This week’s new movie releases includes an many interesting films. There’s sure to bo something for nearly everyone, including The Best Man Holiday, Ender’s Game, Diana, All Is Lost and other recent titles.
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New Movie Releases – 2/11/14
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 Reaching for the Moon Frustrated poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Brazil and encounters the beguiling architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Initial hostilities make way for a complicated yet long-lasting love affair that dramatically alters Bishop’s relationship to the world around her.  |
 The Best Man Holiday After nearly 15 years apart, Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Monica Calhoun, Melissa De Sousa and Regina Hall reprise their career-launching roles in ‘The Best Man Holiday,’ the long-awaited next chapter to the film that ushered in a new era of comedy.  |
 Ender’s Game (+UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] In the near future, a hostile alien race called the Formics have attacked Earth. If not for the legendary heroics of International Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley), all would have been lost.  |
 Counselor [Blu-ray] Ridley Scott’s The Counselor, from a script by Cormac McCarthy, stars Michael Fassbender as the title character, a slick lawyer who is madly in love with Laura (Penelope Cruz).  |
 How I Live Now et in the near-future UK, Saoirse Ronan plays Daisy, an American teenager sent to stay with relatives in the English countryside. Initially withdrawn and alienated, she begins to warm up to her charming surroundings, and strikes up a romance with the handsome Edmund (George MacKay).  |
 Diana ‘Diana’ takes audiences into the private realm of one the world’s most iconic and inescapably public women — the Princess of Wales, Diana (two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts) — in the last two years of her meteoric life.  |
 All Is Lost Academy Award winner Robert Redford stars in ‘All Is Lost’, an open-water thriller about one man’s battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. Written and directed by Academy Award nominee J.C.  |
 GBF In ‘G.B.F.,’ social warfare erupts when three high school clique queens battle for supremacy:: drama diva Caprice (Xosha Roquemore), Mormon princess ‘Shley (Andrea Bowen) and blonde fashionista Fawcett (Sasha Pieterse).  |
 Haunter [Blu-ray] A teenage ghost teams up with a living girl to stop a phantom killer, and break a vicious supernatural cycle in this psychological horror tale from director Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Splice).  |
 Jewtopia Christian O’Connell (Ivan Sergei) has met the girl of his dreams in Alison Marks (Jennifer Love Hewitt). Unfortunately, Christian told Alison (who happens to be a rabbi’s daughter) that his name was Avi Rosenberg, and that he was Jewish- neither of which are true.  |
 The Armstrong Lie Alex Gibney surveys the rise and fall of acclaimed and then disgraced American cyclist Lance Armstrong in his documentary The Armstrong Lie.  |
 Life of a King ‘Life of a King’ is the unlikely true story of Eugene Brown and his one-man mission to give inner-city kids of Washington D.C. something he never had – a future.  |
 Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box, The [Blu-ray] Ancient mysteries. Powerful evil. And a fearless hero’s quest through a fantastical realm of steam-powered wonders and sinister magic… In ‘The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box,’ seventeen-year-old Mariah Mundi’s life is turned upside down when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped.  |
 Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer Vladimir Putin was re-elected president of Russia in a contentious election in late 2011, and while he has been a popular leader, he has also been widely criticized for official corruption, a dictatorial approach to governing, a de-emphasis on human rights, and his alliances with the Russian Orthodox Church to promote a conservative and nationalistic world view.  |
 Sorority Party Massacre An isolated town full of sexy college girls has a dangerous secret: one girl has gone missing each year for the last 20 years.  |
 Spinning Plates ‘Spinning Plates’ is a documentary about three extraordinary restaurants and the incredible people who make them what they are.  |
 The Summit K2 is commonly known as “Savage Mountain” and with good reason. With an unprecedented fatality rate of one in four climbers, it has rightfully earned the title of the second most murderous mountain in the world.  |
 Grace Unplugged ‘Grace Unplugged’ is an inspirational movie starring Amanda “AJ” Michalka as 18-year-old Christian singer/songwriter, Grace Rose Trey. Beautiful, highly talented and restless, Grace is undiscovered outside church, where she performs each Sunday with her gifted father, Johnny.  |
 Wadjda (Two Disc Combo: Blu-ray / DVD) Writer/director Haifaa al-Mansour makes her feature directorial debut with this film about a headstrong 10-year-old girl named Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) who’s determined to challenge a neighborhood boy to a bike race despite the potentially dire repercussions.  |
 Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon [Blu-ray] Dee Renjie sets out to solve his very first case in director Tsui Hark’s prequel to the 2010 hit Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame.  |
 Austenland ‘Austenland’ is a romantic comedy about 30-something, single Jane Hayes (Keri Russell), a seemingly normal young woman with a secret: her obsession with all things Jane Austen.  |
