Posts Tagged ‘morgan freeman’

note: this is a repost of one my Reviews from Aug 9th, 2008.

Detective David Mills (Brad Pitt) is a youngster that has just transferred into the New York City’s homicide division. Detective Lt. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is the experienced homicide detective that has been partnered with Mills for his final week before he retires. As Mills enters the city and starts work at the same time a new serial killer starts his work using the seven deadly sins as the overall theme for his murders. (more…)

After Nelson Mandela [Morgan Freeman] is released from prison and elected the President of South Africa he uses the upcoming Rugby World Cup to help bring his nation together and get them past the Apartheid system that was abolished only 4 years earlier. (more…)

This week the crew sit down to discuss children’s movies and Philippe Petit’s story of how he managed to walk a wire across the World Trade Center Towers in 1974. (more…)

 

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Detective David Mills (Brad Pitt) is a youngster that has just transferred into the New York City’s homicide division. Detective Lt. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is the experienced homicide detective that has been partnered with Mills for his final week before he retires. As Mills enters the city and starts work at the same time a new serial killer starts his work using the seven deadly sins as the overall theme for his murders.

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I’ve been constantly attacking myself for placing so much emphasis of movie reviews and shying away from movie news and previews. For the main reason that if you read any of the sites that I read [FilmSchoolRejects, /Film, FirstShowing.net, among others] the amount of news articles that they post in a day probably exceed the amount of reviews I’ve posted to date here since my inception in February of this year. So finally I have come up with the solution to my problem. I will every Friday [or at least this is the plan for now] post an article called “The News Roundup” where I will highlight some of the new articles I find most interesting [linking to the original article from one of the blogs I read] and make a small commentary on each article. This will save me loads of time typing a page for every news piece and lower my guilt for not bringing you the information. So here we go.

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We meet Wesley Gibson(James McAvoy) the most worthless individual you could find. He works in a crunch job where he is constantly abused by his boss. One day while picking up some more anti-anxiety meds he is approached by the stunning Fox(Angelina Jolie) who tells him that his father, who walked out on him a week after his birth, had just died and was one of the greatest assassins in the world. He is then taken into the “Fraternity” where he is turned into an assassin under the tutelage of the Fox, The Repairman(Marc Warren), The Butcher(Dato Bakhtadze), The Gunsmith(Common) and they are all conducted by Sloan(Morgan Freeman).

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