Contraband
Theatrical Release Date: 01/13/2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi, J.K. Simmons, Lukas Haas
Plot: A one-time smuggler, has gone straight as a security guard. But when financial troubles threaten to bring him down, he may return to his old ways when an associate presents him with a lucrative opportunity.
Joyful Noise
Theatrical Release Date: 01/13/2012
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Todd Graff
Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Courtney B. Vance, Keke Palmer, Jesse L. Martin
Plot: A small-town choir looks to beat the odds and win a national competition, but only if the two leads can stop butting heads and learn to work together.
Juan of the Dead ( Juan de los Muertos )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/13/2012
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alejandro Brugués
Actors: Alexis Díaz de Villegas, Jorge Molina, Andrea Duro, Andros Perugorría, Jazz Vilá, Eliecer Ramírez
Plot: Juan and his friend Lazaro are a pair of slackers - each trying to reconnect with their respective children - but things get side-tracked when locals begin eating each other, and rising from the dead. The Cuban government claims the "zombie" epidemic is nothing but revolting dissidents - the pair begin to make a profit on the zombie killings - until they find themselves over their heads.
Tangled Ever After
Theatrical Release Date: 01/13/2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
Actors: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Alan Dale, Nathan Greno, Kari Wahlgren, Paul F. Tompkins
Plot: Pascal and Maximus attempt to recover a runaway wedding ring.
Barrio Tales
Theatrical Release Date: 01/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jarret Tarnol
Actors: Alexander Aguila, Carson Aune , Adam Beesely, Maritza Brikisak, Hunter Cope, Ana Corbi
Plot: A couple of guys looking to score drugs across the border are first presented with three tales: a maid whose death results in a terrible curse, a taco truck driver who will do anything to keep his "mystery meat" a secret and a redneck family who picks the wrong border runners to torture.
Loosies
Theatrical Release Date: 01/11/2012
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael Corrente
Actors: Peter Facinelli, Jaimie Alexander, Michael Madsen, Joe Pantoliano, William Forsythe, Vincent Gallo
Plot: A pickpocket with a free-wheeling lifestyle finds himself in a life-changing situation when a women he had a one-night stand with tells him she's pregnant with his child.
Morgan
Theatrical Release Date: 01/07/2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael D. Akers
Actors: Leo Minaya, Jack Kesy, Benjamin Budd, Theodore Bouloukos, Madalyn McKay, Darra Like Dat Boyd
Plot: A man must come to terms with his disability while struggling with love, change and self-consciousness.
Albatross
Theatrical Release Date: 01/13/2012
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Niall MacCormick
Actors: Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond, Felicity Jones, Peter Vaughan, Jessica Brown Findlay, Mark Ryder
Plot: Bookish teenager Beth befriends an inspiring novelist, Emilia, when she moves to town, but when Emilia starts an affair with Beth's father, it has dire consequences.
The Divide
Theatrical Release Date: 01/13/2012
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Xavier Gens
Actors: Lauren German, Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Michael Eklund, Rosanna Arquette, Courtney B. Vance
Plot: After surviving a nuclear attack, a group of people find refuge in the basement of an apartment building. Fear, paranoia, anger and dwindling supplies soon have the group turning on one another.
Runaway Slave
Theatrical Release Date: 01/13/2012
Overall Rating: 1.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Pritchett Cotten
Actors: Glenn Beck, Andrew Breitbart, Herman Cain, C.L. Bryant, Alveda King, Star Parker
Plot: The Rev. C.L. Bryant, a one-time local NAACP chapter president, takes a tour across America chronicling what he describes as a new form of slavery - the welfare state and how it is holding back the African American community.
Sing Your Song
Theatrical Release Date: 01/13/2012
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Susanne Rostock
Actors: Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Marge Champion, Diahann Carroll, Nelson Mandela, George Schlatter
Plot: Documentary that looks beyond Harry Belafonte the entertainer to his
tireless effort in fighting for civil rights in America and justice world-
wide.
Toll Booth ( Gise Memuru )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/13/2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Turkish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tolga Karacelik
Actors: Serkan Ercan, Zafer Diper, Nur Aysan, Nergis Öztürk, Sermet Yesil, Busra Pekin
Foreverland
Theatrical Release Date: 01/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Max McGuire
Actors: Sarah Wayne Callies, Juliette Lewis, Thomas Dekker, Max Thieriot, Matt Frewer, Demián Bichir
North Sea Texas ( Noordzee, Texas )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Dutch
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bavo Defurne
Actors: Eva van der Gucht, Thomas Coumans, Jelle Florizoone, Mathias Vergels, Luk Wyns, Katelijne Damen
Plot: A teen boy searching for love happens to find that its much closer than he expected - in the boy next door.
If I Were You
Theatrical Release Date: 01/10/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joan Carr-Wiggin
Actors: Marcia Gay Harden, Leonor Watling, Joseph Kell, Aidan Quinn, Valerie Mahaffey, Gary Piquer
Plot: Two women meet seemingly by chance and come up with a plan to fix their unhappy lives: each will do what the other woman commands. Yet one woman if playing a different game - for she knows her new "friend" is actually her husbands mistress. Going along with the game she accepts taking part in an amateur production where she will play King Lear - while the other woman takes on the role of the Fool and the play begins to echo her life.
Let My People Go!
Theatrical Release Date: 01/08/2012
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mikael Buch
Actors: Nicolas Maury, Carmen Maura, Jean-François Stévenin, Amira Casar, Clément Sibony, Aurore Clément
Plot: A Frenchman who is Jewish and gay, has a fight with his Finnish boyfriend over a envelope full of Euroes and returns back home to Paris to sort things out.
Love in the Medina
Theatrical Release Date: 01/08/2012
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Abdelhai Laraki
Actors: Omar Lotfi, Ouidad Elma, Driss Roukhe, Amal Ayouch, Abdou El Mesnaoui, Zahira Sadik
Palaces of Pity ( Palácios de Pena )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/08/2012
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt
Actors: Alcina Abrantes, Andreia Martina, Catarina Gaspar, Ana Rita Franco, Bernarda dos Bois, Judite Maria
Off-White Lies ( Orhim le-rega )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/07/2012
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Hebrew
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Maya Kenig
Actors: Gur Bentvich, Elya Inbar, Tzahi Grad, Arad Yeni, Salit Achimiriam, Shimon Mimran
Plot: Explores the relationship of a father and his daughter set against the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon.
Silence of Pelesjan, The ( silenzio di Pelesjan, Il )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/07/2012
Overall Rating: 1.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Pietro Marcello
Actors: Artavazd Peleshian, Enrico Ghezzi, Pietro Marcello
