WINTER 2012 MOVIE PREVIEW |
Written by USTownhall staff
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Monday, 02 January 2012 12:57 |
MARCH 2 |
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Doctor Seuss' The Lorax
Genre: Family, animated
Stars: Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Betty White
Director: Chris Renaud, Co-Director: Kyle Balda
Premise: A boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world..
MPAA: PG (for for mild brief language)
Run time: 1 hr. 34 min.
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Project X
Genre: Comedy
Stars: Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Brown, Dax Flame, Kirby Bliss Blanton
Director: Nima Nourizadeh
Premise: Three seemingly anonymous high school seniors attempt to finally make a name for themselves. Their idea is innocent enough: let's throw a party that no one will forget...but nothing could prepare them for this party. Word spreads quickly as dreams are ruined, records are blemished and legends are born.
MPAA: R (for crude and sexual content throughout, nudity, drugs, drinking, pervasive language, reckless behavior and mayhem)
Run time: 1 hr. 28 min.
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Being Flynn
Genre: Drama
Stars: Robert De Niro, Paul Dano, Julianne Moore, Olivia Thirlby
Director: Paul Weitz
Premise: Nick Flynn is shocked to have his eccentric and long-absent father, Jonathan reach out to him unexpectedly. Still feeling the loss of his mother in the midst of starting a new relationship with Denise, the last person Nick wants to see is his father. But you can't outrun fate and slowly Nick comes to realize he has been given the chance to make a real future not only for himself, but for his struggling father too.
MPAA: R (for for language throughout, some sexual content, drug use, and brief nudity)
Run time: 1 hr. 26 min.
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Boy
Genre: New Zealand Comedy-Drama
Stars: Craig Hall, Rachel House, Ngapaki Emery, Waihoroi Shortland
Director: Taika Waititi
Premise: The year is 1984 and, somewhere along the rural East Coast of New Zealand, lives Boy who idolizes pop star Michael Jackson. Boy lives with his brother Rocky, a clan of cousins and his Nan. Boy also idolizes his father, Alamein, who is the heroic subject of his son's fantasies, but, in reality, he is serving time in prison for robbery. When Alamein returns home after a 7-year absence, Boy must let go of the father of his dreams to face reality.
MPAA: Not rated
Run time: 1 hr. 27 min.
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Let the Bullets Fly
Genre: Action
Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Jiang Wen, Ge You, Carina Lau
Director: Jiang Wen
Premise: Legendary bandit "Pocky" Zhang violently crosses paths with the con man Tang, who desperately offers up an intriguing proposition: Zhang will become the governor of Goose Town, where he can make more money in a month than he would in a year of train robberies. But neither realizes that Goose Town is already under the iron rule of Master Huang, a ruthless and wealthy crime lord.
MPAA: Not rated
Run time: 2 hrs. 12 min.
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Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
Genre: Comedy
Stars: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, William Atherton, Jeff Goldblum
Directors: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim
Premise: Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime...and the sinister Schlaaang corporation is mad. Their lives at stake, the guys skip town in search of a way to pay the money back. When they happen upon a chance to rehabilitate a bankrupt mall full of vagrants, bizarre stores and a man-eating wolf that stalks the food court, they see dollar signs – a billion of them.
MPAA: R (for for strong crude and sexual content throughout, brief graphic nudity, pervasive language, comic violence and drug use)
Run time: 1 hr. 33 min.
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MARCH 9 |
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John Carter
Genre: Action-Fantasy
Stars: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Thomas Haden Church, Willem Dafoe
Director: Andrew Stanton
Premise: War-weary, former military captain John Carter is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris. In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
MPAA: PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence and action)
Run time: 2 hrs. 12 min.
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Silent House
Genre: Horror
Stars: Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Julia Taylor Ross
Director: Chris Kentis, Laura Lau
Premise: Sarah is a young woman who finds herself sealed inside her family's secluded lake house. With no contact to the outside world, and no way out, panic turns to terror to terror as events become increasingly ominous in and around the house.
MPAA: R (for disturbing violent content and terror)
Run time: 1 hr. 28 min.
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A Thousand Words
Genre: Comedy
Stars: Eddie Murphy, Clark Duke, Allison Janney, Kerry Washington
Director: Brian Robbins
Premise: Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack's life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word Jack speaks, a leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls, both he and the tree are toast. Words have never failed Jack McCall, but now he's got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he's a goner.
MPAA: PG-13 (for sexual situations including dialogue, language and some drug-related humor)
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The Decoy Bride
Genre: British Romantic Comedy
Stars: David Tennant, Kelly MacDonald, Alice Eve, Michael Urie
Director: Sheree Folkson
Premise: When the world's media descend on the remote Scottish island where a Hollywood actress is attempting to get married, a local girl is hired as a decoy bride to put the paparazzi off the scent.
MPAA: Not rated
Run time: 1 hr. 29 min.
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Footnote
Genre: Foreign-language drama
Stars: Shlomo Bar-Abba, Lior Louie Ashkenazi, Aliza Rosen, Alma Zack
Director: Joseph Cedar
Premise: A tale of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors, who have dedicated their lives to their work in Talmudic Studies. The father has never been recognized for his work, but his son is an up-and-coming star in the field, who appears to feed on accolades, endlessly seeking recognition. Then one day, the tables turn. When the father learns that he is to be awarded the most valuable honor for scholarship in Israel, his vanity and desperate need for validation are exposed. His son is thrilled to see his father's achievements finally recognized but, in a darkly funny twist, is forced to choose between the advancement of his own career and his father's. Will he sabotage his father's glory?
MPAA: PG (for for thematic elements, brief nudity, language and smoking)
Run time: 1 hr. 43 min.
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Friends with Kids
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Stars: Jennifer Westfeldt, Jon Hamm, Adam Scott, Kristen Wiig
Director: Jennifer Westfeldt
Premise: A close-knit circle of friends are at that moment in life when children arrive and everything changes. The last two singles in the group observe the effect that kids have had on their friends' relationships and wonder if there's a better way. They decide to have a child together and date other people.
MPAA: R (for for sexual content and language)
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Good for Nothing
Genre: New Zealand Western
Stars: Cohen Holloway, Inge Rademeyer
Director: Mike Wallis
Premise: An outlaw reluctantly develops strong feelings for a woman he has kidnapped. Yet when the outlaw tries to force himself on the young and beautiful Isabella, he finds himself suffering from performance anxiety. On a quest to cure his erectile dysfunction, the pair are pursued by an unpredictable posse who are set on killing both the outlaw and Isabella, who they have mistaken for a whore and accomplice.
MPAA: R (for for violence and some sexual references)
Run time: 1 hr. 32 min.
