WANDERLUST

Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston star in WANDERLUST, a raucous comedy from director David Wain (ROLE MODELS) and producer Judd Apatow about a couple who leaves the pressures of the big city and joins a rural commune where the only rule is to be yourself. Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston play the overextended Manhattanites, who stumble upon an idyllic community populated by colorful characters and a freewheeling attitude. Justin Theroux, Alan Alda, and Ray Liotta, Kathryn Hahn, and Joe Lo Truglio co-star.    more

					
GONE

In the new suspense thriller GONE, everyone thinks Jill Parrish (Amanda Seyfried, DEAR JOHN, MAMA MIA!) is crying wolf. When Jill discovers that her sister Molly has suddenly disappeared, she’s convinced that Molly has been abducted by the same serial killer from whom she escaped just a year before. Jill takes matters into her own hands when the police dismiss her, racing against the clock in a heart–pounding chase to find the killer and save her sister. Wes Bentley (AMERICAN BEAUTY) plays the possible villain, with Grey’s Anatomy’s Daniel Sunjata as a heedless police officer.    more

					
ACT OF VALOR

An unprecedented blend of real–life heroism and original filmmaking, ACT OF VALOR stars a group of active–duty Navy SEALs in a powerful story of contemporary global anti–terrorism. Inspired by true events, the film combines stunning combat sequences, the latest battlefield technology, and heart pumping emotion while taking audiences deep inside the secretive world of the most elite, highly trained group of warriors in the modern world. A sprawling anti–terror operation sends the SEALs across the globe to rescue a hostage CIA agent and stop a coordinated attack that could kill thousands of civilians, making this the ultimate action adventure.    more

					
TYLER PERRY'S GOOD DEEDS

Tyler Perry, known for the raucous humor of MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY and MADEA’S FAMILY REUNION, settles into a more easygoing dramatic comedy with GOOD DEEDS. He plays a successful businessman who falls in love with a single mother working on his office building's cleaning crew. Thandie Newton (CRASH) plays the woman who opens his eyes to another side of life. Gabrielle Union, Brian White, Phylicia Rashas, Jamie Kennedy, and Rebecca Monijn costar in this moving, uplifting drama about the coincidence, courage, and the defining choices we make on our paths to happiness.    more

					
RYUJIN MABUYER - SpotlightAsia!

Based on the popular Japanese TV series and an official selection of the Hawaii International Film Festival, RYUJIN MABUYER is the story of the action hero Mabuyer, the warrior of the Okinawan souls summoned from Nirai Kanai, the mythical place from which all life originates. Incorporating many aspects of the culture, language, religion, and myths of the island of Okinawa, as well as high–kicking Sentati action sequences similar to ’Power Rangers,’ RYUJIN MABUYER is an exciting new addition to the action hero genre.    more

					
TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN

A pulse–pounding action thriller based on John Marsden’s bestselling series of books, TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN follows the journey of eight high school friends in a coastal Australian town whose lives are suddenly and violently upended by an invasion that no one saw coming. When the hostile armed forces become alerted to the presence of the teens, they must band together to escape, outwit and strike back against the mysterious enemy. Featuring a stellar young cast, including Caitlin Stasey (Australian TV series “Neighbours”), Rachel Hurd-Wood (PETER PAN), and Phoebe Tonkin (“The Secret Circle”).    more

					
TRAVELLING LIGHT - NT LIVE

Nicholas Wright’s new play is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age. In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph. Bankrolled by an ebullient local timber merchant, and inspired by a girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of story–telling. Forty years on, Motl — now a famed American film director — looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams.    more

					
PULP FICTION - Hana Hou Picture Show

Outrageously violent, time–twisting, and in love with language, PULP FICTION is widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. The Oscar winning script by Tarantino and Roger Avary intertwines three stories, featuring Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta in the role that single handedly reignited his career, as hit men who have philosophical interchanges on such topics as the French names for American fast food products; Bruce Willis as a boxer out of a 1940s B movie; and such stalwarts as Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, and Uma Thurman, whose dance sequence with Travolta is a memorable classic    more

					
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS - NT LIVE

Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse (Lenny Henry) and his servant Dromio who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their distant home. Meanwhile, Aegeon, father to the Antipholus twins, has been captured searching for his sons and, as an illegal immigrant, is sentenced to death at sunset. Shakespeare’s furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time.    more

					
A SEPARATION

This intense Iranian drama is a favorite in this year’s Academy Awards Best Foreign Film race. It already has an armload of awards, including the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and the Berlin International Film Festival's coveted Golden Bear. A SEPARATION depicts the emotional trials of a once–loving couple torn apart by the wife’s desire that their daughter will have a better life. Director Asghar Farhadi cast his daughter Sarina as the couple's 11 year old offspring, who is forced to make a heartbreaking decision for reasons she cannot understand.    more

					
JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME

A big hit at the Toronto International Film Festival, this wildly offbeat comedy was inspired by a slacker whom indie writer/directors Jay and Mark Duplass (CYRUS) met at an Austin coffee house. Jeff (Jason Segel, “How I Met Your Mother,” FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL) is a self–styled philosopher who gets caught up in a series of comedic and unexpected events when he leaves his basement apartment on an errand for his mother. The intriguing cast includes Susan Sarandon, THE HANGOVER’s Ed Helms, and Judy Greer, who recently made a splash in Oscar nominee THE DESCENDANTS.    more

					
IN DARKNESS

Directed by Agnieszka Holland (EUROPA EUROPA), Academy Award Best Foreign Film nominee IN DARKNESS relates an inspiring true story of a thief who became a hero by hiding a dozen Jews in the sewers of a small Nazi occupied Polish village. What starts out as a straightforward business arrangement turns into an unlikely alliance as these men, women, and children try to outwit certain death during 14 months of ever increasing danger.    more

					
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

Oscar winner Tilda Swinton (MICHAEL CLAYTON) is turning heards for her searing portrait of a heedless, career-minded mother coping with her son's killing spree in suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN. KEVIN is Scottish director Lynne Ramsey's first film in nine years, and she takes a poetic, compassionate approach to the potentially sensational subject matter. John C. Reilly co-stars as Kevin's more attentive father, but the film embraces all its characters with sympathy.
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CHICO & RITA

From Oscar winning director Fernando Trueba (BELLE EPOQUE) and renowned illustrator and designer Javier Mariscal comes CHICO & RITA, a favorite to win Best Animated Feature at this year’s Academy Awards. This sexy and passionate love story set in the late 1940s and early ’50s follows a gifted songwriter and a beautiful singer, who chase their dreams and each other from Havana to New York and Las Vegas. This seductive tale features an original soundtrack by legendary Cuban pianist, bandleader and composer Bebo Valdes and captures a definitive moment in the evolution of jazz music.    more

					
FOONOTE

Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film of 2011 and winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Best Screenplay Award, this poignant Israeli comedy–drama promises to be more than a mere footnote in your moviegoing agenda. It focuses on the rivalry for Israel’s most prestigious academic award, with the competitors a cantankerous, traditional professor of the Talmud and a younger, more progressive professor. The fact that they’re father and son stirs the emotional fires even more intensely. The film sheds light on the rivalries among academic circles while exploring the depths of domestic, generational conflicts.    more