Cinema releases by week

, 1h30
Directed by C. Thomas Howell
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors C. Thomas Howell, Judd Nelson, Darren Dalton, Jeff Lewis, Bug Hall, Cameron Bender
Rating28%
The film centers on Josh Myron (C. Thomas Howell) as six hundred and sixty six gigantic interplanetary robots land on Earth.

, 1h30
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Action
Themes Christmas films
Actors Nicole de Boer, Patrick Muldoon, Gig Morton, Garry Chalk, Jocelyne Loewen, Gabe Khouth
Rating52%
It all begins when Liz McCann and her son, Mason, leave on a trip to visit Liz's estranged father Jack for Christmas. He gave them instructions, but they just can't seem to find the exact place. Liz was driving, and Mason suddenly tells her to stop. She thinks her son saw something, but it was just a reindeer. Mason runs deep in the forest and sees a town in the valley. He announces to his mother that they have found the place, but Liz can't get the car running. Mason assures her they can walk, it's not that far.

, 1h18
Genres Action, Horror
Actors Sasa Handa, Yuria Hidaka, Ayumi Tokitō
Rating43%
A lab mix-up accidentally swaps a vaccine with a virus that turns a high school full of students and teachers into flesh-eating zombies. But all is not lost: New student Aki discovers that the swim team is immune to the plague. With the school rampaged by ravenous monsters, the girls engage in an over-the-top orgy of gory violence to save the day. Sasa Handa, Yuria Hidaka and Hiromitsu Kiba star in this comic creature feature.

Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors David Carradine, Bruce Dern, Mariel Hemingway, Rip Torn, Charles Durning, John Savage
Rating59%
A romantic comedy, set on Cape Cod in 1905, about three 70-year-old retired sea captains who try to lure an attractive, middle-aged woman into marriage.

, 1h43
Directed by Scott Derrickson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Environmental films, La fin du monde, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Political films, Dystopian films, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about earthquakes
Actors Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, John Cleese
Rating55%
In 1928, a solitary mountaineer encounters a glowing sphere. He loses consciousness and when he wakes, the sphere has gone and there is a scar on his hand where a sample of his DNA has been taken.

, 1h28
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Brooke Burns, Henry Winkler, Warren Christie, Rebecca Toolan, Michael Roberds, Serge Houde
Rating72%
Ralph is a retired police officer who has worked as a New York cop for over 38 years. He plans on visiting his niece Jennifer in Chicago for the holidays. Jennifer is a successful businesswoman and the single mother of her young son Brian. She grew up all her life mostly at Ralph's, as her mother was constantly traveling and her father died when she was very young. Since then, she has lost her Christmas spirit. At the airport, Ralph has no idea where he has to be and he is helped by co-traveler Morgan Derby, a 30-year-old chef who has trouble accepting his age. When it turns out his second flight to Denver is canceled, Ralph offers Morgan to a place to stay at Jennifer's house.

, 1h38
Directed by Alfredo De Villa
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Christmas films, Political films
Actors Luis Guzmán, John Leguizamo, Debra Messing, Alfred Molina, Freddy Rodríguez, Melonie Diaz
Rating61%
At Chicago O'Hare International Airport, a group of Marines have just returned to the US from Iraq. As the Marines leave, one Marine remains and makes his way towards the exit. The Marine's name is Jesse Rodriguez (Freddy Rodriguez). The film cuts to a house where a man, Edy Rodriguez (Alfred Molina) is on a ladder nailing up a welcome home sign for Jesse. The woman, his wife, Anna Rodriguez (Elizabeth Peña) gives him a rather disgruntled look before leaving to prepare for Jesse's return.

, 1h30
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Musical films
Rating66%

Origin USA
Actors Carlos Alazraqui, Tara Strong, Lombardo Boyar, Johnny Sanchez, Jill Michele Meleán, Johnny A. Sanchez

Bobby Ray Jacobs (Carlos Alazraqui), a Southern man, is the sole remaining Caucasian dishwasher in America, and is surprisingly famous for it. The dishwasher career is a legacy for his family, starting with his grandfather. The film depicts several interviews with Bobby Ray and many of his friends, including his agent Rudy Valentine (Lombardo Boyer) and his British girlfriend Tamara Swanson (Tara Strong), explaining how he got his job and how he got to be where he is today.

