Thadeous (McBride) has spent his life watching his perfect older brother Fabious (Franco) embark upon valiant journeys and win the hearts of his people. Tired of being passed over for adventure, adoration and the throne, he’s settled for a life of wizard’s weed, hard booze and easy maidens. But when Fabious’ bride-to-be, Belladonna (Zooey Deschanel), gets kidnapped by the evil wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux), the king gives his deadbeat son an ultimatum: Man up and help rescue her or get cut off.
Half-assedly embarking upon his first quest, Thadeous joins Fabious to trek across the perilous outlands and free the princess. Joined by Isabel (Natalie Portman)—an elusive warrior with a dangerous agenda of her own—the brothers must vanquish horrific creatures and traitorous knights before they can reach Belladonna. If Thadeous can find his inner hero, he can help his brother prevent the destruction of his land. Stay a slacker, and not only does he die a coward, he gets front row seats to the dawn of an all-new Dark Ages.
Starring: Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel, Justin Theroux, Toby Jones, Damian Lewis
Directed by: David Gordon Green
The story of a young couple, each of whose parents divorce and then marry other people. This leaves the newlyweds with four parental households to visit over the course of Christmas Day.
Director: Seth Gordon
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Jon Voight, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Dwight Yoakam, Mary Steenburgen
Driven by Isabel Coixets visually assured and deeply observant direction, Elegy charts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor and a young woman whose beauty both ravishes and destabilizes him. As their intimate connection transforms themmore than either could imaginea charged sexual contest evolves into an indelible love story. With humanistic warmth, wry wit and erotic intensity, Elegy explores the power of beauty to blind, to reveal and to transform.
Starring Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley and Oscar-nominee Penelope Cruz, with extraordinary supporting performances from Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard, Elegy is based on Pulitzer Prize-winner Philip Roths short novel The Dying Animal.
Casting: Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard, Dennis Hopper, Deborah Harry
Directed by Isabel Coixet
Set at the end of the eighteenth century, The Duchess is the story of the beautiful and, glamorous Georgiana Spencer, the most fascinating woman of the age.
While her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for gambling and love made her infamous. Married young to the older, distant Duke of Devonshire, intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana became a fashion icon, a doting mother, a shrewd political operator and darling of the common people. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for love.
Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling u.c.
Directed by Saul Dibb
Script: Jeffrey Hatcher
Nothing is hapenning correctly, especially if you are fourteen years old. Movie heroes teenagers must handle not only their own inside emotional experience, inferiority complexes and youth maximalism, but also fight with cold outness. Three absolutely ordinary girls Katia, Vika and Geanna are leraning in ninth class. They are normal girls from normal Moscow district. In Monday girls find out that in Saturday in scholl will be discotheque. All week long Katia, Vika and Geanna are preparing for that and feel nervous. It’s must be most important moment in their lifes. But Katia was rude to teacher so there is posibility that party can be canceled...
Cast: Polina Filonenko, Agnia Kuznecova, Olga Shuvalova, Donatas Grudovich, Iulia Alexandrova, Harold Strelkov, Inga Oboldina, Aleksey Bagdasarov, Olga Lapshina
Directed by Valery Gay Germanica
Scriptwriter: Alexander Rodionov, Yury Kladiev
Producer: Igor Tolstunov
Qiyao is a young Shanghai inhabitant who is destined to live through the historic twists of her city, from the post-war luxurious revelry of nationalists' highest society to Mao's Cultural Revolution and the new China of the 1970s. Several men enter her life, but eventually, Qiyao realizes that only the city is worthy of her loyalty.
Cast: Sammi Cheng, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Jun Hu
Directed by Stanley Kwan
Scriptwriter: Anyi Wang, Elmond Yeung
Producer: Jackie Chan
Mona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who, as a child, turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Mona now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises.
Cast: Jessica Alba, Bailee Madison and J.K. Simmons
Directed by: Marilyn Agrelo
Xavier Dolan's sexy and stylish HEARTBEATS is a comic exploration of a romantically obsessed menage-a-trois. HEARTBEATS was a hit at the Cannes Film Festival, winning the Youth Prize, and an official selection of the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. Part farce, part exploration of the complexity of love and desire, Heartbeats centers on two close friends, Francis and Marie, who find themselves fighting for the affections of the same striking young man. The more intimate the trio becomes, the more unattainable the object of their infatuation seems, sending the friends' obsession into overdrive.
Cast: Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider, Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval
Directed by: Xavier Dolan
Mickey Haller (Matthew McConaughey) is a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln sedan. Haller has spent most of his career defending garden-variety criminals, until he lands the case of his career: defending Louis Roulet (Ryan Phillippe), a Beverly Hills playboy accused of rape and attempted murder. But the seemingly straightforward case suddenly develops into a deadly game of survival for Haller.
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, Marisa Tomei, William H. Macy, Josh Lucas, Laurence Mason, Frances Fisher, John Leguizamo, Michael Pena
Directed by Brad Furman
Script: John Romano, Michael Connelly
Producer: Sidney Kimmel, Gary Lucchesi
In the epic action-adventure Snow White and the Huntsman, Kristen Stewart (Twilight) plays the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Oscar® winner Charlize Theron) who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth, Thor) who was dispatched to kill her. Sam Claflin (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) joins the cast as the prince long enchanted by Snow White’s beauty and power.
The breathtaking new vision of the legendary tale is from Joe Roth, the producer of Alice in Wonderland, producer Sam Mercer (The Sixth Sense) and acclaimed commercial director and state-of-the-art visualist Rupert Sanders.
Will Rodman is working on a cure for Alzheimer's by performing tests on apes. The first test subject is Caesar. This "cure" genetically modifies his way of thinking to create a new breed of ape with human-like intelligence. Caesar learns well, but human authority continues to test him and contain him. He eventually proves smart enough to break free from his cage and release the cure among other apes, affecting other apes like Caesar. Millions of apes begin to rally up a revolution. Soon, war breaks out between humans and apes. Rodman may be the only one able to stop them before the ape revolution succeeds in them becoming the dominant species on the planet.
Cast: James Franco, Brian Cox, Andy Serkis, John Lithgow, Freida Pinto
Directed by: Rupert Wyatt
Until he was downsized, affable, amiable Larry Crowne (Hanks) was a superstar team leader at the big-box company where he's worked since his time in the Navy. Underwater on his mortgage and unclear on what to do with his suddenly free days, Larry heads to his local college to start over. There he becomes part of a colorful community of outcasts, also-rans and the overlooked all trying to find a better future for themselves...often moving around town in a herd of scooters. In his public-speaking class, Larry develops an unexpected crush on his teacher Mercedes Tainot (Roberts), who has lost as much passion for teaching as she has for her husband. The simple guy who has every reason to think his life has stalled will come to learn an unexpected lesson: when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might discover your reason to live.
Casting: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Sarah Mahoney, Roxana Ortega, Randall Park, Brady Rubin
Directed by: Tom Hanks