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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...
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THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE TO BE DETERMINED<br><br>Based on real events, THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT is a chilling cocktail with equal parts THE AMITYVILLE HORROR and THE EXORCIST with plenty of original scares added in. When a married couple (Virginia Madsen and Martin Donovan) move to Connecticut with their son, they hope the new location will aid in the boy's cancer treatment. But their new home already has otherworldly inhabitants, and it will take more than a simple exorcism to...
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In this light French comedy, Émilie (Julie Gayet) and Gabriel (Michael Cohen) meet and immediately like each other, but her wedding ring may stand in the way of their romance. The power of a kiss comes into question in this film that also stars Virginie Ledoyen (THE BEACH) and the film’s writer and director, Emmanuel Mouret.
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When California girl Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall. Alerted to the threat of this new monster, the military jumps into action and Susan is captured and secreted away to a covert government compound. There, she is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of other monsters: the brilliant but insect-headed Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.; the macho half-ape, half-fish The...
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This impressive directorial debut from Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst revolves around an intelligent young man named Charlie (played by Jessie Eisenberg of THE SQUID AND THE WHALE) and his tense adult relationship with the neighborhood bully of his youth. Growing up in a tough part of New York City in the 1970s, Charlie notices, but makes a point of avoiding, Mitch, a kid who is chasing girls and beating kids up in the fourth grade. But Charlie's best friend, Danny (Chris Marquette), is eager...
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After talk show host Emma (Uma Thurman) tells a bride-to-be to dump her firefighter fiancé (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), he devises a unique plan of revenge in this romantic comedy. Without Emma's knowledge, the man marries her, causing friction in her relationship with a staid man (Colin Firth).
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Art Bechstein is floundering in his new-found post-college freedom, opting to take the job with the least amount of responsibility he can find (at the appropriately titled Book Barn), while sleep walking through the Series Seven prep courses that will speed him into a job chosen for him by his father, far away from the security of his childhood Pittsburgh. Art's fortunes begin to change when a chance encounter with freshman roommate and part-time drug dealer Mohammed lands him at a swanky...
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When New Orleans Police Detective Danny Fisher stops a brilliant thief, Miles, from getting away with a multi-million-dollar heist, the thief's girlfriend is accidentally killed. After escaping from prison, the criminal mastermind enacts his revenge, taunting Danny with a series of near-impossible puzzles and tasks... 12 rounds... that Danny must somehow complete to save the life of his fiancee.
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Ice Cube and Mike Epps reteam for this comedy from FRIDAY AFTER NEXT director Marcus Raboy.
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MAN PUSH CART helmer Ramin Bahrani directs this drama that played to acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival and Venice. Set in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, GOODBYE SOLO begins with William (Red West), a gritty 70 year old, asking 34-year-old Senegalese taxi driver Souléymane (Souléymane Sy Savané) to take him to the top of a nearby mountain in two weeks. When Soulémane (who goes by Solo) realizes William's suicidal intention, he spends 14 days trying to convince him not to make...
