January 2013 Movies

Texas Chainsaw 3D

Based on the 1974 film, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," directed by Tobe Hooper. The story will pick up immediately where Tobe Hooper's original left off before flashing forward 35 years.

Alexandra Daddario, Scott Eastwood, Avi Lerner, Kirsten Elms, Mark Burg, Adam Marcus, Debra Sullivan, Tania Raymonde

A Dark Truth

Andy Garcia plays an ex-CIA op-turned political talk show host. He's hired by a corporate whistle blower to expose her company's cover-up of a massacre in a South American village.

Kim Coates, Deborah Kara Unger, Damian Lee, Andy Garcia, Eva Longoria, Forest Whitaker

All Superheroes Must Die

The film follows four masked avengers – Charge (Trost), Cutthroat (Till), The Wall (Lee Valmassy) and Shadow (Sophie Merkley) - who find themselves stripped of their powers by their arch-nemesis (Remar), whom they defeated years earlier...or so they thought. When the sinister mastermind puts the heroes through a series of brutal challenges that are virtually impossible to overcome, they must battle the clock – and even each other – in a race to stop a deadly countdown that could mean total destruction. Will the superheroes prevail, or will they be forced to meet their demise as mere human beings?

Lucas Till, Jason Trost, James Remar, Sophie Merkley, Nick Principe, Lee Valmassy

56 Up

Starting in 1964 with Seven Up, The UP Series has explored this Jesuit maxim. The original concept was to interview 14 children from diverse backgrounds from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future. Every seven years, renowned director Michael Apted, a researcher for Seven Up, has been back to talk to them, examining the progression of their lives. From cab driver Tony to schoolmates Jackie, Lynn and Susan and the heart-breaking Neil, as they turn 56 more life-changing decisions and surprising developments are revealed.

Michael Apted

Allegiance

After being granted a questionable transfer that will keep him stateside as his National Guard unit deploys for Iraq, Lieutenant Danny Sefton (Seth Gabel) becomes embroiled in a last minute AWOL attempt by one of his soldiers (Bow Wow)--forcing him to choose between his loyalties to the fleeing soldier, his unit and his fiance.

Pablo Schreiber, Malik Yoba, Michael Connors, Bow Wow, Seth Gabel, Aidan Quinn

Crawlspace

Deep in the heart of the unforgiving Australian desert lies Pine Gap, a top-secret government facility operated by the United States military. When the base comes under attack from unknown forces, an elite team is sent in to extract the military scientists. They encounter a beautiful young woman with no memory of how she came to be in the base, and find it overrun by disturbed patients from the base’s medical sector. But as the squad delves deeper it becomes clear that there is something far more sinister – and far more dangerous – going on at Pine Gap.

Eddie Baroo, Justin Dix, Amber Clayton, Ditch Davey, Peta Sergeant, Fletcher Humphrys

I Am Not a Hipster

A young singer-songwriter with a growing local following wanders through his apathetic life. When his dad and three sisters show up to spread his mother's ashes, he's reminded of the part of himself he left back in Ohio and is forced to deal with the person he's become. I Am Not a Hipster, based in San Diego's indie music and art scene, features original song performances and explores what it means to be creative in the face of tragedy.

Destin Daniel Cretton, Kandis Erickson, Tania Verafield, Adam Shapiro, Dominic Bogart, Alvaro Orlando, Tammy Minoff, Lauren Coleman

A Haunted House

When newlyweds Malcolm (Marlon Wayans) and Kisha (Essence Atkins) move into their dream house, they quickly find they're not alone. But it's not the house that's haunted, but his wife that is possessed with spirits - or as Malcolm calls it - "relationship baggage." Malcolm hires everyone from a priest to modern day ghost busters to rid her of the demon, determined not to let the evil spirit ruin his marriage... or his sex life for that matter.

Marlon Wayans, Rick Alvarez, Deepak Nayar, Nick Swardson, Cedric the Entertainer, Liana Mendoza, Mike Tiddes, David Koechner

Gangster Squad

In 1946, in a chaotic and corrupt Los Angeles, gangsters brazenly engage in shootouts and drive-by shootings. The LAPD forms what is dubbed the Gangster Squad to keep East Coast Mafia out of the city. The squad's anything goes approach lasts through the 1950s.

