The Babadook
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jennifer Kent
Actors: Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall, Tim Purcell, Noah Wiseman, Benjamin Winspear, Craig Behenna
Plot: A woman loses her husband in a car crash on the way to giving birth to her
child, Samuel. Coping with life as a single mother, she watches as Samuel
grows, and as he begins to see monsters everywhere, with often violent
reactions. One particular book, The Babadook, talks of a monster hiding in
the dark places in houses - it affects not only Samuel, but her as well.
Captivated
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jeremiah Zagar
Actors: Joyce Maynard , Stanley M. Brooks, Joyce Chopra, Pamela Smart, Erin Joyce, Eric Trautmann
Cloud 9
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Hoen
Actors: Luke Benward, Dove Cameron, Kiersey Clemons, Mike C. Manning, Dillon Lane, Carlon Jeffery
Devil's Due
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Actors: Zach Gilford, Allison Miller, Robert Belushi, Kurt Krause, Steffie Grote, Sam Anderson
Plot: Zach and Samantha McCall didn't expect to become new parents - but even
though they can't remember it, one night in their honeymoon brings on an
unexpected pregnancy. Recording everything - Samantha begins exhibiting
strange signs - and soon these changes take a much more sinister turn.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Actors: Keira Knightley, Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Kenneth Branagh, Colm Feore, Gemma Chan
Plot: Jack Ryan is a young covert CIA agent who must race to stop a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
The Nut Job
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Lepeniotis
Actors: Will Arnett, Katherine Heigl, Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson, Stephen Lang, Sarah Gadon
Plot: When a surly, independent finds himself tossed out of the park and forced to live on is own in the city - he stumbles on a way to get himself back to his home and help his fellow creatures survive the harsh winter: the gold mind bounty that is Maury's Nut Store.
Ride Along
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tim Story
Actors: Kevin Hart, John Leguizamo, Ice Cube, Bruce McGill, Lucius Baston, Bryan Callen
Plot: A security guard whose mouth moves faster than his mind teams up with Jame's - the brother of the woman he plans to marry on a 24-hour Atlanta patrol - in order to prove his worth.
Not My Day ( Nicht Mein Tag )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/16/2014
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Peter Thorwarth
Actors: Moritz Bleibtreu, Axel Stein, Jasmin Gerat, Anna Maria Mühe, Nele Kiper, Ben Ruedinger
Plot: A Bank teller's life takes crucial changes after he is taken hostage at a robbery.
The Price of Gold
Theatrical Release Date: 01/16/2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nanette Burstein
Actors: Connie Chung, Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, Mark Lund, John Powers, Dody Teachman
Plot: The 1994 Olympics was focused on figure skating - specifically the competition between the classic beauty of Nancy Kerrigan and the rougher Tonya Harding. But it wasn't just the skating - the event was mired in scandal as Kerrigan had been targeted weeks before by Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly and attacked in an attempt to eliminate her from competition. What is the real story behind this attack? It's two decades later and we still may never know.
Bride for Rent
Theatrical Release Date: 01/15/2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mae Czarina Cruz
Actors: Kim Chiu, Xian Lim, Empoy Marquez, Martin del Rosario, Pilita Corrales, Tirso Cruz III
Plastic Galaxy: The Story of Star Wars Toys
Theatrical Release Date: 01/14/2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Brian Stillman
Actors: Ron Salvatore, Bobby Sharp, Gus Lopez, Chris Fawcett, Alex Miller, Jim Swearingen
Magic Men
Theatrical Release Date: 01/13/2014
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Greek
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Guy Nattiv, Erez Tadmor
Actors: Ariane Labed, Makram Khoury, Zohar Shtrauss, Vangelis Mourikis, Roy Butbul, Errikos Litsis
Plot: An Israeli Jew of Greek origins was sent on behalf of his town to Greece, but he went to search for his childhood friend who saved him from the Holocaust instead. He didn't count on his son's company though, with whom he hasn't been on speaking terms for years.
Avalanche Sharks
Theatrical Release Date: 01/12/2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Scott Wheeler
Actors: Alexander Mendeluk, Kate Nauta, Benjamin Easterday, Eric Scott Woods, Kelle Cantwell, Richard Gleason
Back in the Day
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Rosenbaum
Actors: Michael Rosenbaum, Morena Baccarin, Nick Swardson, Harland Williams, Jay R. Ferguson, Sarah Colonna
Plot: A man returning to his home town for a highschool reunion just wants to hang with his old friends and relive the glory days... and it doesn't matter how much destruction he causes along the way.
Cheatin'
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bill Plympton
Fishing Without Nets
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Cutter Hodierne
Actors: Eric Godon, Idil Ibrahim, Reda Kateb, Abu Bakr Mirre, Abdikhadir Mukhtar, Abdi Siad
Freezer
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 1.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mikael Salomon
Actors: Dylan McDermott, Yuliya Snigir, Peter Facinelli, Andrey Ivchenko, David McNally, Markus Parilo
G.B.F.
