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Cloud Atlas

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: Tom Tykwer

Plot: “Cloud Atlas” explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave dramatically through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Each member of the ensemble appears in multiple roles as the stories move through time.

 

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Chasing Mavericks

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: Michael Apted

Plot: CHASING MAVERICKS is the inspirational true story of real life surfing phenom Jay Moriarity (played by newcomer Jonny Weston). When 15 year old Jay discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, is not only real, but exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson (played by Gerard Butler) to train him to survive it. As Jay and Frosty embark on their quest to accomplish the impossible, they form a unique friendship that transforms both their lives, and their quest to tame Mavericks becomes about far more than surfing. Chasing Mavericks was made with the help of some of the biggest names in the surfing world, and features some of the most mind-blowing real wave footage ever captured on film.

 

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Silent Hill: Revelation 3D

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Michael J. Bassett

Plot: Heather Mason (Adelaide Clemens) and her father (Sean Bean) have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn’t fully understand. Now on the eve of her 18th birthday, plagued by horrific nightmares and the disappearance of her father, Heather discovers she’s not who she thinks she is. The revelation leads her deeper into a demonic world that threatens to trap her forever.

 

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LE FILS DE L’AUTRE

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 60

Language: French

Director: Lorraine Levy

Plot: “The Other Son” is the moving and provocative tale of two young men — one Israeli, the other Palestinian — who discover they were accidentally switched at birth, and the complex repercussions facing them and their respective families.

Joseph (Jules Sitruk), an 18-year-old musician preparing to join the Israeli army for his mandatory military service, lives at home in a comfortable suburb of Tel Aviv with his parents, France-born physician Orith (Emmanuelle Devos) and Israel-born army commander Alon Silbers (Pascal
Elbé). A blood test for Joseph’s military service reveals that he is not their biological son. During the Gulf War Joseph was evacuated from a clinic along with another baby, and the pair were given back to the wrong families. While Palestinian Joseph went to Tel Aviv with the Silbers, their actual Jewish son, Yacine (Medhi Dehbi), was brought to the West Bank by an Arab couple, Said (Khalifa Natour) and Leila (Areen Omari). The revelation turns the lives of the two families upside-down, forcing them to reassess their respective identities, values, and beliefs.

 

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The Big Wedding

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Justin Zackham

Plot: Don (De Niro) and Ellie (Keaton), a long divorced couple are forced to pretend that they are still happily married at their son’s wedding. Among all of their family and friends, the hoax snowballs into a poignant and raucously funny story about the ties that bind.

 

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Fun Size

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Josh Schwartz

Plot: A brainy teen loses her brother on Halloween and has one night to find him.

 

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The Sessions

Friday, October 19th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Ben Lewin

Plot: THE SESSIONS is based on the witty and touching autobiography of Mark O’Brien, a man confined to an iron lung for the majority of his life due to a child bout of polio. At the age of 38, Mark decides to fulfill one of his lifelong dreams – to lose his virginity. What follows is a truly unconventional journey, portrayed by Academy Award-nominee John Hawkes

 

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Paranormal Activity 4

Friday, October 19th, 2012

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 130

Language: English

Director: Henry Joost

Plot: The fourth installment in the popular horror franchise.

 

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War of the Buttons

Friday, October 19th, 2012

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 100

Language: French

Director: Christophe Barratier

Plot: Set in occupied WWII France, War of the Buttons tells the tale of pre-teen rebel Lebrac (newcomer Jean Texier) and the “war” he leads between two rival kid gangs from neighboring villages. Once Lebrac falls for Violette (Ilona Bachelier), a young Jewish girl who is new in town and in danger of being exposed by the Nazis, the children are faced with putting their own conflicts aside to protect her and confront the very real war happening around them.

 

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Alex Cross

Friday, October 19th, 2012

Genre: Crime

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Rob Cohen

Plot: Alex Cross follows the young homicide detective/psychologist (Tyler Perry), from the worldwide best-selling novels by James Patterson, as he meet his match in serial killer (Matthew Fox). The two face off in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, but when the mission gets personal, Cross is pushed to the endge of his moral and psychological limits in this taut and exciting action thriller.

 

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Sinister

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Genre: Crime

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Scott Derrickson

Plot: A true crime novelist (Ethan Hawke) struggling to find his next big story, moves his family into a house where the horrific murder of an entire family took place. But after finding a box of home videos in which other families are also brutally murdered, his investigation leads him to a supernatural entity that may be placing his own family in harm’s way.

