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April 26, 2013

Jack Reacher



Synopsis
Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) leaps off the pages of Lee Child's bestselling novel and onto the big screen in the explosive thriller the critics are calling "taut, muscular, gruff and cool." When an unspeakable crime is committed, all evidence points to the suspect in custody who offers up a single note in defense: "Get Jack Reacher!" The law has its limits, but Reacher does not when his fight for the truth pits him against an unexpected enemy with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.

Cast
Tom Cruise
Robert Duvall
Werner Herzog
Rosamund Pike

Director
Christopher McQuarrie

Haunted House, A



Synopsis
This $*%! ain't paranormal.

Marlon Wayans and Cedric the Entertainer star in this outrageously funny supernatural scary movie. When young couple Malcolm (Wayans) and Kisha (Essence Atkins) move in to their dream place, they soon discover they're not alone. But it's not the home that's possessed, it's Kisha. Now, Malcolm will go to hilarious extremes - including hiring a priest, a psychic and a team of modern-day ghostbusters to get his place and his sex life back to normal. Co-starring Nick Swardson and David Koechner, it's the no-holds-barred, raunchy comedy that will have you laughing from start to finish.


Cast
Marlon Wayans
Dave Sheridan
Cedric The Entertainer
Essence Atkins
Marlene Forte
David Koechner
Nick Swardson

Director
Michael Tiddes

Haunting In Connecticut 2, The: Ghosts Of Georgia



Synopsis
Building on the terror of The Haunting in Connecticut, this horrifying tale traces a young family's nightmarish descent into a centuries-old Southern hell. When Andy Wyrick (Chad Michael Murray, House of Wax) moves his wife Lisa (Abigail Spencer, TV's Mad Men) and daughter Heidi to an historic home in Georgia, they quickly discover they are not the house's only inhabitants. Joined by Lisa's free-spirited sister, Joyce (Katee Sackhoff, TV's Battlestar Galactica), the family soon comes face-to-face with a bone-chilling mystery born of a deranged desire... a haunting secret rising from underground and threatening to bring down anyone in its path.


Cast
Cicely Tyson
Abigail Spencer
Chad Michael Murray
Katee Sackhoff
Emily Alyn Lind

Director
Tom Elkins

Guilt Trip, The



Synopsis
"Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen are the perfect comedy duo" (Jake Hamilton, FOX-TV) as they embark on one mother of a road trip! The plan for a quick stop at Mom's takes a sudden turn when an impulse compels Andy (Seth Rogen) to invite his mother, Joyce (Barbra Streisand), on an 8-day, 3,000 mile, journey across the country. But the farther they go, the closer they get and Andy may realize that they have more in common than he ever imagined.

Cast
Barbra Streisand
Seth Rogen

Director
Anne Fletcher

Assassins Run



Synopsis
Maya becomes the target of the Russian mafia after her husband is killed. Refusing to cooperate with the mafia's demands, she is framed by corrupt cops and thrown into prison, only to discover that her daughter has been kidnapped. After plotting an escape route, Maya's motherly instinct turns deadly as she prepares to kill anyone who stands in the way of her daughter's safe return.

Cast
Christian Slater
Angus Macfadyen
Cole Hauser
Sofya Skya

Director
Robert Crombie
Sofya Skya

Any Day Now



Synopsis
They made him a promise. He made them a family.

Inspired by a true story from the 1970s, and starring Alan Cumming in a tour-de-force performance, Any Day Now is a powerful tale of love, acceptance and family. When a teenager with down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple, Rudy (Alan Cumming) and Paul (Garret Dillahunt), take him in and become the loving family he's never had. But when their living arrangement is discovered, the men are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the life of the child they have come to love as their own

Cast
Alan Cumming
Garret Dillahunt
Frances Fisher
Alan Rachins
Gregg Henry
Kelli Williams
Chris Mulkey
Don Franklin
Jamie Anne Allman
Isaac Leyva

