It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king-even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version-an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before. This is where the goat enters.
In Theaters:
March 2nd, 2012 ()
Director
Taika Waititi
Writers
Taika Waititi
Cast
James Rolleston, Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi, Moerangi Tihore, Cherilee Martin, RickyLee Waipuka-Russell, Haze Reweti, Maakariini Butler, Rajvinder Eria, Manihera Rangiuaia, Darcy Ray Flavell-Hudson, Rachel House, Waihoroi Shortland, Cohen Holloway, Pana Hema Taylor
Mandela Van Peebles, Simone Battle, Moises Arias, Patrick Cage II, Y.G., Ryan Vigil, Makaylo Van Peebles, Morgana Van Peebles, Maya Van Peebles, Fabian Alomar, Cammy B., Leroy Barnes Jr., Lia D. Bourne, Orlando Brown, Cece
Poppy Cross is happy-go-lucky. At 30, she lives in Camden: cheeky, playful, frank while funny, and talkative to strangers. She's a conscientious and exuberant primary-school teacher, flatmates with Zoe, her long-time friend; she's close to one sister, and not so close to another. In this slice of life story, we watch her take driving lessons from Scott, a dour and tightly-wound instructor, take classes in flamenco dance from a fiery Spaniard, encounter a tramp in the night, and sort out a student's aggressive behavior with a social worker's help. Along the way, we wonder if her open attitude puts her at risk of misunderstanding or worse. What is the root of happiness?
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February 11th, 2012 ()
Director
Mike Leigh
Writers
Mike Leigh
Cast
Sally Hawkins, Elliot Cowan, Alexis Zegerman, Andrea Riseborough, Sinead Matthews, Kate O'Flynn, Sarah Niles, Eddie Marsan, Joseph Kloska, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Anna Reynolds, Nonso Anozie, Trevor Cooper, Karina Fernandez, Philip Arditti
Back when the Earth was being overrun by glaciers, and animals were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age, a stupid sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, and a saber-toothed tiger named Diego are forced to become unlikely heroes. The three reluctantly come together when they have to return a human child to its father while braving the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age.
In Theaters:
February 17th, 2012 ()
Director
Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
Writers
Michael J. Wilson, Michael Berg
Cast
Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Goran Visnjic, Jack Black, Cedric the Entertainer, Stephen Root, Diedrich Bader, Alan Tudyk, Lorri Bagley, Jane Krakowski, Peter Ackerman, P.J. Benjamin, Josh Hamilton, Chris Wedge
Frank Quinlan and Huey Driscoll, two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with Dorothy Winters, an 'angel expert', are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her house with a real, live archangel named Michael. Upon arrival, they see that her claims are true - but Michael is not what they expected: he smokes, drinks beer, has a very active libido and has a rather colourful vocabulary. In fact, they would never believe it were it not for the two feathery wings protruding from his back. Michael agrees to travel to Chicago with the threesome, but what they don't realise is that the journey they are about to undertake will change their lives forever.
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February 15th, 2012 ()
Director
Nora Ephron
Writers
Peter Dexter, Jim Quinlan
Cast
John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins, Robert Pastorelli, Jean Stapleton, Teri Garr, Wallace Langham, Joey Lauren Adams, Carla Gugino, Tom Hodges, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Richard Schiff, Calvin Trillin, Donald J. Lee Jr.
Two best friends decide to have a child together while keeping their relationship platonic, so they can avoid the toll kids can take on romantic relationships.
In Theaters:
March 9th, 2012 ()
Director
Jennifer Westfeldt
Writers
Jennifer Westfeldt
Cast
Adam Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt, Maya Rudolph, Chris O'Dowd, Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm, Megan Fox, Edward Burns, Owen Bento, Kelly Bishop, Lee Bryant, Derek Cecil, Brian d'Arcy James, Michael Dean, Ilana Levine
When the world's media descend on the remote Scottish island where a Hollywood actress is attempting to get married, a local girl is hired as a decoy bride to put the paparazzi off the scent.