 

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3,2,1 FRANKIE GO BOOM

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 142

Language: English

Director: Jordan Roberts

Plot: Frank Bartlett (Charlie Hunnam, SONS OF ANARCHY) has been tortured, embarrassed and humiliated by his brother Bruce (Chris O’Dowd, BRIDESMAIDS)–usually on film–his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off drugs and has turned his life around, things should be different. They are not.

 

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Smashed

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 84

Language: English

Director: James Ponsoldt

Plot: An alcoholic couple’s life changes when the wife tries to get sober.

 

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Nobody Walks

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 128

Language: English

Director: Ry Russo-Young

Plot: Martine, a 23-year-old artist from New York, arrives in Los Angeles to stay in the pool house of a family living in the hip and hilly community of Silver Lake. Peter, the father, has agreed to help Martine complete sound design on her art film as a favor to his wife. Martine innocently enters the seemingly idyllic life of this open-minded family with two kids and a relaxed Southern California vibe. Like a bolt of lightning, her arrival sparks a surge of energy that awakens suppressed impulses in everyone and forces them to confront their own fears and desires.

 

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Seven Psychopaths

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Martin McDonagh

Plot: Written and Directed by Oscar®-winner Martin McDonagh, the comedy Seven Psychopaths follows a struggling screenwriter (Colin Farrell) who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster’s (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu. Co-starring Abbie Cornish, Tom Waits, Olga Kurylenko and Zeljko Ivanek.

 

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Here Comes the Boom

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Frank Coraci

Plot: In the comedy Here Comes the Boom, former collegiate wrester Scott Voss (Kevin James) is a 42-year-old apathetic biology teacher in a failing high school. When cutbacks threaten to cancel the music program and lay off its teacher (Henry Winkler,) Scott begins to raise money by moonlighting as a mixed martial arts fighter. Everyone thinks Scott is crazy – most of all the school nurse, Bella (Salma Hayek) – but in his quest, Scott gains something he never expected as he becomes a sensation that rallies the entire school.

 

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The Gangster Squad

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Ruben Fleischer

Plot: Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and – if he has his way – every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop – except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart. “The Gangster Squad” is a colorful retelling of events surrounding the LAPD’s efforts to take back their nascent city from one of the most dangerous mafia bosses of all time.

 

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Argo

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Ben Affleck

Plot: Based on true events, “Argo” chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis – the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades. On November 4, 1979, as the Iranian revolution reaches its boiling point, militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage. But, in the midst of the chaos, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge in the home of the Canadian ambassador. Knowing it is only a matter of time before the six are found out and likely killed, a CIA “exfiltration” specialist named Tony Mendez (Affleck) comes up with a risky plan to get them safely out of the country. A plan so incredible, it could only happen in the movies.

 

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Bringing Up Bobby

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Genre: Family

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 147

Language: English

Director: Famke Janssen

Plot: In an effort to escape her murky past and build a better future, Olive (Milla Jovovich), a nomadic European con-artist, and her 10-year-old American-born son, Bobby(Spencer List), find themselves living in Oklahoma.

As her top priority, Olive seeks to give Bobby the things she never had: she enrolls him in school, makes him do his homework and tries her hardest to be a good mother, and with the help of an old friend from Oklahoma, Walt (Rory Cochrane), Olive “provides” for Bobby in the only way she knows how. But despite of her efforts (or perhaps because of them) Bobby displays troubling behavior both at his school and in their conservative neighborhood. Things take a turn for the worse after Bobby’s unfortunate “run-in” with the local and wealthy businessman Kent (Bill Pullman), and Olive’s criminal past finally catches up with her, forcing her to make the toughest judgment of all.

 

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Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare

Friday, October 5th, 2012

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Susan Fromke

Plot: Our healthcare system is broken. Potent forces fight to maintain the status quo in a medical industry created for quick fixes, rather than prevention; for profit-driven, rather than patient-driven, care. Healthcare is at the center of an intense political firestorm in our nation’s capitol. But the current battle over cost and access does not ultimately address the root of the problem: we have a disease-care system, not a healthcare one. After decades of opposition, a movement to introduce innovative high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and healing is finally gaining ground.

 

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