- Disney nerd reference ahead: Everybody, everybody, everybody wants to be a cat…
AFRICAN CATS
(DisneyNature) Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey
The makers of Earth, the first DisneyNature documentary return with a slightly narrower focus. This time, they turn their cameras on two families – one of lions, one of cheetahs and both struggling to survive on the African savannah. For all those who buy tickets during the first week of release for the movie, Disney is going to donate 20 cents for every ticket sold that first week to the African Wildlife Foundation, an organization dedicating to preserving the savannah and protect the inhabits thereof.
See the trailer, clips, featurettes and an interview here.
For more on the movie this is the website.
Release formats: Standard. 3D
Genre: Nature Documentary
Rating: G
Super
(IFC Midnight) Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Kevin Bacon, Liv Tyler. When his wife leads him for a psychotic drug dealer, Frank goes a little bit crazy and determines to become a costumed crime fighter and thus the Crimson Bolt is born. Soon his exploits attract the public’s imagination with unexpected results.
See the trailer and clips here.
For more on the movie this is the website.
Release formats: Standard
Genre: Superhero Comedy
Rating: NR
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family
(Lionsgate) Tyler Perry, Loretta Devine, Bow Wow, Isaiah Mustafa. When Madea’s niece receives some distressing news about her health, she wants to break it to her children in her own way. However her kids are too wrapped up in their own problems to pay attention to the crisis their mother is undergoing. In charges Madea to gather the family together and unite them in support of their stricken member.
See the trailer and the full movie here (available for online streaming at Amazon) here.
For more on the movie this is the website.
Release formats: Standard
Genre: Dramedy
Rating: PG-13 (for drug content, language and some mature thematic material)
Water for Elephants
(20th Century Fox) Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Hal Holbrook. Based on the best-selling novel, a penniless veterinary student arrives at a two-bit travelling circus during the Depression to use his skills to tend to their animals. He becomes enamored of the wife of the sadistic and cruel ringmaster, leading to tragic consequences.
See the trailer, clips and interviews here.
For more on the movie this is the website.
Release formats: Standard
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG-13 (for moments of intense violence and sexual content)
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