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Director: Nima Nourizadeh , Jonathan Kaplan , studio Warner Bros. Pictures , Release Date: 2012-03-02 Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R Starring: Thomas Mann Jonathan Brown Oliver Cooper Dax Flame Miles Teller The Hangover’s Todd Phillips produces this top-secret comedy from writers Matt Drake and Michael Bacall, with helming duties handled by commercial director Nima Nourizadeh. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi |
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Director: Declan Donnellan , Nick Ormerod , studio IFC Films , Release Date: 2012-03-02 Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R Starring: Robert Pattinson – Georges Duroy Christina Ricci – Clotilde Uma Thurman Kristin Scott Thomas Holly Grainger A chronicle of a young man’s rise to power in Paris via his manipulation of the city’s most influential and wealthy women. |
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Director: Stuart Beattie , studio Freestyle Releasing , Release Date: 2012-02-24 Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R Starring: Rachel Hurd-Wood – Corrie MacKenzie Caitlin Stasey – Ellie Linton Deniz Akdeniz – Homer Yannos Lincoln Lewis – Kevin Holmes Phoebe Tonkin – Fiona Maxwell TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN is a pulse-pounding action thriller that follows the journey of eight high school friends in an Australian coastal town whose lives are suddenly and violently upended by an invasion that no one saw coming. Caitlin Stasey stars as 17 year old Ellie Linton, a precocious teen who leads her best friends including Corrie (Rachel Hurd-Wood) and Kevin (Lincoln Lewis) to an isolated, deep in the woods camp site named ‘Hell.’ Upon returning, they come to grips with the fact that their country has been overrun by a mysterious, invading army. When the hostile armed forces become alerted to the presence of the teenagers, Ellie and her friends, along with a new recruit (apathetic stoner Chris Lang, played by Andrew Ryan) – must band together to escape, outwit and strike back against the mysterious enemy that has seized control of the their town and imprisoned their friends and loved ones. Megan Lehmann 2010-09-06 freshness fresh Hollywood Reporter Australia may finally have a homegrown blockbuster on its hands with the terrifically engaging Tomorrow When the War Began an action-packed war film for and about teenagers. |
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Director: Tyler Perry , studio Lionsgate Films , Release Date: 2012-02-24 Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 Starring: Tyler Perry – Wesley Deeds Thandie Newton – Lindsey Gabrielle Union – Natalie Eddie Cibrian – John Beverly Johnson – Wilimena A successful, wealthy businessman, Wesley Deeds (Tyler Perry) has always done what’s expected of him, whether it’s assuming the helm of his father’s company, tolerating his brother’s misbehavior at the office or planning to marry his beautiful but restless fiancee, Natalie (Gabrielle Union). But Wesley is jolted out of his predictable routine when he meets Lindsey (Thandie Newton), a down-on-her-luck single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building. When he offers to help her get back on her feet, the chance encounter with someone so far outside his usual circle ignites something in Wesley. This one good deed may finally spark his courage to exchange the life that’s expected of him for the life he’s always really wanted. — (C) Lionsgate |
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Director: Gianni Di Gregorio , Murat Duzgunoglu , studio Zeitgeist Films , Release Date: 2012-03-02 Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: Unrated Starring: Gianni Di Gregorio – Gianni Valeria De Franciscis – Mother Alfonso Santagata – Alfonso Elisabetta Piccolomini – Gianni’s Wife Valeria Cavalli – Valeria A middle-aged retiree has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. He contends with an aristocratic, spendthrift mother; a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner; a daughter with a slacker boyfriend whom he unwillingly befriends; and a wild young neighbor who sees him merely as her dog walker. Watching his “codger” friends snare beautiful younger women on the sun-kissed cobblestones of Trastevere, he tries his polite, utterly gracious best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life-with both hilarious and poignant results. |
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Director: Agnieszka Holland , studio Sony Pictures , Release Date: 2012-02-10 Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R Starring: Robert Wieckiewicz – Leopold Socha Benno Furmann – Mundek Margulies Agnieszka Grochowska – Klara Keller Maria Schrader – Paulina Chiger Herbert Knaup – Ignacy Chiger From acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland, In Darkness is based on a true story. Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland, one day encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha’s conscience. The film is also an extraordinary story of survival as these men, women and children all try to outwit certain death during 14 months of ever increasing and intense danger. — (C) Sony Pictures Classics V.A. Musetto 2011-12-09 original_score 3/4 freshness fresh New York Post Holland has said that she wanted her harrowing and rewarding epic to run long so it would make viewers feel that they’re in the sewers as well. In this she succeeds. Stephen Whitty 2011-12-09 original_score 3/4 freshness fresh Newark Star-Ledger As many Holocaust stories as we’ve seen this one still has a fresh and important lesson about heroism – and how it has the habit of springing from some all-too-human places. A.O. Scott 2011-12-08 original_score 3/5 freshness fresh New York Times It is suspenseful horrifying and at times intensely moving. But the ease with which it elicits these responses from the audience feels more opportunistic than insightful. |
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Director: David MacKenzie , David Mackenzie , studio IFC Films , Release Date: 2012-02-10 Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: Unrated Starring: Eva Green – Susan Ewan McGregor – Michael Connie Nielsen Ewen Bremner Stephen Dillane – Samuel Eva Green plays Susan, an expert in epidemics who, after having her heart broken, sees a patient who has lost the ability to smell anything after an unexpected crying jag. Turns out there is a small percentage of people who are experiencing emotional upheavals and then losing one or more of their senses. As she begins to research this condition, she comes to understand that the malady threatens the entire world. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Tirdad Derakhshani 2011-10-27 original_score 2/4 freshness rotten Philadelphia Inquirer The film loses its charm with annoying sequences that have a narrator explain to us The Meaning of it All and then tell us What Really Matters in life Love. Love. Love. Duane Byrge 2011-02-08 freshness none Hollywood Reporter |
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Director: Michael Sucsy , studio Sony Pictures , Release Date: 2012-02-10 Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 Starring: Rachel McAdams Channing Tatum Sam Neill Scott Speedman Jessica Lange A newlywed couple recovers from a car accident that puts the wife in a coma. Waking up with severe memory loss, her husband endeavors to win her heart again. — (C) Sony Pictures |
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Director: Josh Trank , studio 20th Century Fox , Release Date: 2012-02-03 Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 Starring: Dane DeHaan – Andrew Detmer Alex Russell – Matt Garetty Michael B. Jordan – Steve Montgomery Michael Kelly – Richard Detmer Ashley Hinshaw – Casey Letter Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over. — (C) Official Site |
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Director: James Watkins , studio CBS Films , Release Date: 2012-02-03 Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 Starring: Daniel Radcliffe – Arthur Kipps Ciaran Hinds – Mr. Daily Janet McTeer – Mrs. Daily Shaun Dooley – Fisher David Burke – PC Collins A young lawyer (Radcliffe) travels to a remote village where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorner woman is terrorizing the locals. — (C) CBS Films |
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