April 2012 Movies - Movie Insider (original) (raw)

Best Movies Released April 2012

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Vinyl Movie Poster

Vinyl

Aging rock group use a young fresh faced punk band to front new recordings to fool the music industry.

Julia Ford, Perry Benson, Keith Allen, Jamie Blackley, Sara Sugarman, Jim Cooper, Phil Daniels, Alexa Davies

Comedy Music

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Movies Released Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Titanic - 25 Year Anniversary Movie Poster

Titanic - 25 Year Anniversary PG-13

An epic, action-packed romance set against the ill-fated maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" Titanic, at the time, the largest moving object ever built.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, James Cameron, Rae Sanchini, Frances Fisher, Bill Paxton, Jon Landau, Billy Zane

Drama Action Adventure

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4 / 5

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Movies Released Friday, April 6, 2012

American Reunion Movie Poster

American Reunion R

Jim, Michelle and friends reunite for their high school reunion.

Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, Seann William Scott, Eugene Levy, Tara Reid, Paul Weitz, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Jennifer Coolidge

Comedy Sequel

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4 / 5

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The Hunter Movie Poster

The Hunter R

Martin, a skilled and ruthless mercenary, travels into the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for a tiger believed to be extinct. Hired by an anonymous company that wants the tiger's genetic material, Martin arrives in Tasmania posing as a scientist. He proceeds to set up base camp at a broken-down farmhouse, where he stays with a family whose father has gone missing. Usually a loner, Martin becomes increasingly close to the family; however, as his attachment to the family grows, Martin is led down a path of unforeseen dangers, complicating his deadly mission.

Callan Mulvey, Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe, Sullivan Stapleton, John Brumpton, Alice Addison, Dan Wyllie, Daniel Nettheim

Adventure Thriller

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3 / 5

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ATM Movie Poster

ATM R

Three co-workers on a routine stop at an ATM unexpectedly end up in a desperate fight for their lives.

Peter Safran, Brian Geraghty, Dan Clifton, Chris Sparling, Scott Neimeyer, Norm Waitt, Paul Brooks, Margarita Levieva

Drama Action

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New York / Los Angeles Theaters

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3 / 5

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We The Party Movie Poster

We The Party R

Five friends deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, facebook, fitting in, standing out, and finding themselves.

Comedy

Take Me Home Movie Poster

Take Me Home PG-13

After getting turned down by a photography agency, Thom finds his landlord throwing all of his belongings out into the hallway. With no job prospects and no place to sleep, Thom must turn to his recurring last resort: driving his illegal taxicab around the streets of New York. Fortunately for him, Claire Barrow isn't having a good day, either. First she comes home to find her husband flirting with his new secretary, then discovers her estranged father has suffered a heart attack in California. In a frenzy, Claire runs out into the night and hails what she assumes to be a cab. What she gets instead is Thom. With her life in ruins, Claire decides on a whim to pay Thom to drive her out to California. With nothing in New York to call his own, Thom reluctantly agrees.

Comedy Romance

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Player Hating: A Love Story Movie Poster

Player Hating: A Love Story

Follows Half-a-Mill and his Brooklyn crew, The Godfia Criminals, as they struggle to launch Milion, in an effort to attain money, success and recognition through music.

Documentary

Damsels in Distress Movie Poster

Damsels in Distress PG-13

The movie revolves around a group of style-obsessed college girls who take in a new student (Gerwig) and teach her their misguided ways of helping people at their grungy university. The crux of the story is focused on the relationship between Gerwig's character and a suitor (Brody), whom the girls are taken with but have doubts over his intentions.

Billy Magnussen, Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, Whit Stillman, Analeigh Tipton

Comedy

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3 / 5

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This Binary Universe Movie Poster

This Binary Universe

In this world of wonders there are still places that have not been smoothed over with the shallow surfaces of Western commercialism. This film is a personal Valentine to a life filled with amazing, exotic, beautiful and fearsome places for the world. The amazing thing is not just the visual demonstration of how fleeting life is, but a meditation on how the decisions that seem momentous on our time scale are flickering snapshots of life on this planet, too small to be observed by most. Somehow the music combined with technology becomes a personal experience that makes the earth and its inhabitants seem touchingly fragile and full of wonder.

