ESCAPE PLAN –NPU 16 – 116 MIN One of the world’s foremost authorities on structural security agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called The Tomb. Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit a fellow inmate to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built. Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Caviezel, Faran Tahir, Amy Ryan, Sam Neill. |
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AMERICAN HUSTLE – NPU 16 – 137 MIN With a host of nominations and wins behind it, and with a top crew in front of and behind the camera, this film takes a look at a notorious FBI sting operation from the 1970s/1980s. We follow a con man, who along with his equally cunning and seductive partner, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent. They are pushed them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting. Caught between the con-artists and Feds is a passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator, but it’s the con man’s wife who could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. Cast: Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence, Louis C.K., Jack Huston. |
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FROZEN – PG – 103 MIN Like The Little Mermaid, this is Disney’s take on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. A fearless and optimistic young woman sets off on an epic journey, teaming up with a rugged mountain man and his loyal reindeer, to find her sister, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. Encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and an hilarious snowman, they battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom. Cast: Voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana, Alan Tudyk. |
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THE BOOK THIEF – PG 10 – 131 MIN While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, a young woman finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents. As she reads to him, a relationship develops, but the Nazis are forever searching houses and it is only a matter of time before they come knocking. Cast: Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Ben Schnetzer, Nico Liersch |
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THE WOLF OF WALL STREET – NPU 16 – 180 MIN Set during the 1980s at a time of stock market turmoil, and based on a true story. A young man starts his career in the stock broking business just as the market crashes. He switches to selling junk penny stocks, and when that goes well, he opens his own pompously-named firm with a friend, and hires drug dealers to employ hard-sell telephone tactics to move the stocks. Business boomed, as did his extravagant lifestyle, which attracted the attention of the Feds. His life became a game of staying one step ahead… but how long could that last? Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Johan Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal, Jon Favreau |
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Published: March 27th, 2014