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Armistice

Friday, January 31st, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 63

Language: English

Director: Luke Massey

Plot: In the role of Royal Marine, A.J. Budd, Joseph Morgan stars in this brutal psychological and supernatural thriller, in which he finds himself trapped in the Warhouse. Imprisoned, he is forced to fight for his life against grotesque, inhuman opponents. He must kill every day or die himself. His one glimmer of hope comes in the form of a diary, left by a former occupant of the house, WWI Lieutenant Edward Sterling, played by Matt Ryan.

 

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Jobriath A.D.

Friday, January 31st, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Kieran Turner

Plot: Called “The American Bowie,” “The True Fairy of Rock & Roll” and “Hype of the Year,” Jobriath’s reign as the first openly gay rock star was brief and over by 1975. Now, 35 years later, “Jobriath A.D.” spotlights his life, music, groundbreaking influence and the new generations of fans slowly re-discovering him.

 

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PETER BROOK: THE TIGHTROPE

Friday, January 31st, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 105

Language: English (International)

Director: Simon Brook

Plot: Peter Brook is one of the world’s most respected and revolutionary directors of contemporary theatre. To help his actors achieve extraordinary performances, he has a special exercise, called “the Tightrope,” which evolved over decades of experimentation and practice into a process of transformation that makes theatre real and new for actor and audience alike. In this quietly eloquent and unique film, director Simon Brook — Peter’s son — reveals how the Tightrope works its dramatic alchemy.

Filmed in total immersion with five hidden cameras, The Tightrope plunges us into the intimate aspects of Brook working with his troupe of actors and musicians. Without disturbing the truth of the moment, the film reveals the magic inherent to the creative process, taking us beyond the intimacy of a workshop and into a philosophical and soulful experience.

 

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At Middleton

Friday, January 31st, 2014

Genre: Romance

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 125

Language: English

Director: Adam Rodgers

Plot: Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia star as two parents who fall in love over the course of a single day while playing hooky from their children’s college tour.

 

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That Awkward Moment

Friday, January 31st, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 148

Language: English

Director: Tom Gormican

Plot: Three best friends find themselves where we’ve all been– at that confusing “moment” in every dating relationship when you have to decide “So…where is this going?”

 

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Labor Day

Friday, January 31st, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 53

Language: English

Director: Jason Reitman

Plot: Based on the novel by Joyce Maynard, LABOR DAY tells the story of an escaped convict (Brolin) who seeks shelter with a single mom (Winslet) and her young son over a long Labor Day weekend.

 

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I, Frankenstein

Friday, January 24th, 2014

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Stuart Beattie

Plot: Set in a dystopic present where vigilant gargoyles and ferocious demons rage in a battle for ultimate power, Victor Frankenstein’s creation Adam (Aaron Eckhart) finds himself caught in the middle as both sides race to discover the secret to his immortality. From the creators of the hit supernatural saga, UNDERWORLD, comes the action thriller I, FRANKENSTEIN, written for the screen and directed by Stuart Beattie based on the graphic novel “I, Frankenstein” by Kevin Grevioux, and brought to life by a cast that includes Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Yvonne Strahovski, Miranda Otto, Jai Courtney, Socratis Otto, Mahesh Jadu, Caitlin Stasey and Aden Young as Victor Frankenstein.

 

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Betrayal

Friday, January 24th, 2014

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 96

Language: English

Director: Jack Topalian

Plot: This action packed, and thought provoking thriller is set in modern day Los Angeles, Betrayal takes you inside the dark and gritty world of the Armenian and the Russian Mob and explores the power, struggles, loyalty and the vengeance of the men and women who are a part of it. It also shows the humanity, sacrifices and the choices that we all make in life and how those choices affect us and our loved ones.

