February 2014 Movies

With Michael Imperioli • Wendell Pierce • Ged Dickersin • Roger Robinson • Richard Ledes

Set in a neighborhood blighted by foreclosure, the real life horrors of economic turmoil mix with the paranormal.

With Morgan Freeman • Channing Tatum • Liam Neeson • Elizabeth Banks • Will Ferrell • Chris Pratt • Jonah Hill • Will Arnett • Cobie Smulders • Nick Offerman • Phil Lord • Roy Lee • Dan Lin • Alison Brie • Chris Miller • Kevin Hageman • Dan Hageman • Stephen Gilchrist • Jill Wilfert • Seanne Winslow

The original 3D computer animated story follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.

Chris Pratt stars as the voice of Emmet. Will Ferrell stars as the voice of his primary adversary, President Business, an erudite, anal-retentive CEO who has a hard time balancing world domination with micro-managing his own life; while Liam Neeson voices the president’s powerful henchman, known as Bad Cop, who will stop at nothing to catch Emmet.

Starring as Emmet’s fellow travelers are Morgan Freeman, as Vitruvius, an old mystic; Elizabeth Banks, as tough-as-nails Lucy, who mistakes Emmet for the savior of the world and guides him on his quest; Will Arnett, as the mysterious Batman, a LEGO minifigure with whom Lucy shares a history; Nick Offerman as a craggy, swaggering pirate obsessed with revenge on President Business; and Alison Brie as a sweet, loveable member of the team, with a powerful secret.

With Zoey Deutch • Cameron Monaghan • Olga Kurylenko • Lucy Fry • Don Murphy • Sarah Hyland • Claire Foy • Shelley Longworth • Gabriel Byrne • Mark S. Waters • Dan Waters • Michael Preger • Danila Kozlovskiy • Ashley Charles • Dominic Sherwood

Vampire Academy tells the legend of Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch) and Lissa Dragomir (Lucy Fry), two 17-year-old girls who attend a hidden boarding school for Moroi (mortal, peaceful Vampires) and Dhampirs (half-vampire/half-human guardians). Rose, a rebellious Guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa - a royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St.Vladamirs Academy, the very place where they believe their lives may be in most jeopardy. Thrust back into the perils of Moroi Society and high school, Lissa struggles to reclaim her status while Rose trains with her mentor and love-interest, Dimitri (Danila Kozlovsky), to guarantee her place as Lissa's guardian. Rose will sacrifice everything to protect Lissa from those who intend to exploit her from within the Academy walls and the Strigoi (immortal, evil vampires) who hunt her kind from outside its sanctuary.

With Matt Damon • Cate Blanchett • George Clooney • John Goodman • Daniel Craig • Paul Giamatti • Hugh Bonneville • Bob Balaban • Dimitri Leonidas • Jean Dujardin • Grant Heslov

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action-thriller focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys - seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 - possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind's greatest achievements.

With Adam Brody • Jean-Claude Van Damme • Dennis Haysbert • Robert Bevan • Justin Kanew • Alex Goldstone • Samantha Horley • Rob Huebel • Rob Meltzer • Jeff Kauffmann • Luillo Ruiz • Cyril Margret

This comedy follows a group of unsuspecting office workers who find themselves stranded on a desert island when a corporate retreat led by unhinged former Marine Storm Rothchild goes horribly wrong. Now Chris and his co-workers must battle nature -- and each other -- to survive!

With Alexis Knapp • Jason Patric • Camilla Belle • Kenny Wormald • Skylar Astin • Chad Michael Murray • Dayo Okeniyi • Chasty Ballesteros • Herschel Faber

Follows LA playboy Dean (Skylar Astin) who is fed up with one-night-stands and empty relationships and realizes that he wants something more out of life than just a party. With a little inspiration from his nine-year-old nephew and his best friend Tess (Camilla Belle), Dean decides to try his hand at finding true love for the first time - which proves to be much more difficult than he thought in modern-day Los Angeles.