Documentary

We Have A Pope Movie Poster

We Have A Pope NR

Follows the story of Melville, a cardinal who suddenly finds himself elected as the next Pope. Never the front runner and completely caught off guard, he panics as he's presented to the faithful in St. Peter's Square. To prevent a world wide crisis, the Vatican's spokesman calls in an unlikely psychiatrist who is neither religious or all that committed, played by Moretti, to find out what is wrong with the new Pope. As the world nervously waits outside, inside the therapist tries to find a solution. But Cardinal Melville is adamant: he does not want the job, or at least needs time to think it over. What follows is a marvelous insight into the concept of a human being existing behind the title of God's representative on Earth.

Nanni Moretti, Michel Piccoli

Drama Comedy

Keyhole Movie Poster

Keyhole R

After a long absence, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home to a house haunted with memories, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses, however, is focused on one thing: journeying through the house, room by room, and reaching his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) in her bedroom upstairs. The equilibrium of the house has been disturbed and his odyssey eventually becomes an emotional tour, as the ghostly nooks and crannies of the house reveal more about the mysterious Pick family.

Drama Thriller

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope Movie Poster

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope PG-13

A feature documentary that will follow seven people from around the world as they travel to Comic-Con in San Diego.

Stan Lee, Thomas Tull, Jeremy Chilnick, Joss Whedon, Morgan Spurlock, Harry Knowles

Documentary

Movies Released Friday, April 13, 2012

The Cabin in the Woods Movie Poster

The Cabin in the Woods R

The Cabin in the Woods storyline provides a new twist on a classic scenario -- in this case, five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods and bad things happen. Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford will play white-collar co-workers with a mysterious connection to the cabin.

Chris Hemsworth, Brian J. White, Richard Jenkins, Kristen Connolly, Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Bradley Whitford, Fran Kranz

Drama Thriller Suspense

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3 / 5

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The Three Stooges Movie Poster

The Three Stooges PG

Left on a nun’s doorstep, Larry, Curly and Moe grow up finger-poking and woo-woo-wooing their way to uncharted levels of knuckleheaded misadventure. Out to save their childhood home, only The Three Stooges could become embroiled in an oddball murder plot…while also stumbling into starring in a phenomenally successful TV reality show.

Sofia Vergara, Stephen Collins, Peter Farrelly, Jane Lynch, Bobby Farrelly, Bradley Thomas, Will Sasso, Earl Benjamin

Comedy

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3 / 5

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The Raid: Redemption Movie Poster

The Raid: Redemption

As a rookie member of an elite special-forces team, Rama (Iko Uwais) is instructed to hang back during a covert mission involving the extraction of a brutal crime lord from a rundown fifteen-story apartment block. But when a spotter blows their cover, boss Tama (Ray Sahetaphy) offers lifelong sanctuary to every killer, rapist and thief in the building in exchange fortheir heads. Now Rama must stand in for the team's fallen leader (Joe Taslim) and use every iota of his fighting strength - winding through every floor and every room to complete the mission and escape with his life.

Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Gareth Evans, Doni Alamsyah

Action Thriller Crime

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4 / 5

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Lockout Movie Poster

Lockout PG-13

Set in the near future, the movie stars Guy Pearce as a government agent who sets off to save the president's daughter, played by Maggie Grace, from rioting convicts in an outer-space maximum-security prison.

Luc Besson, Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Graham King, Peter Schlessel, James Mather, Stephen St. Leger, Peter Stormare

Action Thriller Sci-Fi

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3 / 5

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Touchback Movie Poster

Touchback PG-13

Former high school football star turned farmer and family man, Scott Murphy (Brian Presley) finds himself with a unique opportunity to revisit his glory days during the Ohio State championship game where he permanently injured his knee in a game-winning play. Given a second shot at his destiny, Scott seeks counsel from Coach Hand (Kurt Russell), Scott's longtime mentor on and off the field, to help him decide whether to let his fate unfold, or follow a path that will change his future.

