Archive for January, 2015

Red Army

Thursday, January 22nd, 2015

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 125

Language: English

Director: Gabe Polsky

Plot: From Oscar and Emmy award winning filmmakers, Red Army highlights the Soviet Union’s legendary and enigmatic hockey training culture and world-dominating team through the eyes of the team’s captain Slava Fetisov, following his shift from hockey star and celebrated national hero to political enemy. The film turns a unique lens on the social and cultural transformation of the Soviet Union leading up to the fall of Communism, mirroring the rise and fall of the Red Army team.

 

Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus

Monday, January 19th, 2015

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 33

Language: English

Director: Tim Mahoney

Plot: For more than 50 years, the vast majority of the world’s most prominent archaeologists and historians have proclaimed that there is no hard evidence to support the Exodus story found in the Bible. In fact, they say that the archaeological record is completely opposed to the Bible’s account. This view of extreme skepticism has spread from academia to the world. The case against the Exodus appears to be so strong that even some religious leaders are labeling this ancient account as historical fiction.

Despite this, many religious authorities continue to vigorously defend the biblical account and the history of the Jewish people. If this foundational story of the Hebrew Bible is fiction, then two of the world’s great religions: Judaism and Christianity, are clearly founded on a colossal lie. The Koran also describes the Exodus event.

Filmmaker Tim Mahoney begins with the question, “Is the Bible just a myth, or did the archaeologists get it wrong?” He decides to tackle this issue with a deliberate scientific approach. After examining the details in the biblical text, he journeys across the globe to search for patterns of evidence firsthand. The result is the most in-depth archaeological investigation into the Exodus from Egypt ever captured on film.

 

Appropriate Behavior

Friday, January 16th, 2015

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 116

Language: English

Director: Desiree Akhavan

Plot: For Shirin, being part of a perfect Persian family isn’t easy. Acceptance eludes her from all sides: her family doesn’t know she’s bisexual, and her ex-girlfriend, Maxine, can’t understand why she doesn’t tell them. Even the six-year-old boys in her moviemaking class are too ADD to focus on her for more than a second. Following a family announcement of her brother’s betrothal to a parentally approved Iranian prize catch, Shirin embarks on a private rebellion involving a series of pansexual escapades, while trying to decipher what went wrong with Maxine.

 

Little Accidents

Friday, January 16th, 2015

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 132

Language: English

Director: Sara Colangelo

Plot: When a teenage boy goes missing in a small town already devastated by a fatal mining accident, three strangers find themselves drawn together in a tangle of secrets, lies, and the collective grief of the community. Reeling from the disappearance of her son, Diane (Elizabeth Banks) finds herself drifting away from her husband (Josh Lucas), a mining company executive whose role in the accident has made her family the prime target for the town’s anger. When she forms a dangerous bond with the sole survivor of the disaster (Boyd Holbrook), truths will be uncovered that threaten to tear apart the few remaining threads holding the town together in this intense drama from writer-director Sara Colangelo.

 

Vice

Friday, January 16th, 2015

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Brian A. Miller

Plot: Julian Michaels (Bruce Willis) has designed the ultimate resort: VICE, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like humans. When an artificial (Ambyr Childers) becomes self-aware and escapes, she finds herself caught in the crossfire between Julian’s mercenaries and a cop (Thomas Jane) who is hell-bent on shutting down Vice, and stopping the violence once and for all.

 

Son of a Gun

Friday, January 16th, 2015

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 136

Language: English

Director: Julius Avery

Plot: In the criminal world, life is like a game of chess. To gain control, you have to stay a few moves ahead of your opponent. Lose that control, and you risk becoming a pawn in their very dangerous game.

During a six-month stint inside a West Australian prison, rookie criminal JR (BRENTON THWAITES) meets the smart and enigmatic Brendan Lynch (EWAN McGREGOR). In exchange for protection on the inside, JR agrees to help Brendan get outside, hooking up with the influential Sam Lennox (JACEK KOMAN) to orchestrate a daring prison escape that frees Brendan, and inmates Sterlo (MATT NABLE) and Merv (EDDIE BAROO).

JR is rewarded for his efforts, and with a taste of the high life and flirtations with Sam’s beautiful girl Tasha (ALICIA VIKANDER), he gets sucked deeper into Brendan’s criminal world. But whose game is he playing?

Becoming a father-like mentor to JR, Brendan convinces him to join on another high stakes job – robbing a Kalgoorlie gold mine. But with millions of dollars at stake, it’s hard to tell whom JR can trust, and whose side each player is actually on. And with his feelings for Tasha increasing, and his faith in Brendan decreasing, JR must figure out his next move… before its check, mate.

 

Still Alice

Friday, January 16th, 2015

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 70

Language: English

Director: Richard Glatzer

Plot: Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested in STILL ALICE.

 

Escobar: Paradise Lost

Friday, January 16th, 2015

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 155

Language: English

Director: Andrea Di Stefano

Plot: For Pablo Escobar (Benicio Del Toro), family is everything. When young surfer Nick (Josh Hutcherson) falls for Escobar’s niece, he finds his life on the line when he’s pulled into the dangerous world of the family business.

