Machete Kills / Machete 2 (2013)
Action | Crime | Thriller
The U.S. government recruits Machete to battle his way through Mexico in order to take down an arms dealer who looks to launch a weapon into space.
Starring: Danny Trejo, Alexa Vega, Mel Gibson, Amber Heard, Sofía Vergara, Charlie Sheen, Vanessa Hudgens, Jessica Alba, Demian Bichir, Michelle Rodriguez
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods / Dragon Ball Z: Kami to Kami (2013)
Action | Animation | Fantasy
The events of Battle of Gods take place some years after the battle with Majin Buu, which determined the fate of the entire universe. Wiss, the God of Creation, along with Bills, the God of Destruction, are tasked with maintaining some sort of balance in the universe. After awakening from a long slumber, Bills is visited by Wiss and he learns that the galactic overlord Frieza has been defeated by a Super Saiyan from the North Quadrant of the universe named Goku, who is also a former student of the North Kai. Ecstatic over the new challenge, Goku ignores King Kai's advice and battles Bills, but he is easily overwhelmed and defeated. Bills leaves, but his eerie remark of "Is there nobody on Earth more worthy to destroy?" lingers on. Now it is up to the heroes to stop the God of Destruction before all is lost.
Starring: Masako Nozawa, Shigeru Chiba, Hiroko Emori, Toshio Furukawa, Tôru Furuya, Tesshô Genda, Aya Hirano
Director: Masahiro Hosoda
Brideshead Revisited (2008)
Drama | Romance
Charles Ryder becomes entranced with the noble Marchmain family, first through the charming and provocative Sebastian Flyte, and then his sophisticated sister, Julia. The rise and fall of Charles' infatuations reflect the decline of a decadent era in England between the wars.
Starring: Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Greta Scacchi
Director: Julian Jarrold
Sarah Prefers to Run / Sarah préfère la course (2013)
Drama | Romance | Sport
The film is about the pursuit of a goal and tackles the anxieties of a young athlete who lives only for the race.
Starring: Sophie Desmarais
Director: Chloé Robichaud
Saawariya / Oh, My Love (2007)
Drama | Musical | Romance
Raj, a free spirited artist, idealist and dreamer, is convinced that he has found his ultimate fantasy when he arrives in a quaint picturesque town. Surrounded by mountains, shrouded in mist and enveloped in beauty, it is mythical enough to be a painter's vision or a poet's memory. One bright, starry night, he spots a mysterious girl draped in black, standing alone at a bridge. This chance encounter brings his first meeting with the intriguing Sakina, a shy, melancholic and enigmatic young woman. What begins as a friendship soon becomes a passionate quest as Raj pours all his youthful spirit and charm into an attempt to win Sakina's heart. But Raj is haunted by her troubled past and their friendship gradually pulls him into a romantic whirlwind of madness and desire.
Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Rani Mukerji, Salman Khan, Zohra Segal
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Raja Rani (2013)
Comedy | Romance
The story begins with John (Arya) and Regina (Nayanthara) getting married in a church. John and Regina have agreed to get married solely for purpose of making their parents happy. When they take their wedding oath Regina utters her lover's name 'Surya' and on hearing this,Regina's father faints in the church. Regina feels sorry for her father and eventually ends up marrying John. They live in a flat and John turns up drunken every day, causing disturbance to both Regina and the other flatmates. They try to irritate each other in every possible way. Regina applies for transfer to stay away from John and he is not affected by this decision.
Starring: Aarya, Nayanthara, Jai, Nazriya Nazim, Santhanam, Satyaraj
Director: Atlee Kumar
Prima della rivoluzione / Before the Revolution (1964)
Drama | Romance
The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial friend Agostino, a possible suicide. Gina is herself a bundle of nervous energy, alternately sweet, seductive, poetic, distracted, and unhinged. They begin a love affair after Agostino's funeral, then Gina confuses Fabrizio by sleeping with a stranger. Their visits to Cesare and then to Puck, one of Gina's older friends, a landowner losing his land, dramatize contrasting images of Italy's future. Their own futures are bleak.
