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SABOTAGE
One of the best assault teams on the planet, an elite special operations team of DEA agents, executes a tactical raid on a cartel safe house. What appears to be a typical raid, in fact turns out to be an elaborate theft. After hiding $10 million in stolen cash, the team believes their secret is safe – that is until someone begins assassinating members of the team, one-by-one.
THE KINGS OF SUMMER
In the outrageous comedy The Kings of Summer, three teenage boys flee to the wilderness where they build a makeshift house and live off the land as masters of their own destiny. Or at least that’s the plan. (Sundance Film Festival Official Selection 2013)
BREATHE IN
Keith Reynolds (Guy Pearce) is an ex-musician struggling to cope with the mundane lifestyle of teaching music in upstate New York. With his wife (Amy Ryan) and daughter (Mackenzie Davis) in a world of their own, Keith develops a sultry relationship with a foreign exchange student and music prodigy living in his home (Felicity Jones). Directed by Drake Doremus, Breathe In has been heralded as “one of the best family dramas in recent years” (Collider).
ARE WE OFFICIALLY DATING?
In the romantic comedy Are We Officially Dating? (Starring Zack Efron, Imogen Poots, Jessica Lucas, Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, and Mackenzie Davis), three best friends make a pact to stay single and live like bachelors. Before long, they each find love and risk abandoning the pact one-by-one.
FADING GIGOLO
The sophisticated adult comedy Fading Gigolo tells the story of a New York City book store owner (Woody Allen) who manages to convince his friend (John Turturro) that there is a fortune to be made by becoming a professional gigolo. Hilarity ensues as the two friends struggle in their new careers.
HAUNT
Haunt (starring the Oscar-nominated Jackie Weaver), is the story of a family that moves into a new home with a dark past. When their son (Harrison Gilbertson) becomes involved with a beautiful girl next door (Liana Liberato), and together they begin to explore their sexual awakening, they unwittingly invoke an alternative dimension of the house.
ALEX CROSS
Crusading Detective/Psychologist ALEX CROSS (Tyler Perry) meets his match against the psychotic, mob hit man, MICHAEL SULLIVAN aka THE BUTCHER. As Cross investigates the hit man's gruesome murders, Sullivan decides to send him a deadly message by murdering his wife in cold blood. Now enraged, Cross vows to hunt down the killer if it's the last thing he does. However, Sullivan is a serial killing mastermind and continues to evade Cross while pushing him to an ethical breaking point as a cop and father. As Cross closes in on the killer, he discovers evidence that points to the unimaginable--a revelation that could change everything. With unstoppable action, and unforeseeable twists, this suspenseful action thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat.
DISTRICT 9
Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare - they will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' awesome weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA. The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharito Copley), contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA...
TEXAS KILLING FIELDS
TEXAS KILLING FIELDS is the riveting true story about one man’s quest to end thirty years of unsolved murders in a frightening modern day Gomorrah – the toxic waste land of oil refineries known as the Killing Fields. With his NY transplant partner, Jake (Sam Worthington) starts to unravel the web of conspiracy and closes in on the killer and the truth. Ultimately, he will risk everything and stop at nothing to save the next innocent from becoming the last victim.
W.
Oliver Stone's biographical take on the life of George W. Bush, one of the most controversial, secretive, cynical, and ruthless president in USA history, chronicling from 1967 to his wild and carefree days in college, to his military service, to his governorship of Texas and oil businesses, leading to his 2000 candidacy for president, his first turbulent four years to his 2004 re-election campaign.
A PERFECT GETAWAY
Cliff and Cydney (Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich) are an adventurous young couple celebrating their honeymoon by backpacking to one of the most beautiful, and remote, beaches in Hawaii. Hiking the wild, secluded trails, they believe theyve found paradise. But when the pair comes across a group of frightened hikers discussing the horrifying murder of another newlywed couple on the islands, they begin to question whether they should turn back...
NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU
A collective work of twelve short films shot by renowned international directors in each of the city's five boroughs, with the theme of finding love being interwoven between each of the five minute stories.
