Blackfish - A documentary that does make you think about cruelty to animals and how that results in profit and corporate lies where the loss of lives is just the costs of doing business. The last slide in the movie drives that message home. Not once did I lose sympathy for the orca that did the killing.

"The facts aren't what drive this film, the emotions behind them do." - taken from a user review at IMDB which sums up the whole experience perfectly.

I don't who recommended fail-safe...but it was very good!

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Here's my latest list:

Prisoners
Skinwalker Ranch
Dark Skies
Now you see me

Bounty Killer: Over the top gun slingin' in the future. The main characters are head hunters for CEO's, literally! The babe in this kind of movie is very worthy of that name...and you can see that this crowd-funded movie was fun to make both on and off the set. Don't wear your thinking cap when watching, this is just a good old fashion fun ride. 

The Man From Earth: Just a group of professors/friends that try to have of going-away party in a remote location, because one of their own is leaving. That is and stays the whole movie set. The story is where the action takes place...addressing a lot of philosophical issues and concepts in interesting ways. Very well written!

It's been mentioned a few times before here on the forums:

What are you favorite movies?
Encouraging Piracy - Piracy as a Tool for Promotion
TOP 10 Theories Why Neanderthals Disappeared

@Shades, +1 to what Deo says above. It's bang on topic, and I wouldn't have heard about it if you hadn't posted about it ;-)

This evening, The Europa Report.


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In the not too distant future, a corporate sponsored space mission is dispatched to Europa to examine a certain surface anomaly characterized as a "hot spot chaos area" which scientists believe holds the greatest opportunity for discovering extraterrestrial life. The mission departs Earth and arrives in Jupiter orbit 21 months later. Shortly after its arrival, all communication with the team is lost due to a series of solar flares disrupting the audio/video feeds being sent back their mission control. It is only later that a delayed transmission documenting the mission arrives back at Earth which allows investigators to reconstruct what happened.

It's an interesting riff on the "found footage" mystery theme, but with a solid and believable storyline, exceptionally well done low-key acting, and good solid science throughout. Real life space research organizations such as NASA, the JPL and SpaceX are among those credited with assisting the producers and writers of  this film which, no doubt, added to this picture's high level of realism.

Bottom line: a well crafted 'hard science' fiction movie, with just a hint of mystery - and pleasantly skipping the needless and obvious moral lessons and speeches that seem to get wedged into most scifi films these days. If you like believable scifi movies like the vastly underrated 2000 film Red Planet or that 1972 sleeper Silent Running, you'll love this flick.

One of the best bits of scifi I've seen all year. Recommended!

^Sounds good. Added it to my watch list. Thx!

If you enjoy movies about a group of thieves pulling of impossible "jobs", then you sure are going to love The art of Steal. Although the IMDB score isn't bad, I think it deserves more. Anyway, have fun watching this one...

Watched it for the first time after hearing David Knight give a short explanation on some bits of the film. Fantastic film. I can see why it's a classic.

Well then, you need to see the long lost alternate ending: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7sqx2_its-a-wonderful-life-lost-end_shortfilms

Not so much a movie as a half-bio half-documentary on master magician Ricky Jay called Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay.
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Absolutely fascinating look behind the curtain at the education and psychology of those who practice the art of illusion for their living.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OlSeOxJmzg

The beauty of a film like this is how the lessons of magic can apply to so much more than just the performance of tricks and illusions.

You can see it on Netflix streaming or Amazon.

Highly recommended.

I watched that on Netflix a couple weeks back. I didn't even know he was a magician. I only knew him as an actor.

I loved it. Made me want to go see him live.