Genre: Horror
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 58
Language: English
Director: Kimberly Peirce
Plot: A teen is pushed too far by her classmates.
Archive for October, 2013
Carrie
Friday, October 18th, 2013River Changes Course
Friday, October 11th, 2013Genre: Documentary
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 86
Language: English
Director: Kalyanee Mam
Plot: “We’ve worked so hard on this land,†says Sav Samourn. “And now they’ve come to destroy it all. Sooner or later it will all be gone.“ In her directorial debut, award-winning filmmaker Kalyanee Mam intimately captures the stories of three families living in Cambodia as they strive to maintain their traditional ways of life amid rapid development and environmental degradation.
Deep in the jungle, Sav Samourn struggles as large companies encroach and “progress†claims the life-giving forests. She discovers there’s little room for wild animals, ghosts – and the home she has always known. In a fishing hamlet, Sari Math must quit school to help support his family. But as the fish catch dwindles, Sari and his family find their livelihood threatened.
In a village, Khieu Mok must leave to seek work in a Phnom Penh factory to help pay her family’s debts. But city life proves no better, and Khieu struggles between her need to send money home and her duty to be with her loved ones. From Cambodia’s forests to its rivers, from its idyllic rice fields to the capital’s pulsing heart, forces of radical change are transforming the landscape of the country – and the dreams of its people.
Cassadaga
Friday, October 11th, 2013Genre: Horror
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 92
Language: English
Director: Anthony DiBlasi
Plot: CASSADAGA tells the story of Lily Morel (Kelen Coleman), a post-lingually deaf artist, who participates in a séance in the spiritualist community of Cassadaga. But instead of getting closure with her recently departed sister, Lily contacts the vengeful ghost of a murdered woman. As the ghost becomes increasingly angry and violent, Lily rushes to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding the woman’s death – a task that will bring her face-to-face with a sadistic serial killer who turns his victims into human marionette dolls.
Unlimited
Friday, October 11th, 2013Genre: Action-Adventure
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 136
Language: English
Director: Nathan Frankowski
Plot: Simon Orwell is a brilliant student whose life has taken a series of wrong turns. At the point of giving up on his dreams, he gets a call from an old professor who has discovered a breakthrough in a device that would create unlimited energy, and he needs Simon’s help. But once he crosses the border, nothing goes as planned.The professor has been killed and Simon is assaulted and nearly killed by members of a powerful drug cartel. Now he must take refuge in the only place that will help him – a local orphanage.
Sweetwater
Friday, October 11th, 2013Genre: Western
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 103
Language: English
Director: Logan Miller
Plot: In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory.
DESIGN IS ONE: LELLA & MASSIMO VIGNELLI
Friday, October 11th, 2013Genre: Documentary
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 160
Language: English
Director: Kathy Brew
Plot: Italian-born Massimo and Lella Vignelli are among the world’s most influential designers. Throughout their long career, their motto has been, ‘If you can’t find it, design it’ The work covers such a broad spectrum that one could say the Vignellis are known by everybody, even those who don’t know their names. From graphics to interiors to products and corporate identities, the film brings us into the work and everyday moments of the Vignellis’ world, capturing their intelligence and creativity, as well as their humanity, warmth, and humor.
ROMEO & JULIET
Friday, October 11th, 2013Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 156
Language: English
Director: Carlo Carlei
Plot: Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare’s epic and searing tale of love is revitalized on screen by writer Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey) and director Carlo Carlei (The Flight of the Innocent). An ageless story from the world’s most renowned author is reimagined for the 21st Century. This adaptation is told in the lush traditional setting it was written, but gives a new generation the chance to fall in love with the enduring legend. With an all-star cast including Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth, Paul Giamatti and Stellan Skarsgard, it affords those unfamiliar with the tale the chance to put faces to the two names they’ve undoubtedly heard innumerable times: Romeo and Juliet. Every generation deserves to discover this lasting love.
