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Download free passes for Penguins of Madagascar in Baltimore, DC or Virginia Beach

CliqueClack has partnered with DreamWorks Animation to offer readers in Baltimore, DC and Virginia Beach an opportunity to attend an advance screening of the new animated family film Penguins of Madagascar with the voices of Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher Knight, Ken Jeong, Peter Stormare, John Malkovich and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Super spy teams aren’t born—they’re hatched. Discover the secrets of the greatest and most hilarious covert birds in the global espionage biz: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private. These elitists of the elite are joining forces with a chic undercover organization, The North Wind, led by handsome and husky Agent Classified (we could tell you his name, but then—you know), voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch. Together, they must stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine, voiced by John Malkovich, from destroying the world as we know it.

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Rosewater is a mesmerizing look at the horrors of an oppressive regime

Rosewater is the true story of resilience. It is about a little boy who grows up in Iran, a world filled with love of family, strength of character and danger. Maziar Bahari (Gael Garcia Bernal) grows up in a family of activists. At the early age of nine, he witnesses first-hand the atrocities one must endure when one wishes to be free and to have their voice heard. His father, Baba Akbar (Haluk Bilginer ), and sister Maryam (Golshifteh Farahani) were both imprisoned and tortured for speaking against the government of Iran and the “Supreme Ruler.” As a man, he stands on the precipice of a new world where 75% of the people of Iran are under the age of 35 and knowledgeable of the freedoms of the world thanks to cell phones, the internet and mass media. They are ready for change.

Bahari, the reporter from Newsweek, covers the elections of 2009 between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hossein Mousavi. He objectively films both sides in the election. The election appears to be rigged when he receives a call from Ahmadinejad’s headquarters claiming victory way before the polls are closed. He knows there will be trouble, and he is supposed to go back home to his pregnant wife, but he decides to stay. Maziar covers the protests and witnesses the shooting of several protesters, both men and women. He releases the tapes to Newsweek and naïvely thinks he will be okay. The next day he is awakened by two men who arrest him and take him away. Will Mazair Bahari make it out of captivity alive or will he meet the same fate as his father and sister — an early death?

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Beside Still Waters is an eminently watchable indie film about regular, damaged people

Do you still have friends from your childhood? How about your college days? The answer may depend on how old you are, or perhaps it may not. Some people retain such friends for years, but that also doesn’t mean that they are friends past the updates on Facebook. This is why high school reunions are fascinating and confusing; you never know what to expect. Will your thin, gawky friend become a record breaking weight lifter? How many children will everyone bring? Are people still holding grudges or crushes long past? And will there be any fighting or drunkenness? I suppose it depends on your high school. My reunion was dull. But I haven’t thought of making it into a movie.

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Beyond the Lights is a modern, edgy love story

At first, I avoided seeing Beyond the Lights because I thought that it would be like all the other love stories: The Way We Were, A Star is Born, and The Bodyguard. Been there done that! You know the cliché kind of love that’s not meant to be: two people from different worlds that somehow come together but don’t work out in the end kind of love. Boy was I wrong, dead wrong! All these love stories were popular in their own right in the past. I wasn’t interested in another sad, melancholy story that’s been told so many times before. Beyond The Lights was completely different. Writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood and her talented cast elevated the film and gave it more of a modern, edgy, in your face tone that will have you cheering at the end! It was new, it was edgy, it was passionate, and it was funny!

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Dumb and Dumber To is a fun, nostalgic road trip with your best dim-witted friends by your side

Music is such a powerful entity. There are songs you associate with certain people, places and moments in your life that stick with you as long as you live. Sometimes those songs are associated with a film because it’s so ingrained in its soundtrack that you can’t help but make the mental association between the two whenever you hear it. For what is Pretty in Pink without Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s “If You Leave” or Wayne’s World without Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody?” As soon as I heard the hauntingly familiar strains of Apache Indian’s “Boom Shack-A-Lack” at the beginning of Universal Pictures/New Line Cinema’s Dumb and Dumber To, I knew this was going to be a fun, nostalgic ride for me with my favorite feebleminded pals, Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels), once more behind the wheel.

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Win passes to see The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 in Hartford, CT

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CliqueClack has partnered with Lionsgate to offer readers in Hartford/Plainville an opportunity to attend an advance screening of the highly anticipated The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Sam Claflin, Jena Malone with Stanley Tucci and Donald Sutherland.

The worldwide phenomenon of The Hunger Games continues to set the world on fire with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay: Part 1, which finds Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) in District 13 after she literally shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin (Moore) and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta (Hutcherson) and a nation moved by her courage.

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Win passes to see Horrible Bosses 2

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CliqueClack has partnered with Warner Brothers Pictures to offer readers in Baltimore, DC, Norfolk, Los Angeles, Boston and Plainville an opportunity to attend an advance screening of the new comedy Horrible Bosses 2 starring Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Chris Pine and Christoph Waltz.

Fed up with answering to higher-ups, Nick (Bateman), Dale (Day) and Kurt (Sudeikis) decide to become their own bosses by launching their own business. But a slick investor soon pulls the rug out from under them. Outplayed and desperate, and with no legal recourse, the three would-be entrepreneurs hatch a misguided plan to kidnap the investor’s adult son and ransom him to regain control of their company.

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Download passes for The Theory of Everything in Hartford or Providence

CliqueClack has partnered with Focus Features to offer readers in Hartford, CT and Providence, RI an opportunity to attend an advance screening of the new biographical drama The Theory of Everything starring Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney and David Thewlis.

This is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science, and achieving more than they could ever have dreamed.

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Batman (finally) swings into action on home video

There are several titles worth mentioning on home video this week, but the only one that demands all of the attention is the long-awaited video release of the classic TV version of Batman. It’s taken years and years (and years) of legal wranglings to get this series to home video, but it’s finally here and Warner Home Video has spruced up the image nicely for HD. True Blood fans can get the final season or the complete series this week, and there are many other complete series sets available just in time for the holidays: Beauty & the Beast, Charmed, Family Ties, Hey Arnold!, Highway to Heaven, Taxi, and Wings among them. More TV releases anticipating the new Star Wars movie this week include Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Lost Mission and Phineas & Ferb: Star Wars. These titles are more are available November 11, and you can see all of the highlights in our alphabetical shopper’s guide after the jump. Just click on a link to get more information or to make a purchase. Your purchase through our links helps support CliqueClack, and we thank you for that!

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Jersey Boys and Tammy head up video releases for November 11

It’s an interesting week for home video releases with only two major studio films coming to DVD and Blu-ray, Jersey Boys and Tammy, and neither of them managed to set the box office on fire. How to Train Your Dragon 2 also arrives on home video, but it was not quite the success as the original despite mostly positive reviews. The one surprise hit, Let’s Be Cops, also comes to home video this week. The one big gun this week is the early digital releases of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which will follow on DVD and Blu-ray in a couple of weeks. Also getting early digital releases are The Giver, If I Stay and The Expendables 3. Interesting catalog titles getting Blu-ray releases this week include horror cult classics Demons, Demons 2 and Dolls, early Burt Reynolds hits Gator and White Lightning, and the Weird Al comedy classic UHF. These movies and more — including the final live performance of Monty Python — are available beginning November 11. You can see all of the week’s highlights in our alphabetical shopper’s guide after the jump. Just click on a link to get more information or to make a purchase!

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