Movie Releases - 18 April 2014

Transcendence (2014)

Stars: Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy

Director: Wally Pfister

Genre: Drama/Mystery/Sci-Fi/Thriller

Alcon Entertainment, DMG Entertainment, Straight Up Films

Time: 119 min

Rating: PG-13

Plot

Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him. However, in their attempt to destroy Will, they inadvertently become the catalyst for him to succeed-to be a participant in his own transcendence. For his wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) and best friend Max Waters (Paul Bettany), both fellow researchers, the question is not if they can...but if they should. Their worst fears are realized as Will's thirst for knowledge evolves into a seemingly omnipresent quest for power, to what end is unknown. The only thing that is becoming terrifyingly clear is there may be no way to stop him.

A Haunted House 2 (2014)

Stars: Marlon Wayans, Jaime Pressly, Cedric the Entertainer, Essence Atkins

Director: Michael Tiddes

Genre: Comedy/Horror

Automatik Entertainment, IM Global Octane, Wayans Bros. Entertainment

Time: 87 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

After losing his beloved Kisha in a car accident, Malcolm starts anew, by remarrying Megan, a mother of two. When things begin to get back into their paranormal ways, targeting both the children and the property, things complicate even more when his back-to-life Kisha moves into the neighborhood.

Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It (2014) (Canada)

Stars: John Paul Tremblay, Robb Wells, Mike Smith

Director: Mike Clattenburg

Writer: Mike Clattenburg

Genre: Comedy/Crime/Drama

Topsail Entertainment

Time: 95 min

Rating: 18A

Plot

Recently out of jail and completely broke, Julian has a plan to get outrageously rich. However, he first has to deliver his product to Montreal where his rival Cyrus is waiting to close the deal. In the meantime, the government's plan to legalize marijuana threatens Ricky and his dope business, so he goes to Ottawa to take action against the impending bill. With Julian and Ricky on a road trip, Bubbles joins the pair with his own agenda - to go find the inheritance left for him by his long-lost parents. The trio runs into trouble when ex-park supervisor Jim Lahey and Randy go after the boys in hopes of making them rot in jail.

Heaven Is for Real (2014)

Stars: Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Thomas Haden Church, Connor Corum

Director: Randall Wallace

Genre: Drama

Roth Films, Screen Gems, TriStar Pictures

Time: 100 min

Rating: PG

Plot

Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book of the same name, HEAVEN IS FOR REAL brings to the screen the true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. The film stars Academy Award® nominee and Emmy® award winning actor Greg Kinnear as Todd Burpo and co-stars Kelly Reilly as Sonja Burpo, the real-life couple whose son Colton (newcomer Connor Corum) claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience. Colton recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth ... things he couldn't possibly know. Todd and his family are then challenged to examine the meaning from this remarkable event.

Bears (2014)

Stars: John C. Reilly

Directors: Alastair Fothergill/Keith Scholey

Genre: Documentary

Disneynature

Time: 77 min

Rating: G

Plot

In an epic story of breathtaking scale, Disneynature's new True Life Adventure "Bears" showcases a year in the life of a bear family as two impressionable young cubs are taught life's most important lessons. Set against a majestic Alaskan backdrop teeming with life, their journey begins as winter comes to an end and the bears emerge from hibernation to face the bitter cold. The world outside is exciting-but risky-as the cubs' playful descent down the mountain carries with it a looming threat of avalanches. As the season changes from spring to summer, the brown bears must work hard to find food-ultimately feasting at a plentiful salmon run-while staying safe from rival male bears and predators, including an ever-present wolf. "Bears" captures the fast-moving action and suspense of life in one of the planet's last great wildernesses-Alaska!

Fading Gigolo (2013) - [Limited]

Stars: John Turturro, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sofía Vergara

Director: John Turturro

Genre: Comedy

Antidote Films (I)

Time: 90 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.

Make Your Move (2013) - [Limited]

Stars: Derek Hough, BoA, Will Yun Lee, Wesley Jonathan

Director: Duane Adler

Genre: Musical

CJ Entertainment, Robert Cort Productions, S.M. Entertainment

Time: 110 min

Rating: PG-13

Plot

Donny's a cocky kid from New York who likes to dance. He goes to New Orleans and he unwittingly takes part in a criminal act. He is arrested and sent to jail. He gets out on parole and makes a living by dancing in the streets. But his parole officer tells him to stop it because he's not suppose to be where he goes to dance as part of his parole. The officer tells him to get a job but he only wants to dance. He decides to go back to New York even though he's not allowed to. He goes to his brother Nicky who has a club. He learns that Nicky and his partner Kaz had a falling out when a rich guy convinced Kaz that he doesn't need Nicky. Nicky told Kaz that he's just using him to get to Kaz's sister who is also a performer who is hoping an agent will take her as a client because she could be sent back to Japan where she is from. When Donny sees her, he can't help but be interested in her despite Nicky telling him not to go near her.

Tasting Menu (2013) - [Limited]

Stars: Jan Cornet, Claudia Bassols, Vicenta N'Dongo, Andrew Tarbet

Director: Roger Gual

Genre: Comedy

Subotica Entertainment, Eurimages, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA)

Time: 85 min

Rating: PG-13

Plot

As one of the world's best restaurants opens for its final evening, a couple in the midst of a divorce who made their reservation a year ago (before separating) reunite for a once-in-lifetime meal.

The Final Member (2012) - [Limited]

Stars: Sigurður Hjartarson, Páll Arason, Tom Mitchell, Ásbjörn Björgvinsson

Directors: Jonah Bekhor/Zach Math

Genre: Documentary/Comedy/Drama

(unknown)

Time: 75 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

Thirty miles from the Arctic Circle, in the northern Icelandic town of Husavik, stands the Icelandic Phallological Museum - the world's only Penis museum. Over 40 years, the founder and curator has collected every specimen from every mammal except for one elusive penis needed to complete his collection: The Human Specimen. The film follows the curator's incredible, sublimely comic, often shocking quest to complete his eccentric collection, and the two intrepid men who have raised their hands to be the first human donor. (You’ve got to be kidding).