Archive for September, 2013

BloodLine

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 124

Language: English

Director: Matt Thompson

Plot: Seminary student Brett Ethos, (Matt Thompson) falls away from the church and his faith only to find out that his bloodline is sought after by a real evil. On a trip with friends and an old flame, he goes to explore a cabin left to him by the will of his family. There he discovers his true heritage. Temptation or redemption become his ultimatum. His friend’s lives and his own hang in the balance.

 

I Used to Be Darker

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 89

Language: English

Director: Matthew Porterfield

Plot: When Taryn (Deragh Campbell), a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, MD, she seeks refuge in Baltimore with her aunt and uncle, Kim and Bill (Ned Oldham and Kim Taylor) who are having problems of their own: they’re trying to dissolve their marriage gracefully for the sake of their daughter Abby (Hannah Gross), just home from her first year of college. A story of family revelations, people finding each other, letting go, looking for love where they’ve found it before and, figuring out where they might find it next.

 

Wedding Palace

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 121

Language: English

Director: Christine Yoo

Plot: WEDDING PALACE has been called the Korean-American “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.” Abandoned at the altar, Jason’s (Brian Tee) family approaches bridal replacements, but to their horror, he rejects them all. On a business trip to Korea, he meets the girl of his dreams, Na Young (Kang Hye-jung). They embark on a cyber love affair fueled by imagination and video chats. Jason proposes and his family is delighted. When Na Young arrives, Jason’s wacky family screws things up at every turn causing a roller coaster of ups and downs to this modern romance. Jason will have to bridge the gap between family expectations and true love. Award winning indie trail blazer, WEDDING PALACE is the first ever US-Korea indie co-production and was shot in Los Angeles and Seoul.

 

The Secret Lives of Dorks

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 156

Language: English

Director: Salome Breziner

Plot: In THE SECRET LIVES OF DORKS, Payton (Gaelan Connell) is a pathetic dork, a comic book geek whose high school career is one hopeless faux pas after another. Yet he’s a dreamer and madly in love with the head cheerleader Carrie (Riley Voelkel), who he is determined to win over. But she is wise to his desperate advances, so to get off his radar she creates a plan to push him into the arms of a dorkette at the school, Samantha (Vanessa Marano).

In this high school equation: Peyton wants Carrie Carrie wants Peyton to instead hook up with Samantha Samantha wants Peyton. But even the simplest formula can equal disaster when a cheerleader tries to play matchmaker to a dork and a dorkette. After a chance encounter with Carrie’s football player boyfriend Clark (Beau Mirchoff), Payton is brought into their social circle and doesn’t really care about their motives he’s just happy to be near Carrie. She tries to improve his social skills in order to ask Samantha out and her plan just might work, but this is Payton we’re talking about.

With adult wisdom imparted by the likes of Payton’s dad (Jim Belushi), his teacher (Jennifer Tilly), and NFL Hall of Famer Mike Ditka, who offers his own brand of “Ditka On…” self-help lessons, Payton’s life shifts into high gear from lonely misery to utter disaster.

 

Alone Yet Not Alone

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Ray Bengston

Plot: ALONE YET NOT ALONE tells the inspiring true story of Barbara and Regina Leininger and their journey of faith and survival during the French & Indian war in 1755. Captured by the Delaware Indians in a raid on their home and transported over 300 miles of wilderness to Ohio, the sisters are sustained only by their abiding trust in God, and their hope of escape against all odds to be reunited with their family.

 

Inequality For All

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 107

Language: English

Director: Jacob Kornbluth

Plot: A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, INEQUALITY FOR ALL features Robert Reich – professor, best-selling author, and Clinton cabinet member – as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American economy. The film is an intimate portrait of a man who’s overcome a great deal of personal adversity and whose lifelong goal remains protecting those who are unable to protect themselves. Through his singular perspective, Reich explains how the massive consolidation of wealth by a precious few threatens the viability of the American workforce and the foundation of democracy itself. In this INCONVENIENT TRUTH for the economy, Reich uses humor and a wide array of facts to explain how the issue of economic inequality affects each and every one of us.

