April 2012 Movies

Vinyl

Aging rock group use a young fresh faced punk band to front new recordings to fool the music industry.

Jim Cooper, Phil Daniels, Sara Sugarman, Jamie Blackley, Perry Benson, Julia Ford, Keith Allen, Alexa Davies

Titanic - 25 Year Anniversar...

A rich girl meets a poor boy on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, James Cameron, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Bill Paxton, Victor Garber, Jon Landau

American Reunion

"American Pie 4" seeks to reunite the cast of the original movies. No deals have been made, but the strong interest on the actors’ end is one reason the project is in high gear.

Hayden Schlossberg, Seann William Scott, Craig Perry, Alyson Hannigan, Shannon Elizabeth, Paul Weitz, Adam Herz, Jon Hurwitz

The Hunter

A mercenary is hired by a private biotech company to search for the last Tasmanian Tiger, a dog-like animal believed to have been extinct since the mid 1900s.

Willem Dafoe, Callan Mulvey, Daniel Nettheim, Vincent Sheehan, Alice Addison, Sam Neill, Frances O'Connor, Morgana Davies

Keyhole

After a long absence, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home to a house haunted with memories, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses, however, is focused on one thing: journeying through the house, room by room, and reaching his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) in her bedroom upstairs. The equilibrium of the house has been disturbed and his odyssey eventually becomes an emotional tour, as the ghostly nooks and crannies of the house reveal more about the mysterious Pick family.

Guy Maddin

Take Me Home

After getting turned down by a photography agency, Thom finds his landlord throwing all of his belongings out into the hallway. With no job prospects and no place to sleep, Thom must turn to his recurring last resort: driving his illegal taxicab around the streets of New York. Fortunately for him, Claire Barrow isn't having a good day, either. First she comes home to find her husband flirting with his new secretary, then discovers her estranged father has suffered a heart attack in California. In a frenzy, Claire runs out into the night and hails what she assumes to be a cab. What she gets instead is Thom. With her life in ruins, Claire decides on a whim to pay Thom to drive her out to California. With nothing in New York to call his own, Thom reluctantly agrees.

Sam Jaeger

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan'...

A feature documentary that will follow seven people from around the world as they travel to Comic-Con in San Diego.

Morgan Spurlock, Stan Lee, Joss Whedon, Thomas Tull, Jeremy Chilnick, Harry Knowles

We Have A Pope

A story centered on the relationship between the newly elected Pope and his therapist.

Nanni Moretti, Michel Piccoli

ATM

Three co-workers on a routine stop at an ATM unexpectedly end up in a desperate fight for their lives.

Margarita Levieva, Brian Geraghty, Josh Peck, Peter Safran, Paul Brooks, Chris Sparling, Scott Neimeyer, Norm Waitt

Damsels in Distress

The movie revolves around a group of style-obsessed college girls who take in a new student (Gerwig) and teach her their misguided ways of helping people at their grungy university. The crux of the story is focused on the relationship between Gerwig's character and a suitor (Brody), whom the girls are taken with but have doubts over his intentions.

Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, Whit Stillman, Analeigh Tipton, Billy Magnussen

We The Party

Five friends deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, facebook, fitting in, standing out, and finding themselves.

Mario Van Peebles

This Binary Universe

In this world of wonders there are still places that have not been smoothed over with the shallow surfaces of Western commercialism. This film is a personal Valentine to a life filled with amazing, exotic, beautiful and fearsome places for the world. The amazing thing is not just the visual demonstration of how fleeting life is, but a meditation on how the decisions that seem momentous on our time scale are flickering snapshots of life on this planet, too small to be observed by most. Somehow the music combined with technology becomes a personal experience that makes the earth and its inhabitants seem touchingly fragile and full of wonder.

Brian Wayne Transeau

Player Hating: A Love Story

Follows Half-a-Mill and his Brooklyn crew, The Godfia Criminals, as they struggle to launch Milion, in an effort to attain money, success and recognition through music.

