Friday 30 May 2014

Movie Releases – 30 May 2014

Maleficent (2014)

Stars: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Imelda Staunton
Director: Robert Stromberg
Genre: Action/Adventure/Family/Fantasy/Romance
Moving Picture Company (MPC), Roth Films, Walt Disney Pictures
Time: 97 min
Rating: PG

Plot
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land's fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal - an act that begins to turn her pure heart to stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces a battle with the invading king's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom - and perhaps to Maleficent's true happiness as well.

A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)

Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried
Director: Seth MacFarlane
Genre: Comedy/Western
Bluegrass Films, Fuzzy Door Productions, Media Rights Capital
Time: 116 min
Rating: Restricted

Plot
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gunslinger, announces his arrival.

Night Moves (2013) - [Limited]

Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, Alia Shawkat
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Maybach Film Productions, Film Science, Tipping Point Productions
Time: 112 min
Rating: Restricted

Plot
Three radical environmentalists look to execute the protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.

Filth (2013) - [Limited]

Stars: James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Eddie Marsan, Imogen Poots
Director: Jon S. Baird
Genre: Comedy/Crime/Drama
Steel Mill Pictures, Logie Pictures, Altitude Film Entertainment
Time: 97 min
Rating: Restricted

Plot
Scheming Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy), a bigoted and corrupt policeman, is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Enlisted to solve a brutal murder and threatened by the aspirations of his colleagues, including Ray Lennox (Jamie Bell), Bruce sets about ensuring their ruin, right under the nose of unwitting Chief Inspector Toal. As he turns his colleagues against one another by stealing their wives and exposing their secrets, Bruce starts to lose himself in a web of deceit that he can no longer control. His past is slowly catching up with him, and a missing wife, a crippling drug habit and suspicious colleagues start to take their toll on his sanity. The question is: can he keep his grip on reality long enough to disentangle himself from the filth?

Korengal (2014) - [Limited]

Stars: Juan 'Doc Restrepo, Dan Kearney, Misha Pemble-Belkin, Miguel Cortez
Director: Sebastian Junger
Genre: Documentary/History/News/War
(Not Known)
Time: 84 min
Ratimg: Restricted

Plot

Korengal picks up where Restrepo left off; the same men, the same valley, the same commanders, but a very different look at the experience of war. 

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