ryan arrives home to stop the attack. At this moment, it is revealed to the viewer that the current Carrie-Ann is actually the Penn State student from the diner, being held captive and made to look like Carrie-Ann.

In order to keep Carrie-Ann secret, he knocks Elissa out and ties her to a chair in the secret room. He reveals that Carrie-Ann actually died during the swinging accident but that he needed Carrie-Ann in his life. He knocks out the Penn State student and while removing her body from the room says he is going to make Elissa his new Carrie-Ann so he can have them both in his life. It becomes apparent to the viewer by this point that the first "Carrie-Ann" had never attacked Elissa but rather was another victim attempting to escape from Ryan. Weaver arrives at the house after a request from Sarah. Ryan says Elissa isn't there, but Weaver hears her phone ring inside. In a scuffle with Ryan inside the dark house, Weaver is stabbed to death in the laundry room after he drops his gun and malfunctioning flash light. During this time, Elissa escapes the secret room but is chloroformed by Ryan and thrown into the trunk of his car. When she awakes, she finds the dead Penn State student in the trunk and escapes his car. Sarah arrives at the house and hears Elissa's screams, but she is stabbed by Ryan and thrown in the laundry room. In a struggle in the dark laundry room, Ryan is shot several times by Elissa using the dropped objects by Weaver, and Ryan is then knocked out by Sarah.

On a later date, as Elissa and Sarah move out of their rented house, Elissa stares at a tree where Ryan once told her he learned the lesson that people hold multiple layers of secrets. In the final scene, Ryan is shown in a mental hospital. His inner thoughts reveal that his parents had hidden Carrie-Ann’s death to the public by dressing up Ryan as Carrie-Ann. When Ryan protested that he wasn’t Carrie-Ann, he was abused by his parents, explaining why he killed his parents years ago.

Production:

The film was mainly filmed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in July 2010 and was scheduled to be released in April 2012 but was moved to a September 2012 release. A tie-in novelization of the movie was released on August 12, 2012 to accompany the movie by Little, Brown Company.

Reception:

The film received mostly negative reviews from critics. It currently holds a 10% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 49 reviews from critics with the consensus stating: "Poorly conceived, clumsily executed, and almost completely bereft of scares, House at the End of the Street strands its talented star in a film as bland as its title."

Directed by Mark Tonderai

Produced by Aaron Ryder

                         Peter Block

                         Ryan Kavanaugh

Written by David Loucka

                        Jonathan Mostow

Starring:

Jennifer Lawrence

Max Thieriot

Gil Bellows

Elisabeth Shue

Music by   Theo Green

Cinematography: Miroslaw Baszak

Editing by Steve Mirkovich

                         Karen Porter 

Studio: FilmNation Entertainment

Distributed by Relativity Media

Release date:  September 21, 2012

Running time: 101 minutes

Language: English

Budget:          $10 million

Box office: $13,840,065 

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The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Synopsis:

The Dark Knight Rises (2012) is a sequel to Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008). In this movie two characters are introduced who inspire Batman to change his decision about retirement. 

Eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, Gotham City is in a state of peace. Under powers granted by the Dent Act (legislation inspired by the perceived heroism of the late Harvey Dent), Commissioner James Gordon and the Gotham City Police Department have nearly eradicated violent and organized crime. Gordon feels guilty about the cover-up of Harvey Dent's crimes, but decides that the city is not ready to hear the truth. While following a lead in the abduction of a congressional representative, Gordon's speech falls into the hands of the villain Bane, who discovers the truth about Dent. Gordon is shot in the process of escaping and promotes patrol officer John Blake to detective, allowing Blake to report directly to him in the hospital.

