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No Risk No Reward May 2019 Anyone can be happy and cozy. Nothing good happens in the world by being happy and cozy. ---Alex Honnold, Free Solo (2018) Why take risks? In doing so, it may open up fresh challenges and opportunities, empowering you to establish new limits in your mind and lead you to becoming more creative. Stepping outside your comfort zone can clearly define your purpose -- is the potential reward really something you want enough to take that chance? Once you have become accustomed to taking risks, you break free from the average way of living and thinking - moving ahead through the experience instead of staying the same. Nothing is guaranteed...so you will have to trust your instincts!
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Cannes Film Festival Chicago Critics Film Festival
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When Tony 'Lip' Villalonga (Viggo Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a world-class black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on a book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime. Rated PG-13.
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Despite attempts by his friends, loved ones and his new girlfriend to dissuade him from this dangerous feat, Alex Honnold, the world's most accomplished free soloist climber, prepares mentally and physically for his most daring adventure to date: scaling the 3200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite without a rope or safety gear. If he succeeds, it will mark the largest wall he, or anyone else, for that matter, has ascended without any kind of equipment. Rated PG-13. Winner of the 2019 Best Documentary Oscar award.
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Reuben Feffer (Ben Stiller), a professional risk assessor, is not one to ever take chances in any aspect of his life. But when his new bride Lisa leaves him for French scuba instructor Claude on their honeymoon, he finally decides to take a risk of his own. At a party, he meets free-spirited Polly Prince (Jennifer Aniston), whom he remembers from the seventh grade. Unlike the control-freak Reuben, she's spent her life living on the edge. They reluctantly begin a romance and Polly introduces him to a new world of spicy food and what it mean to really take a chance. Rated PG-13.
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Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, the film documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers (Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke) will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival. Rated PG-13. Filmed partly in Nepal.
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Every year, Western mountain climbers make news ascending Mount Everest. The compelling stories of the Sherpas, the Nepalese guides who risk their lives to provide for their families, have remained a mystery, until now. This documentary chronicles a fateful 2014 expedition and the tragic avalanche that spurred the Sherpas to make a stand for human rights and respect. Rated PG.
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When troubled beauty Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) is recruited by American agent T.R. Devlin (Cary Grant) to inflitrate a German spy ring in postwar Rio, she accepts. When she receives orders to seduce a Nazi kingpin, Alicia must sacrifice the only happiness she's ever known for a perilous mission that could ultimately cost her and Devlin their lives. Not rated.
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With two professional assassinations in quick succession, James Bond (Daniel Craig) is quickly elevated to '00' status. Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Uganda where he is to spy on a terrorist. Not everything goes to plan and Bond then follows a lead to Le Chiffre, banker to the world's terrorist organizations. Intelligence reveals that Le Chiffre is planning to raise money in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro at Le Casino Royale. MI6 assigns 007 to play against him, knowing that if Le Chiffre loses, it will destroy his organization. The marathon game proceeds with dirty tricks and violence, raising the stakes beyond blood money and reaching a terrifying climax. Rated PG-13.
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Martha (Martina Gedeck) is the chef who fusses and obsesses over each dish before it leaves the kitchen. The demands of her job and her natural shyness keep her from meeting new people. When her sister suddenly dies, Martha adopts Lina, her eight-year-old niece, completely changing both lives. Martha gets unexpected help from Mario, Martha's hunky new sous chef, who is not only a whiz on the chopping block but knows sundry magic tricks and jokes to keep Lina's spirits afloat. Just as Martha starts to grow attached to the girl, Lina's erratic father shows up demanding that he take her back to Italy with him. German language. Rated PG.
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Filmed over six years, Academy Award-winning documentary director Laura Poitras gained unprecedented access to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and found herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle. Not rated.
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1964: three young Mossad agents (Gila Almagor, Alex Peleg, Oded Teomi) capture the 'Surgeon of Birkenau,' a monstrous Nazi war criminal. While being brought to public trial, the Surgeon manages to escape. Faced with failure in their mission, the agents report their captive committed suicide and return to Israel as national heroes. 1997: more than thirty years later, the supposedly dead Surgeon resurfaces in the Ukraine, determined to confess his crimes. German and Hebrew languages. Not rated.
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