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“Mountain” Takes Two

Its a survival of the fittest type of love story that had thousands of people flooding the movie theater the past weekend to witness what happens when two strangers set off on an airplane trying to get back to their future.

Alex Martin (Kate Winslet) is a successful businesswoman on the eve of her wedding and Ben Bass (Idris Elba) is a Surgeon trying to get back to his patients to perform an important surgery in order to save the person’s life.  When the airport cancels the flight that both are supposed to be on, they seek travel on another pilot’s carrier (Beau Bridges).  Unsuccessful, the plane crashes on the mountain and the two are stranded trying to survive until help comes.

At 1 hr and 44 minutes, The adventure will have one sitting on the edge of their seats as Ben and Alex attempt to survive the harsh forces of the cold weather and everything in between as they discover what they really want in life and love.

The Mountain Between Us came out in theaters a week ago on Thursday October 6 and since released has already brought in 13.3 million at the box office, coming in second behind the recent sequel to Blade Runner.  It’s currently still playing in a theater near you.

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WWII Review

Focus Features is bringing to light a sensitive matter in the latest Zookeeper’s Wife.  Jessica Chastain portrays a real life Polish woman, Antonina Zabinski, who lives a the Warsaw  Zoo with hundreds of animals  and her husband Jan (Johan Heldenbergh).  Now as the German’s invade Warsaw and Antonina fears for her life as well as that of her animals and family, she is caught between rescuing both the animals as well as hiding hundreds of Jews in the grounds of the now abandoned zoo.

At over 2 hour run time, The Zookeeper’s Wife will bring you into the war-torn region of Poland as never before seen through the eyes of the camera.  It’s a movie that will have you cheering the courageous heroism of the woman who rescued over 300 people and hundreds of animals from the clutches of World War II.

The Zookeeper’s Wife came out January 31, 2017 to limited theaters and currently has brought in over 4 million domestically at the box office, expanding its theatrical release April 7.

See it in a theater near you.