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Waz

Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Melissa George, Ashley Walters, Selma Blair

Director: Tom Shankland

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Plot Summary: Bodies are turning up in the dark city streets - some horribly mutilated, others with an equation wΔz = Cov (w,z) = ßwzVz carved into their flesh. As Detective Argo (Skarsgard) and his new partner (George) unearth the meaning of the equation, they realise that each victim is being offered a gruesome choice - kill your loved ones or be killed.


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The Children of Huang Shi

Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh

Director: Roger Spottiswoode

Genre: Drama, War


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Get Smart

Starring: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Alan Arkin, Terence Stamp, Terry Crews, David Koechner, James Caan, Masi Oka, Nate Torrence, Kenneth Davitian

Director: Peter Segal

Genre: Action, Comedy

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some rude humor, action violence and language)

Plot Summary: Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief (Alan Arkin) has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamt of working in the field alongside stalwart superstar Agent 23 (Dwayne Johnson). Smart is partnered instead with the lovely-but-lethal veteran Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway). Given little field experience and even less time, Smart--armed with nothing but a few spy-tech gadgets and his unbridled enthusiasm--must thwart the doomsday plans of KAOS head Siegfried (Terence Stamp).


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Snow Angels

Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Angarano, Griffin Dunne, Amy Sedaris, Olivia Thirlby

Director: David Gordon Green

Genre: Drama

MPAA Rating: R (for language, some violent content, brief sexuality and drug use)

Plot Summary: "Snow Angels," adapted from the novel of the same title by Stewart O'Nan, is two stories of love and loss converging. One is of a recently separated couple attempting to pick up the threads of a future when faced with tragedy. The second is about an awkward young man, currently in the throes of discovering his first romance, forced to deal with the separation and subsequent strife of his parents' relationship.


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Shutter

Starring: Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor

Director: Masayuki Ochiai

Genre: Horror

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for terror, disturbing images, sexual content and language)

Plot Summary: In Tokyo, a young couple (Jackson and Taylor) on their honeymoon first begin to see ghostly images in their photos.


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Smart People

Starring: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Page, Ashton Holmes, Christine Lahti

Director: Noam Murro

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Plot Summary: Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant – but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy. His teenaged daughter (Ellen Page) is an acid-tongued overachiever who follows all too closely in dad's misery-loving footsteps, and his adopted, preposterously ne'er-do-well brother (Thomas Haden Church) has perfected the art of freeloading. A widower who can't seem to find passion in anything anymore, not even the Victorian Literature in which he's an expert, it seems Lawrence is sleepwalking through a very stunted middle age. When his brother shows up unexpectedly for an extended stay at just about the same time as he accidentally encounters his former student Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker), the circumstances cause him to stir from his deep, deep freeze, with often comical, sometimes heartbreaking, consequences for himself and everyone


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All the Boys Love Mandy Lane

Starring: Amber Heard, Anson Mount, Michael Welch, Aaron Himelstein, Edwin Hodge

Director: Jonathan Levine

Genre: Horror

MPAA Rating: R (for strong disturbing violence, pervasive drug and alcohol use, sexuality/nudity and language - all involving teens)

Plot Summary: Mandy Lane. Beautiful. Untouched. High school royalty waiting to be crowned. Since the dawn of Junior year, men have tried to possess her. Some have even died in reckless pursuit of this 16 year-old Texas angel.

Chloe and Red invite Mandy out to Red's family ranch for the weekend. Mandy sees it as an excellent opportunity to cement her new friendships. The boys see it as an opportunity to finally get with Mandy Lane. Driving across the Texas landscape, the kids begin to gently chip away at the wall that surrounds her. Joints are smoked. A keg is stolen off a beer truck. Pills are crushed to fine powder and inhaled. Mandy observes it all with the gentle interest of a foreign tourist. And they love her for it.

At the ranch, all the boys start to make their move – each one hoping to be the first to attain the unattainable Mandy Lane. However, as night falls and the booze, drugs, and hormones take over, things are said and advances made which can never be reversed. Suddenly, sweet Mandy finds herself pit in a brutal struggle for survival against someone whose interest she has rejected. Forget reading, writing and arithmetic. In high school, learning to be yourself and not succumbing to peer pressure is the ultimate test. And this is one exam that Mandy is determined not to fail.


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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

Starring: Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell, Walter Day, Nicole Wiebe, Steve Sanders, Robert Mruczek, Brian Kuh, Mike Thompson

Director: Seth Gordon

Genre: Documentary

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (a brief sexual reference)

Plot Summary: A middle-school science teacher and a hot sauce mogul vie for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic, Donkey Kong.


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Flawless

Starring: Michael Caine, Demi Moore

Director: Michael Radford

Genre: Crime, Drama

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for brief strong language)

Plot Summary: From director Michael Radford comes FLAWLESS, a clever diamond-heist thriller set in swinging 1960s London. Demi Moore stars as female executive at the London Diamond Corporation that finds herself frustrated by a glass ceiling after years of faithful employment. She befriends a janitor (Michael Caine) who is reaching the end of his tenure at the company and is looking to help himself to a considerably more generous retirement package. Together they hatch a plot to steal a handful of priceless diamonds, setting off a swirling chain of events that send ripples all over Europe in this fast paced, stylish film.


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88 Minutes

Starring: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman, Deborah Kara Unger, Benjamin McKenzie, Neal McDonough

Director: Jon Avnet

Genre: Thriller

MPAA Rating: R (for disturbing violent content, brief nudity and language)

Plot Summary: In "88 Minutes," Al Pacino stars as Dr. Jack Gramm, a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. When Gramm receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live, he must use all his skills and training to narrow down the possible suspects, who include a disgruntled student, a jilted former lover, and a serial killer who is already on death row, before his time runs out.


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