Wednesday, January 29, 2014

NEW MOVIES THIS WEEK

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On the verge of making partner, Josh Pratt's life is turned upside down when the SEC investigates the head of his multibillion-dollar hedge fund for insider trading. Forced into a well-timed "vacation" he never asked for Josh finds himself in Bangkok with a price on his head, a morally ambiguous brother who is knee deep into the Thai mafia, and a propensity for getting shot at. Unfortunately for Josh, the only way out is to give up information he doesn't know he has.

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Isaiah Johnson, an inner-city kid from Oakland, California, has an opportunity to attend an elite university and study neuroscience on scholarship. In his first year of college, he struggles to maintain his grades, attempts to remain loyal to his troubled childhood friends, and valiantly tries to capture the heart of his dream-girl. Against the Grain movie But when he arrives at a crossroad, he's forced to choose between his past and his future. Against the Grain video Stars Vaughan Wilkinson, Amaris Davidson, Sewell Whitney. 


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Samantha Holt is forced to confront her dark secrets when she is kidnapped and held prisoner by a man from her past out for revenge.  A vengeful family man kidnaps and tortures the woman who killed his family in a tragic auto accident in an attempt to ensure that she pays for her crime. Samantha Holt (Rachel Boston) has just gotten engaged, and seems destined for a happy future when her car skids out of control on a lonely country road. But while Samantha made a full recovery from the crash, the passengers in the other car weren't so fortunate. Devoted father Bruce Miller (Jay Dee Walters) was at the wheel when his beloved wife and two children were taken from him in an instant, and ever since that fateful night he's been plotting his revenge. Abducting Samantha and confining her to a wheelchair in his secluded country home, Bruce forces her to participate in a series of grueling tests that will teach her some painful lessons in responsibility. Whether or not Samantha actually survives to gain from those lessons, however, will count on her ability to endure intense psychological torment from a man who has lost all conscience, and reason to live.


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A wild, party-night out leads three twenty-something women to stumble on a suitcase with 3 million dollars in cash.  Three down-on-their-luck, twenty-something, female roommates are living paycheck to paycheck in a rundown apartment. Kris (Carly Pope), the accountant, Tara (Samaire Armstrong), the rocker chick; and Sammi (Diora Baird), the party girl who is vain, foolish, selfish and a great deal of fun. One night roaming around the warehouse District looking for a party, Tara and Sammi stumble across $3 Million dollars in a suitcase amidst the bloody aftermath of a gangland drug shootout. Tara wants to bolt, but Sammi wades through the blood and gore to pull the case of money away. Excited about the cash, the girls bring it home to Kris, who wants them to put it back. The girls decide to keep the money but need to smuggle it out of the country. However, the plans become more complicated when Sammi mentions the money to her bumbling boyfriend Karl (Brian Thomas Smith).


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Dare and Roost are brothers who have been raised in a reformatory, taught to survive and conditioned to trust no one. They have moved to West Los Angeles, where Dare moonlights himself as a Detective and Roost blankets himself in old John Wayne films and reclusive habit. Cleaning the streets and ridding the neighborhoods of scum, this contemporary study finds Dare obsessed with a phantom like criminal (Winky) who seems to be terrorizing the community. Simultaneously, the same exact investigation is being led by official and likely engrossed Detective Robert Morrison. As Dare closes in on Winky and the entire department closes in on them both, these brothers must make the ultimate commitment and pay the extraordinary consequences therein.


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Scheming Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy), a bigoted and corrupt policeman, is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Enlisted to solve a brutal murder and threatened by the aspirations of his colleagues, including Ray Lennox (Jamie Bell), Bruce sets about ensuring their ruin, right under the nose of unwitting Chief Inspector Toal. As he turns his colleagues against one another by stealing their wives and exposing their secrets, Bruce starts to lose himself in a web of deceit that he can no longer control. His past is slowly catching up with him, and a missing wife, a crippling drug habit and suspicious colleagues start to take their toll on his sanity. The question is: can he keep his grip on reality long enough to disentangle himself from the filth?


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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!


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The world's finest heroes found the Justice League in order to stop an alien invasion of Earth. Going back to a time when super heroes were new to our world, we learn how the Justice League came together during an alien attack of Earth.