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March 9th, 2012 ()
Director
Sheree Folkson
Writers
Sally Phillips, Sally Phillips
Cast
Alice Eve, David Tennant, Kelly Macdonald, Dylan Moran, Michael Urie, Sally Phillips, Federico Castelluccio, James Fleet, Samuel Roukin, Hamish Clark, Robert Fyfe, Alex Childs, Vivienne Harvey, Ben Addis, Maureen Beattie
Set in China during the warring 1920s, notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, an identity that he had hijacked from Old Tang, himself a small-time imposter. Hell-bent on making a fast buck, Zhang soon meets his match in the tyrannical local gentry Huang as a deadly battle of wit and brutality ensues.
In Theaters:
March 2nd, 2012 ()
Director
Wen Jiang
Writers
Wen Jiang, Ping Shu
Cast
Yun-Fat Chow, Xiaogang Feng, Wen Jiang, Carina Lau, Kun Chen, You Ge, Jun Hu, Wu Jiang, Yun Zhou, Pu Miao, Bing Shao, Lu Yao, Mo Zhang, Xiao Wei, Fan Liao
The Witches of Oz follows the exploits of the grown Dorothy Gale, now a successful children's book author, as she moves from Kansas to present day New York City. Dorothy quickly learns that her popular books are based on repressed childhood memories, and that the wonders of Oz are very, very real. When the Wicked Witch of the West shows up in Times Square, Dorothy must find the inner courage to stop her.
In Theaters:
February 17th, 2012 ()
Director
Writers
L. Frank Baum
Cast
Paulie Rojas, Eliza Swenson, Billy Boyd, Lance Henriksen, Jeffrey Combs, Ari Zagaris, Barry J. Ratcliffe, Sasha Jackson, Mia Sara, Sean Astin, Ethan Embry, Noel Thurman, Christopher Lloyd, Sarah Lieving, Jessica Sonneborn, Elizabeth Masucci, Marissa Smoker, Al Snow, Jordan Turnage, Bill McAdams Jr., Brionne Davis, Liz Douglas, Sarra Kaufman, Rosemary Thomas, Rebecca Salois, Frank Martinelli, Reza Garakani, Monti Domingue, Chris Dell'Armo, Daniel Sergio, Jude Cristian Kasekamp, Ross Degraw, Ross Edgar, Jon Sinish, Brian Lee Huynh, Brooke Taylor, Rebecca Lovett
Dom works the night shift in a small hotel near the industrial sea port of Le Havre. One night, a woman arrives with no luggage and no shoes. Her name is Fiona and she tells Dom that she is a fairy that can grant him three wishes. Fiona makes two of his wishes come true then mysteriously disappears. Dom. who has fallen in love with her by then, searches for her everywhere.
Bachir Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant, is hired to replace an elementary school teacher who died tragically. While the class goes through a long healing process, nobody in the school is aware of Bachir's painful former life; nor that he is at risk of being deported at any moment. Adapted from Evelyne de la Cheneliere's play, Bachir Lazhar depicts the encounter between two distant worlds and the power of self-expression. Using great sensitivity and humor, Philippe Falardeau follows a humble man who is ready to transcend his own loss in order to accompany children beyond the silence and taboo of death.
In Theaters:
April 13th, 2012 ()
Director
Philippe Falardeau
Writers
Philippe Falardeau
Cast
Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx, Brigitte Poupart, Jules Philip, Daniel Gadouas, Louis Champagne, Seddik Benslimane, Marie-Ève Beauregard, André Robitaille, Francine Ruel, Sophie Sanscartier, Evelyne de la Chenelière, Vincent Millard
Voss is a gamer who is unemployed and looking for work. When a management position opens up at a gaming company, he interviews but lacks evidence of leadership abilities necessary to land the job. Given a week to prove himself, Voss does the only thing rational adult would do; create a Utopian society for gamers. Voss convinces his gaming guild to follow him into the mountains and has Marsha, his best friend, document his abilities. However things get complicated when Shadow Hawk, his gaming nemesis, arrives to over throw Voss' kingdom.
