Archive for July, 2013

SMASH & GRAB: THE STORY OF THE PINK PANTHERS

Wednesday, July 31st, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 110

Language: English (International)

Director: Havana Marking

Plot: Their crimes resemble high-octane Hollywood action movies: a sports car speeds through a Dubai shopping mall, crashing into the windows of a Graff jewelry store. Masked, gun-wielding men jump out of the car, and stuff fistfuls of diamonds into their satchels before screeching off. In London, they took all of three minutes to make off with $30 million in diamonds. They are captured – not in person, but on surveillance tapes that record their astonishing lightning strikes with hypnotic accuracy.

Playing out like a noir thriller spiced with cutting-edge animation and shocking real surveillance footage, Havana Marking’s Smash & Grab is an exclusive all-access pass into the mysterious world of international jewel thieves. Dubbed ‘The Pink Panthers,’ the formidable Balkan gang has stolen nearly a billion dollars worth of jewels from boutiques in the world’s most opulent cities, including Paris, London, Geneva, Dubai and Tokyo. Through never-before-seen interviews with key gang members, this provocative documentary delves into the gang’s incredible history and introduces the viewer to the global police forces who work furiously to stop them. Beyond the glitz of the Panthers’ incredible heists, Smash & Grab exposes dark truths about the illicit diamond trade and the world’s most ruthless mafia networks.

 

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The Smurfs 2

Wednesday, July 31st, 2013

Genre: Family

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 93

Language: English

Director:

Plot: The evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties that he hopes will let him harness the all-powerful, magical Smurf-essence. But when he discovers that only a real Smurf can give him what he wants — and only a secret spell that Smurfette knows can turn the Naughties into real Smurfs — Gargamel kidnaps Smurfette and brings her to Paris, where he has been winning the adoration of millions as the world’s greatest sorcerer. It’s up to Papa, Clumsy, Grouchy, and Vanity to return to our world, reunite with their human friends Patrick and Grace Winslow, and rescue her! Will Smurfette, who has always felt different from the other Smurfs, find a new connection with the Naughties Vexy and Hackus – or will the Smurfs convince her that their love for her is True Blue?

 

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The Servant

Friday, July 26th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 164

Language: English (International)

Director: Joseph Losey

Plot: Posh Tony (James Fox) hires the seemingly proper and very attentive Barrett (Dirk Bogarde) as his manservant. Soon Tony’s lady friend, Susan (Wendy Craig) disapproves of the ever unflappable Barrett, which causes a strain in the couple’s relationship. When Barrett’s “sister” Vera (Sarah Miles) arrives to stay, the situation descends into depravity, with the servant vying to become the new master of the house.

 

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The Wolverine

Friday, July 26th, 2013

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 116

Language: English

Director: James Mangold

Plot: Based on the celebrated comic book arc, THE WOLVERINE finds Logan, the eternal warrior and outsider, in Japan. There, samurai steel will clash with adamantium claw as Logan confronts a mysterious figure from his past in an epic battle that will leave him forever changed.

 

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Wasteland

Friday, July 26th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 93

Language: English (International)

Director: Rowan Athale

Plot: After being released from prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Harvey Miller (Attack The Block’s Luke Treadaway) has revenge on his mind. He recruits his three best friends to help him rob the local drug kingpin whose betrayal put him away in the first place. As the kingpin catches wind of the con, Harvey’s plan evolves into a suspenseful and exciting scheme full of surprising twists that will keep you guessing until the very end.

 

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The To Do List

Friday, July 26th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Maggie Carey

Plot: THE TO DO LIST follows the story of Brandy Klark (Plaza), a Type-A, overachiever who comes up with a “to-do list” featuring all the risqué extra-curricular activities she missed out on in high school and wants to complete before college.

 

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Apartment 1303 3D

Thursday, July 25th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 125

Language: English

Director: Michael Taverna

Plot: Having grown up under the controlling grip of her fame-hungry mother (Rebecca De Mornay), Janet Slate (Julianne Michelle) jumps at the opportunity to move into what looks to be a great high-rise apartment in downtown Detroit. Yet some deals are too good to be true as one night her boyfriend Mark (Corey Sevier) finds her in the middle of the street – having fallen from the balcony thirteen stories above.

When her sister Lara (Mischa Barton) tries to investigate the mystery of what happened, she moves into the same apartment and encounters the odd neighbors in the building, including an eerie nine-year old girl who seems to somehow know the real reason for Janet’s fall. Lara soon realizes that her sister’s death might spell the same fate for her unless she can overcome the strange events that are terrorizing the inhabitants in Apartment 1303.

Using innovative 3D shooting techniques, director Michael Taverna creates a tense supernatural thriller that is adapted from a novel by Kei Ôishi.

 

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Only God Forgives

Friday, July 19th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 112

Language: English

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

Plot: Julien (Gosling) is a drug kingpin tasked with avenging his brother’s death, but a mysterious, unhinged policeman is following his every move.

 

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Girl Most Likely

Friday, July 19th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Shari Springer Berman

Plot: Kristen Wiig stars as Imogene, a failed New York playwright awkwardly navigating the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year’s News. After both her career and relationship hit the skids, she’s forced to make the humiliating move back home to New Jersey with her eccentric mother and younger brother (Annette Bening and Christopher Fitzgerald). Adding further insult to injury, there’s a strange man sleeping in her old bedroom (Darren Criss) and an even stranger man sleeping in her mother’s bed (Matt Dillon). Through it all, Imogene eventually realizes that as part of her rebuilding process she must finally come to love and accept both her family and her Jersey roots if she’s ever going to be stable enough to get the hell away from them.

