Frat Brothers (2013)
Drama
Two brothers pledge different fraternities, which leads to a question of loyalty.
Starring: Darrin Dewitt Henson, Denyce Lawton, Romeo Miller, Mishon Ratliff, Richard John Reliford
Director: Dante Wyatt
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Approaching Midnight (2013)
Crime | Drama | Romance | War
"Approaching Midnight" is a gripping military themed action drama that follows young Army staff sergeant Wesley Kent (Sam Logan Khaleghi) who returns to his small town America home from war abroad. Kent must cope with burying the body of his best friend who passed away under his command Corporal AJ Culpepper (Brandon T. Jackson – "Tropic Thunder") and solving the mystery behind the tragic accident that took the life of his girlfriend, Aspen Malverne (Jana Kramer – TVs "One Tree Hill") who also passed away in a car accident while he was abroad. After seeking more information about her accident from local authorities, Kent believes that her death wasn't just a 'unexpected event,' while Aspen's father Mayor Steven Malverne is running for higher political office as Governor of the state. As the pieces unfold in Kent's chase, he discovers that Aspen's father is involved in illegal arms trading. Kent must now stop at nothing to complete one final mission and topple a tower of deception and corruption… this time it's personal!
Starring: Jana Kramer, Sam Logan Khaleghi, Brandon T. Jackson, Mia Serafino, Jeffery Stetson
Director: Sam Logan Khaleghi
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The Way, Way Back / The Way Way Back (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Coming-of-age comedy starring Steve Carell and Sam Rockwell. 14-year-old Duncan (Liam James) is forced to spend a summer at his mother (Toni Collette)'s new boyfriend Trent (Carell)'s beach house in upstate New York. Arrogant and a bully, Trent likes to belittle Duncan at any opportunity, leading the boy to take off on his bike to explore his new environment. It is then he comes across the Water Wizz water park and before long a friendship develops between Duncan and the park manager, Owen (Rockwell). Seeing the water park as the much needed escape he has been looking for, Duncan keeps his whereabouts a secret from the others and thanks to Owen's positive outlook and encouraging attitude begins to grow in confidence.
Starring: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, AnnaSophia Robb, Sam Rockwell, Maya Rudolph, Liam James
Director: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
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Monsters University / Monsters Inc. 2 (2013)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
A look at the relationship between Mike and Sulley during their days at the University of Fear — when they weren't necessarily the best of friends.
Starring: Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Frank Oz, John Ratzenberger, Joel Murray
Director: Dan Scanlon
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Millionaire's Express / Foo gwai lit che (1986)
Action | Comedy | Western
This film follows the passengers of the Shanghai Express, a train running to the small village of Hanshui. Plenty of action takes place as the gallery of wealthy socialites, con men, cops, and train robbers speeds towards its destination.
Starring: Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen, Rosamund Kwan, Lung Chan, Yasuaki Kurata, Richard Norton, Eric Tsang
Director: Sammo Hung
The Complex / Kuroyuri danchi (2013)
Horror
Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu, the handyman cleaning up the old man's apartment.
Starring: Atsuko Maeda, Hiroki Narimiya
Director: Hideo Nakata
Le Passé / The Past (2013)
Drama | Mystery
Coming back to accomplish the divorce procedure, Ahmad an Iranian man, arrives in Paris after four years to meet his ex-wife and her daughters from her previous marriage. He notices his ex is in a relationship with an Arab named Samir who also has a son and a wife in a coma. The relationship of the older daughter and her mother is in deterioration because the daughter thinks her mother is the cause of Samir's wife comatose state. The affairs get more complicated when the older daughter discloses something heinous she has done.
Starring: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa
Director: Asghar Farhadi
The Letter / Tegami (2006)
Drama
Naoki works at a recycling plant on the outskirts of Tokyo, trying to avoid interacting with people to avoid the reputation of his brother who accidentally killed a man and went to prison. He's moved countless times, forgotten his dreams, even the lost the love of his life, all because of his brother. The only thing that saved hopeless Naoki was the woman looking on from the side, Yumiko. Feeling the first happiness in years, he decides to throw off the chains of his brother who continues to send him letters from prison!
Starring: Takayuki Yamada, Erika Sawajiri, Tetsuji Tamayama, Kazue Fukiishi, Hiroyuki Onoue, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Director: Jirô Shôno
The Legend of Zu / Zu Warriors / Shu shan zheng zhuan (2001
Action | Fantasy
The Legend of Zu is a remake of Tsui Hark's 1983 classic Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain. Tsui Hark takes Chinese martial-arts fantasy and updates it with a variety of breathtaking visual effects. In addition to the special effects, the movie also features the all-star cast of Ekin Cheng, Cecilia Cheung, Louis Koo and Zhang Ziyi.
