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AMERICAN GIRL, AN: GRACE STIRS UP SUCCESS
STARRING: Olicia Rodrigo, Elosie Webb, Lili Bordan
RATING: NR
GENRE: FAMILY
RUN TIME: 102 min
Grace has a real talent for baking & a passion for making delicious dreams come true. Grace is excited for summer so she can start a business with her friends, but things take an unexpected turn when her mom announces a trip to Paris to visit relatives. Grace isn't so sure about leaving her friends & their cupcake business. There, Grace must learn to get along with her French cousin, Sylvie, and she finds unexpected inspiration for her business. Then, Grace learns her grandparent’s bakery, that inspired her to start a business, is closing. Her skills are put to the test when she visits her uncle's Parisian pastry shop, discovers she'll get to work with her Uncle & cousin and competes to save her grandparents' troubled bakery. But everything goes wrong! Can she and her friends find a way to save it? She discovers she'll get to work with her Uncle & cousin in a real French pastry shop! But everything goes wrong! Can Grace find success? With inspiring themes of friendship and empowerment, this wholesome and heartwarming film brings to vivid life this year's popular Girl of the Year character and her stories.
AMITYVILLE THEATER, THE
STARRING: Monele LeStrat, Linden Baker, Eva Kwok
RATING: NR
GENRE: HORROR
RUN TIME: 85 min
After her parents’ death due to mysterious fire, Fawn Harriman had counted herself lucky the day she inherited an abandoned playhouse in the small town of Amityville. The legal counselor, Dorothy Felix, tells her that according to the will, she is entitled to keep the building or allow her to sell it without being involved in the process. Being a commercial property, it is likely to bring her good amount. But Fawn first wants to visit the theater with her friends, out of curiosity and also because of her emotional attachment to her parent’s property. All the friends plan to spend weekend at this building that has not been taken care of for many years. Fawn and her four friends reach the town and step into the creepy theater that has only one gate for entrance and exit. At the same time, their superstitious school teacher, Victor Stewart races to Amityville in an attempt to rescue the imperiled party and starts his investigation into the details of the Amityville town and the theater. Inside the building, they feel the presence of someone but initially they neglect it. However soon they will have to face the horrible events within the confines of mysterious theater. Will they survive against the creepy being looking to hunt them down and what sort of revelations Victor Stewart will get after his meticulous investigation?
CURIOUS GEORGE 3: BACK TO THE JUNGLE
STARRING: Voices: Angela Bassett, John Goodman
RATING: G
GENRE: ADVENTURE/ANIMATION
RUN TIME: 81 min
Launch into the adventure of a lifetime with everyone's favorite monkey in this all-new movie, Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle! When Curious George is asked to take part in a very important space mission, Ted can't deny his little friend this exciting journey but a little monkeying around forces him to crash-land in Africa a worried Ted goes searching, expecting the worst, only to have it turn out to be the best. Curious George bravely explores the jungle and makes new animal friends along the way. Reunited at last, the two best pals have the adventure of a lifetime shared with some amazing new friends! Join Curious George on his fun-filled journey that the whole family will enjoy!
DEADLY GAME, A
STARRING: Amy Pietz, Johnny Whitworth, Devon Werkheiser, Tracey Fairaway
RATING: NR
GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE
RUN TIME: 88 min
When Dawn, an overworked single mother, agrees to take her teenage daughter, Kayla, to a luxurious but isolated spa retreat, the women believe they have escaped to a paradise of spa treatments, yoga, and nature hikes until a series of disturbing incidents has Kayla questioning the perfection around her. Kayla is convinced they have to leave but Dawn is now hooked on the fantasy constructed by David James, the handsome and charismatic founder of The Source, owner of the spa who has a sinister game in mind for the women who have come for treatment - a fantasy fight for survival. The two women split up, with Kayla determined to hike out of the wilderness no matter what it takes while Dawn must come to terms with her own perception of reality and the growing fear that her daughter was right and has now disappeared.
FORGER, THE
STARRING: John Travolta, Christopher Plummer, Tye Sheridan, Abigail Spencer, Jennifer Ehle
RATING: R (for language and some violence)
GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE/DRAMA
RUN TIME: 92 min
Though he’s set to finish his full sentence in just 10 months, Ray Cutter makes the seemingly inexplicable decision to have his underworld connections bribe a judge so he can get out immediately — the reason he’d rather not discuss being that he’s desperate to see his son Will, who was recently diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. But this move puts him in heavy debt to known local bad guy Tommy Keegan, who promptly demands he forge a Monet (the 1875 “Woman with Parasol”) so it can be swapped with the real one, hanging at Boston’s Museum of Modern Art, which will then be sold to an international drug-cartel chief/art aficionado.
As father tries to bond with the motherless teenage son he’s disappointed many times before, two police detectives trail him, hoping he’ll lead them to finally nab Keegan — and perhaps a global drug kingpin in the bargain. Meanwhile, Will continues a rather hopeless course of chemotherapy, and Ray, inspired by the Make-a-Wish foundation, plays wish-granting “genie.” The 15-year-old’s bucket list includes meeting his long-abandoned addict mother, having sex before he dies, and — to Ray’s great reluctance — joining Dad in some of his intriguing illegal activities. Thus Ray enlists the help of his father & Son and together they plan the heist of their lives!
IF THERE BE THORNS
STARRING: Heather Graham, Jason Lewis, Veena Sood, Emily Tennant, Mason Cook, Rachael Carpani, Robert Moloney
RATING: NR
GENRE: DRAMA/ROMANCE
RUN TIME: 94 min
The third installment in the FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC series follows the tragically dysfunctional Dollanger family as they try to escape their past... only to find out there are some things that you can never get away from.
The story is narrated by two half-brothers, Jory and Bart Sheffield. Jory is a handsome, talented fourteen-year-old boy who wants to follow his mother Cathy in her career in the ballet, while nine-year-old Bart, who is unattractive and clumsy, feels he is outshone by Jory. By now, siblings Cathy and Chris live together as husband and wife. To hide their history, they tell the boys and other people they know that Chris was Paul's younger brother. Cathy and Chris have a passionate and very loving relationship, described by Jory who has accidentally witnessed encounters between them. The more they fight, the more they make up with affection. Cathy is a loving mother to her sons, but shows some favoritism towards Jory. Unable to have more children, Cathy secretly adopts Cindy, the two-year-old daughter of one her former dance students, who was killed in an accident, because she longs to have a girl, as well as child that is hers and Christopher's. Initially against it, Chris comes to accept the child, and Jory does as well, but Bart is very upset and resentful of Cindy. Lonely from all the attention Jory and Cindy are receiving, Bart befriends an elderly neighbor that moved in next door, who invites him over for cookies and ice cream and encourages him to call her "Grandmother." Jory eventually goes next door as well to see who Bart keeps visiting, and the old lady tried to tell him that she is actually his grandmother. Jory initially doesn't believe her, and avoids her at all costs. The old woman and Bart, on the other hand, soon develop an affectionate friendship, and the woman does her best to give Bart whatever he wants, provided that Bart promises to keep her gifts—-and their relationship-—a secret from his mother.
Her butler, John Amos, also seems to befriend Bart, but soon John Amos begins to fill Bart's mind with stories about the sinful nature of women. John Amos reveals that the old woman is truly Bart's grandmother, Corrine Foxworth. He also gives Bart a journal belonging to Bart's biological great-grandfather, Malcolm Foxworth, claiming that this journal will help Bart become as powerful and successful as that man. Bart is enveloped by the journal and begins to pretend that he is his great-grandfather, who hated women and was obsessed with their degradation. Bart becomes destructive and violent towards his parents and siblings; he kicks Jory in the stomach and cuts off Cindy's hair, and even tries to drown Cindy in her baby pool once. Bart's family notices the change in the boy, but only Jory suspects that the changes are due to the mysterious woman next door. At the same time, Jory becomes suspicious of his parents' relationship. Although amazed by their love, which he describes as intense and heartfelt, he notices that they resemble each other and wonders why his mother would marry Paul, who was much older, before Chris.
After Bart becomes ill and nearly dies, Jory finally tells Chris about his suspicions about the lady next door. They go to confront her, but Chris discovers that the woman is his mother, who pleads with him to love and forgive her. Chris is indifferent to her pleas and orders her to stay away from him, Cathy, and the children, especially Bart. However, he decides not to tell Cathy about any of this. At the same time, Cathy is injured in a ballet accident and is told that she will never dance again. From her wheelchair, she begins to write out the story of her life. Bart filches his mother's manuscript pages and is enraged to learn the truth about his parents: Cathy and Chris are brother and sister, and his "grandmother" locked them in an attic for years, feeding them poison to gain an inheritance. The news causes Bart to cling to the only person who has not yet lied to him: John Amos. Bart proudly calls his parents sinners and "devil's spawns". Jory finds out the truth when his paternal grandmother visits and confronts Cathy about her relationship with "her brother Christopher". Jory is shocked and disgusted, but soon forgives them after he learns of their tragic past.
Cathy finally learns about the woman next door when Bart accidentally says that the woman gives him anything he wants, and she goes to confront the woman. The old woman tries to hide her identity, but Cathy recognizes her voice. Corrine admits that she is indeed Cathy's mother. She expresses remorse for her crimes against Cathy, Chris and the twins, and begs Cathy to forgive and love her again. Cathy is enraged and attacks her. Before she can storm out, John Amos knocks Cathy and Corrine unconscious. Working on John Amos' orders, Bart, who now believes he is a vessel for his great-grandfather's vengeful spirit, helps to lock Cathy and her mother into the cellar, where John Amos plans to starve them to death. In the course of this, Bart realizes how much he loves his mother and grandmother, despite their sins, and he tells Chris where the women are. But before they can be reached, the house next door catches fire. Bart goes in and unlocks the cellar door. Corrine orders Bart outside, and Corrine goes back into the cellar and saves Cathy, but Corrine's clothes catch fire as soon as she gets outside. Chris runs to her and helps put out the flames, but her heart gives out and she dies. John Amos dies in the house as well.
The epilogue, resumed with Cathy as narrator, describes Cathy's emotional forgiveness of her mother at the woman's funeral. Cathy and Chris, for the sake of their three children, realize that they must never allow their secret relationship to be revealed. Bart seems to have recovered from the worst of his madness, but still dwells on the power wielded by his great-grandfather, whose millions he now stands to inherit.
PLAYING IT COOL
STARRING: Chris Evans, Michelle Monaghan
RATING: R (for language and sexual content)
GENRE: COMEDY
RUN TIME: 95 min
A disillusioned screenwriter with a big imagination that consists mostly of hot women yielding to his every desire is working on a script for a romantic comedy movie and having a hard time because he is a little jaded when it comes to love since his mother abandoned him when he was a boy. So he spends his time ruining every relationship he has. But he really needs to make the script, so he turns to his friends for their experiences. But it's not enough. He's indifferent to true love until he meets HER, a breathtaking young woman who shakes all his previous beliefs and captures his heart. Problem is that she's already engaged. But she allows him to be her friend. They try to remain friends, but end up sleeping together. When the truth comes out, all hell breaks loose and he ends up as the star in his own tragedy.
With the help of his friends, he is able to discover what love is and comes to the conclusion that he is in love and decides to stop the girl’s wedding. When he gets there, he finds out they didn’t get married after all. The girl tries to come up with excuses as to why they don’t belong together, but he says he knows there’s a chance their relationship won’t work, but he’s willing to risk it for her. This wins her over and they kiss. Everyone has their own ideas, philosophies and rules about love but, none of that matters, because love is not a "thinking thing", it's a "feeling thing".
POUND OF FLESH
STARRING: Jean-Claude Van Damme, John Ralston, Charlotte Peters, Leonard Gonzales, Darren Shahlavi
RATING: NR
GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE
RUN TIME: 104 min
In China to donate his kidney to his dying niece, former black-ops agent Deacon awakes the day before the operation to find he is the latest victim of organ theft. Stitched up & pissed-off, Deacon descends from his opulent hotel in search of his stolen kidney & carves a blood-soaked path through the darkest corners of the city... the clock ticking and his niece clinging to life, the agent traverses the depths of the city to track down the thieves.
SPIKE ISLAND
STARRING: Emilia Clarke, Lesley Manville
RATING: NR
GENRE: DRAMA/ROMANCE
RUN TIME: 113 min
It's May 1990, and on a red-brick housing estate in the Manchester suburbs, five teenage boys dream of indie-rock stardom. They hatch a plan to hand deliver a demo tape to their idols The Stone Roses at the band's impending gig at Spike Island in Cheshire. But when their tickets fail to materialize, the lads are forced to take extreme measures to sneak their way in. Along the way, friendships are tested and their futures are shaped -- together or apart.
SURVIVOR
STARRING: Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan, Dylan McDermott, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, James D'Arcy
RATING: PG-13 (for violence, some action and brief strong language violence, some action and brief strong language)
GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE
RUN TIME: 96 min
A woman who works for the U.S. State Department gets assigned to a post at the embassy in London, where she is supposed to work to ensure that terrorists are not able to go into the United States. This job makes her a target of the very terrorists she hunts, and she soon finds herself being besieged with false accusations and framed for horrific crimes she did not commit. Racing to elude assassins she goes on the run, while trying to clear her name but she's already learned of a large scale terrorist plot to unleash a massive attack on New York on New Year's Eve. Will she be able to stop it?
TOM & JERRY: SPY QUEST
STARRING: Tom and Jerry
RATING: NR
GENRE: ANIMATION/FAMILY
RUN TIME: 60 min
Tom and Jerry become involved in the world of espionage, when Tom inadvertently gets his paws on a top secret code, which all the spies are after.
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ALTON & KENYA’S OUTRAGEOUS WEDDING
STARRING: Freda Payne, Debra Wilson, Ivo Nandi
RATING: NR
GENRE: COMEDY/FAMILY/ROMANCE
RUN TIME: 90 min
Alton & Kenya's Outrageous Wedding is a romantic comedy about all the madness & drama surrounding one couple's big day. The bride and groom, Alton Sheffield and Kenya Jackson, grew up on different sides of the tracks. Kenya is from the inner city, Alton comes from a life of privilege. These differences, however, were not enough to keep them from falling madly in love. Their two families meet for the first time at the wedding, creating a collision of class and status, as a meddling mother-in-law, a drunken wedding crasher, feuding bridesmaids, a philandering best man, and the father of the groom's mistress set off a series of awkward and hilarious events that might just derail the proceedings. It may take a miracle to pull off this wedding and you are cordially invited to see how it all goes down! They are determined to tie the knot & have a great day!
BEYOND THE REACH
STARRING: Michael Douglas, Jeremy Irvin, Ronny Cox, Hanna Mangan, Patricia Bethune, Martin Palmer
RATING: R (for some violence)
GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE
RUN TIME: 90 min
Beyond the Reach, adapted from the Robb White Deathwatch novel that spawned the 1974 Andy Griffith-starring television movie Savages, is a deadly, desert-set game of cat and mouse.
When a hunky, heartbroken young guide is hired to take a high-rolling, slick financier, and trophy hunter corporate shark named Madec hunting in the Mojave Desert to help him rifle down a bighorn sheep, things go terribly wrong when Madec accidentally shoots and kills an innocent old prospector by mistake, a highly manipulated plot happens. Because he wants to keep the killing secret for fear it will destroy his career, Madec forces the guide to take off his hat and shirt and sends him out into the desert to die in the 130F heat while Madec keeps close eye and restrained pursuit. “I’m not going to kill you,” Madec says.
BRAVETOWN
STARRING: Lucas Till, Kherington Payne, Josh Duhamel, Laura Dern, Maria Bello, Sharlene Taule
RATING: R (for some language, drug use and brief sexuality)
GENRE: DRAMA/ROMANCE
RUN TIME: 110 min
Josh Harvest, a hardened New York City teen from a broken home - and quietly one of the country's top dance club DJs and remixers. After an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ is sentenced to counseling for a minor drug infraction, along with an extended stay with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of his own pain and learns empathy for others.
Josh is a lost soul with an extraordinary musical talent set on a journey to encounter what he least was expecting but undoubtedly needed most. Feeling like it's him against the world at first, his path is crossed by many people looking for their own fate, that in the end, his presence in their lives turns out to be of extraordinary importance. He is slow to warm to his new environment, a town best-known for sending its young off to war, many of whom never return. But when Josh is asked to help out the last-place dance team as they vie for the state competition title, his rough exterior begins to soften. As his relationships emerge with both the team's captain, Mary, and his therapist, each of whom have lost someone special to war, it forces all three to begin to face and heal their pasts.
CHAPPIE
STARRING: Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Sharlto Copley
RATING: R (for violence, language and brief nudity)
GENRE: ACTION/SCI-FI
RUN TIME: 120 min
In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.
It's the year 2016 and robots known as Scouts have replaced all of the flesh and blood police officers in Johannesburg. That's good news for Michelle Bradley the CEO of weapons firm Tetra Vaal that's manufacturing the units, as well as Deon Wilson, the programmer who designed the automated cops that operate independent of human supervision. But that doesn't sit well with Vincent Moore, a rival programmer and former soldier who's designed a competitive and more militarized unit known as Moose.
