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Golden Globe® Winners 2009

    Award Shows

Once again, the Hollywood Foreign Press hosted an extravaganza of glitz, glamor and celebrities in their yearly Golden Globes Awards Show. While Slumdog Millionaire cleaned up, Kate Winslet took home a pair of awards, Heath Ledger got his expected posthumous award and Mickey Rourke picked up his first award in years, showcasing once again that 2008 was the year of the comeback.


Trick ‘R Treat (2008)

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Plot: On Halloween, nothing is what it seems when a suburban couple learns the dangers of blowing out a Jack-o-Lantern before midnight; four women cross paths with a costumed stalker at a local festival; a group of pranksters goes too far and discovers the horrifying truth buried in a local legend; and a cantankerous old hermit is visited by a strange trick-or-treater with a few bones to pick.


★★★★½ X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

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Plot: A “cure” for mutants has been found, and is being offered to mutants at clinics. Fearing that “voluntary cures” is only the beginning, Magneto (McKellen) and his Brotherhood of Mutants intend to stop it before all mutants are “cured”. His only obstacle? The X-Men. But, is Magneto the real threat, or will the X-Men suffer more at the hands of an old friend? Based on the Marvel Comic characters.


★★★★½ X-Men (2000)

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Plot: As the debate about mutant registration heats up, Magneto (McKellen) and his so-called Brotherhood of Mutants hatch a plot to change the world’s leaders into mutants. The only ones who can stop this powerful group are the newly formed X-Men, a team of mutants lead by Professor X (Stewart). Based on the Marvel Comic characters.


★★★★☆ X2: X-Men United (2003)

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Plot: After an attack on the President of the United States, mutants are being hunted by a man named Striker (Cox)…and Xavier’s School for the Gifted is the first target. Now, Wolverine (Jackman), Iceman (Ashmore), Rogue (Paquin),Pyro (Stanford), Storm (Berry), Jean Grey (Janssen), Cyclops (Marsden), Nightcrawler (Cumming) and Charles Xavier (Stewart) need to do the improbable…team up with Mystique (Romijn) and recently escaped Magneto (McKellan)…to save all of mutant kind.