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March 2, 2014

Freezer



Synopsis
Only the cold blooded survive

Dylan McDermott of Hostages and American Horror Story stars as Robert Saunders, a New York City mechanic who is knocked unconscious at his birthday dinner and wakes up to find himself locked inside the restaurant's walk-in freezer. But why he's there - and how he'll survive - will reveal a chilling nightmare of mistaken identity, the Russian mob, a missing $8 million, and a wounded cop (Peter Facinelli of The Twilight Saga) who may hold the key it all. The temperature is dropping. The fear is growing. And for a man caught between frozen death and vicious thugs, what happens next may lead to the most cold-blooded twist of all.

Cast
Milan Malisic
Pascal Petardi
Yuliya Snigir
Markus Parilo
David McNally
Peter Facinelli
Dylan McDermott

Director
Mikael Salomon

Free Birds



Synopsis
From the Academy Award-Winning producer of Shrek comes a hilarious animated adventure about two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks who travel back in time in order to keep their species off the Thanksgiving menu. Featuring an all-star voice cast, including Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler, Free Birds is loaded with laughs and stuffed with fun for the whole family!

Cast
Amy Poehler
Owen Wilson
Woody Harrelson

Director
Jimmy Hayward

Filth



A bipolar, bigoted junkie cop manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.

Director: Jon S. Baird
Writers: Jon S. Baird (screenplay), Irvine Welsh (novel)
Stars: Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, James McAvoy

Escape Plan



Synopsis
No one breaks out alone

One of the world's foremost authorities on structural security agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called "The Tomb." Deceived and wrongfully imprisoned, Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built. Escape Plan is the first pairing of action legends Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in leading roles, and co-stars Jim Caviezel, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Vinnie Jones and Vincent D'Onofrio.

Cast
50 Cent
Amy Ryan
Jim Caviezel
Vinnie Jones
Sylvester Stallone
Vincent D'Onofrio
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Director
Mikael Hafstrom

Enough Said



Synopsis
James Gandolfini, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Catherine Keener shine in this heartwarming comedy that A.O. Scott of The New York Times calls "a small miracle of a movie."

Divorced mom Eva (Louis-Dreyfus) may be falling for Albert (Gandolfini), a sweet, funny, like-minded divorcee. But as their relationship blossoms, Eva befriends Marianne (Keener), who's always complaining about her ex-husband. When Eva realizes that Albert is the target of Marianne's rants, she begins to question her own perceptions about first impressions and second chances.

Cast
Toni Collette
Catherine Keener
James Gandolfini
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Director
Nicole Holofcener

Ender's Game



Synopsis
As fears of an alien invasion grow, Earth's International Fleet recruits an unlikely leader - a young and brilliant boy - to command its forces and fight for the future of the human race. Based on the worldwide bestseller and featuring an all-star cast, Ender's Game bursts with epic adventure and stunning visual effects.

Cast
Hailee Steinfeld
Viola Davis
Abigail Breslin
Harrison Ford
Ben Kingsley

Director
Gavin Hood

Counselor, The



Synopsis
Want it all. Risk it all. Lose it all.

An all-star cast, featuring Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, and Penelope Cruz, sizzles in this action packed thriller from visionary director Ridley Scott and acclaimed writer, Cormac McCarthy.

A savvy lawyer (Fassbender) known for doing the right thing for the wrong people decides to put his courage and connections to the test by diving into a treacherous drug deal for some quick cash. But the Counselor soon learns that having it all could mean losing everything.

Cast
Michael Fassbender
Javier Bardem
Penelope Cruz
Cameron Diaz
Brad Pitt

Director
Ridley Scott

Computer Chess



Synopsis
An artificially intelligent comedy by Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation, Beeswax) and Winner of the Sloan Feature Film Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, Computer Chess transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed of the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it.

