Friday, 21 March 2014

Movie Releases - 21 March 2014

Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

Stars: Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, Tina Fey, Steve Whitmire
Director: James Bobin
Genre: Adventure/Comedy/Crime/Family/Musical
Walt Disney Pictures, Mandeville Films, Babieka
Time: 112 min
Rating: PG

Plot
While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.

Divergent (2014)

Stars: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney
Director: Neil Burger
Genre: Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi
Summit Entertainment, Red Wagon Entertainment
Time: 139 min
Rating: PG-13

Plot
Set in a futuristic dystopia where society is divided into five factions that each represent a different virtue, teenagers have to decide if they want to stay in their faction or switch to another - for the rest of their lives. Tris Prior makes a choice that surprises everyone. Then Tris and her fellow faction-members have to live through a highly competitive initiation process to live out the choice they have made. They must undergo extreme physical and intense psychological tests, that transform them all. But Tris has a secret that she is Divergent, which means she doesn't fit into any one group. If anyone knew, it would mean a certain death. As she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, this secret might help her save the people she loves... or it might destroy her.

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)

Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf
Director: Lars von Trier
Genre: Drama
Zentropa Entertainments, Zentropa International Köln, Heimatfilm
Time: 118 min/145 min (uncut)
Rating: NR

Plot
A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating.

Rob the Mob (2014)

Stars: Michael Pitt, Nina Arianda, Andy Garcia, Ray Romano
Director: Raymond De Felitta
Genre: Crime/Drama
Exchange, The
Time: 104 min
Rating: Restricted

Plot
A Queens couple who specialize in robbing mafia social clubs stumble upon a score bigger than they could ever imagine, becoming targets of both the mob and the FBI in the process.


Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)

Stars: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michel Seydoux, H.R. Giger, Chris Foss
Director: Frank Pavich
Genre: Documentary/Sci-Fi
City Film (II), Caméra One, Endless Picnic
Time: 90 min
Rating: PG-13

Plot
The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel.

Blood Ties (2013)

Stars: Clive Owen, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup, Mila Kunis
Director: Guillaume Canet
Genre: Crime/Drama/Thriller
Les Productions du Trésor, Worldview Entertainment, Caneo Films
Time: 127 min
Rating: Restricted

Plot
New York, 1974. Fifty-year-old Chris (Clive Owen) has just been released on good behavior after several years in prison following a gangland murder. Reluctantly waiting for him outside the gates is his younger brother, Frank (Billy Crudup), a cop with a bright future. Chris and Frank have always been different, and their father, Leon (James Caan), who raised them alone, seems to favor Chris despite all his troubles. Yet blood ties are the ones that bind, and Frank, hoping that his brother has changed, is willing to give him a chance - he shares his home, finds him a job, and helps him reconnect with his children and his ex-wife, Monica (Marion Cotillard). But Chris' inevitable descent back into a life of crime proves to be the last in a long line of betrayals, and after his brother's latest transgressions, Frank banishes him from his life. But it's already too late, as the brothers' destiny is bound together, forever.

Cheap Thrills (2013)

Stars: Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, Sara Paxton, David Koechner
Director: E.L. Katz
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
New Artists Alliance, Snowfort Pictures
Time: 88 min
Rating: 14A

Plot
A scheming couple put a struggling family man and his old friend through a series of increasingly twisted dares over the course of an evening at a local bar.

McCanick (2013)

Stars: David Morse, Mike Vogel, Cory Monteith, Ciarán Hinds
Director: Josh C. Waller
Genre: Crime/Drama/Mystery/Thriller
Bleiberg Entertainment, Cinipix
Time: 96 min
Rating: Restricted

Plot
Set over the course of one day, a narcotics detective hunts for a seemingly harmless young criminal who knows a truth about the cop's past.

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