As Batman has disappeared from Gotham, so too has Bruce Wayne, locking himself inside Wayne Manor. Wayne Enterprises is crumbling after he invested in board member Miranda Tate's clean energy project, designed to harness fusion power, and shut it down after learning that the core could be modified to become a nuclear weapon. Both Blake—who has deduced Batman's identity—and Gordon implore Batman to return. Bane attacks the stock exchange and bankrupts Bruce, forcing him to relinquish control of Wayne Enterprises. Correctly suspecting that his business rival, John Daggett, employed Bane to aid in this aggressive takeover of his company, Bruce entrusts Tate to keep full control out of Daggett's hands. However, Bane has other plans, and kills Daggett to take control of his construction empire.

Following a trail left by cat burglar Selina Kyle, Batman locates Bane, who says that he took over the League of Shadows following Ra's al Ghul's death. In the following confrontation, Bane physically cripples Batman and places him in a foreign prison from which escape is virtually impossible. The other inmates relate the story of how Ra's al Ghul's child was the only person, through necessity and the sheer force of will, to ever escape the prison. Batman believes that the child grew up to become Bane. Meanwhile, Bane lures most of Gotham's police force underground and sets off explosions across the city, trapping the officers. Using weapons and artillery stolen from Wayne Enterprises' Applied Sciences Division, he turns Gotham into an isolated city-state. Any attempt to leave the city will result in the detonation of the Wayne Enterprises fusion core, now converted into a bomb. Bane publicly reveals the cover-up of Dent's death and releases the prisoners in Blackgate Prison who were prosecuted under the Dent Act. The rich and powerful are forcibly brought before a show trial presided over by Jonathan Crane and 

given the choice between death and exile.

Over the course of several months, Bruce recovers from his injuries and retrains himself physically. He successfully escapes the foreign prison and returns to Gotham, enlisting Selina, Blake, Tate, Gordon and Lucius Fox to help liberate the city and stop the fusion bomb. As Batman, he subdues Bane, but Tate intervenes and reveals herself to be Ra's al Ghul's daughter Talia. It was she who escaped the prison as a child, returning with her father and the League of Shadows to rescue Bane, the one person who aided her in prison. She plans to complete her father's work by destroying Gotham while avenging his death at Wayne's hands. Gordon blocks the bomb's ability to be remotely detonated while Selina saves Batman by shooting Bane. Batman tries to force Talia to take the bomb to the fusion chamber where it can be stabilized, but she remotely floods the chamber. Talia dies when her truck crashes off the road, but remains confident that the bomb cannot be stopped. Using an aircraft developed by Fox, Batman hauls the bomb beyond the city limits, where it detonates over the ocean and apparently kills him.

Batman is later praised as a hero, while Bruce is presumed killed in the riots. After Bruce's funeral, Blake wants to reveal Batman's identity to the world as a tribute to Bruce, but Gordon reminds him that it is best left as a mystery to the uninformed. Gordon later finds that the Bat-Signal has been repaired. The Wayne estate is divided up to cover any debts, with the manor left in the city's possession to become an orphanage and the rest going to Alfred Pennyworth. Fox discovers that Bruce programmed the autopilot on the aircraft six months ago. Alfred witnesses Bruce and Selina alive together at a café in Italy, while Blake inherits the Batcave.

Music:

In an interview in October 2010, composer Hans Zimmer confirmed that he would be returning to score The Dark Knight Rises. James Newton Howard was offered to return and write the score with Zimmer as he did for Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, but he chose not to because he noted that the chemistry established between Zimmer and Nolan during the making of Inception would make him seem like a "third wheel".

In November 2011, Zimmer crowdsourced online audio recordings of a chant to be used in the film's score. When asked about the chant for clarification, Zimmer said, "The chant became a very complicated thing because I wanted hundreds of thousands of voices, and it's not so easy to get hundreds of thousands of voices. So, we Twittered and we posted on the internet, for people who wanted to be part of it. It seemed like an interesting thing. We've created this world, over these last two movies, and somehow I think the audience and the fans have been part of this world. We do keep them in mind." The two-word chant deshi basara translates to "he rises" in Moroccan, exhibiting Ra's al Ghul's Arabian ethnicity as well as coinciding with the title of the film, The Dark Knight Rises.

