This indie drama stars Elle Fanning (BABEL) as Phoebe, a girl whose dream of playing the title role in her elementary school’s staging of ALICE IN WONDERLAND comes true when she is chosen by the drama teacher (Patricia Clarkson). But even though the casting brings joy to Phoebe, her parents (Bill Pullman and Felicity Huffman) begin to worry about her behavior.
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman are determined to bring to justice one of the world\’s most powerful banks. Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as their targets will stop at nothing — even murder — to continue financing terror and war.
Searching for his missing sister, Clay Miller heads up to the eerie woods of legendary Crystal Lake, where he stumbles on the creaky remains of rotting old cabins behind moss-covered trees. And that\’s not the only thing lying in wait under the brush. Against the advice of police and cautions from the locals, Clay pursues what few leads he has in the search for his missing sister, Whitney, with the help of Jenna, a young woman he meets among a group of college kids up for an all-thrills weekend. But they are all about to find much more than they bargained for. Little do they know, they\’ve entered the domain of one of the most terrifying specters in American film history — the infamous killer who haunts Crystal Lake, armed with a razor-sharp machete… Jason Voorhees.
Bloated corpses buoy a castaway’s life raft in TALES OF THE BLACK FREIGHTER, a grisly parable taken from the pages of Alan Moore’s WATCHMEN. One of the book’s most riveting detours, the comic-within-a-comic (read by one of the book’s characters) ominously paralleled the main events of the graphic novel. Although the beloved story was cut from Zach Snyder’s big-screen version of WATCHMEN, it’s recast here as a standalone animated program aimed at mollifying completists and ramping up interest in the adaptation. Paired with the macabre take on ROBINSON CRUSOE is another lopped-off limb from the comic: UNDER THE HOOD, a mix of live action and CGI that looks back at the salad days of Nite Owl and the Minutemen.
While America was going through the Depression in the 1930s, France was suffering a similar crisis. This musical comedy from Christophe Barratier brings a lighter touch to those days, but it doesn’t gloss over the difficulties of the people living through them. A trio of blue-collar men living in the Faubourg neighborhood of Paris struggle to survive, but they think they may have found their salvation when they decide to reopen a local music hall. Pigoil (Gérard Jugnot), Milou (Clovis Cornillac), and Jacky (Kad Merad) will create a song-filled production that make bring life back to their neighborhood, and the appearance of a beautiful singer (Nora Arnezeder) certainly won’t hurt their efforts.
Amazon princess Diana rescues Steve Trevor, an Air Force pilot who crashes on her island. Intrigued by her first exposure to the outside world, she leaves the island and becomes the superhero known as Wonder Woman.
Indie favorite James LeGros stars in this low-budget comedy with a high number of laughs. The titular Sherman (Michael Shulman) is a Manhattan resident who has his orderly life planned out–that is, until he finds himself in California, broke, dumped by his girlfriend (Lacey Chabert), and stranded almost 500 miles from a highly coveted internship. Enter Palmer (LeGros), a laid-back ex-athlete who says hell give Sherman a ride to southern California if Sherman will help him repaint his car. But the allure of the Napa Valley and a pretty blonde (Brooke Nevin) might just cause Sherman to take a much-needed detour from his perfectly planned life. SHERMANS WAY also stars Enrico Colatoni, M. Emmett Walsh, and Thomas Ian Nicholas.
Mysterious cell phone messages promise a young American engineer untold wealth — then make him the target of a deadly international plot. Dangerous security operatives chase the engineer across the globe, while a powerful government official pursues a mysterious agenda that threatens the stability of the entire world.
As though Danny Stein’s life weren’t difficult enough with his parents’ impending divorce, the high schooler now has to struggle to find a prom date. This comedy from Brian Hecker stars William H. Macy (WILD HOGS) and Cheryl Hines (CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM).
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