July 2013 Movies

Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain

Based on Kevin Hart's 2012 "Let Me Explain" concert tour, which included 10 countries and 80 cities with over $32 million in ticket sales.

Kevin Hart, Jeff Clanagan

Lone Ranger

The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.

Chad Oman, Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Barry Pepper, Helena Bonham Carter, Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Wilkinson, Jason Reed

Despicable Me 2

Sequel to the 2010 animated "Despicable Me". The story has not yet been written.

Chris Meledandri, Steve Coogan, Russell Brand, Kristen Wiig, Benjamin Bratt, Pierre Coffin, Cinco Paul, Miranda Cosgrove

Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt M...

Follows the influential 1970s band Big Star. The band was formed in 1971 in Memphis by former Box Tops lead singer Alex Chilton and Chris Bell. Jody Stephens and Andy Hummel filled out the original lineup. While the band never achieved mainstream success, it became a big influence on the likes of REM, the Flaming Lips and more.

Drew DeNicola, Oliva Mori, Mori McCarthy, Danielle McCarthy

The Way, Way Back

Follows a teen boy who struggles to find himself as he comes to terms with his unattentive mother and cheating stepfather during summer vacation.

Sam Rockwell, AnnaSophia Robb, Kevin J. Walsh, Toni Collette, Jim Rash, Allison Janney, Steve Carell, Nat Faxon

Stuck in Love

The dramedy interweaves the stories of various family members over the course of a year. Greg Kinnear plays a famous novelist obsessed with his ex-wife (Jennifer Connelly), while Lily Collins co-stars as their collegiate daughter Samantha who is pursued by fellow writing student (Logan Lerman). Nat Wolff will play her teenage brother, who is experiencing first love with Liana Liberato’s character. Kristen Bell has been cast as a friend of the novelist who is trying to help him get over his ex-wife.

Logan Lerman, Jennifer Connelly, Greg Kinnear, Lily Collins, Josh Boone, Kristen Bell, Lisa Wilson, Liana Liberato

The Look of Love

Follows the business and personal life of club proprietor and porn publisher Paul Raymond.

Steve Coogan, Imogen Poots, Matt Greenhalgh, Michael Winterbottom, Katherine Butler, Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton, Jenny Borgars

Hammer of the Gods

A young Viking warrior, Steinar (Bewley), is sent by his father the King (Cosmo) on a quest to find his estranged brother, who was banished from the kingdom many years before. Steinar’s epic journey across hostile territory gradually sees him emerge as the man his father wants him to be -- the ruthless and unforgiving successor to his throne

Clive Standen, Charlie Bewley, James Cosmo, Farren Blackburn, Rupert Preston, Matthew Read, Elliot Cowan, Ivan Kaye

Just Like a Woman

Mona (Golshifteh Farahani), 26, an immigrant from North Africa, runs her in-laws’ mini market in Chicago. She’s married to Mourad, a man who can’t stand up to his authoritarian mother. Mona is harassed by her mother-in-law because after five years of marriage, she hasn’t be able to get pregnant, something that’s considered a shame and a taboo in her culture.

Marilyn (Sienna Miller), 29, is a receptionist at a computer repair company. Her marriage with Harvey is on the ropes. The only thing in her life that makes her happy is her belly dance class, a passion shared by Mona. Dancing at family gatherings lifts her spirits up and makes her forget the misery of her daily life. Marilyn shops at Mona’s mini-market. They’ve become friends.

One morning, Mona’s mother-in-law is found dead in her bed. Mona realizes that she mixed the wrong dose while preparing her medicine. Realizing that she might be accused of murder, Mona runs away and flees Chicago by bus.

Marilyn loses her job because of the recession. When she gets home, she finds out that her husband is cheating on her. With nothing left to lose, Mona decides to go to Santa Fe to enter a contest hoping to join a famous belly dance company. Mona and Marilyn run into each other on a rest area on the side of a highway. They decide to continue the trip together. They cross the USA, pitching their tent in trailer parks and in the middle of the desert. They earn some cash belly-dancing together in restaurants and bars.

Back in Chicago, Mona is considered a fugitive; she’s wanted for the murder of her mother-in-law. Harvey asks the police to look for Marilyn who disappeared without leaving a trace.

