Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Brian Crano
This revolves around the friendship of two charming grifters, Ben and Alan, played by Jason Ritter and Jake Sandvig. Ben and Alan have built a successful though larcenous business, posing as car valets, only to steal the vehicles instead of parking them. Because of their less-than-ideal childhoods and a “job” that allows them to remain likeable boyish rogues well into their 20’s, their penchant for crime is alm ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Cristian Jiménez
This is about two literature students in Valdivia, Julio and Emilia, and how they evolve. ...
Fri May 11, 2012
Wide Release
Director(s): Tim Burton
Scripted by Seth Grahame-Smith and based on the television 'Dark Shadows' series that totaled over 1,225 episodes, the film centers on Barnabas Collins (Depp) and family who sail from Liverpool, England to America to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades later, Barnabas who by now has become a rich, powerful playboy and master of Collinwood Manor, breaks the heart of Angelique Broucha ...
Fri May 11, 2012
Wide Release
Director(s): Larry Charles
The comedy, from the Bruno and Borat pair of Larry Charles and Sacha Baron Cohen, is inspired by Saddam Hussein's novel "Zabibah and the King" and will feature Cohen as both a goat-herder and an oppressive dictator who finds himself lost when visiting America. Faris will play the owner of a natural foods store in New York City. ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Patricia Riggen
Inspired by classic coming-of-age stories, young Ansiedad considers a life-changing decision while her mother is busy working and engaged in an affair. ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Bob Goldthwait
Loveless, jobless and possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and decides to off the stupidest, cruellest and most repellent members of society with an unusual accomplice: 16-year-old Roxy, who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement. From stand-up comedian and director Bobcat Goldthwait comes a scathing and hilarious atta ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Derick Martini
An adaptation of Andrea Portes' novel, HICK unfolds the journey, at once raw and mythical, of 13 year-old Luli McMullen (Chloë Grace Moretz), who sets out from her hard-luck, troublesome home in a fading Nebraska farm town for the glittering paradise of Las Vegas. Spurred by cinematic dreams and the hope for a “sugar daddy” who might finally save her, Luli finds herself on a perilous westward trek through a larg ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Hirokazu Kore-eda
This is the story of two young brothers (real-life siblings Koki and Ohshiro Maeda) separated by the divorce of their parents, played by Joe Odagiri and Nene Otsuka. 12-year old Koichi lives with his mother and retired grandparents in Kagoshima, in the southern region of Kyushu. His younger brother Ryunosuke lives with their father in Hakata, northern Kyushu. The brothers have been separated by their parents’ divor ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Yam Laranas
This tells the story of a twelve-year-old cold case that is reopened when three teenagers vanish while traversing an infamous and abandoned road. As investigators try to find leads to the whereabouts of the missing teens, they also unearth the road’s gruesome past that spans two decades – a history of abduction, crimes and murders. ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Frederic Jardin
When Vincent, a double-dealing cop, steals a big bag of cocaine from some drug dealers they counter by kidnapping and threatening to kill his son if the bag isn’t returned – fast. The swap is to go down at their headquarters in a big nightclub on the outskirts of Paris, but Vincent gets caught in a spiral of deception and betrayal and must fight his way through packed dance floors and dark corridors of the labyri ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): David Mackenzie
Luke Treadaway stars as strutting indie star Adam, one half of globally successful duo The Make. Arriving at the T in the Park music festival for his latest gig Adam finds himself accidentally handcuffed to Morello, played by Natalia Tena, lead singer for all girl punk band The Dirty Pink’s . With no key in sight the feuding pair have to get through the weekend as best they can delivering not one but two performanc ...
Fri May 11, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Nadine Labaki
On the edge of a cratered road, a cortège-like procession of women solemnly makes its way towards the village cemetery. Takla, Amale, Yvonne, Afaf and Saydeh stoically brave the oppressive midday heat, clutching photographic effigies of their beloved menfolk, lost to a futile, protracted and distant war. Some of the women are veiled, others bear wooden crosses, but all are clad in black and united by a sense of sha ...
Wed May 16, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Andrey Zvyagintsev
ELENA is the gripping tale of the sixty-ish, uneducated Elena and her older, wealthy husband Vladmir. Married after she was his nurse, they no longer share a bed. Estranged from his own reckless daughter, Vladmir coldly despises his wife’s ne'er-do-well, debt-ridden son. But Vladmir's sudden reconciliation with his daughter dashes Elena’s hopes to help her beloved son financially, and the shy and submissive house ...
