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August 29, 2012

Safe


Synopsis
When a second-rate cage fighter, Luke Wright, is tormented by the Russian Mafia and wanders the streets of New York, he witnesses a young Chinese girl Mei, being pursued by the same mafia who want her for a priceless numerical code that they would kill for.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• James Hong
• Chris Sarandon
• Jason Statham
• Robert John Burke
• Anson Mount

Writers:
• Boaz Yakin

Producers:
• Dana Brunetti
• Kevin Spacey
• Lawrence Bender
• Deepak Nayar

Directors:
• Boaz Yakin

August 27, 2012

Citizen Gangster


Synopsis
Based on the true story of Edwin Boyd, the man who became postwar Toronto's most famous criminal, Citizen Gangster is a powerful tale of one man's rise from obscurity to criminal celebrity and the dangerous price he pays for it.

Eddie Boyd (Scott Speedman, The Moth Diaries, The Strangers), has returned from WWII and is dismayed by public indifference towards veterans and humiliated by his inability to fulfill his dream of being a Hollywood star. Moreover, his veteran status has done nothing to help him provide for his children and wife Doreen (Kelly Reilly, Sherlock Holmes). Seeing only disappointment in the face of his policeman father (Brian Cox, Zodiac), Eddie becomes desperate and starts to rob banks. But what starts as friendly and flirtatious robberies evolves over time into a career not unlike that of Clyde Barrow or Butch Cassidy, in which crime and love mix with explosive results.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Kelly Reilly
• Scott Speedman
• Kevin Durand

Breathless


Synopsis
Clark County, Texas trailer housewife Lorna (Gina Gershon) is fed up with her small-time thief husband Dale (Val Kilmer), especially after he doesn't plan on sharing the $100,000 cash he'd robbed at gunpoint from the local savings & loan. But before she and her best friend Tiny (Kelli Giddish of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) can split the loot and start a new life, they'll have to find the money, dispose of a dead body, distract the nosy sheriff (Ray Liotta) and outsmart a persistent private investigator (Wayne Duvall of O Brother, Where Art Tho?). Richard Riehle (Office Space) co-stars in this pitch-black comedy/thriller about nasty double-crosses, bloody doublewides, and a whole bunch of unexpected twists that will leave you Breathless.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Gina Gershon
• Kelly Giddish
• Ray Liotta
• Val Kilmer
• Richard Riehle
• Wayne Duvall

Writers:
• Jesse Baget
• Stefania Moscato

Producers:
• Phillip B. Goldfine

Directors:
• Jesse Baget

Bachelorette


Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.

Director: Leslye Headland
Writer: Leslye Headland (screenplay)
Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher and Lizzy Caplan

Avengers, The


Synopsis
Marvel presents Marvel's The Avengers, the Super Hero team-up of a lifetime. Iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America assemble for the first time ever in this new action-packed Marvel saga, starring Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Joss Whedon. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself needing a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Complete with must-own exclusive content including Second Screen and a never-before-seen Short, Marvel's The Avengers is packed with action, adventure and spectacular special effects that'll knock your socks off.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Gwyneth Paltrow
• Cobie Smulders
• Scarlett Johansson
• Chris Evans
• Samuel L. Jackson
• Robert Downey Jr.
• Stellan Skarsgard
• Mark Ruffalo
• Paul Bettany
• Jeremy Renner
• Clark Gregg
• Chris Hemsworth
• Tom Hiddleston

Writers:
• Joss Whedon

Directors:
• Joss Whedon

Apartment 143


Synopsis
A team of parapsychologists sets out to investigate a series of anomalous phenomena taking place in a newly occupied apartment. Telephone calls with no caller, mysterious shadows, extraordinary light emissions, flying objects, and exploding light bulbs, are some of the events they will face while recording their every step with state-of-the-art technology. Using infra-red filming, digital photography, psychophonic recordings, movement detectors, and magnetic field alteration meters, the group's attempts to contact the "other side" will grow increasingly dangerous as they near a point of no return...

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Kai Lennox
• Michael O'Keefe

Writers:
• Rodrigo Cortes

Any Question For Ben?


Ben (Josh Lawson) is a twenty-something up and coming marketing guru who is invited to his old school to speak at a careers event, which is also attended by Alex (Rachael Taylor), an old classmate. This rekindles a mutual attraction between them and is also a life-changing event for Ben, as he starts to question his career to date, and where his life is headed. He turns to those around him for support but realization slowly dawns that it is only he who can control his own destiny.

