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examples of movie summary  n 2007, 13-year old Saoirse Ronan received an Oscar nomination for her role in “Atonement”. She joined an impressive list of other child actresses who have been recognized by the Academy such as Jodie Foster, Tatum O’Neal and Abigail Breslin. Ronan’s nomination had me scratching my head. I didn’t get it. But after seeing her as the lead in Joe Wright’s new assassin thriller “Hanna”, I now think Ronan’s career trajectory will be more Jodie than Tatum. In this astonishing new film, Ronan plays a 16-year old world-class-trained assassin named Hanna. Raised by her father, an ex-CIA assassin in exile played by Eric Bana, Hanna has never seen the outside world. She lives in the snowy woods in what looks like a cozy gingerbread cottage where her father has been relentlessly training her her whole life. When Hanna feels confident and ready to face her destiny, her father tells her to flip a switch on a device that will alert the CIA to their whereabouts. That signal is then picked up by CIA hardass Cate Blanchett who wants to hunt down and kill Bana. The international chase-to-the-death is on from the Arctic Circle to Germany. There is a visceral intensity in every scene that is almost palpable. “Hanna” is serious about not wanting this teenage assassin to look like anything out of “Spy Kids”. All the performances, especially Blanchett’s and Ronan’s, are tension-filled and feel real. The cinematography looks like a cross between James Bond and the Brothers Grimm. “Hanna” is Wright’s most exciting film yet, and will likely become his most successful to date. DVD Double Feature: Last year’s assassin drama “The American”, starring George Clooney, was criticized by many for being low-key and too slow. But it was intended to be a drama, whereas “Hanna” is clearly a thriller. Both films work as character studies of highly trained assassins who seem trapped by their own existences. “Insidious” is an old-fashioned haunted house thriller. And probably the loudest. The “gotcha” moments are jolting, but the quieter moments are more frightening for their visual creepiness. James Wan’s film has the mood and atmosphere of Dario Argento’s best films. Like Argento’s “Suspiria”, this film has a glorious shivery look to it. A couple played by Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne move their family into a new house and suddenly strange things begin to happen. So they move into another house, but the strange things follow them. Soon they realize that the houses aren’t haunted. It’s their son who’s haunted. From here they enlist the services of a sort-of Ghostbusters-like crew and things really start jumping. Character actress Lin Shaye plays the family’s psychic advisor and she does a far better job of explaining their son’s condition than I ever could. It has something to do with out-of-body experiences and a dimension called The Further. But it’s all just window-dressing to disguise what is actually an all-too-familiar plot. “Insidious” is a fun scary movie with good performances, especially from Barbara Hershey as Wilson’s mother who’s been keeping a secret about her son’s childhood. After her outstanding work in last year’s “Black Swan”, could Hershey be on the verge of a comeback? Hope so. Unfunny is not how a comedy would want to be described. A movie like “Taxi Driver” wouldn’t be considered a comedy. Yet in “Super” Rainn Wilson plays a Travis Bickle-type psycho in a movie that comes dressed up like a comedy yet has more violence than a Martin Scorsese picture. Wilson loses his wife (Liv Tyler) to Kevin Bacon, so he decides to become a home-made crime-fighter. He’s as human as you and I, with no special powers, but he creates the masked and costumed character Crimson Bolt and runs through the streets yelling “Shut Up Crime!” That’s funny, until it becomes evident that he might be very psychologically disturbed. Eventually he meets up with Ellen Page in a comic book shop and she recruits herself to become his sidekick Boltie. There’s real chemistry between them and some of their scenes together are genuinely touching. Their journey leads to a startlingly bizarre conclusion which, again, is not funny. “Super” is too straightforward to be a parody of superhero movies. A few years back we had the comedy “Superhero Movie” which did that much better. When “Super” is being funny, and it does have moments, the comedy is intelligent and not just random slapstick. But then it gets all dark again. It’s a movie in search of a genre. The weird tonal shifts in “Super” will catch most people off guard. Maybe director James Gunn means for his film’s violent moments to get laughs. I have a very liberal sense of humor, and I usually laugh a lot at black comedy. The trouble here is that the bloody moments just aren’t funny. They’re often painful to watch. It’s like they belong in another movie. <span style="margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">DVD Double Feature: <span style="margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In 1994 Damon Wayans played a self-made superhero in a more obvious comedy called “Blankman”. It co-stars David Alan Grier, Robin Givens and Jason Alexander. Fight Club Summary Fight club is a film about a guy whose name for all intensive purposes will be Jack. I say that because his name is not really given throughout the film, it is only hinted that Jack is his name. Jack is a young professional who works for an auto company. He has an extreme case of insomnia and obsesses about his apartment. Jack goes to a doctor about his insomnia, but the doctor only sends him to a support group for men with testicular cancer to “see what real pain is”. It is at the support groups he finds his salvation, cries at them and is able to sleep. While at the meeting, he meets a girl named Marla Singer. She is also a faker and only goes to the meetings for free coffee and to hear all of the horrible stories, which she says is better then a movie. Jack could not cry with another faker in the room and therefore could not sleep either. He and Marla split up the groups and exchange numbers. Jack then goes on a business trip. On this trip, he meets Tyler Durden on an airplane and they exchange business cards. When Jack’s plane lands at the end of his trip, he finds out that his bags were not on the plane and even worse, when he gets back to his apartment, finds it blown up. He calls Tyler and stays at his house. Tyler lives in the broken down old house in the toxic waste part of town. While at a bar a few nights later, they decided to fight each other in the parking lot out of sheer curiosity because neither of them had ever been in a fight. Men exiting the bar see this and want to also partake. Fight club is then born. They meet every Saturday and fight in the basement of the bar after closing. the rules that Jack and tyler create are....   1st RULE: You do not talk about FIGHT CLUB. 2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about FIGHT CLUB. 3rd RULE: If someone says "stop" or goes limp, taps out the fight is over. 4th RULE: Only two guys to a fight. 5th RULE: One fight at a time. 6th RULE: No shirts, no shoes. 7th RULE: Fights will go on as long as they have to. 8th RULE: If this is your first night at FIGHT CLUB, you HAVE to fight. Tyler Durden also starts sleeping with Marla singer. This bothers Jack, but he does not let Tyler know that it really bothers him. Slowly Tyler starts to give the members homework assignments. The first assignment was getting into a fight with a complete stranger and loosing on purpose. Then the homework assignments got a little more intense, ordering the members to destroy property of one kind or another. Then project mayhem began. Members of fight club start moving into the house that Jack and Tyler live in. Tyler and other members of project mayhem light an office building on fire and also draw a large green smiley face on it. Tyler did not tell Jack about this and the rift in the friendship begins. Tyler leaves Jack after they get into a disagreement about Marla. When Tyler left, so did all of the other members of project mayhem leaving Jack in the house by himself. Jack finds several files and pieces of paper that give him clues to Tyler’s whereabouts. He follows all of Tyler’s airline receipts and finds out that he has started several other fight clubs in many other cities. He discovers that Tyler plans on blowing up several credit card buildings. Jack also discovers that Tyler is actually an alternate personality existing in his mind. To escape from himself, Tyler controls the body while Jack is “sleeping,” and Jack is in control when Jack is awake. The movie ends with Jack putting a gun in his own mouth in an attempt to kill both of them. He ends up only killing Tyler and blowing a large hole in the side of his jaw. The buildings explode and Jack is left without Tyler still in his mind.