Cinema releases by week

, 1h45
Directed by Jim Sheridan
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine, Emma Bolger, Djimon Hounsou, Sarah Bolger, Tom Murphy
Rating76%
In 1982, Johnny and Sarah Sullivan and their daughters Christy and Ariel enter the United States on a tourist visa via Canada, where Johnny was working as an actor. The family settles in New York City, in a rundown Hell's Kitchen tenement occupied by drug addicts, transvestites, and a reclusive Nigerian artist/photographer named Mateo Kuamey. Hanging over the family is the death of their five-year-old son Frankie, who died from a brain tumor. The devout Roman Catholic Johnny questions God and has lost any ability to feel true emotions, which has affected his relationship with his family. Christy believes she has been granted three wishes by her dead brother, which she only uses at times of near-dire consequences for the family as they try to survive in New York.

, 1h34
Directed by Bille Woodruff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Musical films
Actors Jessica Alba, Romeo Miller, Mekhi Phifer, David Moscow, Zachary Isaiah Williams, Joy Bryant
Rating53%
Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba) works as a bartender, a record store clerk and a dancer teacher at a local community center run by her mother in New York. Having dreams to make it as a backup dancer in music videos, Honey and rival Katrina (Laurieann Gibson) are recorded dancing in the club where the former works. That same night, Honey and friend Gina (Joy Bryant) leave the club and encounter some kids dancing. Two of the kids are introduced as Benny (Lil' Romeo), and his little brother Raymond (Zachary Williams). Honey invites them to attend her classes at the community center, and they work together to inspire new dance moves. The young teacher soon catches the attention of music director Michael Ellis (David Moscow), who gives her a job as a backup dancer in Jadakiss' new video. Unimpressed with his current choreographer, Michael decides to let Honey choreograph the video. Impressed, Honey gets promoted, and choreographs for Tweet, Sheek Louch, and Shawn Desman.

, 1h39
Directed by Rob Minkoff
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Tilly, Terence Stamp, Marsha Thomason, Nathaniel Parker, Ariel Alexandria Davis
Rating52%
Jim Evers is a workaholic real estate agent whose continuous pursuit for new deals leaves very little time with his family. He misses his wedding anniversary with his wife Sara, but to make amends, suggesting going on vacation to a nearby lake. Beforehand, Sara is contacted by the occupants of Gracey Manor, located in the Louisiana bayou. Eager to make a deal, Jim drags Sara and his children Megan and Michael to the mansion. They meet its owner Edward Gracey, his stern butler Ramsley, and other staff members Emma and Ezra. When a storm floods the nearby river, Gracey allows the Evers to stay the night, though everyone save Jim is unhappy with the idea. Ramsley takes Jim down to the library to have a talk with Gracey, but while he waits, Jim gets trapped in a secret passage.

, 1h38
Directed by Ringo Lam
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Prison films, Gangster films
Actors Jean-Claude Van Damme, Marnie Alton, Carlos Gómez, Michael Bailey Smith, Robert LaSardo, Juan Fernández de Alarcón
Rating61%
Kyle LeBlanc (Van Damme) is an American working overseas in Russia. When he hears his wife being attacked over the phone, Kyle rushes home to find that he is too late. The man who has killed his wife is found not guilty on lack of evidence (but in fact because the defense bought the judge). Kyle, therefore, takes the law into his own hands and kills the man to avenge his wife's death, and for this he is sentenced to life in prison without parole. He soon befriends inmate Billy Cooper, a 21-year-old who is subjected to constant rape and beatings by prison inmates (they are actually helped by the guards who lock him in cells with these prisoners during the night) and also Malakai, a wheelchair-bound prisoner who claims to know the ins and outs of prison life.