 

Blackhat

Friday, January 16th, 2015

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Michael Mann

Plot: Set within the world of global cybercrime, Legendary’s BLACKHAT follows a furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners as they hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. Directed and produced by Michael Mann, the film stars Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Tang Wei and Wang Leehom, and it is written by Morgan Davis Foehl and Mann. Legendary’s Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni produce alongside Mann, while Alex Garcia and Eric McLeod serve as the executive producers.

 

The Wedding Ringer

Friday, January 16th, 2015

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Jeremy Garelick

Plot: The Wedding Ringer movie trailer – starring Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco, Affion Crockett, Ken Howard, Jorge Garcia. Directed by Jeremy Garelick. Theatrical Release Date: 1/16/2015
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Pending

 

Three Night Stand

Thursday, January 15th, 2015

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 144

Language: English

Director: Pat Kiely

Plot: Carl plans a weekend getaway to reconnect with wife Sue at the same lodge he spent countless weekends with his sexy ex (Emmanuelle Chriqui). Worlds collide when they learn the ex now runs the B&B, and Carl is forced to face the one who got away.

 

Match

Tuesday, January 13th, 2015

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 134

Language: English

Director: Stephen Belber

Plot: Patrick Stewart is riveting as a Manhattan ballet instructor concealing a sordid past in this explosive drama of sex, secrets, and lies based on the Tony(R)-nominated play.

 

Black November

Friday, January 9th, 2015

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 105

Language: English

Director: Jeta Amata

Plot: A volatile, oil-rich Nigerian community wages war against their corrupt government and a multi-national oil corporation to protect their land from being destroyed by excessive drilling and spills. To seek justice, a rebel organization kidnaps an American oil executive and demands that his corporation end the destruction and pollution. Inspired by true events, Black November is the gripping story of how a community rises up and takes drastic measures to make sure their voices are heard.

 

Dark Summer

Friday, January 9th, 2015

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 115

Language: English

Director: Paul Solet

Plot: From Paul Solet, director of the acclaimed hit Grace, comes DARK SUMMER, a suspense thriller combining the supernatural terror of classic horrors THE SHINING and POLTERGEIST, with the tension and modern cool of DISTURBIA. Summer is a time to relax, unwind, take a vacation, and be free. But 17 year old Daniel Austin gets none of that because his obsessive online stalking of his classmate and crush, Mona Wilson, got him put on house arrest for the whole summer. So, no cell phone, no Internet, no leaving the property, and especially no Mona. Then Daniel’s single mother has to go on a long business trip, and Daniel has the place to himself.

Daniel figures out a way to piggyback onto his neighbors’ wireless signal and believing he’s surfing off the grid, uses his time to check in on his friends – and Mona… But what Daniel didn’t expect is for Mona to check up on him. And what she does next shakes him to his very core.

And then things start to happen. Daniel receives mysterious packages in the mail, hears phantom noises, sees inanimate objects move, and feels a strange presence in the house…

 

Preservation

Friday, January 9th, 2015

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 124

Language: English

Director: Christopher Denham

Plot: PRESERVATION follows brothers Sean (Pablo Schreiber), a recently returned veteran, and Mike (Aaron Staton), a hedge fund manager, who head out of town to hunt in a closed nature preserve with Mike’s wife, Wit (Wrenn Schmidt) – a brainy anesthesiologist – in tow. With Sean unhinged from his stint in the military, and Mike distracted by career ambition, this was not the romantic getaway Wit was hoping for. But soon the trio is threatened by an unseen menace, and the hunters become the hunted. A camping trip in the woods turns into a contest for survival. When the brothers are stalked and ensnared, Wit must unleash her own animal instincts or else end up a trophy.

 

World Made Straight

Friday, January 9th, 2015

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 120

Language: English

Director: David Burris

Plot: In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, young and rebellious Travis Shelton (Jeremy Irvine) finds himself ensnared in the violence of the past and the subtle evils of the present. Based on the novel by Ron Rash.

 

Selma

Friday, January 9th, 2015

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Ava DuVernay

Plot: “SELMA” is the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic struggle to secure voting rights for all people – a dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with the epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, and led to President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

 

Predestination

Friday, January 9th, 2015

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 91

Language: English

Director: Michael Spierig

Plot: PREDESTINATION chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent (Ethan Hawke) sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

Written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig (“Daybreakers”) and based on the short story “All You Zombies” by the late Robert A. Heinlein, PREDESTINATION is an ingeniously constructed puzzle-box, as emotional as it is thrilling.

 

Tak3n

Friday, January 9th, 2015

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 141

Language: English

Director: Olivier Megaton

Plot: Tak3n movie trailer – starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Forest Whitaker, Dougray Scott, Jon Gries. Directed by Olivier Megaton. Theatrical Release Date: 1/9/2015
Genre: Action-Adventure
Rating: Pending

 

The Woman in Black: Angel of Death

Friday, January 2nd, 2015

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2015

Runtime: 133

Language: English

Director: Tom Harper

Plot: England, 1941. With London in the midst of the blitz, two teachers evacuate a group of schoolchildren to the abandoned Eel Marsh House. Seeking safety from the bombs in the remote coastal location, the group instead find themselves facing an evil far more frightening when their arrival awakens the Woman in Black.