January 2015 Movies

Forty years later in the mid 1900s, a couple encounters the vengeful ghost of The Woman in Black in the eerie Eel Marsh House.

Jon Croker, Faith Elizabeth, Tom Harper, Simon Oakes, Richard Jackson, Nigel Sinclair, Jeremy Irvine, Phoebe Fox

PG-13 Drama Sequel

37% WILL SEE

Angela Vidal wakes up in a high-security quarantine facility, sole survivor and witness to the horrific events inside the building. But does she remember what happened to her? Is she carrying the virus? Distrust spreads through the isolated facility while new, even more deadly forms of evil spread even faster.

Javier Botet, Jaume Balaguero, Manuela Velasco, Paco Manzanedo

R Sequel Horror 1 hr, 36 mins

34% WILL SEE

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Released Wednesday, January 7th

The Search

Follows a displaced mother's tireless search for her son, a young Auschwitz survivor, in the aftermath of WWII.

Annette Bening, Christopher Woodrow, Michel Hazanavicius, Thomas Langmann, Berenice Bejo, Sarah E. Johnson, Molly Conners, Maria Cestone

78% WILL SEE

Released Friday, January 9th

Selma

A drama about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s freedom marches in Selma, Alabama in the 1960s, and specifically the relationship between King and President Johnson, who signed the Voting Rights Act a few months later.

Jeremy Strong, Dede Gardner, Tessa Thompson, Brad Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, Paul Webb, Cedric the Entertainer, Wendell Pierce

Drama

64% WILL SEE

Predestination

The film chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent (Ethan Hawke) sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, Ethan Hawke, Noah Taylor, Sarah Snook, Christopher Kirby

R Thriller Sci-Fi 1 hr, 37 mins

37% WILL SEE

The World Made Straight

About a rebellious young man who struggles to decide between the dark path he is on and the chance at a new life.

Adelaide Clemens, Brad Coolidge, David Burris, Todd Labarowski, Daniel Wagner, Jeremy Irvine, Minka Kelly, Noah Wyle

R Drama 1 hr, 59 mins

10% WILL SEE

Taken 3

No plot details have been revealed yet. As screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen explains, "We've taken everyone we can take — it's going to go in another direction. Should be interesting."

Liam Neeson, Robert Mark Kamen, Famke Janssen, Jon Gries, Olivier Megaton, Luc Besson, Maggie Grace, Forest Whitaker

PG-13 Action Sequel

65% WILL SEE

Let's Kill Ward’s Wife

Everyone hates Ward’s wife and wants her dead, Ward (Donald Faison) most of all. But when his friends’ murderous fantasies turn into an (accidental) reality, they have to deal with a whole new set of problems — like how to dispose of the body and still make their 3 p.m. tee time. Scott Foley's directorial debut is a blackly comic caper about helping a friend out of a bad relationship by any means necessary.

Patrick Wilson, Donald Faison, Scott Foley, Amy Acker, Nicollette Sheridan, Marika Dominczyk, Dagmara Dominczyk, Greg Grunberg

Comedy 1 hr, 21 mins

48% WILL SEE

Inherent Vice

Expansion

Larry "Doc" Sportello, a pothead private eye wanders through the Summer (and winter) of Love in 1969 Los Angeles.

Josh Brolin, Joaquin Phoenix, Maya Rudolph, Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, Yvette Yates, Joanne Sellar, Reese Witherspoon

R Drama Adaptation

18% WILL SEE

Dark Summer

A 17-year-old is on house arrest for the summer. When his mother is away on business, a horrifying incident occurs, followed by an even more terrifying presence in the house.

Paul Solet, Mike Le, Jamie Carmichael

Horror Supernatural

47% WILL SEE

Preservation

The film follows brothers Sean and Mike and Mike’s wife, Wit - a brainy anesthesiologist - who head out on a hunting trip in a nature preserve. But when the brothers are ensnared by unseen hunters, Wit must unleash her own animal instincts or else end up a trophy.

Christopher Denham, Wrenn Schmidt, Pablo Schreiber, Aaron Staton

Thriller Horror 1 hr, 30 mins

51% WILL SEE

Released Friday, January 16th

Paddington

A talking bear is adopted by a London family when they find him lost at Paddington Station.

Nicole Kidman, Ben Whishaw, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Broadbent, David Heyman, Peter Capaldi, Ollie Madden

Adventure Comedy

37% WILL SEE

American Sniper

From 1999 to 2009, Texas native Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL, records the highest number of sniper kills for an American.

Keir O'Donnell, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Luke Grimes, Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Max Charles, Andrew Lazar

Drama Action 2 hrs, 12 mins

62% WILL SEE

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The Wedding Ringer

No plot details have been announced.

Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Ken Howard, Dan Gill, Jeremy Garelick, Kaley Cuoco, Affion Crockett, Jorge Garcia

R Comedy

25% WILL SEE

Blackhat

A thriller about cyber crime. No plot details have been announced.

Thomas Tull, Chris Hemsworth, Manny Montana, Michael Mann, Jon Jashni, Morgan Davis Foehl, Viola Davis, Wei Tang

R Thriller Crime 2 hrs, 13 mins

20% WILL SEE

Spare Parts

Four undocumented Mexican-American high school students who form a robotics club and go up against MIT in the National Underwater Robotics Competition.

Sean McNamara, Elissa Matsueda, Carlos Pena, George Lopez, Marisa Tomei, Jamie Lee Curtis, Alexa Vega

Adventure Teen

27% WILL SEE

Still Alice

A cognitive psychologist faces the early onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Kate Bosworth, Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Alec Baldwin, Hunter Parrish

Drama

59% WILL SEE

Vice

Set on a resort in the future, the staff are lifelike synthetic beings and the rich can live out their darkest fantasies. The pseudo-paradise has an anything goes policy since the memories of the androids reset every night. One female staffer, however, suffers a glitch and is flooded with all her memories. Realizing the horror she has been made to suffer, she vows revenge.

Ambyr Childers, George Furla, Bruce Willis, Randall Emmett, Andre Fabrizio, Jeremy Passmore, Thomas Jane, Johnathon Schaech

Action Thriller 1 hr, 36 mins

58% WILL SEE

Released Tuesday, January 20th

Veronika Decides to Die

The movie stars Sarah Michelle Gellar as a woman who wakes up in a mental institution after a failed suicide attempt. She discovers that she has a weakened heart and only days to live. The film follows her recovery as she finds true love and a newfound will to survive.

Emily Young, Erika Christensen, Larry Gross, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jonathan Tucker

Drama Thriller

77% WILL SEE

Released Friday, January 23rd

Strange Magic

A madcap fairy tale musical inspired by 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream.' Popular songs from the past six decades help tell the tale of a colorful cast of goblins, elves, fairies and imps, and their hilarious misadventures sparked by the battle over a powerful potion.

David Berenbaum, Alan Cumming, Maya Rudolph, George Lucas, Evan Rachel Wood, Alfred Molina, Gary Rydstrom, Irene Mecchi

PG Fantasy Musical 1 hr, 39 mins

47% WILL SEE

The Boy Next Door

A single mom becomes attracted to the teenage boy who moves in next door and befriends her son. She starts and ends the romance, but he doesn’t let go so easily.

Ryan Guzman, Jennifer Lopez, Rob Cohen, Barbara Curry, Kristin Chenoweth, John Corbett, Bailey Chase, Ian Nelson

R Suspense Romance

42% WILL SEE

Mortdecai

Charles Mortdecai, a debonair art dealer and part-time rogue, must traverse the globe armed only with his good looks and special charm in a race to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the code to a lost bank account filled with Nazi gold. He also has to juggle angry Russians, the British Mi5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist.

David Koepp, Andrew Lazar, Eric Aronson, Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Paul Bettany, Michael Byrne

Crime Dark Comedy

19% WILL SEE

Black Sea

A submarine captain is laid off by a salvage company and makes a deal with a shadowy backer to look for a storied sunken submarine reputed to be loaded with gold at the bottom of the Black Sea. Since this find would get him even with his ex-bosses, he puts together a crew of English and Russian sailors for the task, taking off to uncharted depths with his motley crew. The closer they get to the prize, the riskier it becomes to trust one another.

Ben Mendelsohn, Charles Steel, Jude Law, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Sergey Kolesnikov, Kevin Macdonald, Dennis Kelly

R Adventure Thriller

28% WILL SEE

Son of a Gun

Story follows the relationship between Australia’s public enemy number one and his young protege.

Brenton Thwaites, Julius Avery, John Collee, Ewan McGregor, Alicia Vikander, Jacek Koman

R Thriller Crime 1 hr, 48 mins

32% WILL SEE

The Duke of Burgundy

New York

A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lover.

Peter Strickland, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna

Drama Romance

25% WILL SEE

The Humbling

A famous stage actor in decline is revived when he retires to his upstate New York farmhouse and takes up with a much younger woman.

Avi Lerner, Al Pacino, Barry Levinson, Buck Henry

Drama Romance

100% WILL SEE

Cake

Acerbic, hilarious Claire Simmons becomes fascinated by the suicide of Nina, a woman in her chronic pain support group. As she uncovers the details of Nina's suicide and develops a poignant relationship with Nina's husband, Claire also grapples with her own very raw personal tragedy.

