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Here’s the official synopsis for The Mule:

It’s 1983. A naive man with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach is detained by Australian Federal Police. Alone and afraid, ‘the Mule’ makes a desperate choice; to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence…literally. And by doing so becomes a ‘human time-bomb’; dragging cops, criminals and concerned family into his impossible escapade. Inspired by true events, THE MULE is directed by Angus Sampson and Tony Mahony, with a darkly comic screenplay by Sampson, Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious), and Jaime Browne. The film stars Hugo Weaving alongside Sampson and Whannell with an ensemble cast including Ewen Leslie, Geoff Morrell, Georgina Haig, Noni Hazlehurst and John Noble.
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Home Sweet Hell Trailer Featuring Patrick Wilson and Katherine Heigl

Did you know that Patrick Wilson, Katherine Heigl and Jordana Brewster made a movie together? Probably not and this new red band trailer proves why. Anthony Burns’ Skateland follow-up, Home Sweet Hell, looks absolutely ridiculous. But the question is, is it a so bad it’s good type of situation?
Wilson leads the film as Don Champagne. He used to be a used car salesman, but now he’s got it all – a beautiful home, loving marriage and his very own rugs and furniture store. But then Brewster’s character comes in and ruins it all. She sleeps with Don and then blackmails him for money by threatening to tell his wife. The thing is, Mona Champagne (Heigl) isn’t about to leave her man over a little fling; she’d rather just kill Brewster instead. Hit the jump to check out the Home Sweet Hell trailer. No word on a release date just yet, but Vertical Entertainment has the US theatrical rights to this one. The film also stars Kevin McKidd and Jim Belushi
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STRETCH Review |Movie Stars Patrick Wilson and Chris Pine

Carnahan’s confident enough to never feel like he’s compensating, and the film is fleet-footed enough to keep the energy high, which is due in part to Wilson’s charming performance. Everyone involved feels invested in Stretch as an experience, and their desire to have fun keeps us enthrall. The manic mix of Carnahan’s style doesn’t totally gel, but Stretch is still a good ride even though it’s not really driving like a madman.

Rating: B-
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Joseph Kosinski to Direct The Trials of White Boy Ricky

Part crime thriller/biopic, sounds good.

Filmmaker Joseph Kosinski is looking to step out of the sci-fi realm. The visually-gifted director behind Tron: Legacy and Oblivion has become attached to direct the true crime story The Trials of White Boy Ricky for Universal Pictures, per THR. Based on a story by Evan Hughes published in The Atavist last month, the film will tell the true tale of Rick Wershe, a teen living in Detroit in the 1980s who rose to prominence on the predominantly black East Side as a prolific cocaine trafficker by the name of “White Boy Ricky.” Hughes uncovered the truth of Ricky, which was that he was working as an undercover informant for the FBI and DEA while becoming one of the biggest drug dealers in Detroit.
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You know the obvious choice for the part...i'll give you a second.
 
Review: Joe Carnahan's 'Stretch' Starring Patrick Wilson, Chris Pine and James Badge Dale

This is the perfect audience movie, or at least the perfect Fantastic Fest movie, and for a certain crowd it would have been irresistible. It's easy to see this blossoming into a cult classic of sorts, especially if it has an actual physical release somewhere down the line (it seems like the kind of movie you physically pass off to an adventurous friend). As it stands now, "Stretch" is a truly enjoyable oddity, a movie that was too brash, too weird, too idiosyncratic for a major release, but one that should settle into a nice, long shelf life. "Stretch" is a wild ride, and one very much worth going on. [B+]
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JD, you see this yet? I saw it pop up on Netflix the other day.
 
Tokyo Film Festival Review: French-Language Crime Flick ‘The Connection’ Starring Jean Dujardin

“The Connection” is certainly watchable, and highly marketable, what with having Dujardin’s name above the title and the whole Friedkin angle to mine. And its beats and rhythms are entirely, comfortingly familiar to anyone conversant with U.S. cinema, so even the stigma of subtitles shouldn’t seriously impact its reception whenever Drafthouse, who acquired it recently, chooses to release it stateside. But like the peppy soundtrack cuts of American songs sung in French (“These Boots are Made for Walkin’” being one) “The Connection” feels at best like a cover version of the classic American crime films of the 1970s, and at worst like so much glossily mounted karaoke. [C]
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Review: Terrific And Electric 'Nightcrawler' Starring Jake Gyllenhaal

Marginalized and having gone hungry for what feels like a lifetime, a ravaged economic disparity pulses through the crisp air of “Nightcrawler.” Luminescent with coyote-like eyes, Gyllenhaal’s like a hollowed out animal that spends nights hunting for marginal scraps to keep himself alive. What separates the feral Bloom from all the night-time loners and losers in this particular wilderness is unremitting drive and unhealthy obsessiveness. It’s as if going hungry for so long has created an intensely sharp mind that just won’t quiet, and the inability to switch off is toxic. [A-]
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Review: Clever 'Open Windows' With Elijah Wood & Sasha Grey May Still Leave You Carsick

While the execution may be somewhat of a misfire, the obvious effort and thought put into making the concept work is worthy of attention. "Open Windows" may fail in its efficiency to collide several worlds together in order to relay a message about the one world we’re living in today, but the construction is clever enough to keep you interested until the end, even if the clearest message you end up taking away from the movie is how you should probably reformat your computer when you get home. [C+]
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Review: Terrific, Harrowing And Resonant Crime Thriller 'Bad Turn Worse'

Gorgeously photographed and featuring a strong and consistently well-pitched score, the Hawkins’ film is a great calling card for securing them future work. There’s a functionality to their work that doesn’t add too many unnecessary flourishes, but it exudes a grace that, again, elevates what might have been purely cliched material to something more special. Ultimately as harrowing as any backwoods horror story but enhanced by a humanity those stories will almost never have, “Bad Turn Worse” is a terrific film, precisely because it takes the components of a traditional thriller, approaches them from a less frequently explored perspective, makes them feel relatable and then elevates them with the right amount of style.
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