THE CABIN IN THE WOODS
(Lionsgate) Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Richard Jenkins, Jesse Williams, Bradley Whitford, Sigourney Weaver, Jodelle Ferland, Amy Acker, Tom Lenk. Directed by Drew Goddard
A group of young people, friends all, head into the mountains to a remote cabin in the woods for a weekend of partying. There’s something strange about the cabin however and soon it becomes obvious that the cabin is not what it appears to be and neither is this movie. Produced and co-written by fan favorite Joss Whedon (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” the upcoming Avengers movie) and Goddard, who hit it big a few years back with Cloverfield.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Horror
Rating: R (for strong bloody horror violence and gore, language, drug use and some sexuality/nudity)
Blue Like Jazz
(Roadside Attractions) Marshall Allman, Claire Holt, Tania Raymonde, Jason Marsden A young Texas sophomore at a junior college with a restrictive religious background decides to forego further piety and enrolls in one of the most progressive institutions of higher learning in the Pacific Northwest Reed College of Portland, Oregon. He finds himself among free thinkers and eccentrics, putting challenge to all of his beliefs.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG-13 (for mature thematic material, sexuality, drug and alcohol content and some language)
Bully
(Weinstein) David Long, Tina Long, Kirk Smalley, Ja’Maya. Emmy-award winning documentary director Lee Hirsch examines the epidemic of bullying in this country and the collateral effects of it on the families of both the bullies and the bullied. The film was initially rated R by the MPAA which would prevent the audience that really needs to see it – school kids – from seeing the movie but after a national outcry the MPAA finally relented. If you have kids in middle or high school you should take them to see this movie as soon as possible.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Documentary
Rating: PG-13 (for language and subject matter)
Lockout
(FilmDistrict) Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, Lennie James. It is the near-future in America and the President’s daughter is trapped on an orbiting maximum security penitentiary with the worst scum on the planet doing time in suspended animation. The inmates have taken over the asylum and a desperate father sends the only man who can get in there and extract his daughter alive – Snake Plissken. Wait – he’s not available? It’ll have to be the other guy then.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence and action, and language including some sexual references)
The Raid: Redemption
(Sony Classics) Iko Uwais, Doni Alamsyah, Joe Taslim, Yayan Ruhian. An elite police tactical unit infiltrates a dilapidated apartment building being used by a crime lord as a fortress is spotted and must fight their way from floor to floor to get out. This movie made a huge splash at film festivals and has gotten rave reviews to the point where a Hollywood remake has already been fast-tracked.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Action
Rating: R (for strong brutal bloody violence throughout, and language)
The Three Stooges
(20th Century Fox) Chris Diamantopoulos, Will Sasso, Sean Hayes, Jane Lynch. A trio of dim-witted but ultimately good-hearted orphans are released into the wild….err, civilization. There they will have to find a way to save the orphanage where they were raised from greedy developers. This one’s a definite sign of the impending apocalypse.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Comedy
Rating: PG (for some slapstick action violence, some rude and suggestive humor including language)
Woman, Thou Art Loosed: On the Seventh Day
(Codeblack) Blair Underwood, Sharon Leal, Pam Grier, Nicole Beharie. When their child is kidnapped, a successful African-American couple suddenly find themselves under a media microscope. And as the clock ticks, old secrets that may have some bearing on their kidnapping begin to come out, threatening to tear the couple apart.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Thriller
Rating: PG-13 (for sexuality, drug and alcohol content, mature thematic material, language and violence)
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