Captain Phillips
Friday, October 11th, 2013Genre: Action-Adventure
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 154
Language: English
Director: Paul Greengrass
Plot: Columbia Pictures’ action-thriller Captain Phillips stars two-time Oscar® winner Tom Hanks in the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
The Saratov Approach
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 146
Language: English
Director: Garrett Batty
Plot: Inspired by actual events, THE SARATOV APPROACH is the extraordinary, untold story of Elders Travis Tuttle and Andrew Propst and their week-long abduction in Saratov, Russia. On what seemed like any other day during their two-year LDS missions, Elders Travis Tuttle (Corbin Allred) and Andrew Propst (Maclain Nelson) are approached by Nikolai (Nikita Bogolyubov) to meet a friend. But then the missionaries experience the unimaginable — kidnapped, beaten, and held for ransom for nearly a week — on the other side of the world in Saratov, Russia. While their family, friends and the world pray for their safe return, Tuttle and Propst are tested physically, emotionally and most of all — spiritually.
But in abducting the missionaries, Nikolai unwittingly sets in motion a course of events that draws him and them closer to each other and to God in ways never expected. Through the harrowing experience they each discover the universal truth that there is a greater plan, a different way, a different approach to life – “The Saratov Approach.â€
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013Genre: Documentary
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 90
Language: English
Director: Richard Trank
Plot: The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers, is the 13th release by Moriah Films, the Academy Award winning documentary filmmaking division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Based on the best selling book by Ambassador Yehuda Avner. The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers, takes the audience inside the offices of Israel’s Prime Ministers, through the eyes of an insider, Yehuda Avner, who served as a chief aide, English language note-taker and speechwriter to Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, and Shimon Peres. Behind the scene stories are brought to life involving Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter. Personalities ranging from Henry Kissinger, Margaret Thatcher and Moshe Dayan to Harry Truman, Anwar Sadat, and Princess Diana appear in The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers. The first of two parts, the documentary focuses on Ambassador Avner’s years working with Prime Ministers Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir and then US Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin and reveals new details about the 6 Day War, the development of Israel’s close strategic relationship with the United States, the fight against terrorism, the Yom Kippur War and its aftermath.
American Promise
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013Genre: Documentary
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 153
Language: English
Director: Joe Brewster
Plot: Impact Partners presents the U.S. theatrical premiere of AMERICAN PROMISE, by Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, spanning 13 formative years in the lives of two young black boys, their son Idris and his best friend Seun, as they navigate an elite, performance-driven, ivy league New York City prep school in a universe still largely segregated by race, class and culture. Filmmakers Brewster and Stephenson, a Harvard and Stanford-trained psychiatrist and Columbia Law School graduate, respectively, are middle class African-American parents from the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. When they open their cameras onto the world of five-year-olds Idris and Seun, two talented boys both accepted into the prestigious Dalton School in kindergarten as part of the institution’s commitment to diversity, a sprawling and epic vérité essay on the education of young black males in America unfolds. While Idris grafts easily into social structure of his new school, Seun struggles to find his place in the scheme of things, and by high school ultimately transfers to the mostly black Benjamin Banneker Academy, a public high school in Brooklyn. Both boys face the challenges of their unique situation amidst the normal formidable pressures of growing up, including discipline from their parents, a mother’s diagnosis of cancer and the tragic death of a sibling. Chronicling the boys’ poignantly divergent — yet essentially interconnected — paths through high school graduation, this provocative and profoundly warm documentary presents complicated truths about societal coming of age on issues of race, class and opportunity in America today.
The Institute
Friday, October 4th, 2013Genre: Documentary
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 128
Language: English
Director: Spencer McCall
Plot: “To those dark horses with the spirit to look up and see… a recondite family awaits.” Welcome to the Jejune Institute, a mind-bending San Francisco phenomenon where 10,000 people became “inducted” without ever quite realizing what they’d signed up for. Was it a cult? Was it an elaborate game? Told from the participants’ perspectives, the film looks over the precipice at an emergent new art form where real world and fictional narratives collide, creating unforeseen and often unsettling consequences. Fusing elements of counter-culture, new religious movements and street art, THE INSTITUTE invites viewers into a secret underground world teeming just beneath the surface of everyday life.