Deon's robotic cops are hated by the city's criminals, including the trio of Ninja, his girlfriend Yo-Landi, and their friend Amerika. The three owe a lot of money to crime boss Hippo, and decide the best way to get around the police is to kidnap Deon and have him change the programming. They do just that, but he informs them their idea won't work due to built-in safeguards. But they're intrigued by a previously damaged scout that he's taken without permission in hopes of instilling artificial intelligence into the unit.
He ends up succeeding with that, and Yo-Landi decides to name this now child-like robot Chappie, and he quickly learns and adapts to his surroundings. Deon is pleased with his creation, but not in what Ninja is plotting to do with his robot, a sentiment shared by Vincent once he learns what's transpired. As the thugs and Deon try to educate this new sentient being from their own viewpoints, with the criminals wanting to turn him into one of their own, Vincent plots to use that to his advantage so that his robot creation will receive the green light and be viewed as the better solution.
ELECTRIC SLIDE
STARRING: Jim Sturgess, Isabel Lucas, Cortney Palm
RATING: R (for language, some sexual content/nudity and brief violence)
GENRE: DRAMA
RUN TIME: 95 min
1983 Los Angeles is full of beautiful girls, mansions & glamorous parties. Eddie Dudson is a hip, charismatic, Melrose Avenue dealer of antique furniture for the rich and famous. He and Pauline are living out their fast-paced fantasies until the loan sharks start knocking at their door. To pay off their debts they begin a spree of robberies, now running from the sharks & the police. Dodson drove to the banks in a black '63 Ford Galaxy LTD. He dressed up like an elegant criminal. He made mix tapes to listen to on his getaways. And in only nine months, Eddie robbed 64 banks - more than anyone has robbed before or since. Taking its aesthetic cues from Eddie Dodson and the unique moment he occupied in L.A.'s counter cultural history, director Tristan Patterson has forgone the style of straight‐ahead biopics to create a New Wave dream of a romantic outlaw seeking self‐reinvention and immortality in paradise.
LAZARUS EFFECT, THE
STARRING: Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, Evan Peters
RATING: PG-13 (for intense sequences of horror violence, terror and some sexual references)
GENRE: HORROR
RUN TIME: 83 min
Frank and Zoe are an engaged couple who are working together at a university in Berkeley. With the help of Clay and Niko, they've created the Lazarus serum that they hope to use in allowing medical personnel more time to bring people back from death without any cognitive or other ill-effects. With college student Eva getting video of their experiment, they manage to resurrect a dead dog. Frank and his fiancee Zoe have achieved the unimaginable--bringing the dead back to life. After THE successful trial on a newly deceased animal, the team is ready to reveal their breakthrough to the world. But some of the team members are concerned with the increased brain activity in the canine as well as his odd and sometimes aggressive behavior. But the university dean shuts the program down.
Unfortunately for them, a large pharmaceutical corporation has purchased the smaller one that had been funding them, and personnel arrive to claim all of the team's research as their own. Realizing they have limited time, the team sneaks back into their lab at night with hopes of replicating their resurrection experiment. The team goes rogue and attempt to recreate the experiment, during which things go terribly wrong.
During that, however, Zoe ends up accidentally electrocuted. When normal efforts of resuscitating her fail, a desperate Frank injects her with the serum. It works and brings her back from the dead, but with increased brain activity likewise occurring within her, the team must contend with what they've accidentally unleashed.
LIVINGSTON GARDENER, THE
STARRING: James Kyson, Douglas M. Griffin
RATING: NR
GENRE: THRILLER
RUN TIME: 87 min
In order to close the case files on over a dozen disappearances, a persistent detective, a bereaved senator, and a skeptical prison warden agree to the request of convicted serial killer Jim Gardener, granting him a live television interview in exchange for the location of his remaining victims. Facing off against newsman Pierce Lawrence - the investigative journalist that helped bring him to justice. This soon turns upside down when Gardener confesses to over a dozen victims still alive. Gardener uses the interview to set into motion a sinister plan that no one sees coming. Will the detective be able to beat Gardener at his own diabolical game?
RUN ALL NIGHT
STARRING: Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, Common, Joel Kinnaman, Boyd Holbrook, Bruce McGill, Lois Smith
RATING: R (for strong violence, language including sexual references, and some drug use)
GENRE: ACTION/DRAMA
RUN TIME: 114 min
To the criminals and police officers of New York City, Jimmy Conlon is a known hit-man who's long worked for his childhood friend turned crime boss, Shawn Maguire. While the likes of Det. Harding would like to put Jimmy away, no charges have stuck and he's a free man. Yet, the many lives he's taken, along with being estranged from his family, have taken an emotional toll on the man. His adult son, boxer wannabe and current limo driver Mike, hates his father’s business and wants nothing to do with him while trying to do the best for his two girls and pregnant wife, Gabriela, all while helping mentor the likes of young Curtis 'Legs' Banks.
When Shawn's adult son, Danny, can't convince his father to accept a lucrative heroin deal, Danny ends up killing the dealer and his partner, a crime witnessed by both Legs and Mike. Mike becomes a target after accidentally witnessing the mob murder. The latter ends up escaping from Danny and his buddy only to be tracked down again, their intent to silence him by killing him. Retired hitman Jimmy has to pick up his guns again to go against the Irish Philadelphia mob run by his longtime friend Shawn. But Jimmy kills Danny first, knowing full well what that will cause. And that Shawn is pulling out all the stops to get his revenge, including hiring a rival hitman, Andrew Price, to take out both Jimmy and Mike.
TIME LAPSE
STARRING: Danielle Panabaker, Matt O'Leary, George Finn, John Rhys-Davies, Amin Joseph, Jason Spisak
RATING: NR
GENRE: FANTASY/SCI-FI
RUN TIME: 103 min
Three pals find a huge camera in the home of a missing neighbor. After taking pictures of themselves in settings they don't recognize, it dawns on them that the photos are of events that will happen to them 24 hours in the future. They conspire to use that power to help themselves to some extra cash realizing they can capitalize on this amazing discovery they start placing bets at horse-racing tracks and photograph the names of the winning horses. That is, until the machine starts spitting out some questionable photos that suggest the trio's future could be in peril. But soon their bookie becomes suspicious of their winning streak and the three friends must now use the technology to stay alive.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
STARRING: Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, Nick Frost
RATING: R (for some strong risqué sexual content/graphic nudity, and for language and drug use)
GENRE: COMEDY/DRAMA
RUN TIME: 91 min
Dan Trunkman is a sales manager at the St. Louis-based Dynamic Systems where his boss, Chuck Portnoy, has just informed him that he's going to have a five-percent pay cut. Upset about that, he quits and decides to start his own minerals-based firm with numbers man Tim McWinters, who's just been let go due to his age, and Mike Pancake, an eager and good-natured but somewhat dimwitted man who just interviewed for a job.
A year later, things aren't going well and Dan is hoping they can land a lucrative business deal with Portland-based Bill Whilmsley. Dan is banking on this as his wife, Susan, wants to send their kids -- Paul, who's being bullied over his weight, and his younger sister, Bess -- to an expensive private school, all while Tim needs the money to divorce his wife. Unfortunately for them, Chuck is also after that business, and her past dealings with Bill's boss, Jim Spinch, seem to favor her winning the deal.
Desperate, the hardworking small business owner and his two associates travel to Berlin, Germany in hopes of convincing the executives of the company that they're right for the job and to close the most important deal of their lives. From that point on, they must not only contend with Chuck, but also various challenges and set-backs along the way. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every way imaginable - and unimaginable- way, including unplanned stops at a massive sex fetish event and a global economic summit.
WELCOME TO ME
STARRING: Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Alan Tudyk, Linda Cardellini, Wes Bentley, Tim Robbins
RATING: R (for sexual content, some graphic nudity, language and brief drug use)
GENRE: COMEDY/DRAMA
RUN TIME: 105 min
Alice Klieg is a single woman living off benefits for her borderline personality disorder, much of which she spends on lottery tickets. Eventually, she wins the jackpot of $86 million. When she appears on the news celebrating her win, she is quickly cut off when the speech she had prepared gets suddenly vulgar, much to her dismay. She then decides to go off of her medication, against the wishes of her therapist Daryl Moffat, and move into a casino hotel.
She appears on TV again during a vitamin supplement infomercial run by Gabe Ruskin, where she forcibly becomes a volunteer and recites her speech once again (though is still cut off by the program director Dawn Hurley). Her quirky personality is highly received by Gabe's brother and studio-head Rich, and Alice uses the opportunity to request the creation of a show, which Rich sees as an opportunity to finally make a profit for his fledgling studio. At the subsequent meeting, Alice requests 100 two-hour long episodes of her show, which she has titled Welcome to Me, in which she discusses whatever happens to be on her mind at the time. Despite the price to produce the show, she promptly pays for it in full, much to the shock and elation of Rich. Though Gabe is reluctant to see to the show's production, mostly because of the vague and random nature of her show, Alice takes Gabe out on a date, where they promptly have sex and begin a relationship. The first episode is awkward, involving segments such as her making a meatloaf cake (which she also eats live) as well as sketch where she publicly shames a woman who wronged her in high school. Alice is disappointed with the episode's quality, who wants it to appear more like Oprah. After spending more money, she revamps the set to include a rotating stage, as well as an exact replica of her house.
As the show rises in popularity, so does the quality and production value of the show. However, her friends and family, including her mother and her best friend Gina Selway, become more alienated as a result, especially when Alice makes a sketch where she depicts Gina as fat because of her preferences in one-pieces over two-piece bikinis. Things escalate when Rainer Ybarra, a reporter for his college's newspaper, interviews her rising stardom. After she gives him a blowjob in her limousine, this tryst is inadvertently revealed on her show by a secretly recorded phone call with Moffat, which greatly angers him and Gabe. After an incident in which Alice burns her chest and arms spilling chili on herself (attacking Gabe and the studio crew in the process), she suddenly formulates a sketch to neuter dogs live on her show. At this point, Gabe finally quits, realizing that she has gone too far. Rich continues to support Alice's decision until he and the studio are sued in numerous slander cases by people that Alice shamed on her show, health code violations related to the neutered dogs, and other damages (including a lawsuit from Gabe). Rich tells Alice to cancel the neutering segment immediately, and after seeing signs of disinterest in her audience, she cancels her recording early and goes on an indefinite hiatus. After settling all of the lawsuits, Alice is left with $7 million of her winnings.
With her friends, family, and colleagues having forsaken her, she suffers a nervous breakdown in the middle of the casino. In the hospital, Gina visits her and berates her for her selfish attitude towards the people she has hurt and her sheer lack of empathy towards them. After being released, she apologizes to Dr. Moffat personally, and then she contacts Rich over doing a final episode of Welcome to Me. She invites her family and Gina to the recording, but Gina does not show up. Throughout the show, Alice holds a lavish telethon in an attempt to find suitable owners for the dogs she's neutered, as well as repenting for the wrongs she did throughout her own life, including apologizing to Gabe for cheating on him and breaking off her relationship with Rainer. Gina finally arrives, and in the show's last moments, Alice gives a heartfelt apology to her and praises her for her patience and being her friend, then presenting her a check for the remaining $7 million of her lottery winnings.
Taking her back home, her life now back to normal, Gabe gives Alice a camcorder for her own purposes. Going to bed, she turns off her television that she's left on for over eleven years for the first time.
WILD TALES
STARRING: Dario Grandinetti, Maria Marull, Monica Villa, Rita Cortese, Julieta Zylberberg, Ceasar Bordon
RATING: R (for violence, language and brief sexuality)
GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE/COMEDY
RUN TIME: 122 min
(SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
Six short stories involving distressed people that all tell disturbing and funny stories. The first involves a plane full of people who discover they have something in common. The second is a tale of revenge. The third tells the story of a road-rage incident that escalates to unbelievable proportions. The fourth follows a man fed up with governmental bureaucracy. The fifth features a wealthy family attempting to buy their son out of a jail stint after he kills someone in a car accident. The final episode takes place at a wedding where a jealous bride turns her reception into a Grand Guignol experience for her husband and some of her guests.
"Pasternak"
Two plane passengers discover that they know a man named Pasternak: the woman was his former girlfriend, and the man is a music critic who savagely reviewed his work. They discover that everybody on the flight is connected to Pasternak. An air steward reveals that Pasternak is the plane's purser and has locked the cabin doors. Pasternak crashes the plane into his parents' house.
"Las Ratas" ("The Rats")
A loan shark stops at a small restaurant by a highway. The waitress recognizes him as a man who ruined her family. She refuses the cook's offer to mix rat poison in his food, but the cook adds the poison anyway. When the man's son arrives and eats the same food, the waitress tries to take the poisoned food away. The man attacks her, but the cook kills him with a chef's knife. The son vomits.
"El más fuerte" ("The Strongest")
Diego is driving through the desert and tries to overtake a slower, older car, but the other car blocks him. As he finally passes, Diego insults the other driver, Mario. Further up the road, Diego gets a flat tire and Mario catches up. Mario parks his car in front of Diego's, blocking him; he smashes his windshield and defecates and urinates on his roof. Diego pushes Mario and his car into the river and drives off. Mario survives and Diego returns to run him down, but loses control and crashes into the river. Mario enters Diego's car through the trunk and they fight; Mario leaves Diego strangling by a seatbelt, then lights a rag in the gas tank. Diego grabs Mario and prevents him escaping. A tow truck driver arrives as the car explodes. The police discover two charred bodies holding each other and theorize that it might have been a crime of passion.
"Bombita" ("Little Bomb")
Simón Fischer, a demolitions expert, picks up a cake for his daughter's birthday party and discovers his car has been towed away. He goes to the towed-car lot and argues, insisting there were no yellow lines, but to no avail. He pays the towing fee and misses his daughter's party. The next day, when he is again refused a refund, he attacks the glass partition and is arrested. The story makes the news and Fischer's company fires him. His wife seeks a divorce and sole custody of their daughter. Fischer applies unsuccessfully for a job and discovers his car has been towed again. He retrieves the car and packs it with explosives. After it is towed again, he detonates the explosives, destroying the towing office with no casualties. Fischer is imprisoned and becomes a local hero, with calls on social media for his release. His wife and daughter visit him in prison for his birthday.
"La Propuesta" ("The Proposal")
A teenager arrives home after having hit-and-run a pregnant woman in his father's car. The woman and child are reported dead on the local news and her husband swears vengeance. The driver's father, Mauricio Pereyra Hamilton, hatches a plan with his lawyer to have their groundskeeper take the blame for half a million dollars. The local prosecutor sees through the scheme because the car's mirrors were not adjusted for the caretaker. The lawyer negotiates to include the prosecutor in the deal for more money. The caretaker asks for an apartment along with his money, and the prosecutor asks for an additional payment to pay off the police. The guilty son says he wants to confess to the gathered crowd. The father becomes frustrated and calls off the deal, telling his son to confess. The lawyer renogitates and the father agrees on a lower price. Jose is taken by police to a police car when the dead woman's husband attacks him with a hammer.
"Hasta que la muerte nos separe" ("Until Death Do Us Part")
At a wedding party, the bride, Romina, discovers that her groom, Ariel, has cheated on her with one of the guests. She confronts him as they dance in front of everyone, and runs to the roof, where a kitchen worker comforts her. Ariel discovers her having sex with the worker. She tells him that she will sleep with every man who shows her interest, and take him for all he's worth if he tries to divorce her, or when he dies. They return to the party and continue the festivities. Romina pulls the woman Ariel slept with onto the dance floor, spins her round, and slams her into a mirror. She insists the photographer film Ariel and his mother weeping. The mother attacks her, and is pulled off by her husband and Romina's father; Romina bride collapses. Ariel approaches her and extends a hand. They dance, kiss, and begin to have sex as the guests leave.
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BACK TO THE JURASSIC
STARRING: Voices: MELANIE GRIFFITH, PAMELA ADLON, JOHN DIMAGGIO, ROB SCHNEIDER, JANE LYNCH, WILLIAM AND STEPHEN BALDWIN
RATING: PG (for some scary action and mild rude humor)
GENRE: ADVENTURE/ANIMATION
RUN TIME: 88 min
Dove "Family-Approved"
Most children at some point in their lives love dinosaurs and think they are very interesting. Ernie, his little sister Julia, and his best friend Max accidentally find themselves back in time when they accidentally spill pop on the controls of Max’s dad’s time machine. The machine starts up while they are playing in Max’s inventor father’s workshop and they find themselves transported back in time 65 million years. The adventure that Ernie has always wanted is finally real and he is not willing to go back right away. But now the trio has to find a way to return and it may not be easy.
The children are adopted by doting dinosaur mom Tyra and a rambunctious dinosaur “brother” named Dodger. Tyra thinks she is a new mom because her egg hatched and the three children are the result, so she is protecting them from any danger that may come their way.
The three kids explore the excitement of the prehistoric world while, back in the present, Max’s dad and Ernie and Julia’s overprotective mom are busy building a new machine so they can go find their children. But they also receive a surprise when Tyra’s real egg hatches and now they have to find a way to return the little fellow back millions of years. If the children ever wish to make it back home, they must steer clear of their evil dinosaur rivals and rely on the help of their “mother” and Dodger—after all, family isn’t always just the one you’re born into!
This is a fun, entertaining movie that the entire family can enjoy. It includes a few lessons about listening to your parents, thinking of others over yourself, and that family is family no matter if they look different. The Dove “Family-Approved” Seal for all ages is awarded to this wonderful animated movie.
