Archive for September, 2014

Worst Friends

Tuesday, September 16th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 108

Language: English

Director: Ralph Arend

Plot: Worst Friends movie trailer – starring Cody Horn, Kristen Connolly, Richard Tanne, Noah Barrow, Geoffrey Arend, Larry Fessenden. Directed by Ralph Arend. Theatrical Release Date: 9/16/2014
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Pending

 

Take Me to the River

Friday, September 12th, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Martin Shore

Plot: TAKE ME TO THE RIVER brings multiple generations of award-winning Memphis and Mississippi Delta musicians together, following them through the creative process of recording a historic new album, to re-imagine the utopia of racial, gender and generational collaboration of Memphis in its heyday. Narrated by Terrence Howard the film features a soulful ensemble that includes William Bell, Snoop Dogg, Mavis Staples, Otis Clay, Lil P-Nut, Charlie Musselwhite, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Yo Gotti, Bobby Rush, Academy Award winner Frayser Boy and The North Mississippi All-Stars and brings viewers inside creative collaborations to share the struggles, the joy, and inspiration of some of America’s most talented master musicians, who have influenced and inspired the world’s popular music.

 

Bird People

Friday, September 12th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 95

Language: English

Director: Pascale Ferran

Plot: The airport hotel: more often than not the dreary site of a woeful inconvenience—a missed flight, an impediment standing in the way of a destination and the chance to move on with one’s life. But not so for Gary (Josh Charles) and Audrey (Anaïs Demoustier). The principal setting of BIRD PEOPLE, a hotel at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport represents a place of promise and hope and serves as the unlikely establishment that brings these two lost souls together.

Fed up with the stresses of his work and home life, Gary, an American businessman en route to Dubai, views his overnight layover as an opportunity to start fresh in Europe. For Audrey, a Parisian chambermaid, the hotel is her ticket through college and a path away from her humdrum life. As their paths cross nearer in the halls of the hotel, their lives change in a way neither ever could have imagined.

 

Wheels

Friday, September 12th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 132

Language: English

Director: Donavon Thomas

Plot: Two suicidal paraplegic junkies hustle their way through the city streets trying to find a reason to live.

 

Before I Go to Sleep

Friday, September 12th, 2014

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 100

Language: English

Director: Rowan Joffe

Plot: A taut thriller based on the worldwide best-selling novel by S.J. Watson, BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP is the story of a woman (Nicole Kidman) who wakes up every day with no memory as the result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, terrifying new truths begin to emerge that make her question everything she thinks she knows about her life – as well as everyone in it, including her doctor (Mark Strong) and even her husband (Colin Firth).

 

Honeymoon

Friday, September 12th, 2014

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 143

Language: English

Director: Leigh Janiak

Plot: Leslie and Treadaway star as young newlyweds who travel to remote lake country for their honeymoon where the promise of private romance awaits them. Shortly after arriving, Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night. As she becomes more distant and her behavior increasingly peculiar, Paul begins to suspect something more sinister than sleepwalking took place in the woods.

 

108 Stitches

Friday, September 12th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 125

Language: English

Director: David Rountree

Plot: With baseball being the last thing on these player’s minds, and dealing with one of the longest losing streaks in college history, the team of misfits comes to the realization that the school, led by the corrupt and unethical President of the University, has plans to disband the entire program. Hilarity ensues as they have one afternoon to execute a plan to fill the stadium, sign the top recruit on the planet, and help send their coach out with a bang.

 

Finding Fanny

Friday, September 12th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Homi Adajania

Plot: Five Goans set off on a road trip in search of an old postman’s childhood love, Stefanie “Fanny” Fernandes, though nobody knows whether she’s alive or dead or just a figment of someone’s imagination. However, the friends get lost, and the journey – originally intended to take 20 minutes – instead takes one and a half days. If you’re looking for love…get lost! Bollywood’s superstar Deepika Padukone headlines an all-star cast.

 

AT THE DEVIL’S DOOR

Friday, September 12th, 2014

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Nicholas McCarthy

Plot: When ambitious young real estate agent Leigh is asked to sell a house with a checkered past, she crosses paths with a disturbed girl whom she learns is the runaway daughter of the couple selling the property. When Leigh tries to intervene and help her, she becomes entangled with a supernatural force that soon pulls Leigh’s artist sister Vera into its web — and has sinister plans for both of them.

 

No Good Deed

Friday, September 12th, 2014

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Sam Miller

Plot: No Good Deed movie trailer – starring Idris Elba, Taraji P. Henson. Directed by Sam Miller. Theatrical Release Date: 9/12/2014
Genre: Thriller
Rating: Pending

 

This Is Where I Leave You

Friday, September 12th, 2014

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Shawn Levy

Plot: When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can provide—driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often best, selves.

 

The Pirates

Thursday, September 11th, 2014

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 125

Language: Korean

Director: Lee Suk-Hoon

Plot: On the eve of the founding of the Joseon Dynasty, an unprecedented robbery shocks the nation-in-waiting: a whale has swallowed the Emperor’s Royal Seal, and a bounty placed on its retrieval. Now, every infamous gang of thieves, thugs, pirates, and government agents take to the seas, battling the elements, creatures of the deep, and each other to possess the mother of all rewards.

