Brick Mansions

In the not-to-dystopian future, the ghettos of Detroit have gotten so crime-ridden, they are walled off from the rest of the city. Within these “brick mansions,” criminal elements battle it out on their own, with at least one saintly resident (David Belle) trying to do some good. Enter an undercover cop (Paul Walker, in his last role), tasked with entering the brick mansions and tracking down a neutron bomb stolen by the slum’s chief drug lord (RZA). Walker and Belle’s characters team up to clean up the neighborhood, find the bomb and instigate a lot of action sequences Read More>>>

Draft Day

The clock is ticking for Sonny Weaver (Kevin Costner), general manager of the Cleveland Browns football team. He’s got the seventh pick in a draft that could dictate the success of his team’s future. With at least one immediate impact player primed to go Number One, Sonny must decide what’s most important: his personal life, his team’s needs, and the power of a splashy trade that might change the balance of power in the League. Read More>>>

Railway Man

Eric (Colin Firth) falls in love with Patti (Nicole Kidman), they wed, and it looks like happily ever after. But Patti soon learns that Eric suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and is still tormented by his treatment as a POW in a Japanese labor camp. His mental state seems incurable until Eric discovers his chief tormentor from the war is still alive. Eric believes if he confronts his demons, he can release himself from his prolonged captivity. Read More>>>

Locke

Quitting time, and Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) is done with work. But he’s not heading home. Instead, Locke gets in his car and starts his long journey into night, prompted by marital infidelity. What follows is an hour -and -a -half car trip that has Locke, with his hands- free device, talking to the woman about to have his baby, his family reeling from the surprise news, and his co-workers prepping without their foreman Locke, for one of the most massive concrete laying jobs in the country’s history. Read More>>>

Devil’s Knot

More than 20 years ago, three eight-year-old boys were brutally killed in an Arkansas town. The subsequent arrests, trial and media storm that upended the town is the subject of Devil’s Knot. Reese Witherspoon plays the mother of one of the victims, with Colin Firth as an investigator for the defense.  Three teenage boys are arrested for the crime, based on some odd testimony and the boys’ alleged alliance to Satanism.  Read More>>>

Lone Survivor

Navy Seals embark on a special op into Afghanistan, an op that is compromised when they stumble upon some local … farmers? Sheepherders? Taliban members? They can’t be certain if these people – one a young boy – are innocents or the enemy, and have to figure out their next course of action. Not long after this moral dilemma, they find they are wildly outnumbered by the enemy and have lost communication with the base. One of the Seals is Mark Wahlberg, and the movie is called Lone Survivor, so you can do the math or decide if the title is simply ironic or a metaphor.  Read More>>>

All Is Lost

“All is lost,” writes this movie’s protagonist (Robert Redford), expressing his feelings in a ship’s log. They are some of the only spoken words in the movie, which is a tour de force of one man’s attempt at survival at sea against seemingly impossible odds. Redford’s character (called Our Man in the credits) flashes back to eight days before, when his sailboat collided with a stray storage bin in the middle of the Indian Ocean. More obstacles ensue.  Read More>>>

Endless Love

Jade Butterfield, a rich girl from a privileged family, has hidden from the world since the tragic death of her brother. When she starts dating the charming David Elliot, she finally starts to wake up and experience love and life again. But David is poor boy from a poor family, and Jade’s father wants David out of the picture before he ruins her academic future.  Read More>>>

Pompeii

A young slave of the Roman Empire (Kit Harington) has grown to adulthood, become the best fighter in the realm, and is shipped off to Pompeii, where he may become the star performer before he dies. Pompeii princess (Emily Browning), who has thwarted the advances of the visiting senator (Kiefer Sutherland), has fallen for the young fighter, but they must hide their forbidden love, even in the face of an impending eruption from a volcano. Do you know history? Things don’t go well for Pompeii.  Read More>>>

The Monuments Men

It’s 1944. World War II is winding down, the Nazis are on the run, and a small group of American specialists (George Clooney, Matt Damon, John Goodman, Bill Murray, and others) are tasked with finding and salvaging priceless art that the Nazis are hiding or destroying. Working in pairs, the group follows various leads as the preservation of culture, history and man’s accomplishments becomes more and more remote. Read More>>>

3 Days to Kill

Ethan Renner is a burned out CIA agent who finds out he has terminal cancer. He returns home to attempt to patch up the marriage and family life he has neglected, trying to get to know his bitter teenage daughter. But a top level agent finds Ethan and offers him a deal: if he does one last job he can have an experimental treatment for his disease that may extend the time he has for his family. He accepts, trying to juggle winning over his daughter and secretly hunting a terrorist.  Read More>>>

The Way, Way Back

Fourteen-year-old Duncan (Liam James) is dragged along for the summer to be with his mom (Toni Collette) and her boyfriend (Steve Carell) to a beachside house.  Despite the entourage of colorful neighbors (Allison Janney, Rob Corddry, Amanda Peet, AnnaSophia Robb), Duncan feels neglected by his mom and belittled by her boyfriend and seeks to feel valued.  He finds that affirmation at a local water park, and by the side of grownup water park employee Owen (Sam Rockwell).  Read More>>> 

   

Empire State

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson stands center frame on the movie cover, but he’s just a supporting character, a cop who tries to break the case of an armored car company heist involving millions of dollars. The main character is an armored car guard (Liam Hemsworth), whose application to the police department is rejected. Nevertheless he sees a business opportunity in his company’s lax security, and involves a friend (Michael Angarano) in the plot.  Read More>>>

The Ring

Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, disturbing images, language and some drug references; 115 min; Directed by Gore Verbinski

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Good Will Hunting

Will works as a janitor at MIT but behind that mop he’s a mathematical genius. His troubled past leads him to a psychologist for help and a chance at a brighter future.  Read More>>>

Much Ado About Nothing

Director Joss Whedon takes William Shakespeare’s classic comedy and puts it into a modern setting (which, as it turns out, was his house). Filmed in black and white, this interpretation tells the tale of two loves complicated by foolish stubbornness and undermined by a deceitful villain. Witty exchanges and flowery dialogue ensue as the vicissitudes of love tear apart and bring together the most unlikely of lovers.   Read More>>>

Signs

When a grieving farmer and his family wake up to find strange designs worked into their corn fields it’s a sign of strange and scary things to come. Can this farmer/father keep his family safe and find his faith all in one movie?  Read More>>>