Spiderhole

July 29th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 122

Language: English (International)

Director: Daniel Simpson

Plot: Attractive young artist Molly, along with three art student pals, are trying to find an empty house in London where they can live as squatters, free from rent, and free to party. Upon finding the ideal squat, they break in and go about the merry business of decorating the stark interior to reflect their artistic selves. But soon after moving in, a nightmare unfolds that traps them in a terrifying and unforgiving hell. SOME PLACES ARE HIDDEN FOR A REASON. SOME SECRETS WILL TRAP YOU FOREVER.

 

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Where The Road Meets The Sun

July 29th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 114

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Director: Mun Chee Yong

Plot: Where the Road Meets the Sun follows four men whose lives intersect for a brief time in the city of Los Angeles. Takashi, a Japanese hit man, wakes up from a four year coma and moves to Los Angeles to escape mysterious traumatic memories. He strikes an unusual friendship with Blake, the hotel manager who still mourns the loss of his wife to an affair he ended up regretting. Julio, an illegal immigrant, works at an Indian restaurant to provide for his wife and kid back in Mexico. He befriends Guy, a young British backpacker who lives off his estranged father’s ATM card and sleeps with any girl who crosses his path. What follows are the wild times and often gut-wrenching adventures of four men trying to survive both emotionally and physically.

 

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Blue eyes

July 29th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 85

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Director: José Joffily

Plot: arshall, chief immigration officer of New York’s JFK Airport begrudgingly faces his compulsory retirement. On his last day of work, drunk and blinded by prejudice, he harasses a group of Latin American visitors and exposes them to a series of humiliating events that result in the death of a young Brazilian. Years later, after serving a lengthy prison term and filled with guilt, Marshall goes to Brazil in search of the victims daughter and is guided by a young street-smart woman named Bia.

 

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All She Can

July 29th, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 123

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Director: Amy Wendel

Plot: Luz Garcia, a high school senior in a small Texas town, wants something different than the options awaiting her after graduation. She’s earned a ticket out with admission to the University of Texas at Austin, but she can’t afford to go. Her one shot is a scholarship for winning the State Powerlifting Championship. It’s all or nothing for Luz…until nothing stares her in the face. Official Sundance Film Festival selection.

 

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Forged

July 29th, 2011

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 117

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Director: William Wedig

Plot: Set in the cold and rusty steel mill town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Forged follows Chuco (Manny Perez) on his quest to redeem himself after committing a horrific sin against his son, Machito (David Castro). After Chucos release from prison, the boy, now 13 years old, abused and homeless, seeks him out and simply mutters: You killed my mother. Now I kill you. As Chuco’s guilt and Machito’s need for a father take hold, they must both find a way to move past impossible circumstances to forge a bond that has been forever broken.

 

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The Interrupters

July 29th, 2011

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 147

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Director: Steve James

Plot: An epic tale of courage and hope, “The Interrupters” is a new film from acclaimed director Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”) and award-winning author Alex Kotlowitz (“There Are No Children Here”). The film tells the moving and surprising story of three Violence Interrupters in Chicago who with bravado, humility and even humor try to protect their communities from the violence they once employed.

 

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Without Men

July 29th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 133

Language: English

Director: Gabriela Taglianvini

Plot: n this offbeat comedy, the women of a secluded Latin American village are left to rebuild their society after all of the men are recruited by a bumbling group of guerrillas. It may be a man’s world out there, but in here, it’s all woman.

 

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Good Neighbors

July 29th, 2011

Genre: Thriller

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 149

Language: English

Director: Jacob Tierney

Plot: Neighbors Spencer (Scott Speedman) and Louise (Emily Hampshire) have bonded over their fascination with a recent string of murders terrorizing their community. When a new tenant named Victor (Jay Baruchel) arrives in the building, all three quickly hit it off. But as they soon discover, each of them has their own dark secret. As the violence outside mounts, the city retreats indoors for safety. But the more time these three spend together in their apartment building, the clearer it becomes that what they once thought of as a safe haven is as dangerous as any outside terrors they could imagine. Smart dialogue, strong performances and jarring thrills give this film all the elements of a great mystery.

 

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COWBOYS & ALIENS

July 29th, 2011

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Jon Favreau

Plot: 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don’t welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). It’s a town that lives in fear.

But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known.

Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he’s been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents – townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors – all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.

 

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Crazy, Stupid, Love.

July 29th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Glenn Ficarra

Plot: At fortysomething, straight-laced Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is living the dream–good job, nice house, great kids and marriage to his high school sweetheart. But when Cal learns that his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), has cheated on him and wants a divorce, his “perfect” life quickly unravels. Worse, in today’s single world, Cal, who hasn’t dated in decades, stands out as the epitome of un-smooth. Now spending his free evenings sulking alone at a local bar, the hapless Cal is taken on as wingman and protege to handsome, thirtysomething player Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). In an effort to help Cal get over his wife and start living his life, Jacob opens Cal’s eyes to the many options before him: flirty women, manly drinks and a sense of style that can’t be found at Supercuts or The Gap. Cal and Emily aren’t the only ones looking for love in what might be all the wrong places: Cal’s 13-year-old son, Robbie, is crazy about his 17-year-old babysitter, Jessica, who harbors a crush on Cal. And despite Cal’s makeover and his many new conquests, the one thing that can’t be made over is his heart, which seems to keep leading him back to where he began.

 

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True Adolescents

July 27th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 131

Language: English

Director: Craig Johnson

Plot: Meet Sam Bryant. He’s a 34-year-old Seattle rocker with no job, no record deal, no girlfriend and no place to stay, until he finds room at his Aunt Sharon’s house in the suburbs. He’s also the last guy anyone would pick to take two teens camping for some quality dude time.