Starring: Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa / Jackass 4 (2013)
Comedy
86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companions, his 8 year-old Grandson Billy in "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa".
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze, Jackson Nicoll, Jack Polick, Catherine Keener
Director: Jeff Tremaine
The Fifth Estate (2013)
Biography | Drama | Thriller
Through the eyes of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, an early supporter and eventual colleague of Julian Assange, the film follows the heady, early days of Wikileaks to its abrupt end after a series of controversial and history changing info leaks. The website's overnight success brought instant fame to its principal architects, but as their power expanded across the globe, Daniel grew increasingly disillusioned with Julian's questionable tactics and ethics. The rift between the two friends became irreparable and their ideological differences tore them apart, but not before they revolutionized, for better and worse, the flow of information to news media and the world at large.
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Alicia Vikander, Carice van Houten, Daniel Brühl, Laura Linney, Stanley Tucci
Director: Bill Condon
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 / Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers (2013)
Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Flint Lockwood now works at The Live Corp Company for his idol Chester V. But he's forced to leave his post when he learns that his most infamous machine is still operational and is churning out menacing food-animal hybrids.
Starring: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Neil Patrick Harris, Benjamin Bratt
Director: Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn
Phobia 2 / 5 Prang / Ha phraeng (2009)
Horror
Thai horror anthology Phobia (a.k.a. 4bia) made a big splash in cinemas in 2008, and its sequel arrived a year after, shattering Thailand's box-office records once again. The sequel one-ups its previous chapter by offering five chilling shorts in total. The original's horror masters all come back for the sequel under the lead of producer Yongyoot Thongkongtoon (Iron Ladies). Paween Purijitpunya (Body), Parkpoom Wongpoom (Shutter), and Banjong Pisonthanakun (Alone) return to helm a segment each alongside Songyos Sugmakanan (Dorm) and veteran producer Wisoot Poolworraluck (Nang-Nak) who serve up the other two parts. In Novice, a young punk goes hiding in a Buddhist monastery to evade the law but his criminal past comes back to haunt him. In Ward, a teenager wishes he was alone the night he is in the hospital ward with an old man in a coma. In Backpackers, a pair of Japanese backpackers in Thailand are dying to know what's inside the trailer of the truck they hitchhike on. In Salvage, a car dealer refurbishes damaged cars and sells them to unsuspecting bargain hunters. In the End, a movie crew making a horror pic continues with the shoot even after the actress dies for real during the last scene.
Starring: Jirayu La-ongmanee, Ray MacDonald, Chumphorn Thepphithak, Apasiri Nitibhon, Dan Worrawech, Gacha Plienwithi, Sarinrat Thomas
Director: Banjong Pisanthanakun, Visute Poolvoralaks, Paween Purikitpanya, Songyos Sugmakanan, Parkpoom Wongpoom
Galaxy Express 999 / Ginga tetsudô 999 / Ginga tetsudô Three-Nine (1979)
Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Galaxy Express 999 is the name of a train which travels through space, beginning at Megalopolis Station on one end of the galaxy and terminating at Andromeda on the other. But the Galaxy Express is more than just a train, it's also a metaphor for life itself, with passengers constantly boarding, debarking, and dreaming along the way. Tetsuro Hoshino is a youth who'll give anything to board the Three-Nine, including a promise to accompany a mysterious woman named Maetel all the way to Andromeda, the planet where, she tells him, he can get a free machine body to avenge the cruel death of his mother at the hands of the villainous Count Mecha.