Frank Grillo, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Sean Penn, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Ruben Fleischer, Michael Tadross

The Baytown Outlaws

Follows three redneck brothers who get more than they bargained for after agreeing to help a woman get her son back from his seemingly abusive father.

Meagan Good, Barry Battles, Griffin Hood, Clayne Crawford, Daniel Cudmore, Robert Teitel, Billy Bob Thornton, Eva Longoria

Zero Dark Thirty

A U.S. military black ops mission causes ramifications which are felt around the world.

Chris Pratt, Mark Strong, Edgar Ramirez, Kathryn Bigelow, Joel Edgerton, Jessica Chastain, Mark Boal, Nash Edgerton

Horrid Henry: The Movie

Story sees Horrid Henry fight his ongoing battle against the tyranny of adults.

Nick Moore, Rupert Preston, Richard E. Grant, Rebecca Front, Parminder Nagra, James Swarbrick, Lucinda Whiteley, Anjelica Huston

Quartet

The story of three elderly, former opera-singers living in a retirement home for musicians, who suddenly find themselves invited to a "reunion event."

Dustin Hoffman, Stewart Mackinnon, Ronald Harwood, Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Michael Gambon

Officer Down

When a doctor and security guard dream at night, their dreams consist of what the other person did during the day. They meet when the security guard murders his wife, is then hit by a car and brought into the doctor's emergency room.

Stephen Lang, AnnaLynne McCord, Jess Most, Dominic Purcell, Walton Goggins, Brian Miller, John Chase, David Boreanaz

Freeloaders

About a group of friends who have been living in a Beverly Hills mansion for the last seven years, courtesy of their famous rock star buddy. But now, their pal is getting married, settling down in Manhattan, and selling his West Coast digs.

Natalie Morales, Josh Lawson, Olivia Munn, Dave Gibbs, Jay Chandrasekhar, Adam Duritz, Dan Rosen, Brit Morgan

Struck By Lightning

The script captures the spirit of movies penned by the late John Hughes.

Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Hyland, David Permut, Chris Colfer, Allison Janney, Christina Hendricks, Rebel Wilson, Mark Moran

Storage 24

London is in chaos. A military cargo plane has crashed leaving its highly classified contents strewn across the city. Completely unaware London is in lockdown, Charlie (Noel Clarke) and Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), accompanied by best friends Mark (Colin O’Donoghue) and Nikki (Laura Haddock), are at Storage 24 dividing up their possessions after a recent break-up. Suddenly, the power goes off. Trapped in a dark maze of endless corridors, a mystery predator is hunting them one by one. In a place designed to keep things in, how do you get out?

Johannes Roberts, Noel Clarke, Colin O'Donoghue, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Ned Dennehy

My Best Enemy

In the picturesque Vienna of the 1930s Victor Kaufmann (Moritz Bleibtreu), the son of wealthy Jewish art gallery owners, Rudi (Georg Friedrich) and Lena (Ursula Strauss) have been friends since childhood. The inseparable trio vows to stick together, come hell or high water.

But after the German annexation of Austria, Victor is shocked to discover his best friend Rudi on his doorstep in an SS uniform. Though Rudi tries to prevent it, Victor and his family are sent to a concentration camp. Years later, the Nazis want to present a gift to Mussolini – in the form of a Michelangelo sketch belonging to the Kaufmanns. But when the sketch is proved to be a fake, Victor is taken out of the concentration camp to produce the genuine article. But a dramatic plane crash, switching identities and an elaborate – perhaps crazy - scheme are just what Victor needs to try and set things right. With a fast pace, hilarious characters and a rollicking story this WWII adventure always keeps you guess just what craziness will happen next.

Wolfgang Murnberger

Promised Land

A sales executive arrives in a small town only to have his whole life called into question.