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Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Genre: Documentary
Stars: Jiro Ono
Director: David Gelb
Premise: The story of 85 year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world's greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3 star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimage, calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat at Jiro's sushi bar.For most of his life, Jiro has been mastering the art of making sushi, but even at his age he sees himself still striving for perfection, working from sunrise to well beyond sunset to taste every piece of fish; meticulously train his employees; and carefully mold and finesse the impeccable presentation of each sushi creation. At the heart of this story is Jiro's relationship with his eldest son Yoshikazu, the worthy heir to Jiro's legacy, who is unable to live up to his full potential in his father's shadow.
MPAA: PG (for for mild thematic elements and brief smoking)
Run time: 1 hr. 21 min.
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Genre: British Comedy
Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Amr Waked
Director: Lasse Hallström
Premise: A visionary sheik has a big dream – to bring salmon fishing to the desert. Willing to spare no expense, he instructs his representative to turn his dream into reality, an extraordinary feat that will require the involvement of Britain's leading fisheries expert who happens to think the project both absurd and unachievable. That is, until the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary latches on for its potential as a 'good will' story. Now, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible.
MPAA: PG-13 (for for some violence and sexual content, and brief language)
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Sound of Noise
Genre: Foreign language comedy
Stars: Bengt Nilsson, Sanna Persson, Magnus Borjeson, Johannes Bjork
Director: Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Ola Simonsson
Premise: Police officer Amadeus Warnebring was born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians and he hates music. Now, Warnebring is about to face the most difficult case of his career. A group of six eccentric drummers, led by revolutionary genius Sanna, has decided to launch a full-scale musical attack using the city as their instrument. Their musical terrorism leads to chaos and disorder. As Warnebring hunts for these serial musicians, he discovers the woman he is in love with is the leader of the group. Warnebring is left with no choice but to enter the world he has spent his entire life fleeing--the world of rhythm and music.
MPAA: R (for for language and some brief nudity)
Run time: 1 hr. 38 min.
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MARCH 16 (full details soon)
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21 Jump Street
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Casa de Mi Padre
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Detachment
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The FP
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Jeff, Who Lives at Home
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The Kid with a Bike
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Natural Selection
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Reuniting the Rubins
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Seeking Justice
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MARCH 23 (full details soon) |
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Brake
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The Deep Blue Sea
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The Hunger Games
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Musical Chairs
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October Baby
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The Raid: Redemption
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The Trouble with Bliss
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MARCH 30 (full details soon) |
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The Island President
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The Bully Project
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Dark Tide
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Goon
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Intruders
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Mirror, Mirror
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Wrath of the Titans
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FEBRUARY 17 |
WIDE RELEASE |
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Genre: Comic book adaptation
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Violante Placido, Ciaran Hinds, Idris Elba
Directors: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Premise: Former stuntman and bounty hunter of rogue demons Johnny Blaze has been living in self-imposed exile, believing that his powers are a curse. But when he is approached by a member of a monastic order who is looking for someone to protect a mother and her son, who are being pursued by the devil in the figure of a man named Roarke, the Ghost Rider takes the case.
MPAA: PG-13 (for intense sequences of action and violence, some disturbing images, and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 35 min.
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This Means War
Genre:Action-Comedy
Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, Til Schweiger
Director: McG
Premise: Two of the world's deadliest CIA operatives are inseparable partners and best friends - until they discover that they've fallen in love with the same woman. Deciding to keep their friendship a secret from her, they pull out their full arsenal of fighting skills and high-tech gadgetry to defeat their greatest enemy - each other.
MPAA: PG-13 (for sexual content including references, some violence and action, and for language)
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Bullhead
Genre: Crime drama, Foreign language
Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Barbara Sarafian, Jeanne Dandoy
Director: Michael R. Roskam
Premise: Domineering cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille, constantly pumped on steroids and hormones, initiates a shady deal with a notorious mafioso meat trader. When an investigating federal agent is assassinated and a woman from his traumatic past resurfaces, Jacky must confront his demons and face the far-reaching consequences of his decisions.
MPAA: R (for some strong violence, language and sexual content)
Run time: 2 hrs. 6 min.
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On the Ice
Genre: Crime drama
Stars: Josiah Patkotak, Frank Qutuq Irelan, Teddy Kyle Smith, Adamina Kerr
Director: Andrew Okpeaha Maclean
Premise: Bonded by their dark secret, two best friends are forced to create one fabrication after another in order to survive. With their future in the balance, the two boys are forced to explore the limits of friendship and honor.
MPAA: R (for for language, some drug content and violence)
Run time: 1 hr. 36 min.
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The Secret World of Arrietty
Genre:Animated fantasy
Stars: Bridgit Mendler, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, Carol Burnett
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Premise: Based upon Mary Norton's classic children's book The Borrowers. Residing quietly beneath the floorboards are little people who live undetected in a secret world to be discovered, where the smallest may stand tallest of all. Arrietty, a tiny, but tenacious 14-year-old, lives with her parents in the recesses of a suburban garden home, unbeknownst to the homeowner and her housekeeper. But when 12-year-old Shawn, a human boy who comes to stay in the home, discovers his mysterious housemate one evening, a secret friendship blossoms. If discovered, their relationship could drive Arrietty's family from the home and straight into danger.
MPAA: G
Run time: 1 hr. 20 min.
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Thin Ice
Genre: Crime drama
Stars: Greg Kinnear, Billy Crudup, Alan Arkin, David Harbour
Director: Jill Sprecher
Premise: Mickey Prohaska is a small-time insurance agent looking for a way to jump-start his business, reunite with his estranged wife and escape the frigid Wisconsin weather. This self-proclaimed master of spin believes that salesmanship is about selling a story – all he needs is a sucker willing to buy it. He hits pay dirt with a lonely retired farmer who is sitting on something much bigger than an insurance commission. But Mickey's attempt to con the old man spins out of control when a nosy, unstable locksmith with a volatile temper dramatically ups the stakes, trapping him in a madcap spiral of danger, deceit and double-crossing.
MPAA: R (for language, and brief violent and sexual content)
Run time: 1 hr. 54 min.
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Undefeated
Genre: Sports documentary
Stars: Bill Courtney, Montrail Money Brown, Chavis Daniels, O.C. Brown
Director: Daniel Lindsay
Premise: Set in the inner-city of Memphis, Undefeated chronicles the Manassas Tigers' 2009 football season, on and off-the-field, as they strive to win the first playoff game in the high school's 110-year history. A coming-of-age documentary film, Undefeated provides audiences an intimate view of an underprivileged group of teens and their inspirational coach, as they attempt to make history.
MPAA: PG-13 (for some language)
Run time: 1 hr. 50 min.