 

SMILING THROUGH THE APOCALYPSE: ESQUIRE IN THE 60’S

Thursday, September 11th, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 133

Language: English

Director: Tom Hayes

Plot: Exploring the revolution in journalism sparked by the turbulence of the 1960s, Smiling Through the Apocalypse is the story of maverick editor Harold T.P. Hayes, who made Esquire magazine a galvanizing force in American culture.

A leading architect of the ‘New Journalism’, Hayes granted unprecedented journalistic freedom to the most talented artists and writers of the time including Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Nora Ephron, Peter Bogdanovich, Gore Vidal, Diane Arbus, Norman Mailer, and George Lois. Forging Esquire’s pop-cultural capital with provocative covers and controversial reportage, Hayes transformed the magazine into a rigorously curated reflection of the American zeitgeist.

In Smiling Through the Apocalypse, filmmaker Tom Hayes – Harold’s son – paints a portrait of editorial genius using the voices and images of the iconic writers, photographers and artists who, with Hayes at the helm, brought Esquire to the vanguard of the cultural revolution.

 

Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt

Thursday, September 11th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 146

Language: English

Director: James Manera

Plot: Approaching collapse, the nation’s economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brutal force against the nation’s most productive who are mysteriously vanishing – leaving behind a wake of despair.

One man has the answer. One woman stands in his way.

Some will stop at nothing to control him. Others will stop at nothing to save him.

He swore by his life. They swore to find him.

Who is John Galt?

 

Believe

Thursday, September 11th, 2014

Genre: Family

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: David Scheinmann

Plot: “Believe” is set in 1984 and inspired by true events. The film is a funny and touching tale about Sir Matt Busby, legendary Manchester United football manager, who helps a wayward boy fulfill his dream. An act of petty crime by 11 year old Georgie becomes a collision of fate as Sir Matt tracks him down, only to discover that the boy is an extraordinarily gifted footballer and captain of a team of unruly talents. Having lived with football all his life and survived the tragic 1958 Munich plane disaster, in which eight of his young players were killed, Sir Matt is still committed to continue his work of ‘training lads for life’ and so begins a thrilling adventure as Sir Matt Busby, comes out of retirement to transform a young group of scallywags into a dream team.

 

BORN TO FLY: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity

Tuesday, September 9th, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 106

Language: English

Director: Catherine Gund

Plot: Elizabeth Streb and the STREB Extreme Action Company form a motley troupe of flyers and crashers. Propelled by Streb’s edict that “anything too safe is not action,” these daredevils challenge the assumptions of art, aging, injury, gender, and human possibility. Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity (2014, 83mins) traces the evolution of Elizabeth Streb’s movement philosophy as she pushes herself and her performers from the ground to the sky. Revealing the passions behind the STREB dancers’ bruises and broken noses, Born to Fly offers a breathtaking tale about the necessity of art, inspiring audiences hungry for a more tactile and fierce existence in the world.

 

Altina

Monday, September 8th, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Peter Sanders

Plot: A sheltered heiress who grew up cloistered in one of New York City’s most richly-historied mansions, kept, along with her sisters and beautiful young mother under lock and key by a well-meaning but domineering, old world tycoon father, Altina Schinasi Miranda (1907-1999), a pre-feminist visionary, broke wildly free of her constraints and forged a free-spirited, civically active, and creatively prolific life.

 

KELLY & CAL

Friday, September 5th, 2014

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 131

Language: English

Director: Jen McGowan

Plot: Punk-rocker turned suburban mom, Kelly (Juliette Lewis), is nostalgic for a life she can no longer have and uncertain of a future she doesn’t yet fit in. Seventeen-year-old Cal (Jonny Weston) is frustrated at his lack of control over the hand he’s been dealt. When the two strike up an unlikely friendship, it’s the perfect spark needed to thrust them both back to life.

 

2 Bedroom 1 Bath

Friday, September 5th, 2014

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 90

Language: English

Director: Stanley Yung

Plot: A young couple moves into what appears to be the perfect home. But when they discover that they will soon become parents, things begin to fall apart. Rachel, the expectant mother, is haunted by a ghost in a red dress, while Kevin, the soon to be father, has frightening nightmares even while he’s awake. The once happy couple is torn apart by horrific events, which all seem to be centered around the birth of their unborn child.

 

Falcon Rising

Friday, September 5th, 2014

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 105

Language: English

Director: Ernie Barbarash

Plot: Michael Jai White (Spawn) stars in this action adventure as John “Falcon” Chapman, an ex-marine anti-hero plagued with a terrible secret consuming him with guilt. On the self-destructive edge, he learns his sister Cindy (Laila Ali) has been brutally beaten in the slums or “favelas” of Brazil and travels there to hunt down her attackers. In the process he discovers an underground world of drugs, prostitution, and police corruption ruled by the Japanese mafia and protected by the powerful Hirimoto (Masashi Odate, The Last Samurai). With incredible fight sequences and edge of your seat action, Falcon Rising is an in your face thrill-ride introducing America’s newest action hero.