Randall Emmett, George Furla, Kurt Russell, Shannon Gardner, Sarah Wright, Rob Cowan, Melanie Lynskey, Lisa Kearns

Drama Sports Football

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4 / 5

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Bully Movie Poster

Bully PG-13

Following five kids and families over the course of a school year, the film confronts bullying’s most tragic outcomes, including the stories of two families who’ve lost children to suicide and a mother who waits to learn the fate of her 14 –year-old daughter, incarcerated after bringing a gun on her school bus. With rare access to the Sioux City Community School District, the film also gives an intimate glimpse into school busses, classrooms, cafeterias and even principles offices, offering insight into the often-cruel world of children, as teachers, administrators and parents struggle to find answers.

Lee Hirsch, Cynthia Lowen

Documentary

Unraveled Movie Poster

Unraveled NR

Just days before Bernard Madoff captured headlines as the largest Ponzi schemer in U.S. history, Marc Dreier, a prominent Manhattan attorney, was arrested for orchestrating a massive fraud scheme that netted hundreds of millions of dollars from hedge funds. Brazen forgeries and impersonations branded the white collar crime spree remarkable. "Unraveled" is set in the purgatory of house arrest -- an Upper East Side penthouse -- where the Court has ordered Dreier confined until his sentencing day. The film weaves Dreier's struggle to prepare for the possibility of life imprisonment with first-person flashbacks, which reveal his audacious path of destruction. Destroyed by his own hubris, Dreier attempts to grasp his tragic unraveling. With unprecedented access, "Unraveled" exposes a mastermind of criminal deception.

Documentary

Detention Movie Poster

Detention

The film follows a group of teens who struggle to survive their senior year of high school when a slasher-movie killer seemingly comes to life.

Dane Cook, Josh Hutcherson, Joseph Kahn, David Kang, Mary-Ann Tanedo, Mark Palermo, Richard Weager, Shanley Caswell

Comedy Fantasy Horror

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3 / 5

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Blue Like Jazz Movie Poster

Blue Like Jazz PG-13

In Blue Like Jazz, Don (Marshall Allman), a pious nineteen-year-old sophomore at a Texas junior college, impulsively decides to escape his evangelical upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at one ofthe most progressive campuses in America, Reed College in Portland. Upon arrival, Reed's surroundings and eccentric student body proves to be far different than he could possibly imagine from the environment from which he came, forcing him to embark on a journey of self-discovery to understand who he is and what he truly believes.

Tania Raymonde, Marshall Allman, Claire Holt, Steve Taylor

Drama

Monsieur Lazhar Movie Poster

Monsieur Lazhar PG-13

Bachir Lazhar has emigrated from his native Algeria to Canada, where he is awaiting approval of his asylum application. When he is hired as a substitute teacher at a French-Canadian school, Bachir finds that he is often ill-equipped to deal with his new students and their shock over their previous teacher’s death.

Drama Comedy

The Lady Movie Poster

The Lady R

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris and the epic story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma's democracy movement.

Luc Besson, Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis

Drama Political

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Late Bloomers Movie Poster

Late Bloomers

Late Bloomers begins when Mary (Isabella Rossellini) and Adam (William Hurt), a high-functioning couple, realize that they have entered the senior category. Adam's reaction to this "discovery" is as frantic as his denial, and he desperately looks for a fountain of youth. Mary, on the other hand, decides to deal with the situation by doing what she does best: taking care of everyone.

William Hurt, Julie Gavras, Isabella Rossellini, Doreen Mantle

Drama

Turn Me On, Dammit! Movie Poster

Turn Me On, Dammit!

In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.

Comedy

Where to Watch:
Los Angeles Theaters

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3 / 5

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Woman Thou Art Loosed!: On the 7th Day Movie Poster

Woman Thou Art Loosed!: On the 7th Day

David (Underwood) and Kari (Leal) Ames seem to have the perfect life until their young daughter is kidnapped, and over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that threaten to rip their marriage and lives apart

Drama

Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day Movie Poster

Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day PG-13

A couple with past secrets unravel when their six-year-old daughter is kidnapped.