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Director
Bryan Lefler
Writers
Bryan Lefler, Cameron Dayton
Cast
Devin McGinn, Jaclyn Hales, Jon Gries, Kevin Weisman, Matt Mattson, Steve Berg, Missy Hill, Emily Burnworth, Clint Vanderlinden, Niklaas Duncan, Robbie Bagley, Rachel Suzanne Baird, R.J. Baker, Rory Baker, Winter Rose Baker
An up-tight lawyer, Lenny Rubins, (Timothy Spall), has to put his dream retirement on hold when his ailing mother (Honor Blackman) emotionally blackmails him into reuniting his estranged children for a Jewish holiday. They may be peas from the same pod, but in Lenny's eyes, his grown-up children are certainly not even from the same planet: a ruthless control-freak and hard-nosed capitalist, an outspoken, argumentative eco-warrior committed to the cause, an outer-worldly Buddhist Monk; and to cap it all, a bible bashing born-again Rabbi. While they might quarrel, fight, and perhaps even be starting a war in Africa, they are still family. It is going to take a whole lot of soul-searching and sacrifice for everyone to come together in this comic drama.
In Theaters:
March 16th, 2012 ()
Director
Yoav Factor
Writers
Yoav Factor
Cast
Rhona Mitra, Timothy Spall, James Callis, Blake Harrison, Loo Brealey, Honor Blackman, Hugh O'Conor, Theo Stevenson, Rita Davies, Chris Wilson, Amy Steel, Asier Newman, Rez Kempton, Claudia Coulter, Alison Pargeter
A comedy/drama about 35-year-old Morris Bliss, who is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; he still shares an apartment with his widowed father; and perhaps worst of all the premature death of his mother still lingers and has left him emotionally walled up. When he finds himself wrapped up in an awkward relationship with the sexually precocious, 18-year-old daughter of a former classmate, Morris quickly discovers his static life unraveling and opening up in ways that are long overdue.
In Theaters:
March 23rd, 2012 ()
Director
Michael Knowles
Writers
Michael Knowles, Douglas Light
Cast
Michael C. Hall, Lucy Liu, Sarah Shahi, Brie Larson, Peter Fonda, Rhea Perlman, Chris Messina, Brad William Henke, Christian Campbell, Liz Holtan, Kate Simses, Monique Gata Dupree, Joshua Alscher, Gameela Wright, Scott Johnsen
Don, a nineteen-year-old sophomore at a Texas junior college, tries to escape his Bible Belt upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at the most godless campus in America.
In Theaters:
April 13th, 2012 ()
Director
Steve Taylor
Writers
Steve Taylor, Ben Pearson
Cast
Claire Holt, Tania Raymonde, Jason Marsden, Marshall Allman, Eric Lange, Justin Welborn, Natalia Dyer, Becky Fly, Jeffrey Buckner Ford, Susan Isaacs, Zephyr Benson, Jenson Goins, Wendy Keeling, Barak Hardley, Denise Johnson
The narrative revolves around police officer Amadeus Warnebring, tone-deaf scion of a distinguished musical family, and his attempts to track down a group of six guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city. The drumming set pieces correspond to an avant-garde score with four hilariously titled movements. Where the short involved the six drummers imaginatively using standard apartment furnishings as their instruments, the feature unleashes them on an unspecified city's civic and cultural institutions. Including an amusing backstory for each of the soberly dressed drummers as well as their nemesis, music-hating investigator Warnebring, the film creates a treat for the eyes and ears from the dull, repetitive sounds of everyday life.