Will Marilyn succeed in joining the belly dance company? How long will Mona be able to keep her secret from Marilyn? And how long will she be able to escape the law?

Golshifteh Farahani, Sienna Miller, Tim Guinee, Roschdy Zem, Joelle Touma, Rachid Bouchareb, Marion Doussot, Bahar Soomekh

Absence

Doctors are baffled when a young expectant mother, Liz (Erin Way), wakes to find her nearly-to-term pregnancy apparently disappear overnight. The police are investigating the situation as a missing child and only her husband, Rick (Eric Matheny), and brother, Evan (Ryan Smale) trust her version of events.

Jimmy Loweree, Jake Moreno, Erin Way, Eric Matheny, Ryan Smale, Stephanie Scholz

Coffee Town

Focuses on Will, played by Glenn Howerton, and his two thirty-something friends who band together when their freeloading existence is threatened.

Ben Schwartz, Adrianne Palicki, Brad Copeland, Glenn Howerton, Steve Little, Josh Groban

Israel: A Home Movie

Starting in the early 1930s, home movies were made by private individuals documenting their personal and family lives alongside historic events in Palestine/Israel. Each amateur cinematographer had a camera of his own, but each saw something different.

Eliav Lilti

Pacific Rim

Set in 2025 in which malevolent creatures threaten the earth, the planet must band together and use highly advanced technology to eradicate the growing menace.

Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman, Idris Elba, Guillermo del Toro, Max Martini, Thomas Tull, Mary Parent, Charlie Day

Grown Ups 2

Sequel to 2010's Grown Ups in which five friends reunite over the 4th of July weekend.

Salma Hayek, Taylor Lautner, David Henrie, David Spade, Dennis Dugan, Jack Giarraputo, Fred Wolf, Adam Sandler

Pawn Shop Chronicles

A missing wedding ring leads to a wild-goose chase involving meth addicts, skinheads and an Elvis impersonator.

Elijah Wood, Matt Dillon, Steven Schneider, Vincent D'Onofrio, Thomas Jane, Brendan Fraser, Rachelle Lefevre, Norman Reedus

Still Mine

Follows fiercely independent farmer Craig Morrison (Academy Award® nominee James Cromwell), who comes up against the system when he sets out to build a more suitable house on their 2,000 acre farm for his wife (Academy Award® nominee Geneviève Bujold), whose health is starting to fade. Although Craig Morrison is using the same methods his father, a shipbuilder, taught him, times have changed. Craig quickly gets on the wrong side of an overzealous building inspector, who finds just about everything unacceptable, including the unstamped wood Craig has milled from his own trees. As Irene becomes increasingly ill – and amidst a series of stop-work orders – Craig races to finish the house. Hauled into court and facing jail, Craig takes a final stance against the system for individual freedom and independence.

Michael McGowan, James Cromwell, Genevieve Bujold, Rick Roberts, Julie Stewart

Killing Season

Two war veterans hunt each other in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Robert De Niro, John Travolta, Mark Steven Johnson, Anthony Rhulen, Evan Daugherty, Paul Breuls, Elizabeth Olin

Fruitvale Station

On New Year’s Day 2009, Bay Area Rapid Transit police detained Oscar Grant, a young black man and then shot him in the back and killed him with many bystanders recording the event on their cell phone cameras. Protests and riots surrounded the ensuing trial and its verdict.

Forest Whitaker, Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray, Tristan Wilds, Octavia Spencer, Nina Yang

Hot Flashes

The Hot Flashes is about an unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, who challenge the current arrogant high school girls’ state champs to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as the women go to comic extremes to prove themselves on and off the court, become a national media sensation, and gain a new lease on life.

Brooke Shields, Virginia Madsen, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Wanda Sykes, Camryn Manheim, Susan Seidelman, Brad Henning

Dealing With Idiots

Faced with the absurd competitiveness surrounding his son's youth league baseball team, Max Morris, a famous comedian, decides to get to know the colorful parents and coaches of the team better in an attempt to find the inspiration for his next movie.

