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The Wind Rises

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Genre: Animation

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 50

Language: English

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Plot: In “The Wind Rises,” Jiro (voice of Joseph Gordon-Levitt) dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni (voice of Stanley Tucci). Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world’s most innovative and accomplished airplane designers, earning the respect of prominent industry greats, including Hattori (voice of Mandy Patinkin) and Kurokawa (voice of Martin Short). The film chronicles much of Jiro’s life, depicting key historical events, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic and Japan’s plunge into war. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko (voice of Emily Blunt), and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo (voice of John Krasinski). Writer and director Hayao Miyazaki pays tribute to engineer Jiro Horikoshi and author Tatsuo Hori in this epic tale of love, perseverance, and the challenges of living and making choices in a turbulent world.

 

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Chlorine

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 100

Language: English

Director: Jay Alaimo

Plot: In the town of Copper Canyon, people are cashing in on an economic housing boom, and the local country club is buzzing about the investment opportunity. Once vivacious couple, Roger and Georgie Lent, have settled into a complacent lifestyle of mediocrity where their marriage is falling apart and their children are turning away from them. Nonetheless, desperately discontent Georgie, pushes Roger into finding a way to invest in the market bubble in the hopes that their family can be saved with the money they are sure to make. When local tennis pro and part-time drug dealer, Pat, comes to Roger for investment advice, Roger sees his opportunity. Torn by the reality that his family could be saved by this dirty money, Roger finds himself staring down the barrel of a moral conundrum. Chlorine is the tale of classic American greed.

 

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HairBrained

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 123

Language: English

Director: Billy Kent

Plot: After being rejected from Harvard University, 14-year old genius and outcast Eli Pettifog (Alex Wolff) finds himself at Whittman College, an Ivy League wannabe. Eli meets 41- year-old freshman Leo Searly (Brendan Fraser), a gambler whose world has imploded and has dropped out of life to enroll in college. The odd duo becomes unlikely friends in this comedic, coming of age film.

 

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Odd Thomas

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 147

Language: English

Director: Stephen Sommers

Plot: Small-town fry cook Odd Thomas (Anton Yelchin) is an ordinary guy with a paranormal secret: he sees dead people, everywhere. When a creepy stranger shows-up with an entourage of ghostly bodachs – predators who feed on pain and portend mass destruction – Odd knows that his town is in serious trouble. Teaming up with his sweetheart Stormy (Addison Timlin) and the local sheriff (Willem Dafoe), Odd plunges into an epic battle of good vs evil to try to stop a disaster of apocalyptic proportions. Based on the best-selling novel by Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas is a supernatural action thrill-ride from the acclaimed director of The Mummy and G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra.

 

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Stalingrad

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Genre: War

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 161

Language: English

Director: Fedor Bondarchuk

Plot: STALINGRAD is an epic look at the battle that turned the tide of World War II. A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women who have been living there. Presented in IMAX 3D, the scale of the battle contrasts dramatically with the human drama of the Russian soldiers, the few remaining civilians and their invaders into Stalingrad.

 

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Welcome To Yesterday

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: Dean Israelite

Plot: A group of teens discover how to make a time machine.

 

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Son of God

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Christopher Spencer

Plot: This major motion picture event — an experience created to be shared among families and communities across the U.S. — brings the story of Jesus’ life to audiences through compelling cinematic storytelling that is both powerful and inspirational. Told with the scope and scale of an action epic, the film features powerful performances, exotic locales, dazzling visual effects and a rich orchestral score from Oscar®-winner Hans Zimmer. Portuguese actor Diogo Morgado portrays the role of Jesus as the film spans from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion and ultimate resurrection.

 

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Non-Stop

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 147

Language: English

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Plot: Global action star Liam Neeson stars in Non-Stop, a suspense thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air. During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (Neeson) receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the airline to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every 20 minutes.

 

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Live Life Dearest

Thursday, February 27th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 93

Language: English

Director: Juan Diego Escobar Alzate

Plot: A movie which deeply questions what its like to be a human. A journey through pain, loss, love and shattered dreams. A film which main concern is to explore the inner self.

 

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3 Days To Kill

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 145

Language: English

Director: McG

Plot: In this distinctive action-thriller, Kevin Costner plays an elite government hit man who after receiving news that he has a terminal disease, decides to give up his high stakes life to finally build a relationship with his estranged wife and daughter, whom he’s previously kept at arm’s length to keep out of danger. But when his agency offers him an experimental, potentially life-saving drug in exchange for one last mission, it’s an offer he can’t refuse – even if it means juggling his two toughest assignments yet: going after the world’s most ruthless terrorist and caring for his daughter for the first time in ten years while his wife is out of town.

