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Satya 2

Friday, October 25th, 2013

Genre: Crime

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 100

Language: Hindi

Director: Ram Gopal Varma

Plot: The Blockbuster Film ‘Satya’ was a story of a man who in 1998 shaped the then existing underworld. In 2013, ‘Satya 2’ sequel (Puneet Singh Ratn), a man without a past comes to the city to reinvent the Company (code for underworld). He studies the mistakes of all the earlier Don’s and develops techniques to deal with the modern day policing methods ‘Satya 2’ is about a man whose thinking starts where the earlier Don’s thinking ended and where the police cannot even begin to think.

 

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Not Yet Begun To Fight

Friday, October 25th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 64

Language: English

Director: Shasta Grenier

Plot: A Vietnam veteran brings men who have been severely injured in Iraq and Afghanistan to the rivers of Montana. He teaches them to fish. And to hope. A frank, sometimes hilarious, and sometimes heartbreaking look at the impacts of war and the journey to recovery.

Directed by Shasta Grenier and Sabrina Lee.

 

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The Pin

Friday, October 25th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 127

Language: French

Director: Naomi Jaye

Plot: Two young people find love while in hiding during WWII. The boy, now an old man, works as a Shomer, a religious watchman responsible for guarding the souls of the dead before their burial. One night he comes face-to-face with his long lost love when her dead body is wheeled into the morgue where he works. As he is presented with a final chance at redemption, he recalls the brief but intense circumstances of their love affair.

 

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When I Walk

Friday, October 25th, 2013

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 145

Language: English

Director: Jason DaSilva

Plot: In 2006, 25-year-old Jason DaSilva was on vacation at the beach with family when, suddenly, he fell down. He couldn’t get back up. His legs had stopped working his disease could no longer be ignored. Just a few months earlier doctors had told him that he had multiple sclerosis, which could lead to loss of vision and muscle control, as well as a myriad of other complications. Jason tried exercise to help cope, but the problem only worsened. After his dispiriting fall on the beach, he turned to his Mom, who reminded him that, despite his disease, he was still a fortunate kid who had the opportunity to pursue the things he loved most: art and filmmaking. Jason picked up the camera, turned it on his declining body, and set out on a worldwide journey in search of healing, self-discovery, and love.
An emotional documentary filled with unexpected moments of humor and joy, WHEN I WALK is a life-affirming film driven by a young man’s determination to survive—and to make sense of a devastating disease through the art of cinema.

 

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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

Friday, October 25th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Jeff Tremaine

Plot: 86 year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companions, his 8 year-old Grandson Billy in “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa.” This October, the signature Jackass character Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) and Billy (Jackson Nicoll) will take movie audiences along for the most insane hidden camera road trip ever captured on camera.
Along the way Irving will introduce the young and impressionable Billy to people, places and situations that give new meaning to the term childrearing. The duo will encounter male strippers, disgruntled child beauty pageant contestants (and their equally disgruntled mothers), funeral home mourners, biker bar patrons and a whole lot of unsuspecting citizens.
Real people in unreal situations, making for one really messed up comedy.

 

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The Counselor

Friday, October 25th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 70

Language: English

Director: Ridley Scott

Plot: The Counselor movie trailer – starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz, Natalie Dormer. Directed by Ridley Scott. Theatrical Release Date: 10/25/2013
Genre: Thriller
Rating: Pending

 

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All Is Lost

Friday, October 25th, 2013

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 77

Language: English

Director: J.C. Chandor

Plot: All Is Lost movie trailer – starring Robert Redford. Directed by J.C. Chandor. Theatrical Release Date: 10/25/2013
Genre: Thriller
Rating: Pending

 

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SEASONS OF GRAY: A Modern Day Joseph Story

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 138

Language: English

Director: Paul Stehlik Jr.

Plot: Brady Gray was always the favorite son. Overcome by jealousy, his brothers resort to an unforgivable crime to drive him away from their father’s ranch. Brutally beaten and hauled away to an uncertain destiny, Brady chooses to forget the past and start anew. Yet his troubles are just beginning. Falsely accused of assaulting his new boss’s wife, he ends up in prison. Daring to believe there may be some purpose in his suffering, he’s given a change to turn his life around. At long last, success brings him the opportunity to decide the fates of the men who wronged him. But what man intends for evil, God intends for good. This simple, yet powerful, message is all he has left. Brady must now decide whether acts of cruelty or the hand of providence will mark the seasons of his life.

 

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Beyond The Farthest Star

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 165

Language: English

Director: Andrew Librizzi

Plot: A twist of fate brings the national spotlight to a forgotten Texas town and a once famous preacher has an opportunity to regain his former glory or seize one last chance to restore his fractured family. Narrated by his fifteen-year-old daughter, we watch as Adam Wells, a minister driven by the prospect of achieving greatness as the next nationally-syndicated TV Evangelist lays down his opportunity at “celebrity” and even his own life in order to become something even greater… A loving husband and father to his wife and daughter.