In Theaters:
March 9th, 2012 ()
Director
Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
Writers
Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
Cast
Bengt Nilsson, Sanna Persson, Magnus Börjeson, Marcus Boij, Fredrik Myhr, Anders Vestergard, Johannes Björk, Sven Ahlström, Ralph Carlsson, Paula McManus, Peter Schildt, Pelle Öhlund, Dag Malmberg, Björn Granath, Anders Jansson
After their wedding, newspaper writers John and Jennifer Grogan move to Florida. In an attempt to stall Jennifer's "biological clock", John gives her a puppy. While the puppy Marley grows into a 100 pound dog, he loses none of his puppy energy or rambunctiousness. Meanwhile, Marley gains no self-discipline. Marley's antics give John rich material for his newspaper column. As the Grogans mature and have children of their own, Marley continues to test everyone's patience by acting like the world's most impulsive dog.
In Theaters:
April 20th, 2012 ()
Director
David Frankel
Writers
Scott Frank, Don Roos
Cast
Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, Alan Arkin, Nathan Gamble, Haley Bennett, Ann Dowd, Clarke Peters, Finley Jacobsen, Lucy Merriam, Bryce Robinson, Ben Hyland, Sarah O'Kelly, Keith Hudson
Two rival gangs fight for control of Frazier Park -- a deadly arena in competitive dance-fight video game "Beat-Beat Revolution."
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Director
Brandon Trost, Jason Trost
Writers
Brandon Trost, Jason Trost
Cast
Jason Trost, Lee Valmassy, Art Hsu, Caitlyn Folley, Nick Principe, Brandon Barrera, James DeBello, Bryan Goddard, Rachel Robinson, Michael Sandow, Sean Whalen, Dash Mihok, James Remar, Clifton Collins Jr., Blayne Weaver
Set in Scotland in a rugged and mythical time, "Brave" features Merida, an aspiring archer and impetuous daughter of royalty. Merida makes a reckless choice that unleashes unintended peril and forces her to spring into action to set things right.
In Theaters:
June 22nd, 2012 ()
Director
Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
Writers
Brenda Chapman, Irene Mecchi
Cast
Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Kevin McKidd, Robbie Coltrane, Billy Connolly, Julie Walters, Craig Ferguson
From the director of Chocolat and the Oscar-winning® screenwriter of Slumdog Millionaire comes the inspirational comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. When Britain's leading fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert, he immediately thinks the project is both absurd and unachievable. But when the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary latches on to it as a "good will" story, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible.
In Theaters:
March 9th, 2012 ()
Director
Lasse Hallström
Writers
Simon Beaufoy, Paul Torday
Cast
Emily Blunt, Ewan McGregor, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rachael Stirling, Amr Waked, Tom Mison, Catherine Steadman, Jill Baker, Pippa Andre, Dixie Arnold, Simone Liebman, Waleed Akhtar, Hamish Gray, James Cutting, Hamza Saeed
A comedy that charts the ups and downs of an engaged couple's relationship.
In Theaters:
April 27th, 2012 ()
Director
Nicholas Stoller
Writers
Jason Segel, Nicholas Stoller
Cast
Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Alison Brie, Rhys Ifans, Chris Pratt, Kevin Hart, Mindy Kaling, Mimi Kennedy, Chris Parnell, Dakota Johnson, David Paymer, Jim Piddock, Adam Campbell, Brian Posehn, Jacki Weaver
Jim, Michelle, Stifler, and their friends reunite in East Great Falls, Michigan for their high school reunion.
In Theaters:
April 6th, 2012 ()
Director
Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Writers
Adam Herz, Jon Hurwitz
Cast
Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott, Katrina Bowden, Mena Suvari, Shannon Elizabeth, Tara Reid, Jason Biggs, John Cho, Jennifer Coolidge, Chris Klein, Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Eugene Levy, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Dania Ramirez
Chronicles a day-in-the-life of a Detroit liquor store.
In Theaters:
January 13th, 2012 ()
Director
Joseph Doughrity
Writers
Joseph Doughrity, Dwight E. Patillo
Cast
Lawrence Lamont, Roger Guenveur Smith, Mike Bonner, David Ffroot Wells, Audrey Beard, Bill Hill, Martini Harris, Sherzad Sinjari, Sky Lee, Greg Mathis, Trevione Williams, Cameron Jones, Shanie D., Paul Elia, Paul Dean