, 1h33
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Paul Preiss, Caitlin Wachs, Rachael Taylor, Dr. Stephen Macht, Elissa Dowling, Dean O'Gorman
Rating27%
Ryan (played by Paul Preiss) has been plagued by nightmares since his sister Amy (Rachel Taylor) disappeared after playing the game "Bloody Mary" eight years earlier. Ryan, now a senior at college suffers, from stress and guilt from his sister's disappearance. His girlfriend Rachel (Irina Costa) calls for help of Father O'Neal (Robert J. Locke), a former professor of Ryan. O'Neal, a priest and an archaeologist tries to help Ryan by attempting to uncover the circumstances on Amy's vanishing.

, 2h
Directed by Jean Van de Velde
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Thekla Reuten, Jacqueline Blom, Peter Van Den Begin, Ricky Koole
Rating58%
Eduard Zuiderwijk (Marco Borsato) runs a restaurant in Africa. When his wife (Ricky Koole) suddenly dies, he is left to take care of his son Thomas (Siebe Schoneveld) on his own. When his son's best friend Abu (Andrew Kintu) is abducted by a rebel leader to be trained as a child soldier, Eduard goes in pursuit to save the boy and regain his son's respect.

, 1h44
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Constantin Khabenski, Vladimir Machkov, Tchoulpan Khamatova
Rating68%

, 1h28
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Christmas films
Actors Kim Basinger, Lukas Haas, Craig Sheffer, Luke Gair, Rachel Hayward, Melissa Sue Anderson
Rating48%
On Christmas Eve, suburban housewife Della Myers (Kim Basinger) gets into an argument with her abusive husband Kenneth (Craig Sheffer). After putting her two children to bed, she drives to the mall to buy some wrapping paper and cards. At the mall, she can't find a parking space for a while and angrily leaves a note on the window of a car that is parked using up two parking spaces. She leaves the store as the mall is closing, and the parking lot is nearly deserted. She notices the note is gone from the 'offending' car. As she enters her own car, the car on which she had left the note pulls up behind her.

, 1h30
Directed by Alex Rivera
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Social science fiction, Romance
Themes Films about computing, Transport films, Aviation films, Films set in the future, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Anticipation, Robot films
Actors Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas, Tenoch Huerta Mejía
Rating59%
'Sleep Dealer' is set in a future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, where three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.

, 1h23
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Bijou Phillips, Gabriel Mann, Izabella Miko, Elias Koteas, Michael Fairman, Mike Muscat
Rating44%
Set in a visually dazzling fantasy of 1930s New York, Dark Streets tells the story of Chaz Davenport (Gabriel Mann), a dashing playboy who owns what promises to become the hottest new nightclub in town if only the lights would stay on. Surrounded by the sumptuous blues music he adores, and with his pick of the gorgeous women who perform their sensual dance numbers on stage every night, Chaz is the envy of every man.

Directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay
Genres Drama
Actors Subhasish Mukhopadhyay, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Lily Chakravarty, Biswanath Basu, Chandan Sen, Debesh Chattopadhyay
Rating76%
This story is based on the life of one Herbert Sarkar, played by Subhasish Mukhopadhyay. Herbert Sarkar, the protagonist of the story is a forty-year-old crank who thinks that he can talk to the dead. Herbert grew up in North Kolkata, feeding on the charity of relatives, and being the butt of local jokes. He declares one day that he has received a message in a dream that has told him where his long dead cousin Binu's diary remains hidden. People are surprised and amused. But when this prediction proves to be true, Herbert becomes a local sensation. He sets up a roaring business called "Dialogues with the Dead" for three years and for the first time in his life, earns money and the respect of others. However, his luck runs out when the international Rationalist Society declares him a fraud and threatens to turn him over to the law unless he closes shop. This deeply affects Herbert and he commits suicide that very night. However, his celebrity power increases to unprecedented levels the day after his death. After his body is put inside the electric cremation chamber, there is a tremendous explosion that rips apart the building, injuring many bystanders. The incident hits the headlines as a posthumous terroristic act, and a high-level police inquiry is launched to find the mystery behind it. The film begins at this point and follows the trajectory of the inquiry, flash-backing into the hidden corners of Herbert's quixotic life into his lonely growing up years as an alienated orphan, his ill-treatment at the hands of his cruel cousin Dhanna, his only tragic-comic love affair, and his unwitting involvement with the underground Maoist Naxalbari movement during the turbulent seventies. It covers several decades not only in the life of its protagonist, but also in the life of Kolkata the city that is at once mysterious, funny, tempestuous, and always full of life.

