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March 31, 2014

Nut Job, The



Synopsis
It's time to go nuts for this action-packed comedy featuring the all-star talents of Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Gabriel Iglesias, Jeff Dunham, Liam Neeson, Maya Rudolph and Katherine Heigl. Surly (Arnett) is a mischievous squirrel with a mission: to find the tastiest nuts for winter. When he discovers a whole store filled with his favorite food, he plans a heist of nutrageous proportions. But the place turns out to be owned by ruthless bank robbers, so it's up to Surly and his furry friends to stop the nearby bank heist and save the town. The fur is sure to fly in this hilarious adventure that critics are calling "Funny and witty! For kids of all ages!" (Jeffrey Lyons, Lyons Den Radio, WCBS)

Cast
Gabriel Iglesias
Jeff Dunham
Maya Rudolph
Will Arnett
Katherine Heigl
Stephen Lang
Brendan Fraser
Liam Neeson

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Rainbow Rocks



Synopsis
Join Twilight Sparkle and her new Canterlot high friends in this brand new animated feature! When her crown is stolen from the Crystal Empire, Twilight Sparkle pursues the thief into an alternate world where she finds herself turned into... a teenage girl! To regain her crown and return to Equestria, Twilight must learn how to fit into this strange new world and defeat Sunset Shimmer in a competition to becomes crowned Princess of the Fall Formal at Canterlot High. Luckily, she'll have the assistance of Spike and five teenage girls who remind her of a certain group of ponies back home.

Lone Survivor



Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare.

Director: Peter Berg
Writers: Peter Berg, Marcus Luttrell (book)
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch

Kill Your Darlings



A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

Director: John Krokidas
Writers: Austin Bunn (screenplay), Austin Bunn (story)
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall

Khumba



Synopsis
Half a zebra... a whole lot of adventure!

Life is not all black and white for Khumba, a young zebra born with only half his stripes. When his superstitious herd blame him for the sudden drought affecting the land, Khumba teams up with a sassy wildebeest and a flamboyant ostrich to find the legendary waterhole where the first zebras got their stripes. On his daring quest across the Great Karoo desert, Khumba meets a host of quirky characters and comes face to face with a tyrannical leopard in an epic battle to earn his stripes.

Cast
Catherine Tate
Jake T. Austin
AnnaSophia Robb
Loretta Devine
Richard E. Grant
Laurence Fishburne
Liam Neeson
Steve Buscemi

Director
Anthony Silverston

Homefront



Synopsis
Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder and Kate Bosworth star in this action-packed thriller about how far one man will go to protect his family. Widowed ex-DEA agent Phil Broker (Statham) retires to a quiet Southern town with his 10-year-old daughter and discovers that the idyllic setting is riddled with drugs and violence. When a riveting chain of events forces him to face off with psychotic local drug lord Gator Bodine (Franco), Broker must retaliate using the fearsome skills he hoped to keep in his past. From screenwriter Sylvester Stallone, Homefront is "an absolute blast! A thrill ride from start to finish!" (Chris Parente, FOX-TV)

Cast
Frank Grillo
Omar Benson Miller
Rachelle Lefevre
Kate Bosworth
James Franco
Jason Statham
Clancy Brown
Winona Ryder

Director
Gary Fleder

Hobbit, The: The Desolation Of Smaug



The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring.

Director: Peter Jackson
Writers: Fran Walsh (screenplay), Philippa Boyens (screenplay), 3 more credits »
Stars: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage

Hello I Must Be Going



Synopsis
Hello I Must Be Going features acclaimed actress Melanie Lynskey (Up In The Air, Two And A Half Men) in her breakout role as Amy, a recent divorcée who seeks refuge in the suburban Connecticut home of her parents (Blythe Danner and John Rubinstein). Demoralized and directionless, Amy begins an affair with 19 year old actor Jeremy (Girls' Christopher Abbott) that reignites her passion for life and jumpstarts her independence.

Coupling Danner's riveting performance as a frustrated empty nester with Lynskey's endearing depiction of both the comic and tragic avenues of life at a crossroads, Hello I Must Be Going is a modern, unconventional love story infused with sex, humor, and raw emotional honesty.

Cast
Blythe Danner
Melanie Lynskey
Christopher Abbott
Julie White
Dan Futterman
John Rubinstein

Director
Todd Louiso

Delivery Man



Synopsis
In this heartwarming comedy, underachiever David Wozniak (Vince Vaughn) learns he's actually an overachiever - he's fathered 533 children via donations made twenty years earlier! David soon discovers that the shock of his life might just be the best thing that's ever happened to him. Along the way he discovers not only his true self, but also the father he could become. Also starring Chris Pratt and Cobie Smulders - and complete with bonus materials, it's a feel-good movie that really delivers.