Cast
Gordon Kindlmann
Gerald Peary
Robin Schwartz
Patrick Riester
James Curry
Myles Paige
Wiley Wiggins

Director
Andrew Bujalski

Charlie Countryman



Synopsis
When his late mother appears in a vision and tells him to go to Bucharest, Charlie immediately boards a plane across the Atlantic. A chance encounter with an ailing passenger leads Charlie to Gabi a Romanian beauty, changing the course of his entire trip. As he falls head-over-heels in love with Gabi, he realizes that her dark past is riddled with dangerous baggage: namely her gangster ex-husband who has no intention of letting Gabi go. Determined to protect her, Charlie enters into a hallucinatory underworld filled with violence and, strangely enough, love.

Cast
James Buckley
Aubrey Plaza
Shia LaBeouf
Mads Mikkelsen
Melissa Leo
Rupert Grint
Evan Rachel Wood
Til Schweiger
Vincent D'Onofrio

Director
Fredrik Bond

Bullet



Synopsis
The next one's got your name on it

Return to the macho glory days of shootouts, explosions, and killer one-liners with Bullet, a gritty action epic every real man should own!

International film star Danny Trejo is Frank "Bullet" Marasco, a tough talking, no nonsense cop whose fists are every bit as deadly as his gun. When ruthless mob boss Carlito Kane (Jonathan Banks, Breaking Bad) kidnaps the governor's daughter - and Bullet's grandson - the streets of Los Angeles become a very deadly place to be. Gunshots ring out and tires squeal as Bullet ditches his badge and goes looking to wipe out Kane's evil army one henchmen at a time. With the clock ticking on his grandson's life, Bullet tracks Kane to a desert hideout for a pulse-pounding, mano-a-mano Mexican showdown. Bodies pile up and blood soaks the ground as Bullet bets his life that he can break the baddest of bad guys!

Cast
John Savage
Max Perlich
Isaac C. Singleton Jr.
Derek Anthony
Eve Mauro
Tinsel Korey
Gerald Webb
Eric Etebari
Robert Blanche
Jonathan Banks
Danny Trejo
Julia Dietze
Seri DeYoung
Elizabeth Gast

Director
Nick Lyon

Breathe In



When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.

Director: Drake Doremus
Writers: Drake Doremus, Ben York Jones
Stars: Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Mackenzie Davis

Book Thief, The



Synopsis
Based on the beloved best-selling book comes this profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel (Sophie Nélisse) is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple (Oscar Winner Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson), her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max (Ben Schnetzer), a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them in this extraordinary, acclaimed film directed by Brian Percival (Downton Abbey).

Cast
Sophie Nelisse
Emily Watson
Geoffrey Rush

Director
Brian Percival

Berberian Sound Studio



Synopsis
Mild-mannered sound engineer Gilderoy (Toby Jones, The Hunger Games, Captain America) arrives in Rome to begin work on the soundtrack to a film called The Equestrian Vortex, a tale of witchcraft and murder set inside an all-girl riding academy. Before long he finds himself entranced by the film's mysteriously terrifying allure, and the lines between reality and fantasy begin to blur. Now Gilderoy's own mind has become the battleground between his horrifying delusions and his desperate grasp on the real world. Tense, claustrophobic, and featuring a tour-de-force performance by Jones, Berberian Sound Studio is an electrifying portrayal of a man's descent into the darkest pit of madness and featuring a tour de force performance by Jones, Berberian Sound Studio is "a strange and beautiful homage to seventies horror films. See it if you dare." (Blige Ebiri, New York Magazine).

Cast
Chara D'Anna
Salvatore Li Causi
Fatma Mohamed
Antonio Mancino
Toby Jones

Director
Peter Strickland

Bad Milo!



Synopsis
Embrace your inner demon

Duncan's (Ken Marino) mounting stress starts to trigger an insufferable gastrointestinal reaction. Out of ideas and at the end of his rope, Duncan seeks the help of a hypnotherapist, who helps him discover the root of his unusual stomach pain: a pint-sized demon living in his intestine that, triggered by excessive anxiety, forces its way out and slaughters the people who have caused Duncan stress.