 

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The Conjuring

Friday, July 19th, 2013

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: James Wan

Plot: Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville.
Based on a true story, “The Conjuring” tells the horrifying tale of how world renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were called upon to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

 

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Turbo

Friday, July 19th, 2013

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 80

Language: English

Director: David Soren

Plot: Turbo tells the story of an ordinary garden snail with an impossible dream: to become the fastest snail in the world. When a freak accident gives him extraordinary speed, Turbo sets out to try to make this dream come true.

 

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Terms And Conditions May Apply

Friday, July 12th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 140

Language: English

Director: Cullen Hoback

Plot: Admit it: you don’t really read the endless terms and conditions connected to every website you visit, phone call you make or
app you download. But every day, billion-dollar corporations are learning more about your interests, your friends and family,
your finances, and your secrets… and are not only selling the information to the highest bidder, but freely sharing it with the
government.

And you agreed to all of it.

With fascinating examples and so-unbelievable-they’re-almost-funny facts, filmmaker Cullen Hoback exposes what
governments and corporations are legally taking from you every day – turning the future of both privacy and civil liberties
uncertain. From whistle blowers and investigative journalists to zombie fan clubs and Egyptian dissidents, this disquieting
exposé demonstrates how every one of us has incrementally opted-in to a real-time surveillance state, click by click- and what,
if anything, can be done about it.

 

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The Hot Flashes

Friday, July 12th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 115

Language: English

Director: Susan Seidelman

Plot: Hot Flashes is an unlikely group of middle-aged women who challenge the high school girls’ state basketball champs to raise money for a mobile breast cancer screening truck to continue its work. Sparks fly as the women go to comic extremes to prove themselves on and off the court, gaining a new lease on life.

 

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A Girl and A Gun

Friday, July 12th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 135

Language: English

Director: Catherine Czubek

Plot: A Girl And A Gun movie trailer – Directed by Catherine Czubek. Theatrical Release Date: 7/12/2013
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated

 

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Grown Ups 2

Friday, July 12th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 140

Language: English

Director: Dennis Dugan

Plot: The all-star comedy cast from Grown Ups returns (with some exciting new additions) for more summertime laughs. Lenny (Adam Sandler) has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises: the last day of school.

 

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Pacific Rim

Friday, July 12th, 2013

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: Guillermo Del Toro

Plot: When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes—a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)—who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

 

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Just Like A Woman

Friday, July 5th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 135

Language: English (International)

Director: Rachid Bouchareb

Plot: Mona, 26, an immigrant from North Africa, runs her in-laws’ mini market in Chicago. She’s married to Mourad, a man who can’t stand up to his authoritarian mother. Mona is harassed by her mother-in-law because after five years of marriage, she hasn’t be able to get pregnant, something that’s considered a shame and a taboo in her culture.

Marilyn, 29, is a receptionist at a computer repair company. Her marriage with Harvey is on the ropes. The only thing in her life that makes her happy is her belly dance class, a passion shared by Mona. Dancing at family gatherings lifts her spirits up and makes her forget the misery of her daily life. Marilyn shops at Mona’s mini-market. They’ve become friends.

One morning, Mona’s mother-in-law is found dead in her bed. Mona realizes that she mixed the wrong dose while preparing her medicine. Realizing that she might be accused of murder, Mona runs away and flees Chicago by bus.

Marilyn loses her job because of the recession. When she gets home, she finds out that her husband is cheating on her. With nothing left to lose, Mona decides to go to Santa Fe to enter a contest hoping to join a famous belly dance company.

Mona and Marilyn run into each other on a rest area on the side of a highway. They decide to continue the trip together. They cross the USA, pitching their tent in trailer parks and in the middle of the desert. They earn some cash belly-dancing together in restaurants and bars.

Back in Chicago, Mona is considered a fugitive she’s wanted for the murder of her mother-in-law. Harvey asks the police to look for Marilyn who disappeared without leaving a trace.

Will Marilyn succeed in joining the belly dance company? How long will Mona be able to keep her secret from Marilyn? And how long will she be able to escape the law?

 

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The Way, Way Back

Friday, July 5th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Nat Faxon

Plot: THE WAY, WAY BACK is the funny and poignant coming of age story of 14-year-old Duncan’s (Liam James) summer vacation with his mother, Pam (Toni Collette), her overbearing boyfriend, Trent (Steve Carell), and his daughter, Steph (Zoe Levin). Having a rough time fitting in, the introverted Duncan finds an unexpected friend in gregarious Owen (Sam Rockwell), manager of the Water Wizz water park. Through his funny, clandestine friendship with Owen, Duncan slowly opens up to and begins to finally find his place in the world – all during a summer he will never forget.

 

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The Lone Ranger

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

Genre: Western

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 97

Language: English

Director: Gore Verbinski

Plot: “The Lone Ranger” is a thrilling adventure infused with action and humor, in which the famed masked hero is brought to life through new eyes. Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice – taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption.

 

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Despicable Me 2

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 55

Language: English

Director: Pierre Coffin

Plot: Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s worldwide blockbuster, Despicable Me, delighted audiences around the globe in 2010, grossing more than $540 million and becoming the 10th-biggest animated motion picture in U.S. history. In Summer 2013, get ready for more minion madness in Despicable Me 2. Chris Meledandri and his acclaimed filmmaking team create an all-new comedy animated adventure featuring the return of Gru (Steve Carell), the girls, the unpredictably hilarious minions…and a host of new and outrageously funny characters.

 

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