Pam Grier, Blair Underwood, Nicole Beharie, Jaqueline Fleming, Neema Barnette, Sharon Leal

Drama Thriller

Hit So Hard Movie Poster

Hit So Hard NR

When Nirvana burst onto the scene in 1991, the music they played spoke directly to an angry and disenfranchised generation. Grunge took over MTV and radio overnight… but just three years later, the drug-related deaths of several musicians and the suicide of Kurt Cobain closed the books on an all too brief era. Patty Schemel, the acclaimed drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band Hole, was in the middle of all of it. The openly gay woman who always felt different never dreamed she would be in a multi-platinum band, touring with legends… or that, thanks to drug addiction, she could lose it all. Given a video camera just before Hole's infamous Live Through This world tour, Patty filmed everything the shows, the parties, and startlingly intimate footage of Kurt and Courtney. This footage has never been seen... until now.

Documentary Music

How to Grow a Band Movie Poster

How to Grow a Band

26 year-old Chris Thile is at a crossroads. His marriage has ended and his platinum-selling band, Nickel Creek, has gone on “indefinite hiatus.” But Thile, a perfectionist prodigy who has defied expectations since he picked up the mandolin at age five, has a plan.

Documentary

L!fe Happens Movie Poster

L!fe Happens R

Two best friends fight to maintain normalcy in their lives after one of the friends gets pregnant and has a baby.

Krysten Ritter, Kat Coiro, David J. Phillips, Justin Levine, Kate Bosworth, Rachel Bilson, Corbin Timbrook

Comedy

Bad Ass Movie Poster

Bad Ass R

A Vietnam veteran becomes a local hero after saving a man from attackers on a city bus and decides to take action when his best friend is murdered and the police show little interest in solving the crime.

Danny Trejo, Ron Perlman, Charles S. Dutton, Craig Moss

Drama Action

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3 / 5

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Movies Released Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Crew 2 Crew Movie Poster

Crew 2 Crew R

Story centers on a small-town policeman struggling to pursue his passion for break-dancing while dealing with a secret from his past.

Rino Piccolo, Elle McPherson, Jordan Bridges, Mark Bacci, Ben Press, Jeannine Kaspar, Brooklyn Sudano, Louise Linton

Drama

Movies Released Friday, April 20, 2012

The Lucky One Movie Poster

The Lucky One PG-13

U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive—a photograph he found of a woman he doesn’t even know. Learning her name is Beth (Taylor Schilling) and where she lives, he shows up at her door, and ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel. Despite her initial mistrust and the complications in her life, a romance develops between them, giving Logan hope that Beth could be much more than his good luck charm.

Zac Efron, Kevin McCormick, Will Fetters, Blythe Danner, Taylor Schilling, Scott Hicks, Denise DiNovi, Douglas McGrath

Drama Romance

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4 / 5

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Think Like a Man Movie Poster

Think Like a Man PG-13

Based on Steve Harvey’s best-selling book, Think Like a Man follows four interconnected and diverse men whose love lives are shaken up after the ladies they are pursuing buy Harvey’s book and start taking his advice to heart. When the band of brothers realize they have been betrayed by one of their own, they conspire using the book’s insider information to turn the tables and teach the women a lesson of their own.

Michael Ealy, Kevin Hart, Regina Hall, Tim Story, Meagan Good, Romany Malco, Gabrielle Union, Chris Brown

Comedy Romance Adaptation

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4 / 5

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Chimpanzee Movie Poster

Chimpanzee G

Disneynature takes moviegoers deep into the forests of Africa with Chimpanzee, a new True Life Adventure introducing a baby chimp named Oscar and his entertaining approach to life in a story of family bonds and individual triumph. Oscar’s playful curiosity and zest for discovery showcase the intelligence and ingenuity of some of the most extraordinary personalities in the animal kingdom. Working together, Oscar’s chimpanzee family—including his mom and the group’s savvy leader, Freddy— navigates the complex territory of the forest. The world is a playground for little Oscar and his fellow young chimps, who’d rather make mayhem than join their parents for an afternoon nap. But when Oscar’s family is confronted by a rival band of chimps, he is left to fend for himself until a surprising ally steps in and changes his life forever.

