February 2013 Movies

Stand Up Guys

Two sixtysomething conmen reunite their old gang for one final night to do everything they've ever wanted to do before one of them meets his demise.

Christopher Walken, Jim Tauber, Julianna Margulies, Bingham Ray, Gary Lucchesi, Alan Arkin, Fisher Stevens, Sidney Kimmel

Warm Bodies

An existentially tormented zombie begins an unlikely friendship with the girlfriend of one of his victims and starts a chain reaction that will transform him and his fellow zombies.

Nicholas Hoult, John Malkovich, Teresa Palmer, Analeigh Tipton, Cori Stern, Jonathan Levine, Bruna Papandrea, Laurie Webb

Bullet to the Head

An unlikely alliance between a cop and a hitman takes place after each watches his partner die. The new partners seek revenge and discover they have a shared enemy and much in common despite being on opposite sides of the law.

Sylvester Stallone, Deepak Nayar, Miles Millar, Kevin King Templeton, Sung Kang, Sarah Shahi, Walter Hill, Alexandra Milchan

The Last Gladiators

Academy Award winning director Alex Gibney takes an unprecedented look in The Last Gladiators at the National Hockey League’s most feared enforcers and explores the career of Chris “Knuckles” Nilan. The role was simple: protect their teammates no matter the cost. For Chris this meant a shattered body, addiction to drugs, and harming the people closest to him. But in the process, he won the love of hockey’s holy city, Montreal, and helped the team win the Stanley Cup. Through interviews with hockey’s toughest guys, the film explores what it means to enforce the unspoken code of the NHL.

Alex Gibney, Larry Weitzman, Jim Podhoretz

Koch

Former Mayor Ed Koch is the quintessential New Yorker. Still ferocious, charismatic, and hilariously blunt, the now 88-year-old Koch ruled New York from 1978 to 1989—a down-and-dirty decade of grit, graffiti, near-bankruptcy and rampant crime. First-time filmmaker (and former Wall Street Journal reporter) Neil Barsky has crafted a revealing portrait of this intensely private man, his legacy as a political titan, and the town he helped transform. His three terms included a fiercely competitive 1977 election; the burgeoning AIDS epidemic; landmark housing initiatives; and an irreparable municipal corruption scandal. Through candid interviews and rare archival footage, Koch thrillingly chronicles the personal and political toll of running the world’s most wondrous city.

Neil Barsky

Girls Against Boys

When Shae (Danielle Panabaker), a naïve college student, is tormented by several men in a matter of days, she reaches her breaking point, and is drawn into her friend Lu’s (Nicole LaLiberte) twisted plan for revenge. Together, the two embark on a gruesome killing spree, terrorizing and brutally murdering not just their attackers, but any man who gets in their way. However, after a wild weekend of retaliation, the friendship between the girls shifts into a dangerous obsession, and their perverse game becomes a desperate struggle for Shae to maintain control against Lu’s deadly and seductive influence.

Austin Chick, Nicole LaLiberte, Michael Stahl-David, Danielle Panabaker, Andrew Howard, Liam Aiken

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: G...

Building on the terror of A Haunting in Connecticut, this horrifying tale traces a young family’s nightmarish descent into a centuries-old Southern hell. When Andy Wyrick (Chad Michael Murray, House of Wax) moves his wife Lisa (Abigail Spencer, TV’s Mad Men) and daughter Heidi to an historic home in Georgia, they quickly discover they are not the house’s only inhabitants. Joined by Lisa’s free-spirited sister, Joyce (Katee Sackhoff, TV’s Battlestar Galactica), the family soon comes face-to-face with a bone-chilling mystery born of a deranged desire…a haunting secret rising from underground and threatening to bring down anyone in its path.