Director
Travis Fine

April 19, 2013

Save the Date




Synopsis
Sometimes you have to break a heart to be true to your own

After an ill-timed and very public marriage proposal, fiercely independent Sarah (Lizzy Caplan, Hot Tub Time Machine, 127 Hours) breaks up with her overeager boyfriend Kevin (Geoffrey Arend, (500) Days of Summer, Devil). Sarah turns to her sister Beth (Alison Brie, Community, Mad Men) for support, but Beth is too busy obsessing over the details of her own wedding to Kevin's band mate, Andrew (Martin Starr, Adventureland, Freaks and Geeks). When Sarah suddenly finds herself caught up in an intense rebound romance with the adorable Jonathan (Mark Webber, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), she is forced to examine her own fears of commitment and vulnerability and decide if she's better off staying safely single or risking everything on love. By turns funny, sad, and sweet, Save The Date is a heartfelt and sincere comedy about the familial and romantic bonds that hold us together.


Cast
Timothy Busfield
Mark Webber
Martin Starr
Melonie Diaz
Lizzy Caplan
Geoffrey Arend
Alison Brie


Director
Michael Mohan

Promised Land



Synopsis
Matt Damon stars in Promised Land, the compelling contemporary drama based on an original screenplay by John Krasinski and Damon and directed by Gus Van Sant (Milk, Good Will Hunting). Corporate salesman Steve Butler (Damon) has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner (Frances McDormand) to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. What seems like an easy job for the duo quickly becomes complicated by a respected schoolteacher (Hal Holbrook), a slick environmental activist (Krasinski), and Steve's interest in a local woman (Rosemarie DeWitt). As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.

Cast
Matt Damon
John Krasinski
Frances McDormand
Rosemarie DeWitt

Director
Gus Van Sant

Love is All You Need



A hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer finds out her husband is having an affair, travels to Italy for her daughter's wedding and meets a widower who still blames the world for the loss of his wife.

Director: Susanne Bier
Writers: Anders Thomas Jensen (screenplay), Susanne Bier (story), 1 more credit »
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Kim Bodnia

Love and Honor



When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometown girl, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.

Director: Danny Mooney
Writers: Jim Burnstein, Garrett K. Schiff
Stars: Liam Hemsworth, Austin Stowell, Teresa Palmer

Gangster Squad



Synopsis
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and-if he has his way-every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop...except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen's world apart.


Cast
Sean Penn
Nick Nolte
Josh Brolin
Wade Williams
Holt McCallany
Ryan Gosling
Emma Stone
Ambyr Childers

Director
Ruben Fleischer

Frankenstein Theory



Synopsis
What if the most chilling novel of all time was actually based on a true account of a horrific experiment gone awry? When he is suspended from his university job for his outlandish ideas, Professor John Venkenheim leads a documentary film crew to the rim of the Arctic Circle in a desperate effort to vindicate his academic reputation. His theory: Mary Shelley's ghastly story, Frankenstein, is, in fact, a work of non-fiction disguised as fantasy.

In the vast, frozen wilderness, Venkenheim and his team search for the legendary monster, a creature mired in mystery and drenched in blood. What they find is an unspeakable truth more terrifying than any fiction - a nightmare from which there is no waking.

Cast
Heather Stephens
Christine Lakin
Kris Lemche
Brian Henderson
Timothy V. Murphy
Joe Egender
Eric Zuckerman
Roger Morrissey

Director
Andrew Weiner

Broken City



Synopsis
Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta Jones star in this gripping crime thriller where everyone has a motive and no one can be trusted.

Seven years after being forced to resign as a New York police officer, private detective Billy Taggart (Wahlberg) takes on his toughest case yet: following the wife (Zeta-Jones) of the city's hard-nosed mayor (Crowe), who's convinced she's cheating on him. But by the time the mayor reveals his true intentions, Billy is already in too deep. Now, with his freedom - and quite possibly his life - on the line, Billy will risk it all in a desperate bid to expose the truth, and seek redemption in a city where second chances don't come cheap.