 

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Almost Human

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 78

Language: English

Director: Joe Begos

Plot: Mark Fisher disappeared from his home in a brilliant flash of blue light almost two years ago. His friend Seth Hampton was the last to see him alive. Now a string of grisly, violent murders leads Seth to believe that Mark is back, and something evil is inside of him.

 

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Holy Ghost People

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 148

Language: English

Director: Mitchell Altieri

Plot: HOLY GHOST PEOPLE is a Southern Gothic thriller about a teenager searching for her lost sister in the Appalachian Mountains, where she encounters a snake-handling religious cult and eventually learns the truth about her sister’s fate.

 

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Angels in Stardust

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 146

Language: English

Director: William R. Carey

Plot: An imaginative teenage girl, living in a mystical and dangerous community built on a deserted drive-in movie lot along the Texas/Oklahoma border, struggles to realize her potential, and escape the world she was born into.

 

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Barefoot

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 133

Language: English

Director: Andrew Fleming

Plot: The “black sheep” son (Scott Speedman) of a wealthy family meets a free-spirited, but sheltered woman (Evan Rachel Wood). To convince his family that he’s finally straightened out his life, he takes her home for his brother’s wedding where an improbable romance blooms, as she impresses everyone with her genuine,

 

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In secret

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 145

Language: English

Director: Charlie Stratton

Plot: Based on Émile Zola’s scandalous novel, Thérèse Raquin, IN SECRET is a tale of obsessive love, adultery and revenge set in the lower depths of 1860s Paris. Therese (Elizabeth Olsen of “Martha Marcy May Marlene”), a sexually repressed beautiful young woman, is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille (Tom Felton of the “Harry Potter” franchise), by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin (two-time Academy Award winner Jessica Lange). Therese spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring childhood friend, Laurent (Oscar Isaac of “Inside Llewyn Davis”), she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences.

 

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Pompeii

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 102

Language: English

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson

Plot: Pompeii movie trailer – starring Emily Browning, Kit Harington, Paz Vega, Carrie-Anne Moss, Kiefer Sutherland, Jared Harris. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Theatrical Release Date: 2/21/2014
Genre: Thriller
Rating: Pending

 

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JORGE AMEER PRESENTS ST8 MEN & MEN WHO LOVE THEM 3

Tuesday, February 18th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 234

Language: English

Director: Jorge Ameer

Plot: This third award winning compilation of international shorts from the Cannes Film Festival chronicles the pitfalls and pleasures of fluid sexuality in men exposing the complex, dynamic and at times volatile relationships and situations surrounding friendships and hidden attractions. Themes included in this selection explore the differences and similitudes of shared experiences as societal expectations, stereotypes and traditional values are unexpectedly challenged as attitudes evolve. shorts include QUARTERS (France/USA), RUBBER DUCKIE (USA), BOYGAME (Sweden), EARLY ONE SUMMER (UK), FROM THERE TO THERE (HONG KONG)

 

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A Stranger in Paradise

Friday, February 14th, 2014

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 124

Language: English

Director: Corrado Boccia

Plot: On the verge of making partner, Josh Pratt’s life is turned upside down when the SEC investigates the head of his multibillion-dollar hedge fund for insider trading. Forced into a well-timed “vacation” he never asked for, Josh finds himself in Bangkok with a price on his head, a morally ambiguous brother who is knee deep into the Thai mafia, and a propensity for getting shot at. Unfortunately for Josh, the only way out is to give up information he doesn’t know he has.

 

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Date and Switch

Friday, February 14th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 146

Language: English

Director: Chris Nelson

Plot: High school seniors Michael and Matty have been best friends since 3rd grade. Still virgins, they make a pact to help each other “score” before Senior Prom – but their mission suddenly takes an unexpected turn when Matty announces that he’s gay.

 

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Adult World

Friday, February 14th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 130

Language: English

Director: Scott Coffey

Plot: Adult World is a satirical comedy about an eccentric young woman, Amy Anderson, (Emma Roberts) who has just come out of university, convinced she’s going to be a famous poet. Saddled with debt and unemployed she moves back in with her parents who force her to get a job. Desperate and armed with a poetry degree and not much else she takes the only job she can find, working in an adult bookstore called Adult World.

Meanwhile, desperate to get her poems published, Amy stalks an aging punk poet figure named Rat Billings (John Cusack), “one of the greatest poets of the early 90s.” Rat reluctantly agrees to mentor her. As Amy makes new friends, including a drag queen named Rubia, the elderly couple who own Adult World, and Alex, the charming and quirky young manager, she learns that she might not be the voice of her generation after all.

 

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