January 2015 Movies

With Tom Harper • Adrian Rawlins • Helen McCrory • Roy Lee • Jeremy Irvine • Richard Jackson • Simon Oakes • Guy East • Nigel Sinclair • Jon Croker • Phoebe Fox • Amelia Pidgeon • Oaklee Pendergast • Faith Elizabeth

During the London bombings of World War II, school teachers Eve Parkins (Phoebe Fox) and Jean Hogg (Helen McCrory) lead a group of children in evacuation to Crythin Gifford, a remote village outside of the city. When the group takes up residence at the Eel Marsh House, 40 years after Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) investigated the first haunting, Eve soon realizes they are not alone. The longer they stay in the house, the more the awful past of the residence unravels itself and the evil spirit that lurks around them threatens the well-being of the children. With the help of a pilot (Jeremy Irvine), Eve does all that she can to protect the children and discover the truth behind the Woman in Black.

With Javier Botet • Jaume Balaguero • Manuela Velasco • Paco Manzanedo

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.

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

A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya.

With Brad Pitt • Tessa Thompson • Cedric the Entertainer • Tim Roth • Colman Domingo • Dede Gardner • David Oyelowo • Oprah Winfrey • Christian Colson • Jeremy Strong • Carmen Ejogo • Tom Wilkinson • Wendell Pierce • Jeremy Kleiner • John Lavelle • Dylan Baker • Paul Garnes • Paul Webb • Cameron McCracken • Andre Holland • Ava DuVernay • Omar J. Dorsey

Selma is the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic struggle to secure voting rights for all people – a dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with the epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, and led to President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

With Liam Neeson • Forest Whitaker • Luc Besson • Famke Janssen • Robert Mark Kamen • Maggie Grace • Jon Gries • Olivier Megaton • Leland Orser • Jonny Weston

Liam Neeson returns as ex-government operative Bryan Mills, whose life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his "particular set of skills" to track the real killer and exact his unique brand of justice.

With Ethan Hawke • Sarah Snook • Noah Taylor • Peter Spierig • Michael Spierig • Christopher Kirby

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.

With Patrick Wilson • Scott Foley • Dagmara Dominczyk • Donald Faison • Nicollette Sheridan • Marika Dominczyk • Amy Acker • James Carpinello • Greg Grunberg

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, also starring Foley, Patrick Wilson, Amy Acker, and Nicolette Sheridan, is a blackly comic caper about helping a friend out of a bad relationship by any means necessary.

With Minka Kelly • Haley Joel Osment • Melissa Coolidge • Jeremy Irvine • Daniel Wagner • Noah Wyle • Adelaide Clemens • Todd Labarowski • Brad Coolidge • Michael Wrenn • David Burris

In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, young and rebellious Travis Shelton (Jeremy Irvine) finds himself ensnared in the violence of the past and the subtle evils of the present.

With Mike Le • Paul Solet • Jamie Carmichael

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.

With Pablo Schreiber • Christopher Denham • Wrenn Schmidt • Aaron Staton

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.

With Joaquin Phoenix • Reese Witherspoon • Martin Short • Owen Wilson • Paul Thomas Anderson • Benicio Del Toro • Josh Brolin • Maya Rudolph • Jena Malone • Katherine Waterston • Daniel Lupi • Yvette Yates • Peter McRobbie • Joanne Sellar • Sasha Pieterse

When private eye Doc Sportello’s ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin…well, easy for her to say.

It’s the tail end of the psychedelic '60s and paranoia is running the day and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like “trip” or “groovy,” that’s being way too overused—except this one usually leads to trouble.

With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists... Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp—all Thomas Pynchon.

With Nicole Kidman • Kevin McCormick • Ben Whishaw • Peter Capaldi • Sally Hawkins • Jim Broadbent • Hugh Bonneville • Julie Walters • David Heyman • Ollie Madden • Hamish McColl • Rosie Alison • Paul King

Paddington tells the story of the comic misadventures of a young Peruvian bear (voiced by Firth) who travels to the city in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined - until he meets the kindly Brown family who read the label around his neck that says "Please look after this bear. Thank you," and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum taxidermist.