Cast
Russell Crowe
Mark Wahlberg
Kyle Chandler
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Barry Pepper
Jeffrey Wright
Alona Tal
Natalie Martinez

Director
Allen Hughes

April 9, 2013

Zero Dark Thirty



Synopsis
The greatest manhunt in history

For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty reunites the Oscar-winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal (2009, Best Picture, The Hurt Locker) for the story of history's greatest manhunt for the world's most dangerous man.

Cast
James Gandolfini
Kyle Chandler
Jennifer Ehle
Mark Strong
Stephen Dillane
Joel Edgerton
Chris Pratt
Callan Mulvey
Edgar Ramirez
Jessica Chastain
Jason Clarke
Fares Fares
Reda Kateb

Director
Kathryn Bigelow

Thorne: Sleepyhead



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Director: Stephen Hopkins
Writers: Dudi Appleton (screenplay), Mark Billingham

This is 40



Synopsis
From the director of Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin comes an unfiltered, comedic look inside the life of an American family. After years of marriage, Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) are approaching a milestone meltdown. As they try to balance romance, careers, parents and children in their own hilarious ways, they must also figure out how to enjoy the rest of their lives. Featuring Melissa McCarthy, Jason Segel, Megan Fox, John Lithgow and Albert Brooks, This is 40 is a candid and heartwarming comedy about the challenges and rewards of marriage and parenthood in the modern age.

Cast
John Lithgow
Leslie Mann
Albert Brooks
Paul Rudd
Jason Segel
Megan Fox

Director
Judd Apatow


Teenage Bank Heist



Synopsis
Cassie, 17, works as a teller at the bank where her mother, Joyce, is the branch manager. When the bank is robbed, Cassie is taken hostage. She soon finds out that the bank robbers are teenage girls, one of whom is her best friend, Abbie. In this propulsive real-time, ticking clock thriller, as the girls are on the run from the police, we learn that the real motivation behind the robbery was not greed but to raise ransom for Abbie's kidnapped father.

Cast
Maeve Quinlan
Davida Williams
Augie Duke
Abbie Cobb
Cassi Thomson
James Ferris
Rosa Blasi

Director
Doug Campbell


Struck By Lightning



Synopsis
High school senior Carson Phillips (Chris Colfer, Glee) was destined for bigger things than his close-minded small town could ever offer. He was on a path to greatness, but destiny had a different plan when he was suddenly killed by a bolt of lightning in his school parking lot.

Demonstrating that life is what happens while you're busy planning your future, Carson recounts the last few weeks of his life via witty, insightful flashbacks, including a blackmail scheme targeting the popular kids in school that he concocts with his best friend (Rebel Wilson, Bridesmaids) and a home life that includes a mother (Allison Janney, Juno, The West Wing) who's more interested in the bottle than her son's future and an estranged father (Dermot Mulroney, My Best Friend's Wedding) who suddenly appears with a pregnant fiancée (Christina Hendricks, Mad Men).

Cast
Christina Hendricks
Chris Colfer
Rebel Wilson

Director
Brian Dannelly


Stitches



Synopsis
Bad clown.

Years after their prank on young Tommy's (Tommy Knight, Doctor Who) birthday left hired clown Stitches (Ross Noble) dead on the kitchen floor, Tommy's childhood friends gather to plan one last birthday party to end all parties. But they didn't count on the degenerate jester returning from the grave to seek vengeance on the teens who caused his untimely end. Now Tommy and his friends are on the run from an undead jokester who's ready to use every trick in the book to exact his revenge. Director Conor McMahon delivers a delirious slasher with Stitches, the hilariously twisted and blood soaked tale of one very bad clown

Cast
Ross Noble
Tommy Knight

Director
Conor McMahon
David O'Brien

Spiders



Synopsis
Spiders centers on mutant spiders created by pieces of material from a disabled Soviet space station. With New York City threatened to be overrun, it's up to health inspector Rachel Cole to prevent the Queen Spider from uniting with her eggs and creating a full on army of five foot tall, killer spiders.