CAS & DYLAN
STARRING: TATIANA MASLANY, RICHARD DREYFUSS
RATING: NR
GENRE: COMEDY
RUN TIME: 90 min
When 61-year-old self-proclaimed loner and terminally ill, Dr. Cass Pepper, reluctantly agrees to give 22-year-old social misfit, Dylan Morgan a very short lift home, the last thing he anticipates is that he will strike her angry boyfriend with his car, find himself on the lam, and ultimately drive across the country with an aspiring young writer determined to help him overcome his own bizarre case of suicide note writer's block. But as fate would have it, that is exactly what happens. Suddenly Cas's solo one-way trip out West isn't so solo. With Dylan at his side, the two takeoff on an adventure that will open their eyes to some of life's lessons - both big and small. This unexpected adventure opens their eyes to life's most important lessons & they end up finding friendship in the last place expected.
DEBUG
STARRING: JASON MOMOA, JEANANNE GOOSSEN, KYLE MAC
RATING: NR
GENRE: FANTASY/SCI-FI
RUN TIME: 85 min
In this tale of deep space cyber-horror, six young computer hackers are sent to work on a derelict space freighter as a part of a grueling work release program, attempt to clear out--debug--the computer systems of a massive derelict freighter. They quickly fall prey to the ship's vengeful artificial intelligence, a program that would kill to be human. They are helpless to defend themselves as it silently roots out their deepest desires to use against them in the most imaginative and horrific ways. As the team is forced to match wits with the A.I., they discover a fate worse than death is on the ship. It takes a very determined and brilliant hacker, Kaida, to battle this malevolent entity and send it back to cyber hell.
DUFF, THE
STARRING: MAE WHITMAN, BELLA THORNE, KEN JEONG, ALLISON JANEY, REBECCA WEIL, NICK EVERSMAN, ROBBIE AMELL, SKYLER SAMUELS
RATING: PG13 (for crude and sexual material throughout, some language and teen partying)
GENRE: COMEDY
RUN TIME:100 min
Bianca is a content high school senior whose world is shattered when she learns the student body knows her as "THE DUFF" (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) to her prettier, more popular friends. She enlists Wesley, a slick but charming jock, to help reinvent herself. Bianca must find confidence to remind everyone that we are all someone's DUFF.
Bianca is a high school senior who lives with her single, motivational speaker mom, Dottie; has two best friends, Jess and Casey; and is the favorite student of journalism teacher Mr. Arthur. When her next door neighbor and current high school football team captain, Wesley, informs her that she's the DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) to Jess and Casey, however, Bianca's world is shaken. Despite Wesley's crass generalization, Bianca believes it. Not only does she then un-friend her friends, but she also strikes a deal with Wesley. She'll help him improve his grades so that his college scholarship isn't in jeopardy while he'll help transform her into the kind of girl who could draw the interest of her dream crush and fellow student, Toby.
But Bianca must contend with Wesley's on-again, off-again girlfriend, Madison, who looks down on Bianca but nevertheless is jealous of the time she's spending with Wesley. Accordingly, she gets her friend, Caitlyn, to capture embarrassing video footage of Bianca and then post that online. As she must contend with that affecting her chances with Toby, and Mr. Arthur assigning her to write a story on the Homecoming dance, Bianca doesn't realize that Wesley might be falling for her.
FREE THE NIPPLE
STARRING: LINA ESCO, LOLA KIRKE, MONIQUE COLEMAN, CASEY LABOW, ZACH GRENIER
RATING: NR
GENRE: COMEDY
RUN TIME: 79 min
A group of fearless women fight for their right to go topless in public, as they smash societal taboos one bare breast at a time. Based on a true story, this spirited satire follows NYC activists Liv & With, who take their crusade for gender equality from the streets to the courts. More than just a movie, but an empowering real-life movement inspiring women everywhere to take back their bodies.
HEALING
STARRING: HUGO WEAVING, XAVIER SAMUEL, DAN HANY
RATING: R (for LANGUAGE)
GENRE: DRAMA
RUN TIME: 112 min
A powerful moving story of redemption, the discovery of hope and the healing of the spirit – in the most unlikely place, for the most unique men, through the most unusual catalyst. After 18 years in prison, Viktor Kahdem is a man who has almost given up on life, sentenced to a low-security prison farm, a completely non-threatening environment where it is still felt that some individuals can be reformed. At Won Wron, Case Worker Matt Perry has established a unique program to rehabilitate broken men through giving them the responsibility for the rehabilitation of injured raptors - beautiful, fearsome proud eagles, falcons and owls. Against all odds, Matt takes on Viktor as his number one test case, introducing him to Yasmine, the majestic wedge tailed eagle with a 2 meter wingspan. If these two can tame each other, anything is possible.
KINGSMAN THE SECRET SERVICE
STARRING: COLIN FIRTH, TARON EGERTON, MARK STRONG, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, MARK HAMILL, MICHAEL CAINE
RATING: R (for sequences of strong violence, language, and some sexual content)
GENRE: ACTION
RUN TIME: 129 min
A spy organization recruits an unrefined, but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program, just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
Harry Hart is the best member of an elite spy agency known as the Kingsmen based in London. During a rescue mission to save the kidnapped Professor Arnold, one of his fellow Kingsmen is killed, and the agency must recruit a new member to replace him. Harry takes under his wing Eggsy Unwin, the young twenty-something son of another deceased Kingsmen who saved Harry's life on a mission 17 years earlier. Harry's boss, Arthur, doubts his choice and instead has more faith in a skilled female recruit named Roxy or Eggsy's arrogant rival, Charlie.
As the young candidates vie to become Kingsmen, a billionaire megalomaniac named Valentine plots to distribute free cell phones and offer free Internet worldwide, then activate a signal within the technology that will turn all of humanity into packs of mindlessly violent savages bent on killing each other. His goal is to wipe out most of humanity and restart the planet with a chosen few -- mostly the wealthy, elite, and famous. He employs a female assassin named Gazelle, who has had both legs amputated and replaced with metal prosthetic limbs that she wields as extremely sharp swords capable of fatally slicing and dicing her prey.
As the countdown to Doomsday looms, Eggsy's cloak-and-dagger skills continue to evolve to the point where he becomes key to saving the world. He finds a major supporter in the Kingsmen's resident technology expert, Merlin, and eventually mounts an all-out assault on Valentine's remote stronghold.
MCFARLAND, USA
STARRING: KEVIN COSTNER, CARLOS PRATTS, MARIA BELLO, MORGAN SAYLOR, JOHNNY ORTIZ
RATING: PG (for thematic material, some violence and language)
GENRE: DRAMA/ROMANCE
RUN TIME: 109 min
***RELEASED 6/2/15, BUT I FORGOT TO INCLUDE IN LAST WEEK’S POSTING***
In 1987, in Boise, Idaho, football coach Jim White is chastising his players for an underwhelming half. Jim gets into a verbal altercation with one of the players, resulting in Jim throwing a football shoe with cleats at him. Following this incident, Jim is forced to move with his wife, Cheryl, and two daughters, Julie and Jamie. They settle down in McFarland, California, a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. On their first night there, the family goes to a small restaurant and leaves to find a large gathering of Latinos in cars surrounding the place. One man makes suggestive motions toward Julie, prompting the family to leave faster.
White starts his new job as the life science/PE teacher and assistant football coach at school. During Jim's PE class, three boys, the Diaz brothers Danny, Damacio, and David, are forced by their mother to leave. During the school's football game, one of the players, Johnny Sameniego, gets injured on the field. The head coach wants him to get back out there, but White orders Johnny to sit out, which angers the head coach.
The coach complains to Principal Camillo about Jim's actions during the game and demands that he step down. During the next day's PE class, Jim sits on the bleachers and watches the boys run around the track with Jamie joining him. She comments that the boys, particularly Victor and Johnny (who got cut from the football team) move very fast. Jim goes to Camillo to convince him to let him start a cross country team to compete in the upcoming state championships. Jim also enlists Johnny's help to recruit six more runners for the team, starting with Victor. Johnny asks the Diaz brothers, as well as two other students – Jose Cardenas and Thomas Valles. Thomas has gotten in trouble at school for being involved in altercations with other boys that mocked his younger sister for getting pregnant, so Jim negotiates for him to join the team to avoid suspension. Although the boys are initially reluctant, they agree to join the team and run with Jim across the town, with Danny lagging behind as he is the heaviest of the Diez brothers on the team.
After some training, the team goes to their first meet in Palo Alto as boys from the other schools taunt the McFarland team. The race commences, and the McFarland team lands in the final spot. Knowing the boys are disappointed, Jim takes full responsibility for the loss to not let them get discouraged.
Having been late for his daughter's birthday, Jim goes for a drive and sees Thomas sitting on a bridge over the road. He approaches him and notices a bruise on his eye, which Thomas says was his own fault because he tried to stop his father from hurting his hands so that he could keep working. Jim talks him down and tells him that he has good things ahead of him, encouraging him to continue doing something worthwhile.
The Diaz brothers are pulled out of the team by their father, who wants them to keep working the fields. Jim goes to the brothers' home, and the next morning goes out to work on the fields with them. The team goes up for another race to qualify for the championships. The team competes, and manage to just break into the top four teams, enough to qualify. Meanwhile, a coach from Palo Alto gives Jim a card, saying he is interested in an open full-time position.
The people in town learn that Julie just turned 15 and decide to help organize a quinceañera for her. They bring Cheryl, Julie, and Jamie to the salon while everyone sets up at home. Thomas gives her a bracelet that his grandmother made. Later, Javi and Lupe offer to take Julie out for her own "parade", with Thomas accompanying them. Not long after, their car is confronted by a group of punks that bother Javi. The authorities contact Jim, forcing him and Cheryl to drive to the scene and find Julie on the ground, with scrapes on her legs and shaking tearfully. Jim is angry over this, despite being assured that Julie was protected.
Jim meets with the Palo Alto district for the coaching position. The boys and his family learn about this, and are upset with him. He tells Cheryl that he could bring them the better life that he promised them. Cheryl argues that they have settled in just fine here and it would be wrong for Jim to abandon the team and the friends they have made. The day arrives for the state championships. The whole community goes out to support the team. The race commences, shortly after Jim notices that Jose is moving too fast and worries that he will overexert himself. Thomas runs faster to pick up the slack as Jose starts to slow down. Thomas ends up crossing the finish line first, while the others come in closely. Jim worries when he does not see Jose, but to both his and Thomas's surprise, it is Danny that runs faster and picks up the slack.
The judges tally their scores together and McFarland comes in first, and the team and town celebrates while Jim turns down the job offer from Palo Alto to remain in McFarland.
PROJECT ALMANAC
STARRING: SAM LERNER, JONNY WESTON, GARY WEEKS, SOFIA BLACK-D'ELLA, ALLEN EVANGELISTA, VIRGINIA GARDNER
RATING: PG-13 (for some language and sexual content)
GENRE: FANTASY/SCI-FI
RUN TIME: 120 min
A fun coming-of-age tale in the vein of BACK TO THE FUTURE. David, an awkward 16-year old, and his friends learn how to go back in time using a wormhole and a machine they've built using a video game consol. David's future may just lie in his own past.
David Raskin is a high school senior and science whiz who's just been accepted to MIT, much to the joy of his mom and younger, high school age sister, Chris. David's buddies and fellow geeks Adam and Quinn are happy for him as well, but the problem is that MIT's offer only comes with $5,000 in financial aid. Needing a way to make a money-generating impression, David goes through his late father's scientific papers in the attic. While doing so, Chris discovers an old video camera that shows footage of David's seventh birthday, the last time they saw their dad alive.
But the shocking thing is that in a couple of frames of the video, David believes he spots a mirror reflection of his current self at that birthday party a decade ago. They and Adam and Quinn eventually come to believe that their father, working with DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), was developing a time machine, and decided to try and build it via his plans that they discover in his old basement lab, along with a temporal displacement engine that just needs enough power to work.
That results in them eventually using the batteries in the hybrid car driven by Jessie, the girl at school with whom David is quite smitten. Accordingly, she ends up seeing their experiment work on a small scale. And noting that they have video proof that they already successfully traveled back in time, she convinces them to try it on themselves. With the limited power ability to only go back three weeks in time, they decide to win the lottery, get revenge on a classmate who's been bullying Chris, and get a better chemistry class grade for Quinn.
But a trip back to Lollapalooza changes everything in that David realizes he blew his chance to kiss Jessie. Breaking their rules about always traveling as a group, David goes back to that event, kisses her, and returns to the present to discover that she's his girlfriend. But he also learns that these temporal jumps have resulted in dire ripple effects due to the various changes in the past. From that point on, he goes back and tries to fix them, unaware that doing so is only going to make things worse.
SERENA
STARRING: BRADLEY COOPER, JENNIFER LAWRENCE
RATING: R (for (for some violence and sexuality)
GENRE: DRAMA/ROMANCE
RUN TIME: 109 min
The year is 1929, and love-struck newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child by young Rachel Harmon but Serena is new to the mountains. Upon stepping off the train in Waynesville, George is confronted by Rachel's father, Abe Harmon, who is angry at his daughter's abandonment and is hoping Pemberton will assist them financially. When Serena responds that George will not be assisting them, Abe attacks George with a bowie knife. Ultimately George wins the battle and kills Abe. George also meets his business partners Wilkie and Buchanan at the train station and introduces them to his new wife, Serena.
Serena will soon show herself to be the equal of any man, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her husband's life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. Together, they ruthlessly kill or vanquish all who fall out of favor. However, once Serena discovers George's hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton's passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning. Meanwhile Rachel Harmon struggles to take care of her son, Jacob. When Serena learns that she will never bear a child, she sets out to murder the son George fathered without her. Mother and child begin a struggle for their lives, and when Serena suspects George is protecting his illegitimate family, the Pembertons' intense, passionate marriage starts to unravel.
SQUEEZE, THE
STARRING: JEREMY SUMPTER, CHRISTOPHER MCDONALD, JILLIAN MURRAY, MICHAEL NOURI, JASON DOHRING, KATHERINE LANASA, MEKIA COX, ROCHELLE AYCOTH
RATING: PG-13 (for for some sexuality, language, drug material and thematic elements)
GENRE: COMEDY
RUN TIME: 95 min
A common man of uncommon skills, young golf phenom, Augie Baccus, struggles to provide for his mom and sister in rural Texas is a winner in life...starting quarterback in football, leading scorer in basketball, fastest in track, etc. When Augie wins his one day City Golf Championship by 15 shots breaking his own course record, a dapper Southern gentleman gambler, Riverboat and his over-the-top bejeweled wife, Jessie, who are driving cross country in their blue Thunderbird from Mississippi to Las Vegas hear of this uncommonly gifted young golfer on local radio. Turning off the highway, Riverboat heads to the local muni course to find Augie and convinces him to abandon his dreams of qualifying for the PGA Tour, and come play for him in high-stake gambling matches. Augie's longtime girlfriend, Natalie, sassy, smart and take-no-prisoners is angered beyond tolerance as she watches Augie give up his dreams and compromise his integrity. Augie continues to win high stakes matches all across the state until they're finally run out of Texas. Riverboat and Augie head for Las Vegas where they play in even higher stakes matches until Augie finds himself pitted against a big-time Vegas gambler, Jimmy Diamonds, who has known connections to the mob. Augie continues to win every match until finally, Diamonds, fed up with the scam, breaks into Augie's hotel room and brutally informs him he's going to end up at the bottom of a swimming pool wearing lead boots if he doesn't lose the match the next day. Fearing for his life, Augie attempts to escape but is soon discovered by a very angry Riverboat who informs him he had better win the match the next day or he'll do the deadly deed himself. Thus our hero is caught in The Squeeze. Win or lose-either way, he's dead. With the help of his friends, can he pull off the biggest sting in golf history & outwit the two shrewdest gamblers ever? Can this appealing young man escape the opposing forces of evil and win back his girl? Welcome to The Squeeze. It's Tin Cup meets The Sting with a dollop of Caddyshack.
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AMERICAN BAD BOY
STARRING: Katt Williams, Antoine Cleveland
RATING: R (for sexual content and language throughout)
GENRE: DRAMA
RUN TIME: 97 min
Samuel's dream of buying a recording studio, making a hit record, and becoming a famous hip-hop artist has hit a snag. The money he borrowed to make it all happen is long overdue. With the money all gone and the record far from finished, he becomes desperate for a solution. So when "The Bruce" - unscrupulous business man and owner of a string of male strip clubs - gives him only six months to pay back sixty-thousand dollars or say good-bye to his dream, Samuel knows what he's got to do. To make it all work, he going to take it all off. With his looks and his talents, raising enough money to pay off the loan and complete the record ought to be a cinch, but there's still a hitch. For his plan to work he'll have to keep it a secret for a number of reasons. One, because his "keeper" of a girlfriend would drop him if she ever found out. And two, because he's the son of one of the most prominent and respected preachers in the community. And while keeping his job hidden proves easy at first, it isn't long before word gets out. And now with lines to get into the club beginning to extend around the block, women are starting to talk. On top of these worries, "The Bruce" who will stop at nothing to keep his best money maker from getting away, has a plan of his own. For Samuel its too late to turn back and he's come too far to quit. It all comes down to a question of how much hiding is possible when it comes time to expose a star.
