"The Ice Harvest" is a wickedly funny thriller about thick thieves and thin ice.
It's Christmas Eve in rainy, icebound Wichita, Kansas, and this year Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) just might have something to celebrate. Charlie, an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, and his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavenaugh (Billy Bob Thornton), have just successfully embezzled $2,147,000 from Kansas City boss Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid).
Even so, the real prize for Charlie would be the stunning Renata (Connie Nielsen), who runs the Sweet Cage strip club. Charlie's fondest Christmas wish is to slip out of town with Renata. But, as daylight fades and a storm whirls, everyone from Charlie's drinking buddy Pete Van Heuten (Oliver Platt) to the local police begin to wonder just what exactly is in Charlie's Christmas stocking. For Charlie, the 12 hours of Christmas Eve are filled with nonstop twists and turns, both on the ice and off.
Starring: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Platt, Randy Quaid, Monica Bellucci, Jenny Wade
Directed by Harold Ramis
English language with latvian and russian subtitles.
In WALK THE LINE, Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (Gladiator, Signs, the Village) powerfully portrays Johnny Cash, a young, passionate artist who rebelled against convention, revolutionized music, and always walked his own path regardless of the consequences. His troubled childhood, along with his outlaw persona, unbridled talent and passion for the woman he was destined to be with, led him on a path of self-destruction. Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama) gives a brilliant performance as June Carter, the true love of his life and the woman who ultimately must save him from himself.
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginifer Goodwin
Directed by James Mangold
English language with latvian and russian subtitles.
In November, 1959, Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and a favorite figure in what is soon to be known as the Jet Set, reads an article on a back page of the New York Times. It tells of the murders of four members of a well-known farm family-the Clutters-in Holcomb, Kansas. Similar stories appear in newspapers almost every day, but something about this one catches Capote's eye. It presents an opportunity, he believes, to test his long-held theory that, in the hands of the right writer, non-fiction can be as compelling as fiction. What impact have the murders had on that tiny town on the wind-swept plains? With that as his subject-for his purpose, it does not matter if the murderers are never caught-he convinces The New Yorker magazine to give him an assignment and he sets out for Kansas. Accompanying him is a friend from his Alabama childhood: Harper Lee (Catherine Keener), who within a few months will win a Pulitzer Prize and achieve fame of her own as the author of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Starring: PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN, CATHERINE KEENER, CLIFTON COLLINS Jr., BRUCE GREENWOOD
Directed by Bennett Miller
English language with latvian and russian subtitles.
In this remake of the 1972 disaster classic 'The Poseidon Adventure' (1972) , a luxury ocean liner capsizes from a colossal tidal wave, leaving its survivors to fend for themselves as they find a way out.
While ringing in the new year aboard the cruise ship Poseidon, a giant wave crashes into the ship and flips it upside down. A ragtag group of survivors realize their only chance is to make their way to the deepest bowels of the ship, now at the top, if they are going to have any chance of getting out.
Starring: Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
English language with latvian and russian subtitles.
Inspired by a true story, EIGHT BELOW is an exciting action-adventure about loyalty and the bonds of friendship set in the extreme wilderness of Antarctica. The film tells the story of three members of a scientific expedition: Jerry Shepard (PAUL WALKER), his best friend, Cooper (JASON BIGGS), and a rugged American geologist (BRUCE GREENWOOD), who are forced to leave behind their team of beloved sled dogs due to a sudden accident and perilous weather conditions in Antarctica. During the harsh, Antarctic winter, the dogs must struggle for survival alone in the intense frozen wilderness for over 6 months until the adventurers can mount a rescue mission.
Starring: Paul Walker, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood
Directed by Frank Marshall
English language with latvian and russian subtitles.
The scandalously decadent John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), second Earl of Rochester, has a passionate romance with a young actress, Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton). When he writes a scurrilous play that blisteringly and bawdily lampoons the very monarch who commissioned it, Charles II (John Malkovich), it leads to the Earl's banishment and eventual downfall.
Starring; Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Louisa Bawden, Tom Burke, Richard Coyle, Susie Gossling Valerio
Directed by Laurence Dunmore
English language with latvian and russian subtitles.
1943. Colonel Vyshnevetsky is assigned by the government to prepare the mountain-alpine group of condemned fighters to block the activities
of elite Nazi "Edelweiss" units. The group will consist of 14-15 years old delinquent, desperate kids. They must all be orphans so that nobody will look after them. These boys are selected from orphanages, prisons and colonies and are being sent to the special training camp in the mountains with a further mission to destroy the Nazi military base or to die as they are all "bearers of top secret information" and should not be left alive.
Producer: Alexander Atanesyan
Script: Vladimir Kunin, Alexander Atanesyan
Actors: Andrey Panin, Andrey Krasko, Alexander Golovin, Sergey Richenkov, Vladimir Kashpur
Directed by Alexander Atanesian
Attilio is a poet and like all poets, he is a dreamer. Each night, he has the same dream, where his perfect woman whispers him sweet nothings. To his surprise, he ends up meeting the woman of his dreams in flesh at a conference of an Iraqi friend! He doesn't have a minute to lose to seduce her. But Vittoria seems inaccessible and then suddenly disappears. Attilo decides to search for her in despair... The actor/director previously won an Oscar for the holocaust comedy Life is Beautiful.
Cast: Roberto Benigni, Jean Reno, Nicoletta Braschi, Tom Waits, Emilia Fox, Gianfranco Varetto, Giuseppe Battiston
Directed by Roberto Benigni
Italian language with latvian and russian subtitles.
Classical Russian fairy tale comes alive in this colorful animation project. This is an exciting and comical story about Russian epic hero Dobrynya Nikitich, who tries to rescue grand duke's niece captured by an evil dragon Zmey Gorynych.
Producer: Ilya Maksimov
Script: Maksim Sveshnikov, Alexander Boyarskiy
Dubbed by Valeriy Solovyev, Sergey Makoveckiy, Yuriy Tarasov, Yekaterina Gorohovskaya, Andrey Tolubeyev
Inspired by a true story, Antonio Banderas stars as internationally acclaimed ballroom dancer Pierre Dulane in the family drama "Take the Lead". The film revolves around a professional dancer who volunteers to teach in the New York City public school system. But when his classic methods clash with his students' hip hop instincts, he teams up with them to create a new style of dance and becomes their mentor in the process. "Take the Lead" co-stars Alfre Woodard and marks the feature directing debut of veteran music video helmer Liz Friedlander (U2, Blink 182, Simple Plan).
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodard, Elijah Kelley, Dante Basco, Jenna Dewan
Directed by Liz Friedlander
English language with latvian and russian subtitles.
In `60s New Zealand, at the bottom of the world, Burt Munro takes a 1920 Indian motorcycle and, delightfully without resources other than his own obsession and a Kiwi #8 wire mentality, spends his retirement rebuilding the bike and following his dream to go to Speed Week at Salt Lake in Utah. Under funded, without the support of a team and against all the odds he not only makes it to Bonneville, he sets a national land speed record, not once, but again and again.
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Saginaw Grant, Diane Ladd, Walton Goggins, Christopher Lawford
Directed by Roger Donaldson
English language with latvian and russian subtitles.