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FEBRUARY 24 |
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Act of Valor
Genre: Action
Stars: Roselyn Sanchez, Alex Veadov, Nestor Serrano, Jason Cottle
Director: Mike McCoy, Scott Waugh
Premise: When a mission to recover a kidnapped CIA operative unexpectedly results in the discovery of an imminent, terrifying global threat, an elite team of highly trained Navy SEALs must immediately embark on a heart-stopping secret operation, the outcome of which will determine the fate of us all.
MPAA: R (for for strong violence including some torture, and for language)
Run time: 1 hr. 41 min.
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Gone
Genre: Thriller
Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Daniel Sunjata, Jennifer Carpenter, Sebastian Stan
Director: Heitor Dhalia
Premise: Jill Parrish comes home from a night shift to discover her sister Molly has been abducted. Jill, who had escaped from a kidnapper a year before, is convinced that the same serial killer has come back for her sister. Afraid that Molly will be dead by sundown, Jill embarks on a heart-pounding chase to find the killer, expose his secrets and save her sister.
MPAA: PG-13 (for violence and terror, some sexual material, brief language and drug references)
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Tyler Perry's Good Deeds
Genre: Drama
Stars: Tyler Perry, Thandie Newton, Brian J. White, Rebecca Romijn
Director: Tyler Perry
Premise: A successful, wealthy businessman, Wesley Deeds has always done what's expected of him. But Wesley is jolted out of his predictable routine when he meets Lindsey, a down-on-her-luck single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building. When he offers to help her get back on her feet, the chance encounter with someone so far outside his usual circle ignites something in Wesley. This one good deed may finally spark his courage to exchange the life that's expected of him for the life he's always really wanted.
MPAA: PG-13 (for for sexual content, language, some violence and thematic material)
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Wanderlust
Genre: Comedy
Stars: Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Malin Akerman, Justin Theroux
Director: David Wain
Premise: George and Linda are an overextended, stressed out Manhattan couple. After George is downsized out of his job, they find themselves with only one option: to move in with George's awful brother in Atlanta. On the way there, George and Linda stumble upon Elysium, an idyllic community populated by colorful characters who embrace a different way of looking at things.
MPAA: R (for sexual content, graphic nudity, language and drug use)
Run time: 1 hr. 40 min.
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The Fairy
Genre: Comedy, Foreign language
Stars: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy
Director: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy
Premise: A hotel clerk searches all over Le Havre for the fairy who made two of his three wishes come true before disappearing.
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Run time: 1 hr. 33 min.
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The Forgiveness of Blood
Genre: Drama, Foreign language
Stars: Refet Abazi, Tristan Halilaj, Sindi Lacej, Ilire Vinca Celaj
Director: Joshua Marston
Premise: An Albanian family caught up in a blood feud. Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own small Internet business. His world is suddenly upended when his father becomes entangled in a dispute that leaves a fellow villager murdered. According to a centuries-old code of law known as the Kanun, Nik's family owes a life in return. Nik finds himself the prime target and becomes confined to home while his younger sister Rudina (Sindi Lacej) is forced to leave school and take over their father's business.
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Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya
Genre: Romantic comedy, Foreign language
Stars: Tinnu Anand, Genelia D'Souza, Ritesh Deshmukh
Director: Mandeep Kumar
Premise: The story of a boy who kidnaps a girl but starts to fall in love with her.
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Tomorrow, When the War Began
Genre: Action
Stars: Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Lincoln Lewis
Director: Stuart Beattie
Premise: When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight unlikely high school teenagers band together to fight.
MPAA: R (for some violence)
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JANUARY 4 |
JANUARY 6 |
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Loosies
Genre: Comedy-Drama
Stars: Peter Facinelli, Vincent Gallo, Michael Madsen, Jaimie Alexander, William Forsythe
Director: Michael Corrente
Premise: A successful pickpocket living the outlaw lifestyle is confronted with an old one-night stand who tells him that she is pregnant with his child.
MPAA: PG-13 (for some violence, sexual content and language)
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The Devil Inside
Genre: Horror
Stars: Fernanda Andrade, Bonnie Morgan, Evan Helmuth, Suzan Crowley, Ionut Grama
Director: Brent Bell
Premise: With the help of exorcists, a woman sets out to determine whether her murderous mother is mentally ill or demonically possessed.
MPAA: R (for disturbing violent content and grisly images, and for language including some sexual references)
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Norwegian Wood
Genre: Drama, Foreign language
Stars: Ken ichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kengo Kora, Tetsuji Tamayama
Director: Anh Hung Tran
Premise: Upon hearing the song "Norwegian Wood" by The Beatles, a man named Toru Watanabe reflects on his teen years in 1960s Japan.
MPAA: Not Rated
Run time: 2 hrs. 13 min.
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Roadie
Genre: Drama
Stars: Ron Eldard, Jill Hennessy, Bobby Cannavale, Lois Smith, David Margulies
Director: Michael Cuesta
Premise: After a 45-year-old roadie gets dumped by his band, he returns home to Queens, sees his aged mother for the first time since his father's funeral, and finds that even though his neighborhood has become a slum, everywhere he goes there are remnants of the neighborhood he grew up in.
MPAA: R (for pervasive language and some drug content)
Run time: 1 hr. 35 min.
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JANUARY 13 |
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Contraband
Genre: Action Thriller
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi, Lukas Haas
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Premise: Chris Farraday long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy, botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs, Chris is forced back into doing what he does best – running contraband – to settle Andy's debt.
MPAA: R for violence, pervasive language and brief drug use
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Joyful Noise
Genre: Musical Comedy-Drama
Stars: Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer, Courtney B. Vance, Jeremy Jordan
Director: Todd Graff
Premise: Two very different women, one a mother of two teenagers, the other a widow of the recently deceased choir director, join forces to save their small-town gospel choir.
MPAA: PG 13 (for some language including a sexual reference)
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Premium Rush
Genre: Action Thriller
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Jamie Chung, Dania Ramirez
Director: David Koepp
Premise: In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
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Beauty and the Beast 3D
Genre: Animated musical fantasy
Stars: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Rex Everhart, Richard White, Jesse Corti
Directors: Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale
Premise: Belle is a bright and beautiful young woman who's taken prisoner by a hideous beast in his castle. Despite her precarious situation, Belle befriends the castle's enchanted staff -- a teapot, a candelabra and a mantel clock, among others -- and ultimately learns to see beneath the Beast's exterior to discover the heart and soul of a prince.
MPAA: G
Run time: 1 hr. 24 min.
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The Divide
Genre: SciFi Thriller
Stars: Lauren German, Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Michael Eklund, Rosanna Arquette, Ashton Holmes, Courtney B. Vance, Iván González, Jennifer Blanc, Abbey Thickson
Director: Xavier Gens
Premise: Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Genre: Drama
Stars: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, Max von Sydow, Viola Davis, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright, James Gandolfini
Director: Stephen Daldry
Premise: Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his own loss to a greater understanding of the observable world around him.