Out of fear that his intestinal gremlin may target its wrath on the wrong person, Duncan attempts to befriend it, naming it Milo and indulging it to keep its seemingly insatiable appetite at bay.

Cast
Gillian Jacobs
Stephen Root
Ken Marino
Patrick Warburton
Mary Kay Place
Peter Stormare


Director
Jacob Vaughan

Adventurer, The: The Curse Of The Midas Box



Synopsis
Ancient mysteries. Powerful evil. And a fearless hero's quest through a fantastical realm of steam-powered wonders and sinister magic... seventeen-year-old Mariah Mundi's life is turned upside down when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped. Following a trail of clues to the darkly majestic Prince Regent Hotel, Mariah discovers a hidden realm of child-stealing monsters, deadly secrets and a long-lost artifact that grants limitless wealth - but also devastating supernatural power. With the fate of his world, and his family at stake, Mariah will risk everything to unravel the Curse of the Midas Box! Based on G.P. Taylor's best-selling book, this breathtaking adventure features Michael Sheen (The Twilight Saga), Lena Headey (Game Of Thrones) and Sam Neil (Jurassic Park).

Cast
Aneurin Barnard
Ioan Gruffudd
Sam Neill
Michael Sheen
Keeley Hawes
Lena Headey

Director
Jonathan Newman

Adult World



Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.

Director: Scott Coffey
Writer: Andy Cochran
Stars: Emma Roberts, Evan Peters, John Cusack

A.C.O.D.



Synopsis
He's about to ruin a perfectly good divorce.

Meet Carter. It's been years since his parents' divorce. But now, with the wedding of his younger brother, he must keep mom and dad form annihilating each other all over again. That's when the real surprises start - including a shocking revelation from his childhood "therapist," the arrival of his dad's latest wife, his own commitment issues with his gorgeous girlfriend, and confronting the sexy A.C.O.D. from his past.

This breakout Sundance hit features an all-star comedy ensemble: Adam Scott, Catherine O'Hara, Richard Jenkins, Amy Poehler, Jane Lynch, Jessica Alba, Clark Duke and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.


Cast
Clark Duke
Amy Poehler
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Jessica Alba
Jane Lynch
Adam Scott
Ken Howard
Richard Jenkins
Catherine O'Hara

Director
Stuart Zicherman

3096 Days



A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the factual case of Natascha Kampusch.

Director: Sherry Hormann
Writers: Ruth Toma (screenplay), Bernd Eichinger
Stars: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Thure Lindhardt, Amelia Pidgeon

12 Years a Slave



From acclaimed director Steve McQueen comes this "deeply evocative and brilliantly acted" film (Claudia Puig, USA Today) based on the true story of Solomon Northup.

It is 1841, and Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor in a gripping performance), an accomplished, free citizen of New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Stripped of his identity and deprived of all dignity, Northup is ultimately purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender) and must find the strength within to survive. Filled with powerful performances by an astonishing cast that includes Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt and newcomer Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years A Slave is both an unflinching account of slavery in American history and a celebration of the indomitable power of hope.

Cast
Benedict Cumberbatch
Paul Dano
Michael Fassbender
Michael K. Williams
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Paul Giamatti
Brad Pitt

Director
Steve McQueen

January 17, 2014

Machete Kills



Synopsis
Danny Trejo returns as legendary ex-Federale Machete Cortez in this action-packed thrill ride from innovative director Robert Rodriguez. In his latest mission, Machete is recruited by the U.S. President (Carlos Estevez) to stop a crazed global terrorist (Mel Gibson) from starting a nuclear war. With a bounty on his head, Machete breaks all the rules as he faces death at every turn from a star-studded cast of deadly assassins. Featuring Michelle Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Amber Heard, Antonio Banderas, Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Demian Bichir, Machete Kills is""Absurdly entertaining. Defies expectations!" (Harry Knowles, Ain't It Cool News). It's one of the wildest save-the-world adventures ever captured on film!

Cast
Alexa Vega
Danny Trejo
Mel Gibson

Director
Robert Rodriguez