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If you're going to cheat on your lover, don't get caught. And if you do get caught, you'd better hope your lover isn't secretly insane. Kevin (Billy Zane of TITANIC) learns the hard way when his girlfriend Sadie (AnnaLynne McCord of "90210") discovers that he's having a scorching affair with her best friend (Viva Bianca of "Spartacus"). Now Sadie has planned a romantic weekend getaway for just the three of them, complete with terror, torture and twisted psychosexual games. The trap is set. The party has begun. And tonight, hell hath no fury like a woman SCORNED.


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Ridley Scott's THE COUNSELOR, from a script by Cormac McCarthy, stars Michael Fassbender as the title character, a slick lawyer who is madly in love with Laura (Penelope Cruz). He asks her to marry him, and she agrees, though she is unaware that serious financial troubles have prompted him to fund a drug deal with a shady but established middle man named Westray (Brad Pitt), that could bring in millions. Part of the counselor's financial troubles stem from the fact that he's investing in a club being opened by his best friend Reiner (Javier Bardem), a hedonist and occasional client who has attained his wealth by any means necessary, and likes to keep his wife, Malkina (Cameron Diaz) covered in all the accoutrements the wealthy enjoy.However, when the drug deal starts to go wrong, the counselor finds himself unprepared to deal with the fallout, and soon he's trying to protect his bride-to-be as well as himself from the wrath of a drug cartel that has no qualms about exacting revenge. 


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Two youths from the Brooklyn projects attempt to fend for themselves on the streets after their parents are arrested in this urban drama from director George Tillman Jr. (NOTORIOUS, FASTER). It's summer in New York City, and 14-year-old Mister (Skylan Brooks) is hungry. His irresponsible mother unable to hold down a job, Mister's situation goes from bad to worse when she is taken into custody, and Child Protective Services attempts to track him down. Meanwhile, Mister's nine-year-old friend Pete (Ethan Dizon) finds himself in the same sinking boat. Together, Mister and Pete search for sustenance while attempting to avoid the violence that plagues their neighborhood. All the while Mister grows to feel invincible, never realizing that it's his vulnerability -- not his youthful bravado -- that's truly his saving grace. Jennifer Hudson, Jeffrey Wright, Anthony Mackie, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje co-star.


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A scheming squirrel named Surly (voiced by Will Arnett) gathers a crackerjack crew of critters to pull off a heist of the local nut shop so that they will have enough food to make it through the winter. Liam Neeson, Brendan Fraser, Katherine Heigl, and Gabriel Iglesias also lend their voices to this upbeat animated caper comedy.


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A skilled young hit man is new in town and hooks up with a prominent local crime family. Trusted with his first hit, things go decidedly off-course when he discovers his target was hiding much darker secrets than Ray was prepared for. Ray is new in town and needs work. Unlike most young men his age, Ray has taken a much darker path in his career - he's a hit man. A former solider, war has brought out the darkness within him. Using his connections, Ray quickly hooks up with a prominent local crime family and is almost immediately given his first assignment. He sets out to handle the task at hand but upon arrival he immediately senses that something is off. The situation is much worse than anyone could have expected. What he discovers changes him forever and sets him on an alternate path to set straight the dark, twisted turn of events that he's had the misfortune of stumbling onto.


Wednesday, January 22, 2014

NEW MOVIES THIS WEEK

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In this wonderful dramatic mockumentary, Seth sets out to direct a doc about his terminal cancer-patient brother Ross' last days and the road trip they embark on with Seth's fiancée Lauren and Carly, a call girl Ross has hired. What begins as a raucous send-up of movies like 'The Hangover' ends as a deft portrait of modern marriage and an exploration of life's oft-bizarre circumstances.


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While hunting in the forest, Lord Asano of Ako and his samurai find a young half-breed and take him with them to live in the castle. Several years later, Lord Asano holds a tournament to welcome the Shogun to Ako. The night after the tournament, Lord Asano is bewitched into hurting Lord Kira of Nagato, and is punished into committing seppuku by the Shogun. Realizing that it was a Lord Kira's evil plot, the samurais and the half-breed sets out for revenge against the Shogun's order.


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A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.


