211. White Bird in a Blizzard
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gregg Araki
Actors: Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, Angela Bassett, Gabourey Sidibe, Christopher Meloni, Thomas Jane
Plot: When her perfect homemaker mother disappears in 1988, 17-year-old Kat barely registers the disappearance in the emotionally repressed household. But as time goes by, and Kat goes to college, she begins to realize how deeply this has affected her. On a break, she returns home and finally confronts the truth and her own denial of how the event played out.
212. Autómata
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gabe Ibáñez
Actors: Antonio Banderas, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Melanie Griffith, Dylan McDermott, Robert Forster, Tim McInnerny
Plot: Set 50 years in future, the Earth is slowly drying up while man and robot have been designed to co-exist. Insurance agent Jacq Vaucan works for ROC robotics, investigating claims involving the manipulation of robots. When he finds that robots have started manipulating themselves, it will have profound implications on the future of humanity.
213. About Last Night
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steve Pink
Actors: Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Regina Hall, Joy Bryant, Adam Rodriguez, Bryan Callen
Plot: As one relationship is on the brink of failing, a man sets up his friend with his girlfriend's roommate - About Last Night explores the many ups and downs of modern relationships from the bar to the bedroom to making things work in the real world.
214. Maps to the Stars
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Carrie Fisher, Olivia Williams
Plot: Follows the lives of the Weiss family - pure Hollywood royalty - including the father, a self-help guru, mother who dotes on 13-year-old Benji - fresh out of rehab and daughter Agatha a recently-released pyromaniac.
215. Hellion
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kat Candler
Actors: Aaron Paul, Juliette Lewis, Josh Wiggins, Jonny Mars, Deke Garner, Augustine Frizzell
Plot: When a 13-year-old, obsessed with heavy metal and motocross, causes enough trouble, his younger brother, Wes, is taken away by child protective services to live with his aunt. Soon enough, he, along with his emotionally distant father, Hollis, are faced with a new responsibility - one they must learn to live with if they are to get Wes back.
216. The Monuments Men
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: George Clooney
Actors: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin
Plot: As Hitler and the Nazi regime rise to power, a group of art historians and museum curators band together in order to recover and save as many renowned pieces of stolen art before they can be destroyed.
217. Blood Ties
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guillaume Canet
Actors: Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis, Marion Cotillard, Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, James Caan
Plot: Set in Brooklyn during the 1970s, two brothers - one on the side of the law, the other part of organized crime - face off against each other.
218. God Help the Girl
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stuart Murdoch
Actors: Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray, Cora Bisset, Pierre Boulanger
Plot: A girl sent the hospital for emotional issues finds an outlet in writing
songs. This eventually leads her into the city, where a meeting with James
and Cassie - two musicians at a crossroads in their lives, will lead to
better things for them all.
219. You're Not You
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George C. Wolfe
Actors: Ali Larter, Emmy Rossum, Josh Duhamel, Hilary Swank, Marcia Gay Harden, Jason Ritter
Plot: A terminally ill woman forms a bond with the young, aimless caretaker assigned to her.
220. The Signal
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: William Eubank
Actors: Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Laurence Fishburne, Beau Knapp, Lin Shaye, Robert Longstreet
Plot: A trio of friends, MIT educated hackers, follow a fellow hacker, Nomad, to the Nevada desert. Once they finally track him down, he delivers a cryptic message before all three fall unconscious. Waking up captive in a secure facility, they will find things go much deeper than they could possibly imagine.