ASYLUM (2014 AFTER DARK ORIGINAL)
STARRING: Stephen Rea, Bruce Payne, Dimo Alexiev, Velizar Binev, Caroline Ford, Valentin Ganev
RATING: R (for language, violence, sexual content and brief nudity)
GENRE: HORROR
RUN TIME: 93 min
A veteran hostage negotiator's next call leads him to an overrun insane asylum. He soon finds that dark forces are pushing the patients to commit atrocities, and he may be the only one that can stop them.
An eleven-person riot squad races to an insane asylum to quell a recent inmate outbreak and hostage situation. They arrive, only to be caught off guard by a sudden barrage of insane patients. When they've finally fought off a wave, two of their squad members are missing, their communications return only static, and the doors are locked. They're trapped. They break up into three teams to track down the lost members. Strange sounds and religious iconography suggest something beyond insanity has taken over the inmates. Sure enough, a simple rescue mission quickly morphs into relentless life or death battles with possessed. When McGahey, a trained, rational hostage negotiator, discovers the ringleader of this possessed insanity is none other than his brother, it falls on him to stop nothing less than the opening of a portal to Hell.
BLINDSIDED
STARRING: Michelle Monaghan, Michael Keaton, Barry Sloane, Andrew Walker, Kaniehtiio Horn
RATING: R (for violence, adult situations, gore)
GENRE: DRAMA
RUN TIME: 90 min
Blindsided follows journalist Sara, who lost her vision while on assignment in Iraq. Living a seemingly quiet life with her boyfriend Ryan, Sara is horrified when she is taken hostage by a pair of murderous thieves including the dangerous Hollander who are on the hunt for diamonds they believe Sara is hiding.
It’s New Year’s Eve in New York City and everyone’s getting ready to party. Watching, waiting, a man called Hollander has a different kind of party in mind. Alone in her high-rise apartment, Sara has no idea that her boyfriend was a thief. But what he stole – and from whom – is about to put her life on the line. Trapped in the penthouse with Hollander and his sadistic partner, these two will kill, maim, tear the place apart to find a fortune in diamonds. While the party rages outside, inside Sara fights desperately for her life. It’s kill or be killed in a pulse-pounding, non-stop fight to the finish.
CAMP X-RAY
STARRING: Kristen Stewart, Peyman Moaadi
RATING: R (for language and brief nude images)
GENRE: DRAMA/WAR
RUN TIME: 117 min
A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small town roots. But she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay instead, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees. A story of two people, on opposite sides of a war, struggling to find their way through the ethical quagmire of Guantanamo Bay. And in the process, they form an unlikely bond that changes them both.
DEADLY SANCTUARY (2015)
STARRING: Dean Cain, Eric Roberts, Daniel Baldwin, Rebekah Kochan, Marco Dapper
RATING: PG-13 (for some violence, sexual references and thematic material)
GENRE: FAMILY/THRILLER
RUN TIME: 100 min
Feisty, flame-haired reporter, Kendall O'Dell is drawn into an evil web of conspiracy beyond anything she could have ever imagined when she accepts a position at a small newspaper in isolated Castle Valley, Arizona. In the mix is a vanished reporter, two dead teenage girls and an attractive cowboy. Kendall's life hangs in the balance as she strives to uncover the horrifying secret.
Beautiful, strong-willed reporter, Kendall O’Dell, is drawn into an evil web of conspiracy beyond anything she could have ever imagined when she accepts a position at a small newspaper in isolated Castle Valley, Arizona. Her assignment: Find out why her predecessor mysteriously vanished while working on a story concerning the unsolved deaths of two teenage girls. Why is the sheriff so hostile to her inquiries? Why is the woman operating the local shelter for homeless girls so secretive? And how is attractive rancher Bradley Talverson involved?
When the body of a third girl is discovered in the desert not far from a private psychiatric hospital, Kendall’s life hangs in the balance as she strives to uncover the horrifying secret.
DOG WHO SAVED SUMMER, THE
STARRING: Dean Cain, Elisa Donovan, Joey Diaz
RATING: PG (for some mild rude humor)
GENRE: FAMILY
RUN TIME: 90 min
Dove "Family-Approved"
School's out for summer... but not at the Bannister house! When their beloved dog Zeus destroys a party planned by Belinda, Grandma suggests they send him to obedience school. Things start off on the wrong paw when Zeus's owner George runs afoul of the school's no-nonsense instructor Vernon and Zeus manages to fail every lesson. To make matters worse, Vernon's K-9 assistant, Apollo makes class no dog-gone fun. With Zeus failing to improve, the Bannister children Kara and Ben fear that the pound may be Zeus's next stop. Desperate to turn things around, Zeus enlists the help of a janitor, Mr. Lee, who shares his unique training methods. Will Zeus' newfound skills help him win top dog at the school's showcase and foil a trio of bumbling thieves determined to make this a bummer ...
EXTINCTION: JURASSIC PREDATORS
STARRING: Ben Lloyd Holmes, Sarah Mac, Neil Newbon, Daniel Caren
RATING: NR
GENRE: FANTASY/SCI-FI
RUN TIME: 103 min
Deep in the Amazon jungle a research team lead by a respected Professor strive to protect vulnerable and endangered species, but when their guides abandon them they soon realize they are in the hunting ground of prehistoric apex predators.
FOCUS (2015)
STARRING: Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Griff Furst
RATING: R (for language, some sexual content and brief violence)
GENRE: COMEDY/DRAMA
RUN TIME: 105 min
Nicky Spurgeon is a veteran con artist who's skilled at robbing people, whether that's through simple sleight-of-hand manipulation or elaborate heists that involve his various team members, including the likes of Farhad and Horst. When an attractive young woman, Jess Barrett, tries to seduce him into her own sort of robbery con, he's immediately on to her and then gives her a few tips before headed to New Orleans for his team's next big score. Jess manages to track him down there, and after a test run to prove her ability to participate with the rest, she joins the team, although she's surprised to see Nicky seemingly lose his cool demeanor while betting with a high stakes gambler, Liyuan, at the Super Bowl.
Despite them being romantically involved, Nicky then cuts her loose and the movie jumps forward three years where millionaire Spanish racecar team owner Rafael Garríga wants to hire the con man to pull over a fast one on rival race team owner McEwen. Rafael's right-hand man and enforcer, Owens, doesn't trust Nicky and thinks it's a bad idea, but has to go along with his boss' decision.
But when Nicky starts to enact the plan, he catches sight of Jess with Rafael, a development that throws him for a loop. With everyone's motives in question, Nicky then modifies his plan in what appears to be his bid to win Jess back and get away with as much money as possible.
INFECTED (2013)
STARRING: Luke Hubson, Nicky Paul Barton
RATING: NR
GENRE: HORROR/SCI-FI
RUN TIME: 116 min
It's the weekend, and the lads are off on the town! What could possibly go wrong? How about the end of the world as we know it. 'Something' has happened, the undead are out in force, roaming the streets and devouring all who get in their way. Several groups of unlikely people find themselves trapped together in an emergency rescue center, but no rescue is coming! So as the country goes to hell overnight, and the reality sinks in, how and what will these people do to survive.
JUPITER ASCENDING
STARRING: Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth, Tuppence Middleton
RATING: PG-13 (for some violence, sequences of sci-fi action, some suggestive content and partial nudity)
GENRE: SCI-FI
RUN TIME: 127 min
Jupiter Jones was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. She is a Russian immigrant who was brought to America as an infant. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job working as a maid with her mother and other family members and an endless run of bad breaks.
Only when Caine Wise, a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along - her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos. She hates her life, but soon has a change of heart when extraterrestrial aliens attempt to kill her. They nearly succeed, but Jupiter is saved by half-wolf, half-man Caine Wise, a so-called skyjacker who's been sent by a universal royal, Titus, to find and retrieve her.
It seems that she's the genetically reincarnated matriarch of a royal family that owns most of the universe, and Titus and his siblings, Balem and Kalique are quite interested in Jupiter, what with their mother having recently perished. In short, they don't want her messing with their plans that involve a myriad of planets they separately own, including Earth. When Caine figures that out, he seeks out the help of his former military commander, Stinger, with whom he had a falling out in the past.
As Jupiter tries to soak all of this in, Caine does what he can to protect her from the others and help her take her rightful place on the royal thrown, overseeing the universe and its inhabitants.
KILLING JESUS
STARRING: Kelsey Grammer, Haaz Sleiman, Stephen Moyer, Rufus Sewell, Emmanuelle Chriqui
RATING: NR
GENRE: DRAMA
RUN TIME: 132 min
Filmed entirely in Morocco, part political thriller, part historical drama, Killing Jesus breathes new life into a lineage of cinematic portrayals centering on the humble carpenter from Nazareth. We watch as Jesus flips the balance of power with His message of God's grace and love when law and order rule.
Undoubtedly one of National Geographic's most ambitious projects.
National Geographic matches its mission to preserve its findings about the Man from Galilee. Though some criticize it for focusing on Jesus' humanity and glossing over His divinity, Killing Jesus does what National Geographic and its authors set out to do--tell an engaging account of one of the most influential figures in history. Killing Jesus centers on the Son of God, but gives those in power who sought to quash his growing influence over the Jewish people a chance to tell their side of the story.
Killing Jesus starts at the beginning of the Rabbi's life with King Herod the Great ruthlessly ruling over his people. Paranoid that his throne will be usurped, Herod orders the murder of all of the male babies in Bethlehem when three magi from the East tell him of the Messiah's birth.
The film doesn't shy away from the violence or immorality of that time. A few minutes in, we see King Herod's guards brutally thrust their swords through the male children. Grieved mothers weep over their bodies, as they lie dead in the street.
In the portrayal of the death of John the Baptist, viewers witness his vicious beheading at the order of Antipas, who rules over Galilee. In one prominent scene, Salome seductively dances for her stepfather, Antipas, at his request. Salome's sheer robe entices Antipas' lust, granting her and Herodia's wish to have John the Baptist killed. Antipas graphically acts out his immoral thoughts toward his stepdaughter by licking and kissing her bare leg.
We also see the bloody scourging and merciless crucifixion of Jesus by the Romans, at the insistence of the Sanhedrin and by the order of Pontius Pilate. Likewise, the hanging of Judas from a tree outside Jerusalem is most effecting.
For those who wonder about the amount of Bible-based events in Killing Jesus, know that the TV movie does show Jesus as He is seen by the faithful few who closely followed Him. Some of Jesus' most famous teaching moments, including the Sermon on the Mount, are intact. Jesus, quotes essential New Testament scripture, including remarks about needing to be "born again" and the profound verse found in John 11:25 ("I am the resurrection and the life. And those who believe in me, even though he die, will live.")
At first, Jesus seems unaware of His divine connection to God. And He appears surprised by the effect of His prayer while fishing in the barren Sea of Galilee with a frustrated fisherman named Simon, later called Peter. The Holy Spirit is not mentioned; however, Jesus is seen baptized in the Jordan River. Jesus' miracles are, for the most part, only referenced. Also, the resurrection, though implied, is not visually confirmed with the return of Jesus in the flesh.
Presenting Jesus' life and death from a largely historical perspective could open this religious history to wider audiences. And though Killing Jesus covers a lot of ground, it's done succinctly and does not overload the viewer. From its authentic-looking set design to its detailed costumes, Killing Jesus transports you back to the arrival of Jesus, to witness how He shook established law and tradition.
Killing Jesus serves as a conversation starter, encouraging viewers to accept the historical evidence of Jesus. Audiences will see that He really lived, really died, and that it's entirely possible He lived again (as believers know He did).
MONSTERS: DARK CONTINENT
STARRING: Sofia Boutella, Joe Dempsie, Sam Keeley
RATING: R (for graphic war violence, pervasive language, some strong sexual content/nudity and drug use)
GENRE: FANTASY/SCI-FI
RUN TIME: 122 min
Ten years on from the events of Monsters, and the 'Infected Zones' have now spread worldwide. In the Middle East a new insurgency has begun. At the same time there has also been a proliferation of Monsters in that region. The Army decides to draft in more numbers to help deal with this insurgency. Four fresh recruits from Detroit are sent on a special mission: to rescue five soldiers who have been lost deep in the Infected Zone. The #1 focus of the mission is human, but they are instructed to take down any creatures that get in the way along the route. A life threatening mission into monster territory.
POLTERGEIST OF BORLEY FOREST, THE
STARRING: Marina Petrano, Christopher Ingle
RATING: NR
GENRE: HORROR
RUN TIME: 102 min
After visiting a supposedly haunted forest, a teen girl comes to believe that a violent poltergeist has followed her home and is stalking her and so with her brother and friends, sets out on a mission to unravel its mystery and stop it before it harms someone.
The events surround a young woman, Paige, who is supposed to be sleeping over at a friend’s house but instead, she and her friends are in the woods partying with older college kids. Paige is uncomfortable being there and quickly becomes restless. She decides to leave but has to track down one of her friends to drive her home. While walking through the forest, she comes across a tree with a rope hanging from one of its branches and when she touches it, she is forced to the ground and immediately begins to feel apprehensive and afraid.
Her friends find her and after they drop her home, she brushes off the anxiety she sensed in the woods but soon thereafter, she begins to experience strange anomalies and her life becomes a living nightmare. At night, she is woken for no apparent reason but then she begins to see a shadowy figure in her room and over time, the figure becomes more distinct until she is able to make out the facial features of a young man. After it attacks her and her friends one night, they decide to do some research at the local library about the origins of Borley Forest. They discover that it was once an ancient burial ground and that in the 1960s, several people from the neighborhood disappeared there and that a young man, matching the description of the spirit Paige saw, was hanged as the main suspect.
With this in mind and the help of a medium, Paige and her friends must make their way back to Borley Forest one last time, in hopes of stopping the supernatural being before he takes any more lives. The forest itself serves as a good backdrop for an eerie setting.
PRIVATE NUMBER
STARRING: Judd Nelson, Tom Sizemore, Hal Ozsan, Nicholle Tom, Joel Michaely, Ray Stoney, Ali Costello
RATING: R (for violence, grisly images, and language including a sexual reference)
GENRE: HORROR/THRILLER
RUN TIME: 95 min
A series of sinister phone calls haunt an ex-alcoholic writer as he struggles to finish a novel. Efforts to trace the calls result in dead ends, leaving the author with no choice but to solve the mystery himself. As he pieces together scant information he discovers the local police are hiding details about a horrific serial killer. In his obsessive search for answers, he loses his grip on reality, and spirals downward into a maelstrom of violence and terror.
SPONGEBOB: SPONGE OUT OF WATER
STARRING: Antonio Banderas, Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Paul Tibbitt
RATING: PG (for mild action and rude humor)
GENRE: ANIMATED/ADVENTURE
RUN TIME: 162 min
During one particularly daring heist, Plankton is able to thwart Mr. Krabs' top employees, the good-hearted short-order cook SpongeBob SquarePants, and the surly Squidward Tentacles and finally swipe the formula. But just as quick as he gets it, it magically disappears into thin air.
The town believes Plankton and SpongeBob are in cahoots, and Bikini Bottom is thrown into chaos. What's really happened is that Burger-Beard has used the power of the book to nab the formula so he can open the most successful food truck in a nearby resort town above water. It's up to SpongeBob, Plankton, Squidward, Mr. Krabs and their friends, the dim-witted Patrick Star and the adventurous squirrel, Sandy Cheeks, to reacquire the formula and return Bikini Bottom to order.
SPRING (2014)
STARRING: Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker
RATING: NR
GENRE: HORROR
RUN TIME: 109 min
Evan is a young American fleeing to Europe to escape his past. While back packing along the Italian coast, he meets & instantly connects with the enchanting & mysterious Louise. A romance blooms between the two--however, Evan soon realizes Louise has been harboring a monstrous, primordial secret that puts their relationship & their lives in jeopardy.
SUMMER'S SHADOW
STARRING: Belle Shouse, Todd Terry, Liz Franke
RATING: NR
GENRE: FAMILY
RUN TIME: 102 min
Summer Larsen is a 12-year-old girl with a big heart & maturity beyond her years. When a stray dog enters her life, she names her Shadow for she follows Summer everywhere. But when Shadow becomes ill, Summer learns that doing what's right is not always easy, but the reward can be invaluable. Shadow changes not only Summers life but also others around her.
TAKING OF TIGER MOUNTAIN, THE
STARRING: Zhang Hanyu, Lin Gengxin, Tong Liya
RATING: NR
GENRE: ACTION
RUN TIME: 136 min
(MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH DUBBED & ENGLISH SUBTITLED OPTIONS.)
Ka-fai is a ruthless bandit stealing & ruling land from his fortress atop Tiger Mountain. Gengxin, captain of the Liberation Army, launches attacks on the mountain fortress to overthrow the dictator.
WITH THIS RING
STARRING: Regina Hall, Jill Scott, Brian White, Eve
RATING: NR
GENRE: COMEDY
RUN TIME: 99 min
After attending their friend Elise's wedding on New Year's Eve, Trista, a career-driven talent agent, Viviane, a successful gossip columnist & Amaya, a struggling actress, make a pact to get married within the year. Each woman starts the year with high hopes & dreams of what will happen over the next 12 months...but will they all make it to the altar?
