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*DRAMA* In his
follow-up to the four-time Academy Award (R)-nominated blockbuster The Help,
Tate Taylor directs 42's Chadwick Boseman as James Brown in Get on Up. Based on
the incredible life story of the Godfather of Soul, the film will give a
fearless look inside the music, moves and moods of Brown, taking audiences on
the journey from his impoverished childhood to his evolution into one of the
most influential figures of the 20th century. Boseman is joined in the drama by
Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Nelsan Ellis, Lennie James, Tika Sumpter,
Jill Scott and Dan Aykroyd.
R
*ACTION* The X-Men
send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent
an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants. he ultimate X-Men
ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods
in X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. The beloved characters from the original
"X-Men" film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from the
past, "X-Men: First Class," in order to change a major historical
event and fight in an epic battle that could save our future.
R
*ACTION/ADVENTURE* Boss Suchart is the
influential owner of a major elephant camp. When he was murdered in his own
home - the killer delivered three fatal blows on his body - all evidence points
to KHAM (Tony Jaa), who was present at the crime scene and was seen with the
victim the moment before he died. Kham is forced to run as the police launch a
pursuit. Meanwhile, the twin nieces of Boss Suchart (Jija Yanin Wismitanan and
Teerada Kittisiriprasert) are out for revenge. But luck is on Kham's side when
he runs into Sergeant MARK (Mum Jokmok), an Interpol agent sent to
Thailand on a secret mission. As Kham is hunted by several parties, he's also
desperately searching for KHON, his elephant, whose disappearance is involved
with Boss Suchart's death. In another twist, Kham is drawn into an underground
fighting ring run by LC (RZA), a crime lord who's obsessed with collecting
top-class martial artists from around the world. LC's fighters are branded only
by numbers, such as the lethal, beautiful TWENTY (Ratha Pho-ngam) and the
diabolical NO.2 (Marrese Crump).
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*ACTION/ADVENTURE* "Maleficent"
explores the untold story of Disney's most iconic villain from the classic
"Sleeping Beauty" and the elements of her betrayal that ultimately
turn her pure heart to stone. Driven by revenge and a fierce desire to protect
the moors over which she presides, Maleficent cruelly places an irrevocable
curse upon the human king's newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Aurora
is caught in the middle of the seething conflict between the forest kingdom she
has grown to love and the human kingdom that holds her legacy. Maleficent
realizes that Aurora may hold the key to peace in the land and is forced to
take drastic actions that will change both worlds forever. Between the forest kingdom she has grown to
love and the human kingdom that holds her legacy.
Maleficent realizes that Aurora may hold the key to peace in the land and is
forced to take drastic actions that will change both worlds forever.
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*ACTION/DRAMA* Brad
Lunders is a teenager forcefully abducted from his home in the middle of the
night by his mother's consent to a harsh wilderness reform facility. There is
no contact with the outside world and the retired war colonel in charge prides
himself on breaking an inmate's spirit in order to correct delinquent behavior.
As we learn of the tragic events that led to Brad's arrival, unforeseen
circumstances threaten to tear the already eroding reform facility apart,
forcing Brad to confront not only his fellow inmates and the personnel in
charge, but finally his own sense of what is right and what is wrong.
R
*ACTION/ADVENTURE* A
police detective follows a trail of evidence that eventually seems to lead to
his trusted partner's ex-con brother who he helped put in prison years ago.
R
*THRILLER/DRAMA* At
a wilderness boot camp for difficult teens, the desperate spirit of an alleged
suicide victim seeks out the help of a young girl to expose the truth about her
death. Bound, gagged and blindfolded,
several teens are grabbed in the middle of the night and taken to Redback, a
youth behavior modification facility deep in the Australian bush. They're
completely cut off from the rest of the world; isolated and tested in the unforgiving
camp. Rumors travel through the camp that a few years earlier a girl reportedly
hanged herself. But that's just a rumor. Only the dead girl and her murderer
know the truth and the dead don't talk... unless they find someone who can hear
them.
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*ACTION/ADVENTURE* A
special operations unit races to find and prevent the construction of a
devastating micro nuclear device created by a group of radical mercenaries
whose political beliefs blur the line between terrorist and revolutionary.
R
*MYSTERY/SUSPENSE* Widowed
Audrey retreats to an isolated Welsh cabin after a failed suicide attempt, to
recuperate. Still haunted by the tragic death of her husband and struggling
with her psychosis, she begins to hear strange noises.
R
*ACTION/ADVENTURE* Suffering
from amnesia, a young man trying to discover his true identity is kidnapped by
an underground crime organization and turned into a ruthless assassin.
DNR
*DRAMA/ROMANCE* Hazel
and Gus are two teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional,
and a love that sweeps them on a journey. Their relationship is all the more
miraculous given that Hazel's other constant companion is an oxygen tank, Gus
jokes about his prosthetic leg, and they met and fell in love at a cancer
support group.
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*THRILLER* Set entirely on the posh east
end of Long Island (where it was filmed), THE MAID'S ROOM centers around Drina,
an attractive, intelligent immigrant who takes a job for the season as live-in
maid to the Crawfords, a privileged New York family who maintain a splendid
home in the Hamptons. The job could be worse, since Mr. and Mrs. Crawford spend
most of their time in the city, but their teenage son, Brandon, who is starting
Princeton in the fall, is summering at the beach, and Drina must look after him
and his spoiled friends. Since the maid's room is next to the garage, Drina
can't help noticing when Brandon returns late one night, noisily and obviously
drunk. The next day, she sees that Brandon's car is battered and bloodied and,
when she reads in the local paper that there has been a fatal hit and run, it's
clear who's responsible. Knowing the Crawford's will do anything to protect
their precious son, Drina realizes that, for once, she has some power over her
employers.
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*CRIME/THRILLER* In
theaters 8/29/2014 When a detective is
called in to investigate the roadside execution of his partner, he discovers at
the crime scene a data card from a video camera. The card contains footage shot
by two runaway teenagers who are making a documentary about the drug related
death of a sibling. The detective retraces the teen's journey and soon begins
to uncover a trail of the dead that leads all the way back to police
headquarters.
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*COMEDY/DRAMA* A
flamboyant English teacher (Clive Owen) and a new, stoic art teacher (Juliette
Binoche) collide at an upscale prep school. A high-spirited courtship begins
and she finds herself enjoying the battle. Another battle they begin has the
students trying to prove which is more powerful, the word or the picture. But
the true war is against their own demons, as two troubled souls struggle for
connection.
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