Movie Releases – 4 April 2014

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Stars: Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford

Directors: Anthony Russo/Joe Russo/Joss Whedon

Genre: Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi

Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Studios, Perception

Time: 136 min

Rating: PG-13

Plot

Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and battles a new threat from old history: the Soviet agent known as the Winter Soldier.

Dom Hemingway (2013)

Stars: Jude Law, Richard E. Grant, Demian Bichir, Emilia Clarke

Director: Richard Shepard

Genre: Comedy/Crime/Drama

Recorded Picture Company (RPC), BBC Films, Isle of Man Film

Time: 93 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.

Under the Skin (2013) - [Limited]

Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay, Dougie McConnell

Director: Jonathan Glazer

Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi

Film4, British Film Institute (BFI), Silver Reel

Time: 108 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

An alien seductress preys upon hitchhikers in Scotland.

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013) - [Limited]

Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe, Jamie Bell

Director: Lars von Trier

Genre: Drama/Mystery

Zentropa Entertainments

Time: 123 min

Rating: Not Rated

Plot

Joe continues to tell to Seligman the story of her life. Joe lives with Jerôme and their son Marcel and out of the blue, she loses sexual sensation in intercourse. Joe seeks kinky sex, perversions and sadomasochism expecting to retrieve her sex drive. Jerôme leaves home with Marcel and gives his son to a foster house for adoption. Then Joe is sent to therapy by her gynecologist but she does not admit that she is addicted to sex. Meanwhile Seligman tells Joe that he is virgin and helps her to understand her actions. Joe believes that Seligman is her friend, but is he?

The Unknown Known (2013) - [Limited]

Stars: Donald Rumsfeld, Errol Morris, Kenn Medeiros

Director: Errol Morris

Genre: Documentary

History Films, Moxie Pictures, Participant Media

Time: 103 min

Rating: PG-13

Plot

Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Alan Partridge (2013) - [Limited]

Stars: Steve Coogan, Colm Meaney, Tim Key, Karl Theobald

Director: Declan Lowney

Genre: Comedy

Baby Cow Films, Baby Cow Productions

Time: 90 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

When famous DJ Alan Partridge's radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.

Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (2014)

Stars: Patricia Wright, Morgan Freeman, Hantanirina Rasamimanana

Director: David Douglas

Genre: Documentary/Adventure/Biography/Family

IMAX

Time: 39 min

Rating: G

Plot

Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman narrates Island of Lemurs: Madagascar, the incredible true story of nature's greatest explorers - lemurs. Captured with IMAX 3D cameras, the film takes audiences on a spectacular journey to the remote and wondrous world of Madagascar. Lemurs arrived in Madagascar as castaways millions of years ago and evolved into hundreds of diverse species but are now highly endangered. Join trailblazing scientist Patricia Wright on her lifelong mission to help these strange and adorable creatures survive in the modern world. Directed by David Douglas and written and produced by Drew Fellman, Island of Lemurs: Madagascar is a presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX Entertainment.

Frankie & Alice (2010) - [Limited]

Stars: Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgård, Phylicia Rashad, Chandra Wilson

Director: Geoffrey Sax

Genre: Biography/Drama

Access Motion Pictures, F & A Production Services, Reality Pictures In Motion

Time: 101 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.

Afflicted (2013) - [Limited]

Stars: Clif Prowse, Derek Lee, Michael Gill, Jason Lee

Directors: Derek Lee/Clif Prowse

Genre: Horror/Thriller

Automatik Entertainment, Téléfilm Canada

Time: 85 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

Best friends Derek and Clif set out on a trip of lifetime. Their plan: travel to the ends of the earth, see the world, and live life to the fullest. But the trip soon takes a dark and bloody turn. Just days in, one of the men shows signs of a mysterious affliction which gradually takes over his entire body and being. Now, thousands of miles from home, in a foreign land, they must race to uncover the source before it consumes him completely. Footage meant to be travel memories may now become evidence of one of the most shocking discoveries ever captured on film...and perhaps will be their only postcard home.