Maggie Hadleigh-West

The Three Stooges

Set in modern day and centers on the slapstick adventures of Larry, Moe and Curly.

Sofia Vergara, Bobby Farrelly, Jane Lynch, Earl Benjamin, Bradley Thomas, Chris Diamantopoulos, Robert Benjamin, Luke Ryan

The Cabin in the Woods

The Cabin in the Woods storyline provides a new twist on a classic scenario -- in this case, five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods and bad things happen. Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford will play white-collar co-workers with a mysterious connection to the cabin.

Chris Hemsworth, Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Bradley Whitford, Richard Jenkins, Fran Kranz, Kristen Connolly, Anna Hutchison

Lockout

Set in the near future, the movie stars Guy Pearce as a government agent who sets off to save the president's daughter, played by Maggie Grace, from rioting convicts in an outer-space maximum-security prison.

Peter Stormare, Luc Besson, Guy Pearce, Graham King, James Mather, Stephen St. Leger, Maggie Grace, Tom Hollander

The Raid: Redemption

As a rookie member of an elite special-forces team, Rama (Iko Uwais) is instructed to hang back during a covert mission involving the extraction of a brutal crime lord from a rundown fifteen-story apartment block. But when a spotter blows their cover, boss Tama (Ray Sahetaphy) offers lifelong sanctuary to every killer, rapist and thief in the building in exchange fortheir heads. Now Rama must stand in for the team's fallen leader (Joe Taslim) and use every iota of his fighting strength - winding through every floor and every room to complete the mission and escape with his life.

Gareth Evans, Joe Taslim, Iko Uwais, Doni Alamsyah

Touchback

A man in his late 20s who was the star of his high school football team, but whose career was ended when he shattered his leg in his final season. After hitting his head a decade later, he wakes up to find himself back in time, a week before the big game.

Kurt Russell, Drew Powell, Melanie Lynskey, George Furla, Brian Presley, Christine Lahti, Sarah Wright, Rob Cowan

Detention

The film follows a group of teens who struggle to survive their senior year of high school when a slasher-movie killer seemingly comes to life.

Dane Cook, Joseph Kahn, Josh Hutcherson, David Kang, Mark Palermo, Richard Weager, Mary-Ann Tanedo, Shanley Caswell

The Lady

A biopic of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Michelle Yeoh, Luc Besson, David Thewlis

Bully

Follows "a year in the life" of America's bullying crisis through five kids and their families.

Cynthia Lowen, Lee Hirsch

Unraveled

Just days before Bernard Madoff captured headlines as the largest Ponzi schemer in U.S. history, Marc Dreier, a prominent Manhattan attorney, was arrested for orchestrating a massive fraud scheme that netted hundreds of millions of dollars from hedge funds. Brazen forgeries and impersonations branded the white collar crime spree remarkable. "Unraveled" is set in the purgatory of house arrest -- an Upper East Side penthouse -- where the Court has ordered Dreier confined until his sentencing day. The film weaves Dreier's struggle to prepare for the possibility of life imprisonment with first-person flashbacks, which reveal his audacious path of destruction. Destroyed by his own hubris, Dreier attempts to grasp his tragic unraveling. With unprecedented access, "Unraveled" exposes a mastermind of criminal deception.

Marc H. Simon

Monsieur Lazhar

Bachir Lazhar has emigrated from his native Algeria to Canada, where he is awaiting approval of his asylum application. When he is hired as a substitute teacher at a French-Canadian school, Bachir finds that he is often ill-equipped to deal with his new students and their shock over their previous teacher’s death.

Philippe Falardeau

Woman Thou Art Loosed: On th...

A couple with past secrets unravel when their six-year-old daughter is kidnapped.

Sharon Leal, Nicole Beharie, Neema Barnette, Blair Underwood, Pam Grier, Jaqueline Fleming

Woman Thou Art Loosed!: On t...