Mark Linfield, Alastair Fothergill

Family Documentary

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4 / 5

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Darling Companion Movie Poster

Darling Companion PG-13

In Darling Companion, Beth (Diane Keaton) saves a bedraggled lost dog from the side of the freeway on a wintry day in Denver. Struggling with her distracted, self-involved husband Joseph (Kevin Kline) and an empty nest at home, Beth forms a special bond with the rescued animal. When Joseph loses the dog after a wedding at their vacation home in the Rockies, the distraught Beth enlists the help of the few remaining guests and a mysterious young woman (Ayelet Zurer) in a frantic search. Each member of the search party is affected by the adventure, which takes them in unexpected directions – comic, harrowing, sometimes deeply emotional and ultimately towards love.

Kevin Kline, Richard Jenkins, Mark Duplass, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Bregman, Elisabeth Moss, Sam Shepard, Lawrence Kasdan

Comedy

Jesus Henry Christ Movie Poster

Jesus Henry Christ PG-13

Henry James Hermin, a boy conceived in a petri-dish and raised by a loving, left-wing feminist, decides his mother’s love is not enough and begins to follow a trail of Post-It notes stuck around town hoping to find his biological father.

Philip Rose, Michael Sheen, Toni Collette, Julia Roberts, Lisa Gillan, Dennis Lee, Sukee Chew

Comedy

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3 / 5

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Fightville Movie Poster

Fightville NR

Takes us to Southern Louisiana, where a group of young athletes, including future MMA powerhouse Dustin Poirier, strive towards personal and professional greatness.

Michael Tucker, Petra Epperlein

Sports Documentary

Goodbye First Love Movie Poster

Goodbye First Love

Fifteen-year-old Camille (Lola Creton) is a serious girl who has fallen in love with the cheerful Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky), an older boy who returns her feelings, mostly, but wants to be free to explore the world. When he leaves her to travel, she is devastated, but develops over the following years, into a more fully formed woman, with new interests and a new love - and the possibility that she'll be less defenseless when Sullivan enters her life again.

Drama Romance

Marley Movie Poster

Marley PG-13

A documentary about legendary reggae star Bob Marley, which has been authorized by Marley's family.

Documentary

Moth Diaries Movie Poster

Moth Diaries

A teenage girl at a boarding girl suspects her roommate is a vampire.

Lily Cole, Scott Speedman, Mary Harron, Edward R. Pressman, Sarah Gadon, Sarah Bolger

Drama Suspense Vampires

Hit So Hard Movie Poster

Hit So Hard NR

When Nirvana burst onto the scene in 1991, the music they played spoke directly to an angry and disenfranchised generation. Grunge took over MTV and radio overnight… but just three years later, the drug-related deaths of several musicians and the suicide of Kurt Cobain closed the books on an all too brief era. Patty Schemel, the acclaimed drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band Hole, was in the middle of all of it. The openly gay woman who always felt different never dreamed she would be in a multi-platinum band, touring with legends… or that, thanks to drug addiction, she could lose it all. Given a video camera just before Hole's infamous Live Through This world tour, Patty filmed everything the shows, the parties, and startlingly intimate footage of Kurt and Courtney. This footage has never been seen... until now.

Documentary Music

Downtown Express Movie Poster

Downtown Express

Set in the world of Russian immigrants living in New York City, Downtown Express uses music to explore the clash of old world values against the lure and excitement of a new country. Under the watch of his loving but overbearing father, virtuoso violinist and Juilliard student Sasha (Grammy nominee Philippe Quint) prepares for a critical recital meant to launch his career. Yet, he is increasingly drawn to the rhythms of the streets of New York, and when he meets singer-songwriter Ramona (acclaimed recording artist Nellie McKay), he joins her band, falls in love, and begins to lead a double life, careening frantically between two worlds. As his classical debut nears, Sasha must decide whether to break with his father and forge his own destiny.