Starring: Masako Nozawa, Masako Ikeda, Yôko Asagami, Miyoko Asô, Toshiko Fujita, Banjô Ginga, Kaneta Kimotsuki, Kei Tomiyama
Director: Rintaro
Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages / Code Unknown (2000)
Drama | Romance | War
On a busy Paris boulevard, a youth scornfully tosses a crumpled paper bag into the outstretched hands of a beggar woman. This is the bond which, for an instant, links several very different characters: Anne (Binoche), an actress; her war photo- grapher boyfriend Georges; his farmer father and younger brother Jean, who, contrary to his father's wishes, has no interest in inheriting the farm; Amandou, a music teacher for deaf-mute children, and his family, who originate from Africa; and Maria a Romanian immigrant. Written and directed by Michael Haneke, one of modern cinema's most distinctive and ambitious directors, CODE UNKNOWN is a complex film of powerful emotional force and a fascinating study of the subtle connections and barriers between people, social class, race, and the difficulty of communicating in the modern world
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler, Alexandre Hamidi, Maimouna Hélène Diarra
Director: Michael Haneke
Shout at the Devil (1976)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
During World War One an English poacher, an American adventurer and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar.
Starring: Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Barbara Parkins, Ian Holm, Karl Michael Vogler, Reinhard Kolldehoff
Director: Peter R. Hunt
Back in the Day (2014)
Comedy
Sometimes in order to move forward, you have to go back. And in this raunchy comedy, Jim Owens does just that when he heads home for his high school reunion. In an attempt to relive the glory days with his boys and explore an old romance, he nearly destroys his hometown and friendships.
Starring: Morena Baccarin, Michael Rosenbaum, Nick Swardson, Harland Williams, Jay R. Ferguson, Sarah Colonna
Director: Michael Rosenbaum
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Life of a King (2013)
Drama
Ex-felon, Eugene Brown, establishes a Chess Club for inner city teenagers in Washington, D.C.
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Dennis Haysbert, LisaGay Hamilton, Thurston Hill, Malcolm M. Mays, Richard T. Jones, Paula Jai Parker, Carlton Byrd, Kevin Hendricks, Pepi Sonuga, Jordan Calloway, Rachae Thomas
Director: Jake Goldberger
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Vino Veritas (2013)
Comedy
On Halloween night, two middle-aged couples prepare to attend a friend's annual party. Though the evening begins as usual, familiar traditions slowly unravel when the foursome shares a bottle of South American ceremonial wine made from the skin of blue dart tree frogs. Under the influence of this tribal truth serum, they share an unpredictable and hilarious night of unbridled honesty that stretches the bounds of their friendship forever.
Starring: Carrie Preston, Bernard White, Brian Hutchison, Heather Raffo
Director: Sarah Knight
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Beach Pillows (2013)
Drama
Once-promising writer Morgan Midwood works at his father's furniture store to save up enough money to buy an engagement ring for his high school sweetheart and presumed saving grace. However, when he discovers she's been making a cuckold of him, he enters a tailspin-getting arrested, evicted, and fired in short order-and seems content to move home with his parents and embrace a life of anonymity and failed promise. At the same time, Morgan's carefree, underachieving best friend Nick, who has arguably exacerbated Morgan's troubles, finally decides to take some stock in his own life, championing a revolutionary piece of furnishing for sale in Morgan's father's store. Over the course of a Long Island summer full of love, laughs, heartbreak, and self-discovery, these two friends ride a violent and hilarious wave teeming with women, family, cops, and cons, hoping not to get swallowed under.
Starring: Geoffrey Arend, Vincent Kartheiser, Annette O'Toole, Richard Schiff, Nick Westrate, Alison Jaye Horowitz
Director: Sean Hartofilis
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In a World… (2013)
Comedy
An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voiceover star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.
Starring: Lake Bell, Demetri Martin, Fred Melamed, Michaela Watkins, Ken Marino, Rob Corddry
Director: Lake Bell
Bad Milo! (2013)
Comedy | Horror
A man discovers that his chronic stomach problems are due to the fact that he has a demon baby living in his colon.
Starring: Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, Patrick Warburton, Mary Kay Place, Stephen Root, Peter Stormare, Toby Huss
Director: Jacob Vaughan
