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The Promise stuns us with its horrors, but bores us with its love triangle. Review by Matt Cummings With the world seemingly ready to fight another global campaign of death, The Promise comes along to remind us why war is so terrible. Its arrival this week shows us the personal cost of war, complete with all the horrors of genocide and the terrible atrocities which men are capable of producing. The Armenian Mikael Boghosian (Oscar Isaac) is a kind and gentle man who yearns to learn medicine at a school in Constantinople so that he can help his small village improve their quality of life. He enters into an arranged marriage to pay his board fees, then hurriedly whisks off to the capital city. There, he comes under the care of his well-to-do uncle and begins immediately to flourish. He meets the stunning dancer Ana (Charlotte Le Bon), whose fanciful air is immediately appealing to the lonely Mikael. But WWI is fast approaching, and soon Mikael, Ana, and all of Turkey w

The Adjustment Bureau Trailer What would you do if you fell in love with the women of your dreams and then find out it was not according to the plan laid out of you? The Adjustment Bureau will answer those questions, The Adjustment Bureau is an upcoming science fiction film, loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short story, " Adjustment Team ", The film is to be directed by George Nolfi and will star Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. The cast also includes Anthony Mackie, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Daniel Dae Kim, Michael Kelly, John Slattery,and Anthony Ruivivar. The story is loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short story, "Adjustment Team" and will feature a smooth-talking congressman whose political future is thrown in doubt by uncontrollable events and the arrival in his life of a mysterious ballerina.[3] Matt Damon will play David Norris, a former Fordham University basketball player and charismatic United States Congressman who seems destined for national political s