Gina Gershon, Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Christopher Guest, Bob Odenkirk, J.B. Smoove

Crystal Fairy

Jamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends are planning on taking a road trip north to experience a legendary shamanistic hallucinogen called the San Pedro cactus. In a fit of drunkenness at a wild party, Jamie invites an eccentric woman—a radical spirit named Crystal Fairy—to come along. What is meant to be a devil-may-care journey becomes a battle of wills as Jamie finds himself locking horns with his new traveling companion. But on a remote, pristine beach at the edge of the desert, the magic brew is finally imbibed, and the true adventure begins. Preconceived notions and judgments fall away, and the ragtag group breaks through to an authentic moment of truth.

Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann, Sebastián Silva, Agustín Silva, Jose Silva

V/H/S/2

The new movie follows a similar structure of the original, with a pair of investigators discovering a VHS tape while looking for a student.

Gareth Evans, Adam Wingard, Roxanne Benjamin, Eduardo Sanchez, Jamie Nash, Gary Binkow, Simon Barrrett, Brad Miska

The Hunt

Follows a quiet kindergarden teacher falsely accused of sexually abusing a child.

Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Vinterberg, Annika Wedderkopp, Thomas Bo Larsen

Blackhats

"blackhats" follows a reformed, hot-tempered bounty hunter who finds his new harmonious life as a Fugitive Recovery Agent threatened when he must assist a colleague track down her eccentric brother who is part of a group of hackers before they are captured by the FBI or assassinated by a rival bounty killer. Meanwhile they attempt to prevent a massive viral attack created by a talented hacker that could collapse America’s economic foundation.

E. Roger Mitchell, Eddie Singleton, Doris Morgado, Laron Austin, Errol Sadler, Ted Huckabee, Cheri Christian, Neko Parham

War Flowers

Terms and Conditions May App...

Admit it: you don’t really read the endless terms and conditions connected to every website you visit, phone call you make or app you download. But every day, billion-dollar corporations are learning more about your interests, your friends and family, your finances, and your secrets, and they’re not only selling the information to the highest bidder, but also sharing it with the government. And you agreed to all of it. This disquieting exposé demonstrates how every one of us is incrementally opting-in to a real-time surveillance state, click by click- and what, if anything, you can do about it.

Cullen Hoback

Turbo

An ordinary garden snail has an impossible dream: to become the fastest snail in the world. When a freak accident gives him extraordinary speed, Turbo sets out to try to make this dream come true.

Ben Schwartz, Ryan Reynolds, Michelle Rodriguez, Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Giamatti, Bill Hader, Ken Jeong, Lisa Stewart

Computer Chess

Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers 30-some years ago, Computer Chess transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed with the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it and will come to know it in the future.

Andrew Bujalski, Myles Paige, Patrick Riester, Wiley Wiggins

Red 2

A sequel to 2010 action-comedy hit Red, which starred Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich. Revolves around a former black-ops CIA agent and his old team.

Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Erich Hoeber, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Mark Vahradian, Jon Hoeber

The Conjuring

Revolves around ghosts and demonic possession.

Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, James Wan, Lili Taylor, Mackenzie Foy, Ron Livingston, Joey King, Carey Hayes

R.I.P.D.

In the Rest in Peace Department, where the dead police officers patrol the beat of the deceased who refuse to go quietly, a newly dead cop joins up after being murdered. This cop searches for the man who set him up as he does his duty fighting fiendish creatures.

Ryan Reynolds, Neal H. Moritz, Jeff Bridges, Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi, Kevin Bacon, Robert Knepper, Ori Marmur

Girl Most Likely

A moderately successful Gotham playwright who stages a fake suicide attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend, only to end up forced into the custody of her gambling-addict mother.

Matt Dillon, Steve Golin, Kristen Wiig, Celine Rattray, Annette Bening, Natasha Lyonne, Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini

Evidence

Police arrive at an abandoned gas station following a brutal massacre. The only evidence at the crime scene is the victims’ personal electronic devices, including a camcorder, flip Cam, and two cell phones. With nothing else to go on, a detective must analyze the bits of "found footage" to piece together the identity of the killer.

Olatunde Osunsanmi, Marc Platt, Nolan Gerald Funk, John Swetnam, Anthony Rhulen, David Lancaster, Dale Dickey, Adam Siegel

Only God Forgives

Set in the worlds of gambling, boxing and prostitution in Bangkok, a British gangster takes refuge in Thailand where he and a Thai police lieutenant settle their differences in a Thai-boxing match.

