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Last Love

Friday, November 1st, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 143

Language: English

Director: Sandra Nettelbeck

Plot: Two-time Oscar®-winner Michael Caine stars with Clémence Poésy, Justin Kirk and Gillian Anderson in this richly nuanced, emotion-charged story of lost souls, new-found hope and Last Love. Matthew Morgan (Caine) is a widowed, world-weary professor living in Paris. The cynical Matthew sees no meaningful future for himself – until he meets Pauline (Poésy), a free-spirited young dance instructor. The unlikely bond they form ultimately leads them to rediscover the joy that only family and true friendship can offer.

 

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The Pin

Friday, October 25th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 127

Language: French

Director: Naomi Jaye

Plot: Two young people find love while in hiding during WWII. The boy, now an old man, works as a Shomer, a religious watchman responsible for guarding the souls of the dead before their burial. One night he comes face-to-face with his long lost love when her dead body is wheeled into the morgue where he works. As he is presented with a final chance at redemption, he recalls the brief but intense circumstances of their love affair.

 

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SEASONS OF GRAY: A Modern Day Joseph Story

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 138

Language: English

Director: Paul Stehlik Jr.

Plot: Brady Gray was always the favorite son. Overcome by jealousy, his brothers resort to an unforgivable crime to drive him away from their father’s ranch. Brutally beaten and hauled away to an uncertain destiny, Brady chooses to forget the past and start anew. Yet his troubles are just beginning. Falsely accused of assaulting his new boss’s wife, he ends up in prison. Daring to believe there may be some purpose in his suffering, he’s given a change to turn his life around. At long last, success brings him the opportunity to decide the fates of the men who wronged him. But what man intends for evil, God intends for good. This simple, yet powerful, message is all he has left. Brady must now decide whether acts of cruelty or the hand of providence will mark the seasons of his life.

 

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2 Jacks

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 119

Language: English

Director: Bernard Rose

Plot: 2 Jacks is a fast-paced, glamorous and romantic vision of Hollywood now and then. Legendary film director Jack Hussar, notorious gambler and womanizer, returns to LA to raise financing for his next film.

In a whirlwind night on the town, Jack seduces the stunning Diana, hits some wild industry parties, narrowly escapes a brush with the law, before playing a high-stakes poker game at dawn.

Years later, Jack Hussar Jr. arrives in Hollywood for his directorial debut, and an older Diana finds her daughter falling for her former lover’s son.

 

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Toad Road

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 60

Language: English

Director: Jason Banker

Plot: A different kind of American independent horror film, TOAD ROAD – presented here by Elijah Wood and his genre-themed production company The Woodshed – is a hallucinatory and hypnotic odyssey through mutating realities, drug use, urban legends, and nightmares. Imagine a fusion between the sexually candid naturalism of Larry Clark or Harmony Korine, and the backwoods creep-out of The Blair Witch Project, and you’d be halfway there.

 

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The Fifth Estate

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Bill Condon

Plot: Following Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Brühl), an early supporter and eventual colleague of Julian Assange (Cumberbatch), “The Fifth Estate” traces the heady, early days of WikiLeaks, culminating in the release of a series of controversial and history changing information leaks. The website’s overnight success brought instant fame to its principal architects and transformed the flow of information to news media and the world at large.

 

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The Butler

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Lee Daniels

Plot: THE BUTLER tells the story of a White House butler who served eight American presidents over three decades. The film traces the dramatic changes that swept American society during this time, from the civil rights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and how those changes affected this man’s life and family. Forest Whitaker stars as the butler with Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower, John Cusack as Richard Nixon, Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan, James Marsden as John F. Kennedy, Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson, and many more.

 

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Beyond The Farthest Star

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 165

Language: English

Director: Andrew Librizzi

Plot: A twist of fate brings the national spotlight to a forgotten Texas town and a once famous preacher has an opportunity to regain his former glory or seize one last chance to restore his fractured family. Narrated by his fifteen-year-old daughter, we watch as Adam Wells, a minister driven by the prospect of achieving greatness as the next nationally-syndicated TV Evangelist lays down his opportunity at “celebrity” and even his own life in order to become something even greater… A loving husband and father to his wife and daughter.

 

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ROMEO & JULIET

Friday, October 11th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 156

Language: English

Director: Carlo Carlei

Plot: Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare’s epic and searing tale of love is revitalized on screen by writer Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey) and director Carlo Carlei (The Flight of the Innocent). An ageless story from the world’s most renowned author is reimagined for the 21st Century. This adaptation is told in the lush traditional setting it was written, but gives a new generation the chance to fall in love with the enduring legend. With an all-star cast including Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth, Paul Giamatti and Stellan Skarsgard, it affords those unfamiliar with the tale the chance to put faces to the two names they’ve undoubtedly heard innumerable times: Romeo and Juliet. Every generation deserves to discover this lasting love.

 

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The Saratov Approach

Wednesday, October 9th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 146

Language: English

Director: Garrett Batty

Plot: Inspired by actual events, THE SARATOV APPROACH is the extraordinary, untold story of Elders Travis Tuttle and Andrew Propst and their week-long abduction in Saratov, Russia. On what seemed like any other day during their two-year LDS missions, Elders Travis Tuttle (Corbin Allred) and Andrew Propst (Maclain Nelson) are approached by Nikolai (Nikita Bogolyubov) to meet a friend. But then the missionaries experience the unimaginable — kidnapped, beaten, and held for ransom for nearly a week — on the other side of the world in Saratov, Russia. While their family, friends and the world pray for their safe return, Tuttle and Propst are tested physically, emotionally and most of all — spiritually.

