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1. THE CONJURING:
Patrick Wilson (A Gifted Man) and Vera Farmiga (Bates Motel) are husband-and-wife ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren in this based-on-fact story of a haunting that is particularly ugly, and particularly difficult to eradicate in a Rhode Island farmhouse that housed six generations of a family, many of who met terrible ends on the property. Andrea Perron who owned the home along with her husband, was unaware when they bought it, of its terrible history. She acted as a consultant on the picture, as did the real Lorraine Warren. Ed, a retired police officer, died several years after the events portrayed in the film. A very good frightener! Rated 18A.
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2. THE INTERNSHIP:
I’m not a big fan of either Vince Vaughan or Owen Wilson with their man-child personas, but found both of them entertaining and engaging in this tale of two excellent salesmen who lose their jobs due to changing technology and decide to change fields entirely, becoming unpaid interns at Google. Obviously fish out of water with the young Gen Y-ers running circles around them, they seem at first to be out of their league ... but slowly it appears that maybe there is life in the old boys yet, as, in the end, nothing really replaces one-on-one relationships. More than 100 actual Google employees were extras in the movie. Good fun! Rated 14A.
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3. DEAD IN TOMBSTONE:
With Mickey Rourke as The Devil, and Danny Trejo as a new entry to Hell, you really can’t go wrong with this horror-thriller. Trejo is Guererro, a gang leader who is brutally murdered by his own gang in a power-takeover and immediately finds himself in Hell. Not overly enamoured with the look and feel of the place, he tries to make a deal with Satan to reconsider. A deal is struck ... if Guererro can deliver the souls of six members of his gang to the Devil, he can go free in a six-for-one deal. Game on! Rated 18A.
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THE INTERNSHIP:
Watch for cameos by the real-life Google founders … and know that, despite the accurate look and feel of the Google campus in California, only five days of shooting were done there … the rest done on a set that looks just like the real thing.
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THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (1963):
The late Julie Harris is superb in this story of guests in a house that is reputed to be haunted. One of the best of the genre in the decade of the ‘60s.
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CARRIE:
Terrific remake of the 1976 original based on Stephen King’s novel
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ESCAPE PLAN:
Two senior citizens, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger do themselves proud in a prison break movie.
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