Cinema releases by week

, 1h33
Directed by Al Waxman
Origin Canada
Actors Ben Cross, Kate Nelligan, Brian Dennehy, Tom Butler, Janet-Laine Green, Ron Lea
Rating57%

, 1h41
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, HIV/AIDS in film, LGBT-related film
Actors Stephen Fry, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton, Tony Slattery
Rating69%
It is New Year's weekend and the friends of Peter (Fry) gather at his newly inherited country house. Ten years ago, they all acted together in a Cambridge University student comedy troupe. Since then they have gone in different directions and various career paths.

, 1h30
Directed by Thom Eberhardt
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Kurt Russell, Martin Short, Mary Kay Place, Benjamin Salisbury, Meadow Sisto, Sunshine Logroño
Rating57%
Martin Harvey (Short) is a middle-aged office worker who lives in a suburb of Chicago with his wife, Katherine (Place), 16-year-old daughter, Caroline (Sisto), and 11-year-old son, Ben (Salisbury). When he learns his recently deceased uncle has bequeathed him a yacht once owned by Clark Gable, he decides to take his family to the island of Ste. Pomme de Terre ("Saint Potato" literally "Apple of Earth") to retrieve the yacht so he can sell it. Katherine resists the idea, but she agrees after Caroline announces she has just gotten engaged to an uncouth young man.

, 1h48
Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Romance
Actors Woody Allen, Blythe Danner, Judy Davis, Mia Farrow, Juliette Lewis, Liam Neeson
Rating74%
The film is about two couples: Jack (Pollack) and Sally (Davis), and Gabe (Allen) and Judy (Farrow). The film starts when Jack and Sally arrive at Gabe and Judy's apartment and announce their separation. Gabe is shocked, but Judy takes the news personally and is very hurt. Still confused, they go out for dinner at a Chinese restaurant.

, 1h39
Directed by Cameron Crowe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, Matt Dillon, Jim True-Frost, Sheila Kelley
Rating66%
Singles centers on the lives of a group of young people, mostly in their 20s, living in an apartment block in Seattle, Washington, and is divided into chapters. It focuses on the course of two couples' rocky romances, as well as the love lives of their friends and associates. The film stars Bridget Fonda as Janet, a coffee-bar waitress fawning over Cliff, an aspiring, yet slightly aloof rock musician (Matt Dillon) of the fictional grunge/rock band Citizen Dick, Kyra Sedgwick and Campbell Scott as Linda Powell and Steve Dunne, respectively - a couple wavering on whether to commit to each other, and Sheila Kelley as Debbie Hunt, who is trying to find Mr. Right - a man who would make an ideal romantic partner - by making a video to express her desire. The events of the film are set against the backdrop of the early 1990s grunge movement in Seattle.

, 1h47
Directed by Jean-Claude Lauzon
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about families, Films about sexuality, La sexualité des mineurs
Actors Gilbert Sicotte, Ginette Reno, Maxime Collin, Julien Guiomar, Andrée Lachapelle, Denys Arcand
Rating73%
Léo Lauzon est un garçon montréalais qui vit au sein d'une famille dysfonctionnelle dans un quartier pauvre de la ville. Il échappe à sa réalité par des rêveries. Entouré de malades mentaux, rêvassant et écrivant, il imagine que sa mère n'a pas été mise enceinte par son père, mais plutôt indirectement par un Sicilien à l'aide d'une tomate italienne contaminée. Il décide ainsi de se faire appeler Léolo Lozone. À l'aube de la puberté, il fantasme sur sa voisine Bianca.

, 1h30
Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Lisa Banes, Richard Beymer, Kathy Ireland, Gary Graham, Joe Lara, Christopher Pettiet
Rating46%
A group of vacationers on a flight when they're caught in the crossfire of a military coup. They manage to leave the resort unharmed, but due to a violent storm, the airplane carrying them to safety goes down in the South Pacific. After days of desperately floating in a life raft, the dozen very diverse survivors spot land in the distance. Exploration of the new and strange surroundings reveals that the island was once a testing site for secret biological weapons research... research that went disastrously awry. Now the monstrous evils that were created in the name of science run rampant, and each day brings challenges as the survivors fight for their lives and for a way to get off the island.

