"3:10 to Yuma"
Russell Crowe and Christian Bale bring the Western back to the big screen with class and style in this compelling remake of the 1957 Glenn Ford tale. Crowe stars as a flamboyant outlaw captured by the law, with Bale a financially ailing farmer who hires on to help escort the bad guy through rough country where they face threats from Indians and a gang of Crowe accomplices aiming to spring their boss.
"Sunshine"
The end of the world is at hand in Danny Boyle's sci-fi saga set 50 years from now, when the sun is dying and a band of astronauts sets out on a daring last-gasp mission to re-ignite the fading star. Cillian Murphy leads an ensemble cast as the scientist who developed the bomb that the crew aims to deliver into the sun, with Michelle Yeoh, Cliff Curtis, Troy Garity and Rose Byrne co-starring as fellow space travelers.
"Zodiac: The Director's Cut"
David Fincher's long dramatization about the 1970s serial slayer known as the Zodiac Killer grows even longer in this extended version that clocks in at nearly three hours. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a newspaper cartoonist obsessed with uncovering the identity of the killer, whose string of unsolved slayings terrorized the San Francisco area. Co-starring are Robert Downey Jr. as a newsman and Mark Ruffalo as a police detective also on the trail of the killer.
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