GONE
(Summit) Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Carpenter, Wes Bentley, Sebastian Stan, Michael Pare, Nick Searcy, Socratis Otto, Emily Wickersham, Joel David Moore. Directed by Heitor Dhalia
A young woman working nights returns home one morning to find her sister missing. She knows immediately what’s happened; you see a year previously, the woman had been kidnapped by a serial killer, taken to the woods and thrown into a hole along with the remains of previous victims. She managed to escape, but the police were never able to find proof that her story was genuine. Now her sister is in the hands of a madman and the police are again less than helpful and with time ticking away, she realizes that the only way her sister is going to survive is if she herself throws herself in harms way.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Thriller
Rating: PG-13 (for violence and terror, some sexual material, brief language and drug references)
Act of Valor
(Relativity) Active Duty Navy SEALs, Roselyn Sanchez, Nestor Serrano, Jason Cottle. A group of Navy SEALs are assigned to rescue a captured CIA operative from a group of terrorists. What they discover is a plot that will unleash a catastrophe that will kill thousands on American soil and they must race against time to stop it from happening.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Action
Rating: R (for strong violence including some torture, and for language)
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos
(Eleven Arts) Starring the voices of Shelley Calene-Black, Rie Kugimiya, Shinichiro Miki, Roy Mustang. A pair of young alchemists discover a poverty-stricken people who carry a secret of enormous power. Eventually they find themselves in the middle of a revolt, led by a fiery young alchemist who will stop at nothing to restore her people to their former glory, even if it means unleashing destruction of unimaginable power.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Anime
Rating: NR
Shame
(Fox Searchlight) Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Hannah Ware. A successful New York man dreads intimacy but craves sex, so he goes from one meaningless physical relationship to the next. When his sister comes to live with him, some old skeletons hiding in his closet come rattling out, forcing him to deal with old emotional pain.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Drama
Rating: NC-17 (for some explicit sexual content)
Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds
(Lionsgate) Tyler Perry, Thandie Newton, Brian White, Rebecca Romijn. A wealthy businessman who has always followed the course laid out for him by his father and family finds his life taking a left turn when he meets a homeless single mom and her kid. Suddenly his life is turned upside down and he begins to question the priorities set out for him and wonder if the course he’s set upon shouldn’t be changed to what makes him happy.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Urban Romantic Drama
Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content, language, some violence and thematic material)
Wanderlust
(Universal) Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Malin Akerman, Justin Theroux. A New York couple comfortable living the conspicuous consumption lifestyle find their lives thrown into disarray when he gets laid off. He packs them up and moves them into his brother’s house in Georgia but when that doesn’t work out, they find their way into a commune whose lifestyle runs pretty counter to what they’re used to. Will the changes tear them apart, or bring them closer together with a new appreciation for life? I think we all can guess the answer to that…
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Comedy
Rating: R (for sexual content, graphic nudity, language and drug use)
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