Chad Michael Murray, Emily Alyn Lind, Cicely Tyson, Abigail Spencer, Katee Sackhoff

Sound City

Deep in the San Fernando Valley, amidst rows of dilapidated warehouses, was rock n' roll's best kept secret: Sound City. America's greatest unsung recording studio housed a one-of-a-kind console, and as its legend grew, seminal bands and artists such as Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Rick Springfield, Tom Petty, Metallica and Nirvana all came out to put magic to tape. Directed by Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) and featuring interviews and performances from the iconic musicians who recorded some of rock’s greatest albums at the studio, Sound City doesn’t just tell the story of this real-life rock ’n’ roll shrine, it celebrates the human element of music as Grohl gathers some of rock's biggest artists to collaborate on a new album.

Dave Grohl

Josh Groban Live: All That Echoe...

Showcasing one of the most powerful and unique voices in popular music, Fathom Events and Warner Music Group are pleased to bring Josh Groban Live: All That Echoes to select movie theaters nationwide on Monday, February 4. This special one-night event features hits from Josh's 12-year career, highlighted by exclusive selections from his new album, All That Echoes.

Identity Thief

A cash-strapped father sees a shortcut out of his struggles when the credit card of a suburban dad lands in his lap.

Craig Mazin, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Morris Chestnut, John Cho, Clark Duke, Genesis Rodriguez

Side Effects

Set in the world of psychopharmacology, which is the study of how drugs affect the human mind.

Channing Tatum, Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Steven Soderbergh, Greg Jacobs, Scott Z. Burns, Douglas E. Hansen

Top Gun

The story of an elite group of pilots competing to be the best in their class and earn the title of "Top Gun". The film stars Tom Cruise as Maverick and Kelly McGillis as his civilian instructor.

Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Tom Skerritt, Tony Scott, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Kelly McGillis

Lore

The year is 1945. Left to fend for herself when her SS officer father and mother, a staunch Nazi believer, are interred by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, Lore, a fourteen-year-old German girl (Saskia Rosendahl), must lead her four siblings on a harrowing journey across a devastated country. When she meets the charismatic and mysterious young refugee Thomas, (Kai Malina, The White Ribbon,) Lore soon finds her world shattered by feelings of hatred and desire as she must put her trust in the very person she was always taught to hate in order to survive.

Cate Shortland, Saskia Rosendahl, Nele Trebs

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Cha...

A successful graphic designer's fame, money and charm has made him irresistible to women. But when his girlfriend breaks up with him his life heads into a downward spiral.

Charlie Sheen, Jason Schwartzman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Katheryn Winnick, Patricia Arquette, Aubrey Plaza, Roman Coppola, Youree Henley

The Sorcerer and the White Snake

Based on an old Chinese legend about an herbalist who falls in love with a thousand-year-old White Snake disguised as a woman. Jet Li stars as a sorcerer who discovers her true identity and battles to save the man's soul.

Jet Li, Siu-Tung Ching, Shengyi Huang, Raymond Lam, Charlene Choi, Zhang Wen, Vivian Hsu

The Playroom

In the 1975 suburbs, a volatile teenage daughter acts as surrogate mother to her younger sister by creating a make-believe world in their attic hideaway.

Julia Dyer, Gretchen Dyer, Molly Parker, John Hawkes, Cody Linley

Ferlinghetti

In this definitive documentary, director Christopher Felver crafts an incisive, sharply wrought portrait that reveals Ferlinghetti's true role as catalyst for numerous literary careers and for the Beat movement itself. One-on-one interviews with Ferlinghetti, made over the course of a decade, touch upon a rich mélange of characters and events that began to unfold in postwar America. These events include the publication of Allen Ginsberg's Howl, William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch, and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, as well as the divisive events of the Vietnam war, the sexual revolution, and this country's perilous march towards intellectual and political bankruptcy. Since its inception in 1953, Ferlinghetti's City Lights Bookstore quickly became an iconic literary institution that embodied social change and literary freedom. Continuing to thrive for over five decades, it is a cornerstone of America's modern literary and cultural history.

Christopher Felver

Spiders 3D

Following a crash of an old Soviet space station in New York City's subway tunnel, a new species of poisonous spiders is discovered. Inadvertently the spiders mutate to gigantic proportions and wreak havoc on the entire city.

Patrick Muldoon, Tibor Takacs, Christa Campbell, William Hope, Shelly Varod, Jon Mack

Safe Haven

A young North Carolina woman determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships. As she begins to fall in love, she struggles with a dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her.

