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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 152

Language: English (International)

Director: Lasse Hallstrom

Plot: From the director of Chocolat and the Oscar-winning® screenwriter of Slumdog Millionaire comes the inspirational comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. When Britain’s leading fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a consultant (Emily Blunt) to help realize a sheikh’s (Amr Waked) vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert, he immediately thinks the project is both absurd and unachievable. But when the Prime Minister’s overzealous press secretary (Kristin Scott Thomas) latches on to it as a “good will” story, 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.

 

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The Trouble with the Truth

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 118

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Director: Jim Hemphill

Plot: Musician Robert (John Shea) is a perpetual starving artist with low overhead and minimal commitments. When Robert’s daughter announces that she’s engaged, he advises her against it – his own marriage to Emily (Lea Thompson) didn’t last, and he doesn’t understand why anyone would want to give up their independence. Yet when Robert and Emily reunite and dredge up old memories and hurts, both discover they have a lot of unresolved issues and that love, marriage and divorce aren’t quite as simple as they’d like. With Danielle Harris and Keri Lynn Pratt.

 

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TYLER PERRY’S GOOD DEEDS

Friday, February 24th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Tyler Perry

Plot: A successful, wealthy businessman, Wesley Deeds (Tyler Perry) has always done what’s expected of him, whether it’s assuming the helm of his father’s company, tolerating his brother’s misbehavior at the office or planning to marry his beautiful but restless fiancée, Natalie (Gabrielle Union). But Wesley is jolted out of his predictable routine when he meets Lindsey (Thandie Newton), a down-on-her-luck single mother who works as a cleaning person in his office building. Outspoken, impulsive and proud – and also recently evicted – Lindsey struggles to make ends meet for herself and her young daughter. But when Wesley offers to help her get back on her feet, his innocent good deed ignites an unexpected attraction – and suddenly Wesley finds himself caught between the life he thought he wanted and the powerful desires of his heart…

 

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Gone

Friday, February 24th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 144

Language: English

Director: Heitor Dhalia

Plot: In the new suspense thriller GONE, Jill Parrish (Amanda Seyfried) 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.

 

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Thin Ice

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 142

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Director: Jill Sprecher

Plot: THIN ICE (an Official Selection of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival) is a dark comedy about a small time insurance agent (Greg Kinnear) looking for a way to jump-start his business, reunite with his estranged wife (Lea Thompson) and escape the frigid Wisconsin weather. This self-proclaimed master of spin believes that salesmanship is all about selling a story – all he needs is a sucker willing to buy it. He hits pay dirt with a lonely retired farmer (Alan Arkin) who is sitting on something much bigger than an insurance commission. However, his attempt to con the old man spins out of control when a nosy, unstable locksmith’s (Billy Crudup) temper dramatically ups the stakes trapping him in a madcap spiral of deceit and peril.

 

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Michael

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 105

Language: German

Director: Markus Schleinzer

Plot: A drama focused on five months in the life of pedophile who keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in his basement.

 

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The Vow

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 116

Language: English

Director: Michael Sucsy

Plot: A newlywed couple recovers from a car accident that puts the wife in a coma. Waking up with severe memory loss, her husband endeavors to win her heart again.

 

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Rampart

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 136

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Director: Oren Moverman

Plot: Los Angeles, 1999 – Officer Dave Brown (Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing “the people’s dirty work” and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate. Brown internalizes his fear, anguish and paranoia as his world, complete with two ex-wives who are sisters, two daughters, an aging mentor dispensing bad advice, investigators galore, and a series of seemingly random women, starts making less and less sense. In the end, what is left is a human being stripped of all his pretense, machismo, chauvinism, arrogance, sexism, homophobia, racism, aggression, misanthropy; but is it enough to redeem him as a man?

 

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Perfect Sense

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 135

Language: English

Director: David Mackenzie

Plot: Susan (Green) is a scientist searching for answers to important questions. So important that she has given up on other things, including love – until she meets Michael (McGregor), a talented chef. Suddenly everything starts to change. While Susan and Michael are experiencing new and unforeseen depths of feeling, all around the world people are also beginning to feel strange – something is affecting the emotions.

Susan and Michael find themselves embarking on a sensual adventure, experiencing head-spinning, stomach-tightening moments of pure connection. Is this because they are falling in love or is it because the world is falling apart? A life-affirming look at what it means to love and be loved in these turbulent times.

 

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Declaration of war

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 95

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Director: Valérie Donzelli

Plot: The opening night film at this year’s Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival, this exuberant and deeply moving film follows a new couple, Romeo (Jérémie Elkaïm) and Juliette (Valérie Donzelli), who must face the ultimate test when they discover their newborn child is very ill. Gathering their friends and family together, they confront the ordeal together as a form of warfare. Donzelli infuses the story with unexpected verve using a host of cinematic techniques, music and heartbreaking performances that results in a film about a contemporary couple who surprises even themselves with their ability to fight not only for the life of their child but for each other. The result is a film will bring tears to your eyes but will dazzle you with its contagious vitality for life. DECLARATION OF WAR draws on the real life experiences of Donzelli and co-star/co-writer Elkaïm and what they went through when their own son fell ill.

 

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In Darkness

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 116

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Director: Agnieszka Holland

Plot: From acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland, In Darkness is based on a true story. Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland, one day encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha’s conscience. The film is also an extraordinary story of survival as these men, women and children all try to outwit certain death during 14 months of ever increasing and intense danger.

 

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Albert Nobbs

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Rodrigo Garcia

Plot: Five-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close stars in this emotional and thought-provoking tale of a woman forced to live as a man in 19th Century Ireland. After thirty years of keeping up the charade, a new love threatens to destroy everything she’s worked so hard to build.

 

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Stephen Daldry

Plot: Oskar (Thomas Horn) is convinced that his father (Tom Hanks), 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 (Sandra Bullock) 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.

 

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Newlyweds

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 126

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Director: Edward Burns

Plot: Buzzy (Edward Burns) and Katie (Caitlin FitzGerald) are a newly married couple living a seemingly conflict-free life. But when Buzzy’s damaged and impulsive half-sister Linda (Kerry Bishe) arrives at their doorstep expecting to stay for an indefinite period in their Tribeca loft, her antics threaten to disrupt the couple’s commitment to an “easy” marriage. Meanwhile, with Katie’s sister Marsha projecting suspicions of her own husband’s infidelity onto Buzzy, will the couple’s formerly trusting and insulated life be able to withstand the dysfunctions of their respective siblings?

 

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The Iron Lady

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 142

Language: English (International)

Director: Phyllida Lloyd

Plot: THE IRON LADY is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), 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.

 

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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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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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A Separation

Friday, December 30th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 123

Language: Persian

Director: Asghar Farhadi

Plot: Set in contemporary Iran, A SEPARATION is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents’ home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader.

When Nader hires a young woman to assist with his father in his wife’s absence, he hopes that his life will return to a normal state. However, when he discovers that the new maid has been lying to him, he realizes that there is more on the line than just his marriage.

 

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