, 1h33
Directed by Ching Siu-tung, Stanley Tong
Origin Hong kong
Genres Martial arts, Fantasy, Action, Martial arts
Themes Films about sexuality, Sports films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Martial arts films, Wuxia films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Michelle Reis, Carlo Chin, Candice Yu
Rating70%
Linghu Chong, Yue Lingshan and members of the Mount Hua Sect are planning to retire from the jianghu (martial artists' community). They learn that Dongfang Bubai has seized control of the Sun Moon Holy Cult and is secretly plotting with some Japanese rōnin to rebel against the Ming Empire and dominate China. Dongfang Bubai had castrated himself in order to master the skills in the Sunflower Manual, and his appearance has become more feminine, even though he is now a formidable martial artist.

, 1h57
Directed by Darrell Roodt
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about music and musicians, Films about racism, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Leleti Khumalo, Whoopi Goldberg, Miriam Makeba, John Kani
Rating62%
The plot centres on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools.

, 1h40
Directed by Stephen Milburn Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Glenn Plummer, Lexie Bigham, Carl Lumbly
Rating67%
Bobby Johnson (Glenn Plummer) is a young black gang member of Hoover Street Deuces, or simply "Deuce". He gets paroled from the Youth Authority and he meets up with his best friend/fellow gang member Ray Ray (Byron Minns), Loco and Bear. As it turns out, Bobby's girlfriend Carole (LaRita Shelby) gave birth to his son Jimmy (Christian Coleman) while he was incarcerated. The Deuce gang goes out to a club owned by rival drug dealer Genie Lamp to celebrate Bobby's release, but Genie confronts them and threats are exchanged.

, 1h46
Directed by Robert Mandel
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Sports films, American football films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, Randall Batinkoff, Cole Hauser, Andrew Lowery
Rating68%
David Greene (Brendan Fraser) is a working-class Jewish teenager from Scranton, Pennsylvania, during the 1950s who is given a football scholarship to St. Matthew's, an exclusive Massachusetts prep school, for his senior year. Upon his arrival, he meets his teammates Rip Van Kelt (Randall Batinkoff), Charlie Dillon (Matt Damon), Jack Connors (Cole Hauser), and his roommate Chris Reece (Chris O'Donnell) and learns of the school's cherished honor code system. Soon learning that his new friends are prejudiced against Jews, he suppresses his background.

, 1h48
Directed by Clara Law
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Actors Masatoshi Nagase
Rating70%

, 1h38
Directed by Martin Donovan
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Romance, Western
Themes Films about animals, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film
Actors Mary Stuart Masterson, Hart Bochner, Colin Firth, Fionnula Flanagan, Daphne Zuniga, Cec Verrell
Rating47%
In 1892, Jenny Hill (Masterson) is infatuated with James Miller (Blake) the local outlaw. However, her mother (Flanagan) strongly disapproves and marries her off to Miller’s half-brother, Miller Brown (Bochner). Miller Brown loves Jenny but his love is not reciprocated. Eventually, Jenny discovers Brown’s hidden secret of being a werewolf.

, 1h35
Directed by Jimmy Zeilinger
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Jonathan Silverman, Alyssa Milano, George Newbern, Moon Zappa, Michael Berryman, Leilani Sarelle
Rating55%
Bobby graduates high school with his friend Mike. His father encourages him to forge his own identity and gives him a book of romantic poems. At college, Bobby and Mike join a fraternity where Bobby can be himself and not follow in his dad's footsteps. The fraternity leader tells Bobby to instruct his fellow pledges to be more like his father.