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Set in rural Texas sometime, presumably, in the ’70s, Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara are Bob and Ruth, young lovers star-crossed by a robbery gone wrong. Surrounded by the law in a clapboard house, the pair, along with a cohort, try to shoot their way out. Ruth wings a sheriff, but Bob takes both her gun and the blame, and ends up with a 25-year prison sentence. The kicker? Ruth is pregnant, and their mutual yearning for each other leads Bob to attempt a jailbreak, which succeeds — up to a point. At Magic Lantern (MS) Rated R
BATTLE OF THE YEAR
A down-and-out star basketball coach, Jason Blake, is propositioned by an old friend to train American dancers under the assumption that a great coach can turn any group of individuals into a team. Although knowing seemingly nothing about dancing, but a sure heck of a lot about coaching, Blake, played by the gorgeous Josh Holloway, attempts to turn his group of ragamuffin (but attractive!) dancers into championship winners. The stakes are high, the dramatic music loud, as Blake’s team might be the one to win it all, although, that hasn’t been done by a U.S. team in 15 years. (ER) PG-13
PRISONERS
The kidnapping-revenge genre gets a refreshing makeover when a child goes missing, Dad gets mad, and the cops don’t know what to do. It stars Hugh
Jackman (the dad) and Jake Gyllenhaal (the detective). This goes places that Taken and Frantic never thought of going. A real nail-biter that’s violent and unpredictable. (ES) Rated R
THANKS FOR SHARING
Thanks for Sharing tells the story of three friends all battling with the same demon: sex addiction. Adam, played by Mark Ruffalo, finds himself falling in love with a beautiful, successful Phoebe (Gwyneth Paltrow) and in doing so once again comes face to face with the same sexual demons he thought he had defeated. Meanwhile, his compatriots, Mike, portrayed by Tim Robbins, finds security in smothering his family in order to control himself, while Neil (Josh Gad) is just coming to terms with his addiction, and is already struggling on the rocky road to recovery. (ER) Rated R
MUMIA: A LONG DISTANCE REVOLUTIONARY
This documentary follows Mumia AbuJamal, an African American convicted of murdering a policeman in 1981, at the height of his political activism. Spending the majority of his life in prison, living under the death row sign, Abu-Jamal has stirred intense debate with his continued outspokenness. Before his arrest, he was a thought-provoking journalist and revolutionary. After his arrest, he continues his history of speaking out from behind bars. At Magic Lantern (ER) Unrated
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Cruising around in a vintage Dodge Challenger, the DEA’s Bobby (Denzel Washington) and Navy investigator Stig (Mark Wahlberg) are both working undercover but make for such convincing bad-asses that they even have each other fooled. Indeed, the hook here is that, having been assigned by their respective agencies to infiltrate a crime syndicate, each assumes that the other is a criminal. It’s only once they’ve robbed a bank together (in order to secure evidence, naturally) that they realize each other’s actual allegiances. (CW) Rated R
AUSTENLAND
Keri Russell stars as an American woman so obsessed with the works, life and everything else of Jane Austen that she decides to blow most of her savings to go to a resort in England called Austenland. As you might guess, that resort is for Austen freaks to pretend they are living in the time of Jane. And, of course, our heroine soon finds a couple love interests to keep her busy. (MB) Rated PG-13
BLACKFISH
Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s stunning documentary centers on a male orca named Tilikum who has been responsible for the death of three people, most recently the much-publicized 2010 death of a SeaWorld trainer in Orlando. He was terrorized by the other whales with whom he shared a tank and also spent his early years cooped up in a tiny holding pen at a
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BLUE JASMINE
New York socialite Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) is down on her luck. Her marriage to a wealthy husband (Alec Baldwin) fell apart after he lost all their money in a Wall Street scam, forcing Jasmine to move to San Francisco to live with her sister, Ginger, a grocery store clerk. To Jasmine, it seems like there’s not much left in her life to look forward to, as she struggles to cope with her downfall from a life of luxury to one where she’s forced to decide whether she should become a dental receptionist or a nurse. Writer/director Woody Allen presents us a modern yet familiar character study of how the haves and the have-nots perceive themselves. (CS) PG-13
DESPICABLE ME 2
Gru is back with his minions and adopted daughters in the animated sequel, picking up as the Anti-Villain League cracks down on high-tech super-criminals. The agency calls on (or rather, kidnaps) Gru for his ex-villain expertise, but will he be able to juggle the mission on top of his paternal ...continued on next page
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