Matt Damon, Gus Van Sant, Chris Moore, John Krasinski, Rosemarie DeWitt, Scoot McNairy, Dave Eggers, Frances McDormand

Guillermo del Toro Presents Mama

A mother takes care of two little girls abandoned in the woods but she plans on using them in a bid to bring back her own, already dead, children.

Jessica Chastain, Andres Muschietti, Guillermo del Toro, David Linde, Russell Ackerman, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Daniel Kash

The Last Stand

Crime thriller set on the Mexican border, where an escaped cartel leader spars with a local sheriff and his inexperienced squad.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Knoxville, Mike Paseornek, Kim Jee-woon, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Andrew Knauer, Forest Whitaker, Luis Guzman

Broken City

The New York mayor asks private eye Billy Taggart to find out if the mayor’s wife is cheating on him. She is, with the campaign director of the mayor’s political rival, no less, who soon turns up dead. Did Billy’s investigation lead to murder?

Mark Wahlberg, John Malkovich, Lianne Halfon, Randall Emmett, Allen Hughes, Russell Smith, Brian Tucker, Russell Crowe

Luv

With his mother in rehab and his father out of the picture, young Woody Watson (Michael Rainey Jr.) lives with his grandmother (Lonette McKee) in suburban Baltimore and longs for his family to be reunited. His charismatic Uncle Vincent (Common) has recently returned home after eight years in prison determined to straighten out his life by opening a high-end crab shack that will establish him as a solid citizen with a legitimate future.

One day, instead of dropping Woody off at school, Vincent decides to give the boy a tutorial on how a man gets things done. After a trip to a tailor to get Woody a custom-fitted suit, the pair heads to the bank to sign off on the loan Vincent needs to fulfill his dreams. But when his meeting with the bank officer puts the brakes on his plans, Vincent has no one to turn to for help but his former associates, including Baltimore crime boss Mr. Fish (Dennis Haysbert) and his brother Arthur (Danny Glover). A day that begins with a parking- lot driving lesson and Woody’s first oyster takes a desperate turn when Fish insists Vincent run one more drug deal to demonstrate his loyalty. Soon Vincent finds himself pulled back into the violent world he is trying to escape—and Woody has to decide whether to follow his hero…or become his own man.

Dennis Haysbert, Common, Danny Glover, Sheldon Candis, Michael Rainey Jr.

The Pirogue

A group of African men leave Senegal in a pirogue captained by a local fisherman to undertake the treacherous crossing of the Atlantic to Spain where they believe better lives and prospects are waiting for them.

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters takes place 15 years after the siblings' incident at the gingerbread house. The two are now specialized bounty hunters looking to put down the cackling black-hat set.

Will Ferrell, Gemma Arterton, Jeremy Renner, Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare, Thomas Mann, Tommy Wirkola, Kevin Messick

Parker

Though at times he is forced to be a killer, a thief still lives by a code of honor that includes never stealing money from people who need it. His word is his bond, and if he is crossed he will strike back relentlessly.

Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Wendell Pierce, Taylor Hackford, Jonathan Mitchell, Steven Chasman, Les Alexander, Sidney Kimmel

Movie 43

An anthology of twenty comedic shorts. Starring Seann William Scott, Hugh Jackman, Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Halle Berry, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Kate Bosworth, Kate Winslet, Terrence Howard, Liev Schreiber, Elizabeth Banks, Justin Long, Kristen Bell, Patrick Warburton, Josh Duhamel, Jason Sudeikis, Chloe Grace Moretz, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jack McBrayer, Kieran Culkin, and Chris Pratt.

Chloë Grace Moretz, Chris Pratt, Gerard Butler, Uma Thurman, Peter Farrelly, Richard Gere, Halle Berry, Elizabeth Banks

Knife Fight

A political crisis manager specializes in playing hardball on behalf of scandal-plagued clients.

Carrie-Anne Moss, Jamie Chung, Rob Lowe, Jennifer Morrison, Bill Guttentag, Daniel Davila, Catherine Davila, Chris Lehane

John Dies at the End

It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't.