THE GIRL IN THE PARK
Fifteen years after her daughter in kidnapped in Central Park, a lonely woman (Sigourney Weaver) encounters a troubled young girl (Kate Bosworth) and is slowly convinced she has finally found her missing child. When the girl insinuates herself into the woman’s life, her motives become increasingly suspicious and the woman’s fractured family is determined to uncover the truth…no matter what the cost.
WALLED IN
A beautiful young woman (Mischa Barton) from a wealthy construction family attempts to prove herself to her father and competitive brothers by taking on a difficult demolition assignment in a remote park. From the moment she enters the building, our heroine meets an array of strange characters who clearly resent her presence. Following a week of increasingly chilling events, she discovers a connection between a series of unsolved murders and the bizarre history of the complex. When she uncovers the gruesome truth within the building’s walls, coming face-to-face with the killer is only the beginning of a terrifying test of survival.
THE ECHO
Recently paroled Bobby Reynolds (Jesse Bradford) attempts to make a new life for himself by getting a job, reconnecting with a former girlfriend and moving into his mother’s apartment, vacant since her untimely death. Upon arrival, he is soon plagued by strange occurrences in the apartment and bizarre encounters with his neighbors. When he begins to investigate, Bobby discovers that his mother died under unusual circumstances and he comes to the realization that her death is somehow linked to the tenants of the building, who he believes are now coming after him. As he struggles to uncover the truth, terrifying secrets are revealed and Bobby must find a way to fight the echoes of the past before they kill him and those he loves.
POWDER BLUE
On Christmas Eve, four lives collide by chance, tragedy and divine intervention. A suicidal ex-priest (Forest Whitaker), a young stripper (Jessica Biel) with a terminally ill son, a lonely mortician looking for love and an elderly ex-con (Ray Liotta) desperate to reunite with his daughter create a mosaic of characters seeking solace and redemption as their lives become inexorably intertwined. By Christmas morning, under a powder blue snowfall, they each find that love, courage and truth are often found where it seems all hope is lost.
THE HUNTING PARTY
After years of covering one war after another, journalist Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) loses his composure during a live broadcast covering the Bosnian War. While his career spirals downhill, that of his long-time camera man Duck (Terrence Howard) goes in the opposite direction. Duck gets a cushy job at the network, while Hunt is left following war after war, unemployed, in an attempt to get back on top. Years later, Duck returns to Bosnia to shoot a ""puff piece"" of the network anchor Franklin Harris (James Brolin) covering a peace treaty, along with fresh young journalist (and son of the network vice-president) Benjamin (Jesse Eisenberg)...
THE LUCKY ONES
Three soldiers take an unexpected cross-country trip to Las Vegas. A handsome know-it-all (Michael Pena) seeking the confidence to face his wife, a middle-aged father (Tim Robbins) planning to hit the casinos in a desperate last-ditch effort to pay for his son’s college tuition, and a beautiful young woman (Rachel McAdams) longing to reunite with her boyfriend’s family make the long journey together, as three very different Americans find their way home.
THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH
Set in Pittsburgh in the early eighties, the story chronicles the last true summer of Art Bechstein's (Jon Foster) youth. Stuck in a dead-end job working for his eccentric sometime girlfriend Phlox (Mena Suvari), and forced into an endless series of airless dinners with his mobster father (Nick Nolte), Art begins to believe that perhaps he doesn't even exist at all. What begins as a mundane summer is quickly interrupted when he encounters a beautiful debutante (Sienna Miller) and her lusty, no good hoodlum of a boyfriend Cleveland (Peter Sarsgaard). Together they reveal a side of Art and Pittsburgh that he has never known. As the summer boils on and their adventures darken, Art decides to risk everything to preserve his new-found paradise, and thrusts himself headlong into the blurring boundaries of family, friendship, and love.
SMART PEOPLE
"A witty and poignant tale about uptight, pompous Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid), who in the years following his wife’s death, has become a scourge to his students and an emotionally absent father to his rebellious son and perfect preppy daughter (Ellen Page). When he suffers a concussion in a freak accident, he meets and unexpectedly falls for a beautiful E.R. doctor (Sarah Jessica Parker), a brilliant former student who is still harboring a grudge over a bad grade he gave her years before.