Movie Releases – 24 October 2014

Ouija (2014)

Stars: Olivia Cooke, Ana Coto, Daren Kagasoff, Bianca A. Santos

Director: Stiles White

Genre: Horror

Universal Pictures, Hasbro, Media Rights Capital

Time: 89 min

Rating: PG-13

Plot

A girl is mysteriously killed after recording herself playing with an ancient Ouija Board, which leads to a close group of friends to investigate this board. They later find out that some things aren't meant to be played with, especially the 'other side'.

John Wick (2014)

Stars: Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe

Directors: David Leitch/Chad Stahelski

Genre: Action/Thriller

87Eleven, Company Films, DefyNite Films

Time: 101 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.

Happy New Year (2014)

Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani

Director: Farah Khan

Country: India

Language: Hindi

Genre: Action/Comedy/Crime/Drama/Musical/Romance

Red Chillies Entertainment

Time: 180 min

Rating: PG

Plot

A team of losers win the love of millions in their quest to pull off the biggest diamond heist ever by team India.

White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)

Stars: Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, Christopher Meloni, Angela Bassett

Director: Gregg Araki

Genre: Drama/Thriller

Desperate Pictures, Orange Studio, Why Not Productions

Time: 91 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

Kat Connors is 17 years old when her seemingly perfect homemaker mother, Eve, disappears in 1988. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, Brock, for the loss. But as time passes, Kat begins to come to grips with how deeply Eve's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, she finds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it...

Laggies (2014)

Stars: Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell, Mark Webber

Director: Lynn Shelton

Genre: Comedy/Romance

Anonymous Content, BR Capital Group, Merced Media Partners

Time: 99 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes, then, taking an opportunity to escape for a week, hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year-old Annika, who lives with her world-weary single dad.

Citizenfour (2014)

Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Jacob Appelbaum, Julian Assange

Director: Laura Poitras

Genre: Documentary

Praxis Films

Time: 114 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

In January 2013, Laura Poitras started receiving anonymous encrypted e-mails from "CITIZENFOUR," who claimed to have evidence of illegal covert surveillance programs run by the NSA in collaboration with other intelligence agencies worldwide. Five months later, she and reporters Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her. The resulting film is history unfolding before our eyes.

Force Majeure (2014)

Stars: Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren, Vincent Wettergren

Director: Ruben Östlund

Genre: Drama

Coproduction Office, Film i Väst, Plattform Produktion

Time: 118 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down. With diners fleeing in all directions, mother Ebba calls for her husband Tomas as she tries to protect their children. Tomas, meanwhile, is running for his life... The anticipated disaster failed to occur, and yet the family's world has been shaken to its core, a question mark hanging over their father in particular. Tomas and Ebba's marriage now hangs in the balance as Tomas struggles desperately to reclaim his role as family patriarch.

23 Blast (2014)

Stars: Mark Hapka, Bram Hoover, Stephen Lang, Max Adler

Director: Dylan Baker

Genre: Drama/Family/Sport

Touchdown Productions LLC, Toy Gun Films

Time: 98 min

Rating: PG-13

Plot

In the prime of his youth, up and coming football star, Travis Freeman, lost his sight due to a sinus infection caused by a rare disease. Overnight, he became irreversibly blind, and had to cope with all the new trials and changes awaiting him. With the love and support of his family and closest friends he learned to push himself to extraordinary heights. Relying on his other senses and his instincts, he did the unthinkable! Displaying unconditional determination he proved nothing could dampen the spirit of a champion!

Revenge of the Green Dragons (2014)

Stars: Justin Chon, Kevin Wu, Harry Shum Jr., Ray Liotta

Directors: Wai-keung Lau/Andrew Loo

Genre: Action/Crime/Drama

7th Floor, The, Artfire Films, IM Global Octane

Time: 94 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS follows two immigrant brothers Sonny (Justin Chon) and Steven (Kevin Wu) who survive the impoverished despair of New York in the 1980s by joining Chinatown gang "The Green Dragons". The brothers quickly rise up the ranks, drawing the unwanted attention of hard-boiled city cops. After an ill- fated love affair pits Sonny against his own brother, he sets out for revenge on the very gang who made him who he is.

Exists (2014)

Stars: Samuel Davis, Dora Madison Burge, Roger Edwards, Chris Osborn

Director: Eduardo Sánchez

Genre: Horror

Court Five, Haxan Films, Miscellaneous Entertainment

Time: 86 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

For five friends, it was a chance for a summer getaway- a weekend of camping in the Texas Big Thicket. But visions of a carefree vacation are shattered with an accident on a dark and desolate country road. In the wake of the accident, a bloodcurdling force of nature is unleashed-something not exactly human, but not completely animal - an urban legend come to terrifying life...and seeking murderous revenge.