Fri May 18, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Matt D'Elia
The film takes viewers on a unique and intense journey of self-discovery as it acerbically and humorously examines themes of friendship, madness, sex and death. When Jimmy (D'Elia) finds out his best friend and roommate James (Brendan Fletcher) is leaving for a new job in the morning, he sees this as a betrayal of their perfect way of life. Over the course of a night full of drinks, drugs and women, the two men enga ...
Fri May 18, 2012
Wide Release
Director(s): Peter Berg
Written by Jon Hoeber & Erich Hoeber, this is inspired by Hasbro's classic naval combat game, Battleship stars Taylor Kitsch as Lt. Alex Hopper, a Naval officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones; Brooklyn Decker as Sam Shane, a physical therapist and Hopper's fiancée; Alexander Skarsgård as Hopper's older brother, Stone, Commanding Officer of the USS Sampson; Rihanna as Petty Officer Raikes, Hopper's crewmate and ...
Fri May 18, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Panos Cosmatos
Set in the strange and oppressive emotional landscape of the year 1983, BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW is a Reagan-era fever dream inspired by hazy childhood memories of midnight movies and Saturday morning cartoons. ...
Fri May 18, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Alex Ross Perry
JR, an increasingly transient aspiring news-anchor, forces her disappointing younger brother Colin to embark on a road trip to move her belongings out of her professor-turned-lover’s apartment. Problem is, these grown up kids do not get along, and are both too obnoxious to know better. Chaos and calamity are not far behind her beat up Honda Accord. It can only be a matter of time before JR and Colin arrive at the ...
Fri May 18, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Tanya Wexler
Scripted by Stephen Dyer and Jonah Lisa Dyer, this is based on a true story, set in Victorian England about the invention of the first vibrator. Victorian England, 1880. Mortimer Granville, a young doctor sick of his colleagues' medieval practices, starts working for Dr Dalrymple, who treats women's "hysteria" by offering them intimate manual relief... Demand is so great that Mortimer fears for the use of his hands. ...
Fri May 18, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Eduardo Sanchez
When newlywed Molly Reynolds returns to her long-abandoned family home, frightful reminders of a nightmarish childhood begin seeping into her new life. She soon begins an inexorable descent into evil that blurs the lines between psychosis and possession. From the director of The Blair Witch Project. - TIFF ...
Fri May 18, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Maïwenn Le Besco
The daily grind for the cops of the Police Department's Juvenile Protection Unit - taking in child molesters, busting underage pickpockets and chewing over relationship issues at lunch; interrogating abusive parents, taking statements from children, confronting the excesses of teen sexuality, enjoying solidarity with colleagues and laughing uncontrollably at the most unthinkable moments. Knowing the worst exists and ...
Fri May 18, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): David Weaver
Written by Weaver and Elan Mastai, the story is about Foley (Jackson), who after a 20 year prison term, wants finally to put the grifter's life behind him. When he falls for an elusive and troubled young woman named Iris (Negga), a new beginning seems within his reach. But his past is not ready to let him go. Ethan (Kirby), the son of his former partner, has the perfect plan and he wants Foley in on it. The con used ...
Fri May 18, 2012
NY and/or LA
Director(s): Dustin Lance Black
Written by Dustin Lance Black, formerly titled "What's Wrong with Virginia?," this sees Jennifer Connelly play Virginia, a charming yet mentally ill mother whose greatest love is her protector and illegitimate son, Emmett (Harrison Gilbertson). Richard Tipton (Ed Harris), the local married Mormon sheriff, who is running for public office, might very well be Emmett’s father. Their boardwalk town’s peculiar secrets ...
Fri May 18, 2012
Wide Release
Director(s): Kirk Jones
Scripted by Shauna Cross and Heather Hach, inspired by the perennial New York Times bestseller of the same name, over the moon about starting a family, TV fitness guru Jules and dance show star Evan find that their high-octane celebrity lives don’t stand a chance against the surprise demands of pregnancy. Baby-crazy author and advocate Wendy gets a taste of her own militant mommy advice when pregnancy hormones rava ...