With Doug Aarniokoski • Katrina Bowden • Niecy Nash • Corbin Bleu • Judd Nelson • Boris Kodjoe • Paz DeLa Huerta • Adam Herschman

Two sexy-but-disturbed nurses tend to the sick by day, but uses their charms to seduce and murder philandering men at night.

With Simon Pegg • Clare Higgins • Sheridan Smith • Amara Karan • Crispian Mills • Chris Hopewell • Geraldine Patten

Simon Pegg plays a crime novelist, whose research into Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, in fear of being murdered.

With Claude Lanzmann

1975. In Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only "Elder of the Jews" not to have been killed during the war. A rabbi in Vienna, following the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, Murmelstein fought bitterly with Adolf Eichmann, week after week for seven years, managing to help around 121,000 Jews leave the country, and preventing the liquidation of the ghetto.

2012. Claude Lanzmann, at 87 – without masking anything of the passage of time on men, but showing the incredible permanence of the locations involved –exhumes these interviews shot in Rome, returning to Theresienstadt, the town “given to the Jews by Hitler”, a so-called model ghetto, but a ghetto of deceit chosen by Adolf Eichmann to dupe the world. We discover the extraordinary personality of Benjamin Murmelstein: a man blessed with a dazzling intelligence and a true courage, which, along with an unrivaled memory, makes him a wonderfully wry, sardonic and authentic storyteller.

Through these three periods, from Nisko in Poland to Theresienstadt, and from Vienna to Rome, the film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution. It reveals the true face of Eichmann, and exposes without artifice the savage contradictions of the Jewish Councils.

With Ron Livingston • Jake Johnson • Zoe Kazan • Robin Schorr • Jenee LaMarque • Steven J. Berger

Follows an awkward but loveable young woman who is mistaken for her dead "perfect" identical twin, and seizes the chance to masquerade as her sister. But when she falls in love with her twin’s next door neighbor, she finds herself wanting to live her own imperfect life, and have the truth come out.

With Zach Cregger • Sara Paxton • Addison Timlin • Michael Stahl-David • Ashley Bell • Bryan Poyser

When brokenhearted Stan (Michael Stahl-David) flies to Austin for the weekend in hopes of "accidentally" running into his ex-girlfriend Cathy (Ashley Bell), he arrives to find their best friends Jeff (Zach Cregger) and Kara (Sara Paxton) in the middle of their own vicious breakup. Before too long, battle lines are drawn – and with the Air Sex World Championships in town, anything can go down.

With Samuel L. Jackson • Joel Kinnaman • James Vanderbilt • Michael Keaton • Michael K. Williams • Gary Oldman • Jay Baruchel • Abbie Cornish • Jackie Earle Haley • Eric Newman • Nick Schenk • Mike Medavoy • Brad Fischer • Marc Abraham • Jose Padilha • David Thwaites • Arnold Messer • David Self • Josh Zetumer

In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years – and it’s meant billions for OmniCorp’s bottom line. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine pursuing justice.

With Russell Crowe • Will Smith • Colin Farrell • Matt Bomer • Jennifer Connelly • Kevin Durand • Lucy Griffiths • Jessica Brown Findlay • Kevin Corrigan • Eva Marie Saint • William Hurt • Akiva Goldsman • Kerry Foster

Set in 1916 and present-day Manhattan, Winter's Tale follows the story of Peter Lake (Colin Farrell). Peter Lake is a thief who falls in love with Beverly Penn (Jessica Brown Findlay), a dying girl who occupies one of the houses he breaks into. Lake is saved from the insane gangster Pearly Soames (Russell Crowe) and his gang of thugs by Athansor, a mysterious white horse who becomes his guardian angel.

With Kevin Hart • Regina Hall • Steve Pink • Michael Ealy • Adam Rodriguez • Will Gluck • Joy Bryant • Leslye Headland • Bryan Callen

A modern reimagining of the classic romantic comedy, this contemporary version closely follows new love for two couples as they journey from the bar to the bedroom and are eventually put to the test in the real world.