, 3h4
Directed by Nikhil Advani
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Jaya Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Preity Zinta, Sushma Seth, Dara Singh
Rating78%
Naina Catherine Kapur (Preity Zinta) is a bespectacled 23-year-old Punjabi MBA student who is quite pessimistic and cynical towards her life and relationships. The movie opens up to Naina visiting Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York City. She relates how whenever she misses her father, she comes to the park. Upon returning home, we see Jenny (Jaya Bachchan), Naina's widowed mother who is on the phone discussing a loan extension for their centrally situated restaurant which isn't doing so well. Upon Naina's father's passing, all the house's responsibilities have fallen on her. Naina begins looking through the mail to find another private and confidential letter addressed to her mother, among many others she periodically receives. She also finds a letter from a Punjabi matrimonial service, Kunwari Kudi (meaning: Single Girl) that her grandmother and her aunts have enlisted in hopes of marrying off Naina to a Sikh sardar man. Naina's grandmother Lajjo (Sushma Seth), and Naina's aunts Kammo (Shoma Anand) and Vimmo (Kamini Khanna) are religious aspiring musicians who often perform for their neighbor, Chadda (Dara Singh) and to the horror and inconvenience of many of their other neighbors. There are also Naina's younger siblings in the home, including Shiv (Athit Naik), Naina's disabled biological brother and Gia (Jhanak Shukla), Naina's adoptive sister. There is much tension in the Kapur household as Lajjo is resentful towards Gia and Jenny as she believes Jenny's decision to adopt Gia is what led to her husband's suicide and the failing financial condition of their family, thus causing her to be affectionate with Naina and Shiv, while being cold to Gia. She thinks that Gia is the main problem in the house. She believes that the problems in the house started after Gia is adopted. There is also much religious tension in the house as Jenny practices Christianity while Lajjo practices Sikhism.

, 1h56
Directed by Richard Donner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Time travel films
Actors Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, David Thewlis, Billy Connolly, Anna Friel
Rating56%
Professor Edward Johnston leads an archaeological study of the village of Castelgard near LaRoque Castle in Dordogne, France, the site of the 1357 hanging of Lady Claire, sister to Arnaut de Cervole; her martyrdom led the French the win the Hundred Years War against the English. Johnston's includes Scottish archaeologist André Marek, Johnston's students Kate Erickson, Josh Stern, and François Dontelle, and his son Chris who is infatuated with Kate. While excavating a nearby monastery, they find a sarcophagus with the remains of a French knight with a lopped ear holding the hand of his lady, an unheard-of practice for the time. Johnston travels to the American headquarters of the ITC Corporation, their sponsor, to question if they have tampered with the site. The students later discover a pair of Johnston's bifocals and a note begging for help, though both date over 600 years old. When they contact ITC, the company invites them to their headquarters.

, 3h20
Directed by Roger Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Peter O'Toole, Vittoria Belvedere, Charlotte Rampling, Benjamin Sadler, Ken Duken, Gottfried John
Rating61%
Augustus is on his death bed. He looks back on his life to a conversation he had with his beloved daughter, Julia. After an attempt on Augustus' life, he is shocked to learn his closest friend and Julia's husband Marcus Agrippa is dead. Livia suggests that for the safety of Rome, her stepdaughter Julia should marry her son Tiberius. Her reluctance to marry Tiberius causes Augustus to sit down and tell her the story of how he became the emperor of Rome.

Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Nicollette Sheridan, Andrew Jackson, Leni Parker, Richard Jutras
Rating47%
Adam Hamilton est un séduisant professeur de collège. Lorsqu'il remarque que l'une de ses élèves, Melinda, est en difficulté, il convoque la mère de la jeune fille, Donna Randal. Il comprend alors que Mme. Randal est délaissée par son mari, Jeff, toujours absent en raison de son travail de reporter. Une liaison torride commence entre Adam et Donna. Mais lorsque Jeff revient définitivement à la maison, les ennuis commencent...

, 1h34
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Actors David Keith, Billy Dee Williams, Angel Boris, Brian Thompson, Shero Rauf, Adrienne McQueen
Rating42%
Engineer Mason Rand (David Keith) returns to help determine if the mysterious monolith he had studied earlier can be used to help save Earth from destruction, or if it is in fact causing it.

, 1h21
Directed by Andy Wolk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Christmas films
Actors Valerie Bertinelli, David Cubitt, Peter Falk, William Russ, Patricia Gage, Bill Carr
Rating62%
When a photojournalist (David Cubitt) in the fictional Bay City photographs a mysterious stranger performing an act of bravery, the act quickly becomes headline news and the town dubs the stranger "John Christmas". After seeing the photo, Kathleen McAllister (Valerie Bertinelli) becomes convinced that the mysterious stranger is in fact her long-lost brother Hank (William Russ), a former firefighter. With the town's help, Kathleen and Noah set about to find the stranger's true identity with the help of Max (Peter Falk), a Christmas angel.

