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Summer Holiday

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 87

Language: English

Director: Radu Muntean

Plot: From acclaimed Romanian director Radu Muntean (Tuesday, After Christmas), Summer Holiday is a funny and bittersweet drama of male mid-life crisis and personal discovery.

During a blissful seaside vacation with his adorable, pregnant wife (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days’ Anamaria Marinca) and young son, 30-something Bogdan aka “Boogie” (Police, Adjective’s Dragos Bucur) bumps into his best friends from high school. They soon fall into wistful reminisces about their “glory days” of drinking binges and outrageous sexual escapades. Frustrated with his job and the constraints of family life, Boogie decides to indulge in one more wild night of boozing and chasing women with his old pals. But soon he realizes that his freewheeling bachelor buddies are, ironically, more trapped than he is—and that a life of marriage, parenthood and responsibility might just be the best fate of all.

 

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The Devil Inside

Friday, January 6th, 2012

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 152

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Director: William Brent Bell

Plot: In 1989, emergency responders received a 9-1-1 call from Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) confessing that she had brutally killed three people. 20 years later, her daughter Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) seeks to understand the truth about what happened that night. She travels to the Centrino Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Italy where her mother has been locked away to determine if her mother is mentally ill or demonically possessed. When she recruits two young exorcists (Simon Quarterman and Evan Helmuth) to cure her mom using unconventional methods combining both science and religion, they come face-to-face with pure evil in the form of four powerful demons possessing Maria.

Many have been possessed by one; only one has been possessed by many.

 

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Beneath the Darkness

Friday, January 6th, 2012

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 112

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Director: Martin Guigui

Plot: Ely Vaughn (Quaid) is a pillar of the community in tiny Smithville, Texas. The town’s mortician, Ely has been revered since his days as the high school’s star quarterback. But since the tragic death of his wife two years earlier, Ely has withdrawn from his neighbors, while local teens spread stories of supernatural goings on at Ely’s mansion – which is also the funeral home. When high school friends Travis (Oller), Abby (Teegarden), Brian (Lunsford) and Danny (Werkheiser) decide to check out the rumors, they are shocked to see the supposedly grieving widower dancing with a mysterious woman behind the curtains of his bedroom window. Their curiosity aroused, the four teens wait for Ely to leave the house before breaking in to investigate. But instead of finding clues to the woman’s identity, they stumble on a grotesque, long-hidden secret. The sadistic mortician next door will now stop at nothing to literally bury his past.

 

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Norwegian Wood

Friday, January 6th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 108

Language: Japanese

Director: Anh Hung Tran

Plot: NORWEGIAN WOOD is a moving story of loss and sexuality set in Tokyo in the late 1960s against a time of global instability. Watanabe (Japanese rising star Kenichi Matsuyama, Death Note, Detroit Metal City) looks back on his days as a freshman university student living in Tokyo. Through his reminiscences, we see him develop relationships with two very different women, the beautiful yet emotionally troubled Naoko (Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi, Babel), and the outgoing, lively Midori (Japanese-Korean model-actress Kiko Mizuhara.) The film’s gorgeous cinematography is by Mark Lee Ping Bin (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, DEVILS ON THE DOORSTEP). Originally published in 1987, Murakami’s novel has since been translated into 33 languages and published in 36 countries. Vietnam-born and Paris-based writer-director Tran Anh Hung was nominated for an Academy Award for THE SCENT OF THE GREEN PAPAYA and won a Golden Lion in the Venice Film Festival for CYCLO. NORWEGIAN WOOD is his fifth feature.

 

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Roadie

Friday, January 6th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 132

Language: English

Director: Michael Cuesta

Plot: A prodigal son with a beer gut and a classic rock pedigree, Eldard’s Jimmy Testagrossa has been touring with classic rock/art metal band Blue Oyster Cult since the 80s. “Aayyy, Jimmy Testicles!!” amped-up Bobby (Cannavale), who’s now married to aspiring singer-songwriter Nikki (Hennessy), will shout more than once, with varying degrees of love, menace and rage. Nikki will break Jimmy’s heart – and ours – with her voice, because she’s really pretty good. And Jimmy – well, Jimmy will explode.

 

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Albatross

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 112

Language: English (International)

Director: Niall MacCormick

Plot: ALBATROSS is the story of Emelia Conan-Doyle (Jessica Brown Findlay, Downton Abbey), a cheeky force of nature and the 17 year old heir to the legacy of Arthur Conan Doyle. Harboring an ambition to follow in the literary footsteps of her grandfather, Emelia writes while working at a stuffy seaside hotel populated by another blocked novelist Jonathan (Sebastian Koch), his put-upon wife (Julia Ormond) and their daughter Beth (Felicity Jones, LIKE CRAZY).

nstigating a whirlwind of change, Emilia first befriends and emancipates the bookish daughter Beth (Jones), alarms her career frustrated mother (Ormond), before bewitching Jonathan himself.

 

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