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releases, but here’s what’s opening this week –>
FILMS IN WIDE RELEASE
All the loveable characters are back — Alex the lion, Marty
the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo, King Julien, Maurice and the
penguins — in “Madagascar: The Crate Escape.” Left marooned on the
distant shores of Madagascar, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it
just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old
crashed plane – sort of. Once aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long
enough to make it to the wildest place of all – the vast plains of Africa itself
— where our zoo-raised crew encounters species of their own kind for the very
first time. While discovering their roots, they quickly realize the differences
between the concrete jungle and the heart of Africa. Despite long-lost
relatives, romantic rivals and scheming hunters, Africa seems like a
“crack-a-lackin” great place…but is it better than their Central
Park home?
9/10
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Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott star in Role Models as
Danny and Wheeler, two salesmen who trash a company truck on an energy
drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard
time or spend 150 service hours with a mentorship program. After one day with
the kids, however, jail doesn’t look half bad. Surrounded by annoying
do-gooders, Danny struggles with his every neurotic impulse to guide Augie
(Christopher Mintz-Plasse) through the trials of becoming a man. Unfortunately,
the guy just dumped by his girlfriend (Elizabeth Banks) has only sarcasm to
offer a bashful 16-year-old obsessed with medieval role play.
Meanwhile, charming Wheeler tries to trade in an addiction to
partying and women to assist a fifth-grader named Ronnie (Bobb’e J. Thompson)
redirect his foul-mouthed ways. It would probably help if Ronnie’s new mentor
wasn’t an overgrown adolescent whose idea of quality time includes keggers in
Venice Beach. Once the center’s ex-con director (Jane Lynch) gives them an
ultimatum, Danny and Wheeler are forced to tailor their brand of immature wisdom
to their charges. And if they can just make it through probation without getting
thrown in jail, the world’s worst role models will prove that, sometimes, it
takes a village idiot to raise a child.
9.6/10
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The two remaining members of the
popular soul band, The Real Deal, from the 1970’s, Floyd Henderson, now a
retired businessman, and ne’er-do-well, ex-convict, Louis Hinds, take a road
trip to the Apollo Theater for a musical tribute to their recently deceased
front man, Marcus Hook. As they travel cross country in a series of adventures
and misdventures, they air old grievances about thirty year old betrayals and
learn the music’s still in them.
7.5/10
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FILMS IN LIMITED RELEASE
In the year 2056 – the not so distant future – an
epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior
emerges: GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants… for a price.
Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted by
villainous Repo Men. In a world where surgery addicts are hooked on painkilling
drugs and murder is sanctioned by law, a sheltered young girl searches for the
cure to her own rare disease as well as information about her family’s
mysterious history. After being sucked into the haunting world of GeneCo, she is
unable to turn back, as all of her questions will be answered at the wildly
anticipated spectacular event: The Genetic Opera. By fusing ROCKY HORROR PICTURE
SHOW and BLADE RUNNER, this unique production will modernize the “rock
opera” genre with original music and rich, dark production design. This is not
your parents’ opera…
9.3/10
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THE
BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS
Eight year-old Bruno is the sheltered son of a Nazi officer
whose promotion takes the family from their comfortable home in Berlin to a
desolate area where the lonely boy finds nothing to do and no-one to play with.
Crushed by boredom and compelled by curiosity, Bruno ignores his mother’s
repeated instructions not to explore the back garden and heads for the farm he
has seen in the near distance. There he meets Shmuel, a boy his own age who
lives a parallel, alien existence on the other side of a barbed wire fence.
Bruno’s encounter with the boy in the striped pajamas leads him from innocence
to a dawning awareness of the adult world around them as his meetings with
Shmuel develop into a friendship with devastating consequences.
6/10
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When the life of Jean-Claude Van Damme collides with the
reality of a hold-up in Brussels, Belgium, suddenly the huge movie star turns
into an ordinary guy, filled with fears, contradictions and hopes. How can he be
up to the legend he has built? What can a film hero do when the gun pointed to
his temple isn’t charged with blanks? JCVD finds himself at the turning point of
his “hero” life.
8/10
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