David (Underwood) and Kari (Leal) Ames seem to have the perfect life until their young daughter is kidnapped, and over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that threaten to rip their marriage and lives apart

Neema Barnette

L!fe Happens

Two best friends fight to maintain normalcy in their lives after one of the friends gets pregnant and has a baby.

Kate Bosworth, Justin Levine, Rachel Bilson, David J. Phillips, Kat Coiro, Krysten Ritter, Corbin Timbrook

Blue Like Jazz

In Blue Like Jazz, Don (Marshall Allman), a pious nineteen-year-old sophomore at a Texas junior college, impulsively decides to escape his evangelical upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at one ofthe most progressive campuses in America, Reed College in Portland. Upon arrival, Reed's surroundings and eccentric student body proves to be far different than he could possibly imagine from the environment from which he came, forcing him to embark on a journey of self-discovery to understand who he is and what he truly believes.

Tania Raymonde, Steve Taylor, Marshall Allman, Claire Holt

Bad Ass

A Vietnam veteran becomes a local hero after saving a man from attackers on a city bus and decides to take action when his best friend is murdered and the police show little interest in solving the crime.

Danny Trejo, Ron Perlman, Craig Moss, Charles S. Dutton

Turn Me On, Dammit!

In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.

Jannicke Systad Jacobsen

Hit So Hard

When Nirvana burst onto the scene in 1991, the music they played spoke directly to an angry and disenfranchised generation. Grunge took over MTV and radio overnight… but just three years later, the drug-related deaths of several musicians and the suicide of Kurt Cobain closed the books on an all too brief era. Patty Schemel, the acclaimed drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band Hole, was in the middle of all of it. The openly gay woman who always felt different never dreamed she would be in a multi-platinum band, touring with legends… or that, thanks to drug addiction, she could lose it all. Given a video camera just before Hole's infamous Live Through This world tour, Patty filmed everything the shows, the parties, and startlingly intimate footage of Kurt and Courtney. This footage has never been seen... until now.

P. David Ebersole

How to Grow a Band

26 year-old Chris Thile is at a crossroads. His marriage has ended and his platinum-selling band, Nickel Creek, has gone on “indefinite hiatus.” But Thile, a perfectionist prodigy who has defied expectations since he picked up the mandolin at age five, has a plan.

Mark Meatto

Late Bloomers

Late Bloomers begins when Mary (Isabella Rossellini) and Adam (William Hurt), a high-functioning couple, realize that they have entered the senior category. Adam's reaction to this "discovery" is as frantic as his denial, and he desperately looks for a fountain of youth. Mary, on the other hand, decides to deal with the situation by doing what she does best: taking care of everyone.

Isabella Rossellini, Julie Gavras, Doreen Mantle, William Hurt

Crew 2 Crew

Story centers on a small-town policeman struggling to pursue his passion for break-dancing while dealing with a secret from his past.

Mark Bacci, Brooklyn Sudano, Louise Linton, Rino Piccolo, Ben Press, Jordan Bridges, Jeannine Kaspar, Elle McPherson

Think Like a Man

An ensemble comedy about romantic relationships.

Will Packer, Kevin Hart, Wendy Williams, Michael Ealy, Keith Merryman, Taraji Henson, Kelly Rowland, David A. Newman

The Lucky One

Logan Thibault (Zac Efron), a Marine, survives three tours in Iraq. He attributes his good fortune to a photograph he carried of a woman (Taylor Schilling) he has never met, and he sets out to meet his good-luck charm when he returns to North Carolina.

Zac Efron, Scott Hicks, Denise DiNovi, Kevin McCormick, Douglas McGrath, Will Fetters, Taylor Schilling, Blythe Danner

Chimpanzee

This DisneyNature documentary spans 15 years as it follows a chimpanzee named Senengal and her journey from childhood to motherhood. Reflecting chimps' genetic closeness to humans, these animal subjects inject plenty of humor and drama into this remarkable film.

Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield

Goodbye First Love

Fifteen-year-old Camille (Lola Creton) is a serious girl who has fallen in love with the cheerful Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky), an older boy who returns her feelings, mostly, but wants to be free to explore the world. When he leaves her to travel, she is devastated, but develops over the following years, into a more fully formed woman, with new interests and a new love - and the possibility that she'll be less defenseless when Sullivan enters her life again.

Mia Hansen-Løve

Marley

A documentary about legendary reggae star Bob Marley, which has been authorized by Marley's family.

Kevin Macdonald

Darling Companion

The film follows a woman (Keaton) who takes in a stray dog as a companion to fill the void left by her distracted husband (Kline), only to see him lose the mutt after a wedding at their vacation home in the Rockies. A search for the animal includes several guests and a mysterious young woman.

Diane Keaton, Mark Duplass, Elizabeth Redleaf, Anthony Bregman, Meg Kasdan, Elisabeth Moss, Lawrence Kasdan, Kevin Kline

Fightville

Takes us to Southern Louisiana, where a group of young athletes, including future MMA powerhouse Dustin Poirier, strive towards personal and professional greatness.

Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker

Jesus Henry Christ

Henry James Hermin, a boy conceived in a petri-dish and raised by a loving, left-wing feminist, decides his mother’s love is not enough and begins to follow a trail of Post-It notes stuck around town hoping to find his biological father.

Julia Roberts, Lisa Gillan, Michael Sheen, Toni Collette, Dennis Lee, Sukee Chew, Philip Rose

To The Arctic 3D

A journey into the lives of a mother polar bear and her two seven-month- old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home.

Meryl Streep, Greg MacGillivray

Moth Diaries

A teenage girl at a boarding girl suspects her roommate is a vampire.

Sarah Gadon, Mary Harron, Edward R. Pressman, Lily Cole, Scott Speedman, Sarah Bolger

Downtown Express

Set in the world of Russian immigrants living in New York City, Downtown Express uses music to explore the clash of old world values against the lure and excitement of a new country. Under the watch of his loving but overbearing father, virtuoso violinist and Juilliard student Sasha (Grammy nominee Philippe Quint) prepares for a critical recital meant to launch his career. Yet, he is increasingly drawn to the rhythms of the streets of New York, and when he meets singer-songwriter Ramona (acclaimed recording artist Nellie McKay), he joins her band, falls in love, and begins to lead a double life, careening frantically between two worlds. As his classical debut nears, Sasha must decide whether to break with his father and forge his own destiny.

Hit So Hard

When Nirvana burst onto the scene in 1991, the music they played spoke directly to an angry and disenfranchised generation. Grunge took over MTV and radio overnight… but just three years later, the drug-related deaths of several musicians and the suicide of Kurt Cobain closed the books on an all too brief era. Patty Schemel, the acclaimed drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band Hole, was in the middle of all of it. The openly gay woman who always felt different never dreamed she would be in a multi-platinum band, touring with legends… or that, thanks to drug addiction, she could lose it all. Given a video camera just before Hole's infamous Live Through This world tour, Patty filmed everything the shows, the parties, and startlingly intimate footage of Kurt and Courtney. This footage has never been seen... until now.

P. David Ebersole

Payback

Margaret Atwood's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is the basis for this documentary on "debt" in its various forms--societal, personal, environmental, spiritual, criminal, and of course, economic. Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal (Manufactured Landscapes) strikingly interweaves these (sometimes surprising) debtor/creditor relationships: two families in a years-long Albanian blood feud; the BP oil spill vs. the Earth; mistreated Florida tomato farm workers and their bosses; imprisoned media mogul Conrad Black and the U.S. justice system.

Jennifer Baichwal

Booker's Place: A Mississipp...

While filming a documentary in Mississippi in 1965, Frank De Felitta forever changed the life of an African-American waiter and his family. In 2011, Frank's son returns to the Delta to examine the repercussions of that fateful encounter.

Raymond De Felitta

Inventing Our Life: The Kibb...