, 1h28
Directed by Nisha Ganatra
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Christmas films
Actors Wendie Malick, Cynthia Stevenson, Tommy Lioutas, Patrick McKenna, Reagan Pasternak, John Paul Ruttan
Rating56%
The Fines must survive Christmas with the Kringles. Rebbecca, Jewish, and her fiancé Henry, Christian, must get to know their in-laws, put up with fighting parents, and survey their family's traditions as they prepare to share a life together.

, 1h33
Directed by Noriyuki Abe
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Animation
Actors Masakazu Morita, Laura Bailey, Fumiko Orikasa, Kentaro Ito, J. B. Blanc, Ryōtarō Okiayu
Rating70%
In the Soul Society, Mayuri Kurotsuchi is attacked in his laboratory by a pair of mysterious siblings wielding a scythe that erases his memories. In a frightened panic, Kurotsuchi damages a machine and causes a massive reiatsu explosion that covers much of Soul Society in a milky layer of reiatsu in the form of a giant rampaging river of serpents, killing and freezing many Soul Reapers, including Kenpachi Zaraki. Rukia Kuchiki is confronted and attacked by the siblings, erasing her memories and those of everybody that has memories of her, and is carried away to a rundown area of Rukongai by the siblings. Seemingly everyone in the Soul Society has their memories of Rukia erased.

, 1h40
Directed by Brian Goodman, Rand Ravich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Ethan Hawke, Mark Ruffalo, Amanda Peet, Donnie Wahlberg, Angela Featherstone, Brian Goodman
Rating64%
Hawke and Ruffalo play childhood friends Paulie and Brian, who are forced to survive on the tough streets of South Boston through a life of petty thievery. They join a local gang of criminals, but Brian finds it hard to reconcile his work and friendship with Paulie and his relationship with his wife (Amanda Peet) and sons.

, 1h30
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Jason Gedrick, Rhea Perlman, Michael Sarrazin, Cindy Sampson, Roc LaFortune, John Dunn-Hill
Rating66%
Nineteen days before Christmas, Peter Brockman (Jason Gedrick) is a successful accountant whose life has turned upside down when his fiancée Jill (Cindy Sampson) dumps him because of his emotional detachment and his being a workaholic isolated from life. While sipping on soda at a lounge, he is visited by Bob (Tyrone Benskin), a blues pianist and singer, who is working only for the need of tips. The two talk about their favor of music and Peter's long dream of once becoming a musician, from a younger age. When Bob invites Peter to his house, Peter is amazed about the musical performances the occupants have shown, not knowing the home was a shelter for other homeless people. He eventually meets the caring yet shrewish nun Sister Agatha (Rhea Perlman), who re-appraises his troubles and changing struggles in life. He decides the only to way to help build money and better opportunities to the shelter is to organize them into a choir.

, 1h36
Directed by Vicente Amorim
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Mark Strong, Jodie Whittaker, Steven Mackintosh, Gemma Jones
Rating61%
Good is the story of John Halder (Mortensen), a German literature professor in the 1930s, who is reluctant at first to accept the ideas of the Nazi Party. He is pulled in different emotional directions by his wife, his mother, his mistress (Whittaker) and his Jewish friend (Isaacs). Eventually Halder gives in to Nazism in order to advance his career. He is granted an honorary position in the SS, due to his writings in support of euthanasia. His involvement in the party makes his relationship with his Jewish friend more and more fraught. Finally, Halder finds himself working for Adolf Eichmann. Under the pretext of work he engineers a visit to a concentration camp where he imagines that he sees his emaciated friend. Seeing inmates arriving and the suffering of those at the camp he realizes what his deeds have accomplished.

, 1h25
Directed by Armand Mastroianni
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Elizabeth Berkley, Alicia Coppola, Jeremy Howard, Brady Smith, Randall Batinkoff, Tembi Locke
Rating49%
Olivia (Elizabeth Berkley), is young, beautiful, brilliant, and effortlessly charming. She is a dedicated charity worker, responsible for establishing free clinics across the country for poor women. When she meets millionaire Danny Keegan (Randall Batinkoff), the pair soon form a relationship and he falls for her. However, it soon becomes clear that not everyone admires Olivia. Danny’s college friend, Melanie (Alicia Coppola), a photo journalist for the Los Angeles Post, thinks that there is something suspicious about Olivia and soon wants to learn more about the mysterious woman.

, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films
Actors Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Riley Smith, Tessa Thompson, Julissa Bermúdez, John Reardon, Ashley Roberts
Rating54%
The movie opens in Glenwood, Indiana, where Lauryn Kirk (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) narrates the first few parts. There are no dance schools in Glenwood and Lauryn says goodbye to her brother, Joel (John Reardon) before departing for Chicago to audition for a famous dance school, the fictional Chicago School of Music and Dance. Although Joel, who works as a mechanic in the family garage, is wary of Lauryn's decision to enroll, he eventually gives her his blessing. When Lauryn enters the stage, however, her dance (mostly a hip hop routine) was halted by the judge, who hostilely rejects her, saying that they need to see something more "sensual and feminine".

, 1h24
Directed by José Luis Guerin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Pilar López de Ayala, Xavier Lafitte
Rating67%
Lui, un jeune artiste peintre français, retourne dans la ville de Strasbourg, six ans après sa première venue lors de laquelle il a rencontré Sylvie, un soir au Bar des Aviateurs. Obsédé par ce souvenir, il erre, avec l'espoir de retrouver cette femme, dans les différents lieux de l'autre capitale européenne, ville cosmopolite, mais froide, où il ne réussit pas à entrer en contact avec les gens, se contentant d'en dessiner des esquisses sur son carnet à croquis.

, 1h47
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ana Claudia Talancón, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Joaquín Cosío, Mariana Peñalva, María Aura, Danna Paola
Rating74%
The film takes place over the span of several years within the 1930s in Mexico, focusing on the life of Catalina "Catín" Guzmán (Ana Claudia Talancón), a young girl born to a middle-class family in Puebla. She meets the cunning General Andrés Ascencio (Daniel Giménez Cacho) while on an outing with her family and he becomes interested in her, paying her regular visits and lavishing her with gifts and praise. Smitten, she agrees to accompany him to Tecolutla and loses her virginity to him. At that point she becomes curious about sexual activity, including masturbation. Despite Andrés's light misogyny and casual derisions of her age and intelligence whenever offering her opinions on politics and other issues they discuss, she cares for him.

, 1h34
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Freddie Prinze, Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sally Kellerman, Anne Bancroft, Chris Kattan, Louis Gossett Jr.
Rating43%
After having left their own world due to a loss of natural resources, the winged humanoid Nohrin settle on Jhamora with the permission of the ground-dwelling Lokni. But some of the Nohrin, led by would-be conqueror Sedessa, believe in the superiority of their own race and try to take land away from the Lokni. The parents of Delgo, a Lokni, are killed in the resulting conflict. Nohrin King Zahn is horrified by the war and admonishes Sedessa, who then poisons the Queen and almost kills Zahn as well. She is subsequently banished, and her wings are clipped off. Delgo, meanwhile, is raised by Elder Marley, who tries to teach him how to use the power of magical stones. Once Delgo grows up, however, he gives in to his desire for revenge against the Nohrin as a whole. But then he meets Princess Kyla of the Nohrin and develops a tentative friendship with her. When she is kidnapped by Nohrin General Raius, who is actually working for Sedessa, Delgo and his friend Filo are blamed and arrested. In the Nohrin prison, Delgo meets Nohrin General Bogardus, who was forced to illegally gamble with his weapons by Raius, because Bogardus opposed an all out war with the Lokni. Delgo, Filo, and Bogardus escape into some underground caverns and eventually reach Sedessa's stronghold and rescue Kyla. Together they hurry back to try to stop the war from taking place. They are too late, for the war has already begun. Bogardus meanwhile fights and defeats Raius, but is soon after mortally injured.