With Alex Pettyfer • Robert Patrick • Scott Stuber • Josh Schwartz • J. Miles Dale • Shana Feste • Gabriella Wilde • Pam Abdy • Stephanie Savage • Dayo Okeniyi • Anna Enger • Sharon Conley • Jesse Malinowski

Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde star in the story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

With Amber Heard • Hailee Steinfeld • Kevin Costner • Connie Nielsen • Luc Besson • McG • Ryan Kavanaugh • Virginie Besson-Silla • Tucker Tooley • Adi Hasak

Secret Service Agent Ethan Runner discovers he's dying and decides to retire in order to reconnect with his estranged family. But when the Secret Service offers him access to an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment, he soon finds himself trying to juggle his family, his mission, and the drug's hallucinatory side-effects.

With Dakota Johnson • Nick Offerman • Wendi McLendon-Covey • Megan Mullally • Nicholas Braun • Chris Nelson • Sarah Hyland • David Blackman • Gary Cole • Laurence Mark • Alan Yang • Dreama Walker • Jai Stefan • Hunter Cope

High school seniors Michael and Matty have been best friends since 3rd grade. Still virgins, they make a pact to help each other "score" before Senior Prom - but their mission suddenly takes an unexpected turn when Matty announces that he's gay.

With Emily Hampshire • Hatem Khraiche • Julio Fernandez • Carlos Fernandez • Manuel Carballo • Kris Holden-Reid

Set in a post-zombie world where a treatment called the “Return Protein” can stop the spread of the virus if injected quickly after infection, but cannot cure it. With daily injections, the “Returned” are able to live relatively normal lives, but with brutal attacks at the hands of Anti-Return groups and rumors that protein stock is running low, the world is again on the brink of chaos. In the midst of this turmoil are Alex (Kris Holden-Reid) and Kate (Emily Hampshire), a young, successful and enviable couple that are hiding a long held secret – Alex is Returned. Suspicious that a government order for all the Returned to report to a secure medical facility ‘for their own safety’, the couple flees, taking with them all the doses of “Return Protein” they have. Now in a race against the clock and few places to turn, they must face their worst fears and come to grips with the reality that if they are neither human nor zombies, who exactly are the Returned?

With Paddy Considine • Jeremy Leven • Nora Tschirner • Vincenzo Amato • Louise Monot

Centers on an Italian tour bus driver in Paris who becomes infatuated and obsessed with the title character to comic and chaotic effect.

With Emma Roberts • John Cusack • Joel Michaely • Michael Ohoven • Kevin Turen • Chris Riggi • Shannon Marie Woodward • Scott Coffey • Andrew Cochran • Armando Riesco

A Stanford graduate feels she’s destined to be a great poet but winds up working as a clerk in a mom-and-pop adult bookstore.

With Benicio Del Toro • Arnaud Desplechin • Molly Conners • Joseph Cross • Christopher Woodrow • Jennifer Roth • Gina McKee • Larry Pine • Pascal Caucheteux • Misty Upham • Patrick Milling Smith • Matthieu Amalric • Kent Jones • Gary Farmer • Michelle Thrush • Ben Limberg

Follows Jimmy Picard (Benicio Del Toro), a Blackfoot Indian, who returns from World War II with a mysterious illness and requires the help of psychoanalyst George Devereux (Matthieu Amalric).

With Joel Kinnaman • Babak Najafi

JW (Joel Kinnaman), the promising business student who became an organized coke smuggler in Easy Money, is serving hard time in prison and is struggling to get back on an honest path. There are glimmers of hope in his life: some venture capitalists are interested in a new piece of trading software he’s developed, and while behind bars he’s made peace with an old enemy. This all proves to be an illusion. On leave from prison, and back in contact with his former gang, JW learns that once you’ve walked in the shoes of a criminal there just may be no going back.

With Paul W.S. Anderson • Emily Browning • Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje • Kit Harington • Carrie-Anne Moss • Jessica Lucas • Jared Harris • Kiefer Sutherland • Sasha Roiz • Paz Vega • Lee Batchler • Janet Scott Batchler

Set in 79 A.D., Pompeii tells the epic story of Milo, a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.