Cast
Cobie Smulders
Chris Pratt
Vince Vaughn

Director
Ken Scott

Dallas Buyers Club



Synopsis
Matthew McConaughey gives the performance of his career in this uplifting and powerful film inspired by true events. Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof (McConaughey) sees his free-wheeling life overturned when he's diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. Determined to survive, Woodroof decides to take matters in his own hands by tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. After finding an unlikely ally in Rayon (Jared Leto), he establishes a hugely successful "buyers' club" and unites a band of outcasts in a struggle for dignity and acceptance that inspires in ways no one could have imagined. Co-starring Jennifer Garner, Dallas Buyers Club is "deeply moving. A livewire of a movie!" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)

Cast
Kevin Rankin
Dallas Roberts
Denis O'Hare
Jennifer Garner
Jared Leto
Steve Zahn
Matthew McConaughey

Director
Jean-Marc Vallee

Case Of You, A



Synopsis
He'll be everything she likes but himself.

Young writer Sam (Justin Long, Going the Distance) has a crush on Birdie (Evan Rachel Wood, The Ides of March), the cute and quirky barista at his local coffee shop. When his conventional attempts to woo her crash and burn, he takes his efforts online, creating an Internet profile embellished with all of the details that would make him Birdie's dream guy: ballroom dancing, rock climbing, and a seemingly endless, escalating series of wacky and unlikely hobbies. When the harebrained scheme is a surprise success and Birdie falls for his exaggerated alter ego, Sam must keep up the act or lose his dream girl forever. A fresh take on romance in the digital age, A Case Of You is a funny and heartwarming exploration of the oftentimes ridiculous things we do for love.

Cast
Justin Long
Sienna Miller
Keir O'Donnell
Peter Dinklage
Busy Philipps
Evan Rachel Wood
Vince Vaughn
Sam Rockwell
Brendan Fraser

Director
Kat Coiro

Cannibal



Carlos is the most prestigious tailor in Granada, but he's also a murderer in the shadows. He feels no remorse, no guilt, until Nina appears in his life and love awakens.

Director: Manuel Martín Cuenca
Writers: Humberto Arenal (novel), Alejandro Hernández,
Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Olimpia Melinte, Delphine

Bag Man, The



A criminal bides his time at a seedy motel, waiting for his boss after killing several men and making away with a mystery bag.

Director: David Grovic
Writers: David Grovic, Paul Conway,
Stars: John Cusack, Rebecca Da Costa, Robert De Niro

Bad Country



Synopsis
When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter (Dafoe) busts contract killer Jesse Weiland (Dillon), he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring. So when the syndicate orders Carter's death and Weiland's ID'd as a snitch, the two team up to take down the mob and the crime boss (Berenger) who ordered the hit. Matt Dillon, Willem Dafoe, Neal McDonough. Amy Smart, and Tom Berenger star in Bad Country, a gritty action thriller from director Chris Brinker, a producer of The Boondock Saints.

Cast
Amy Smart
Matt Dillon
Willem Dafoe
Tom Berenger


August: Osage County



Synopsis
Academy Award Winners Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts star in the darkly hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives converge when a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them. Based on Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, Director John Wells skillfully translates from stage to screen, leading an all-star cast that includes Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Sam Shepard and Misty Upham.

Cast
Misty Upham
Dermot Mulroney
Abigail Breslin
Margo Martindale
Julianne Nicholson
Chris Cooper
Ewan McGregor
Juliette Lewis
Julia Roberts
Sam Shepard
Meryl Streep
Benedict Cumberbatch

Director
John Wells

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues



Synopsis
With the 70's behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), returns to the news desk in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. Also back for more are Ron's co-anchor and wife, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), weather man Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), man on the street Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) and sports guy Champ Kind (David Koechner) - All of whom won't make it easy to stay classy... while taking the nation's first 24-hour news channel by storm.

Cast
David Koechner
Steve Carell
Paul Rudd
Will Ferrell

Director
Adam McKay

American Hustle



Synopsis
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. Like David O. Russell's previous films (The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook), American Hustle defies genre, hinging on raw emotion, and life and death stakes.

Cast
Jack Huston
Jennifer Lawrence
Jeremy Renner
Bradley Cooper
Louis C.K.
Amy Adams
Michael Pena
Christian Bale

Director
David O. Russell

All is Lost



After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.

Director: J.C. Chandor
Writer: J.C. Chandor
Stars: Robert Redford

Against the Wild



Two siblings and their devoted dog become lost in the wilderness and must learn how to combine their skills, trust their instincts and navigate a terrain as beautiful as it is untamed.

Director: Richard Boddington
Writer: Richard Boddington
Stars: CJ Adams, Greg Campbell, Sarah Deakins

20 Ft Below: The Darkness Descending



Below the streets of New York is a dark and dangerous world hidden in the shadows of abandoned subway tunnels and miles of forgotten infrastructure. When a young documentary filmmaker goes into these tunnels to uncover the unseen stories of the people living below our feet, she finds out that there is more to be afraid of than the dark. A mysterious figure, living beyond the reach of the law, has declared war on the outside world that threatens to tear apart the fragile underground society living in the tunnels and maybe even the city above it.

Director: Marc Clebanoff
Writer: Frank Krueger
Stars: Danny Trejo, Kinga Philipps, Frank Krueger