, 2h47
Directed by Aditya Chopra
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Vinay Pathak, Roshan Seth, Manmeet Singh, Bipasha Basu
Rating71%
Shy, introverted and kind-hearted Surinder "Suri" Sahni (Shah Rukh Khan) is an office employee for Punjab Power. He meets the daughter of his former teacher, and professor (M.K. Raina), beautiful and vivacious Taani Gupta (Anushka Sharma), during the preparations for her wedding. A short time later, the shocking news arrives that her fiance and his wedding entourage were killed in a road accident. Taani's father suffers a major heart attack due to the news. On his deathbed, fearing that Taani will be alone in the world and unable to bear the trauma, the professor requests that Surinder marry her. Surinder silently concedes because he likes her anyway, and Taani agrees for her father's sake.

, 7minutes
Directed by Karen Disher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes La préhistoire, Children's films
Actors John Leguizamo, Chris Wedge, Emily Osment, Shane Baumel, Paul Butcher, Karen Disher
Rating65%
Sid, the Sloth, takes a school of children out on a camping trip from home, only to find that he is not a very good guide and the children are bored. In a cameo appearance, Scrat has swallowed his acorn and is struggling to keep it down. He coughs it up and it is stolen from him. The camping trip leaves some of the children somewhat traumatized. Sid tries to pick a flower, but somehow this has led to a tree falling, which then hits a rock, which causes a chain reaction and hits a series of larger rocks, until eventually hitting a large iceberg. The iceberg then carves out a u-shaped valley, which Sid later names the Grand Canyon. Afterwards the kids get so annoyed with Sid that it ends with them tying him up. Many years later on present day, it shows a father and son beaver looking over the Grand Canyon with the son asking who made it. The father replies "Nature or a being with infinite wisdom.

, 1h44
Directed by John Patrick Shanley
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Films about pedophilia, Films based on plays
Actors Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis, Lydia Jordan, Alice Drummond
Rating74%
Set in 1964 at a Catholic church in The Bronx, New York, the film opens with the jovial Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) giving a sermon on the nature of doubt, noting that like faith, doubt can be a unifying force. The next evening, Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the strict principal of the parish school, discusses the sermon with her fellow nuns, the Sisters of Charity of New York. She asks if anyone has observed unusual behavior that would inspire Father Flynn to preach about doubt, and instructs them to keep their eyes open should any such behavior occur in the future.

, 1h43
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure
Actors Lee Jung-jae, Kim Ok-bin, Kim Suk Hoon, Hong Seok-cheon, Lee Won-jong, Kim Ok-vin
Rating58%
The film is set in Joseon Dynasty Korea, 1724. Cheon-doong, a hoodlum from a small village, meets and falls in love with Seol-ji, a kisaeng at Myeongwolhyang, a luxurious bar. One day he gets into a fight with the head of the Yangjoo gang, but later faces a crisis when the palace decides to crack down on gang activity at Myeongwolhyang. In his pursuit of Seol-ji, Cheon-doong inadvertently incurs the anger of the top-ranking gangster in the area, Man-deuk (Kim Suk Hoon).

, 3h20
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Jeu, Films about magic and magicians, Adaptations de Pinocchio, Films about toys, Children's films
Actors Robbie Kay, Bob Hoskins, Joss Ackland, Alessandro Gassmann, Violante Placido, Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Rating56%
C’est dans un village de Toscane que l’histoire d'un écrivain se réalise par magie : en effet, le pantin de bois, réalisé par le vieux menuisier Geppetto, devient vivant par l'entremise de la fée. Afin de gagner un véritable cœur, Pinocchio devra agir pour le bien. Geppetto découvre la naïveté de l'enfant dès les premières sorties.

, 1h46
Directed by Paul Schrader
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi, Ayelet Zurer, Moritz Bleibtreu, Hana Laszlo
Rating61%
The film follows the story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient of a fictitious psychiatric asylum for Holocaust survivors in Israel, in 1961.

, 1h27
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy
Rating25%
Narrated by Mandy (Ciara O'Hanlon), as she tells the story of her friend Billy Owens, (Dalton Mugridge) an average boy who has just turned 11. She notes the strangeness of him being born at the stroke of 11 on November 11, which is later discovered to be a number of great power. Billy, along with know-it-all Mandy and their cowardly but loyal best friend Devon (Christopher Fazio) discover that Billy's family has magical origins, and upon a chance encounter with a mysterious shop keeper (Roddy Piper) who Billy buys a wand from for $11, they also find out that he can use the wand to cast magic spells, and together they embark on a journey to save their town of Spirit River from a foretold prophecy and prevent the resurrection of a dragon under the influence of the ancient Viking trickster God Loki.