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Badges Of Fury, a crime thriller featuring one hell of a martial arts trio with Jet Li (needs no introduction), Collin Chou (The Matrix Reloaded, Flashpoint) and Wu Jing (SPL / Kill Zone) in the lead roles. When a spate of eerie murders erupts across HK two troublemaking cops are assigned to the case. Young maverick WANG and grizzled vet HUANG who is fed up with his reckless younger partner always landing them in hot water. Reaching a dead end after discovering all the victims were former boyfriends of aspiring starlet LIU, the detectives must play a deadly game. One of them must go undercover as Liu's lover to lure the killer out. Li, Chou and Wu are three of the finest screen fighters in the world and with Kung Fu Hustle and Crouching Tiger vet Po Chu Chui in the producer's chair here's betting they're put to good use.


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Determined to get engaged before her youngest sister's wedding, flight attendant Montana Moore (Paula Patton) finds herself with only 30 days to find Mr. Right. Using her airline connections to "accidentally" meet up with eligible ex-boyfriends and scour for potential candidates, she racks up more than 30,000 miles and countless comedic encounters, all the while searching for the perfect guy.

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This is not to be missed! In a time when stranger danger is ever present, a single father learns that it's the ones you trust most who have to be watched the closest.



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A former basketball star suffering from a knee injury looks to rehab himself at a rundown Los Angeles gym.


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Amongst the Desperation and fear growing in a crime ridden sink estate, one man becomes involved into saving what little decency and community life exists. It's the winter power cuts and coal strikes cripple the country, which is reduced to a 3 day working week alongside Police 'centralisation'. Everything it seems is falling apart along with the community's only hope and protector, the nearly retired Detective Sergeant Barry Harrigan.


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The ghost of a teenager who died years ago reaches out to the land of the living in order to save someone from suffering her same fate.


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Follow a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- some of them of his own making.


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In “Life of a King,” Cuba Gooding Jr. plays Eugene Brown, a man who is trying to start anew after 17 years in prison. After struggling to find a job, he lies about his background to land a janitor’s position at a high school in his old neighborhood. There he converts a detention room of teenagers into chess players. The main plot — an inspiring teacher instills a group of bad kids with the values of teamwork, self-respect and strategy — is so clichéd that much of the movie is likely to feel like a flashback to previously seen films. The scenes of Eugene’s confrontation with a neighborhood drug dealer are also overly familiar. Yet Mr. Gooding’s performance and his complex charisma are fascinating to watch throughout.


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Up-and-coming District Attorney, Mitch Brockton is involved in a fatal hit-and-run, but Clinton Davis, is found with the body and charged with murder. Believing that Davis is innocent, Brockton is compelled to throw the trial. Soon after, Brocton's perfect life begins to unravel as he realizes that the man he set free is hiding a secret that will destroy him.


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In a world where past meets present and the present gets lost in time, reality is blurred for 5 College psychology students who are pushing all boundaries during an ESP experiment over a lost weekend... Memories, dreams, past, future...Can they forget what they cannot remember??? - For those 5 students a new kind of terror awaits. Senses are dazed as they meet their destiny. The present collides with a past shared secret in an erotic psychological thriller. Is anything real??? An American New Wave Horror Film that will blow your mind...


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Sutter Keely lives in the now. It's a good place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed, he's the life of the party, loves his job at a men's clothing store, and has no plans for the future. A budding alcoholic, he's never far from his supersized, whiskey-fortified thirst-master cup. But after being dumped by his girlfriend, Sutter gets drunk and wakes up on a lawn with Aimee Finecky hovering over him. She's different: the "nice girl" who reads science fiction and doesn't have a boyfriend. While Amy has dreams of a future, Sutter lives in the impressive delusion of a spectacular now, yet somehow, they're drawn together.


Wednesday, January 15, 2014

THIS IS THE GOLDEN GLOBE LIST, GO & CHECK THESE MOVIES OUT! NOT BECAUSE I SAID SO, BECAUSE THE CRITICS HAVE SPOKEN!!
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Never wanting to endure the taste of fish again, 10-year-old Opil jokingly wishes for his dinner to disappear forever. But the wish becomes a reality when space mutants from his favorite comic books come to life and threaten to dry up all the oceans. Now he must team up with the heroic Captain Mackerel and his daughter Marina and undo his wish before it's too late.

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A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal to be his eyes as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop.