MPAA: PG-13 (for emotional thematic material, some disturbing images, and language)
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Haywire
Genre: Action Thriller
Stars: Gina Carano, Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Premise: A female covert ops specialist, who works in the deadly world of international operatives, strikes back after discovering she's been double-crossed by someone close to her in the agency.
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Red Tails
Genre: Historical Action
Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, Brandon T. Jackson, Ne-Yo
Director: Anthony Hemingway
Premise: 1944. As the war in Europe continues to take its toll on Allied forces, the Pentagon brass has no recourse but to consider unorthodox options -- including the untried and untested African-American pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, they are given the ultimate chance to show their courage. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies to fight for their country -- and the fate of the free world.
MPAA: PG 13 (for some sequences of war violence)
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Underworld Awakening
Genre: Fantasy Thriller
Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Michael Ealy, Theo James, India Eisley
Directors: Mans Marlind, Bjorn Stein
Premise: The vampire warrioress Selene, escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species.
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New SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL picture |
Written by USTownhall staff
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Sunday, 09 October 2011 23:00 |
Here's the latest picture from the set of the upcoming film, The Man of Steel, which stars Henry Cavill as Big Blue. It's the clearest image we've seen of the suit so far.
Click image below, and a larger image will, umm, pop up (and we're not kidding). Viewers may wish to cover their eyes with protective goggles for this one...
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Written by USTownhall staff
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Saturday, 08 October 2011 21:47 |
DECEMBER 2 |
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Answers to Nothing
Stars: Dane Cook, Elizabeth Mitchell, Julie Benz, Erik Palladino, Barbara Hershey
Director: Matt Leutwyler
Premise: Against the backdrop of a missing girl case, lost souls throughout Los Angeles search for meaning and redemption and affect each other in ways they don't always see.
MPAA: R (for some strong sexual content, nudity, violence and language)
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Coriolanus
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, Jessica Chastain, James Nesbitt
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Premise: Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, is manipulated and out-maneuvered by politicians and even his own mother, Volumnia, resulting in his banishment. He subsequently offers himself to his sworn enemy,Tullus Aufidius, and together they march on Rome with the intent to destroy the city.
MPAA: R (for some bloody violence)
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Knuckle
Stars: James Quinn McDonagh, Paddy Quinn McDonagh, Michael Quinn McDonagh
Director: Ian Palmer
Premise: Residing in Ireland and parts of the United Kingdom, the Travelers are a nomadic ethnic group with their own customs and a deep sense of clan pride, despite being interrelated by marriage within their small population. When conflicts arise between rival clans, arguments are often settled through ritualized, bare-knuckle fighting.
MPAA: R (for violent content and language)
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Outrage
Stars: Soichiro Kitamura, Tomokazu Miura, Tetta Sugimoto, Jun Kunimura, Takeshi Kitano
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Premise: [Japanese, subtitled] In a ruthless battle for power, several yakuza clans vie for the favor of their head family in the Japanese underworld. The rival bosses seek to rise through the ranks by scheming and making allegiances sworn over saké.
MPAA: R (for strong brutal bloody violence throughout, language, a scene of sexuality and some nudity)
Run time: 1 hr. 49 min.
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Pastorela
Stars: Omar Ayala, Carlos Cobos, Joaquín Cosio
Director: Emilio Portes
Premise: [Spanish, subtitled] Agent Jesus Juarez (aka Chucho) has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play. This Christmas, when the new pastor of the church recasts the role, the two men engage in a battle between good and evil.
MPAA: R (for language throughout, brief sexual content and some violence)
Run time: 1 hr. 28 min.
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Shame
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie, Lucy Walters
Director: Steve McQueen (no, not the dead actor)
Premise: Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his mentally unstable younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control.
MPAA: NC-17 (for some explicit sexual content)
Run time: 1 hr. 39 min.
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Sleeping Beauty (2011)
Stars: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie, Peter Carroll, Chris Haywood
Director: Julia Leigh
Premise: Lucy, a young university student, answers an ad to be a lingerie waitress. But she is secretly being initiated into a world of strange new work – one where she will have to give into absolute submission to her clients by being sedated – becoming a Sleeping Beauty. Eventually this unnerving experience begins to bleed into her daily life and she finally develops the will to break the spell by discovering what happens to her while she sleeps.
MPAA: not rated
Run time: 1 hr. 44 min.
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New Year's Eve
Stars: Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, Abigail Breslin, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, Robert De Niro, Josh Duhamel, Zac Efron, Hector Elizondo, Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Seth Meyers, Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Til Schweiger, Hilary Swank, Sofia Vergara
Director: Garry Marshall
Premise: Celebrating love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in the intertwining stories told amidst the pulse of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year.
MPAA: PG-13
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The Sitter
Stars: Jonah Hill, Ari Graynor, Max Records, Kevin Hernandez, J.B. Smoove
Director: David Gordon Green
Premise: A suspended college student, living at home with his single mom, is talked into babysitting the three, young, misfit kids next door. However, when he brings the kids along for an attempted sexual rendezvous, the night takes a wild and dangerous turn for the worse.
MPAA: R (for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, drug material and some violence)
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Stars: Gary Oldman, Kathy Burke, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Premise: An intelligence officer is recalled from retirement when there are signs that one of the top-ranking officers of the British Secret Intelligence Service is a Soviet mole. A new adaptation of the classic John le Carré novel.
MPAA: R (for violence, some sexuality/nudity and language)
Run time: 2 hr. 8 min.
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Young Adult
Stars: Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, Collette Wolfe
Director: Jason Reitman
Premise: A 30-something, divorced, young-adult fiction writer returns to her hometown to chase the ex-boyfriend that got away.
MPAA: R (for language and some sexual content)
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Catch.44
Stars: Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis, Malin Akerman, Kate Mara, Nikki Reed
Director: Aaron Harvey
Premise: For Tes and her two cohorts Kara and Tara, the job sounded simple enough: intercept a double-cross drug shipment for their crime boss Mel at an isolated diner. But when an unstoppable chain of events unfolds, everyone soon realizes no one is who they seem and the job may be something other than eliminating the competition. What started as simple instructions has now turned into a deadly cat-and-mouse game – with large guns pointed at everyone.
MPAA: R (for for strong bloody violence, pervasive language and some sexual content)
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I Melt with You
Stars: Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe, Christian McKay, Carla Gugino
Director: Mark Pellington
Premise: An intense character drama about four college buddies who look within themselves and find emptiness when they have their annual summer reunion. This resurrects a pact they vowed to live, die, and kill by.
MPAA: R (for for pervasive drug use and language, some violence and sexual content)
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W.E.
Stars: Abbie Cornish, James D'Arcy, Andrea Riseborough, Oscar Isaac
Director: Madonna
Premise: The love affair between King Edward VIII and American socialite Wallis Simpson, which led to the royal's abdication, is juxtaposed with the romantic challenges of contemporary Wally Winthrop, a woman obsessed with the life of the Duchess of Windsor.
