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The Ghost Writer 2010 UK Director: Roman Polanski. Writers: Robert Harris ( Novel ” The Ghost”) and Roman Polanski. Cast: Ewan McGregor , Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams and Pierce Brosnan.
A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.
Running time: 128 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

She’s Out of My League 2010 R USA directed by: Jim Field Smith. Screenwriter by Sean Anders and Jim Morris Cast: Alice Eve and Jay Baruchel.
An average Joe meets the perfect woman, but his lack of confidence and the influence of his friends and family begin to pick away at the relationship.
Running time: 104 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: *
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: **       
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

The Cove 2019 PG 13 Documentary USA Directed by: Louie Psihoyos Screenwriter by Mark Monroe Cast: Joe Chisholm, Mandy-Rae Cruikshank.
Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renown dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.
Running time: 92 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: none
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: none
Final chouski rating: Threeski

The Chaser 2008 R Korean Directed by: Hong-Jin Na Screenwriter by Won-Chan Hong, Shinho Lee and Hong-Jin Na Cast: Yun-Seok Kim, Jung-woo Ha and Yeong-hie Seo.
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by a same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
Running time: 125 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Hot Tub Time Machine 2010 R USA Directed by: Steve Pink Screenwriter by Josh Heald ,Sean Anders, John Morris and Cast: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson and Clark Duke.
Four guy friends, all of them bored with their adult lives, travel back to their respective 80s heydays thanks to a time-bending hot tub.
Running time: 90 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ****
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Cop Out 2010 R USA Directed by: Kevin Smith Screenwriter by Mark and Robb Cullen Cast: Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan and Sean William Scott.
Two veteran cops (Willis and Morgan) are tracking down a stolen vintage baseball card. On the chase, they rescue Gabriela dealing with gangsters and money laundering.   
Running time: 110 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: *
Final chouski rating: Twoski

The Killer Elite 1975 R USA Directed by: Sam Peckinpah Screenwriter by Marc Norman, stirling Silliphant and base on the novel by Robert Rostand Cast: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Burt Young and Bo Hopkins
MEN WANTED. Private company with C.I.A. contract seeks men willing to risk life. Perfect physical condition. Experience with weaponry, incendiaries, Karate/Judo. No loyalties. No dependents. Long career doubtful.
Running time: 122 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

Jerichow, 2008, Germany, Directed by: Christian Petzold, Writter: Christian Petzold. Cast: Benno Furmann, Nina Hoss and Hilmi Sozer.
Plot: The dishonorably discharged Afghanistan veteran Thomas returns to his home village of Jerichow. Ali, a local Turkish-German businessman, owner of a snack-bar chain, hires him as a driver. That’s when Thomas meets Laura, his Turkish boss’s young and attractive wife. A classic love triangle is born, unfolding in desolate northeast Germany, where thick forests suddenly end on cliffs overlooking the Baltic Sea. Caught between guilt and freedom, between passion and reason, the protagonists have no hopes for fulfillment of their dreams.
Running time: 93 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Shutter Island, 2010, USA Directed by: Martin Scorsese. Writers: Laeta Kalogrdism, Dennis Lehane’s  novel Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and Ben Kingsley.
Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
Running time: 138 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: *
Cast performance: **
Music: *
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: oneski

Gentlement Broncos, 2009, Directed by: Jared Hess. Writers: Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess Cast: Michael Angarano, Jamaine Clement, Jennifer Coolidge and Sam Rockwell.
A teenager attends a fantasy writers’ convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.
Running time: 90 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: *
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: *
Final chouski rating: Oneski

The White Ribbon  2009, Directed by: Michael Heneke.  Written by: Michael Heneke Cast: Ulrich Tukur.
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Running time: 144 minutes
Direction: ****
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: None
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Lovers of Hate 2010 Norway directed by: Bryan Poyser. Screenwriter by: Bryan Poyser  Cast: Chris Doubek,  Heather Kafka and Alex Karpovsky.
A dark comedy which follows two brothers who are in love with the same woman
Running time: 93 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

The Imperialists Are Still Alive 2010 Norway directed by: Zeina Durra. Screenwriter by: Zeina Durra Cast: Elodie Bouchez and Jose Maria De Tavira.
Juggling the sudden abduction of her childhood sweetheart as well as a blooming love affair, a French Manhattanite makes her way as an artist in an indifferent, sometimes hostile world.
Running time: 90 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work  2010 USA documentary directed by: Ricki Stern and Ann Sundberg. Cast: Joan Rivers
A documentary about First of Comedy Queen Joan Rivers
Running time: 84 minutes
Direction: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Get Low 2006 USA directed by: Aaron Schneider. Screenwriter by: Chris Provenzano and C. Gaby Mitchell. Cast: Lucas Black, Bill Murray and Robert Duvall.
A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party… while he was still alive.
Running time: 105 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski