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THE LEGEND OF HELL’S GATE

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Genre: Western

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 113

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Director: Tanner Beard

Plot: In 1870s Texas, a ruthless bounty hunter and an Irish desperado flee the law with a young criminal claiming to possess a treasure more valuable than gold. Crossing paths with some of the West’s most notorious figures, the three outlaws fight for their lives in the pursuit of fame and fortune. Fueled by an ensemble cast and inspired by actual events, THE LEGEND OF HELL’S GATE blends legend and history into a Western spectacle that recounts a treacherous existence in post Civil War Texas

 

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Goon

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 142

Language: English

Director: Michael Dowse

Plot: Labelled an outcast by his brainy family, a bouncer overcomes long odds to lead a team of under performing misfits to semi-pro hockey glory, beating the crap out of everything that stands in his way.

 

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Intruders

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 89

Language: English

Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Plot: Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow (Clive Owen) after Farrow’s beloved 13-year-old daughter Mia (Ella Purnell) is assaulted in their home. The line between the real and the imaginary blurs as fissures start to open within the family unit. It seems that no security measure can keep Hollow Face out.

 

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Wrath of the Titans

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 125

Language: English

Director: Jonathan Liebesman

Plot: A decade after his heroic defeat of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus (Worthington) -the demigod son of Zeus (Neeson)-is attempting to live a quieter life as a village fisherman and the sole parent to his 10-year old son, Helius.

Meanwhile, a struggle for supremacy rages between the gods and the Titans. Dangerously weakened by humanity’s lack of devotion, the gods are losing control of the imprisoned Titans and their ferocious leader, Kronos, father of the long-ruling brothers Zeus, Hades (Fiennes) and Poseidon (Danny Huston). The triumvirate had overthrown their powerful father long ago, leaving him to rot in the gloomy abyss of Tartarus, a dungeon that lies deep within the cavernous underworld.

Perseus cannot ignore his true calling when Hades, along with Zeus’ godly son, Ares (Edgar Ramírez), switch loyalties and make a deal with Kronos to capture Zeus. The Titans’ strength grows stronger as Zeus’ remaining godly powers are siphoned, and hell is unleashed on earth.

Enlisting the help of the warrior Queen Andromeda (Rosamund Pike), Poseidon’s demigod son, Argenor (Toby Kebbell), and fallen god Hephaestus (Bill Nighy), Perseus bravely embarks on a treacherous quest into the underworld to rescue Zeus, overthrow the Titans and save mankind.

 

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Pirates! Band of Misfits

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 120

Language: English

Director: Peter Lord

Plot: Hugh Grant stars in his first animated role as an excited but unsuccessful pirate captain. Along with his rag tag crew he’s out to win the coveted Pirate of the Year Award.

 

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The Island President

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 139

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Director: Jon Shenk

Plot: Jon Shenk’s The Island President tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced–the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable. The Island President captures Nasheed’s first year of office, culminating in his trip to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, where the film provides a rare glimpse of the political horse-trading that goes on at such a top-level global assembly. Nasheed is unusually candid about revealing his strategies–leveraging the Maldives’ underdog position as a tiny country, harnessing the power of media, and overcoming deadlocks through an appeal to unity with other developing nations. When hope fades for a written accord to be signed, Nasheed makes a stirring speech which salvages an agreement. Despite the modest size of his country, Mohamed Nasheed has become one of the leading international voices for urgent action on climate change.

 

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4:44 Last Day on Earth

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 133

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Director: Abel Ferrara

Plot: How would we spend our final hours on Earth? And what does how we choose to die say about how we have chosen to live? In the inimitable Abel Ferrara’s (GO GO TALES, KING OF NEW YORK) new film, this thought experiment takes on a visceral immediacy. With the planet on the verge of extinction, a New York couple, (Oscar-nominated Willem Dafoe and Shanyn Leigh), cycles through moments of anxiety, ecstacy and torpor. As they sink into the havens of sex and art, and Skype last goodbyes in a Lower East Side apartment filled with screens bearing tidings of doom and salvation, 4:44: LAST DAYS ON EARTH becomes one of Ferrara’s most potent and intimate expressions of spiritual crisis. The first fiction feature of Ferrara’s to be filmed entirely in New York in over a decade, 4:44 is a mournful valentine to his beloved city.