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Stars: Anna Faris, Jason Lee, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney
Director: Mike Mitchell
Premise: After surviving the sinking of their cruise ship, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore must survive on a Polynesian island.
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry, Jared Harris, Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan, Rachel McAdams
Director: Guy Ritchie
Premise: Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room... until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large – Professor Moriarty – and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective.
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Carnage
Stars: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly, Elvis Polanski
Director: Roman Polanski
Premise: After two boys duke it out on a playground, the parents of the "victim" invite the parents of the "bully" over to work out their issues. A polite discussion of child rearing soon escalates into verbal warfare, with all four parents revealing their true colors. None of them will escape the carnage.
MPAA: R (for language)
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Corman's World
Stars: Roger Corman, Paul W.S. Anderson, Allan Arkush, Eric Balfour, Timur Bekmambetov
Director: Alex Stapleton
Premise: The story of B-movie king Roger Corman and how he influenced Hollywood through his films and the filmmakers he has mentored. Interviewees include Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Ron Howard, and Jonathan Demme.
MPAA: R (for for some violent images, nudity and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 30 min.
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The Adventures of Tintin
Stars: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
Director: Steven Spielberg
Premise: The fearless young reporter Tintin is on the trail of a big story which leads him into a world of high adventure. He and his friends go on a treasure hunt when they find directions to a sunken ship, and Tintin must face the notorious Red Rackham.
MPAA: PG (for for adventure action violence, some drunkenness and brief smoking)
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stars: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgård, Elodie Yung, Christopher Plummer
Director: David Fincher
Premise: A journalist-turned-detective and his female associate get tangled up in the underworld when he is hired to write the saga of a powerful family.
MPAA: R
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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Stars: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton, Ving Rhames
Director: Brad Bird
Premise: Blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Kremlin, IMF operative Ethan Hunt is disavowed along with the rest of the agency when the President initiates "Ghost Protocol." Left without any resources or backup, Ethan must find a way to clear his agency's name and prevent another attack. To complicate matters further, Ethan is forced to embark on this mission with a team of fellow IMF fugitives whose personal motives he does not fully know.
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We Bought a Zoo
Stars: Matt Damon, Thomas Haden Church, Scarlett Johansson, Angus MacFadyen, John Michael Higgins
Director: Cameron Crowe
Premise: A widower and his family work together to restore a dilapidated zoo to its former glory.
MPAA: PG (for language and some thematic elements)
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In the Land of Blood and Honey
Stars: Rade Serbedzija, Goran Kostic, Zana Marjanovic
Director: Angelina Jolie
Premise: Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, and Ajla, a Bosnian held captive in the camp Danijel oversees, knew each other before the war, and could have found love with each other. But as the armed conflict takes hold of their lives, their relationship grows darker, their motives and connection to one another ambiguous, their allegiances uncertain.
MPAA: R (for war violence and atrocities including rape, sexuality, nudity and language)
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The Darkest Hour
Stars: Emile Hirsch, Max Minghella, Olivia Thirlby, Joel Kinnaman, Rachael Taylor
Director: Chris Gorak
Premise: Fve young people find themselves stranded in Moscow and fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.
MPAA: PG-13 (for sci-fi action violence and some language)
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War Horse
Stars: Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Peter Mullan, Niels Arestrup, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irvine, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Kebbell
Director: Steven Spielberg
Premise: The friendship between a boy and a horse who are separated but whose fates continue to be intertwined over the course of World War I.
MPAA: PG-13 (for intense sequences of war violence)
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Stars: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, Max von Sydow, Viola Davis, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright, James Gandolfini
Director: Stephen Daldry
Premise: Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his own loss to a greater understanding of the observable world around him.
MPAA: PG-13 (for emotional thematic material, some disturbing images, and language)
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Pariah
Stars: Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis, Charles Parnell, Sahra Mellesse
Director: Dee Rees
Premise: Alike is a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the support of her best friend, Laura, she is especially eager to find a girlfriend. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity – sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving forward.
MPAA: R (for sexual content and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 26 min.
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The Iron Lady
Stars: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Alexandra Roach, Olivia Colman, Anthony Head
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Premise: A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world. Story will focus on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the 17 days before the Falklands War in 1982.
MPAA: PG-13 (for some violent images and brief nudity)
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A Separation
Stars: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moadi, Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Premise: [Farsi, subtitled] Wanting to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh, Simin makes all the necessary arrangements. However, her husband Nader refuses to leave behind his father who suffers from Alzheimers. Determined to leave, Simin sues for divorce, and when her request is rejected, she moves in with her parents. Her daughter Termeh chooses to stay with her father with the hope that one day her mother will change her mind. Finding it difficult to keep cope, Nader hires Razieh to look after his father. The young woman is pregnant and has accepted the job without her husband's permission. Following, Nader arrives home one day to find his father alone and tied to a table. When Razieh returns, things completely combust, shattering Nader's life and also Termeh's image of her father.
MPAA: PG-13 (for mature thematic material)
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Tower Heist
Stars: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Téa Leoni, Gabourey Sidibe, Casey Affleck, Stephen Henderson, Judd Hirsch, Michael Pena, Alan Alda
Director: Brett Ratner
Premise: After Arthur Shaw, resident of an illustrious penthouse tower in New York City, pulls off a Ponzi scheme that robs many of their life savings, a group of his victims, including tower manager Josh Kovaks, form a crew to pull off a heist that will get their money back with interest.
MPAA: PG-13 (for language and sexual content)
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A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
Stars: John Cho, Kal Penn, Paula Garces, Eddie Kaye Thomas, David Krumholtz, Neil Patrick Harris
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Premise: When Harold accidentally burns down his father-in-law's prize Christmas tree, he and Kumar journey through New York in search for the perfect replacement tree, which takes them through party heaven – and almost blows Christmas Eve sky high.
MPAA: R (for strong crude and sexual content, graphic nudity, pervasive language, drug use and some violence)
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Killing Bono
Stars: Ben Barnes, Krysten Ritter, Charlie Cox, Romola Garai, Bill Nighy
Director: Nick Hamm
Premise: Two Irish brothers struggle to forge their path through the 1980s music scene, whilst the meteoric rise to fame of their old school pals U2 only serves to cast them deeper into the shadows.
MPAA: R (for pervasive language, some sexuality/nudity and drug use)
Run time: 1 hr. 54 min.
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The Son of No One
Stars: Channing Tatum, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes, Tracy Morgan, Juliette Binoche
Director: Dito Montiel
Premise: When a young cop is assigned to a precinct in the working class neighborhood where he grew up, an old secret threatens to destroy his life and family.
MPAA: R for violence, pervasive language and brief disturbing sexual content
Run time: 1 hr. 33 min.
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Immortals
Stars: Henry Cavill, Freida Pinto, Mickey Rourke, John Hurt, Kellan Lutz, Joseph Morgan, Isabel Lucas, Luke Evans, Stephen Dorff
Director: Tarsem Singh
Premise: A mortal chosen by Zeus named Theseus must lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion and his evil army with the fate of mankind and the Gods at stake.
MPAA: R (for sequences of strong bloody violence, and a scene of sexuality)
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J. Edgar
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Josh Lucas, Armie Hammer, Damon Herriman, Lea Coco
Director: Clint Eastwood
Premise: Based on the life of J. Edgar Hoover, the man often credited with making the FBI what it is today: an efficient, crime-fighting organization shrouded in secrecy. Hoover founded the organization in 1935 and remained director until his death in 1972.
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Jack and Jill
Stars: Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes, Dana Carvey
Director: Dennis Dugan
Premise: Family man Jack Sadelstein must deal with his twin sister, Jill, when she visits for Thanksgiving and then will not leave.
MPAA: PG (for crude and sexual humor, language, comic violence and brief smoking)
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11-11-11
Stars: Timothy Gibbs, Wendy Glenn, Michael Landes
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Premise: An author travels to Barcelona to see his estranged brother and dying father, where he learns that his life is plagued by events that occur at 11:11.
MPAA: R (for bloody violence)
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The Conquest
Stars: Denis Podalydès, Florence Pernel, Samuel Labarthe, Bernard LeCoq, Michèle Moretti
Director: Xavier Durringer
Premise: [French, subtitled] Chronicles the volatile right-leaning Sarkozy's startling rise to become President of France and the emotional and psychological stakes involving the conquest of power. On the day the diminutive Sarkozy conquered his ultimate ambition, his wife, who for twenty years had struggled to pull the man she loved from the shadow into the light, walked out on him for another man.
MPAA: not rated
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The Greening of Whitney Brown
Stars: Sammi Hanratty, Kris Kristofferson, Brooke Shields, Aidan Quinn, Keith David
Director: Peter Odiorne
Premise: A spoiled pre-teen from the city is forced to move to the country when her parents feel the squeeze of economic hard times.
MPAA: PG (for brief mild language)
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London Boulevard
Stars: Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley, David Thewlis, Ben Chaplin, Anna Friel
Director: William Monahan
Premise: A fresh-out-of-prison ex-con lands a legit job as a handyman for a rich actress, but can't truly escape his criminal past.
MPAA: R (for strong violence, pervasive language, some nudity and drug use)
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Melancholia
Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt
Director: Lars von Trier
Premise: Justine, a newlywed suffering from an extreme case of clinical depression, notices a planet, with no orbit of its own, hurtling toward Earth.
MPAA: R (for some graphic nudity,sexual content and language)
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Happy Feet 2
Stars: Elijah Wood, Robin Wiliams, Hank Azaria, Pink, Sofia Vergara, Hugo Weaving, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Common, Anthony LaPaglia
Director: George Miller
Premise: Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven -- a penguin who can fly!
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz, Peter Facinelli
Director: Bill Condon
Premise: Bella and Edward, plus those they love, must deal with the chain of consequences brought on by a marriage, honeymoon, and the tumultuous birth of a child, which brings an unforeseen and shocking development for Jacob Black.
MPAA: PG-13 (for disturbing images, violence, sexuality/partial nudity and some thematic elements)
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Another Happy Day
Stars: Ellen Barkin, Ezra Miller, Ellen Burstyn, Demi Moore, Thomas Haden Church
Director: Sam Levinson
Premise: A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into primal, dysfunctional family dynamics. On the day of the wedding of her son, whom she was not allowed to raise because of her acrimonious divorce, a feud rages between Lynn and her ex-husband's hot-tempered wife. Meanwhile, the three children Lynn did raise display several disturbing behaviors like cutting and drug addiction, which Lynn's mother and sisters ridicule and blame her for.
MPAA: R (for teen drug/alcohol abuse, pervasive language including sexual references, and brief graphic nudity)
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The Descendants
Stars: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Mary Birdsong, Nick Krause, Judy Greer
Director: Alexander Payne
Premise: Matt King is an indifferent husband and fatherof two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
MPAA: R for language including some sexual references
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The Lie
Stars: Joshua Leonard, Jess Weixler, Jane Adams, Mark Webber, Gerry Bednob
Director: Joshua Leonard
Premise: A musician is forced to give up his dreams in order to support his family. Deciding he needs some time away from his soul-sucking job to renew his stalled aspirations, Lonnie calls in sick and creates a shocking lie to justify his absence. Swept away in a series of misadventures beyond his control, he attempts to close the Pandora's box, but finds that it is too late.
MPAA: R (for language and some drug use)
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Tomboy
Stars: Zoe Heran, Malonn Levana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy
Director: Celine Sciamma
Premise: [French, subtitled] Ten-year-old Laure moves into a new town with her parents and little sister. Laure does not know any of the kids in the neighborhood, and when she meets a girl named Lisa, she lets her think she's a boy. Laure starts to play with other kids, taking on the persona of a boy named Mickael. As she gets closer to Lisa, the creation of her persona makes the ambiguity of her situation ever more complicated.
MPAA: none
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Arthur Christmas
Stars: James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton
Director: Barry Cook
Premise: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But this year, Santa's son Arthur has an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.
MPAA: PG (for some mild rude humor)
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Hugo
Stars: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Jude Law
Director: Martin Scorsese
Premise: Hugo is a wily and resourceful boy whose quest to unlock a secret left to him by his father will transform him and all those around him, and reveal a safe and loving place he can call home.
MPAA: PG (for mild thematic material, some action/peril, and smoking)
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The Muppets
Stars: Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Zach Galifianiakis, Jack Black
Director: James Bobin
Premise: To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the Muppet theater from a greedy Texas oilman, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways.
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The Artist
Stars: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Béjo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Premise: Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For his lover, young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit – major movie stardom awaits.
MPAA: PG-13 (for a disturbing image and a crude gesture)
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A Dangerous Method
Stars: Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel
Director: David Cronenberg
Premise: Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Jung takes on the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient, wielding the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Before long, both men fall under Sabina's spell.
MPAA: R (for for sexual content and brief language)
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My Week with Marilyn
Stars: Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond, Dougray Scott
Director: Simon Curtis
Premise: Colin Clark met Marilyn Monroe while working as a young assistant on Laurence Olivier's The Prince and the Showgirl. When Marilyn experienced emotional difficulties during shooting, the 23-year-old third assistant director came to her aid and romance developed. But one week of honesty and fun was not enough to save the doomed star from self-destruction.