 

As I Lay Dying

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 81

Language: English

Director: James Franco

Plot: As I Lay Dying is adapted from the 1930 classic
American novel by William Faulkner. The story chronicles the Bundren family as
they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the body of their deceased
mother Addie to her hometown for burial. Addie’s husband Anse and their
children, Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and the youngest one Vardaman, leave
the farm on a carriage with her coffin – each affected by Addie’s death in a
profound and different way. Their road trip to Jefferson, some forty miles away, is
disrupted by every antagonistic force of nature or man: flooded rivers, injury and
accident, a raging barn fire, and not least of all — each individual character’s
personal turmoil and inner commotion which at times threaten the fabric of the
family more than any outside force.

 

Baggage Claim

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: David E. Talbert

Plot: Determined to get engaged before her youngest sister’s wedding, flight attendant Montana Moore (Paula Patton) finds herself with only 30 days to find Mr. Right. Using her airline connections to “accidentally” meet up with eligible ex-boyfriends and scour for potential candidates, she racks up more than 30,000 miles and countless comedic encounters, all the while searching for the perfect guy.

 

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Genre: Animation

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 129

Language:

Director: Cody Cameron

Plot: Inventor Flint Lockwood’s genius is finally being recognized as he’s invited by his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, where the best and brightest inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. Chester’s right-hand-gal – and one of his greatest inventions – is Barb (a highly evolved orangutan with a human brain, who is also devious, manipulative and likes to wear lipstick. It’s always been Flint’s dream to be recognized as a great inventor, but everything changes when he discovers that his most infamous machine (which turns water into food) is still operating and is now creating food-animal hybrids – “foodimals!” With the fate of humanity in his hands, Chester sends Flint and his friends on a dangerously delicious mission, battling hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, apple pie-thons, double bacon cheespiders and other food creatures to save the world again!

 

Generation Iron

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 147

Language: English

Director: Vlad Yudin

Plot: Generation Iron – examines the professional sport of bodybuilding today and gives the audience front row access to the lives of the top 7 bodybuilders in the sport as they train to compete in the world’s most premiere bodybuilding stage – Mr. Olympia. Each athlete, has a story to tell of their life, journey, aspiration and motivation. They have been through ups and downs, overcoming the toughest judges in the world as they’ve entered the stages around the world and flexed their muscles for eager fans. To their fans, they are more than superstars – they are Olympian Gods.

 

Jewtopia

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 71

Language: English

Director: Bryan Fogel

Plot: Inspired from the international smash hit play seen by over a million people, JEWTOPIA stars Ivan Sergei, Joel David Moore, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jon Lovitz, Rita Wilson, Tom Arnold, Peter Stormare, Camryn Manheim, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Wendie Malick, Nicollette Sheridan, Phil Rosenthal, Christine Lakin, Hayes MacArthur and Lin Shaye. The story is about Christian O’Connell (Sergei) and Adam Lipschitz (Moore) — two childhood friends who reunite as adults to help each other land the women of their dreams. Chris wants to marry Allison (Hewitt), a Jewish girl, so that he’ll never have to make another decision for as long as he lives. Adam is on the verge of getting married to Hannah (Sigler), a woman he is not content with. When Chris enlists Adam’s help in pretending to be Jewish so that Allison will date him, cultures collide and chaos ensues!

 

C.O.G.

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 118

Language: English

Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez

Plot: C.O.G.” tells the story of grad student David (Jonathan Groff), as he travels cross-country to pick apples in an Oregon orchard and have what his platonic gal friend Jennifer (Troian Bellisario) suggests will be a real “Grapes of Wrath” experience.

 

Men at Lunch

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 148

Language: English (International)

Director: Seán Ó Cualáin

Plot: New York City, 1932. The country is in the throes of the Great Depression, the previous decade’s boom of Italian, Irish, and Jewish immigrants has led to unprecedented urban expansion, and in the midst of an unseasonably warm autumn, steelworkers risk life and limb building skyscrapers high above the streets of Manhattan.