, 1h7
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Time travel films, Films set in the future, Children's films
Actors Christy Carlson Romano, Will Friedle, Nancy Cartwright, Tahj Mowry, Gary Cole, Michael Dorn
Rating69%
Kim Possible (Christy Carlson Romano) is a high-school cheerleader and world-famous crimefighter, and Ron Stoppable (Will Friedle) is her faithful sidekick. Ron has a pet naked mole rat named Rufus (Nancy Cartwright). The film begins at the start of a new school year, but the start of a fun year is ruined when Ron finds out he's moving to Norway. Meanwhile, Dr. Drakken, Shego, Duff Killigan and Monkey Fist team up to steal the Time Monkey, a small statuette used to travel through time. With help from her computer guru Wade Load (Tahj Mowry) and her friend Monique, Kim follows the villains to Australia as they steal the body and head of the Time Monkey, but the villains connect the head to the body inside the Time Monkey's temple in Africa and they escape through the resulting time portal.

Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors James Brolin, Judy Davis, Željko Ivanek, Mary Beth Peil, Bill Smitrovich, Sarah Allen
Rating59%

, 1h31
Directed by Terry Zwigoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Christmas films, Films about drugs
Actors Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Lauren Graham, Lauren Tom, John Ritter, Brett Kelly
Rating70%
Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) and his dwarfed assistant Marcus (Tony Cox) are professional thieves. Every year, Willie disguises himself as a department store Santa Claus and Marcus disguises himself as an elf in order for both of them to rob shopping malls blind at night. Willie is an alcoholic, a sex addict, and is gradually unable to perform his Santa duties appropriately with children, much to Marcus' dismay. When they are hired at the fictional Saguaro Square Mall in Phoenix, the vulgar remarks made by Willie shock the prudish mall manager Bob Chipeska (John Ritter), who brings it to the attention of security chief Gin Slagel (Bernie Mac).

, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Action, Crime
Actors Danny Nucci, Shirley Henderson, Vincent Pastore, Dan Hedaya, Russell Hunter, Olegar Fedoro
Rating60%
Two New Jersey mobsters are almost killed when a deal in Eastern Europe goes wrong. They take refuge with their law-abiding cousin Bobby, who runs a fish and chip shop in Glasgow, Scotland. But when one of the Americans takes a shine to Bobby's girl and the other clashes with local hoodlums, Bobby realises he has to stand up for himself or risk losing everything he loves.

, 1h30
Directed by Jim Wynorski
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Actors Stephen Baldwin, Nicollette Sheridan, Coby Ryan McLaughlin, Hannes Jaenicke, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Jerry Doyle
Rating38%
The movie takes place in the present day, when a policeman obtains one of the halves, and gives it to his brother to figure out. The policeman is then captured by a mobster who was looking for the treasure, who then forces him to come to the island to help him find it. Meanwhile, his brother hires a small plane (with a female pilot and two incidental passengers) to take him to the island, but a storm ends up stranding everyone. The two groups are forced to survive in the jungle while also clashing with each other.

, 30minutes
Directed by Jun'ichi Satō
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Actors Yasunori Matsumoto, Akira Ishida, Hikaru Midorikawa, Masami Suzuki, Maria Kawamura, Megumi Hayashibara
Rating66%
Lina and Gourry travel to the town of Acassi, known for its tasty octopus. However, the octopus meat is cursed, causing the person who eats it to only be able to speak takogo (タコ語, octopus language). Sorcerers and sorceresses cursed by this also cannot cast spells, since the spells have to be spoken in a common language in order for them to work.

, 1h57
Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about alcoholism, La banlieue française, Films about children, Films about immigration, Théâtre, La précarité
Actors Sara Forestier, Osman Elkharraz, Sabrina Ouazani, Rachid Hami, Carole Franck, Olivier Loustau
Rating68%
A group of teenagers from the housing projects of the Paris suburbs practice a passage from the play Games of Love and Chance by Marivaux for their French class. Abdelkrim, or Krimo, who initially does not act in the play, falls in love with Lydia. In order to try to seduce her, he accepts the role of Arlequin and joins the rehearsal. But his timidness and awkwardness keeps him from participating in the play as well as succeeding with Lydia.

, 2h17
Directed by Ron Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Aaron Eckhart, Jenna Boyd, Val Kilmer
Rating64%
In late 19th-century New Mexico, Samuel Jones reappears hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Maggie Gilkeson. She is unable to forgive him for abandoning the family and leaving her mother to a hard life and early death. This situation changes when Pesh-Chidin and a dozen of his followers (who have left the reservation) pass through the area, ritualistically killing settlers and taking their daughters to be sold into slavery in Mexico. Among those captured is Maggie's eldest daughter, Lilly. Maggie's rancher boyfriend Brake Baldwin was among the settlers killed.