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The Ides of March
Stars: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright, Max Minghella, Evan Rachel Wood
Director:George Clooney
Premise: During the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's shot at the presidency.
MPAA: R (for pervasive language)
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Real Steel
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Kevin Durand, Anthony Mackie, Evangeline Lilly
Director: Shawn Levy
Premise: A future-set story where robot boxing is a popular sport and centered on a struggling promoter who thinks he's found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he also discovers he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father.
MPAA: (PG-13 for some violence, intense action, and brief language)
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1911
Stars: Jackie Chan
Directors: Zhang Li, Jackie Chan
Premise: A historical drama based on the founding of the Republic of China when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing Dynasty.
MPAA: R (for war violence)
Run time: 1 hr. 58 min.
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Blackthorn
Stars: Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea, Magaly Solier
Director: Mateo Gil
Premise: In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorne) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
MPAA: R (for violence and language)
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Dirty Girl
Stars: Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Mary Steenburgen, Dwight Yoakam, Jeremy Dozier
Director: Abe Sylvia
Premise: Danielle is the dirty girl of Norman High School. When Danielle's misbehavior gets her banished to special ed, she teams up with an innocent closet-case and together they head out on a road trip to discover each other and themselves through a funny and serendipitous friendship.
MPAA: R (for for sexual content including graphic nudity, and for language)
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The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)
Stars: Laurence R. Harvey, Ashlynn Yennie, Vivien Bridson, Bill Hutchens
Director: Tom Six
Premise: The story of a man who becomes sexually obsessed with a DVD recording of The Human Centipede (First Sequence) and who imagines putting the 'centipede' idea into practice.
MPAA: not rated
Run time: 1 hr. 28 min.
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The Way
Stars: Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger, James Nesbitt, Emilio Estevez, Angela Molina, Eusebio Lazaro
Director: Emilio Estevez
Premise: After arriving in Spain to recover the body of his dead estranged son, a widower sets off on the "Camino de Santiago" pilgrimage to Galicia.
MPAA: PG-13 (for some thematic elements, drug use and smoking)
Run time: 1 hr. 55 min.
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The Women on the 6th Floor
Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natalia Verbeke, Carmen Maura, Lola Duenas
Director: Philippe Le Guay
Premise: [French, subtitled] In 1960s Paris, a conservative couple's lives are turned upside down by two Spanish maids.
MPAA: not rated
Run time: 1 hr. 44 min.
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The Big Year
Stars: Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Brian Dennehy, Anjelica Huston
Director: David Frankel
Premise: Three obsessive bird watchers go off on their "Big Year," duking it out to spot and record the highest number of species in 1998 –the year El Niño brought an unprecedented number of species to North America. During the course of their wild, ultra competitive adventure, the guys learn that there just may be other things more important than winning.
MPAA: PG (for for language and some sensuality)
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Footloose (2011)
Stars: Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Andie MacDowell, Dennis Quaid, Miles Teller
Director: Craig Brewer
Premise: Remake of the Kevin Bacon '80s flick in which a teen arrives in a small town that has outlawed loud music and dancing.
MPAA: PG-13 (for some teen drug and alcohol use, sexual content, violence and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 53 min.
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The Thing (2011)
Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Jonathan Walker (II), Eric Christian Olsen
Director: Matthijs Van Heijningen
Premise: A shape-shifting creature from outer space terrorizes a group of people in a remote facility.
MPAA: R for strong creature violence and gore, disturbing images, and language
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Chalet Girl
Stars: Ed Westwick, Felicity Jones, Sophia Bush, Tamsin Egerton, Bill Bailey, Brooke Shields, Bill Nighy
Director: Phil Traill
Premise: A working-class girl lands a job in a posh ski resort and discovers her natural snowboarding genius while dating the boss' son.
MPAA: not rated
Run time: 1 hr. 36 min.
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Father of Invention
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Craig Robinson, Heather Graham, Johnny Knoxville, Camilla Belle
Director: Trent Cooper
Premise: A humble inventor spends eight years in prison when one of his inventions goes awry. Upon release, he is determined to rebuild his reputation and fortune.
MPAA: PG-13 (for sexual material and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 34 min.
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Labios Rojos
Stars: Jorge Salinas, Silvia Navarro
Director: Rafa Lara
Premise: [Spanish, subtitled] A couple experiencing martial problems due to the husband's sexual dysfunction each resort to desperate and absurd measures to try to rekindle their romantic life.
MPAA: R (for strong sexual content, nudity and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 33 min.
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The Skin I Live In
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Premise: [Spanish, subtitled] A plastic surgeon takes revenge on his daughter's rapist by giving him a forced homemade sex change operation. The surgeon then falls in love with the "new woman."
MPAA: R (for disturbing violent content including sexual assault, strong sexuality, graphic nudity, drug use and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 57 min.
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Texas Killing Fields
Stars: Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke
Director: Ami Canaan Mann
Premise: In an area of coastal Texas replete with oil refineries known to locals as "The Fields," homicide detectives fight two sets of fierce killers to save the life of a street kid named Little Anne.
MPAA: R (for violence and language including some sexual references)
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Trespass
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Ben Mendelsohn, Cam Gigandet, Liana Liberato
Director: Joel Schumacher
Premise: When home invaders storm the manor of a wealthy businessman's family, everyone is tangled up in betrayal, deception, temptation and scheming. Husband, wife, and daughter will take the ultimate risk to make it out with their lives –and their family –intact.
MPAA: R (for violence and terror, pervasive language and some brief nudity)
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Paranormal Activity 3
Stars: Katie Featherston, Sprague Grayden, Mark Fredrichs, Lauren Bittner
Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Premise: The third installment of the franchise takes it back to 1988, when two young sisters encounter an invisible force haunting their home.
MPAA: R
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The Three Musketeers (2011)
Stars: Logan Lerman, Christoph Waltz, Milla Jovovich, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Mads Mikkelson, Orlando Bloom, Gabriella Wilde, Juno Temple
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Premise: The hot-headed young D'Artagnan joins forces with three rogue Musketeers. They must stop the evil Richlieu and face off with Buckingham and the treacherous Milady.
MPAA: PG-13 (for sequences of action adventure violence)
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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Stars: Kevin Clash, Elmo
Director: Constance Marks
Premise: Elmo is one of the most beloved characters among children and adults across the globe. Here, we meet the man behind the puppet – Kevin Clash, who once dreamed of working with Jim Henson and is now a key figure in the production of Sesame Street.
MPAA: not rated
Run time: 1 hr. 16 min.
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Margin Call
Stars: Zachary Quinto, Kevin Spacey, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Paul Bettany
Director: J.C. Chandor
Premise: Centers on the employees of an investment bank during a tumultuous 24-hour period during the 2008 financial collapse.
MPAA: R (for language)
Run time: 1 hr. 49 min.
