Cinema releases by week

, 1h39
Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Lolita Davidovich, J. A. Preston, Sam Trammell, Jean Louisa Kelly, Tom Aldredge, James Read
Rating65%

, 1h50
Directed by Robert Mandel
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about education, Films about school violence
Actors Tom Berenger, Ernie Hudson, Diane Venora, Glenn Plummer, Cliff De Young, Richard Brooks
Rating60%
Shale (Berenger) is a mercenary and a Vietnam veteran who returns home to Miami after a botched covert operation in Cuba in which three men from his platoon were killed. He surprises his girlfriend, Jane Hetzko (Diane Venora) at her apartment and is warmly welcomed. On the outside, Jane is a schoolteacher at inner-city Columbus High School, an institution with a gang problem, complete with metal detectors and gates protecting its boundaries. She also clashes with Juan Lacas (Anthony), leader of the KOD ("Kings of Destruction") gang and has her leg broken in a beating while attacked on a morning jog. Jane and Shale believe this to be related to the KOD, which prompts the latter to go undercover as an Ivy League-educated, government-affiliated substitute teacher for his girlfriend's class.

, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Damon Wayans, Daniel Stern, Dan Aykroyd, Gail O'Grady, Christopher McDonald, Paul Guilfoyle
Rating53%
Best friends for life, gym teacher Mike O'Hara (Daniel Stern) and plumber Jimmy Flaherty (Dan Aykroyd) are united by their love of Boston and its sports teams, especially the Boston Celtics, who are playing their last season in the old Boston Garden. When the Celtics drop Game 6 of the NBA Finals to the Utah Jazz, setting up a deciding Game 7 in Boston, Mike and Jimmy find themselves depressed and hopeless. On top of all this, Mike has moved back in with Jimmy after his wife Carol, fed up with his unhealthy obsession with the Celtics, left him and took their son Tommy with her. Jimmy and Mike stumble upon the Jazz's selfish, one-man-show shooting guard Lewis Scott (Damon Wayans) at a Boston nightclub. Hoping at first to get him drunk enough so he'll be hungover for Game 7, Mike and Jimmy pose as Utah fans. This however leads to them running into their idol Larry Bird (as himself), who scolds them for being what he thinks are "fair weather" fans. However, the pair get more than they bargained for when the next morning they end up kidnapping Scott after he wakes up at Jimmy's apartment. The two decide to hold Scott until after the game, reasoning that if they are going to prison, they might as well help the Celtics win in the meantime.

, 1h45
Directed by Richard Benjamin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes L'usurpation d'identité, Escroquerie
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, Brendan Fraser, Miguel Sandoval, Jane Krakowski, Loren Dean
Rating62%
In flashbacks, Connie Doyle's (Ricki Lake) early life gives an idea of her mindset. At 18, she meets womanizer Steve DeCunzo (Loren Dean), moves in with him and winds up pregnant. He kicks her out, denying responsibility. A destitute Connie, trying to find a shelter, gets inadvertently swept aboard a train at Grand Central Terminal. With no ticket and no money, Connie is rescued by Hugh Winterbourne (Brendan Fraser) and taken to his private compartment. She meets his wife, Patricia, who is also pregnant. When the train crashes, Connie is mistaken for Patricia because she is wearing Patricia's wedding band, which has the couple's names engraved on the inside. In the hospital, no longer pregnant, she learns Patricia and Hugh both died in the crash.

, 1h15
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Horror, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Films about music and musicians, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Musical films, Space opera, Robot films
Actors Michael J. Nelson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy
Rating71%
For the plot of the film-within-the-film, see This Island Earth The film opens with mad scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester, working from an underground laboratory, explaining the premise of the film (and associated TV series). Mike Nelson and the robots Crow T. Robot, and Tom Servo, along with Gypsy, are aboard the Satellite of Love high in Earth's orbit, when Dr. Forrester forces them to watch the film This Island Earth to break their wills; as per the television show, Mike, Crow, and Tom make fun of the movie as it airs.

