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Logan Lucky Trailer

Jimmy and Clyde Logan are two down-and-out brothers from West Virginia. Jimmy has been fired from his job on a construction site for reasons relating to insurance and Clyde's job as a one-armed bartender hasn't worked out too well either. To get themselves out of the financial mess that they're in (and, indeed, that their family have been in for almost 100 years), Jimmy suggests robbing $14 million from the Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina during the hugely anticipated Coca-Cola 600 race over Memorial Day weekend. He has discovered how the money is being moved to a bank vault, but they need to spring the vault-blowing expert Joe Bang from prison in order to execute the heist. With the help of their sister Mellie and their new pals the Redneck Robbers, they plot the perfect robbery - but all is naturally not going to go as swimmingly as they could have hoped.

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Gold Trailer

Gold is more than a valuable commodity for Kenny Wells, to him it's an obsession. The year is 1988 and Wells lives in Reno with his partner, Kay. The balding, fast-aging man is constantly down on his luck and often resorts to pawning his partner's possessions just to get hold of a little money.

The wannabe businessman attempts to start many new ventures but constantly finds himself being turned away. One day Wells awakes from his slumber and recalls a vivid dream telling him to go find Gold in unchartered territory. Kenny has little knowledge of how to make it work but knows that this is the big break he's been waiting for.

Teaming up with geologist Michael Acosta, Wells tells Acosta about the land he feels is rich with unmined gold reserves in Indonesia. Talking Acosta into the project, they begin their ambitious dig with basic supplies and minimal investment. As their workers begin to see that their efforts are not garnering any results they begin to leave and everything looks like it's going against the Americans.

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Green Room - Teaser Trailer

The Ain't Rights are a punk band looking for their big break and until that comes along, they're willing to tour and play any gig they're offered. When the band is given the chance to play a gig at short notice, they pack their bags and road trip to the Oregon venue.

The band work through their set of songs including a cover of The Dead Kennedys' track 'Nazi Punks F**k Off', some might say an odd choice of song given the current crowd of people they're playing to. As the band come off stage they return to the green room only to discover that they've stumbled upon a gruesome crime scene - a murder to be precise.

Locked in the green room and quickly evaluating their options, it seems that they're now the ones being targeted by the vicious venue owner, Darcy Banker, and his neo-Nazi gang. Held against their will, with no connection to the outside world, it becomes evident that Banker isn't going to allow the group to make it through the night alive.

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Suspenseful Revenge Thriller 'Blue Ruin' Wows The Critics

By Jack de Aguilar in Movies / TV / Theatre on 02 May 2014

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Having already picked up the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, where it screened during Director’s Fortnight, ‘Blue Ruin’ already had some hype when the press screenings were announced. But now that the critics have had a proper look, the “classic American revenge” story has been reviewed to the tune of a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

'Blue Ruin' hits cinemas tonight, May 2

It’s “Essentially a lurid revenge story but filtered through an arthouse sensibility, peppered with stillness and deglamourised violence,” according to Leslie Felperin of The Guardian, while Walter V. Addiego notes, “The filmmaker works with economy and has a knack for creating a sense of foreboding, which is good because the plot is simply a working out of the old saw that violence begets violence,” in his review for the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Blue Ruin Review

By Rich Cline

Excellent

Dark and freaky, this brutal, low-key revenge thriller throws a bunch of relatively simple people into a moral quagmire, and drags us in as well. It's a remarkably effective exploration of how deep emotions can lead people into the most hopeless situations imaginable. And it features terrific acting from a largely unknown cast, as well as remarkably sure-handed work from filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier.

The title refers to the bullet-riddled rusty blue Pontiac Dwight (Macon Blair) has been living in since his parents were murdered. So when he hears that the killer Wade has been released from prison, he stalks him waiting for a chance to pounce. But killing a man is harder than he thought, and he doesn't feel much better afterwards. Also, Wade's family never calls the cops, so Dwight knows they're coming for him now. He runs to his sister (Amy Hargreaves) and warns her. And as things get increasingly messy, he turns to his gun-loving friend Ben (Devin Ratray) for help.

With his scraggly beard and exhausted eyes, Blair gives the film a terrific sense of inevitability: Dwight doesn't want to do any of this, but feels that he has to. As he begins to pull himself together, the sense of purpose seems to wake him up. And watching this adds currents of unexpected emotion in every scene, especially as the script reveals the original events that sparked all of this bitterness. It also makes what happens almost unbearably tense, especially since writer-director Saulnier depicts the violence as desperate and realistic.

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'Blue Ruin' Is A Comically Dark, Kickstarter-Funded Story Of Revenge [Trailer]

By Lauren James in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25 March 2014

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Jeremy Saulnier's disturbing 'Blue Ruin' finds out what happens when normal people seek revenge.

Take one look at the trailer for Jeremy Saulnier's superbly twister thriller, Blue Ruin, and it's clear that the filmmaker made the most of his $38,000 budget. In fact, it's astonishing that a film so packed with action, suspense and drama has been made with what would be considered a single day's catering cost for some blockbusters.

Blue Ruin Poster
Hold On To Your Hats & Start Plotting Revenge: The Critically Acclaimed 'Blue Ruin' Is Headed To Cinemas.

Macon Blair ('Gretchen,' 'Murder Party') takes the lead in this critically acclaimed psychological rollercoaster. He plays Dwight, a vulnerable and homeless man who has hit rock bottom years after his parents' murder. One day, Dwight is picked up by cops who inform him that his parents' murderer has finally been released from jail. Carrying the scars of his childhood trauma, Dwight vows that the murderer will not forget his crime and gets to work smartening himself up and becoming trained in firearm use so that he can carry out his brutal revenge himself.

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Blue Ruin - International Trailer

Dwight is vulnerable and homeless, living in his car by the beach and foraging for food in any and every available trash can. One day, he is picked up by the police who are looking for him to let him know that his parents' murderer has finally been released from jail. Already permanently traumatised by the deaths, the news strikes fear within him, but this time instead of running away he is determined to gain closure by exacting his revenge. He smartens himself up and moves back home where he purchases a firearm, despite having never held a gun in his life. He decides to take some target practice at a local rifle range and even manages to connect with his estranged partner before he embarks on a determined mission to kill the man responsible for ruining his life.

This hard-hitting thriller is a darkly comical story of revenge. It has been written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier ('Murder Party'), who raised funds for the movie's release through a successful Kickstarter campaign. He managed to raise a massive $38,000 for the film's completion after an original $35,000 desired pledge. 'Blue Ruin' will soon be released in movie theatres on May 2nd 2014.

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Blue Ruin Trailer

Dwight is a lonely and traumatised recluse who is living in his car when he is picked up by police. After being taken to the station, he is gently informed that a double murderer who apparently killed two people close to Dwight is going to be released due to a court plea deal. In a bid to exact revenge, Dwight goes back to his childhood home to track down the killer who changed his life by making sure he suffers the same fate as his lost loved ones. On the way, he finds himself in fighting to protect his estranged family who he has not seen in years, but proves to be less than able at murder himself.

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