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Darren Stein
Actors: Michael J. Willett, Paul Iacono, Evanna Lynch, Andrea Bowen, Xosha Roquemor, Sasha Pieterse
Plot: When high school student Tanner is outed - he suddenly finds himself becoming the hottest new accessory to the clique of queen bees - the Gay Best Friend - but as his popularity increases, he finds himself losing his old self - and old friends as well.
Like Father, Like Son ( Soshite chichi ni naru )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Actors: Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yôko Maki, Rirî Furankî, Megumi Morisaki, Shôgen Hwang
Plot: A successful businessman is given life-changing information - when his son was born, he was switched at birth with another boy. Now he must make a crucial decision - whether to take back his biological son, or to keep the boy he has raised as his own.
Memphis
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tim Sutton
Actors: Willis Earl Beal, Constance Brantley, Larry Dodson, Devonte Hull, Lopaka Thomas
Plot: A talented, yet distant singer drifts through the city of Memphis - driven by spirituality and danger - he avoids the recording studio, and tries to avoid temptation, on a journey of self discovery.
The Notorious Mr. Bout
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tony Gerber, Maxim Pozdorovkin
Actors: Alla Bout, Sergei Bout, Viktor Bout, Dirk Draulans, Andreas Morgner, Robert Zachariasiewicz
Reasonable Doubt
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Howitt
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Dominic Cooper, Erin Karpluk, Gloria Reuben, Ryan Robbins, Philippe Brenninkmeyer
Plot: An up-and-coming DA kills a man in a hit-and-run accident, but another man, found with the body, is charged with the crime. But he finds himself at part of the trial and helps free the man by throwing the trial... only to find his life unraveling when the man reveals a secret that could destroy him.
The Return to Homs
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Talal Derki
Rich Hill
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos
Actors: Alyssa Jewell, Andrew Jewell, Elizabeth Jewell, Willie Jewell
Plot: In rural Missouri, we follow the lives of three boys, and their tenuous bond with their families, as they struggle with impoverished life.
Shanghai Hotel
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jerry Allen Davis
Actors: Eugenia Yuan, Hill Harper, Pei-pei Cheng, Ron Yuan, Peter Greene, J.D. Williams
Stand Your Ground
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael McClendon
Actors: B.J. Arnett, Cameron Arnett, Paul Barlow Jr., Ron Bracewell, Francine Locke, Scott McDonald
Plot: A devout woman has her faith put to the test when her son is falsely accused of murder but all the evidence points to his guilt.
The Sublime and Beautiful
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Blake Robbins
Actors: Blake Robbins, Laura Kirk, Matthew Del Negro, Michael D. Coffey, Armin Shimerman, Scott William Winters
Summer in February
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Christopher Menaul
Actors: Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens, Hattie Morahan, Mia Austen, Shaun Dingwall
Plot: In the early 20th Century at the Newlyn School for artists, scandal, liberty and love ensnare a group of artists in the Lamorna Group.
To Kill a Man ( Matar a un hombre )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Actors: Daniel Antivilo, Daniel Candia, Ariel Mateluna, Alejandra Yañez
Who is Dayani Cristal?
Theatrical Release Date: 01/17/2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marc Silver
Actors: Gael García Bernal
Plot: An unidentified body of a young man in the Arizona desert leads to a quest that spans a continent in order to find out who this person was and who they left behind.
Lilting
Theatrical Release Date: 01/16/2014
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hong Khaou
Actors: Ben Whishaw, Morven Christie, Peter Bowles, Pei-pei Cheng, Andrew Leung, Naomi Christie
Plot: In London, a Cambodian mother mourns the death of her son when a stranger intervenes. But this man is no stranger to her son and even though the two don't share a common language, they both share love of the departed, and with the help of a translator, share memories of the man they both loved.
Man vs Snake: The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler
Theatrical Release Date: 01/15/2014
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tim Kinzy, Andrew Seklir
Actors: Billy Mitchell, Walter Day, Richie Knucklez, Dwayne Richard, Tim McVey, Enrico Zanetti
$50K and a Call Girl: A Love Story
Theatrical Release Date: 01/14/2014
Overall Rating: 1.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Seth Grossman
Actors: Ross Patterson, Jessie Wiseman, Seth Grossman, Lauren Aboulafia, Asher Roth, Kelly Curran
Against the Grain
Theatrical Release Date: 01/14/2014
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elias Mael
Actors: Vaughn Wilkinson, Amaris Davidson, Sewell Whitney, Myles Cranford, Derrick Kemp, David Coe
Milius
Theatrical Release Date: 01/11/2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joey Figueroa, Zak Knutson
Actors: John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Robert Zemeckis
Plot: Documentary of John Milius, a boisterous Hollywood writer, producer, writer, and actor.
