Archive for April, 2012

The Three Stooges

Friday, April 13th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 109

Language: English

Director: Farrelly Brothers

Plot: Will Sasso, Sean Hayes and Chris Diamantopoulos bring The Boys back to the big screen with plenty of madcap slapstick action.

Moe, Larry and Curly are sent out into the world to try to save the orphanage where they grew up.

 

The Cabin in the Woods

Friday, April 13th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 145

Language: English

Director: Drew Goddard

Plot: If you think you know this story, think again. From fan favorites Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard comes THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, a mind blowing horror film that turns the genre inside out.

 

The Assault

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 119

Language:

Director: Julien Leclercq

Plot: When four heavily armed Islamic terrorists hijack a Paris-bound Air France flight on the runway, 227 innocent lives hang in the balance. Their only chance of rescue is the determined French GIGN’s (the elite counter-terrorism paramilitary unit of the French National Gendarmerie), called on to break the standoff and storm the plane.

 

Keyhole

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 173

Language: English

Director: Guy Maddin

Plot: After a long absence, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home to a house haunted with memories, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses, however, is focused on one thing: journeying through the house, room by room, and reaching his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) in her bedroom upstairs. The equilibrium of the house has been disturbed and his odyssey eventually becomes an emotional tour, as the strange nooks and crannies of the house reveal more about the mysterious Pick family.

 

American Reunion

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Jon Hurwitz

Plot: In the comedy American Reunion, all the American Pie characters we met a little more than a decade ago are returning to East Great Falls for their high-school reunion. In one long-overdue weekend, they will discover what has changed, who hasn’t and that time and distance can’t break the bonds of friendship. It was summer 1999 when four small-town Michigan boys began a quest to lose their virginity. In the years that have passed, Jim and Michelle married while Kevin and Vicky said goodbye. Oz and Heather grew apart, but Finch still longs for Stifler’s mom. Now these lifelong friends have come home as adults to reminisce about-and get inspired by-the hormonal teens who launched a comedy legend.

 

We The Party

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 142

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Director: Mario Van Peebles

Plot: A revealing look at contemporary youth culture, writer-director Mario Van Peebles’ WE THE PARTY shows teenagers as they are, not as adults would like them to be. Set amidst the latest trends in music, dance and fashion, WE THE PARTY is a colorful, cutting-edge comedy set in an ethnically diverse Los Angeles high school during America’s first black president. The film focuses on five friends as they deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, facebook, fitting in, standing out, and finding themselves. Evoking such classic teen comedies as The Breakfast Club and House Party but with an attitude and style all its own, WE THE PARTY captures the hopes, confusion, challenges and dreams of today’s teenagers as they plunge headlong into an uncertain future.

 

The Cold Light of Day

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 129

Language:

Director: Mabrouk El Mechri

Plot: Will Shaw (Henry Cavill) goes to Spain for a weeklong sailing vacation with his family but his whole world turns upside down when the family is kidnapped by intelligence agents hell-bent on recovering a mysterious briefcase and Will suddenly finds himself on the run.

 

Damsels in Distress

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 142

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Director: Whit Stillman

Plot: Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress is a comedy about a trio of beautiful girls as they set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university – the dynamic leader Violet Wister (Greta Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore). They welcome transfer student Lily (Analeigh Tipton) into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good hygiene and musical dance numbers. The girls become romantically entangled with a series of men-including smooth Charlie (Adam Brody), dreamboat Xavier (Hugo Becker) and the mad frat pack of Frank (Ryan Metcalf) and Thor (Billy Magnussen)-who threaten the girls’ friendship and sanity…

 

Bad Ass

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 50

Language:

Director: Craig Moss

Plot: Decorated Vietnam hero Frank Vega returns home only to get shunned by society leaving him without a job or his high school sweetheart. It’s not until forty years later when an incident on a commuter bus (where he protects an elderly black man from a pair of skin heads) makes him a local hero where he’s suddenly celebrated once again. But his good fortune suddenly turns for the worse when his best friend Klondike is murdered and the police aren’t doing anything about it.

 

Being Flynn

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 149

Language: English

Director: Paul Weitz

Plot: Academy Award-nominated writer-director Paul Weitz (ABOUT A BOY) turns his hand to this moving portrait of fathers and sons.

Based on a true story, BEING FLYNN follows Nick Flynn (Paul Dano of LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, THERE WILL BE BLOOD) who is shocked to have his eccentric and long-absent father, Jonathan (two-time Academy Award winner Robert De Niro) reach out to him unexpectedly. Still feeling the loss of his mother (played in flashbacks by four-time Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore) in the midst of starting a new relationship with Denise (JUNO’s Olivia Thirlby), 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.