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
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
The plot is based on a true story that happened in the late 40's in a small village in Uruguay. The film focuses on Laura, who, second by second, intends to leave a house which hides an obscure secret, unharmed. Laura and her father Wilson settle down in a cottage they have to renew since its owner will soon put the house up for sale. They will spend the night there and repair the following morning. Everything seems to go smoothly until Laura hears a sound that comes from outside and gets louder and louder on the upper floor of the house. Wilson goes up to see what is going on while she remains downstairs on her own, waiting for her father to come down.
In Theaters:
March 9th, 2012 ()
Director
Gustavo Hernández
Writers
Oscar Estévez, Gustavo Hernández
Cast
Florencia Colucci, Abel Tripaldi, Gustavo Alonso, María Salazar
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town hairdresser agrees to foster him on weekends.
In Theaters:
March 16th, 2012 ()
Director
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Writers
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Cast
Thomas Doret, Cécile De France, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione, Egon Di Mateo, Olivier Gourmet, Batiste Sornin, Samuel De Rijk, Carl Jadot, Claudy Delfosse, Jean-Michel Balthazar, Frédéric Dussenne, Myriem Akeddiou, Sandra Raco, Hicham Slaoui
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.
In Theaters:
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.
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.
In Theaters:
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
The young Limburg cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious West-Flemish beef trader. But the assassination of a federal policeman, and an unexpected confrontation with a mysterious secret from Jacky's past, set in motion a chain of events with farreaching consequences. BULLHEAD is an exciting tragedy about fate, lost innocence and friendship, about crime and punishment, but also about conflicting desires and the irreversibility of a man's destiny.
In Theaters:
February 17th, 2012 ()
Director
Michael R. Roskam
Writers
Michael R. Roskam
Cast
Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Jeanne Dandoy, Barbara Sarafian, Tibo Vandenborre, Frank Lammers, Sam Louwyck, Robin Valvekens, Baudoin Wolwertz, David Murgia, Erico Salamone, Philippe Grand'Henry, Kris Cuppens, Sofie Sente, Kristof Renson
James Badge Dale, Judd Hirsch, Meat Loaf, Vincent Piazza, Richard Belzer, Golden Brooks, Maestro Harrell, Dov Tiefenbach, Marta Zolynska, Bogdan Szumilas, Chingy, Lanre Idewu, Pamela Shaw, Shannon Edwards, Joe Minoso
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.
IN DARKNESS tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lvov (former Poland).
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Director
Agnieszka Holland
Writers
Robert Marshall, David F. Shamoon
Cast
Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader, Herbert Knaup, Marcin Bosak, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Milla Bankowicz, Oliwer Stanczak, Kinga Preis, Weronika Rosati, Alexandre Levit, Frank-Michael Köbe, Joachim Paul Assböck, Maja Bohosiewicz
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
A romantic tale of two New Yorkers, Armando Ortiz, from the Bronx, and Mia Franklin, from the Upper East Side, and their unlikely meeting. The story tells how the two of them come together through their love of ballroom dancing. Mia is a beautiful and vivacious professional dancer. While Armando works at the midtown Manhattan dance studio in exchange for lessons and fantasizes of a time when he will dance with Mia. But a tragic accident forever changes Mia's life. True to his heart, Armando dedicates himself, along with a group of colorful misfits, to help Mia overcome her painful challenges and dance once more.
In Theaters:
March 23rd, 2012 ()
Director
Susan Seidelman
Writers
Marty Madden
Cast
Leah Pipes, E.J. Bonilla, Priscilla Lopez, Jaime Tirelli, Laverne Cox, Nelson Landrieu, Angelic Zambrana, Morgan Spector, Auti Angel, Jerome Preston Bates, Joey Dedio, Dominic Colon, Philip Willingham, Joseph Basile, Teena Byrd
This film's center is a family in Albania. The main characters are Rudina, the oldest daughter, and Nik, the oldest son. Both have a pretty normal life. Rudina is an A-student in high-school and Nik very popular. He just fell in love with one of his fellow students. Their father earns the families income with a little bread delivery service. For that he uses a short cut through the neighbours ground, but the neighbour doesn't necessarily like that. But the ground had actually belonged to Rudina's and Nik's family once. One day the conflict escalates and the neighbour gets killed by Rudina's and Nik's father and their uncle. Because only their uncle gets caught by the police and their father is able to hide, the old law of blood feud is against the family. They cannot leave their house. Only the women of the family are allowed to leave the house. So Rudina has to quit school and continue the bread delivery service of the father...
