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Your Sister's Sister (2012)
Movie Info
A year after his brother Tom's death, Jack (Mark Duplass) is still
struggling emotionally. When he makes a scene at a memorial party, Tom's
best friend Iris (Emily Blunt) offers up her family cabin on an island
in the Pacific Northwest so Jack can seek catharsis in solitude. Once
there, however, he runs into Iris' sister Hannah (Rosemarie Dewitt) who
is reeling from the abrupt end of a seven-year relationship and finds
solace in Tom's unexpected presence. A blurry evening of drinking
concludes
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Jun 15, 2012 Limited
IFC Films
The Woman in the Fifth
Movie Info
American writer Tom Ricks comes to Paris desperate to put his life
together again and win back the love of his estranged wife and daughter.
When things don't go according to plan, he ends up in a shady hotel in
the suburbs, having to work as a night guard to make ends meet.
Then Margit, a beautiful, mysterious stranger walks into his life and things start looking up. Their passionate and intense relationship triggers a string of inexplicable events... as if an obscure power was taking ... More
Then Margit, a beautiful, mysterious stranger walks into his life and things start looking up. Their passionate and intense relationship triggers a string of inexplicable events... as if an obscure power was taking ... More
Jun 15, 2012 Limited
Sep 18, 2012
Sep 18, 2012
ATO Pictures
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov reinvent the
time-honored genre and present the terrifying creatures of the night as
they were meant to be experienced -- as fierce, visceral, intense and
bloodthristy. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter brings to the screen the
secret life of our nation's favorite president...as history's greatest
hunter of the undead. -- (C) Official Site
Unrated,
Action & Adventure, Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Action & Adventure, Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Timur Bekmambetov
Seth Grahame-Smith
Jun 22, 2012 Wide
20th Century Fox
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
Movie Info
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of
the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink
of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary
imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the
universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair
the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and
sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable
catastrophes of epic
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Jun 27, 2012 Limited
Fox Searchlight
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
Movie Info
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World stars Golden Globe Award
winner Steve Carell and Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley and is the
feature directorial debut of screenwriter Lorene Scafaria. Set in a
too-near future, the movie explores what people will do when humanity's
last days are at hand. As the respective journeys of Dodge (Mr. Carell)
and Penny (Ms. Knightley) converge, the two spark to each other and
their outlooks - if not the world's - brighten. -- (C) Focus
Jun 22, 2012 Wide
Focus Features
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To Rome With Love (2012)
Movie Info
To Rome With Love is a story about a number of people in Italy, some
American, some Italian, some residents, some visitors, and the romances
and adventures and predicaments they get into. Starring Woody Allen,
Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse
Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page. -- (C) Official Site
Upcoming Movies this March
John Carter
Movie Info
From filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes John Carter-a sweeping
action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom
(Mars). John Carter is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs,
whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many
filmmakers, both past and present. The film tells the story of
war-weary, former military captain John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who is
inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled
in a conflict of epic
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PG-13,
1 hr. 34 min.