With Kevin Hart • Kaley Cuoco • Josh Gad • Dan Gill • Jeremy Garelick • Jorge Garcia • Affion Crockett • Cloris Leachman • Ken Howard

Doug Harris (Josh Gad) is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the girl of his dreams (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting), Doug is referred to Jimmy Callahan (Kevin Hart), owner and CEO of Best Man, Inc., a company that provides flattering best men for socially challenged guys in need. What ensues is a hilarious wedding charade as they try to pull off the big con, and an unexpected budding bromance between Doug and his fake best man Jimmy.

With Chris Hemsworth • Viola Davis • Christian Borle • Jon Jashni • William Mapother • Michael Mann • Wei Tang • Leehom Wang • Thomas Tull • Alex Garcia • Morgan Davis Foehl • Manny Montana • Tracee Chimo

Set within the world of global cybercrime, blackhat follows a furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners as they hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta.

With Bradley Cooper • Steven Spielberg • Clint Eastwood • Sienna Miller • Kyle Gallner • Luke Grimes • Brian Hallisay • Andrew Lazar • Jake McDorman • Keir O'Donnell • Peter Morgan • Max Charles • Brando Eaton • Eric Ladin

U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is sent to Iraq with only one mission: to protect his brothers-in-arms. His pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and, as stories of his courageous exploits spread, he earns the nickname “Legend.” However, his reputation is also growing behind enemy lines, putting a price on his head and making him a prime target of insurgents. He is also facing a different kind of battle on the home front: striving to be a good husband and father from halfway around the world.

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

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring.

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

Based on an incredible true story, La Vida Robot chronicles the journey of four undocumented Mexican-American high school students from Phoenix, AZ who form a robotics club and are led by their teacher (George Lopez) with nothing but spare parts and a dream to compete against MIT in a National Underwater Robotics Competition.

With Bruce Willis • Bryan Greenberg • George Furla • Randall Emmett • Thomas Jane • Johnathon Schaech • Jeremy Passmore • Andre Fabrizio • Ambyr Childers

Julian Michaels (Bruce Willis) has designed the ultimate resort: VICE, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like humans. When an artificial (Ambyr Childers) becomes self-aware and escapes, she finds herself caught in the crossfire between Julian's mercenaries and a cop (Thomas Jane) who is hell-bent on shutting down Vice, and stopping the violence once and for all.

With Sarah Michelle Gellar • Larry Gross • Erika Christensen • Jonathan Tucker • Emily Young

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.

With Alan Cumming • Kristin Chenoweth • George Lucas • Peter Stormare • Maya Rudolph • Alfred Molina • Evan Rachel Wood • David Berenbaum • Irene Mecchi • Gary Rydstrom • Sam Palladio

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.

With Johnny Depp • Gwyneth Paltrow • Ewan McGregor • Andrew Lazar • Eric Aronson • Paul Bettany • David Koepp • Michael Byrne • Guy Burnet

Juggling some angry Russians, the British Mi5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part time rogue Charlie Mortdecai (Johnny Depp) 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.

With Jude Law • Dennis Kelly • Ben Mendelsohn • Kevin Macdonald • Jodie Whittaker • Michael Smiley • David Threlfall • Charles Steel • Scoot McNairy • Grigoriy Dobrygin • Konstantin Khabenskiy • Sergey Kolesnikov • Sergey Puskepalis

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.

With Jennifer Lopez • Kristin Chenoweth • John Corbett • Ian Nelson • Adam Hicks • Rob Cohen • Ryan Guzman • Barbara Curry • Bailey Chase • Travis Schuldt

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.

With Anne Hathaway • Marc Platt • Johnny Flynn • Adam Shulman • Molly Conners • Mary Steenburgen • Maria Cestone • Al Thompson • Jonathan Demme • Christopher Woodrow • Ben Rosenfield • Kate Barker-Froyland • Hoyt David Morgan • Sarah E. Johnson • Amanda Bowers

Anne Hathaway stars as Franny in Song One, a romantic drama set against the backdrop of Brooklyn's vibrant indie music scene. After Franny’s musician brother Henry (Ben Rosenfield, Boardwalk Empire) is injured and hospitalized in a coma following a car accident, Franny returns home after a long estrangement and begins to use his notebook as a guide to how his life has evolved in her absence. Franny seeks out the musicians and artists Henry loved, in the course of her journey meeting James Forester (Johnny Flynn), his musical idol, whose success and fame belie a shy and private man. As a strong romantic connection develops between Franny and James, the question becomes if love can bloom even under the most adverse circumstances.