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PRICES VARY -- THESE NEED TO GO!!!
Just a few of the movies priced as marked in our "for sale bin." We are reducing some of our DVD and BLURAY overstock to make room for additional new titles. (Tuesday we are getting 19 new movies which are releasing!)
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Assassin's Game (2015)
STARRING: Tom Sizemore, Vivica A Fox., Bai Ling
RATING: R (for violence and language)
GENRE: ACTION
RUN TIME: 83 min
Legendary hit man Vet Jones never expected to accept another mission. But when his son fails to assassinate an important target, a powerful crime boss gives Jones an ultimatum--finish the job or his son dies. After realizing the target is innocent, Jones tries to change his mission in order to protect the target--but can he save both her life and his sons?
Black Hole, The (2015)
STARRING: Natalie Distler, Malcolm McDowell
RATING: NR
GENRE: SCI-FI/FANTASY
RUN TIME: 111 min
A high school musician experiences visual & auditory hallucinations as she starts to witness the collapse of space & time, leading her through a portal to another universe. Mattie is on a strange journey, she is joined by her science teacher, the school psychologist and two men in black & her closet friends....will she find the truth before it slips away forever?
Cut Bank (2014)
STARRING: Liam Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, Billy Bob Thornton, Bruce Dern, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Oliver Platt
RATING: R (for violence and language)
GENRE: DRAMA/ROMANCE
RUN TIME: 93 min
Dwayne McLaren dreams about escaping small town life in Cut Bank, Montana, "the coldest spot in the nation," with his vivacious girlfriend Cassandra. He finds himself in the wrong place at the right time and jumps at a chance to pursue a better life in a bigger city with Cassandra. When Dwayne witnesses an awful crime, he tries to leverage a bad situation into a scheme to get rich quickly but he finds that fate and an unruly accomplice are working against him. Thrust into the middle of a police investigation spearheaded by the local sheriff, everything goes from bad to worse in this all-American thriller.
Dial A Prayer
STARRING: Brittany Snow, William H. Macy, Glenen Headly, Kate Flannery, Tom Lipinski, Ruby Harris
RATING: PG-13 (for thematic elements, brief strong language, some drug use and suggestive material)
GENRE: DRAMA/ROMANCE
RUN TIME: 97 min
Cora, a disenchanted and troubled young woman, who is sentenced to community service begrudgingly answers phones at a Prayer Call Center under the watchful direction of its religious leader Bill. When her prayers start making a difference, one caller shows up convinced he's been saved by her voice. With the discovery of her newfound gift, Cora struggles to reconcile her troubled past, and grapples with the faith that others have started to show in her. She discovers a sense of accomplishment from the work until she finds out a boy she thinks she helped save is hiding a secret from her.
House Across The Street, The
STARRING: Eric Roberts, Ethan Embry, Alex Rocco Jessica Sonneborn,
RATING: NR
GENRE: HORROR
RUN TIME: 94 min
Amy has moved east from Kansas, determined to start a new life. She thinks she has found the perfect small quiet town, a great neighborhood on a quiet street. As she moves into her brand new apartment, eager to start a dream job, happy to befriend her neighbors, she finds out that not everything is as it seems, especially at the house across the street. She notices strange things happening at the house across the street. Always a curious girl, she investigates further. The more Amy finds out, the closer she gets to the center of a horrific conspiracy that threatens to tear apart her new town and destroy the lives of its people. However, unusual activity at the house across the street makes her wonder if moving there was a big mistake.
Loft, The (2014)
STARRING: Karl Urban, James Marsden, Kali Rocha
RATING: R (for sexual content, nudity, bloody violence, language, and some drug use)
GENRE: THRILLER
RUN TIME: 108 min
Five successful married men decide to pool their money and buy a loft condo in the city where they can have affairs with one-night stands, prostitutes, and other willing women. One morning, though, the guys discover one of their conquests -- a blonde beauty named Sarah -- face-down, naked, chained to a bed in the loft, and cut up. Blood is everywhere, but it is unclear which of them did it.
Is it Chris, a nice-guy psychiatrist trapped in a bad marriage to the eternally dour and pessimistic Allison? Is it Vincent, the guy who came up with the idea for the loft and the most eager to cheat on his unassuming wife, Barbara? Or is it Chris' unstable half-brother, Philip, a cocaine user who recently married Vicky, the daughter of a corrupt land developer? Or is it Marty, the overweight friend who drinks too much and whose mistress has come to his house and revealed their affair to his wife, Mimi? Or is it Luke, the most tightly wound of the bunch who tries to keep it all a secret from his wife,?
The film is told largely in flashback. But in the present, Police Detectives Huggins and Cohagan try to play good cop/bad cop with each of the five guys in their own separate interrogation rooms. During their questioning, they discover that Chris is not the nice guy he seems, having been carrying on an affair with prostitute, Anne. Huggins and Cohagan come to discover that all five have something to hide.
Nightlight (2015)
STARRING: Shelby Young, Chloe Bridges, Kyle Fain, Carter Jenkins, Mitch Hewer, Taylor Ashley Murphy
RATING: R (for language throughout including sexual references, and some violence)
GENRE: THRILLER
RUN TIME: 90 min
For years, the Covington forest has been shrouded in mystery, with a dark past as a final destination for troubled youths. Undeterred by the news of a classmate who recently took his life in those woods, five teens journey into the forest for an evening of flashlight games and ghost stories. But their plans go awry when the friends awaken a demonic presence, an unseen evil that will seize upon their deepest fears-and plunge them into a nightmare of absolute terror.
See You In Valhalla
STARRING: Sarah Hyland, Emma Bell, Bret Harrison, Odeya Rush, Jake McDorman, Steve Howey, Beau Mirchoff
RATING: R (for language, sexual references and drug use)
GENRE: COMEDY/DRAMA
RUN TIME: 90 min
A young woman returns home to reunite with her estranged family after the bizarre death of her brother. With family secrets, old flames, small town gossip & an uncomfortable family reunion looming, she must find a way to navigate and accept her past while preserving her present.
After the bizarre death of her brother, Johana Burwood must return home after four years to face her quirky family, including her estranged dad, her two competitive brothers and various significant others. The family is uncomfortable with each other at first, and their inner turmoil manifests itself in quarrels and outright fights. Johana is forced to face some secrets from her past when she runs into an old boyfriend who just can't seem to let go. It's only when tensions are at a breaking point that someone comes up with a brilliant idea that will send their departed brother off with incredible style.
Seventh Son (2014)
STARRING: Ben Barnes, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore
RATING: PG-13 (for intense fantasy violence and action throughout, frightening images and brief strong language)
GENRE: ACTION/FANTASY
RUN TIME: 102 min
Long ago in medieval times, one thousand knights defended humanity from witches and other supernatural beings. But now only one such knight -- a.k.a. a "spook" -- exists and that's Master Gregory a grizzled veteran who long ago believed he had locked away the most powerful witch, Mother Malkin, for good. But she managed to escape, and with the upcoming once-a-century blood moon soon to arrive, she's poised to get her revenge on him and the rest of the world.
She does manage to kill his latest apprentice, William, before returning to her mountain lair, thus necessitating his need for a new assistant. He arrives at the home of Tom Ward, a young pig farmer who lives with his mom, father and siblings, and has recurring visions of fantastical things he doesn't understand. Gregory is looking for the seventh son of a seventh son, and that would be Tom. With his mother giving him a prized amulet to help protect him, Tom rides off with Gregory and is given a crash course in all things supernatural.
Little does he know that Mother Malkin's fellow witch sister, Bony Lizzie, has sent her teenage witch daughter, Alice, to spy on them? Or that Mother Malkin is assembling a powerful group of supernatural beings, including Radu, Urag and Sarikin, to reign terror across the world. With the blood moon arriving soon, Gregory does what he can to teach Tom the tricks of the trade, with the help of his loyal monster helper, Tusk, all while worrying about his young apprentice falling in love with Alice.
Sons Of Liberty (2015)
STARRING: Ben Barnes, Marton Csokas, Ryan Eggold, Henry Thomas, Rafe Spall, Shane Taylor
RATING: PG (for )
GENRE: DRAMA/ROMANCE
RUN TIME: 270 min
Anarchy rules in 1776 as a secret group of radical young Americans joins together in the fight for independence from eh sovereign role of a King and his empire. They test authority. They incite protests. They create the blueprint for modern democracy....as the Sons Of Liberty.
Sword Of Vengeance (2015)
STARRING: Annabelle Wallis, Ed Skrein, Misa Beric, Dave Legeno, Stanley Weber, Edward Akrout, Milica Jevtic
RATING: NR
GENRE: ACTION
RUN TIME: 86 min
In 1089 England, a mysterious stranger known as the Shadow Walker enacts revenge on William the Conquerors savagery against his own people.
Norman Prince is freed from slavery and seeks revenge on his father's murderer - his ruthless uncle, Earl Durant. Gaining the trust of a band of exiled farmers, he leads them into battle against Durant, exploiting them in his quest to satisfy his code of honor. Will the prince sacrifice everything and everyone to quench his thirst for bloody retribution?
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I have been asked several times if we were open on Saturday being it is a holiday weekend, so thought I would post this to let everyone know I will be open my regular hours!
We have added many newer movies to our for sale bin, so come on in an check it out.
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AMERICAN SNIPER
STARRING: Bradley Cooper, Luke Grimes, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner, Ben Reed
RATING: R (for strong and disturbing war violence, and language throughout including some sexual references)
GENRE: ACTION/DRAMA
RUN TIME: 134 min
From director Clint Eastwood comes the biopic of Chris Kyle, the most-celebrated sniper in American military history. But there was much more to this true American hero than his skill with a rifle. He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called "The Devil" by the enemies he hunted & "The Legend" by his Navy SEAL brothers. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 kills to U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle from 1999 to 2009. He was feared so much the Iraqi insurgents placed a bounty on his head, as he protected his fellow soldiers with deadly accuracy!
As the story opens, it is 1998, we meet carefree brothers Chris and Jeff as they work the Texas rodeo circuit. Chris Kyle is an aspiring rodeo rider who, like his younger brother, Jeff, had a certain life philosophy instilled into him by his father. And that was that the world is filled with three kinds of people, sheep, wolves and sheepdogs whose jobs are to protect the innocent from those who are evil. They're cowboys through and through, and despite being notably older than the usual enlistee in the aftermath of 9/11, when terrorists blow up several American embassies, Kyle decides to enlist in the military and serve his country by becoming a Navy SEAL.
Later, at the firing range, he draws on his hunting lessons with his stern father to become an expert marksman. It's then that he meets Taya, a pretty brunette, in a booze-fueled barroom chat, sweeps her off her feet, and ends up deployed to Iraq on their wedding day for his first tour of duty with only one mission: to protect his brothers-in-arms.
Serving alongside the likes of fellow SEAL Marc Lee, Chris is a sniper who works to protect those on the ground in Iraq. He soon becomes quite proficient at killing those who want to kill American soldiers, eventually becoming something of a legend among his fellow men. His pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and, as stories of his courageous exploits spread, he earns the nickname "Legend." However, his reputation is also growing behind enemy lines, putting a price on his head and making him a prime target of insurgents. But with each tour of duty, he grows more detached from his wife and children.
On the other side, former Syrian Olympic sharpshooter Mustafa is racking up the kills as well, and Chris makes it his mission to eventually kill that man when he gets the chance. But as he continues his sniper spree through multiple tours in Iraq, Chris doesn't initially realize what such combat is doing to his psyche, and the effects that it is having on his marriage to Taya, especially now that they're parents of two young kids. Despite the danger, as well as the toll on his family at home, Chris serves through four harrowing tours of duty in Iraq, becoming emblematic of the SEAL creed to "leave no man behind." But upon returning home, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.
There, his reputation as a sniper who never misses makes him a legend among his fellow troops, and earns him the moniker "The Devil of Ramadi" from his enemies. With a substantial bounty on his head, Kyle makes it his personal mission to take out a sadistic Iraqi soldier known as "The Butcher," as well as an elusive enemy marksman with a skill to rival his own. The closer he gets to achieving his goals during repeat tours of duty, however, the more fellow soldiers he sees die, and the further he drifts from Taya and their two children back home. It all leads up to a tense rooftop gunfight in a raging sandstorm -- one that convinces the sniper once and for all to make his family his top priority. Unfortunately, all is not well as Kyle struggles to make the transition back to civilian life, but he discovers that helping his fellow veterans is an effective way to do good and make peace with his wartime experiences.
CURSE OF THE WITCHING TREE
STARRING: Sarah Rose Denton, Lucy Clarvis, Lawrence Weller
RATING: NR
GENRE: HORROR
RUN TIME: 90 min
An innocent woman, accused of murdering her son and hanged as a witch, curses a tree and the children who play around it. The effects of this act of revenge echo through the years and centuries, and restless spirits haunt the house where the bodies of the cursed children have been buried. A family move into their new home, and begin to uncover the terrible truth behind The Witching Tree and the murdered children upon which they unknowingly sleep.
CYMBELINE
STARRING: Ed Harris, Ethan Hawke, Dakota Johnson, Bill Pullman, Milla Jovovich, John Leguizamo, Penn Badgely
RATING: R (for some violence)
GENRE: ACTION
RUN TIME: 97 min
A gritty story of a take-no-prisoners war between dirty cops and a drug dealing biker game. When extortion, Betrayal and fiery passions threaten his criminal empire, a drug kingpin is driven to desperate measures in this explosive film based on Shakespeare's CYMBELINE.
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2
STARRING: Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Josh Heald, Adam Scott, Gillian Jacobs, Chevy Chase
RATING: R (for crude sexual content and language throughout, graphic nudity, drug use, and some violence)
GENRE: COMEDY
RUN TIME: 93 min
Lou and Nick are two guys who used a time machine to travel back into the past and make themselves wealthy. Lou became a rock star and a billionaire technology pioneer, founding a search-engine company called "Louggle." Nick became a recording star who, every year or so, releases his version of a song that was to have been recorded by someone else years later. Lou's son, Jacob, also time-traveled but has not used his knowledge of the future for any sort of personal gain.
Lou, who has become an even crasser blowhard with a drug problem, is shot while giving a speech. Jacob is able to surmise that the killer is possibly someone from Lou's past who has a bone to pick with him. The possibilities include Gary Winkle, a bitter ne'er-do-well who was supposed to go on the ski trip that ended up being a time trip; Brad, a Louggle engineer who has wasted some of his prime years taking orders from Lou; and Kelly, Lou's unfulfilled wife.
After hoping into the hot tub time machine, Lou, Jacob, and Nick find themselves 10 years in the future where they join forces with Adam, the straight-laced son of one of their best friends who is on the verge of marrying Jill. Jacob, meanwhile, learns that in the future, he is the billionaire; has landed his dream girl, Sophie; and wonders if it is worth it to save his deadbeat dad.
LEVIATHAN
STARRING: Alexey Serebryakov, Yelena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Roman Madianov, Anna Ukolova
RATING: R (for language and some sexuality/graphic nudity)
GENRE: DRAMA
RUN TIME: 141 min
(RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
A land dispute in a secluded Russian township divides a tight-knit community in this allegorical drama about injustice and governmental corruption. On the outskirts of a small coastal town in the Barents Sea, where whales sometimes come to its bay, lives an ordinary family: Kolya, his wife Lilya and their teenage son Romka. The family is haunted by a local corrupted mayor, who is trying to take away the land, a house and a small auto repair shop from Kolya. To save their homes Kolya calls his old Army friend in Moscow, who has now become an authoritative attorney. Together they decide to fight back and collect dirt on the mayor.
LOVESICK
STARRING: Matt LeBlanc, Ali Larter, Chevy Chase
RATING: NR
GENRE: COMEDY
RUN TIME: 100 min
The comic tale of Charlie Darby, a man who has everything going for him: a great job as an elementary school principal, supportive friends and a wonderful life. The one thing that Charlie doesn't have is love because every time he starts to fall for a girl, his brain chemistry changes and he goes clinically insane. When he meets Molly Kingston, a former dancer who just might be his perfect match, Charlie is confronted with the consequences of his condition. With the help of his friend Jason and the often misguided advice from his wacky neighbor Lester, Charlie must find a way to overcome his psychosis to claim his chance at true love.
MAYA THE BEE MOVIE
STARRING Voices: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Noah Taylor, Richard Roxburgh, Jackie Weaver, Andy McPhee, Justine Clarke
RATING: G
GENRE: ANIMATION/CHILDREN/FAMILY
RUN TIME: 89 min
Maya is a little bee with a big heart! Join her on an epic adventure. Freshly hatched bee Maya is a little whirlwind and won't follow the rules of the hive. One of these rules is not to trust the hornets that live beyond the meadow. When the Royal Jelly is stolen, the hornets are suspected and Maya is thought to be their accomplice. No one believes that she is the innocent victim and no one will stand by her except for her good-natured and best friend Willy. After a long and eventful journey to the hornets hive Maya and Willy soon discover the true culprit and the two friends finally bond with the other residents of the opulent meadow.