Action & Adventure, Horror, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Action & Adventure, Horror, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Andrew Stanton
Andrew Stanton,
Mark Andrews,
Michael Chabon,
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Mar 9, 2012 Wide
A Thousand Words
Movie Info
Eddie Murphy is Jack McCall, a fast-talking literary agent, who can
close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru
Dr. Sinja (Cliff Curtis) for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is
on to him, and Jack's life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree
mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word Jack speaks, a
leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls,
both he and the tree are toast. Words have never failed Jack McCall, but
now
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Mar 9, 2012 Wide
Paramount Pictures
Silent House
Movie Info
From the directors of the hit film Open Water, Silent House is a
uniquely unsettling horror thriller starring Elizabeth Olsen as Sarah, a
young woman who finds herself sealed inside her family's secluded lake
house. With no contact to the outside world, and no way out, panic turns
to terror to terror as events become increasingly ominous in and around
the house. Directed by filmmaking duo Chris Kentis and Laura Lau,
Silent House uses meticulous camera choreography to take the audience on
a
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Mar 9, 2012 Wide
Open Road Films
Friends With Kids
Movie Info
FRIENDS WITH KIDS is a daring and poignant ensemble comedy about a
close-knit circle of friends at that moment in life when children arrive
and everything changes. The last two singles in the group observe the
effect that kids have had on their friends' relationships and wonder if
there's a better way. They decide to have a kid together - and date
other people. There are big laughs and unexpected emotional truths as
this unconventional 'experiment' leads everyone in the group to question
the
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Mar 9, 2012 Limited
Roadside Attractions
Seeking Justice
Movie Info
A happily married family man's quiet life is turned upside-down when
his wife is brutally attacked one night while leaving work. The husband
unwittingly pulls himself into a dangerous underground vigilante
operation after agreeing to an intriguing offer for a stranger to exact
vengeance on is wife's attacker. While continuing to protect his wife
from the truth, he quickly discovers that his quest for justice could
lead to frightening and deadly consequences. -- (C) Anchor Bay
Mar 9, 2012 Limited
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Highlights for March
March 9, 2012
- John Carter
- A Thousand Words
- Silent House
- Friends With Kids
- Seeking Justice
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- Attenberg
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- Footnote
March 16, 2012
March 23, 2012
March 30, 2012
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Upcoming Movies for January
Albatross (2011)
Movie Info
Aspiring writer Emelia has been bought up by her grandparents and is under the impression that she is the great granddaughter of renowned novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Jonathan sees promise in Emelia and begins to tutor her, as Beth becomes enamoured with her forthright friend and decides to take her along on a visit to Oxford University - with hilariously raucous results. As Emelia's confidence and free-spirit help Beth learn to enjoy life beyond, Emelia too is inspired by Beth's determination to focus and she begins to see a way to break through her self-destructive tendencies. However, when Emelia and Jonathan begin an illicit affair, the girls' friendship is threatened. Can Emelia and Beth escape the ties of small town existence and free themselves of the Albatross around their necks?
Jan 2, 2012 Limited
CinemaNX
Norwegian Wood (2012)
Movie Info
Tokyo, the late 1960s...Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe's personal life is similarly in tumult. At heart, he is deeply devoted to his first love, Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman. But their complex bond has been forged by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Watanabe lives with the influence of death everywhere. That is, until Midori, a girl who is everything that Naoko is not - outgoing, vivacious, supremely self-confident - marches into his life and Watanabe must choose between his past and his future. -- (C) Official Site
Jan 6, 2012 Limited
Asmik Ace Entertainment
Miss Bala (2012)
Movie Info
Miss Bala tells the story of Laura, a young woman whose aspirations of becoming a beauty queen turn against her, delivering her into the hands of a gang that's terrorizing northern Mexico. Although Laura succeeds in winning the beauty queen crown, her experiences as an unwilling participant in Mexico's violent war leave her shaken and transformed. -- (C) Fox International Productions
Jan 12, 2012 Limited
Metrodome Distribution
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Movie Info
A suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller, Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin explores the factious relationship between a mother and her son. Tilda Swinton, in a bracing, tour-de-force performance, plays the mother, Eva, as she contends for 15 years with the increasing malevolence of her first-born child, Kevin (Ezra Miller). Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, We Need to Talk About Kevin explores nature vs. nurture on a whole new level as Eva's own culpability is measured against Kevin's innate evilness. Ramsay's masterful storytelling simultaneously combines a provocative moral ambiguity with a satisfying and compelling narrative, which builds to a chilling, unforgettable climax. -- (C) Oscilloscope
Jan 27, 2012 Limited
$24.0k
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$24.0k
Oscilloscope Pictures
In Darkness (2011)
Movie Info
From acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland, In Darkness is based on a true story. Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland, one day encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha's conscience. The film is also an extraordinary story of survival as these men, women and children all try to outwit certain death during 14 months of ever increasing and intense danger. -- (C) Sony Pictures Classics
Jan 27, 2012 Limited
Sony Pictures
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