Director: Rob Sitch
Writers: Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner
Stars: Josh Lawson, Rachael Taylor and Daniel Henshall

August 21, 2012

Piranha DD


Synopsis
Prepare for double the action, double the terror and double the D's. The prehistoric school of bloodthirsty piranhas are back and this time, no one is safe from the flesh-eating fish as they sink their razor sharp teeth into the visitors of summer's best attraction, The Big Wet Water Park. Starring Danielle Panabaker, Matt Bush, David Koechner, Chris Zylka, Katrina Bowden, Gary Busey, Christopher Lloyd and David Hasselhoff.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
 • Adrian Martinez
 • Danielle Panabaker
 • Katrina Bowden
 • David Hasselhoff
 • Jean-Luc Bilodeau
 • Matt Bush
 • Chris Zylka

Writers:
 • Marcus Dunstan
 • Patrick Melton

Directors:
 • John Gulager

Tall Man, The


Synopsis
Darkness has descended over the northwestern town of Cold Rock. One by one, its children are disappearing. They leave behind neither clues nor credible witnesses, but instead a legend, a story cloaked in shadows passed from neighbor to neighbor - And with it, a building sense of terror which threatens to devour what's left of the community itself. Superstitious locals talk of "The Tall Man," a mysterious figure who takes the children away, never to be seen again. But Julia Denning (Jessica Biel) has no time for legends or superstitions. A nurse doing her best for the emotionally distraught and economically devastated former mining town, she tries instead to preserve a semblance of normality both at work and at home. Until terror enters her own front door. Waking up in the middle of the night, she races to her child's bedroom, only to discover an empty bed ? and a hulking specter in the downstairs doorway who steals off into the darkness with her boy (Jakob Davies). As Julia follows in pursuit, she will stop at nothing and will risk everything to save him. Joined by determined investigator, Lt. Dodd (Stephen McHattie) and the town's local sheriff (William B. Davis), the chase is on and with it the quest for answers: Who is "The Tall Man?" What has become of the children? Soon, the town of Cold Rock will have the answers it so desperately seeks, answers that will shake the community to its core. A suspense-filled thriller like no other, The Tall Man mines a corrosive world of fear and terror before ultimately revealing its own unimaginable truth.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
 • Jessica Biel
 • Jodelle Ferland
 • Samantha Ferris
 • Stephen McHattie
 • William B. Davis

Writers:
 • Pascal Laughier

Directors:
 • Pascal Laughier

Dictator, The


Synopsis
From the creators of Borat comes the hilarious story of a North African dictator (Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat, Bruno, Da Ali G Show) who, on a visit to New York, is stripped of his power and forced to get a real job at a Brooklyn health food store.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
 • Sacha Baron Cohen
 • Anna Faris
 • Ben Kingsley

Writers:
 • Sacha Baron Cohen
 • Jeff Schaffer
 • Alec Berg
 • David Mandel

Producers:
 • Scott Rudin
 • Jeff Schaffer
 • Alec Berg
 • David Mandel
 • Anthony Hines
 • Todd Schulman

Directors:
 • Larry Charles

Detention


Synopsis
Cancel your future

Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook and Spencer Locke star in Detention, a hipster, teen horror-comedy where the local students of Grizzly Lake must survive their final year of high school. Standing in their way is Cinderhella, a slasher-movie killer who has seemingly come to life and is preying on the school's student body. As the clock ticks and the bodies pile up, the likely suspects are embroiled in a race against time to stop Cinderhella and ultimately save the world... if only they can get out of detention.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
 • Shanley Caswell
 • Dane Cook
 • Josh Hutcherson
 • Spencer Locke

Writers:
 • Joseph Kahn
 • Mark Palermo

Producers:
 • Richard Weager

Directors:
 • Joseph Kahn

August 20, 2012

V/H/S


When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.

Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner
Writers: Glenn McQuaid, David Bruckner
Stars: Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes and Adam Wingard

Post Mortem


Synopsis
Pablo Larrain's follow-up to Tony Manero is another unnerving look at one man's psychosis set against a country's political and moral turmoil here, a lonely morgue clerk whose infatuation with theburlesque dancer next door plays out against the violent chaos of Chile's 1973 military coup.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Antonia Zegers
• Alfredo Castro
• Amparo Noguera

Writers:
• Pablo Larrain

Directors:
• Pablo Larrain

Lucky One, The


Synopsis
Based on Nicholas Sparks' bestseller The Lucky One, Zac Efron (17 Again, Charlie St. Cloud) stars alongside Taylor Schilling (TV's Mercy) and Blythe Danner (Meet the Parents franchise) in this romantic drama directed by Academy Award-nominated writer/director Scott Hicks (Shine, No Reservations).

U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault (Efron) returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive-a photograph he found of a woman he doesn't even know. Learning her name is Beth (Schilling) and where she lives, he shows up at her door, and ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel. Despite her initial mistrust and the complications in her life, a romance develops between them, giving Logan hope that Beth could be much more than his good luck charm.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Blythe Danner
• Taylor Schilling
• Zac Efron
• Robert Hayes
• Adam LeFevre
• Joe Chrest
• Jay R. Ferguson

Writers:
• Will Fetters
• Nicholas Sparks

Directors:
• Scott Hicks

Lake Effects


Synopsis
Sara (Scottie Thomson) and Lily (Madeline Zima) are two sisters from a small, lakeside town that lead two different lives: Sara, a successful, Los Angeles attorney and Lily, a local art teacher who never left home. But when the father of the two sisters unexpectedly dies, Sara returns to Virginia to help settle his estate. Through the guidance of their father's spirit, the two women and their mother, Vivian (Jane Seymour), will finally discover what being a family truly means. Ben Savage (Boy Meets World), Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers), Richard Riehle (Office Space) and Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints) co-star in this heartwarming story about trust, forgiveness and confronting the past to embrace your future.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Jane Seymour
• Casper Van Dien
• Sean Patrick Flanery
• Madeline Zima
• Richard Riehle
• Scott Thompson
• Ben Savage

Writers:
• Michael McKay

Directors:
• Michael McKay

Freelancers


Synopsis
To serve, protect... and steal.