Documentary Music

To The Arctic 3D Movie Poster

To The Arctic 3D G

A journey into the lives of a mother polar bear and her two seven-month- old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home.

Greg MacGillivray, Meryl Streep

Documentary 3D IMAX

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Movies Released Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story Movie Poster

Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story

While filming a documentary in Mississippi in 1965, Frank De Felitta forever changed the life of an African-American waiter and his family. In 2011, Frank's son returns to the Delta to examine the repercussions of that fateful encounter.

Documentary Mystery

Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment Movie Poster

Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment

The 100 year history of Israel's kibbutz movement. Can a radically socialist institution survive a new market-driven reality with its ideological integrity intact?

Documentary

Payback Movie Poster

Payback NR

Margaret Atwood's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is the basis for this documentary on "debt" in its various forms--societal, personal, environmental, spiritual, criminal, and of course, economic. Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal (Manufactured Landscapes) strikingly interweaves these (sometimes surprising) debtor/creditor relationships: two families in a years-long Albanian blood feud; the BP oil spill vs. the Earth; mistreated Florida tomato farm workers and their bosses; imprisoned media mogul Conrad Black and the U.S. justice system.

Documentary

Movies Released Friday, April 27, 2012

Safe Movie Poster

Safe R

A second-rate cage fighter on the mixed martial arts circuit, Luke Wright lives a numbing life of routine beatings and chump change...until the day he blows a rigged fight. Wanting to make an example of him, the Russian Mafia murders his family and banishes him from his life forever, leaving Luke to wander the streets of New York destitute, haunted by guilt, and tormented by the knowledge that he will always be watched, and anyone he develops a relationship with will also be killed. But when he witnesses a frightened twelve-year-old Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same gangsters who killed his wife, Luke impulsively jumps to action...and straight into the heart of a deadly high-stakes war. Mei, he discovers, is no ordinary girl, but an orphaned math prodigy forced to work for the Triads as a "counter." He discovers she holds in her memory a priceless numerical code that the Triads, the Russian mob and a corrupt faction of the NYPD will kill for. Realizing he's the only person Mei can trust, Luke tears a swath through the city's brutal underworld to save an innocent girl's life...and perhaps even redeem his own.

Jason Statham, James Colby, Barry Bradford, Boaz Yakin, Danni Lang

Action Thriller Crime

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4 / 5

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The Five-Year Engagement Movie Poster

The Five-Year Engagement R

Beginning where most romantic comedies end, the new film from director Nicholas Stoller, producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and Rodney Rothman (Get Him to the Greek) looks at what happens when an engaged couple, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle.

Chris Pratt, Dakota Johnson, Emily Blunt, Alison Brie, Mindy Kaling, David Paymer, Jason Segel, Jacki Weaver

Comedy

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3 / 5

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The Raven Movie Poster

The Raven R

When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s (John Cusack) darkest works, a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) joins forces with Poe in a quest to get inside the killer’s mind in order to stop him from making every one of Poe’s brutal stories a blood chilling reality. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, which escalates when Poe’s love (Alice Eve) becomes the next target.

Brendan Gleeson, John Cusack, Alice Eve, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Glen Basner, Luke Evans, Kevin McNally, James McTeague

Thriller Suspense

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3 / 5

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The Pirates! Band of Misfits Movie Poster

The Pirates! Band of Misfits PG

Hugh Grant stars in his first animated role as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. It’s a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they battle a diabolical queen (Imelda Staunton) and team up with a haplessly smitten young scientist (David Tennant), but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!

Julie Lockhart, Salma Hayek, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Hugh Grant, Peter Lord

Action Adventure Comedy

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3 / 5

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Bernie Movie Poster

Bernie PG-13

In the tiny, rural town of Carthage, TX, assistant funeral director Bernie Tiede (Jack Black) was one of the town’s most beloved residents. He taught Sunday school, sang in the church choir and was always willing to lend a helping hand. Everyone loved and appreciated Bernie, so it came as no surprise when he befriended Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), an affluent widow who was as well known for her sour attitude as her fortune. Bernie frequently traveled with Marjorie and even managed her banking affairs. Marjorie quickly became fully dependent on Bernie and his generosity and Bernie struggled to meet her increasing demands. Bernie continued to handle her affairs, and the townspeople went months without seeing Marjorie. The people of Carthage were shocked when it was reported that Marjorie Nugent had been dead for some time, and Bernie Tiede was being charged with the murder.