Cast
Patrick Muldoon
Christa Campbell
William Hope
Sydney Sweeney

Director
Tibor Takacs


Silver Linings Playbook



Synopsis
Based on best-selling book by Matthew Quick, Silver Linings Playbook is the riotous and poignant story of how a man (Bradley Cooper) who has lost everything... his house, his job, his wife - reconnects with himself and creates his own silver linings from the bonds he forms with his family and friends.

Cast
Chris Tucker
Julia Stiles
Bradley Cooper
Robert De Niro
Jennifer Lawrence
Jacki Weaver

Director
David O. Russell


Sightseers



Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.

Director: Ben Wheatley
Writers: Amy Jump (additional material), Alice Lowe

Parental Guidance



Synopsis
Billy Crystal, Bette Midler and Marisa Tomei prove that laughter is relative in this hilarious comedy that's fun for the whole family!

Old-school grandparents Artie (Crystal) and Diane (Midler) get more than they bargained for when they get stuck babysitting their type-A daughter's (Tomei) overprotected kids. But things go from hectic to hysterical when Artie realizes the kids are running the house with their newfangled technology. By playing by his own rules, which include sugary snacks, old fashioned games and tough love, Artie manages to outsmart the kids and achieve the impossible - bring the family closer together!

Cast
Billy Crystal
Marisa Tomei
Bette Midler
Tom Everett Scott
Bailee Madison


Director
Andy Fickman

Marine 3, The: Homefront



Synopsis
WWE superstar Mike "The Miz" Mizanin delivers a knock-out performance in the most explosive, action-packed Marine adventure yet. After returning to his hometown on leave, Sgt. Jake Carter learns that his sister has been abducted by a band of violent extremists. To save her, Carter launches a daring one-man assault on their base of operations...only to discover the group's ruthless leader is plotting a deadly terrorist strike. With time running out, Carter realizes he's the only man who can stop the impending massacre - but this American hero may have to make the ultimate sacrifice to save thousands of innocent lives.

Cast
The Miz
Neal McDonough
Ashley Bell
Michael Eklund

Director
Scott Wiper

Lincoln


Synopsis
From DreamWorks, Steven Spielberg directs two-time Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis (Best Actor, There Will Be Blood, 2007, and My Left Foot, 1989) in Lincoln - with an all-star ensemble cast including Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. This inspiring and revealing drama focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final four months in office as this visionary leader pursues a course of action to end the Civil War, unite the country and abolish slavery. Complete with never-before-seen footage featuring Steven Spielberg and the cast, who take you deep inside the making of the movie, Lincoln sheds light on a man of moral courage and fierce determination.

Cast
Daniel Day-Lewis
James Spader
Tommy Lee Jones
David Strathairn
Sally Field
Hal Holbrook
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Director
Steven Spielberg


Les Miserables



Synopsis
Hugh Jackman, Academy Award winner Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway star in this critically-acclaimed adaptation of the epic musical phenomenon. Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells the story of ex-prisoner Jean Valjean (Jackman), hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert (Crowe), after he breaks parole. When Valjean agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's (Hathaway) young daughter, Cosette, their lives change forever. This enthralling story is a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit and "an unforgettable experience"

Cast
Russell Crowe
Hugh Jackman
Anne Hathaway
Amanda Seyfried
Helena Bonham Carter
Sacha Baron Cohen
Eddie Redmayne
Aaron Tveit

Director
Tom Hooper

John Dies At The End



Synopsis
It's all about the Soy Sauce, a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs.

Cast
Clancy Brown
Paul Giamatti
Rob Mayes
Chase Williamson
Glynn Turman
Daniel Roebuck
Doug Jones

Director
Don Coscarelli


Java Heat


An American in Indonesia teams up with a Muslim cop to track down a terrorist.