But in abducting the missionaries, Nikolai unwittingly sets in motion a course of events that draws him and them closer to each other and to God in ways never expected. Through the harrowing experience they each discover the universal truth that there is a greater plan, a different way, a different approach to life – “The Saratov Approach.”

 

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The Dirties

Friday, October 4th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 114

Language: English

Director: Matt Johnson

Plot: Matt and Owen are best friends who live in a world of endless movie references and hijinks. It would be perfect, if not for the cruel bullies at their high school who make their lives hell. While working on a movie for class, the lines between fiction and reality blur together in this horrifying look at high school bullying.

 

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Grace Unplugged

Friday, October 4th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Brad J. Silverman

Plot: GRACE UNPLUGGED is an inspirational movie starring Amanda “AJ” Michalka as 18-year-old Christian singer/songwriter, Grace Rose Trey. Beautiful, highly talented and restless, Grace is undiscovered outside church, where she performs each Sunday with her gifted father, Johnny. A former rock star, Johnny Trey charted a Billboard number one single 20 years ago. When the hits stopped coming, he crash-landed hard before finding Christ and starting a new life for his family, far from the Hollywood Hills. One day without warning, Grace leaves for Los Angeles. She has landed a record deal with the help of Johnny’s ruthless former manager and producer, “Mossy” Mostin. Mossy sees in Grace a potential pop superstar. Cutting off contact with her parents, Grace seems prepared to walk away from her Christian faith and music to achieve her long-suppressed fantasy of Hollywood superstardom. Will the experience cause her to reject her faith, or rediscover it?

 

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Parkland

Friday, October 4th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 147

Language: English

Director: Peter Landesman

Plot: PARKLAND weaves together the perspectives of a handful of ordinary individuals suddenly thrust into extraordinary circumstances: the young doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital Dallas’ chief of the Secret Service an unwitting cameraman who captured what became the most watched and examined film in history the FBI agents who nearly had the gunman within their grasp the brother of Lee Harvey Oswald, left to deal with his shattered family and JFK’s security team, witnesses to both the president’s death and Vice President Lyndon Johnson’s rise to power over a nation whose innocence was forever altered.

 

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Runner, Runner

Friday, October 4th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Brad Furman

Plot: Richie (Justin Timberlake), a Princeton college student who pays for school with online gambling, bottoms out and travels to Costa Rica to confront the mastermind, Ivan (Ben Affleck), whom he believes has swindled him.
Ivan sees a kindred spirit in Richie and brings the younger man into his operation. When Richie comes to fully understand the deviousness of his new boss, he tries to turn the tables on him.

 

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Metallica Through The Never

Friday, October 4th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 117

Language: English

Director: Nimrod Antal

Plot: Metallica Through The Never combines an action-filled narrative, dazzling pyrotechnics, the most elaborate indoor performance stage ever built and imagery drawn from the band’s trailblazing iconography. The story follows a young roadie (Dane DeHaan) through a terrifying post-apocalyptic urban streetscape as Metallica delivers a roaring live set created exclusively for the film that mirrors the destruction and chaos of his journey.

 

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My Last Day Without You

Friday, October 4th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 129

Language: English

Director: Stefan Schaefer

Plot: The film follows a German business executive on a one-day trip to New York where he falls in love with a singer-songwriter. She exposes him to her Brooklyn world and emotions he has never experienced before.

 

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I Used to Be Darker

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 89

Language: English

Director: Matthew Porterfield

Plot: When Taryn (Deragh Campbell), a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, MD, she seeks refuge in Baltimore with her aunt and uncle, Kim and Bill (Ned Oldham and Kim Taylor) who are having problems of their own: they’re trying to dissolve their marriage gracefully for the sake of their daughter Abby (Hannah Gross), just home from her first year of college. A story of family revelations, people finding each other, letting go, looking for love where they’ve found it before and, figuring out where they might find it next.

 

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As I Lay Dying

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 81

Language: English

Director: James Franco

Plot: As I Lay Dying is adapted from the 1930 classic
American novel by William Faulkner. The story chronicles the Bundren family as
they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the body of their deceased
mother Addie to her hometown for burial. Addie’s husband Anse and their
children, Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and the youngest one Vardaman, leave
the farm on a carriage with her coffin – each affected by Addie’s death in a
profound and different way. Their road trip to Jefferson, some forty miles away, is
disrupted by every antagonistic force of nature or man: flooded rivers, injury and
accident, a raging barn fire, and not least of all — each individual character’s
personal turmoil and inner commotion which at times threaten the fabric of the
family more than any outside force.

 

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Alone Yet Not Alone

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Ray Bengston

Plot: ALONE YET NOT ALONE tells the inspiring true story of Barbara and Regina Leininger and their journey of faith and survival during the French & Indian war in 1755. Captured by the Delaware Indians in a raid on their home and transported over 300 miles of wilderness to Ohio, the sisters are sustained only by their abiding trust in God, and their hope of escape against all odds to be reunited with their family.

 

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Prisoners

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Plot: How far would you go to protect your child? Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) arrests its driver, Alex Jones (Paul Dano), but a lack of evidence forces the only suspect’s release. Knowing his child’s life is at stake, the frantic Dover decides he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands. The desperate father will do whatever it takes to find the girls, but in doing so, he may lose himself, begging the question: When do you cross the line between seeking justice and becoming a vigilante?

 

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