MY DAD’S A SOCCER MOM
STARRING: Lester Speight, Skai Jackson
RATING: NR
GENRE: DRAMA/ROMANCE
RUN TIME: 90 min
Marion "Mad Dog" Casey is one of the biggest, baddest and most outrageous names in professional football, but lately his mouth has been outpacing his performance on the field. When Marion's contract isn't renewed and no one else rushes to sign him, he's not happy. Meanwhile, his wife Holly, who has spent many years being a stay-at-home mom for their 10-year-old daughter Lacy, sees this as an opportunity for her to pursue her career ambitions in interior design. After chauffeuring Lacy to ballet and theatre class - activities she really doesn't like, Marion discovers that she has a knack for soccer. He signs her up and begins his new life as a Soccer Dad - the only 300-pound, overbearing, ex-football player in the group! As he navigates the trickiness of being a hands on parent with soccer mom Lori and the other moms, Marion discovers the joy of his new relationship with his daughter. Now he learns the importance of being the best dad on and off the field!
ROOMMATE WANTED
STARRING: Alex PenaVega, Spencer Grammer
RATING: R (for violence, sexuality and language)
GENRE: THRILLER
RUN TIME: 85 min
Janie is an ambitious student who dreams of a better life. Dee is a gorgeous socialite who dreams of a rich husband. They're already not the best of friends, or the best of roommates. But when Janie gets the opportunity of a lifetime, Dee becomes the roommate from Hell and tries to destroy Janie's life. It's an all-out girl-war leaving a ROOMMATE WANTED.
STRANGE MAGIC
STARRING: Voice of Evan Rachel Wood, Elijah Kelly, Meredith Ann Bull, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Sam Palladio
RATING: PG (for some action and scary images)
GENRE: ANIMATED/FANTASY
RUN TIME: 99 min
The Fairy Princess Marianne is head-over-heels in love with Prince Roland. But on the eve before their wedding, she finds him kissing another girl. She vows to never love again and decks herself out in dreary, Goth like attire and make-up. Meanwhile, Sunny the Elf is in love with Marianne's sister, Princess Dawn. He ventures into the realm of the Dark Forest to retrieve a love potion that will convince her to return his feelings.
One problem. The potion ends up causing Dawn to fall in love with the evil Bog King, who has outlawed all love from his kingdom against even his own mother, Griselda's, wishes and wants to bring the same darkness to Marianne and Dawn's Fairy Kingdom.
Marianne and Sunny go on separate missions to rescue Dawn, free the imprisoned Sugar Plum Fairy and restore order. But Roland has heard of the potion and wants to use it on Marianne to win her back so that he can marry her and command her father's great army. The characters all come together in a tense finale that hinges less on which army will prevail and more on who will kiss whom.
ZOMBEAVERS
STARRING: Rachel Melvin, Jake Weary, Lexi Atkins
RATING: R (for horror violence/gore, crude sexual content, graphic nudity, and language throughout)
GENRE: HORROR
RUN TIME: 85 min
When a trio of college girls arrive at a remote cabin for a weekend getaway, their vacation is quickly jeopardized by a hungry bear, a menacing hunter, and the girls' own party-crashing boyfriends. However, these preliminary disturbances are nothing compared to what lurks in the lake by the cabin: The result of a local chemical spill, a horde of bloodthirsty, zombified beavers closes in on the unsuspecting co-eds. It isn't long before the kids are engaged in a life and death struggle with the ferocious ZOMBEAVERS, but it turns out that the creatures themselves are only the beginning of their nightmare. A weekend retreat full of debauchery turns deadly for six college students when a pack of mutated zombie beavers attack. Their relaxing vacation at a cabin is soon transformed into a fight for survival.
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ADVENTURES OF PEPPER AND PAULA, THE
STARRING: Alexandria Deberry, Donny Boaz, Larry Jack Dotson, Catherine Lawrence Kinslow, Holt Boggs
RATING: NR
GENRE: ADVENTURE/FAMILY
RUN TIME: 90 min
Paula, a world champion gunslinger and star of a live action Wild West show works at a daily Old West side show and has perfected her trick of spinning side shooters. She also finds a loose dog named Pepper, who is well trained and who she adds to her routine. She is on top of the world, but when her world literally crashes in the form of a horrible accident, it is up to her best friend, her dog Pepper, to save her. When the show gets in trouble, she decides to enter a contest to raise money to help the ranch out. At the contest she meets an artist, Malcolm, and his daughter, Sierra, who is inspired by Paula and Pepper. Kylie, a young and attractive cowgirl, joins the cast to help liven up the show. But she’s up to no good and it’s up to Pepper to run that little filly out of town. The result is a fun, action-packed, heart-warming story that the entire family can enjoy.
What a wonderful story about a young woman who inspires everyone around her. She teaches that “dreams become a reality when the heart takes over your mind.” Paula and Pepper also encourage others to never give up on dreams and always learn from your mistakes.
“The Adventures of Pepper and Paula” is a heartwarming tale filled with comedy, but also is a story about friendship and helping others. This is one the entire family will enjoy. We are proud to award this entertaining movie the Dove “Family-Approved” Seal for all ages.
BATMAN UNLIMITED: ANIMAL INSTINCTS
STARRING: Chris Diamantopoulos, Travis Willingham, Roger Craig Smith, Dana Snyder
RATING: NR
GENRE: ANIMATION/FAMILY
RUN TIME: 66 min
Another storm is brewing in Gotham and it's not only raining cats and dogs but evil Cyber Animals! When the city is plagued by a slew of bizarre crimes committed by the animal-inspired villain squad, known as the Animilitia -- made up of Silverback, Cheetah, Killer Croc and Man-Bat -- Batman must swing into action to investigate. These animalistic villains bring new and exciting challenges for the hero of Gotham, and Batman must find a way to bring these criminal creatures to a halt! But could the Animilitia be working for powerful businessman Oswald Cobblepot a.k.a. The Penguin? How does The Penguin's new invention of robotic Cyber Animals fit into the mix? In the end, it'll take all the combined forces of Batman, Flash, Green Arrow, Nightwing and Red Robin to fight off these Animal Instincts.
BLACKHAT
STARRING: Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Tang Wei, Lee-Hom Wang, Holt McCallany
RATING: R (for violence and some language)
GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE/DRAMA
RUN TIME: 123 min
When an enigmatic cyber-terrorist named Sadak hacks a Chinese nuclear plant and causes a meltdown, China's government enlists the aid of computer genius Chen Dawai to find him before he strikes again. Because the attack bears the signature of an earlier hack in the United States that failed, Chen travels to America to furlough his former MIT classmate, Nicholas Hathaway, from prison to help him.
Their team includes Chen's sister, Lien, the only person Chen truly trusts; Carol Barrett, an FBI agent who lost her husband on Sept. 11; and her partner, Mark Jessup. Their investigation takes them to China, Indonesia, and Malaysia and eventually leads them to a cold-blooded European hoodlum named Kassar with ties to Sadak.
Along the way, Hathaway and Lien fall for each other. But their romance is interrupted when Hathaway takes it upon himself to hack the National Security Agency's mainframe to steal a top-secret software program that will greatly assist them in their search. Tragedy eventually strikes the team, and Hathaway is suddenly placed in a position where he might be the only one who can stop the next big cyber-attack.
COBBLER, THE
STARRING: Adam Sandler, Method Man, Ellen Barkin, Dustin Hoffman, Melonie Diaz, Elena Kampouris
RATING: PG-13 (for some violence, language and brief partial nudity)
GENRE: COMEDY
RUN TIME: 98 min
In the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903, a group of Jewish men are gathered in the shop of a cobbler to discuss a problem that has been plaguing them. A crook named Gergerman has been running their businesses out and harassing the men and their families. The men hand over a pair of Gergerman's shoes to the cobbler, Pinchas Simkin. Pinchas takes the shoes to the basement of his shop and uses a special stitching machine to work on the shoes. His young son Herschel enters, and Pinchas explains to him the importance of the machine.
In the present day, Max Simkin works as the cobbler in the shop. His work neighbor is Jimmy, who operates the barber shop next door. A young woman named Carmen Herrera comes in to tell Max that she is working with the community of the Lower East Side to prevent big time developers from tearing down parts of the neighborhood to build huge complex buildings. Max doesn't seem to care at all what happens to the shop. Max lives at home with his ailing mother Sarah. The two of them wish they could see Max's father one more time.
A local thug named Leon Ludlow goes into the shop for Max to replace the soles in his shoes. Max's current stitching machine fails, so he uses the one that his ancestors used. Out of curiosity, he checks Ludlow's shoe size to see that he wears a size 10 1/2 like Max. Max tries the shoes on, and to his surprise, he literally becomes Ludlow. He grabs other shoes and uses the machine on it, realizing what he can do with this.
Max uses this newfound ability to take people's shoes and live as someone else. He goes to Chinatown as a Chinese man to enjoy the day. He then goes to a restaurant as another man and leaves without paying for his meal. He also takes the shoes of a British man named Emiliano after his girlfriend Taryn brought them in. As Emiliano, Max goes to a bar and is noticed by beautiful women. One woman approaches him and notes that she saw him somewhere leaving with a man. Max then finds out where Emiliano lives and sees Taryn taking a shower. She invites him to join her. He eagerly starts to take off his clothes until he realizes that once he takes off even one shoe, he will no longer be Emiliano, so he leaves. Max decides to make his mother happy by using the shoes that belonged to his father Abraham. He has dinner with Sarah as Abraham and gives her one more night of happiness.
The next morning, Max finds that Sarah has passed away. He and his family sit Shiva for the week. When he returns to work, Ludlow demands that he get his shoes back or he'll kill Max. Max gets multiple shoes and follows Ludlow in disguise back to his apartment. Using Ludlow's shoes, he meets Ludlow's girlfriend Macy, who has apparently been abused by Ludlow. Max goes into Ludlow's room to find his watches, and ends up uncovering a cache of guns and other weapons. The real Ludlow returns and starts to choke out Max (still wearing Ludlow's shoes) until Max zaps him with a taser. Max joins two thugs that think he is Ludlow to an area where they are holding a man captive for stealing from them. They are about to kill him on Ludlow's orders until Ludlow-Max tells them to let the guy go. Furthermore, Max is taken to the home of a slum lord named Elaine Greenawalt. She gives Ludlow-Max a large amount of money to buy out a man from his building.
Max goes back to Ludlow's home wearing the stilettos of a cross-dressing man. Ludlow attacks him again until Max removes a shoe, startling Ludlow when he sees Max. He tries to attack Max again until Max sticks the other stiletto in Ludlow's neck, killing him. Max turns himself into the police, but when they return to the apartment, Ludlow's body is gone, and the blood is cleaned up. The police leave Max alone and confused. Jimmy confronts Max about his recent odd behavior. He tells Max that his father did the same thing before he disappeared, and that he kept this a secret from Max to protect him.
Max joins with Carmen to the apartment of Mr. Solomon, the man that Greenawalt is trying to buy out. He refuses to leave, as he has lived there for decades and even raised his daughter there. Max comes up with a plan to trick Greenawalt into giving him a large amount of money while still letting Solomon keep his home. When Greenawalt realizes she's been played, she goes to Solomon's home and threatens him with murder. She is caught on camera by a local news reporter, and she is later arrested. Max's life starts to go back to normal. Carmen goes into the shop and invites him out to dinner, which Max accepts. He later goes to Ludlow's home as Ludlow to return the watches to Macy, and he tells her that he's sorry and that she deserves better. As he leaves, he is abducted by a group of men led by the same man that stole from Ludlow's gang. They are about to drive off when their car is struck.
Max wakes up in Jimmy's barber shop. Jimmy offers him some water and a pickle, stating that pickles help with the transition from one body to another. Max asks how he knew about that. Jimmy takes off his shoes to reveal that he was Abraham the whole time. Both elated and angry, Max hugs his dad. Abraham brings him to the basement to show him a huge collection of shoes that he's gathered over the years. Abraham then takes Max to his limo and rides with him through the city as he starts to tell him the story of how the stitching machine came into their family's possession.
DINOSAUR ISLAND
STARRING: Darius Williams, Kate Rasmussen
RATING: PG (for mild coarse language and some scenes may scare younger children)
GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE/FAMILY
RUN TIME: 90 min
The adventure begins when Lucas a 13 year old boy embarks on the vacation of a lifetime. When disaster strikes, Lucas finds himself stranded in a strange land littered with ghost ships and prehistoric creatures. While searching for other signs of life, Lucas hears a radio broadcast in the distance and is drawn into the jungle where he encounters a beautiful young girl who claims to have come from the 1950s. A boy and a girl find themselves stranded in a land of wonder only to discover that throughout history things have mysteriously disappeared to this long lost world. Together, they embark on their magical journey back home, and along the way encounter tribal natives, ferocious dinosaurs and a land long forgotten. They set out on a quest to get home all the while uncovering secrets that will forever change the future. Dove "Family-Approved"
ICETASTROPHE
STARRING: Victor Webster, Jennifer Spence and Richard Harmon, Ben Cotton, Mike Dopud
RATING: NR
GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE
RUN TIME: 86 min
As a meteor enters the Earth's atmosphere, it splits in two above a small unsuspecting town. The first part, a smaller fragment, slams deep into the mountains leaving behind a burning crater and immediately starts to freeze everything and everyone nearby. The second larger piece blazes over the town forms a tropical zone amongst the snow and ice. Witnessing this is TIM and MARLEY, two young lovers forbidden to be together, thanks to a truly modern day family feud. Excited, they race back to town, unaware that the second half of the meteor has smashed directly into Main Street and they are unprepared for what they are about to see. A University grad student and a local man struggle to join the two pieces of the meteorite back together to save their town and mankind.
JUST BEFORE I GO
STARRING: Seann William Scott, Olivia Thrilby, Garret Dillahunt, Kate Walsh, Kyle Gallner, Evan Ross
RATING: R (for sexual content, language and some drug use)
GENRE: COMEDY/DRAMA
RUN TIME: 95 min
Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for creating the shell of a person he has become. But life is tricky. The more determined Ted is to confront his demons, to get closure, and to withdraw from his family, the more Ted is yanked into the chaos of their lives. So, when Ted Morgan decides to kill himself, he finds a reason to live.
MORTDECAI
STARRING: Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Tang Wei, Lee-Hom Wang, Holt McCallany
RATING: R (for some language and sexual material)
GENRE: ACTION/COMEDY
RUN TIME: 106 min
Charlie Mortdecai is a roguish art dealer who sees himself as a debonair man of the world, and he indeed lives in a huge mansion with a pretty wife, Johanna, and a "man-servant" in Jock Strapp, who also serves as his bodyguard. The latter comes in handy when Mortdecai runs afoul of those he's trying to do business with, especially considering his habit of previously screwing over such people.
But when a Goya painting is stolen while being retouched by an artist who's murdered, MI5 official Alistair Martland realizes he must call on Mortdecai since he knows all those working all angles of the art world. And then there's the fact that revolutionary Emil Strago wants to get his hands on the painting to fund an upcoming uprising. Mortdecai agrees, especially since he asks for a finder's fee -- that might help offset the eight million pounds he owes the government -- and believes that solving the case will impress Johanna who hates his new mustache but likes the attention Alistair throws her way.
Mortdecai ends up contacting a rival dealer, Sir Graham, to see if he knows anything, as well as art smuggler Spinoza. He eventually runs afoul of Graham's client, Russian mobster Romanov, and then ends up in Los Angeles dealing with billionaire Milton Krampf and his reportedly nymphomaniac daughter, Georgina. As Mortdecai tries to find the painting and make money from that, he also hopes to keep his wife from falling for Alistair.
STILL ALICE
STARRING: Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, Alec Baldwin, Hunter Parrish
RATING: PG-13 (for mature thematic material, and brief language including a sexual reference)
GENRE: DRAMA
RUN TIME: 99 min
Dr. Alice Howland is a 50-year-old, highly regarded linguistics professor at New York's Columbia University. She's happily married to John, and while she wishes her daughter, Lydia would be like her siblings, Tom and Anna, and get a "real" job rather than trying to make a go at it in the theater world, she loves all of them equally and has a good life.
But then she starts forgetting certain words, and when she finds herself completely lost while jogging, she's worried enough to see a doctor. It's then that she learns she has early onset Alzheimer's disease. Even worse, it appears to be genetically passed, something that worries her especially now that Anna and her husband, Charlie, are going to have a baby. As the condition worsens, Alice and her family try to cope with its effects on her and them.
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE: BERRY BEST IN SHOW
RATING: NR
GENRE: FAMILY
RUN TIME: 66 min
Strawberry Shortcake and her pals meet some new furry friends in these delightful "tails" about being yourself and encouraging others to do the same. Join Strawberry Shortcake and some new furry friends in these delightful “tails” about being yourself and encouraging others to do the same. During his road trip to find homes for his orphan puppies, Huckleberry Pie and his four-legged crew get stranded in Berry Bitty City. Luckily, Strawberry and her berry best pals decide to help out with the strays in “A Boy and His Dogs.” Blueberry Muffin and Huck become “Partners in Crime” when they try to write a mystery story together…with surprising results. And the fur is sure to fly when the girls try to help Huck start a dog shelter in “The Mystery of the Disappearing Dog Show.” It’s a howling good time with sweet doggy delights for everyone!