 

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Enemies Closer

Friday, January 24th, 2014

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 127

Language: English

Director: Peter Hyams

Plot: After a major shipment of drugs goes missing on the US-Canadian border, forest ranger and former Navy SEAL Henry is plunged into survival mode when the drug cartel forces him to help retrieve the downed package. Trapped in the wilderness with no communication to the outside world, Henry finds himself face to face with Clay, a man with a personal vendetta against Henry who has returned for retribution. Now, the two mortal enemies must make a choice: put aside their past and work together, or die alone at the hands of the drug runners, a ruthless gang who will stop at nothing to retrieve their lost cargo.

 

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Gimme Shelter

Friday, January 24th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 147

Language: English

Director: Ron Krauss

Plot: Based on a true story centering on 16-year-old Agnes “Apple” Bailey (Vanessa Hudgens), GIMME SHELTER uncovers the struggle for survival and the hope of redemption through the harsh realities of life on the streets. As a pregnant teenager, Apple’s journey plummets her into a perilous struggle until finding salvation in a suburban shelter for homeless teens. With provisions of unprecedented comfort, a collective sisterhood connection and female empowerment, the shelter inspires Apple to break the shackles of her past and inspires her to embrace the future with clarity, maturity and hope not only for herself but her unborn child.

 

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The Nut Job

Friday, January 17th, 2014

Genre: Animation

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 61

Language: English

Director: Peter Lepeniotis

Plot: In animated 3D, THE NUT JOB is an action-packed comedy in fictional Oakton that follows the travails of Surly (voiced by Will Arnett), a mischievous squirrel, and his rat friend Buddy, who plan a nut store heist of outrageous proportions and unwittingly find themselves embroiled in a much more complicated and hilarious adventure.

 

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Stand Your Ground

Friday, January 17th, 2014

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 102

Language: English

Director: Michael McClendon

Plot: When Jackie Carpenter’s son, Jason, is accused of murder she fights against the odds to free him but when the prosecution seeks a life sentence, both Jackie’s and Jason’s world spins into turmoil sending them on parallel journeys of wavering faith and tentative hope. STAND YOUR GROUND is the true story of a cry for justice and of tragedy, trust and triumph.

 

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G.B.F.

Friday, January 17th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 100

Language: English

Director: Darren Stein

Plot: In G.B.F., social warfare erupts when three high school clique queens battle for supremacy: drama diva Caprice (Xosha Roquemore), Mormon princess ‘Shley (Andrea Bowen) and blonde fashionista Fawcett (Sasha Pieterse). When unassuming Tanner (Michael J. Willett) is outted, he finds himself cast as the hottest new teen-girl accessory: The Gay Best Friend. The clique queens immediately pounce and makeover Tanner into their ideal arm candy, forcing him to choose between popularity and the true friends – including his own B.F.F. Brent (Paul Iacono) – that he’s leaving behind.

 

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Life of a King

Friday, January 17th, 2014

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 132

Language: English

Director: Jake Goldberger

Plot: Life of a King is the unlikely true story of Eugene Brown and his one-man mission to give inner-city kids of Washington D.C. something he never had – a future. He discovered a multitude of life lessons through the game of chess during his 18-year incarceration for bank robbery. After his release and reentry into the workforce, Eugene developed and founded the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the streets and working towards lives they never believed they were capable of due to circumstances. From his daring introductory chess lessons to group of unruly high school students in detention to the development of the Club and the teens’ first local chess competitions, this movie reveals his difficult, inspirational journey and how he changed the lives of a group of teens with no endgame.

 

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Reasonable doubt

Friday, January 17th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 91

Language: English

Director: Peter P. Croudins

Plot: When up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden (Cooper) commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to manipulate the case to acquit the accused criminal who was found with the body and blamed for the crime. Following the trial, Mitch’s worst fears come true when he realizes that his actions freed a guilty man, and he soon finds himself on the hunt for the killer before more victims pile up.

 

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Back In The Day

Friday, January 17th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 131

Language: English

Director: Michael Rosenbaum

Plot: Jim Owens (Michael Rosenbaum) is an aspiring actor in Hollywood whose only claim to fame is being the face of a series of insurance commercials. With his tail between his legs and not too excited about his future in Los Angeles, he decides to go back home to Indiana for his high school reunion.

