Archive for April, 2013

The Bridge

Sunday, April 28th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 135

Language:

Director:

Plot: In a world where relationships are disposable and family is taken for granted, we sometimes lose our way. God brings people into our lives and moves in unimaginable ways. When an unconventional meeting takes place on the bridge, faith is restored, hope is found, and lives are changed forever.

 

At Any Price

Friday, April 26th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 138

Language: English

Director: Ramin Bahrani

Plot: At Any Price movie trailer – starring Zac Efron, Heather Graham, Dennis Quaid, Clancy Brown, Kim Dickens, Maika Monroe. Directed by Ramin Bahrani. Theatrical Release Date: 4/26/2013
Genre: Drama
Rating: R

 

Filly Brown

Friday, April 26th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 151

Language:

Director: Youssef Delara

Plot: FILLY BROWN is an inspiring and gritty portrait of a young artist’s striving to find her voice and seize her dreams without compromise. Majo Tonorio, a.k.a. “Filly Brown,” is a raw, young Los Angeles hip-hop artist who spits rhymes from the heart. With an incarcerated mother, and a father struggling to provide for his daughters, a record contract could be the ticket out for her family. But when a record producer offers Majo a crack at stardom, she is suddenly faced with losing who she is as an artist and the friends who helped her reach the cusp of success. Directed by Youssef Delara and Michael Olmos, fused with a fierce hip-hop score, and propelled by an exceptional cast which features Lou Diamond Philips, Edward James Olmos, and the legendary Jenni Rivera in her final on-screen performance, FILLY BROWN heralds the arrival of Gina Rodriguez in the electrifying title role.

 

PAIN & GAIN

Friday, April 26th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 157

Language: English

Director: Michael Bay

Plot: Based on the unbelievable true story of three personal trainers in 1990s Miami who, in pursuit of the American Dream, get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly wrong.

 

Portrait of Jason

Friday, April 19th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 90

Language: English

Director: Shirley Clarke

Plot: PORTRAIT OF JASON is a film in which Jason Holliday is given the entire screen for an hour and 45 minutes, during which time he makes probably as candid a self-revelation as has been known in the history of motion pictures or literature. And yet, how much is true and how much is a performance? Shirley Clarke’s films were always exploring the border between cinema verité and fiction — and PORTRAIT OF JASON may well be her masterpiece.

 

The Happy House

Friday, April 19th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 101

Language:

Director: D.W. Young

Plot: Their relationship on the rocks, a young Brooklyn couple heads to a remote B&B to work things out. But from the moment they arrive at The Happy House it’s one disaster after another, and they soon begin to suspect they’ve wandered into a real life horror movie. Events escalate from weird to terrifying as they contend with the house’s batty owner, her imposing son, a moody Swedish lepidopterist, a pedantic English professor, an extraordinarily rare butterfly, the world’s best blueberry muffins, a .44 Magnum, a demented serial killer, and one very strict rulebook.

 

Home run

Friday, April 19th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 140

Language: English

Director: David Boyd

Plot: Freedom is Possible.

Baseball all-star Cory Brand knows what it takes to win in the big leagues. But off the field, with memories of his past haunting him, his life is spiraling out of control.

Hoping to save her client’s career and reputation after a DUI and a team suspension, Cory’s agent sends him back to the small town where he grew up. Forced to coach the local youth baseball team and spend eight weeks in the only recovery program in town, Cory can’t wait to return to his old life as quickly as possible.

As his young players help him experience the joy of the game, Cory discovers his need to find freedom from his past and hope for his future … and win back the love he left behind. With this unexpected second chance, Cory finds himself on a powerful journey of transformation and redemption.

Based on thousands of true stories, HOME RUN is a powerful reminder that with God, it’s never too late …freedom is possible.

 

Oblivion

Friday, April 19th, 2013

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 157

Language: English

Director: Joseph Kosinski

Plot: Tom Cruise stars in Oblivion, an original and groundbreaking cinematic event from the director of TRON: Legacy and the producer of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. On a spectacular future Earth that has evolved beyond recognition, one man’s confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind.

Jack Harper (Cruise) is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete.

Living in and patrolling the breathtaking skies from thousands of feet above, his soaring existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.

 

Trance

Friday, April 12th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 99

Language: English

Director: Danny Boyle

Plot: Simon (James McAvoy), a fine art auctioneer, teams up with a criminal gang to steal a Goya painting worth millions of dollars, but after suffering a blow to the head during the heist he awakens to discover he has no memory of where he hid the painting. When physical threats and torture fail to produce answers, the gang’s leader Frank (Vincent Cassel) hires hypnotherapist Elizabeth Lamb (Rosario Dawson) to delve into the darkest recesses of Simon’s psyche. As Elizabeth begins to unravel Simon’s broken subconscious, the lines between truth, suggestion, and deceit begin to blur.

 

Scary Movie V

Friday, April 12th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 132

Language: English

Director: Malcolm D. Lee

Plot: The latest installment of the SCARY MOVIE franchise includes send ups of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, MAMA, SINISTER, THE EVIL DEAD, INCEPTION, BLACK SWAN and pop culture featuring Ashley Tisdale, Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Snoop Dogg, Katt Williams, Molly Shannon, Terry Crews, Simon Rex, Jerry O’Connell, Sarah Hyland, Katrina Bowden, Tyler Posey, Shad Moss aka Bow Wow, Kate Walsh, Heather Locklear, Mac Miller and Mike Tyson.

 

Disconnect

Friday, April 12th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Henry Alex Rubin

Plot: A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can’t find the time to communicate with his family. A couple is drawn into a dangerous situation when their secrets are exposed online. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide in this riveting dramatic thriller about ordinary people struggling to connect in today’s wired world.

 

42

Friday, April 12th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 108

Language: English

Director: Brian Helgeland

Plot: The story of Jackie Robinson and his signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

 

Evil Dead

Friday, April 5th, 2013

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 127

Language: English

Director: Fede Alvarez

Plot: In the much anticipated remake of the 1981 cult-hit horror film, five twenty-something friends become holed up in a remote cabin. When they discover a Book of the Dead, they unwittingly summon up dormant demons living in the nearby woods, which possess the youngsters in succession until only one is left intact to fight for survival.

 

The Company You Keep

Friday, April 5th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 131

Language: English

Director: Robert Redford

Plot: An underground activist goes on the run after a journalist learns who he really is.

 

The Heat

Friday, April 5th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 129

Language: English

Director: Paul Feig

Plot: An uptight, star FBI agent (Sandra Bullock) and a tough Boston cop (Melissa McCarthy) team up to take down a drug lord but first have to overcome their mutual distrust and learn to work together.