With Tom Felton • Jake Abel • Mark David Keegan • Brian Falk • Garett Dillahunt

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.

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

In the criminal world, life is like a game of chess. To gain control, you have to stay a few moves ahead of your opponent. Lose that control, and you risk becoming a pawn in their very dangerous game. During a six-month stint inside a West Australian prison, rookie criminal JR (Brenton Thwaites) meets the smart and enigmatic Brendan Lynch (Ewan McGregor). In exchange for protection on the inside, JR agrees to help Brendan get outside, hooking up with the influential Sam Lennox (Jacek Koman) to orchestrate a daring prison escape that frees Brendan, and inmates Sterlo (Matt Nable) and Merv (Eddie Baroo).

JR is rewarded for his efforts, and with a taste of the high life and flirtations with Sam’s beautiful girl Tasha (ALICIA VIKANDER), he gets sucked deeper into Brendan’s criminal world. But whose game is he playing? Becoming a father-like mentor to JR, Brendan convinces him to join on another high stakes job - robbing a Kalgoolie gold mine. But with millions of dollars at stake, it’s hard to tell whom JR can trust, and whose side each player is actually on. And with his feelings for Tasha increasing, and his faith in Brendan decreasing, JR must figure out his next move… before its check, mate.

With Anna Kendrick • Sam Worthington • Jennifer Aniston • William H. Macy • Felicity Huffman • Adriana Barraza • Mark Canton • Daniel Barnz • Mamie Gummer • Patrick Tobin

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.

With Gabe Polsky

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.

With Xavier Dolan

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.

With Al Pacino • Avi Lerner • Barry Levinson • Buck Henry

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.

With Sidse Babett Knudsen • Chiara D’Anna • Peter Strickland

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

With Abderrahmane Sissako

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.

With Patrick Wilson • Wentworth Miller • Adam Shulman • Isabel Lucas • Steve Golin • Erik Van Looy • Rachael Taylor • James Marden • Wesley Strick • Paul Green • Eric Stonestreet • Matt DeRoss • Hilde DeLaere

Karl Urban and James Marsden star in the tense psychological thriller The Loft, the story of five guys who conspire to secretly share a penthouse loft in the city--a place where they can indulge in their deepest fantasies. But the fantasy becomes a nightmare when they discover the dead body of an unknown woman in the loft, and they realize one of the group must be involved. Paranoia seizes them as everyone begins to suspect one another. Friendships are tested, loyalties are questioned and marriages crumble as the group is consumed by fear, suspicion and murder in this relentless thriller.

With Michael Bay • Andrew Form • Dean Israelite • Jason Pagan • Ginny Gardner • Allen Evangelista • Sam Lerner • Brad Fuller • Jonny Weston • Sofia Black-D’Elia • Andrew Deutschman

A brilliant high school student and his friends uncover blueprints for a mysterious device with limitless potential, inadvertently putting lives in danger.

With Bill Burr • Kevin Costner • Anthony Mackie • Octavia Spencer • Gillian Jacobs • Jennifer Ehle • Mike Binder • Todd Lewis • Jillian Estell

Focuses on attorney Elliot Anderson (Costner) who is widowed after the car crash death of his wife. Elliot has raised his bi-racial granddaughter Eloise since his daughter died in childbirth. As he struggles with his grief, Elliot’s world is turned upside-down when the child’s African American grandmother Rowena (Spencer) demands that Eloise be brought under the care of her father Reggie, a drug addict who Elliot blames for the negligence that led to the death of his own daughter. Elliot finds himself deeply entrenched in a custody battle and will stop at nothing to keep his granddaughter from coming under the watch of his reckless son-in-law. BLACK AND WHITE is a searing portrayal of a broken man caught up in a struggle clouded by bitterness, blame and racial tension who learns to forgive and how to provide for the only family he has left.

With Jason Statham • Sofia Vergara • Cedric the Entertainer • Milo Ventimiglia • Stanley Tucci • Hope Davis • Anne Heche • Michael Angarano • Simon West • William Goldman

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.

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

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.

With Robert Englund • Robert Hall • Aaron Drane

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…