 

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The Stream

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Family

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 123

Language:

Director: Estlin Feigley

Plot: A long time ago… In the summer of 1981, a tragedy of epic proportions sends five friends on an epic adventure. All they have to do is follow The Stream and back. With mom gone for 3-hours, what could possibly go wrong? Encountering bullies, a nasty storm and mystical creatures, the friends will need the force of friendship to prevail. A family comedy with fun for both kids AND parents, featuring music by The Go-Gos, Billy Squier, Pete Townshend, Roxy Music and more.

 

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Toad Road

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 60

Language: English

Director: Jason Banker

Plot: A different kind of American independent horror film, TOAD ROAD – presented here by Elijah Wood and his genre-themed production company The Woodshed – is a hallucinatory and hypnotic odyssey through mutating realities, drug use, urban legends, and nightmares. Imagine a fusion between the sexually candid naturalism of Larry Clark or Harmony Korine, and the backwoods creep-out of The Blair Witch Project, and you’d be halfway there.

 

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Adventures in the Sin Bin

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 102

Language: English

Director: Billy Federighi

Plot: Brian is a shy teen who loans out his van, nicknamed SIN BIN, to his friends for their sexual exploits while he remains a frustrated virgin. When he meets a helpful school mate and his girlfriend, he finds himself in an awkward love triangle while learning the art of wooing women.

 

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2 Jacks

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 119

Language: English

Director: Bernard Rose

Plot: 2 Jacks is a fast-paced, glamorous and romantic vision of Hollywood now and then. Legendary film director Jack Hussar, notorious gambler and womanizer, returns to LA to raise financing for his next film.

In a whirlwind night on the town, Jack seduces the stunning Diana, hits some wild industry parties, narrowly escapes a brush with the law, before playing a high-stakes poker game at dawn.

Years later, Jack Hussar Jr. arrives in Hollywood for his directorial debut, and an older Diana finds her daughter falling for her former lover’s son.

 

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Paradise

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 138

Language: English

Director: Diablo Cody

Plot: Writer-director Diablo Cody (Academy Award® winner for Best Screenplay, Juno, 2007) delivers this hilarious tale of innocence lost and paradise found, starring Julianne Hough (Safe Haven), Octavia Spencer (Academy Award™ winner for Best Supporting Actress, The Help, 2011) and Russell Brand, Get Him to the Greek). After a nearly fatal accident, 21-year-old Lamb Mannerheim (Hough) is beginning to realize that the world is much bigger than her small, God-fearing Montana town. Armed with a big, fat insurance payout and a checklist of untried sins, there’s only one place for her first taste of temptation…Las Vegas! Now this wide-eyed, innocent girl will have to navigate the bright lights, seedy bars and dark alleys of “Sin City.” And, with the help of a few new friends (Brand and Spencer), Lamb just might survive her strange adventure and discover what it means to really live. Holly Hunter (Academy Award winner™, Best Actress, The Piano, 1993) and Nick Offerman (TV’s “Parks and Recreation”) also star in this oddball odyssey of lost souls, broken faith and cheap cocktails…a true journey of the heart.

 

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Haunter

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Horror

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 105

Language: English

Director: Vincenzo Natali

Plot: Haunter movie trailer – starring Abigail Breslin, Stephen McHattie, David Hewlett, Michelle Nolden, Peter Outerbridge, Sarah Manninen. Directed by Vincenzo Natali. Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/2013
Genre: Horror
Rating: Pending

 

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The Fifth Estate

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Bill Condon

Plot: Following Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Brühl), an early supporter and eventual colleague of Julian Assange (Cumberbatch), “The Fifth Estate” traces the heady, early days of WikiLeaks, culminating in the release of a series of controversial and history changing information leaks. The website’s overnight success brought instant fame to its principal architects and transformed the flow of information to news media and the world at large.

 

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Escape Plan

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Mikael Hafstrom

Plot: Action superstars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger team up in the action-thriller ESCAPE PLAN. Ray Breslin (Stallone), the world’s foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called “The Tomb.” But when he is wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Schwarzenegger) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.

 

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Don Jon

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Plot: Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a strong, handsome, good old fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to “pull” a different woman every weekend, but even the finest fling doesn’t compare to the bliss he finds alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson) is a bright, beautiful, good old fashioned girl. Raised on romantic Hollywood movies, she’s determined to find her Prince Charming and ride off into the sunset. Wrestling with good old fashioned expectations of the opposite sex, Jon and Barbara struggle against a media culture full of false fantasies to try and find true intimacy in this unexpected comedy.

 

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Gravity

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Sci-Fi

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 94

Language: English

Director: Alfonso Cuaron

Plot: Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone – tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth – and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.

 

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The Butler

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Lee Daniels

Plot: THE BUTLER tells the story of a White House butler who served eight American presidents over three decades. The film traces the dramatic changes that swept American society during this time, from the civil rights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and how those changes affected this man’s life and family. Forest Whitaker stars as the butler with Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower, John Cusack as Richard Nixon, Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan, James Marsden as John F. Kennedy, Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson, and many more.

 

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