Josh Duhamel, Dana Stevens, Cobie Smulders, Noah Lomax, Lasse Hallstrom, Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Ryan Kavanaugh

A Good Day to Die Hard

Follows New York cop John McClane on a new adventure.

Bruce Willis, Cole Hauser, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Sebastian Koch, John Moore, Alex Young, Skip Woods, Jai Courtney

Beautiful Creatures

High-school student Ethan Wate meets and becomes bewitched by Lena Duchannes, a 16-year-old whose family has moved to the small South Carolina town where he lives. The two must confront a curse that has haunted her family for generations as she comes to grips with her powers.

Emmy Rossum, Emma Thompson, Molly Smith, Alice Englert, Viola Davis, Alden Ehrenreich, Thomas Mann, Richard LaGravenese

Escape From Planet Earth

A comedy about a prison break from Area 51, a mysterious government facility where the inmates are a ragtag group of imprisoned aliens from around the universe.

Jessica Alba, Sarah Jessica Parker, Craig Robinson, Cal Brunker, James Gandolfini, Preston Stutzman, Jonathan Shestack, Brian Inerfeld

No

Based on a true story, when Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, facing international pressure, calls for a referendum on his presidency in 1988, opposition leaders persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra (Gael García Bernal), to spearhead their campaign. With scant resources and constant scrutiny by the despot’s watchmen, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and free their country from oppression.

Gael García Bernal, Pablo Larraín, Pedro Peirano, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Marcial Tagle

The Power of Few

The complex urban tale centers on terrorism and cloning told from five perspectives. Q'Orianka Kilcher plays a courier who rescues a man on the run.

Christopher Walken, Christian Slater, Anthony Anderson, Jimmy Holcomb, Jesse Bradford, Roy Kurtluyan, Kelly Martin Wagner, Q'Orianka Kilcher

Saving Lincoln

The story of Mr. Lincoln and his self-appointed bodyguard, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon - a banjo-playing Southerner who foiled repeated attempts on the President's life, and kept him functioning during the darkest hours of the Civil War.

Bruce Davison, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Salvador Litvak, Davidovich Litvak, Tom Amandes, Lea Coco, Penelope Ann Miller, Creed Bratton

Midrange

Fresh off a stellar collegiate basketball career, aspiring professional basketball star, Damon Sharp, returns to his hometown in Chicago quickly to discover a more challenging game off the court. His former life and old bad habits abruptly challenge his newfound faith in God. Damon’s dreams of playing pro ball hang in the balance while he faces the circling demons of his past, which are being beckoned by his brother Darrin, who’s on a fast track to jail.

Devastated when he doesn’t make the draft pick, weakness takes root and the downward spiraling ensues. Damon’s extended stay at home unveils his mother’s severe depression and his brother’s growing penchant for trouble despite being a single dad, exposing his young nephew’s vulnerability.

An intimate portrait of the two brothers emerges when they are suddenly forced to re-examine their lives, loyalty, love and their own limitations. Ultimately the choices they make reveal their true character when one of them takes a shot in life that will set the course for everyone’s life forever.

Jason Fields

The Bitter Buddha

The film takes an unconventional journey with a true “comic’s comic”. Eddie Pepitone, a startling voice in the alt-comedy scene, has been battling on-stage for over 30 years. Now in his fifties, he is attempting to take his comedy to the next level. Throughout the film, we follow Eddie as he struggles to break through his cult status while dealing with self-doubt, sobriety and a challenging past.

Original animation, stand-up material and hilarious interviews with Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Marc Maron and others help us gain insight into this fascinating character. Above all, “The Bitter Buddha” is an unhinged portrait of creativity, enlightenment and rage.

