Movie Releases – 25 April 2014

The Other Woman (2014)

Stars: Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Director: Nick Cassavetes

Genre: Comedy/Romance

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, LBI Productions

Time: 109 min

Rating: PG-13

Plot

After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.

The Quiet Ones (2014)

Stars: Jared Harris, Sam Claflin, Olivia Cooke, Erin Richards

Director: John Pogue

Genre: Horror

Exclusive Media Group, Hammer Film Productions, Traveling Picture Show Company (TPSC)

Time: 98 min

Rating: PG-13

Plot

A university professor and a team of students conduct an experiment on a young woman, uncovering terrifyingly dark, unexpected forces in the process.

Brick Mansions (2014)

Stars: Paul Walker, David Belle, RZA, Gouchy Boy

Director: Camille Delamarre

Genre: Action/Crime/Drama

Brick Mansions Productions Inc, Canal+, Ciné+

Time: 90 min

Rating: PG-13

Plot

An undercover Detroit cop navigates a dangerous neighborhood that's surrounded by a containment wall with the help of an ex-con in order to bring down a crime lord and his plot to devastate the entire city.

Locke (2013)

Stars: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott

Director: Steven Knight

Genre: Drama/Thriller

IM Global, Shoebox Films

Time: 85 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

Ivan Locke, a dedicated family man and successful construction manager, receives a phone call on the eve of the biggest challenge of his career that sets in motion a series of events that threaten his careful cultivated existence.

Young & Beautiful (2013) - [Limited]

   (a.k.a. Jeune & jolie)

Stars: Marine Vacth, Géraldine Pailhas, Frédéric Pierrot, Fantin Ravat

Director: François Ozon

Genre: Drama

Mandarin Films, Mars Distribution, France 2 Cinéma

Time: 95 min

Rating: Not Rated

Plot

Isabelle is on summer holidays with her family in the in the south of France. She decides to lose her virginity to a German boy called Felix, but the experience leaves her cold. By autumn she is exploring her sexuality further by working as a prostitute under the name Lea and meeting an older man called George, and various other clients. During one encounter with George he dies from a heart attack, Isabelle leaves the scene, and quits prostitution. The police eventually track her down and reveal her secret life to her mother.  

Blue Ruin (2013) - [Limited]

Stars: Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves, Kevin Kolack

Director: Jeremy Saulnier

Genre: Thriller

The Lab of Madness, Film Science, Neighbourhood Watch

Time: 90 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

A mysterious outsider's quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.

The German Doctor (2013) - [Limited]

Stars: Àlex Brendemühl, Diego Peretti, Guillermo Pfening, Alan Daicz

Director: Lucía Puenzo

Genre: Drama/History/Thriller

Historias Cinematograficas Cinemania, Cine.Ar, P&P Endemol Argentina

Time: 93 min

Rating: PG-13

Plot

Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor (Alex Brendemühl) meets an Argentinean family and follows them on a long desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva (Natalia Oreiro), Enzo (Diego Peretti) and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter, Lilith (Florencia Bado), to his care, not knowing that they are harboring one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring THE GERMAN DOCTOR to justice. Based on filmmaker Lucía Puenzo's (XXY) fifth novel, the story follows Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death," a German SS officer and a physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp, in the years he spent "hiding", along with many other Nazi's, in South America following his escape from Germany. Mengele was considered to be one of WWII's most heinous Nazi war criminals.

For No Good Reason (2012) - [Limited]

Stars: Ralph Steadman, Johnny Depp, Hunter S. Thompson, Terry Gilliam

Director: Charlie Paul

Genre: Documentary/Biography/History/Music

(Production Company not known)

Time: 89 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

Johnny Depp pays a visit to Ralph Steadman, the renown artist and the last of the original Gonzo visionaries who worked alongside Hunter S. Thompson.

Walking with the Enemy (2013) - [Limited]

Stars: Jonas Armstrong, Ben Kingsley, Hannah Tointon, Simon Kunz

Director: Mark Schmidt

Genre: Action/Drama/History/Romance/War

Liberty Studios

Time: 124 min

Rating: PG-13

Plot

A powerful new film inspired by a true story. This feature follows the heroic lives of a world leader and a young man swept up in the horrors of WWII. Both men are from Hungary--a country and German ally that had been spared the atrocities orchestrated by Hitler throughout much of Europe. As the war reaches its climax, Germany begins to doubt the loyalties of the Hungarian leadership-in particular Regent Horthy (Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley). The Regent tries to navigate his country between the growing terror of Nazi Germany and the oppressive threat of communist Russia. He is ultimately faced with ceding power to another political party or accepting the execution of his son. As the crisis unfolds, thousands of his citizens are forced underground or put into ghettos. One of them is a young man named Elek Cohen (Jonas Armstrong) who is separated from his family and determined to find them. Aided by the woman he loves (Hannah Tointon), Elek disguises himself as a Nazi SS officer ..