The 100 year history of Israel's kibbutz movement. Can a radically socialist institution survive a new market-driven reality with its ideological integrity intact?

Toby Perl Freilich

The Pirates! Band of Misfits

A group of swashbuckling pirates team up with different historical and fictional characters and attempt to help them in their adventures & travels.

Salma Hayek, Hugh Grant, Jeremy Piven, Julie Lockhart, David Tennant, Andy Riley, Brendan Gleeson, Peter Lord

Safe

A former elite agent fights to rescue a 12-year-old girl.

Jason Statham, Barry Bradford, James Colby, Boaz Yakin, Danni Lang

The Five-Year Engagement

During their five-year engagement, a man and his fiancee face all the ups and downs of a relationship.

Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt, Dakota Johnson, Rhys Ifans, Jacki Weaver, David Paymer, Judd Apatow, Shauna Robertson

The Raven

Thriller set in the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, when he gets wrapped up in a serial killer investigation.

Luke Evans, Ben Livingston, Travor Macy, John Cusack, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McNally, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Wendy Japhet

96 Minutes

Four young people struggling to find their way in life are suddenly caught in a terrifying and deadly carjacking and abduction.

Brittany Snow, Evan Ross, Lee Clay, David Oyelowo, Aimee Lagos, Charlie Mason, Justin Moore-Lewy, Christian Serratos

Headhunters

An unscrupulous corporate headhunter is also a secret art thief.

Morten Tyldum, Ulf Ryberg, Aksel Hennie

The Giant Mechanical Man

Revolves around a misunderstood street performer (Chris Messina) and the softly spoken zoo worker who falls for him. Malin Akerman will play Jenna Fischer's well-meaning sister who winds up dating a pompous motivational speaker (Topher Grace).

Topher Grace, Brent Stiefel, Malin Akerman, Chris Messina, Lucy Punch, Bob Odenkirk, Rich Sommer, Lee Kirk

Mamitas

At school, Jordin (Bonilla) is a cocky but charming Latino firebrand; at home he is a doting grandson who can't seem to please his perpetually cranky father. On the day he's suspended for insulting a teacher, Jordin meets Felipa (Diaz-Carranza), a bookish, no-nonsense New York girl who sees past the swaggering facade. The two immediately embark on an unlikely friendship that inspires Jordin to find out who he really is.

Jesse Garcia, Nicholas Ozeki, Josue Aguirre, Jennifer Esposito, E.J. Bonilla, Veronica Diaz-Carranza, Joaquim de Almeida

Bernie

A Renaissance man-community leader-mortician Bernie strikes up an unlikely friendship with a wealthy but very particular widow. When he kills her, he goes to great lengths to maintain the illusion that she is still alive.

Matthew McConaughey, Richard Linklater, Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Martin Shafer, Celine Rattray, Liz Glotzer, Ginger Sledge

Sound of My Voice

A young Los Angeles couple, played by Christopher Denham and Nicole Vicius, as they infiltrate the underworld of a cult led by a young woman from the future (played by Brit Marling).

Shelley Surpin, Zal Batmanglij, Hans Ritter, Brit Marling, Christopher Denham, Nicole Vicius

The Highest Pass

Anand, a modern Indian yogi and guru, asks his student Adam to join him on a motorcycle expedition through the highest passes of the Indian Himalayas.

Jon Fitzgerald

Warriors Of The Rainbow: See...

Some eighty years ago, in the mountains of Taiwan, two races clashed in defense of their faiths. One believed in rainbows, the other believed in the sun. Neither side realized that they both believed in the same sky.

Te-Sheng Wei

The Broken Tower

A biography of American poet Hart Crane who committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.

Michael Shannon, James Franco, Stacey Miller

Restless City

An African immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle and falling in love is his greatest risk.

Andrew Dosunmu

Whores' Glory

Several stories of prostitution around the world focusing on the lives and individual hopes, needs and experiences of the women.

Michael Glawogger