With Elizabeth Olsen • Tom Felton • Oscar Isaac • Jessica Lange • Matt Lucas • Shirley Henderson • Charlie Stratton • Mackenzie Crook • William Horberg • Mickey Liddell

A tale of obsessive love, adultery and revenge set in the lower depths of 1860s Paris. Therese (Elizabeth Olsen), a sexually repressed beautiful young woman, is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille (Tom Felton), by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin (Jessica Lange). Therese spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband's alluring childhood friend, Laurent (Oscar Isaac), she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences.

With Emily Blunt • Martin Short • Joseph Gordon-Levitt • John Krasinski • Stanley Tucci • William H. Macy • Elijah Wood • Mandy Patinkin • Jennifer Grey • Mae Whitman • Werner Herzog • Gary Rydstrom • Hayao Miyazaki

In The Wind Rises, Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world’s most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. The film chronicles much of his life, depicting key historical events, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic and Japan’s plunge into war. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo. Writer and director Hayao Miyazaki pays tribute to engineer Jiro Horikoshi and author Tatsuo Hori in this epic tale of love, perseverance, and the challenges of living and making choices in a turbulent world.

With Evan Rachel Wood • J.K. Simmons • Scott Speedman • Treat Williams • Kate Burton • Andrew Fleming • Stephen Zotnowski

The "black sheep" son (Scott Speedman) of a wealthy family meets a free-spirited, but sheltered woman (Evan Rachel Wood). To convince his family that he's finally straightened out his life, he takes her home for his brother's wedding where an improbable romance blooms, as she impresses everyone with her genuine, simple charms.

With Raymond Thiry • Arne Toonen • Kim van Kooten

On the day before his wedding, retired criminal Jos (Raymond Thiry) wakes up with a splitting headache, a missing wedding ring, and a dead body in bed next to him. With no memory of the previous day's events, he quickly finds himself pursued by suspicious narcotics officers and an assortment of eccentric and dangerous criminals who believe Jos has stolen 20 kilos of cocaine. With less than 24 hours to unravel the mystery, Jos is forced back into the seedy Amsterdam underworld in hopes that he can recover the coke and ring, and live long enough to make it to the altar.

With Hany Abu-Assad

Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. On the other side of the wall, the sensitive young baker Omar becomes a freedom fighter who must face painful choices about life and manhood. When Omar is captured after a deadly act of resistance, he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. Suspicion and betrayal jeopardize his longtime trust with accomplices and childhood friends Amjad and Tarek, Nadia’s militant brother. Omar’s feelings quickly become as torn apart as the Palestinian landscape. But it’s soon evident that everything he does is for his love of Nadia.

With Emma Greenwell • Cameron Richardson • Roger Aaron Brown • Mitchell Altieri • Don Harvey • Joe Egender • Brendan McCarthy

A Southern Gothic thriller about a teenager searching for her lost sister in the Appalachian Mountains, where she encounters a snake-handling religious cult and eventually learns the truth about her sister's fate.

With Liam Neeson • Lupita Nyong'o • Julianne Moore • Jaume Collet-Serra • Joel Silver • Scoot McNairy • Nate Parker • Alex Heineman • Andrew Rona • Michelle Dockery • Corey Stoll • Chris Roach • Anson Mount • Omar Metwally • Linus Roache • John Richardson • Jason Butler Harner

Liam Neeson stars in Non-Stop, a suspense thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air. During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (Neeson) receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the airline to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every 20 minutes. The

With Roma Downey • Mark Burnett • Amber Rose Revah • Diogo Morgado • Christopher Spencer • Louise Delamere • Andrew Brooke • Darwin Shaw • Simon Kunz • Adrian Schiller

Diogo Morgado portrays the role of Jesus as the film spans from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion and ultimate resurrection.