Reliving the glory days with his now-married friends and an encounter with an old flame are just the beginning. Jim gets his buddies in hot water with their wives after they seek vengeance on their former high school principal and nearly break up a wedding, which leaves Jim to wonder what could have been.

Michael Rosenbaum makes his feature directorial and writing debut with BACK IN THE DAY, a comedy where second chances can be the best first impressions. The film also stars Morena Baccarin, Danielle Bisutti, Liz Carey, Emma Caulfield, Sarah Colonna, Jay R. Ferguson, Mike Hagerty, Isaiah Mustafa, Kristoffer Polaha, Nick Swardson, and Harland Williams.

 

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DEVIL’S DUE

Friday, January 17th, 2014

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 108

Language: English

Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin

Plot: After a mysterious, lost night on their honeymoon, a newlywed couple finds themselves dealing with an earlier-than-planned pregnancy. While recording everything for posterity, the husband begins to notice odd behavior in his wife that they initially write off to nerves, but, as the months pass, it becomes evident that the dark changes to her body and mind have a much more sinister origin.

 

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Seventh Son

Friday, January 17th, 2014

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: Sergei Bodrov

Plot: In a time long past, an evil is about to be unleashed that will reignite the war between the forces of the supernatural and humankind once more. Master Gregory (Jeff Bridges) is a knight who had imprisoned the malevolently powerful witch, Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore), centuries ago. But now she has escaped and is seeking vengeance. Summoning her followers of every incarnation, Mother Malkin is preparing to unleash her terrible wrath on an unsuspecting world. Only one thing stands in her way: Master Gregory. In a deadly reunion, Gregory comes face to face with the evil he always feared would someday return. He has only until the next full moon to do what usually takes years: train his new apprentice, Tom Ward (Ben Barnes) to fight a dark magic unlike any other. Man’s only hope lies in the seventh son of a seventh son.

 

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Ride Along

Friday, January 17th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 105

Language: English

Director: Tim Story

Plot: Kevin Hart and Ice Cube lead the lineup in Ride Along, the new film from the director and the producer of the blockbuster comedy Think Like a Man. When a fast-talking guy joins his girlfriend’s brother—a hot-tempered cop—to patrol the streets of Atlanta, he gets entangled in the officer’s latest case. Now, in order to prove that he deserves his future bride, he must survive the most insane 24 hours of his life.

For the past two years, high-school security guard Ben (Hart) has been trying to show decorated APD detective James (Cube) that he’s more than just a video-game junkie who’s unworthy of James’ sister, Angela (Tika Sumpter). When Ben finally gets accepted into the academy, he thinks he’s earned the seasoned policeman’s respect and asks for his blessing to marry Angela.

Knowing that a ride along will demonstrate if Ben has what it takes to take care of his sister, James invites him on a shift designed to scare the hell out of the trainee. But when the wild night leads them to the most notorious criminal in the city, James will find that his new partner’s rapid-fire mouth is just as dangerous as the bullets speeding at it.

 

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Generation War

Wednesday, January 15th, 2014

Genre: War

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 158

Language:

Director: Philipp Kadelbach

Plot: Billed as a German BAND OF BROTHERS, the blockbuster miniseries Generation War vividly depicts the lives of five young German friends forced to navigate the unconscionable moral compromises of life under Hitler. Level-headed, highly decorated officer Wilhelm (Volker Bruch) goes off to the eastern front with his sensitive younger brother Friedhelm (Tom Schilling). Deeply in love with Wilhelm is Charlotte (Miriam Stein), a young nurse who looks forward to serving in the Red Cross. Greta (Katherina Schüttler) is a talented singer who longs to become another Marlene Dietrich, while her Jewish boyfriend Viktor (Ludwig Trepte) fights for his life while hiding among members of the Polish Resistance.

 

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