Clancy Brown, Glynn Turman, Chase Williamson, Doug Jones, Don Coscarelli, Paul Giamatti, Rob Mayes, Daniel Roebuck

The Taste of Money

In a mansion on the outskirts of Seoul lives one of the richest families in the entire country. Yoon is the president of a powerful conglomerate, but it’s his wife Madame Baek that is really in control. Her personal secretary Young-jak, a handsome young man newly introduced to the world of power, deals with the families immoral – and frequently illegal – activities. He makes sure that the Baeks’ influential American business partner has supply of hookers and waits for his own opportunity to make it rich. But everything changes when Madame Baek catches her husband having an affair with their Filipino maid and exacts her revenge by seducing Young-jak. Young-jak however has secrets of his own, as he finds himself drawn closer and closer to Nami, Madame Baek’s beautiful young daughter.

But when the Baeks’ son is arrested and Madame Baek decides to further punish her husband by airing their dirty laundry in public, Young-jak is torn between his morality and a shortcut to a successful life.

Sang-soo Im

Happy People: A Year in the Taig...

Deep in the Siberian wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the small village of Bakhta at the river Yenisei. There are only two ways to reach this outpost: by helicopter or boat. There‘s no telephone, running water or medical aid. The locals, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, live according to their own values and cultural traditions. With insightful commentary written and narrated by Werner Herzog, Happy People follows one of the Siberian trappers through all four seasons of the year to tell the story of a culture virtually untouched by modernity.

Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov

Yossi

Ten years after Yossi and Jagger, the tragic love story of two IDF officers serving in Lebanon, director Eytan Fox returns to find out what hae happened with Yossi. Dr. Yossi Hoffman has become a valued and dedicated cardiologist, often using his work as a way to escape from dealing with his anguished life. He lives alone, still closeted, unable to break through the walls and defenses built around him since the death of his lover. Even his co-workers a recently divorced doctor, who tries to sweep Yossi into his world of women and drugs, and a lonely nurse, who is secretly in love with him find it almost impossible to get close to him. His daily routine at the hospital is shaken up by the arrival of a mysterious woman. He follows her, and through the suprising connection they make, recieves a rare opportunity to deal with his trauma. Yossi then travels to the southern city of Eilat. Surounded by the sea and sand dunes he meets a group of young Israeli IDF officers, among them Tom, a handsome and self confident openly gay man, who represents a new world, different from the one that shaped Yossi.

Eytan Fox

Noobz

A gamer clan take a road trip to Los Angeles in order to enter the Cyberbowl Video Game Championships.

Jon Gries, Marvin Willson, Casper Van Dien, Lin Shaye, Blake Freeman, Moises Arias, Jason Mewes, Mindy Sterling

Supporting Characters

Best friends Nick (Alex Karpovsky) and Darryl (co-writer Tarik Lowe) are a New York film editing duo hired to salvage a botched comedy from a manic director (Kevin Corrigan) gone AWOL. But what starts as a simple job quickly sends their relationships—with their significant others and each other—reeling. Amidst trouble with his fiancée (Sophia Takal), Nick finds himself falling for the film's flirtatious ingénue (Arielle Kebbel); Darryl, meanwhile, struggles to focus on his editing work in between fights with his tempestuous girlfriend (Melonie Diaz). With real humor and heart, Supporting Characters offers a sharp, knowing take on life and love in the big city

Tarik Lowe, Kevin Corrigan, Sophia Takal, Daniel Schechter, Alex Karpovsky, Arielle Kebbel

As Luck Would Have It

Roberto (famed Spanish comic José Mota) once had a promising careers in advertising. But now out of work during the economic downturn, he struggles to keep his family afloat and their dire situation a secret from his adoring wife Luisa (Salma Hayek). After yet another dead end interview, it seems like reality will come crashing down on Roberto – until a freak car accident places him at the center of a wild media storm. Realizing his opportunity, Roberto hires a brazen agent to help him leverage his new found fame into fortune, but Luisa begins to worry about what lengths Roberto will go to for his family’s security.

Salma Hayek, Alex de la Iglesia, Jose Mota, Blanca Portillo, Juan Luis Galiardo