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Two retired boxers (Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro) decide to settle a long-standing beef by heading back into the ring in this sports comedy from directorPeter Segal. Back in the day, Billy "The Kid" McDonnen (De Niro) and Henry "Razor" Sharp (Stallone) were the two biggest bruisers in the Pittsburgh boxing scene. Their fierce rivalry drawing nationwide attention, Razor and The Kid were deadlocked for the title of overall champion when the former announced his retirement just before the decisive 1983 match that would have determined the supreme champion. Three decades later, enterprising boxing promoter Dante Slate Jr. (Kevin Hart) lures the aging pugilists back into the ring for the fight that everyone has been waiting for. Meanwhile, when Razor and The Kid see each other for the first time in 30 years, the cameras are rolling as tempers suddenly flare. In no time that unscheduled scuffle goes viral, prompting both fighters to resume their intensive training in a bid to be the one who delivers the knockout blow during the highly anticipated bout.


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Theodore is a lonely man in the final stages of his divorce. When he's not working as a letter writer, his down time is spent playing video games and occasionally hanging out with friends. He decides to purchase the new OS1, which is advertised as the world's first artificially intelligent operating system, "It's not just an operating system, it's a consciousness," the ad states. Theodore quickly finds himself drawn in with Samantha, the voice behind his OS1. As they start spending time together they grow closer and closer and eventually find themselves in love. Having fallen in love with his OS, Theodore finds himself dealing with feelings of both great joy and doubt. As an OS, Samantha has powerful intelligence that she uses to help Theodore in ways others hadn't, but how does she help him deal with his inner conflict of being in love with an OS?


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Billy (Michael Douglas), Paddy (Robert De Niro), Archie (Morgan Freeman) and Sam (Kevin Kline) have been best friends since childhood. So when Billy, the group's sworn bachelor, finally proposes to his thirty-something (of course) girlfriend, the four head to Las Vegas with a plan to stop acting their age and relive their glory days. However, upon arriving, the four quickly realize that the decades have transformed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they never imagined. The Rat Pack may have once played the Sands and Cirque du Soleil may now rule the Strip, but it's these four who are taking over Vegas.


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Team leader Susan joins Link, Dr. Cockroach, and the gelatinous blob known as B.O.B find one adventure after the next while residing in an ultra-secret government containment area run by General Monger.

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 A secret society abducts women and forces them to fight each other to the death tournament-style in this searing, bone-crunching action thriller. Starring Zoe Bell ('Death Proof')


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*GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINEE*
While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.


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The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society-and what are the costs of exposing them?


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A footloose young man must undergo a dark and brutal trial by fire to save the love of his life in this flashy, violent adventure saga from Fredrik Bond, a celebrated director of television commercials. American Charlie Countryman's (Shia LaBeouf) heart breaks as his mother (Melissa Leo) expires in a hospital, but seconds after her death, she reappears to him in spirit form and implores him to visit Bucharest, Romania. On the plane, he strikes up a conversation with an enigmatic stranger, who dies in mid-flight; not long after, Charlie crosses paths with the man's daughter, beautiful cellist Gabi Banyai (Evan Rachel Wood). The two quickly grow smitten with one another and begin an affair, but there are complications afoot, including Gabi's marriage to a dissolute, psychopathic Romanian drug dealer named Nigel (Mads Mikkelsen) and one of his associates, mobster and strip-club owner Darko (Til Schweiger) -- each of whom despises Charlie and wants to see him dead. A recklessness overcomes Charlie, however, and he soon reveals that he's willing to do anything to claim Gabi, even if it means putting his very life on the line at the hands of these thugs.


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A day-dreamer escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker are threatened, he takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined. 


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Trace Adkins (The Lincoln Lawyer), Ron Perlman (TV's "Sons of Anarchy") and Brendan Penny (Ring Of Fire) star in this gritty and riveting re-imagining of the classic Western saga. Raised by powerful cattle baron Judge Henry (Perlman), South, aka "The Virginian" (Adkins), lives his life as a ranch enforcer with bravery and steely determination. When a big-city writer (Penny) raises questions about the fierce treatment of rustlers, South is quick to defend the brutal realities of the "Code of the West." But as he looks deeper into the latest string of rustling and finds his convictions questioned by a pretty new schoolteacher (Victoria Pratt, Mutant X), South begins to wonder if the Judge had ulterior motives in raising him to a life of bloodshed and violence in this explosive, action-loaded epic on the open range.


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*GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER*
In The Wolf of Wall Street DiCaprio plays Belfort, a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 36 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden.


*COMPLETE LIST OF ALL GOLDEN GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS & NOMINEES*