With Willem Dafoe • Patton Oswalt • Nico Tortorella • Addison Timlin • Curtis Jackson • Anton Yelchin • Stephen Sommers • John Baldecchi • Howard Kaplan

Small-town fry cook Odd Thomas (Anton Yelchin) is an ordinary guy with a paranormal secret: he sees dead people, everywhere. When a creepy stranger shows-up with an entourage of ghostly bodachs – predators who feed on pain and portend mass destruction – Odd knows that his town is in serious trouble. Teaming up with his sweetheart Stormy (Addison Timlin) and the local sheriff (Willem Dafoe), Odd plunges into an epic battle of good vs evil to try to stop a disaster of apocalyptic proportions.

With Ritesh Batra

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

With Forest Whitaker • Mike Epps • Anthony Mackie • Philippe Caland • Sanaa Lathan • Nicole Ari Parker • Shintaro Shimosawa

Years after a drunken car crash that almost took his life, Thomas Carter (Anthony Mackie) has reinvented himself as a therapist/spiritual advisor who advocates a synthesis of world religions and positivity. He's parlayed this vocation into a successful book release that draws the attention of Angel Sanchez (Forest Whitaker), a profoundly troubled man fixated on the untimely death of his mother. When Carter takes on Sanchez as a personal client in an effort to raise funds for his indebted brother Ben (Mike Epps), things quickly take a turn for the worse. Angel needs much more than a simple life coach. Single actions in the past comprise tidal waves of reactions in the present.

With Kyra Sedgwick • Vincent D'Onofrio • Matt Fiorello • Tom Sizemore • Elisabeth Rohm • Jay Alaimo • Christopher Beatty • Gary Giudice • Peter Tannenbaum

In the town of Copper Canyon, people are cashing in on an economic housing boom, and the local country club is buzzing about the investment opportunity. Once vivacious couple, Roger and Georgie Lent, have settled into a complacent lifestyle of mediocrity where their marriage is falling apart and their children are turning away from them. Nonetheless, desperately discontent Georgie, pushes Roger into finding a way to invest in the market bubble in the hopes that their family can be saved with the money they are sure to make. When local tennis pro and part-time drug dealer, Pat, comes to Roger for investment advice, Roger sees his opportunity. Torn by the reality that his family could be saved by this dirty money, Roger finds himself staring down the barrel of a moral conundrum. Chlorine is the tale of classic American greed.

With Fedor Bondarchuk • Sergey Snezhkin • Iliya Tilkin

Stalingrad is a drama set in 1942, during one of the most important battles of World War II, which stopped the progress of Nazi forces and turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Soviet army mounts a counter-attack on the Nazi forces that occupy half of Stalingrad on the other side of the Volga, but the operation to cross the river is unsuccessful. A few soldiers who managed to get to the other side take refuge in a house on the bank of Volga. Here they find a girl who didn’t escape when the Germans came. While the whole might of the German army descends onto them, the heroes of Stalingrad experience love, loss, joy and the sense of ultimate freedom that can only be felt by those about to die. They defend the house at all costs while the Red Army prepares for another attack.

With Brendan Fraser • Alex Wolff • Julia Garner • Billy Kent

After being rejected from Harvard University, 14-year old genius and outcast Eli Pettifog (Alex Wolff) finds himself at Whittman College, an Ivy League wannabe. Eli meets 41-year-old freshman Leo Searly (Brendan Fraser), a gambler whose world has imploded and has dropped out of life to enroll in college. The odd duo becomes unlikely friends in this comedic coming-of-age film.

With Emily Blunt • Martin Short • Joseph Gordon-Levitt • John Krasinski • Stanley Tucci • William H. Macy • Elijah Wood • Mandy Patinkin • Jennifer Grey • Mae Whitman • Werner Herzog • Gary Rydstrom • Hayao Miyazaki

In The Wind Rises, Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world’s most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. The film chronicles much of his life, depicting key historical events, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic and Japan’s plunge into war. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo. Writer and director Hayao Miyazaki pays tribute to engineer Jiro Horikoshi and author Tatsuo Hori in this epic tale of love, perseverance, and the challenges of living and making choices in a turbulent world.