Director: Conor Allyn
Writers: Conor Allyn (screenplay), Rob Allyn (screenplay)
Stars: Kellan Lutz, Verdi Solaiman, Mickey Rourke

Inescapable


Years after he left Damascus under suspicious circumstances, Adib Abdel Kareem must confront what he left behind when his daughter goes missing.

Director: Ruba Nadda
Writer: Ruba Nadda
Stars: Alexander Siddig, Joshua Jackson, Marisa Tomei

Hunt, The



A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Writers: Tobias Lindholm, Thomas Vinterberg
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp

Hobbit, The: An Unexpected Journey



Synopsis
The first in a trilogy of films based on the enduring masterpiece "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey follows title character Bilbo Baggins, who - along with the Wizard Gandalf and 13 Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield - is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome Dragon Smaug. Their journey will take them into the Wild, through treacherous lands inhabited by Goblins, Orcs and deadly Wargs, as well as a mysterious and sinister figure known only as the Necromancer. Along the path, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of ingenuity and courage that surprise even himself, he also gain possession of a "precious" ring tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways he cannot begin to imagine.

Cast
Elijah Wood
Ian McKellen
Christopher Lee
Cate Blanchett
James Nesbitt
Hugo Weaving
Ken Scott
Andy Serkis
Martin Freeman
Richard Armitage
Graham McTavish

Director
Peter Jackson

Hitchcock


Synopsis
Oscar Winners Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren are spellbinding in this provocative story about the making of one of cinema's most iconic films. Plagued by both a reckless ego and nagging self-doubt, Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock (Hopkins) becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that the studios won't back. Determined, he risks his reputation, his home and even the love of his wife Alma (Mirren), as he sets out to make the film. Ultimately, Hitch wins Alma over, and the two collaborate to create an enduring masterpiece - Psycho. Also starring Scarlett Johansson, Toni Collette and Jessica Biel, Hitchcock is "a knockout from start to finish" (Rex Reed, New York Observer).

Cast
Anthony Hopkins
Helen Mirren
Scarlett Johansson
Toni Collette
Danny Huston
Jessica Biel
Michael Stuhlbarg

Production
Ivan Reitman
Joe Medjuck
Alan Barnette
Tom Pollock
Tom Thayer

Director
Sacha Gervasi

Hemingway & Gellhorn



Synopsis
Starring Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman and Academy Award nominee Clive Owen, two of today's most acclaimed actors, and directed by Academy Award nominee Philip Kaufman, Hemingway & Gellhorn recounts one of the great romances on the last century - the passionate love affair and tumultuous marriage of literary master Ernest Hemingway (Owen) and the beautiful, trailblazing war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (Kidman) - as it follows the adventurous writers through the Spanish Civil War and beyond. As witnesses to history, they covered all the great conflicts of their time, but the war they couldn't survive was the war between themselves. The film also features an all-star supporting cast that includes Academy Award nominee David Strathairn (The Bourne Legacy), Emmy Award winner Tony Shalhoub (Monk), Parker Posey (Superman Returns), Lars Ulrich (Get Him to The Greek, founding member of Metallica), Molly Parker (The Road) and Rodrigo Santoro (Che).

Cast
Nicole Kidman
Clive Owen
Robert Duvall

Director
Philip Kaufman


Gambit, The


An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.

Director: Michael Hoffman
Writers: Ethan Coen (screenplay), Joel Coen (screenplay)
Stars: Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman

First Time, The


Synopsis

Nervous is normal

Dave (Dylan O'Brien) is an incurable romantic in love with the hottest girl in school, Jane (Victoria Justice). Unfortunately, she only thinks of him as a friend - without benefits. Through a chance encounter, Dave meets Aubrey (Britt Robertson), and alluring girl from a nearby school, which sparks a flame that soon becomes a red-hot romance filled with all the angst, missteps and awkwardness of a first time love! Hilarious and heartwarming The First Time is an unforgettable coming-of-age comedy featuring a sizzling ensemble cast

Cast
Victoria Justice
Britt Robertson
James Frecheville
Dylan O'Brien
Christine Taylor
Craig Roberts
Joshua Malina

Production
Martin Shafer
Liz Glotzer

Director
Jon Kasdan

Django Unchained



Synopsis

Django (Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx) a former slave-turned-hired gun heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), from a tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie (Academy Award nominee Leonardo DiCaprio),with the help of a German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz).

