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.


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