Starring: Ekin Cheng, Cecilia Cheung, Louis Koo, Patrick Tam, Kelly Lin, Sammo Hung, Ziyi Zhang, Jacky Wu, Lan Shun
Director: Hark Tsui
Europa '51 / Europe '51 (1952)
Drama
Irene Girard is an ambassador's wife and used to always live in luxury. After the dramatic death of her son, she feels guilty of having neglected him and feels compelled to help people in need who cross her path. One day she offers shelter to a man who is evading justice, and she ends being arrested herself. Her husband, for the sake of social propriety, arranges for a doctor to declare her insane. Irene escapes one prison to enter another, and to reflect on what sort of society she lives in.
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Giulietta Masina, Ettore Giannini
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan / Friday the 13th: Part 8 (1989)
Horror
High school senior Rennie Wickham is in for the ride of her life – and possibly her death – when she and her classmates take a graduation cruise bound for New York City. Little do they know that crazed serial killer Jason is a stowaway who quickly transforms the teen-filled "love boat" celebration into the ultimate voyage of the damned.
Starring: Todd Caldecott, Tiffany Paulsen, Kane Hodder, Jensen Daggett, Barbara Bingham, Alex Diakun, Peter Mark Richman, Scott Reeves, Kelly Hu
Director: Rob Hedden
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood / Friday the 13th: Part 7 (1988)
Horror | Thriller
One of this season's happy campers at Crystal Lake has brought along a deadly secret. Tina Shepherd can see the future and levitate objects. Her doctor knows just how dangerous telekinesis can be, but now it's too late. Tina has accidentally unchained Jason from his watery grave, and the bloodbath is underway.
Starring: Jennifer Banko, John Otrin, Susan Blu, Lar Park-Lincoln, Terry Kiser, Kevin Spirtas, Kane Hodder
Director: John Carl Buechler
Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI / Friday the 13th: Part 6 / Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
Horror | Thriller
As a child, Tommy Jarvis did what many others died trying to do. He killed Jason Vorhees, the mass murderer who terrorized the residents of Crystal Lake. But now, years later, Tommy is tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn't really dead. So Tommy and a friend go to the cemetery to dig up Jason's grave.
Starring: Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen, Renée Jones, Kerry Noonan, Vincent Guastaferro
Director: Tom McLoughlin
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning / Friday the 13th: Part 5 / Friday the 13th Part V (1985)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Young Tommy Jarvis may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he's still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway house for troubled teens where he now lives, it seems like his nightmarish nemesis, Jason Voorhees, is back for more sadistic slaughters.
Starring: Melanie Kinnaman, John Shepherd, Shavar Ross, Richard Young, Marco St. John, Carol Locatell
Director: Danny Steinmann
Dívka a kouzelník / Girl and a Magician (2008)
Drama
A girl, half-Jewess, that hides in the underground of village inn, is persuaded by a traveling magician and musician, who performs there randomly, to leave the shelter and go with him on the road. All this during the German occupation.
Starring: Veronika Gajerová, Radek Holub, Barbora Hrzánová, Veronika Kubarová, Zdenek Maryska, Ivan Trojan
Director: Juraj Herz
Zánik samoty Berhof / End of the Lonely Farm Berghof (1983)
Drama
The first post-war summer, Czech-Polish-German borderland. People from lonely farm Berhof become captives of Wehrwolfs who refuse to admit the defeat of Germany. One of the best Czechoslovak films of the '80, filmed by the book from Vladimir Korner.
Starring: Jana Brejchová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Milan Knazko, Lubomír Kostelka, Ladislav Krivácek
Director: Jirí Svoboda
A Sister's Nightmare (2013)
Thriller
Police officer Jane Rydert's life goes into a tailspin the day her older sister, Cassidy, shows up at her door after sixteen years of confinement in a psychiatric hospital.
Starring: Kelly Rutherford, Natasha Henstridge, Peyton List, Matthew Settle, Eric Breker
Director: Vic Sarin
Sunlight Jr. (2013)
Drama
Sunlight Jr. is a love story set in the ruins of the American dream. Melissa is a convenience store clerk who lives in a motel with her paraplegic boyfriend, Richie. When they learn they are going to have a baby, they are genuinely excited. But when she loses her job and they are evicted from the motel, they face difficult choices about life and their relationship.
Starring: Naomi Watts, Norman Reedus, Matt Dillon, Tess Harper, Antoni Corone
Director: Laurie Collyer
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Pacific Rim (2013)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
When an alien attack threatens the Earth's existence, giant robots piloted by humans are deployed to fight off the menace.
Starring: Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Max Martini, Ron Perlman
Director: Guillermo del Toro
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning / The Little Mermaid III (2008)
Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Imagine a time long before Ariel met Prince Eric and walked on land – a time when music was banned from the underwater kingdom of Atlantica. Torn between family duty and her love of music, Ariel must make the most difficult choice of her life. With the help of her friends, Sebastian and Flounder, and her six amusing sisters, will the young mermaid be able to restore music, friendship and love to the Kingdom?
Starring: Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Jim Cummings, Sally Field, Parker Goris, Tara Strong
Director: Peggy Holmes
