Joe's February Movie Releases
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JOE’S FEBRUARY MOVIE RELEASES Tuesday, February 4 Tuesday, February 11 About Time (R) Comedy/Romance -- Rachel McAdams Adventurer: Curse of the Midas Box (PG) Fantasy A young man discovers he can travel back in time and learns that his A teen is sent on a wild, magical quest to uncover a life-changing mystery quest to go back and get a girlfriend is easier said than done. when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped. Baggage Claim (PG13) Comedy -- Paula Patton, Taye Diggs All is Lost (PG13) Adventure -- Robert Redford A woman embarks on a thirty-day, thirty thousand mile expedition to After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds charm a potential suitor into becoming her fiancé. himself staring his mortality in the face. A Case of You (NR) Comedy -- Peter Dinklage, Evan Rachel Wood Anna Nicole (NR) Drama -- Agnes Bruckner A young writer finds himself in a real mess when he tries to impress a girl Biopic about the tragic life of Anna Nicole Smith, the single mother from he meets online with an embellished profile. Texas who became the biggest supermodel in the world. Dallas Buyers Club (R) Drama -- Matthew McConaughey The Artist and the Model (NR) Foreign/Drama (Spain) In 1985 Dallas, an electrician and hustler works to help AIDS patients get An elderly sculptor who lives with his wife in the south of France gives shelter the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease. to a beautiful young Spanish political refugee. Dark Tourist (R) Thriller -- Melanie Griffith, Pruitt Taylor Vince Austenland (PG13) Comedy/Romance This psychological-thriller takes us into the chilling labyrinth of a man’s Obsessed with Pride and Prejudice, a woman travels to a Jane Austen theme dark hobby and his even darker mind. park in search of her perfect gentleman. Escape Plan (PG13) Action -- Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger The Best Man Holiday (R) Comedy A security expert finds himself incarcerated in the world’s most secure When college friends reunite after 15 years, they discover just how easy it is prison, and must use his skills to escape with help from the inside. for old rivalries and romances to be reignited. Free Birds (PG) Animated -- Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson Bottled Up (NR) Drama -- Melissa Leo, Josh Hamilton Two turkeys travel back in time to change the course of history to get A compassionate mother ponders sacrificing her own happiness in order to turkey off the holiday menu for good. care for her drug-addicted daughter in this hard-hitting drama. It’s Not Me I Swear (NR) Foreign/Comedy (French Canadian) Capital Games (NR) Drama/Studio Q A ten-year-old boy with an overly fertile imagination faces the biggest Two ambitious ad men compete for the same high-ranking job at a top firm summer of his life when his mother bails on the family. and find their relationship taking a completely unexpected turn. The Lady Vanishes (2012) (NR) Thriller The Counselor (R) Thriller -- Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz TV remake of the classic thriller in which a young socialite is befriended Director Ridley Scott’s tense thriller about a lawyer who finds himself in over by a charming yet enigmatic older woman on a train. his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking. Mother of George (R) Drama Diana (PG13) Drama -- Naomi Watts A Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn is faced with fertility problems, which During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana embarks on a secret love leads the woman to make a shocking, life-altering decision. affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan. Nuit #1 (NR) Foreign/Drama (French Canadian) Ender’s Game (PG13) Sci-Fi -- Harrison Ford A couple share a day of intimacy after a night of eroticism in this Young Ender Wiggin is recruited to lead the fight against a genocidal alien independent drama from Canadian filmmaker Anne Émond. race which nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion. Pit Stop (NR) Drama/Studio Q G.B.F. (PG13) Comedy/Studio Q A man finds solace in the relationship he maintains with his ex-wife and A high-schooler is outed by his classmates and becomes the reluctant “gay daughter following an ill-fated affair with a married man. best friend” for three high school queen bees. Romeo + Juliet (PG13) Drama Grace Unplugged (PG) Drama -- A.J. Michalka Shakespeare’s timeless tale of love and tragedy gets a 21st century An aspiring Christian teen singer finds her faith put to the test after she gets update in this version adapted by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. the music break of a lifetime. Scorned (R) Thriller -- Viva Bianca, Billy Zane Haunter (NR) Horror -- Abigail Breslin, David Hewlett A romantic weekend turns horrific and sadistic when a woman discovers The ghost of a teenager who died years ago reaches out to the land of the her boyfriend is having an affair with her best friend. living in order to save someone from suffering her same fate. The White Queen (NR) Drama How I Live Now (R) Drama -- Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland Three different, yet equally relentless women vie for the throne in 15th An American girl living with relatives in England finds love and purpose while Century England. fighting for her survival as war envelops the world around her. Khumba (NR) Animated -- Liam Neeson, Steve Buscemi Tuesday, February 25 Rejected by his superstitious herd, a half-striped zebra embarks on a Amber Alert (R) Thriller daring quest to earn his stripes. When a group of friends decides to follow a car they’ve seen posted on an Killing Kennedy (NR) Drama -- Rob Lowe Amber Alert, things start to go very wrong. TV biopic about the assassination of John F. Kennedy based on Bill Blue is the Warmest Color (NR) Foreign/Studio Q (France) O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s best seller. Adele’s life is changed when she meets a young woman with blue hair, who Life of a King (PG13) Drama -- Cuba Gooding Jr. will allow her to discover desire and assert herself as a woman. An ex-felon establishes a Chess Club for inner city teenagers in Fujimi Orchestra: Cold Front Conductor (NR) Foreign/Studio Q (Japan) Washington, D.C. Big screen live action adaption of the popular yaori series of books about a Reaching for the Moon (2013) (NR) Drama/Studio Q concertmaster and his relationship with a young prodigy. Famed poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio in the 1950s where she falls in Gravity (PG13) Sci-Fi/Thriller -- Sandra Bullock, George Clooney love with celebrated architect Lota de Macedo Soares. A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an The Returned (NR) Foreign/Thriller (France) accident leaves them adrift in space. A small mountain community is rocked to its core when several local Ice Soldiers (R) Sci-Fi people who are presumed dead suddenly re-appear at their homes. A scientist discovers the bodies of three frozen genetically modified Russians Seal Patrol (R) Action buried in the Canadian North. A powerful businessman contracts a team of operatives to retrieve a The Last Elvis (NR) Foreign/Drama (Argentina) physicist who holds the key to a new energy source. A tragic accident causes a factory worker and part time Elvis impersonator to Two Jacks (NR) Drama -- Jaqueline Bisset, Jack Huston Jr. reassess his priorities and grapple with his real-world responsibilities. The son of a legendary Hollywood director tries to maintain the legacy of Mr. Nobody (R) Sci-Fi/Fantasy -- Jared Leto, Sarah Polley his father, whose persona commanded respect and adoration. In this futuristic tale, a boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to 22 Bullets (NR) Foreign/Action (France) leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 Narco Cultura (R) Foreign/Drama (Mexico) bullets in his body by his former childhood friend. This film offers an explosive look at the drug cartels’ influence on both sides Wadjda (PG) Foreign/Drama (Saudi Arabia) of the US/Mexico border as experienced by two very different men. A Saudi girl signs on for her school’s Koran recitation competition to raise Nebraska (R) Drama -- Bruce Dern, Will Forte money to buy a bicycle that has captured her interest. An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (NR) Foreign/Fantasy (China) his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar sweepstakes prize. Captivating story about an Imperial police force officer who must Pulling Strings (PG) Foreign/Comedy (Mexico) investigate reports of a sea monster terrorizing his town. A diplomat working in Mexico City finds her world rocked after she’s saved by a Mariachi singer whose visa she rejected the day before. Tuesday, February 18 Straight Men and the Men Who Love Them 3 (NR) Studio Q/Shorts Afternoon Delight (R) Comedy -- Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple This collection of short films explores the unusual relationships between gay A bored stay-at-home mom visits a strip club to spice up her marriage and and straight men. meets a stripper that she hires to be her live-in nanny. Thor: The Dark World (PG13) Fantasy -- Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman Apocalypse Pompeii (NR) Disaster -- John Rhys-Davis, Adrian Paul When Jane Foster is possessed by a great power, Thor must protect her from When a Former Special Ops commando visits Pompeii, his wife and a new threat of old times: the Dark Elves.