In Men at Lunch, director Seán Ó Cualáin tells the story of “Lunch atop a Skyscraper,” the iconic photograph taken during the construction of Rockefeller Center that depicts eleven workmen taking their lunch break while casually perched along a steel girder – boots dangling 850 feet above the sidewalk, Central Park and the misty Manhattan skyline stretching out behind them.

For 80 years, the identity of the eleven men – and the photographer that Immortalized them – remained a mystery: their stories, lost in time, subsumed by the fame of the image itself. But then, at the start of the 21st century, the photograph finally began to give up some of its secrets. Part homage, part investigation, Men at Lunch is the sublime tale of an American icon, an unprecedented race to the sky and the immigrant workers that built New York.

 

The Colony

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 138

Language: English

Director: Jeff Renfroe

Plot: Years ago, winter came and never went away. Beneath the surface of an ice-covered world, survivors in Colony Seven struggle to keep their fragile society from collapsing as food dwindles and temperatures drop. Already plagued by illness and internal conflict, the colonists suspect the worst when they lose contact with the only other known settlement. A small group decide to go on a dangerous expedition to discover what happened and what they find is worse than they could have ever imagined. Now the fight for survival really begins.

 

Thanks for Sharing

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Stuart Blumberg

Plot: THANKS FOR SHARING is a dramatic comedy about a group of unlikely friends brought together through their shared determination to recover from sex addiction and forge meaningful relationships for the first time in their lives.

 

The Family

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 155

Language: English

Director: Luc Besson

Plot: In the off-beat action comedy “The Family,” a mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the witness protection program after snitching on the mob. Despite the best efforts of Agent Stansfield (Tommy Lee Jones) to keep them in line, Fred Manzoni (Robert DeNiro), his wife Maggie (Michelle Pfeiffer) and their children Belle (Dianna Agron) and Warren (John D’Leo) can’t help but revert to old habits and blow their cover by handling their problems the “family” way, enabling their former mafia cronies to track them down. Chaos ensues as old scores are settled in the unlikeliest of settings in this darkly funny film by Luc Besson (Taken, Transporter).

 

Prisoners

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Plot: How far would you go to protect your child? Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) arrests its driver, Alex Jones (Paul Dano), but a lack of evidence forces the only suspect’s release. Knowing his child’s life is at stake, the frantic Dover decides he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands. The desperate father will do whatever it takes to find the girls, but in doing so, he may lose himself, begging the question: When do you cross the line between seeking justice and becoming a vigilante?

 

Rush

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 155

Language: English

Director: Ron Howard

Plot: Rush portrays the exhilarating true story of two of the greatest rivals the world has ever witnessed—handsome English playboy James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and his methodical, brilliant opponent, Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl). Set against the sexy and glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing, Rush follows the two drivers as they push themselves to the breaking point of physical and psychological endurance, where there is no shortcut to victory and no margin for error.

 

Plush

Friday, September 13th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 115

Language: English

Director: Catherine Hardwicke

Plot: fter losing her band mate and brother to a drug overdose, rising rock star Hayley finds herself in a downward spiral. The new album from her band Plush is received as a critical and commercial disaster. She finds new hope and friendship in Enzo, the replacement guitarist who inspires her to reach new creative heights. But soon their collaboration crosses the line and Hayley, who is married with two children, retreats from Enzo’s advances. As Hayley slowly discovers Enzo’s dark and troubled history, she realizes she may have let a madman into her home and that her mistake may cost the lives of people closest to her.

 

Chavez Cage of Glory

Friday, September 13th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 111

Language: English

Director: Hector Echavarria

Plot: Barely being able to make ends meet and working at every job he can find, Hector Chavez turns to his fighting roots to pay for his gravely ill young son’s medical bills. When his amateur Mixed Martial Arts videos go viral and earn him the recognition of the world’s top MMA federation he is given a chance to go into the cage against the World Champion. A dream opportunity becomes a fight for his life when he learns the Champion’s last opponent is in critical condition in the same hospital as his son. Hector must risk it all so his son can have the surgery he needs to survive.