Ryan Gosling, Luke Evans, Nicolas Winding Refn, Tom Burke, Kristin Scott Thomas

Under the Bed

Every child knows about the monster under the bed—Neal Hausman's mistake was trying to fight it. Neal (Jonny Weston) has returned from a two-year exile following his tragic attempt to defeat the monster, only to find his father ticking ever closer to a breakdown, a new stepmother who fears him, and his little brother Paul (Gattlin Griffith) terrorized by the same monster. While Neal and Paul work together to try and fight the nocturnal menace, their parents are taking desperate measures to get the family back to normal. With no support from their parents, the brothers have nothing to rely on but each other, and courage beyond belief.

Gattlin Griffith, Jonny Weston, Steven C. Miller, Eric Stolze, Kelcie Stranahan, Brad Miska, Tom Owen, Peter Holden

The Act of Killing

This chilling and inventive documentary examines a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love.

When the Indonesian government was overthrown in 1965, small-time gangster Anwar Congo and his friends went from selling movie tickets on the black market to leading anti-communist death squads in the mass murder of over a million people. Anwar boasts of killing hundreds with his own hands, but he's lived in his country with impunity ever since. When approached to make a film about their role in the genocide, Anwar and his friends eagerly comply-but their idea of being in a movie is not to provide reflective testimony, but to dance their way through musical numbers, twist arms in film noir gangster scenes, and gallop across the prairies as yodeling cowboys.

Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, Joshua Oppenheimer

Ways to Live Forever

Like most inquisitive boys, 12-year-old Sam wants to know about UFOs, horror movies, ghosts, and girls. Sam also has leukemia, and although the adults in his life don’t want him to dwell on it, Sam wants to know everything about his disease and death, a possibility he might face. Together with his best friend, Felix, he embarks on a "scientific investigation" with questions, observations, evidence, reflections, and lists of all the things he wants to do someday—like breaking a world record, flying in a blimp, kissing a girl for the first time, and experiencing what it’s like to be a teenager. In this poignant yet ultimately uplifting tale, Sam and his family face the immensity of an uncertain future with love, humor, and a touch of the unexpected.

Greta Scacchi, Ben Chaplin, Emilia Fox, Gustavo Ron, Robbie Kay, Alex Etel, Phyllida Law

Grabbers

On Erin Island, an idyllic fishing village off the coast of Ireland, charming but somewhat work-shy Ciaran O’Shea, is tasked with greeting Lisa Nolan, a straight-laced young officer who has arrived from the mainland. Not that there is much for them to do, aside from dealing with the occasional drunk, and that’s usually O’Shea himself. But strange doings are afoot: the crew of a fishing boat disappears, whales start appearing dead on the shore, a local lobsterman catches a strange tentacled creature in his trap. Soon it becomes clear to O’Shea and Nolan that there’s something big out there, and that it’s hungry. It’s time to rally the villagers, arm the troops…and head to the pub.

Richard Coyle, Jon Wright, Russell Tovey, David Pearse, Kevin Lehane, Ruth Bradley, Lalor Roddy, Pascal Scott

Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a ...

The film examines the life of the notorious pimp and author of seven ground-breaking books. It includes insightful interviews with well-known artists, scholars, friends and family members that create a riveting tapestry as colorful as the subject himself. The autobiographical work of Iceberg Slim is considered to be the genesis of blaxploitation films and gangster rap and it continues to influence artists today.

Jorge Hinojosa

Springsteen & I

With songs that say more in a few verses than most artists say in an entire career, Bruce Springsteen has been able to embody the highs and lows of the American Dream. Moreover, his music has created a deeply personal bond between fan and the artist. Springsteen & I was a call out to the fans worldwide to make a documentary about what Bruce means to them and celebrate the impact of his music. Produced by Ridley Scott Associates/Scott Free/Black Dog Films and Mr Wolf, Springsteen & I incorporates video submissions from over 2,000 fans from across the world in the ultimate collective filmmaking experience --made by the fans for the fans-- and includes Springsteen performing some of his greatest hits, along with exclusive never-before-seen archival concert footage.

Ridley Scott, Baillie Walsh

Apartment 1303 3D

A modern ghost story which turns a love/hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror. Some rentals are too good to be true.