Zimmer included several cues from the earlier scores, but explains that he wanted to go in a "completely different direction" for Bane's theme. While the theme accompanying Selina Kyle is deliberately ambiguous, the musical thread spanning throughout the trilogy was composed exclusively for Bruce Wayne.

 Release:

On July 6, 2012, Warner Bros. held a special IMAX screening of the film for more than one hundred reporters and critics. However, technical issues with the computer device synchronising the sound and picture forced the studio to postpone the screening by a day. The Dark Knight Rises premiered on July 16 at the AMC Lincoln Square Theater in New York City, New York. The film was released in Australia and New Zealand on July 19, and was later released in North America and the United Kingdom on July 20.

Box office:

The film earned an estimated $30.6 million in midnight showings, which was the second-highest midnight gross of all time behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($43.5 million). It did, however, break Deathly Hallows – Part 2's record ($2 million) for the highest midnight gross in IMAX with $2.3 million. Hours before the midnight release, several box office analysts suggested as much as a $198 million opening weekend.

In the wake of the mass shooting occurred during a midnight screening of the film, Warner Bros. decided to not report further box office figures for the movie until Monday July 23, 2012. As a result, other distributors also delayed the release of their official estimates as well. The shooting is also speculated to have hurt the ticket sales as E! Online reported that a North Carolina audience member had stated that "this theater was kinda empty". Some reports released on July 21, 2012 said that rival studios estimated that the film grossed $75 million to $77 million on its opening day. Warner Brothers shortly after released a statement to ABC News stating that they delayed the release of their estimates for the opening day total of the film "out of respect for the victims and their families," and added "Warner Bros. Pictures will not be reporting box office numbers for The Dark Knight Rises throughout the weekend. Box office numbers will be released on Monday." Later, it was revealed that the film made $75.8 million during its opening day, which is the third-highest single day tally of all-time behind Deathly Hallows - Part 2 ($91.1 million) and The Avengers ($80.8 million). On July 23, 2012, it was announced that the film grossed $160.9 million, which is the third-highest opening weekend of all-time behind The Avengers ($207.4 million) and Deathly Hallows - Part 2 ($169.2 million). However, it did break The Dark Knight's record ($158.4 million) for the highest opening weekend for a 2D film.

 Reception:

The Dark Knight Rises received an 86% approval rating from critics and 93% from the audience on aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, an average rating of 8/10 from 250 critics. Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 78 (out of 100) based on 45 reviews from mainstream critics, considered to be "generally favorable reviews". The Telegraph granted the film a maximum score of five stars, stating that it is "a superhero film without a superhero," comparing it with The Godfather Part II and praising Hardy's performance as well as the film's intricate plot and narrative. IGN gave it a 9 out of 10, noting similarities in tone and theme to Batman Begins over the trilogy's second installment The Dark Knight, but also describing Bane as "that bit less interesting to watch" than Ledger's Joker, despite praising his "menacing voice" and "body language-driven performance". The Guardian scored the film four out of five stars, calling it a film of "granite, monolithic intensity", yet also calling it a "hammy, portentous affair". Andrew O'Hehir of Salon writes "if The Dark Knight Rises is a fascist film, it's a great fascist film, and arguably the biggest, darkest, most thrilling and disturbing and utterly balls-out spectacle ever 

created for the screen". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three out of four stars, stating "the film begins slowly with a murky plot and too many new characters, but builds to a sensational climax."

The Daily Mail's Chris Tookey said that the film was bloated and overly long as well as criticizing the sombre tone and lack of humor, despite praising the film's visually impressive set pieces. CNN's Tom Charity called this a "disappointingly clunky and bombastic conclusion to a superior series". Mike Sharkey of GameSpy claimed that "there are a handful of plot holes in TDK Rises that can't be ignored." The film failed to impress oscar judges for example Brret Easton Ellis said "There was zero love for The Dark Knight Rises at the packed screening." Another said "People were kind of disappointed", and "That there was nothing remarkable about the acting."