Directed by Edward Holzman
Origin USA
Genres Erotic, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Leslie Zemeckis, Jacqueline Lovell, Kira Reed, James Wlcek, Shauna O'Brien, Leslie Olivan
Rating48%

, 1h35
Directed by Mark L. Lester
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Theresa Russell, Eric Roberts, Alyssa Milano, James Marsden, Richard Eden, Joseph Lindsey
Rating42%
Sexually abused by her brothers, Kate Barker runs away to become involved in bootlegging. She marries decent George Barker and gives birth to four sons, Herman, Arthur ("Doc"), Lloyd and Freddie. However, when George's law-abiding ways fail to provide for the family, "Ma" encourages her sons to commit crimes. Soon they become notorious criminals. FBI leader, J Edgar Hoover puts agent Melvin Purvis on the case. Meanwhile Alvin Karpis joins the gang. An attempted robbery leaves one Barker son, Herman, dead, and another Freddie, captured. Arthur Dunlop, a corrupt prison guard, helps Freddie escape and becomes Ma's lover. Dunlop plans a kidnapping that will net them $100,000, but it nearly goes wrong because of his incompetence. The gang kill him. They also kill another incompetent associate, a mob-doctor who messes up an attempt at plastic surgery. By this time Purvis is onto them. Lloyd and Arthur are arrested in Chicago, and Ma and Freddie are killed in a shootout in Florida.

, 2h5
Directed by André Téchiné
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga, Chiara Mastroianni, Carmen Chaplin, Jean-Pierre Bouvier
Rating68%
Berthe, an elderly widow, is forced by her declining health to close the French farmhouse where she has spent much of her life. She moves in with her daughter Émilie and son in law Bruno who share a legal practice and have two grown up children: Anne, a law university student, and Lucien, who was adopted. In spite of Émilie’s efforts, Berthe is not happy in her daughter’s bourgeois home in Blagnac. She sits by the swimming pool in the middle of the night talking to herself and finds the house pretentious. Worried about her mother's physical and mental health, Émilie pays a visit to her unmarried younger brother, Antoine, a neurosurgeon. They have not seen each other for three years, since they quarreled at their father’s funeral. Émilie informs Antoine of their mother's condition and invites him to a Christmas dinner with the entire family.

, 1h32
Genres Thriller
Actors Patsy Kensit, Rebecca Rigg, David E Woodley, Shane Briant, Liz Burch, Jonathan Hardy
Rating43%
Deux détectives enquêtent sur une série de meurtres sauvages perpétrés par un tueur sadique.

Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Ione Skye, Jennifer Aniston, Mackenzie Astin, Michael Landes, Seymour Cassel, Leslie Stevens
Rating59%

, 1h34
Directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about racism, Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Blair Underwood, Delroy Lindo, Mykelti Williamson, Edward Herrmann, R. Lee Ermey, Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Rating72%
Branch Rickey, played by Edward Herrmann, is the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers who is determined to integrate Major League Baseball. He begins sending his scouts to Negro League games to find the best players. Rickey directs his scouts to look not only at playing ability but also at the players' maturity and capacity to withstand the hostility that is sure to be directed at the first black player in the Major Leagues.

, 1h26
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Joanna Kerns, Dan Lauria, Hilary Swank, Kathleen Wilhoite, Andrew Kavovit, Adam Hendershott
Rating56%
Deena Marten is a 15-year-old who has become a rebel since dating Garrett, another rebellious teen who was suspended from school for hitting a teacher. Deena no longer keeps any of her promises, skips school and leaves the family home whenever she pleases. Her newfound harsh attitude upsets her mother, Cynthia, who once enjoyed a close relationship with her daughter. Cynthia is frustrated because the lines of communication have broken down between mother and daughter.

, 1h20
Directed by Frank Coraci
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Jason Miller, Frank Coraci, Ellen Greene
Rating64%

, 2h
Directed by Aaron Kim Johnston
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, War, Action, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Russell Crowe, Scott Kraft, Peter Outerbridge, Bruce Boa, Roxanne Boulianne
Rating59%
In the summer of 1942, something is dramatically changing for the small community of Brandon, Manitoba as hundreds of young men from all over the world descend on this sleepy hamlet. In this newly found excitement of meeting newcomers, Lill (Christianne Hirt), a young prairie farm wife whose husband is already overseas for two years, and LAC Lachlan Curry (Russell Crowe), a gallant Australian airman are fated to meet. He has come to train at the Royal Canadian Air Force air base nearby to become a pilot. His friend, LAC Johnny Crouch (Peter Outerbridge) who has struck up a relationship with Lill's younger sister, Kate (Sara McMillan), introduces Lachlan to Lill.

Directed by Stuart Cooper
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Actors Stéphanie Zimbalist, Sarah Chalke, Brendan Fletcher, Tom Butler, Andrew Airlie, Peter Onorati
Rating55%