The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops. His new boss, Sarcone, will see if he has what it takes to be rogue through many trials and tribulations of loyalty, trust and respect. When the truth about his father's death is revealed revenge takes him over and he won't stop until justice has been truly served.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Forest Whitaker
• Robert De Niro
• 50 Cent
• Dana Delany
• Beau Garrett
• Malcolm Goodwin
• Ryan O'Nan

Writers:
• L. Philippe Casseus

Producers:
• Randall Emmett
• 50 Cent
• George Furla

Directors:
• Jessy Terrero

Darling Companion


Synopsis
In Darling Companion, Beth (Diane Keaton) saves a bedraggled lost dog from the side of the freeway on a wintry day in Denver. Struggling with her distracted, self-involved husband Joseph (Kevin Kline) and an empty nest at home, Beth forms a special bond with the rescued animal. When Joseph loses the dog after a wedding at their vacation home in the Rockies, the distraught Beth enlists the help of the few remaining guests and a mysterious young woman (Ayelet Zurer) in a frantic search. Each member of the search party is affected by the adventure, which takes them in unexpected directions - comic, harrowing, sometimes deeply emotional and ultimately towards love.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Sam Shepard
• Kevin Kline
• Diane Keaton
• Ayelet Zurer
• Dianne Wiest
• Elisabeth Moss
• Richard Jenkins
• Mark Duplass

Writers:
• Lawrence Kasdan
• Meg Kasdan

Producers:
• Lawrence Kasdan
• Elizabeth Redleaf
• Anthony Bregman

Directors:
• Lawrence Kasdan

Assassin's Bullet


When an unknown vigilante begins killing high-priority terrorists from America s Most Wanted list in Europe, a former FBI field agent (Christian Slater) is brought in by the US Ambassador (Donald Sutherland) to discover the identity of the assassin.

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Christian Slater, Timothy Spall
Directors: Isaac Florentine

August 10, 2012

Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan, The


Football hooligan Mike Jacobs is going nowhere in life when he meets old friend Eddie Hill at a riot. Under Eddie’s tutelage he soon finds himself inducted into the world of credit card fraud, where organised gangs withdraw hundreds of thousands of pounds from cash machines every night.
As Mike becomes seduced by the money and women that come with his new lifestyle, the dangers increase and he soon finds events spiralling beyond his control.

Actors: Nick Nevern, Simon Phillips, Billy Murray, Rebecca Ferdinando, Ricci Harnett
Directors: Paul Tanter

Trishna


The story of the tragic relationship between the son of a property developer and the daughter of an auto rickshaw owner.

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Writers: Michael Winterbottom (screenplay), Thomas Hardy (novel)
Stars: Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed and Anurag Kashyap

On The Ice


Synopsis
In this engrossing and suspenseful feature film debut by filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers go about their lives in the comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town. Early one morning, on a seal hunt with another teenager, an argument between the three boys quickly escalates into a tragic accident. Bonded by their dark secret, the two best friends are forced to create one fabrication after another in order to survive. The shocked boys stumble through guilt-fueled days, avoiding the suspicions of their community as they weave a web of deceit. With their future in the balance, they are forced to explore the limits of friendship and honor.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Frank Qutuq Irelan
• Josiah Patkotak

Writers:
• Andrew Okpeaha MacLean

Producers:
• Zhana Londoner
• Lynette Howell
• Cara Marcous
• Marco Londoner

Directors:
• Andrew Okpeaha MacLean

Monitor, The


Synopsis
How far would you goito protect theiones you love?

After escaping an abusive husband, Anna and her son move far away to a secret location. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them, she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son's room. When strange noises echo through the monitor, Anna believes another child in the building is being murdered, and then she fears the worst - that it's her own son.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Noomi Rapace
• Kristoffer Joner
• Henrik Rafaelsen
• Vetle Ovenild Werring

Writers:
• Pal Sletaune

Producers:
• Turid Oversveen

Directors:
• Pal Sletaune

Mamitas


Synopsis
Two Latino youths from different backgrounds form a life-changing friendship in the heartfelt coming-of-age film.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Veronica Diaz
• E.J. Bonilla

Battleship


Synopsis

The battle for Earth begins at sea in this epic action-adventure starring Liam Neeson, Taylor Kitsch, Rihanna, Alexander Skarsgård and Brooklyn Decker. An international naval coalition becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage a hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. Ripping across sea, sky and land, Battleship is "a big bold blast" (MSN Movies), packed with spectacular visual effects and explosive action.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Liam Neeson
• Rihanna
• Brooklyn Decker
• Alexander Skarsgard
• Tadanobu Asano
• Hamish Linklater

Writers:
• Erich Hoeber
• Jon Hoeber

Directors:
• Peter Berg