Steven Feinartz

Like Someone In Love

Like Someone in Love revolves around the brief encounter between an elderly professor (the wonderful 81-year-old stage actor Tadashi Okuno, here playing his first leading role in a film) and a sociology student (Rin Takanashi) who moonlights as a high-end escort. Dispatched to the old man by her boss—one of the professor’s former students—the young woman finds her latest client less interested in sex than in cooking her soup, talking, and playing old Ella Fitzgerald records (like the one that gives the film its allusive title). Eventually, night gives way to day and a tense standoff with the student’s insanely jealous boyfriend (Ryô Kase); but as usual in Kiarostami, nothing is quite as it appears on the surface. Are these characters—who conjure in one another the specters of regret and roads not taken—meeting by chance, or is it fate? Is this love, or merely something like it?

Abbas Kiarostami, Ryo Kase, Tadashi Okuno, Rin Takanashi

The Met: Rigoletto

The broadcast of Verdi’s Rigoletto will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 12:55 PM ET / 9:55 AM PT in select movie theaters. Director Michael Mayer has placed his new production of Verdi’s towering tragedy in Las Vegas in 1960. Piotr Beczala is the womanizing Duke of Mantua, Željko Luèiæ is his tragic sidekick, Rigoletto, and Diana Damrau is Rigoletto's daughter, Gilda.

Michael Mayer, Michele Mariotti

The Gatekeepers

For the first time ever, six former heads of Israel's domestic secret service agency, the Shin Bet, share their insights and reflect publicly on their actions and decisions. Since the Six Day War in 1967, Israel has failed to transform its crushing military victory into a lasting peace. Throughout that entire period, these heads of the Shin Bet stood at the center of Israel's decision-making process in all matters pertaining to security. They worked closely with every Israeli prime minister, and their assessments and insights had - and continue to have - a profound impact on Israeli policy.

Dror Moreh

Snitch

A suburban father is hit hard when his teenage son is sentenced to 30 years in prison. In order to reduce his son's sentence, the father goes undercover to serve up a senior drug dealer.

Dwayne Johnson, Harold Perrineau, Gordon Gray, Barry Pepper, Benjamin Bratt, Ric Roman Waugh, Nigel Sinclair, Guy East

Stand Off

To pay off a gambling debt, a young man robs a fish shop, but the heist goes terribly and humorously awry when it turns into a hostage situation.

Martin McCann, Terry George, David O'Hara, Jay Russell, Michael Legge, Brendan Fraser, Yaya DaCosta, Colm Meaney

Dark Skies

No plot details have been announced.

Scott Stewart, Jason Blum, Trevor St. John, Charles Layton, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Dakota Goyo, Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton

Inescapable

Adib Al Karum searches for his missing photojournalist daughter in Syrian, where he was forbidden from returning to when he was wrongfully convicted of spying.

Christine Vachon, Ruba Nadda, Lance Samuels, Marisa Tomei, Joshua Jackson, Alexander Siddig, Kirk D'Amico, Mark Slone

Future Weather

Lauduree (Haney-Jardine) is a 13-year-old loner passionate about nature and worried about global warming. Greta (Amy Madigan), her grandmother, is a fiery nurse jaded by alcohol and disappointment. When Lauduree is abruptly abandoned by her dreamer single mom (Marin Ireland), she decides to take survival into her own hands, forcing her and Greta to rethink their futures.

Perla Haney-Jardine, Jenny Deller, Amy Madigan, Lili Taylor, Marin Ireland

Bless Me, Ultima

Chronicles the coming-of-age story of Antonio, a young boy growing up in New Mexico during World War II, and his relationship with Ultima, an elderly traditional Hispanic healer, or curandera.

Luke Ganalon, Miriam Colon, Carl Franklin, Benito Martinez

Kai Poche

An Indian film based on Chetan Bhagat's novel The 3 Mistakes of My Life.

Abhishek Kapoor

11 Flowers

Eleven-year-old Wang Han lives with his family in a remote village in Guizhou province. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When Wang is selected to lead his school through their daily gymnastic regiment, his teacher recommends that he wear a clean, new shirt in honor of this important position – a request that forces his family to make a great sacrifice.

But one afternoon, soon after Wang is given the precious shirt, he encounters a desperate, wounded man, who takes it from him. The man is on the run, wanted by the authorities for murder. In no time the fates of Wang and the fugitive are intertwined.

Wang Xiaoshuai