February 2014 Movies

Foreclosure

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

Wendell Pierce, Michael Imperioli, Ged Dickersin, Richard Ledes, Roger Robinson

The LEGO Movie

Described as an action adventure set in a Lego world that centers on the idea of achild-like imagination and examines themes of creativity and teamwork in the manner of “Toy Story.”

Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Channing Tatum, Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Will Arnett

Vampire Academy

The story of Rose Hathaway, a 17-year-old half-human/half-vampire and guardian of a race of daywalking vampires.

Zoey Deutch, Olga Kurylenko, Don Murphy, Cameron Monaghan, Claire Foy, Sarah Hyland, Gabriel Byrne, Mark S. Waters

The Monument's Men

During World War II, the U.S. government forms a group of international art experts to hunt down and recover artwork stolen by the Nazis.

John Goodman, Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Daniel Craig, George Clooney, Paul Giamatti, Jean Dujardin, Hugh Bonneville

Cavemen

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.

Jason Patric, Camilla Belle, Chad Michael Murray, Skylar Astin, Dayo Okeniyi, Alexis Knapp, Kenny Wormald, Herschel Faber

Welcome to the Jungle

Follows a group of staffers at a design firm who go on an office retreat to a tropical island, where total chaos erupts after they become stranded.

Dennis Haysbert, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adam Brody, Rob Huebel, Alex Goldstone, Cyril Margret, Rob Meltzer, Justin Kanew

Love and Air Sex

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.

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

Nurse 3D

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

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

A Fantastic Fear of Everythi...

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

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

The Pretty One

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.

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

The Last of the Unjust

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.

Claude Lanzmann

Robocop

A fatally wounded cop returns to the police force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.

Samuel L. Jackson, David Thwaites, Jackie Earle Haley, Abbie Cornish, Michael K. Williams, Michael Keaton, Eric Newman, Nick Schenk

Winter's Tale

A period reincarnation story based on the 1983 Mark Helprin novel.

Will Smith, Jennifer Connelly, Matt Bomer, Colin Farrell, Akiva Goldsman, Kerry Foster, Jessica Brown Findlay, William Hurt

Endless Love

A high school student's love for a 15-year-old girl is thwarted by circumstance and accident.

Alex Pettyfer, Scott Stuber, Stephanie Savage, Robert Patrick, Shana Feste, Josh Schwartz, Gabriella Wilde, J. Miles Dale

About Last Night

A couple starts a romantic affair despite their friends' disapproval.

Kevin Hart, Regina Hall, Michael Ealy, Will Gluck, Leslye Headland, Steve Pink, Joy Bryant, Bryan Callen

Date and Switch

Two best friends vow to lose their virginity before graduating high school. Then, one confesses he's gay.

Dakota Johnson, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Nicholas Braun, Chris Nelson, Laurence Mark, David Blackman, Sarah Hyland, Nick Offerman

The Returned

A woman works in a hospital's special unit where patients need daily vaccines to prevent the development of a terrible virus.

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

Adult World

A Stanford coed who feels she's destined to be a poet and winds up working as a clerk in a mom-and-pop adult bookstore.

Emma Roberts, John Cusack, Michael Ohoven, Kevin Turen, Joel Michaely, Shannon Marie Woodward, Scott Coffey, Andrew Cochran

3 Days To Kill

Follows Secret Service Agent Ethan Runner who discovers he’s dying and decides to retire in order to reconnect with his estranged family but is offered access to an experimental drug that could save his life but has hallucinatory side-effects.

Hailee Steinfeld, Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Connie Nielsen, Ryan Kavanaugh, Luc Besson, Tucker Tooley, Virginie Besson-Silla

Jimmy P.

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).

Larry Pine, Molly Conners, Christopher Woodrow, Kent Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Joseph Cross, Patrick Milling Smith, Arnaud Desplechin

Girl On a Bicycle

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

Jeremy Leven, Paddy Considine, Vincenzo Amato, Louise Monot, Nora Tschirner

Easy Money: Hard to Kill

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.

Joel Kinnaman, Babak Najafi

Child’s Pose

Follows a steely, well-to-do Bucharest architect determined to keep her 30-something deadbeat son out of jail after a deadly car crash. How far will she go to convince the police, eyewitnesses and even the victim’s family that her son was not recklessly speeding?

Pompeii

Recounts the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and the destruction of the ancient Roman city.

Kit Harington, Paul W.S. Anderson, Emily Browning, Jared Harris, Paz Vega, Kiefer Sutherland, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jessica Lucas

Barefoot

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.

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

The Wind Rises

Follows Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.

Emily Blunt, Elijah Wood, Mandy Patinkin, John Krasinski, William H. Macy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Martin Short, Mae Whitman

In Secret

Paris,1867. Madame Raquin forces her young neice Therese into a loveless marriage with her sick, spoiled first cousin. However, Therese becomes obsessed with her husband’s friend Laurent and falls into a devastating affair that unravels all of their lives.

Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, Jessica Lange, Shirley Henderson, Matt Lucas, Mickey Liddell, Tom Felton, Mackenzie Crook

Omar

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.

Hany Abu-Assad

Black Out

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.

Raymond Thiry, Arne Toonen, Kim van Kooten

Holy Ghost People

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.

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

Non-Stop

Centers on an air marshal flying on a domestic flight.

Liam Neeson, Lupita Nyong'o, Anson Mount, Alex Heineman, Nate Parker, Jaume Collet-Serra, Joel Silver, Chris Roach

The Son of God

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

Roma Downey, Mark Burnett, Amber Rose Revah, Simon Kunz, Christopher Spencer, Diogo Morgado, Louise Delamere, Andrew Brooke

The Wind Rises

Follows Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.

Emily Blunt, Elijah Wood, Mandy Patinkin, John Krasinski, William H. Macy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Martin Short, Mae Whitman

Hairbrained

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.

Alex Wolff, Julia Garner, Brendan Fraser, Billy Kent

Chlorine

The story is set in 1985 New England, where a man discovers that his wife has unwittingly put him in a local real estate deal that has him caught squarely into the savings and loan debacle.

Vincent D'Onofrio, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Sizemore, Elisabeth Rohm, Christopher Beatty, Gary Giudice, Jay Alaimo, Matt Fiorello

Repentance

The story centers on a life coach (Anthony Mackie) who’s mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, played by Forest Whitaker.

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

Odd Thomas

An adaptation of the first novel in Dean Koontz's "Odd Thomas" series.

Willem Dafoe, Stephen Sommers, Curtis Jackson, Anton Yelchin, John Baldecchi, Nico Tortorella, Patton Oswalt, Addison Timlin

The Lunchbox

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.

Ritesh Batra

Stalingrad

The Battle of Stalingrad lasted more than six months through the brutal Russian winter and ended with the German army surrendering on February 2, 1943, turning the tide of WWII. The film, set in 1942, follows a band of Soviet soldiers who take refuge in a house in the German-occupied half of Stalingrad, where they encounter a young Russian woman who has been hiding there. As a romance grows between the woman and one of the soldiers, the Red Army prepares for another devastating Nazi attack. Love, grief, passion and the freedom that only those who face death can experience are balanced against the sweeping devastation of war.

Sergey Snezhkin, Fedor Bondarchuk, Iliya Tilkin