 

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Brake

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 119

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Director: Gabe Torries

Plot: Secret Service Agent Jeremy Reins (Stephen Dorff) is about to have a very bad day. He wakes up trapped in the dark, cramped trunk of a moving car with no recollection of how or why he’s there. The only light comes from the blood-red digital numbers ticking away above his head that signify one thing – he’s running out of time.

As the captors reveal themselves and their motives while torturing their hostage mentally and physically, Jeremy realizes he is a pawn in their potentially catastrophic plot. He will not be set free until he gives up information about the President he’s been trained not to reveal.

 

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October Baby

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 95

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Director: Andrew Erwin

Plot: As the curtain rises, Hannah hesitantly steps onto the stage for her theatrical debut in college. Yet before her first lines, she collapses. Countless medical tests all point to one underlying factor: Hannah’s difficult birth. This revelation is nothing compared to discovering that she was actually adopted . . . after a failed abortion attempt.

Bewildered, angered and confused, Hannah embarks on a journey with Jason, her oldest friend. In the midst of her incredible journey to discover her hidden past and find hope for her unknown future, Hannah sees that life can be so much more than what you have planned.

 

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A Thousand Words

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 97

Language: English

Director: Brian Robbins

Plot: Fast-talking agent JACK’s (Eddie Murphy) insincere patter is his chief weapon, but it irritates his assistant AARON (Clark Duke), threatens his marriage to CAROLINE (Kerry Washington) and gets him into trouble repping guru/author DR. SINJA (Cliff Curtis). Jack suffers karmic repercussions from Sinja’s magical Bodhi tree, which sheds one leaf for each word Jack speaks. After one thousand words, Jack will die.

 

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The Hunger Games

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 65

Language: English

Director: Gary Ross

Plot: A dystopic Capitol requires its twelve subjugated districts to pay tribute in the form of a teenage boy and girl who are forced to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. When Katniss Everdeen’s little sister is chosen in the lottery, Katniss volunteers to take her place. Although persevering through hardship is commonplace for Katniss, she must start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love in order to win the games and return home.

 

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21 Jump Street

Friday, March 16th, 2012

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Phil Lord

Plot: A group of young looking undercover police officers infiltrate high school to control crime.

 

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The Kid with a Bike

Friday, March 16th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 140

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Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Plot: Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, the deeply moving new film by the Dardenne brothers (L’enfant, Rosetta) delves into the emotional life of troubled 11-year-old Cyril (newcomer Thomas Doret). When his father (Jérémie Renier) abandons him, Cyril obsessively tries to find his bicycle – after all, his father must have cared about him enough not to sell that off, he reasons. Almost by accident, he becomes the ward of a kind hairdresser (Cécile de France), a woman who seems surprised to find herself so determined to help him. With his wild, unpredictable behavior and his disastrous search for father figures, Cyril risks losing her – though she refuses to give up without a fight. Full of heartbreaking betrayals and unexpected grace, THE KID WITH A BIKE is a film about a child, abandoned to the elements, learning to become good.

 

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Casa De Mi Padre

Friday, March 16th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 33

Language: English

Director: Matt Piedmont

Plot: Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) has lived and worked on his father’s ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch encounters financial difficulties, Armando’s younger brother Raul (Diego Luna) shows up with his new fiancée, Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez). It seems that Raul’s success as an international businessman means the ranch’s troubles are over as he pledges to settle all debts his father has incurred. But when Armando falls for Sonia, and Raul’s business dealings turn out to be less than legit, all hell breaks loose as they find themselves in a war with Mexico’s most feared drug lord, the mighty Onza (Gael Garcia Bernal).

 

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Mirror Mirror

Friday, March 16th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 147

Language: English

Director: Tarsem Singh

Plot: Snow White, a retelling of one of the most beloved fables of all-time, will eschew the traditional story in favor of a more modern tale full of comedy and adventure. After her evil stepmother kills her father and destroys the kingdom, Snow White bands together with a gang of seven quarrelsome dwarfs to reclaim what is rightly hers.

 

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The Decoy Bride

Friday, March 9th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 132

Language: English

Director: Sheree Folkson

Plot: The Decoy Bride movie trailer – starring Kelly MacDonald, David Tennant, Alice Eve, Federico Castelluccio, Gil Kolirin. Directed by Sheree Folkson. Theatrical Release Date: 3/9/2012
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Not Rated

 

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Bending the Rules

Friday, March 9th, 2012

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 102

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Director: Artie Mandelberg

Plot: Detective Nick Blades (WWE Superstar Edge) is a New Orleans cop on trial for corruption. Assistant District Attorney Theo Gold (Jamie Kennedy, Ghost Whisperer) is the man in charge of putting him behind bars. When these two unlikely partners from opposite sides of the law stumble onto a criminal plot, they’ll need to rely on luck – and patience – to take down a dangerous killer without killing each other first. Alicia Witt (88 Minutes), Jennifer Esposito (Crash) and Jessica Walter (Arrested Development) co-star in a story that proves that when the going gets tough, it’s time to start BENDING THE RULES.

 

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Good for Nothing

Friday, March 9th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 120

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Director: Michael Wallis

Plot: GOOD FOR NOTHING is an adventurous romp set in the sweeping Old West from Mike Wallis in his directorial debut.

Inspired by the Spaghetti Westerns and celebrating the Western genre with an interesting twist, the film follows an odd romance and the resulting emotional confusion of an outlaw who reluctantly develops strong feelings for a woman he has kidnapped. Yet when the outlaw (Cohen Holloway) tries to force himself on the young and beautiful Isabella Montgomery (Inge Rademeyer), he finds himself unable to ‘get it up’ due to a surprising bout of performance anxiety.

Unable to understand the reason for his erectile dysfunction, the outlaw goes on a quest to find a solution for his problem with the kidnapped Isabella in tow. He tries various means to cure his ailment – including tracking down fancy doctors and sage medicine men – all in an attempt to fix his problem and finally having his way with Isabella. But 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 to the outlaw. Adventure, drama and humor ensue when this unlikely duo are forced to help each other to survive in this unique film, which is the first classic Western feature made in New Zealand.

 

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Footnote

Friday, March 9th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 121

Language: Hebrew

Director: Joseph Cedar

Plot: FOOTNOTE is the tale of a great rivalry between a father and son. Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are both eccentric professors, who have dedicated their lives to their work in Talmudic Studies. The father, Eliezer, is a stubborn purist who fears the establishment and has never been recognized for his work. While his son, Uriel, 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 Eliezer learns that he is to be awarded the Israel Prize, the most valuable honor for scholarship in the country, his vanity and desperate need for validation are exposed. His son Uriel, meanwhile, 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?

FOOTNOTE is the story of insane academic competition, the dichotomy betweenadmiration and envy for a role model, and the very complicated relationship between a father and son.

 

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I Kissed A Vampire

Friday, March 9th, 2012

Genre: Musical

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 105

Language: English

Director: Chris Nolan

Plot: Haunted by bizarre dreams about Goth rocker Trey Sylvania (DREW SEELEY), and experiencing a growing lust for blood, Dylan (LUCAS GRABEEL), a not-so-average teenager finds himself transforming into a vampire! It all started when he was bitten by a voracious fanged exchange student, and it’s a process he is desperate to stop – but how? His demented dentist can’t do anything about Dylan’s aching teeth and emerging fangs, and the anti-bloodsucking pills he gets from his para-psychologist just give him a rash. Dylan is terrified and he doesn’t know what to do – especially about his beautiful girlfriend Sara (ADRIAN SLADE).

 

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