In reaction to fan backlash to negative reviews, Rotten Tomatoes had to disable user commentary for the film leading up to its release. Some fans had threatened violence against critics while others threatened to take down the websites of movie critics who had given the film a negative review.

Directed by Christopher Nolan

Produced by Emma Thomas

                        Christopher Nolan

                        Charles Roven

Screenplay by   Jonathan Nolan

                          Christopher Nolan

Story by Christopher Nolan

                David S. Goyer

Based on  Characters created by  Bob Kane

Starring: 

Christian Bale

Michael Caine

Gary Oldman

Anne Hathaway

Tom Hardy

Marion Cotillard

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Morgan Freeman

Music by   Hans Zimmer

Cinematography Wally Pfister

Editing by Lee Smith

Studio:  Legendary Pictures

                Syncopy Films

                DC Comics

Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures

Release date:   July 16, 2012 (world premiere)

                          July 20, 2012 (United States)

Running time:  165 minutes

Language:  English

Budget:          $250 million 

Box office:  $337,108,988

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Savages(2012)

Synopsis:

A University of California graduate and a US navy officer became top marijuana growers. They were running their business successfully. They also shared a girlfriend which was also going well. One day met another woman who wanted to start a business with them. But she was refused. Then the woman kidnapped their girlfreind. The duo started to rescue their girlfreind with another guy.

Production:

By August 2011, the film was shooting in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. The sex scenes were filmed during the first three days. The film entered post-production in October 2011.

Casting:

Jennifer Lawrence was originally cast as O, but dropped out to film The Hunger Games instead. Other actresses considered for the part included Olivia Wilde, Blake Lively, Teresa Palmer and Abbie Cornish. In April 2011, it was reported that Lively had joined the film. Before casting Taylor Kitsch in the film, Oliver Stone asked Peter Berg to show him 30 minutes of Kitsch's work in Battleship to see how he was as a leading man, and after seeing that footage, he cast him. Trevor Donovan originally auditioned for a role that was cut but after seeing Donovan's tape, Stone specifically wrote him a part that was not in the book. Uma Thurman played O's mother, Paqu, but her scenes were cut due to time 

constraints.

Reception:

Savages has received mixed reviews from critics, as it currently holds a 53% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 105 reviews. Scott Foundas of Film Comment wrote: "I’m not sure that Oliver Stone has ever made so purely exuberant a movie as his new Savages, an unabashedly lurid sun-and-surf ménage-à-trois cum drug-running caper, with touches of Jacobean tragedy for good measure". Foundas interviewed the director in the July/August 2012 issue of the magazine. 

According to InSight Crime, the publicity circuit used to promote the movie "are not only false, but promote a dangerously misleading view of the country's criminal groups." To justify his claim, Oliver Stone, the movie director, provided a series of unfolded and false assertions to justify his opposition to the War on Drugs, fueling a "dystopian narrative of Mexico" and feeding on the belief that the Mexican criminals are "invincible supermen."

Directed by Oliver Stone

Produced by Moritz Borman

                        Eric Copeloff

Screenplay by   Shane Salerno

                          Don Winslow

                          Oliver Stone

Based on   Savages by  Don Winslow

Narrated by Blake Lively

Starring:

Taylor Kitsch

Blake Lively

Aaron Johnson

John Travolta

Benicio del Toro

Salma Hayek

Music by   Adam Peters

Cinematography Dan Mindel

Editing by   Joe Hutshing

                    Stuart Levy

                    Alex Marquez

Studio Relativity Media

Distributed by   Universal Pictures

Release date:   July 6, 2012

Running time:   131 minutes

Language:        English

Budget:            $45 million

Box office:       $25,431,000

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