Movie Releases – 13 February 2015

Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

Stars: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Ehle, Eloise Mumford

Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson

Genre: Drama/Romance

Focus Features, Michael De Luca Productions, Trigger Street Productions

Time: 125 min

Rating: Restricted

Filming Locations: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Plot

When Anastasia Steele, a literature student, goes to interview the wealthy Christian Grey, as a favor to her roommate Kate Kavanagh, she encounters a beautiful, brilliant and intimidating man. The innocent and naive Ana started to realize she wants him, despite his enigmatic reserve and advice, she finds herself desperate to get close to him. Not able to resist Ana's beauty and independent spirit, Christian Grey admits he wants her too, but in his own terms. Ana hesitates as she discovers the singular tastes of Christian Grey - despite the embellishments of success, his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family - Grey is consumed by the need to control everything.

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)

Stars: Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Caine

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Genre: Action/Adventure/Comedy/Crime

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Marv Films, TSG Entertainment

Time: 129 min

Rating: Restricted

Plot

Based upon the acclaimed comic book and directed by Matthew Vaughn, Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

The Last Five Years (2014) - [Limited]

Stars: Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan, Meg Hudson, Natalie Knepp

Director: Richard LaGravenese

Genre: Comedy/Drama/Musical/Romance

Lucky Monkey Pictures, Sh-K-Boom Records, Grand Peaks Entertainment

Time: 94 min

Rating: PG-13

Plot

The Last 5 Years by Tony award winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown is a musical deconstruction of a love affair and a marriage taking place over a five year period. Jamie Wellerstein is a young, talented up and coming Jewish novelist who falls in love with Cathy Hiatt, a Shiksa Goddess struggling actress. Their story is told almost entirely through songs using an intercutting time line device; all of Cathy's songs begin at the end of their marriage and move backwards in time to the beginning of their love affair while Jamie's songs start at the beginning of their affair and move forward to the end of their marriage. They meet in the center when Jamie proposes.

What We Do in the Shadows (2014) - [Limited]

Stars: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer

Directors: Jemaine Clement/Taika Waititi

Genre: Comedy/Horror

Unison Films, Defender Films, Funny or Die

Time: 86 min

Rating: PG

Plot

Follow the lives of Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), and Vladislav (Jemaine Clement) - three flatmates who are just trying to get by and overcome life's obstacles-like being immortal vampires who must feast on human blood. Hundreds of years old, the vampires are finding that beyond sunlight catastrophes, hitting the main artery, and not being able to get a sense of their wardrobe without a reflection-modern society has them struggling with the mundane like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.

Old Fashioned (2014) - [Limited]

Stars: Elizabeth Roberts, Rik Swartzwelder, LeJon Woods, Tyler Hollinger 

Director: Rik Swartzwelder

Genre: Drama/Romance

Skoche Films, Motion Picture Pro Studios

Time: 115 min

Rating: PG-13

Plot

A former frat boy and a free-spirited woman together attempt the impossible: an "old-fashioned" courtship in contemporary America.