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Jonathon Schaech, Virginia Williams. Highland Film Group. A group of college friends reunite for a road trip. They are interrupted by a lost little girl on the side of the road, leading them to a night of unsuspected horrors and supernatural activity.
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Romantic comedy. 102mins. Dir: John Roberts. Cast: Eva Birthistle, Charity Wakefield, Carlos Acosta, Brian Dick. Imagina International Sales. Two young, strong-willed Scottish sisters, one a leftwing activist, the other a born-to-shop fashionista, take their late father’s ashes to Cuba, the site of many intriguing family legends. Arriving in Havana, the two women promptly lose the ashes and go through a series of misadventures – both romantic and dangerous – to try to retrieve them, making some surprising discoveries along the way about the family ties that hold them together.
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Action/adventure. 94mins. Dir: Brian A Miller. Cast: Jason Patric, James Caan, Craig Fairbrass, Shannon Elizabeth. Premiere Entertainment Group. About a British military
contractor who is told his daughter has died. When he arrives in Los Angeles and discovers the body is not hers, he goes after the internet fraudster who abducted her and wreaks havoc through the city of Los Angeles until he rescues her. Fairmont 1
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Comedy/action/ adventure. 97mins. Dir: Goran Kalezic. Cast: Victor Altomare, Robert Davi, Stacy Keach, Nick Mancuso. Imageworks Entertainment International. A dark comedy about Joe, a lovable ex-con who has just been released from prison. Officer Curry and Katy Sim are intent on finding the stolen money he stashed before his incarceration. Joe proves equally determined to locate his missing niece, Shawna. With the clock counting down, he looks for answers about her disappearance before it’s too late. Why did Detective Pendell stop looking for Shawna? Who has been following him since he left prison and what costume should he wear next? With the help of his friend Max and myriad disguises, Joe delves deep into an underworld of corruption to uncover the truth.
Thriller. 100mins. Dir: Jan Hrebejk. Cast: Ana Geislerova, Stanislav Majer. Latido Films. Takes place over three days, during Radim and Tereza’s wedding party.
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Comedy. 83mins. Dir: Lance Daly. Cast: Kelly Thornton, Fionnula Flanagan, Pat Shortt. Magnolia Pictures. About a family struggling to stay afloat and stay together through hard times in Ireland. broadway 3
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Horror/comedy. 107mins. Dir: Josh Bear. Cast: Michael Madsen, Brina Palencia, Andy San Dimas, Adam Sessler. Madisonian Films. As the staff of Good Friends Church Camp prepare for a spring break filled with “Fun Under the Son”, a demon logger rises
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from his sap boiler to wreak his vengeance and feast on flapjacks soaked in the blood of his victims. AMc Santa Monica 4
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Action/adventure. 98mins. Dir: Julian Gilbey. Cast: Ed Speleers, Will Poulter, Alfie Allen, Emma Rigby, Thomas Kretschmann. Cinema Management Group. High octane from start to finish, the story of intelligent and brazen Sam, who leads his ring of mid-20s London credit card thieves to Miami. In the city of “high stakes”, they poach $2 million in cash to pay back Sidat, a renowned gangster with whom they have run afoul and cannot afford to mess with. After paying off their debt, Sam and his gang set their sights on a daring final heist that could make them filthy rich. But their plan turns
sour when Sidat ups their debt to $5 million and members of the team start betraying each other. Now it’s up to Sam to finish the robbery he started while turning the tables on Sidat before they all go down. ocean
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Psycho-drama/thriller/ horror. 110mins. Dir: Takeshi Furusawa. Cast: Keiko Kitagawa, Kyoko Fukada, Kengo Kora, Hiroyuki Inoue, Chihiro Otsuka, Mariko Tsutsui, Yukijiro Hotaru, Tomorowo Taguchi. Toei Company. Harumi Hagiwara lands in hospital after being involved in an accident. She hits it off with her nurse, Reiko Nishimura, and the two decide to move in together after she’s discharged. Fairmont 3
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Sci-fi/action/adventure/ thriller. 90mins. Dir: Billy O’Brien. Cast: John Lynch, Craig Conway, Antonia Thomas, Jumayan Hunter, Morjana Alaoui, Beth Winslet. AV Pictures. An elite team of mercenaries are chosen to carry out a covert operation deep in a former Soviet State. They must first battle the ferocious armed militia at ground
level before descending through a maze of tunnels inhabited by dark, menacing creatures. When the team arrives at an underground laboratory they discover the purpose of their mission: a genius scientist has been genetically splicing alien DNA with human and the results of this revolutionary work must be secured. The soldiers must protect and save the specimens while avoiding the threats of multiple predators, both human and otherwise.
Sci-fi/thriller. 86mins. Dir: John Suits. Cast: Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Eliza Dushku, Garret Dillahunt, Gina Gershon, Michael Imperioli, Billy Campbell, Kunal Nayyar, Sasha Grey, Ashlynn Yennie. Imagination Worldwide. Follows a troubled young woman named Suki who confronts her destructive mental illness using an experimental machine called The Siamese Burn, which was designed to eliminate multiple personalities. But as Suki gets closer and closer to being “cured”, she’s haunted by a disturbing thought – what if the last unwanted personality remaining actually turns out to be her true identity? AMc Santa Monica 2
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Sci-fi/action/adventure/ fantasy. 90mins. Dir: Robert Pfitzner. Cast: Ben Seton. Empress Road Pictures. Captain Tomlin is tasked with assembling a team of super-heroes in order to seek and uncover the secret of the universe in order to save the planet, humanity and most of all his soul mate, Melanie.
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Fantasy/action/ adventure/martial arts. 85mins. Dir: Pachpoom R Suwatpanich. Cast: Akara Amatayakul. VMI Worldwide. This story of magic and adventure takes place in the frontier land of Siam, filled with peace and happiness, until Lord Panwa decides to mine a mountain in the nearby Forest of Darkness. Little does Lord Panwa know that the mountain is the site of an ancient burial ground. As they dig deeper into the mountain they awake an ancient dark spirit. An epic battle between good and evil.
Martial Arts. 90mins. Dir: Prachya Pinkaew. Cast: Tony Ja, Jija Yanin. Sahamongkolfilm International Co.
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Documentary. 92mins. Dir: Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky. Cast: Entertainment One. Brings together diverse stories from around the globe about our relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it and the consequences of that use. broadway 2
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Supernatural thriller. 97mins. Dir: Denis
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