TRACERS
STARRING: Taylor Lautner, Marie Avgeropoulos, Rafi Gavron, Adam Rayner, Sam Medina
RATING: PG-13 (for some intense violence, perilous action, sexual content and language)
GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE
RUN TIME: 90 min
After he crashes his bike into a super-sexy stranger named Nikki (Avgeropoulos), Cam (Lautner) is introduced to her crew -- a team that uses parkour to pull off heists. Hoping to alleviate his deepening debt to a violent crime gang, Cam quickly joins the group. As the stakes get higher with more dangerous side ventures, the payouts get bigger. Cam must use every ounce of his skill to stay alive as the crew's heists grow more daring with each job, and gang enforcers breathe relentlessly down his neck.
TWO MEN IN TOWN
STARRING: Forest Whitaker, Brenda Blethyn, Harvey Keitel, Ellen Burstyn, Luis Guzman, Dolores Heredia
RATING: R (for language)
GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE/DRAMA
RUN TIME: 120 min
A small town in Texas surrounded by desert which, time and again as the day breaks, disgorges an increasing number of Mexicans who have either been murdered or have died of thirst. After a troubled youth and 18 years in prison, William Garnett is being released. Thanks to his new-found Muslim faith, William Garnett’s behavior has been exemplary and, with the aid of an idealistic and sympathetic parole officer, Garnett struggles to rebuild his life and overcome the violent impulses which possess him as he begins a new life in the town. However, Bill Agati, the Sheriff of the small New Mexico border county where Garnett is released, has other ideas. Convinced that Garnett is unredeemable and is a threat to the security of his county, Agati launches a campaign to return Garnett to prison for life. But his past is well-known and before long, a sheriff bent on revenge and an ex-crony from the underworld are both breathing down his neck. Garnett must conquer the demons of his past. He finds support in the shape of his parole officer, his faith and a new love.
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FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
STARRING: Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson, Jennifer Ehle, Luke Grimes, Marcia Gay Harden
RATING: R (for strong sexual content including dialogue, some unusual behavior and graphic nudity, and for language)
GENRE: DRAMA/ROMANCE
RUN TIME: 125 min
Anastasia Steele is a college senior in Portland who's majoring in English lit, works in a hardware store to make ends meet, and isn't looking much further out in her life than getting through finals. But when her fellow college student roommate, Kate, is too sick to interview Seattle-based telecom mogul Christian Grey for the school newspaper, Ana takes her place. She finds the young billionaire attractive, while Grey quickly sets his sights on her, wondering if her photographer friend, José, is her boyfriend. He isn't, and much to Christian's surprise, Ana reveals -- once they become physically involved -- that she's still a virgin.
He quickly takes care of that -- after his brother Elliot has bedded Kate -- and then wonders if she might be interested in a particular behavior he finds quite appealing. And that would be BDSM (bondage and sadomasochism), something that initially surprises her, but then draws her interest as he slowly introduces her to that hidden part of his highly controlled world. While his mother, Grace, is happy to see a woman in his life, and her four-time married mother, Carla, tries to impart words of wisdom to her about men, Ana must decide whether to sign a highly detailed contract with Christian about starting such a BDSM relationship where she'd be the submissive party to his dominant one.
As their sexual relationship continues to evolve, Ana tries to decide whether to proceed or not, all while being frustrated by his reluctance and/or inability to open up to her emotionally in the traditional sense of a romantic relationship.
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AGAINST THE SUN
STARRING: Tom Felton, Garret Dillahunt, Jake Abel
RATING: PG (for thematic material involving peril and hardships, and for language)
GENRE: ADVENTURE/DRAMA
RUN TIME: 99 min
In one of the most harrowing fact-based true stories of World War II, three US Navy airmen crash land their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific and find themselves on a tiny life raft, surrounded by open ocean. "Against the Sun" tells the true story of an air crew who had to take to the life raft after their plane went down in the Pacific. The three man-crew was presumed missing at sea, after a cursory "box search" was done for them. It was January, 1942. "Against the Sun" is a respectfully told survivalist story of pilot Harold Dixon, bombardier Tony Pastula, and radioman Gene Aldrich in a life raft with no food, no flares, no water, no supplies, all of it had gone down with the plane. "Against the Sun" takes place almost entirely in the life raft, with a short prologue showing the crew's final moments in the plane when they realize they have somehow flown off-course and don't have enough fuel to get back to the aircraft carrier. Against incredible odds, these three virtual strangers must survive storms, sharks, starvation - and each other - as they try to sail more than a thousand miles to safety.
BLACK OR WHITE
STARRING: Kevin Costner, Octavia L. Spencer, Jillian Estell, Bill Burr, Jennifer Ehle
RATING: PG-13 (for brief strong language, thematic material involving drug use and drinking, and for a fight)
GENRE: DRAMA/ROMANCE
RUN TIME: 121 min
Black or White is the story of a grandfather who is suddenly left to care for his beloved biracial granddaughter when his wife dies in a car crash. When her paternal grandmother feels that she is better equipped to take care of the child, and sues for custody with the help of her brother, the little girl is torn between two families who love her deeply. Elliot's world is turned upside-down when the child's black grandmother, Rowena, demands that Eloise be brought under the care of her father, Rowena's son, Reggie, a drug addict whom Elliot blames for the negligence that led to the death of his own daughter. Elliot finds himself deeply entrenched in a custody battle and will stop at nothing to keep his granddaughter from coming under the watch of her reckless father. With the best intentions at heart, both families fight for what they feel is right and are soon forced to confront their true feelings about race, forgiveness, and understanding. Anchored by an all-star cast and based on real events, the movie is a look at two seemingly different worlds, in which nothing is as simple as black or white.
BLACK SEA
STARRING: Jude Law, Scott McNairy, Karl Davies
RATING: R (for language throughout, some graphic images and violence)
GENRE: DRAMA/THRILLER
RUN TIME: 115 min
After serving in the navy commanding submarines, Captain Robinson has worked for the past decade doing salvage work for the Agora Corporation. Despite his service, they let him go, a development that doesn't sit well with him, especially since he realizes he lost his wife and 12-year-son due to his long hours working for them. When he learns from a similarly fired coworker of a potentially lucrative mission that could screw over his former company, he jumps at the chance.
It seems that back during WWII, Stalin offered to pay Hitler a handsome sum in gold bars if the latter agreed not to invade the former's country. But the German U-boat carrying that ended up at the bottom of the Black and the rest is history. Agora has found the long-sunken U-boat, but can't get to it at the moment due to the current Russia-Georgia conflict. A rich investor, however, is willing to front the money if Robinson can put together a submarine crew, travel down to the U-boat, and steal the gold away, with their cut being a percentage of the recovered gold bars.
Robinson agrees and soon puts together a mixed crew of both British and Russian sailors. On the former side, there's Reynolds, his right-hand man; temperamental Australian diver Fraser; older diver Peters; and a young homeless man, Tobin, who Robinson feels sorry for and brings onboard despite his lack of experience.
That doesn't sit well with all of the Russians, including Zaytsev, the mechanic who must get an old Russian sub operational again, and Morozov who casts a wary eye on these strangers. More willing to work together is Blackie, who serves as the crew's translator, while Baba works as their sonar operator. Joining them is Daniels who works for the rich investor and isn't pleased about unexpectedly being forced to go along on the mission.
Needing to sneak under the Russian navy, locate the sub, remove the gold via an underwater operation, and then sail away, Robinson does his best to keep his lean crew focused on the job. But when things start going wrong, it appears the mission could unravel at any moment, possibly putting the lives of all involved at risk.
FEW BEST MEN, A
STARRING: Rebel Wilson, Olivia Newton-John
RATING: NR
GENRE: COMEDY
RUN TIME: 97 min
David and Mia meet and fall in love during a holiday romance. After a week, David proposes and they plan to marry in a few days. David goes home to England and gets his three best friends to return with him to Australia for the wedding. Soon, havoc ensues when the trio accidentally steal drugs, are chased by a mobster, and get the father-in-law's sheep stoned.
LOST RIVER
STARRING: Christina Hendricks, Iain DeCaestecker, Matt Smith, Rob Zabrecky, Saoirse Ronan
RATING: R (for disturbing violent images, language and some sexual content)
GENRE: THRILLER
RUN TIME: 95 min
In a small town in Detroit, there lives Billy and her two sons, Bones and Franky. Billy and Bones both love Franky but are fairly distant from each other. In his spare time, Bones goes around the abandoned houses in town to look for spare scrap parts while avoiding the town's vicious criminal Bully. Bully catches Bones taking something from a home, which he claims to be his own property. Bones runs away as Bully screams maniacally. Billy meets with the bank manager Dave since she is unable to repay a loan that Carl (the father of her sons) left her so that she could stay in her grandmother's home. She has no job or source of income, leaving her in a tight situation. Dave suggests Billy to a job in town.
A group of construction workers begin tearing down the houses in the neighborhood. One man spray-paints a D on Billy's house. We meet the family's neighbor Rat, who lives with her grandmother and her pet rat Nick. Rat sings a melancholic tune about someone loving her. Bones takes a look underwater in the nearby river to see many discarded materials and constructions. He meets Rat, who tells him that there used to be a town that was flooded when a reservoir was built, hence the name "Lost River". Rat mentions having a video of it that her grandmother has kept for years. She notes that the only way to break the "curse" of the land is to get a piece of land from underwater and bring it to the surface. Billy is taken by a friendly cab driver to a burlesque studio downtown. She enters among the crowded audience to see a show put on by the main performer, Cat. The appeal of the show is a realistically gory murder show where Cat gets stabbed multiple times and has her "blood" spray all over the delighted audience. Billy goes backstage and meets with Cat, who asks her what kind of experience in performing she has.
Bones goes to Rat's home and watches the video that features her grandmother. Later, they go out to a gas station store and encounter Bully with his henchman Face, whose lips were cut off by Bully, leaving him horribly disfigured. Bones hides from Bully as he starts to talk to Rat. To protect Bones, Rat accepts Bully's offer when he opts to give her a ride home. He takes her home and finds Nick. He grabs the rat and viciously kills it in front of Rat. Billy has to take Franky to work since Bones was out with Rat. For her performance, Billy makes it look like she's cutting off her face, which excites the audience. She later sits with Dave, who hosts the joint. He disapproves of her having her son there, and then he sings a song to the audience. He takes her home and makes a pass at her. It becomes increasingly threatening when he says he likes to fuck and that it's a problem for him. Billy tries to talk him down, though since Dave is half-deaf, he mostly hears mumbles. The next shot shows Billy lying on the couch, crying.
Bones tells Rat that he knows how to break the curse. He leaves her with Franky while he goes into the river to cut off the head of a dinosaur statue. Meanwhile, Face enters Rat's home and sets it on fire with her grandmother still there. He goes down with the flames as Rat goes to find her grandmother. She fails to get her out of there but she gets Franky away from the fire. Bones sets a car on fire and waits for Bully to come driving by. He hurls the dinosaur head at Bully's windshield, causing him to crash against the burning car and get launched out where he drowns in the water.
At work, Billy is sealed in a chamber like some kind of doll while Dave performs a sexual dance routine around her, making her really uncomfortable. She is let out of the chamber and she stabs Dave in the ear, leaving him to bleed out. Billy returns to find her sons and Rat sitting on the steps of their home while Rat's house continues to burn. With the help of the cab driver, the four of them run away and leave Lost River behind them.
MISS JULIE
STARRING: Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell
RATING: PG-13 (for mature thematic material involving sexuality, disturbing images, and language)
GENRE: DRAMA/ROMANCE
RUN TIME: 129 min
Miss Julie depicts a fierce battle between a man and a woman, a struggle for power and dominance enacted through a cruel and compulsive game of seduction and repulsion. A country estate in Ireland in 1880s. Over the course of one midsummer night, in an atmosphere of wild revelry and loosened social constraints, Miss Julie and John, her father's valet, dance and drink, charm and manipulate each other. She, all hauteur longing for abasement he, polished but coarse - both united in mutual loathing and attraction. By turns seductive and bullying, savage and tender, their intimacy leads to desperate plans and vision of a life together... Unsure if the morning brings hope or hopelessness, Julie and John find their escape in a final act as sublime and horrific as anything in Greek tragedy.
MR. TURNER
STARRING: Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Lesley Manville, Martin Savage, Paul Jesson, Ruth Sheen
RATING: R (for some sexual content )
GENRE: DRAMA
RUN TIME: 150 min
It's the 1800s and Joseph Mallord William Turner is a renowned painter in high society circles, specializing in landscape works. His assistant is his elderly father, William, and they're both tended to by Turner's long-standing and long-suffering housekeeper, Hannah Danby, who he occasionally uses for his sexual gratification. But he has no intention of getting romantically involved with her, a stance he also applies to her aunt, Sarah Danby, with whom he fathered two daughters, Evelina and Georgiana, now both young women.
When not dealing with his contemporaries, including the unhappy Benjamin Haydon who borrows money from him to get by, as well as those who love his art, including John Ruskin, Turner searches for inspiration for his next works. He ends up traveling to the seaside town of Margate where he rents a room from Sophia Booth and her husband.
With time passing by, she ends up widowed, eventually resulting in her and Turner entering into something of a romantic relationship. That's all while he must contend with those in the art world starting to turn on him and his works.
MURDER OF A CAT
STARRING: Fran Kranz, Nikki Reed, J.K. Simmons, Blythe Danner, Greg Kinnear, Ted Raimi
RATING: NR
GENRE: COMEDY
RUN TIME: 100 min
A man investigates the murder of his cat. Clinton Moisey is an iconoclastic, artisan action-figure designer who still lives in his mom's basement, and is, by the standards of the world, a full-blown loser. But Clinton doesn't have time to care about what others think of him; he's too busy running a yard sale where he promotes his hardboiled detective toy line with his pet cat and best friend, "Mouser." When Clinton wakes up one morning to find Mouser impaled by a crossbow arrow, he is devastated. Realizing that the local Sheriff is only interested in flirting with his mom, Clinton sets off on his own to find out who killed Mouser and why. As Clinton delves deeper into the case, he encounters a free-spirited weed dealer and part-time hair stylist to the elderly, a squeaky-clean Korean store clerk with a dark side, and a local celebrity on the verge of a nervous breakdown, ultimately uncovering a town-wide conspiracy far greater than he ever imagined. The comedic film is a modern-day film noir set in the mundane world of the suburbs.
PYRAMID, THE
STARRING: Ashley Hinshaw, James Buckley, Denis O'Hare, Christa Nicola, Amir K
RATING: R (for some horror violence and bloody images)
GENRE: HORROR
RUN TIME: 89 min
The ancient wonders of the world have long cursed explorers who've dared to uncover their secrets. But a team of U.S. archaeologists gets more than they bargained for when they discover a lost pyramid unlike any other in the Egyptian desert. A team of U.S. archaeologists unearths an ancient pyramid buried deep beneath the Egyptian desert. As they search the pyramid's depths, they become hopelessly lost in its dark and endless catacombs. Searching for a way out, they become desperate to seek daylight again. As they unlock the horrific secrets buried within, they realize they aren't just trapped, they are being hunted.
SELMA
STARRING: David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Cuba Gooding, Alessandro Nivola, Giovanni Ribisi, Tim Roth
RATING: PG-13 (for disturbing thematic material including violence, a suggestive moment, and brief strong language)
GENRE: DRAMA
RUN TIME: 128 min
It's early 1965 and despite the passing of the Civil Rights Act a year earlier, black citizens in the American South, such as Annie Lee Cooper, still face racism so vehement that they find it all but impossible to register to vote. While members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, such as James Forman and John Lewis, think they're making progress, they can't have much success, what with Alabama Governor George Wallace happily allowing the likes of racist sheriff Jim Clark to keep suppressing the black folks.
As a result, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has been pressing Lyndon B. Johnson to do something, but the President is reluctant for a number of reasons. FBI director J. Edger Hoover isn't pleased with King and sets out to bring him and his movement down and wiretaps all involved. That also includes anonymous harassing phone calls, something that doesn't sit well with Martin's wife, Coretta, who's becoming increasingly tired of his work keeping him away from their family, and worries that something bad is going to happen to him.
Undeterred by any of that, King decides to travel to Selma and join members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, including Reverend Hosea Williams and James Bevel, among many others. Their plan is to march from Selma to Montgomery to protest -- non-violently -- the lack of voting rights for blacks. But their first attempt is met by brutal violence at the hands of Sheriff Clark and his men as well as state troopers. Determined to succeed, they then plan to try again, all while various power players watch on from a distance, unsure of what will happen next.
SPARE PARTS
STARRING: George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis, Carlos Pena Vega, Marisa Tomei, Esai Morales, Jose Julian
RATING: PG-13 (for some language and violence)
GENRE: DRAMA/ROMANCE
RUN TIME: 112 min
A true life story about four Hispanic high school students who form a robotics club under the leadership of their school's newest teacher, Fredi. With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and a dream, this rag tag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT. On their journey, they learn not only how to build a robot- they learn to build a bond that will last a lifetime.