A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.
In Theaters:
April 27th, 2012 ()
Director
Zal Batmanglij
Writers
Brit Marling, Zal Batmanglij
Cast
Christopher Denham, Nicole Vicius, Brit Marling, Avery Kristen Pohl, Davenia McFadden, Kandice Stroh, Richard Wharton, Alvin Lam, Christy Meyers, Constance Wu, Matthew Carey, David Haley, Jacob Price, Ben Carroll, Jack Griffo
Sixteen-year-old Jamie lives with his mother, Elizabeth, and two younger brothers, Alex and Nicholas, in a housing trust home in Adelaide's northern suburbs. Their home is but one of many sun-starved houses crammed together to cater for a disenfranchised society. Jamie longs for an escape from the violence and hopelessness that surrounds him and his salvation arrives in the form of John, a charismatic man who unexpectedly comes to his aid. As John spends more and more time with Jamie's family, Elizabeth and her boys begin to experience a stability and sense of family that they have never known. John moves from the role of Jamie's protector to that of a mentor, indoctrinating Jamie into his world, a world brimming with bigotry, righteousness and malice. Like a son mimicking his father, Jamie soon begins to take on some of John's traits and beliefs as he spends more and more time with him and his select group of friends...
In Theaters:
March 2nd, 2012 ()
Director
Justin Kurzel
Writers
Shaun Grant, Shaun Grant
Cast
Lucas Pittaway, Bob Adriaens, Louise Harris, Frank Cwiertniak, Matthew Howard, Marcus Howard, Anthony Groves, Richard Green, Aaron Viergever, Denis Davey, Allan Chapple, Beau Gosling, Brendan Rock, Bryan Sellars, Daniel Henshall
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
Inspired by true events, 96 minutes is the story of four young lives slammed together in one shocking moment. The events of the night unfold in real time as we intercut between a carjacking and the beginning of that day, following four separate kids - who they are, where they come from, and the seemingly innocuous decisions that lead them towards a life changing conclusion. With no adults to guide them, they're left on their own to try to survive not only this night, but the complex reality of the world they live in.
In Theaters:
April 27th, 2012 ()
Director
Aimee Lagos
Writers
Aimee Lagos
Cast
Brittany Snow, Christian Serratos, Evan Ross, David Oyelowo, Sylvia Jefferies, Hosea Chanchez, Elena Varela, Anna Enger, Justin Martin, Markice Moore, Jessie Rusu, Sharon Morris, Jonathan Michael Trautmann, Adam Trahan, Charles Van Eman
The story of a woman who loves her dog more than her husband. And then her husband loses the dog.
In Theaters:
April 20th, 2012 ()
Director
Lawrence Kasdan
Writers
Lawrence Kasdan, Meg Kasdan
Cast
Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Dianne Wiest, Richard Jenkins, Sam Shepard, Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss, Ayelet Zurer, Jay Ali, Jamey Anthony, Robert Bear, Charles Halford, Tod Huntington, Jason Jensen, Kyle Paul
After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut Lee Miller becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity - and simply stay alive. His world is a claustrophobic and lonely existence, until he makes a strange discovery aboard the ship.
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Director
William Eubank
Writers
William Eubank
Cast
Gunner Wright, Corey Richardson, Bradley Horne, Nancy Stelle, Roger E. Fanter, Jesse Hotchkiss, Troy Mittleider, Brid Caveney, Ambyr Childers, B. Anthony Cohen, James C. Burns, Lee Bettencourt, Mark Eaton, Brian Vanik, Dan Figur
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
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
A handsome drifter, without a past, gets off an interstate bus in a small Texas town and finds work at Leroy's Country Blues Bar....and the mystery begins.
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Director
Peter M. Mackenzie
Writers
Peter Mackenzie
Cast
John Schneider, Ernie Hudson, Jenn Gotzon, Robert Davi, Joe Estevez, Jennifer O'Neill, Will Wallace, Erin Way, Brandi Blevins, Cassandra L. Small, Jeff Fenter, Jolyn Janis, Tom Lagleder, Lizabeth Waters, Matthew Tompkins