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Martha Marcy May Marlene
Stars: Elizabeth Olsen, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, Maria Dizzia
Director: T. Sean Durkin
Premise: A damaged woman, haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, struggles to re-assimilate with her family after escaping an abusive cult.
MPAA: R (for disturbing violent and sexual content, nudity and language)
Run time: 1 hr. 50 min.
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Oranges and Sunshine
Stars: Hugo Weaving, Emily Watson, David Wenham,Tara Morice, Lorraine Ashbourne
Director: Jim Loach
Premise: The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals of recent times: the deportation of thousands of children from the United Kingdom to Australia.
MPAA: R
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Revenge of the Electric Car
Narrated by: Tim Robbins
Director: Chris Paine
Premise: Behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors, the race is on to develop the most economically accessible, electric car. Here, we follow the innovative business models engineered by CEOs and independent entrepreneurs looking to jump-start the electric car industry, getting us off our dependence on foreign oil, and to win over the hearts and minds of the public around the world.
MPAA: PG 13 (for brief strong language)
Run time: 1 hr. 30 min.
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Snowmen
Stars: Doug E. Doug, Christian Martyn, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Beverley Mitchell, Christopher Lloyd
Director: Rob Kirbyson
Premise: Three boys in a small town unite to try and set a Guinness World Record.
MPAA: PG (for thematic material, some rough bullying and peril, language and brief juvenile humor)
Run time: 1 hr. 26 min.
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Anonymous
Stars: Jamie Campbell Bower, Rhys Ifans, David Thewlis, Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Derek Jacobi, Xavier Samuel, Rafe Spall, Edward Hogg, Vicky Krieps
Director: Roland Emmerich
Premise: A political thriller about who actually wrote the plays of William Shakespeare-- Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford-- set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her.
MPAA: PG-13 (for some violence and sexual content)
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In Time
Stars: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried
Director: Andrew Niccol
Premise: In the near future, people are immortal because the aging gene has been deactivated. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency. The rich can live forever, and the rest have to negotiate for their immortality. When a young man comes into a fortune of time, he ends up on the run from a corrupt force known as "time keepers."
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Johnny English Reborn
Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Gillian Anderson, Dominic West, Rosamund Pike, Daniel Kaluuya
Director: Oliver Parker
Premise: Johnny English goes up against international assassins hunting down the Chinese premier.
MPAA: PG (for for mild action violence, rude humor, some language and brief sensuality)
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Puss in Boots
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris
Director: Chirs Miller
Premise: Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero when he sets off on an adventure with the tough and street smart Kitty Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his town..
MPAA: PG (for some adventure action and mild rude humor)
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The Rum Diary
Stars: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jenkins, Giovanni Ribisi
Director: Bruce Robinson
Premise: A love triangle takes place against the politically charged backdrop of Puerto Rico in the late 1950's between 3 Americans who relocated to the island for their own reasons: a journalist, a property developer, and his fiancee.
MPAA: R (for language, brief drug use and sexuality)
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Stars: Jason Statham, Sam Riley, 50 Cent, Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone
Director: Gela Babluani
Premise: A young man stumbles across instructions meant to be used by a dead gangster. His curiosity leads him to a clandestine world where men gamble behind closed doors with the lives of other men.
MPAA: R (for sequences of bloody violence, some disturbing images and brief nudity)
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And They're Off
Stars: Sean Astin, Cheri Oteri, Martin Mull, Mark Moses
Director: Rob Schiller
Premise: A losing thoroughbred horse trainer whose only chance to save his career and get back into the winner‟s circle is to hire his erratic ex-girlfriend / jockey, who is equally as desperate to get back into his circle.
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The Double
Stars: Richard Gere, Topher Grace, Stana Katic, Stephen Moyer, Martin Sheen, Odette Annable
Director: Richard Gere
Premise: A retired CIA operative is paired with a young FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator's murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin.
MPAA: PG-13 for for intense sequences of action and violence, some disturbing images and language
Run time: 1 hr. 38 min.
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Janie Jones
Stars: Abigail Breslin, Elisabeth Shue, Alessandro Nivola, Brittany Snow, Peter Stormare
Director: David M. Rosenthal
Premise: When her mother checks into rehab, 13-year old Janie is placed in the custody of her burned-out rock star father, Ethan, whom she has never met. With no instinct for fatherhood, Ethan's drug and booze-fueled antics on tour take their toll on and off stage as his band deserts him one by one. As Ethan's self-destructive spiral threatens to derail his career, Janie uses her own surprising musical talents to help guide him along the rocky road to redemption.
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Like Crazy
Stars: Anton Yelchin, Charles Bewley, Alex Kingston, Oliver Muirhead, Chris Messina
Director: Drake Doremus
Premise: Centers on a long-distance relationship between a young American man and a young British woman who meet while in college, but are separated after she overstays her visa.
MPAA: PG-13
Run time: 1 hr. 29 min.
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MOVIE PREVIEW: Early Superman and Batman pics |
Written by USTownhall staff
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Thursday, 04 August 2011 21:15 |
Some early pictures are starting to surface from the sets of the new Superman and Batman films. Take a look, and come back as we post more over the coming days...
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CHRISTIAN BALE in The Dark Knight Rises
[Photo Credit: Jason Winslow/Splash News]
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HENRY CAVILL IN Superman: The Man of Steel
[Photo Credit: Warner Bros.]
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Hottest Trailers! THE DARK NIGHT RISES & THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN |
Written by USTownhall.com staff
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011 21:11 |
See previews of this Fall and Winter's hottest movies right NOW!
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All My Children creator AGNES NIXON
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Bronx Opera's BEN SPIERMAN
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BOBBY FLAY & STEVE ELLS of America's Next Great Restaurant |
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Library of American Comics' BRUCE CANWELL |
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soapcentral.com founder DAN KROLL |
DAN PARENT of Archie Comics |
DAVID LYONS of The Cape |
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BOB DOWLING of the 3D Entertainment Summit |
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Oscar-winning actor JEREMY IRONS |
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Oscar-winning actress KATHY BATES of Harry's Law |
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KYLE BORNHEIMER & HAYES MacARTHUR of Perfect Couples |
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publisher DAN HERMAN of Hermes Press |
COUNTESS LuANN de LESSEPS of The Real Housewives of New York City |
author MAX ALLAN COLLINS of Road to Perdition |
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singer-actor NICK LACHEY |
supermodel NIKI TAYLOR talks The Celebrity Apprentice |
actor PAUL REISER of The Paul Reiser Show |
actor-producer RICKY GERVAIS of The Office |
actress-television host ROSIE O'DONNELL |
comic book writer STEVE NILES |
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THORE SCHÖLERMANN & JO WEIL of Verbotene Liebe |
Peabody & Emmy award winning journalist TOM BROKAW |
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