Rebecca De Mornay, Mischa Barton, Michael Taverna, Kei Ôishi, Julianne Michelle, Corey Sevier, John Diehl

The Wolverine

Set in Japan, Wolverine trains in the way of the samurai in a bid to control his primal urges, during which time he falls in love with Mariko Yashida, heir to a Yakuza family.

Hugh Jackman, Kevin Feige, James Mangold, Lauren Shuler Donner, Mark Bomback, Jessica Biel, John Palermo, Brian Tee

The To-Do List

A coming-of-age comedy about a teenage girl who gives her first hand job.

Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mae Whitman, Bill Hader, Scott Porter, Donald Glover, Mark Gordon, Andy Samberg

Breaking the Girls

Two attractive college students - the innocent and scholarly Sara and the manipulative and sexy Alex, become more than friends when they make a pact to kill off each other's nemesis. But Alex soon grabs the upper hand and Sara discovers she is being set up for murder.

Brit Marling, Andrea Sperling, Madeline Zima, Adrianne Palicki, Guinevere Turner, Amanda Crew, Kirk D'Amico, Jamie Babbit

Blue Jasmine

No plot details available yet for Woody Allen's ensemble comedy.

Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins, Bobby Cannavale, Peter Sarsgaard, Woody Allen, Louis C.K., Michael Stuhlbarg

Blackfish

A film about the notorious killer whale Tilikum that is responsible for the deaths of three individuals.

Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Manuel Oteyza

Frankenstein's Army

The film takes place toward the end of World War II as Russian soldiers push into eastern Germany and stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Viktor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein’s work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades – a desperate Hitler’s last ghastly ploy to escape defeat.

Karel Roden, Alexander Mercury, Richard Raaphorst, Joshua Sasse, Robert Gwilym, Luke Newberry, Hon Ping Tang, Andrei Zayats

Magic, Magic

A girl vacationing with her friends in a remote area of Chile slowly starts losing her mental faculties. She tries to get her friends' attention, but they ignore her until it's too late.

Juno Temple, Michael Cera, Emily Browning, Christine Vachon, Mike White, David Bernad, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Sebastian Silva

The Time Being

Wes Bentley portrays a young painter struggling to support his family who’s extended a lifeline in the form of a benefector, played by Frank Langella. The film explores the murky relationship between two men, along with the uncertainties of marriage, parenthood and friendship.

Corey Stoll, Sarah Paulson, Wes Bentley, Ahna O'Reilly, Frank Langella, Jeremy Allen White, RIchard Gladstein, Nenad Cicin-Sain

Stranded

When four astronauts on board the Ark moonbase are unexpectedly struck by a series of meteor blasts, Colonel Gerard Brauchman (Slater) and his crew work to stabilize the base. After removing a stray meteor from the carbon dioxide filter, they realize the spores on the meteor have the ability to replicate cell structure, reproduce and mutate. Fascinated by the meteor’s uncanny ability to replicate, the crew believes they have just discovered a scientific phenomenon. But have they? Soon afterwards, the crew begins to realize they are not alone. The presence on board begins to target each of them, leaving those remaining to destroy it before all are killed.

Christian Slater, Brendan Fehr, Roger Christian, Amy Matysio, Michael Therriault, Antoni Stutz, Christian Piers Betley

Drug War

Manufacturing just fifty grams of meth in China will earn you a death sentence, and Timmy Choi (Louis Koo) has manufactured tons of it. After a violent lab accident, he's in the custody of Captain Zhang (Sun Honglei), and now he has only one chance to avoid execution: turn informant and help Zhang’s undercover team take down the powerful cartel he’s been cooking for. With the uneasy allies forced to compress months of police work into just 72 sleepless hours, things begin to spin wildly out of control, and it becomes unclear whether the cop or the criminal truly has the upper hand.

Louis Koo, Johnnie To, Sun Honglei

The Smurfs 2

A sequel to the 2011 movie that will continue the Smurfs adventure in the modern world.

Sofia Vergara, Neil Patrick Harris, Christina Ricci, Katy Perry, Brendan Gleeson, Anton Yelchin, George Lopez, Jordan Kerner

Smash and Grab: The Story of...

This film tells the story of the Pink Panthers, the world's most successful diamond thieves. With exclusive access to gang members as well as those tasked with catching them, the film combines animation and archive to explain their background in the history of Balkans and bring to life their gripping exploits.

Havana Marking, Mike Lerner, Daniel Vivian