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STARRING: Skeet Ulrich, Christian Kane, Todd Lowe, William Devane, Madelyn Deutch, Calvin Borel
RATING: PG-13 (for some suggestive material and a bar brawl)
GENRE: Drama/Romance
RUN TIME: 110 min
Mine That Bird is the inspiring true story of the impossible becoming possible when a little gelding from New Mexico ran the race of his life to win the Kentucky Derby at 50-1 odds. A misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when their crooked-footed racehorse qualifies for the Kentucky Derby. The cowboys face a series of mishaps on their way to Churchill Downs, becoming the ultimate underdogs in a final showdown with the world's racing elite. The film follows the humorous adventures of a small horse and his cowboy owners and trainer, who take to the highway in an unlikely bid to win America's premier horse race, the Kentucky Derby. Misfits in the regal world of Kentucky blue bloods, these charming rascals face multiple mishaps and obstacles along the way to the winner's circle.
ACCIDENTAL LOVE
STARRING: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Biel, Jenny Gulley, Raymond L. Brown Jr., Beverly D’Angelo, James Marsden, Kirstie Alley, Tracey Morgan, James Brolin
RATING: PG-13 (for sexual contact and language)
GENRE: Comedy
RUN TIME: 97 min
After her fiancé calls off the engagement, Alice sets off in search of a cure & falls into the arms of Howard Birdwell, a sexy senator who champions her cause. Caught up in a love triangle, will Alice listen to her heart or her head?
Alice, a small-town waitress, has her life turned upside down when a freak accident occurs and she is accidentally shot in the head by a nail gun leaving a nail lodged in her head, causing erratic (and erotic) behavior. Her lack of health insurance renders her unable to have the nail removed, leading to increased mood swings and hypersexual behavior as a result of brain damage. Her unpredictable behavior leads her to Washington, D.C. to campaign for those with bizarre injuries. Sparks fly when she meets receives the support from a clueless and unprincipled young senator who takes up her cause - but what happens when love interferes with what you stand for?
BEDLAM: AFTER DARK ORIGINALS
STARRING: Guy Edmonds, Peter McAllum, Gret Hatton, Cassandra Swaby, Bary Boulter, John Boxer, Gary Boulter
RATING: R (for strong violence including torture and rape, language, and some sexuality and nudity)
GENRE: Horror
RUN TIME: 92 min
This movie is based on actual events which add to the creepy factor immediately. George is a haunted man. George admits himself into Bedlam psychiatric hospital for two reasons – to seek treatment for his possible mental illness and to see what happened to his own mother who died inside the walls of this mysterious facility. But it is a world darker than even his demons could conjure. Once he fought for sanity, now he fights to survive. George is haunted by the demons of his family's past and tortured by the voices inside his head. He makes one last attempt at recovery by contacting his dead mother's doctor. The doctor's orders; that he attend Bedlam hospital for a guaranteed recovery. As George checks in, he's confronted by a world of societies unwanted, unloved and unstable. Soon, he will discover that all is not as it seems. The hospital hides a dark secret. Welcome to Bedlam... treatment begins.
Once George settles in, he makes two new friends, Cutter and Sofia who are also patients at Bedlam Hospital. The two warn George that there’s some seriously dark happenings going on inside the hospital and to be careful about the treatments he takes. The thing is with George, he isn’t as crazy as he thought he was but with each treatment he receives, he takes one step closer to insanity. George is strong and holds on until he uncovers the secrets about Bedlam that he’s been looking for but not before some horrible and unspeakable things happen to his friends and to himself. George ends up finding out everything that he was wanting to know about his mother and the horrible secrets behind the walls of Bedlam Hospital.
BOY NEXT DOOR, THE
STARRING: Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, John Corbett, Ian Nelson, Kristin Chenoweth
RATING: R (for violence, sexual content/nudity and language)
GENRE: Drama/Thriller
RUN TIME: 91 min
Claire Peterson is a high school literature teacher who's quite close to divorcing her husband, Garrett, something Claire's best friend and vice principal, Vicky Lansing, urges her to do. But Claire has mixed feelings, especially since their 17-year-old son, Kevin, is still fond of his father.
She's happy when her new next door neighbor, recently orphaned 19-year-old Noah Sandborn -- who's arrived to take care of his sickly great uncle, Mr. Sandborn -- instantly befriends Kevin. Not only does he show him how to fix cars, but he also gets Kevin to talk to the classmate, Allie Callahan, he's smitten with, and is concerned about some classmate bullies, led by Jason Zimmer, who torment Kevin.
Accordingly, Claire thinks Noah's an okay guy, especially with his good looks and appreciation of the classics of literature. One night, while Kevin is away, he manages to seduce Claire who gives in to the temptation and sleeps with him. But the next morning she's regretting that decision, and her sudden cold feet instantly angers Noah. As she tries to act like nothing happened, he becomes fixated on her, and the more she resists and tries to tell him there's no future between them, the more obsessed and angry he becomes. From that point on, she must contend with him stalking her, the possibility of him spilling the beans about their tryst, and the potential of him doing something violent.
GAMBLER, THE
STARRING: Mark Wahlberg, Brie Larson, Jessica Lange, John Goodman, Emory Cohen, Michael K. Williams, Jason Her
RATING: R (for language throughout, and for some sexuality/nudity)
GENRE: Drama
RUN TIME: 111 min
While he tries to impart wisdom to her and other students in his classroom, including highly ranked tennis player Dexter and soon to turn pro basketball player Lamar Allen, he's not smart about his gambling or where he gets his money to keep playing. His latest $50,000 comes from loan shark Neville Baraka who's fully aware of Jim's habits and track record.
So is Frank, a dangerous mobster who doles out free advice to the professor but cautions against borrowing any money from him lest he deal with the ugly consequences of not repaying the loan. Also unhappy about the potential of loaning money to Jim is his mother, Roberta, who has family money to do so, but hates her son's addiction. With time running out to repay Mr. Lee, Jim does what he can to get his hands on more money that he intends to use to gamble his way out of debt.
GHOST STORY: THE TURN OF THE SCREW
STARRING: Michelle Dockery, Sue Johnston, Dan Stevens, Mark Umbers, Nicola Walker
RATING: NR
GENRE: Thriller
RUN TIME: 90 min
A young, inexperienced governess is hired to look after two small children abandoned by their uncle, after their parents died. Unsettled by glimpses of ghostly figures that only she can see, she believes something malevolent is stalking the children. The previous governess died under curious circumstances, is she trying to tell the new governess something?
An anonymous narrator recalls a Christmas Eve gathering at an old house, where guests listen to one another’s ghost stories. A guest named Douglas introduces a story that involves two children—Flora and Miles—and his sister’s governess, with whom he was in love. After procuring the governess’s written record of events from his home, he provides a few introductory details. A handsome bachelor persuaded the governess to take a position as governess for his niece and nephew in an isolated country home after the previous governess died. Douglas begins to read from the written record, and the story shifts to the governess’s point of view as she narrates her strange experience.
The governess begins her story with her first day at Bly, the country home, where she meets Flora and a maid named Mrs. Grose. The governess is nervous but feels relieved by Flora’s beauty and charm. The next day she receives a letter from her employer, which contains a letter from Miles’s headmaster saying that Miles cannot return to school. The letter does not specify what Miles has done to deserve expulsion, and, alarmed, the governess questions Mrs. Grose about it. Mrs. Grose admits that Miles has on occasion been bad, but only in the ways boys ought to be. The governess is reassured as she drives to meet Miles.
One evening, as the governess strolls around the grounds, she sees a strange man in a tower of the house and exchanges an intense stare with him. She says nothing to Mrs. Grose. Later, she catches the same man glaring into the dining-room window, and she rushes outside to investigate. The man is gone, and the governess looks into the window from outside. Her image in the window frightens Mrs. Grose, who has just walked into the room. The governess discusses her two experiences with Mrs. Grose, who identifies the strange man as Peter Quint, a former valet who is now dead. Convinced that the ghost seeks Miles, the governess becomes rigid in her supervision of the children. One day, when the governess is at the lake with Flora, she sees a woman dressed in black and senses that the woman is Miss Jessel, her dead predecessor. The governess is certain Flora was aware of the ghost’s presence but intentionally kept quiet. The governess again questions Mrs. Grose about Miles’s misbehavior. Mrs. Grose reveals that Quint had been “too free” with Miles, and Miss Jessel with Flora. The governess is on her guard, but the days pass without incident, and Miles and Flora express increased affection for the governess.
The lull is broken one evening when something startles the governess from her reading. She rises to investigate, moving to the landing above the staircase. There, a gust of wind extinguishes her candle, and she sees Quint halfway up the stairs. She refuses to back down, exchanging another intense stare with Quint until he vanishes. Back in her room, the governess finds Flora’s bed curtains pulled forward, but Flora herself is missing. Noticing movement under the window blind, the governess watches as Flora emerges from behind it. The governess questions Flora about what she’s been doing, but Flora’s explanation is unrevealing. The governess does not sleep well during the next few nights. One night, she sees the ghost of Miss Jessel sitting on the bottom stair, her head in her hands. Later, when the governess finally allows herself to go to sleep at her regular hour, she is awoken after midnight to find her candle extinguished and Flora by the window. Careful not to disturb Flora, the governess leaves the room to find a window downstairs that overlooks the same view. Looking out, she sees the faraway figure of Miles on the lawn.
Later, the governess discusses with Mrs. Grose her conversation with Miles, who claimed that he wanted to show the governess that he could be “bad.” The governess concludes that Flora and Miles frequently meet with Miss Jessel and Quint. At this, Mrs. Grose urges the governess to appeal to her employer, but the governess refuses, reminding her colleague that the children’s uncle does not want to be bothered. She threatens to leave if Mrs. Grose writes to him. On the walk to church one Sunday, Miles broaches the topic of school to the governess. He says he wants to go back and declares he will make his uncle come to Bly. The governess, shaken, does not go into church. Instead, she returns to the house and plots her departure. She sits on the bottom stair but springs up when she remembers seeing Miss Jessel there. She enters the schoolroom and finds Miss Jessel sitting at the table. She screams at the ghost, and the ghost vanishes. The governess decides she will stay at Bly. Mrs. Grose and the children return, saying nothing about the governess’s absence at church. The governess agrees to write to her employer.
That evening, the governess listens outside Miles’s door. He invites her in, and she questions him. She embraces him impulsively. The candle goes out, and Miles shrieks. The next day Miles plays the piano for the governess. She suddenly realizes she doesn’t know where Flora is. She and Mrs. Grose find Flora by the lake. There, the governess sees an apparition of Miss Jessel. She points it out to Flora and Mrs. Grose, but both claim not to see it. Flora says that the governess is cruel and that she wants to get away from her, and the governess collapses on the ground in hysterics. The next day, Mrs. Grose informs the governess that Flora is sick. They decide Mrs. Grose will take Flora to the children’s uncle while the governess stays at Bly with Miles. Mrs. Grose informs the governess that Luke didn’t send the letter she wrote to her employer, because he couldn’t find it. With Flora and Mrs. Grose gone, Miles and the governess talk after dinner. The governess asks if he took her letter. He confesses, and the governess sees Quint outside. She watches Quint in horror, then points him out to Miles, who asks if it is Peter Quint and looks out the window in vain. He cries out, then falls into the governess’s arms, dead.
INHERENT VICE
STARRING: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Martin Short, Owen Wilson, Eric Roberts, Benicio Del Toro
RATING: R (for drug use throughout, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and some violence)
GENRE: Drama
RUN TIME: 148 min
It's 1970 and Larry "Doc" Sportello is some sort of doctor who seemingly gets more business from being a private investigator. When his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay Hepworth, shows up and states that her married real estate investor lover, Michael Z. "Mickey" Wolfmann, is in trouble, which piques his interest. Shasta states that Wolfmann's wife, Sloane, is plotting with her "spiritual advisor," Riggs Warbling, to have him committed to a mental asylum. Rather than go to his deputy district attorney girlfriend, Penny Kimball, for help, Doc starts nosing around. When he goes to a new neighborhood development that Mickey has just started, he has a brief run in with a sex shop worker, Jade, before being knocked out.
When he comes to, Doc finds himself next to the body of Mickey's bodyguard, Glenn Charlock, and thus LAPD homicide detective Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen obviously thinks Doc is guilty, especially now that Mickey is also missing. Bigfoot ends up releasing Doc, thanks to the help of maritime lawyer Sauncho Smilax, Esq., and he next gets a call from Hope Harlingen who states that her musician husband, Coy, is dead, although she doesn't truly believe that. The plot thickens when Doc learns that Coy and Shasta knew each other, and both Coy and Jade mentioned a mysterious boat known as the Golden Fang.
Doc eventually discovers that the corporation behind that is run by a bunch of dentists, including Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd. He just so happens to be involved with bedding and supplying drugs to a former teen runaway, Japonica Fenway, who Doc was earlier tasked to find by her wealthy father. As the number of people somehow involved in this case continues to grow, Doc tries to get to the bottom of their involvement and what all of this means.
MOMMY
STARRING: Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Patrick Huard, Alexandre Goyette
RATING: R (for language throughout, sexual references and some violence)
GENRE: Drama/Romance
RUN TIME: 139 min
A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household. A feisty widowed single mom finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her unpredictable 15-year-old ADHD son. As they struggle to make ends meet, Kyla, the peculiar new neighbor across the street, offers her help. Together, they find a new sense of balance, and hope is regained.
Forty-six year old Diane Després - "Die" - has been widowed for three years. Considered white trash by many, Die does whatever she needs, including strutting her body in front of male employers who will look, to make an honest living. That bread-winning ability is affected when she makes the decision to remove her only offspring, fifteen year old Steve Després, from her previously imposed institutionalization, one step below juvenile detention. She institutionalized him shortly following her husband's death due to Steve's attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and his violent outbursts. He was just kicked out of the latest in a long line of facilities for setting fire to the cafeteria, in turn injuring another boy. She made this decision to deinstitutionalize him as she didn't like the alternative, sending him into more restrictive juvenile detention from which he would probably never be rehabilitated. However, with this deinstitutionalization, she has to take care of him.
PADDINGTON
STARRING: voice of Ben Winshaw, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Ben Whishaw, Michael Gambon, Imelda Staunton, Nicole Kidman
RATING: PG (for mild action and rude humor)
GENRE: Family/Dramedy
RUN TIME: 95 min
Long ago in deepest, darkest Peru, British explorer Montgomery Clyde discovered a small number of intelligent bears, and named them Uncle Pastuzo and Aunt Lucy. Not only did he teach them how to speak English, but he also introduced them to marmalade and invited them to visit London where they'd certainly be welcomed by all.
Years later, the two bears are living happily with their young nephew when a terrible earthquake strikes. With Uncle Pastuzo gone and their home destroyed, Aunt Lucy puts her nephew on a boat headed for London, hoping he'll find the past explorer as well as a good home and future. But the young bear doesn't know what to do upon his arrival. Thankfully, Mary Brown decides that she, her husband, Henry, and their kids, Judy and Jonathan, should give the bear -- who she's named Paddington, after a train station stop -- a place to stay for the night.
That doesn't sit well with their nosey neighbor, Mr. Curry, while Henry -- who's a risk analyst by trade -- thinks it's a bad idea, and Judy doesn't want to be bothered, what with being embarrassed by her family already. But Jonathan is happy to have Paddington there, as is their housekeeper, Mrs. Bird, while Mary makes it her mission to help the bear find the explorer. Someone interested in getting her hands on Paddington, however, is Millicent, a sadistic taxidermist who wants to stuff the bear and put him on display in the British Natural History Museum. As she sets her sights on doing that, Mary and eventually the rest of the family not only chip in to help Paddington find Montgomery, but also start to feel like he's a member of their family.
WEDDING RINGER, THE
STARRING: Josh Gad, Kevin Hart, Affion Crockett, Kaley Cuoco, Jorge Garcia, Dan Gill
RATING: R (for crude and sexual content, language throughout, some drug use, and brief graphic nudity)
GENRE: Comedy
RUN TIME: 101 min
Doug, a successful attorney, can't believe that such an attractive woman as Gretchen Palmer has agreed to marry him. One problem. An only child, he spent his formative years moving around with his globe-trotting parents, and his adult years building his law practice. He really doesn't have any male friends he can call on to be his best man and groomsmen. And his bride-to-be has a maid of honor plus seven bridesmaids.
Enter Jimmy Callahan, a slick entrepreneur who runs a best-man-for-hire service. Jimmy provides full services for his clients. He'll craft an entire identity of a "best friend," throw bachelor parties, take part in rehearsal dinners, and stay with the groom right through the wedding reception. And then he is gone. This time, though, the challenge is great. He's never put together a party of seven groomsmen, a package he calls the "Golden Tuxedo." He's also never had to deal with a family such as Gretchen's, which includes an overbearing father, Ed; a clueless mother; an overly inquisitive sister, Alison; and a grandma who ends up the charred victim of a meet-and-greet lunch gone wrong.
With only 10 days to plan, Jimmy assembles a motley crew of groomsmen and gives them each identities based on the lies Doug has told to Gretchen. These misfits include Kip, a buff male model with a stutter, who masquerades as a podiatrist; Lurch, who used to be on Jimmy's payroll until his wife forced him to gain other, more honorable employment; Reggie, an airport security guard itching to do something more fun; Otis, a gentle-giant limo driver just itching to help Jimmy out on one of his scams; Bronstein, who's forced to masquerade as a lounge singer and major Tom Jones fan; Endo, an Asian man who pretends to be a childhood friend of Doug's now working as a school principal; and Plunkett, a recently sprung ex-con with a violent rap sheet.
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