Mark Canton, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Barnz, Adriana Barraza, Sam Worthington, William H. Macy, Patrick Tobin, Jennifer Aniston

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 42 mins

72% WILL SEE

Mommy

A passionate widowed single mom (Anne Dorval) finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her unpredictable 15-year-old ADHD son (Antoine Olivier Pilon). As they struggle to make ends meet, Kyla (Suzanne Clément), the peculiar new neighbor across the street, offers her help. Together, they strive for a new sense of balance.

Xavier Dolan

R Drama 2 hrs, 19 mins

25% WILL SEE

Song One

Story centers on a young woman who returns home after her brother is injured, only to meet and romantically connect with his favorite musician, who draws inspiration from the siblings.

Marc Platt, Kate Barker-Froyland, Christopher Woodrow, Anne Hathaway, Adam Shulman, Jonathan Demme, Molly Conners, Johnny Flynn

Drama 1 hr, 28 mins

84% WILL SEE

Red Army

Red Army is a feature documentary about the Soviet Union and the most successful dynasty in sports history: the Red Army hockey team. Told from the perspective of its captain Slava Fetisov, the story portrays his transformation from national hero to political enemy. From the USSR to Russia, the film examines how sport mirrors social and cultural movements and parallels the rise and fall of the Red Army team with the Soviet Union.

Gabe Polsky

Documentary

22% WILL SEE

Against the Sun

In one of the most harrowing true stories of World War II, three US Navy airmen crash land their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific and find themselves on a tiny life raft, surrounded by open ocean. No food. No water. No hope of rescue. Against incredible odds, these three virtual strangers must survive storms, sharks, starvation - and each other - as they try to sail more than a thousand miles to safety.

Tom Felton, Brian Falk, Mark David Keegan, Garett Dillahunt, Jake Abel

PG Action War 1 hr, 39 mins

37% WILL SEE

Released Wednesday, January 28th

Timbuktu

Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. The women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences. Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes when Kidane accidentally kills Amadou, the fisherman who slaughtered “GPS,” his beloved cow. He now has to face the new laws of the foreign occupants.

Abderrahmane Sissako

PG-13 Drama

45% WILL SEE

Released Friday, January 30th

Project Almanac

No details about Almanac were given other than it is intended to be a found-footage project involving the creation of a time machine.

Michael Bay, Dean Israelite, Brad Fuller, Jason Pagan, Andrew Form, Andrew Deutschman, Jonny Weston, Sofia Black-D’Elia

Thriller Suspense

29% WILL SEE

Black or White

Widowed after the car crash death of his wife, a grandfather has raised his own bi-racial granddaughter since his daughter died in childbirth. The child's paternal grandmother surfaces to wage a custody battle over the little girl, and the thrust becomes about race and where she should grow up.

Bill Burr, Kevin Costner, Anthony Mackie, Todd Lewis, Octavia Spencer, Gillian Jacobs, Jennifer Ehle, Mike Binder

PG-13 Drama 2 hrs, 1 min

65% WILL SEE

The Loft

Five married friends decide to rent a loft together where they can bring their mistresses. When the body of an unknown woman is found in the loft, they realize that they don't know each other as well as they thought and begin to suspect one another of murder.

Patrick Wilson, Eric Stonestreet, Rachael Taylor, Erik Van Looy, Steve Golin, Paul Green, Matt DeRoss, Adam Shulman

R Thriller Suspense

25% WILL SEE

Wild Card

A compulsive gambler whose addiction has led him to the streets of Vegas, Nick Escalante takes odd jobs providing “security” to support his addiction. His professional and personal lives collide when his friend is brutally beaten forcing him to take on the mob.

Jason Statham, Sofia Vergara, Cedric the Entertainer, Simon West, William Goldman, Michael Angarano, Stanley Tucci, Anne Heche

Action Thriller 1 hr, 32 mins

22% WILL SEE

Fear Clinic

When trauma-induced phobias begin to re-emerge in five survivors a year after their horrifying tragedy, they return to the “Fear Clinic,” hoping to find the answers they need to get cured. Dr. Andover (Robert Englund), a fear doctor who runs the clinic, uses his Fear Chamber to animate their fears in the form of terrifying hallucinations. However, the good doctor soon begins to suspect that something more sinister may be at work, something that yearns to be more than just a hallucination…

Robert Hall, Aaron Drane, Robert Englund

Horror

31% WILL SEE

Alien Outpost

Two documentary cameramen embedded in an army unit in the most hostile place on earth, an outpost surrounded by the last remaining alien fighters (Heavies) of an invading attack force. The world may have forgotten about the Outposts, but the Heavies are planning the second invasion of Earth and the soldiers are the only ones who can stop it.

Douglas Tait, Rick Ravanello, Jabbar Raisani, Adrian Paul, Reiley McClendon, Sven Ruygrok, Matthew Holmes

1 hr, 33 mins

44% WILL SEE