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It has been 7 years since Alfonso Cuarón has graced us with a movie ( Children of Men , 2006). Cuarón 's new sci-fi Gravity follows a medical engineer and an astronaut on a heart thumping journey to survive being adrift in space after their mission on the STS-157 has been aborted. Dr. Ryan Stone ( Sandra Bullock ) and Matt Kowalski ( George Clooney ) are given no time to prepare for the evacuation, as they desperately try to grab onto one another, gravity keeping them up in the vast nothingness. Alfonso Cuarón sets the solitary tone and wastes no time commanding our attention with the breathtaking opening shot of Earth from space. The entire film is filled with space shots which cannot be described by any words, but must be visually experienced, leaving sci-fi lovers breathless and in awe. Cuarón sends the viewer deep into space . The camera is shaky only when it needs to be, and the suspense it held throughout. Since George Clooney has already done sci-fi in Steven Soderberg...

It's not a boy's game anymore, says The Heat director Paul Feig ( Freaks and Geeks , Bridesmaids ). So who can fill the seats for the first female buddy cop movie ever - Bullock & McCarthy - comic heavyweights pushing the boundaries of a new element to the buddy cop genre that's long overdue. In her feature film debut, screenwriter Katie Dippold ( Parks and Recreation ) puts it out there with her uproarious screenplay, but it ultimately takes two heavyweights to get the job done. Calculated FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn ( Sandra Bullock ) is forcibly teamed with a tough Irish Detective Shannon Mullins ( Melissa McCarthy ) to bring down a Russian mobster in Boston. McCarthy cruises the streets in her beat up classic Rambler, busting down doors, and busting up perps. She's a bonafide movie star, Boston-drifting with Bullock, who got her training in 1994 on Speed - shot calling them all. Their contrasting methods of catching smooth criminals causes some issues f...