 

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LA RAFLE (THE ROUNDUP)

July 22nd, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 60

Language: French

Director: Roselyne Bosch

Plot: The infamous Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup is the focus of this gripping French drama starring Melanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds, Beginners) and Jean Reno (The Da Vinci Code, The Professional). Two days after Bastille Day in 1942, French police carried out an extensive raid of Jews in Greater Paris. More than 13,000 people were arrested, among them 4,000 children, consigned to several miserable days in Paris’s Vélodrome d’Hiver stadium before being shipped to internment camps within France, and finally to Auschwitz. Long a taboo subject in France-Jacques Chirac issued a public apology only in 1995-the raid and its political backdrop are brought to stirring life in writer-director Rose Bosch’s detailed scenario. With a meticulously constructed script based on extensive research and first-hand accounts, La Rafle (The Roundup) became a big box-office hit in France, and its audiences included thousands of young people who came to learn about a dark chapter in their country’s history.

 

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Another Earth

July 22nd, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 137

Language: English

Director: Mike Cahill

Plot: In Another Earth, Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (William Mapother), has just reach the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have his second child.

On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate earth, tragedy strikes and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwinted.

 

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SARAH’S KEY

July 22nd, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 139

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Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Plot: Based on Tatiana de Rosnay’s New York Times best seller, SARAH’S KEY is the story of an American journalist living in Paris, Julia Jarmond (Kristen Scott Thomas), whose research for an article about the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in
1942 in France ends up turning her own world upside down.

In July 1942, Sarah, a ten-year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door in the middle of the night arresting Jewish families. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard – their secret hiding place – and promises to come
back for him as soon as they are released. Nearly seventy years later, Julia stumbles on the terrible secret that the home Sarah’s family was forced to leave is about to become her own. As Julia’s life becomes entwined with Sarah’s heart-breaking story she must tackle the complex issue of how to live with the past and keep moving forward.

 

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The Myth of the American Sleepover

July 22nd, 2011

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 92

Language: English

Director: David Robert Mitchell

Plot: From first-time writer/director David Robert Mitchell’s comes THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN SLEEPOVER, a beautifully rendered portrait of summertime adolescence and the search for human connections. This story follows four young people on the last night of summer – their final night of freedom before the new school year starts. The teenagers cross paths as they explore the suburban wonderland they inhabit in search of love and adventure – chasing first kisses, elusive crushes, popularity and parties. While looking for the iconic teenage experience, they discover the quiet moments that will later become a part of their youth they look back on with nostalgia. Inspired by Mitchell’s experience growing up in Michigan, the kids in this poignant and tender coming-of-age drama may be lost, a little confused and full of angst, but ultimately the kids are alright in this life-affirming, truthful and fresh take on the teen genre.

 

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Captain America: The First Avenger

July 22nd, 2011

Genre: Action-Adventure

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Joe Johnston

Plot: “Captain America: The First Avenger” will focus on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America. As Captain America, Rogers joins forces with Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) and Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) to wage war on the evil HYDRA organization, led by the villainous Red Skull (Hugo Weaving.)

 

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Friends with Benefits

July 22nd, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 157

Language: English

Director: Will Gluck

Plot: Life gets complicated when two friends become romantic.

 

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Tabloid

July 15th, 2011

Genre: Documentary

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 134

Language: English

Director: Errol Morris

Plot: Academy Award-winner Errol Morris’ TABLOID follows the much stranger-than-fiction adventures of Joyce McKinney, a former “beauty queen” whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her across the globe and directly onto the front pages of the British tabloid newspapers. Joyce’s crusade for love and personal vindication, as illustrated by Morris, takes her through a surreal world of gunpoint abduction, manacled Mormons, oddball accomplices, bondage modeling, magic underwear and dreams of celestial unions. This notorious affair is barking mad.

Equal parts love story, film noir, brainy B-movie and demented fairy tale, TABLOID is a delirious meditation on hysteria – both public and personal – from a filmmaker who continues to break down and blow open the documentary genre with his penetrating portraits of eccentric and profoundly complex characters. In TABLOID, Morris concocts another jaw-dropping portrayal, this time of a phenomenally driven woman whose romantic obsessions and delusions catapult her over the edge into scandal-sheet notoriety and an unimaginable life. Long before the days of Lindsay, Britney and the 24-hour news cycle, Joyce McKinney reigned as the ensnaring Femme Fatale accused of sexual defiance. In TABLOID, she is back, and Morris offers up his best guilty treasure.

 

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Salvation Boulevard

July 15th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 123

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Director: George Ratliff

Plot: Carl (Greg Kinnear) is a former follower – not of Christ, but of the Grateful Dead – who has since become “found” in Dan’s Evangelical community, serving as one of the preacher’s great examples of spiritual and moral transformation. But Carl’s new belief system is turned upside down when he witnesses a sinful act that Pastor Dan’s doughy henchman (Jim Gaffigan) aims to cover up.

In the meantime, Carl finds himself on the run, torn between Honey (Marisa Tomei), a security guard who still follows the Dead and partakes in those pleasures, and his militantly devout wife (Jennifer Connelly, as you’ve never seen her) and her daughter (Isabelle Fuhrman), who is herself on the eve of taking a vow of sexual purity.

 

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Lucky

July 15th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 96

Language: English

Director: Gil Cates Jr.

Plot: It seems like a dream come true when Ben Keller wins the Iowa state lottery… but for everyone else in his life, it’s the beginning of darkly comic nightmare. With 80 million dollars at his disposal, Ben has the newfound confidence to pursue his life-long crush, Lucy St. Martin. But can all the money in the world compensate for the fact that Ben is a fledgling serial killer? As their relationship spirals out of control, and the body count rises, Lucy and Ben do all they can to survive love, marriage…and each other.

 

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