Cast
Samuel L. Jackson
Jamie Foxx
Leonardo DiCaprio
Kerry Washington
Christoph Waltz

Director
Quentin Tarantino

Collection, The


Synopsis

Every great collector has a vision.

When Elena is talked into attending an underground warehouse party with her friends, she finds herself caught in a nightmarish trap where the revelers are mowed, sliced and crushed to death by a macabre series of contraptions operated by a masked psychopath. When the grisly massacre is over, Elena is the only survivor. But before she can escape, she is locked in a trunk and transported to an unknown location. Fortunately for Elena, one man - Arkin - knows exactly where she's headed, having just escaped from there with his life and sanity barely intact. Elena's wealthy father hires a crack team of mercenaries to force Arkin to lead them to the killer's lair. But even these hardened warriors are not prepared for what they encounter.

Cast
Christopher McDonald
Lee Tergesen
Josh Stewart
Emma Fitzpatrick

Production
Mickey Liddell
Julie Richardson
Brett Forbes
Jennifer Monroe
Patrick Rizzotti

Director
Marcus Dunstan

Cloud Atlas



Synopsis
Future. Present. Past. Everything is connected. From the creators of the Matrix trilogy and the director of Run Lola Run. An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future. Based on the best-selling novel "Cloud Atlas" written by David Mitchell.


Cast & Crew

Cast
Halle Berry
Tom Hanks
Hugh Grant

Director
Andy Wachowski
Tom Tykwer

Chasing Mavericks



Synopsis

Gerard Butler, Elisabeth Shue and Hollywood newcomer Jonny Weston star in this inspiring true story of courage and friendship the whole family will love. When 15-year-old Jay Moriarty (Weston) discovers that the mythical Mavericks surf break is real, he reaches out to local surfing legend Frosty Hesson (Butler) to train him to ride it. What begins as a mentorship turns into an extraordinary bond that transforms both their lives, as Jay and Frosty learn valuable lessons about conquering fear in pursuit of your dreams. Featuring the most spectacular wave footage ever captured on film, Chasing Mavericks is packed with action and drenched with excitement!

Cast & Crew

Cast
Gerard Butler
Elisabeth Shue
Abigail Spencer
Leven Rambin
Jonny Weston

Production
Curtis Hanson
Mark Johnson
Brandon Hooper
Jim Meenaghan

Director
Michael Apted
Curtis Hanson

California Solo


Synopsis

Former Britpop rocker, Lachlan MacAldonich (Robert Carlyle, ABC TV Series Once Upon A Time, The Full Monty, Trainspotting) has settled into a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm just outside Los Angeles. By day he travels to the city's farmers' markets to sell produce to people like Beau (Alexia Rasmussen, Out Idiot Brother, Listen To Your Heart, Tanner Hall), a lovely struggling actress. By night he drinks himself into a stupor until he retires to his shabby apartment where he records a podcast about great musicians. After being pulled over one night for drunk driving, he is threatened with deportations and is forced to confront his past and current demons. California Solo is a touching, human story about post-fame life and personal redemption.

Cast & Crew

Cast
Robert Carlyle
Michael Des Barres
Danny Masterson
Kathleen Wilhoite
Alexia Rasmussen

Production
Mynette Louie

Director
Marshall Lewy

Antiviral


After becoming infected with the virus that killed superstar Hannah Geist, Syd March must unravel the mystery surrounding her death to save his own life.

Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Writer: Brandon Cronenberg (screenplay)
Stars: Caleb Landry Jones, Lisa Berry, Sarah Gadon