Matthew McConaughey, Jack Black, Celine Rattray, Shirley MacLaine, Martin Shafer, Rip Torn, Richard Linklater, Liz Glotzer

Comedy

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Limited Theaters

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4 / 5

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Mamitas Movie Poster

Mamitas R

At school, Jordin (Bonilla) is a cocky but charming Latino firebrand; at home he is a doting grandson who can't seem to please his perpetually cranky father. On the day he's suspended for insulting a teacher, Jordin meets Felipa (Diaz-Carranza), a bookish, no-nonsense New York girl who sees past the swaggering facade. The two immediately embark on an unlikely friendship that inspires Jordin to find out who he really is.

Joaquim de Almeida, Josue Aguirre, Jennifer Esposito, Nicholas Ozeki, E.J. Bonilla, Veronica Diaz-Carranza, Jesse Garcia

Drama

The Giant Mechanical Man Movie Poster

The Giant Mechanical Man PG-13

The Giant Mechanical Man is a comedic love story between Janice (Jenna Fischer), a woman in her 30’s who has yet to learn how to navigate adulthood, and Tim (Chris Messina), a devoted street performer who finds that his unique talents as a "living statue" don’t exactly pay the bills. Out of work and forced to move in with her overbearing sister (Malin Ackerman), Janice is on the receiving end of well-intentioned but misguided pressure to date an egotistical self-help guru (Topher Grace), who complicates her search for what her heart really desires.

Lucy Punch, Topher Grace, Malin Akerman, Jenna Fischer, Lee Kirk, Brent Stiefel, Chris Messina, Rich Sommer

Comedy Romance

96 Minutes Movie Poster

96 Minutes R

Four young people struggling to find their way in life are suddenly caught in a terrifying and deadly carjacking and abduction.

Brittany Snow, Lee Clay, David Oyelowo, Aimee Lagos, Charlie Mason, Justin Moore-Lewy, Evan Ross, Christian Serratos

Action Thriller Suspense

Where to Watch:
Limited Theaters

User Rated:
3 / 5

Rent or buy

Headhunters Movie Poster

Headhunters R

An unscrupulous corporate headhunter is also a secret art thief.

Morten Tyldum, Ulf Ryberg, Aksel Hennie

Thriller

Where to Watch:
Limited Theaters

User Rated:
3 / 5

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Sound of My Voice Movie Poster

Sound of My Voice R

Peter and Lorna, a young Silver Lake couple, delve into the underworld of a cult that meets in the San Fernando Valley. At the center of the group is an enigmatic young woman named Maggie who never leaves her basement chamber. The members follow Maggie blindly—growing her food, obsessively sanitizing the house, giving her their own blood for transfusions.

Zal Batmanglij, Nicole Vicius, Shelley Surpin, Hans Ritter, Brit Marling, Christopher Denham

Drama

Restless City Movie Poster

Restless City R

An African immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle and falling in love is his greatest risk.

Drama

Warriors Of The Rainbow: Seediq Bale Movie Poster

Warriors Of The Rainbow: Seediq Bale NR

Some eighty years ago, in the mountains of Taiwan, two races clashed in defense of their faiths. One believed in rainbows, the other believed in the sun. Neither side realized that they both believed in the same sky.

Drama Action

The Broken Tower Movie Poster

The Broken Tower

A biography of American poet Hart Crane who committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.

James Franco, Michael Shannon, Stacey Miller

Drama Biography

Whores' Glory Movie Poster

Whores' Glory

Several stories of prostitution around the world focusing on the lives and individual hopes, needs and experiences of the women.

Documentary

The Highest Pass Movie Poster

The Highest Pass

Anand, a modern Indian yogi and guru, asks his student Adam to join him on a motorcycle expedition through the highest passes of the Indian Himalayas.

Documentary

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