Red Wing
Friday, October 4th, 2013Genre: Family
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 94
Language: English
Director: Will Wallace
Plot: Set in a small Texas town in present day, “Red Wing†reminds us of how love can be found in the most unusual places. The film follows the troubled journey of an orphan boy into manhood. Despite all odds, when confronted with the ill-will of others, he maintains honor and integrity. We learn that if we let it, love takes over and finds its way. “Red Wing†is a socially thought-provoking and stirring love story based on the French novella Francois le Champi by George Sand.
Vikingdom
Friday, October 4th, 2013Genre: Action-Adventure
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 67
Language: English
Director: Yusry A. Halim
Plot: Based on Viking mythology, Eirick (Dominic Purcell) battles from hell and beyond to retrieve the mystical artifact, Odin’s Horn, before Thor and his army can unleash its powers to conquer the world.
Metallica Through The Never
Friday, October 4th, 2013Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 117
Language: English
Director: Nimrod Antal
Plot: Metallica Through The Never combines an action-filled narrative, dazzling pyrotechnics, the most elaborate indoor performance stage ever built and imagery drawn from the band’s trailblazing iconography. The story follows a young roadie (Dane DeHaan) through a terrifying post-apocalyptic urban streetscape as Metallica delivers a roaring live set created exclusively for the film that mirrors the destruction and chaos of his journey.
Runner, Runner
Friday, October 4th, 2013Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 152
Language: English
Director: Brad Furman
Plot: Richie (Justin Timberlake), a Princeton college student who pays for school with online gambling, bottoms out and travels to Costa Rica to confront the mastermind, Ivan (Ben Affleck), whom he believes has swindled him.
Ivan sees a kindred spirit in Richie and brings the younger man into his operation. When Richie comes to fully understand the deviousness of his new boss, he tries to turn the tables on him.
Parkland
Friday, October 4th, 2013Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 147
Language: English
Director: Peter Landesman
Plot: PARKLAND weaves together the perspectives of a handful of ordinary individuals suddenly thrust into extraordinary circumstances: the young doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital Dallas’ chief of the Secret Service an unwitting cameraman who captured what became the most watched and examined film in history the FBI agents who nearly had the gunman within their grasp the brother of Lee Harvey Oswald, left to deal with his shattered family and JFK’s security team, witnesses to both the president’s death and Vice President Lyndon Johnson’s rise to power over a nation whose innocence was forever altered.
The Dirties
Friday, October 4th, 2013Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 114
Language: English
Director: Matt Johnson
Plot: Matt and Owen are best friends who live in a world of endless movie references and hijinks. It would be perfect, if not for the cruel bullies at their high school who make their lives hell. While working on a movie for class, the lines between fiction and reality blur together in this horrifying look at high school bullying.
The Summit
Friday, October 4th, 2013Genre: Documentary
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 141
Language: English
Director: Nick Ryan
Plot: K2 is commonly known as “Savage Mountain” and with good reason. With an unprecedented fatality rate of one in four climbers, it has rightfully earned the title of the second most murderous mountain in the world. THE SUMMIT tells a frightening story of K2 earning its name – in August 2008 when 22 climbers from several international expeditions converged on High Camp of K2. 48 hours later, 11 were killed or simply vanished into thin air. Like a horror movie come to life, it was as if the mountain began stealing lives, one climber at a time.
My Last Day Without You
Friday, October 4th, 2013Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2013
Runtime: 129
Language: English
Director: Stefan Schaefer
Plot: The film follows a German business executive on a one-day trip to New York where he falls in love with a singer-songwriter. She exposes him to her Brooklyn world and emotions he has never experienced before.