Movies Released February 21, 2014

Friday, February 21

Pompeii PG-13

Recounts the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and the destruction of the ancient Roman city.
Paul W.S. Anderson, Janet Scott Batchler, Lee Batchler, Jared Harris, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Kiefer Sutherland
Action Adventure Historical Period 3D

In Secret R

Paris,1867. Madame Raquin forces her young neice Therese into a loveless marriage with her sick, spoiled first cousin. However, Therese becomes obsessed with her husband’s friend Laurent and falls into a devastating affair that unravels all of their lives.
Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, Mickey Liddell, William Horberg, Tom Felton, Jessica Lange, Mackenzie Crook, Charlie Stratton
Drama Thriller Provocative
98 mins

Omar

Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. On the other side of the wall, the sensitive young baker Omar becomes a freedom fighter who must face painful choices about life and manhood. When Omar is captured after a deadly act of resistance, he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. Suspicion and betrayal jeopardize his longtime trust with accomplices and childhood friends Amjad and Tarek, Nadia’s militant brother. Omar’s feelings quickly become as torn apart as the Palestinian landscape. But it’s soon evident that everything he does is for his love of Nadia.
Hany Abu-Assad
Drama Thriller
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Barefoot PG-13

The "black sheep" son (Scott Speedman) of a wealthy family meets a free-spirited, but sheltered woman (Evan Rachel Wood). To convince his family that he's finally straightened out his life, he takes her home for his brother's wedding where an improbable romance blooms, as she impresses everyone with her genuine, simple charms.
J.K. Simmons, Andrew Fleming, Stephen Zotnowski, Evan Rachel Wood, Scott Speedman, Treat Williams, Kate Burton
Drama Comedy
88 mins

Holy Ghost People R

A Southern Gothic thriller about a teenager searching for her lost sister in the Appalachian Mountains, where she encounters a snake-handling religious cult and eventually learns the truth about her sister's fate.
Cameron Richardson, Don Harvey, Mitchell Altieri, Emma Greenwell, Joe Egender, Brendan McCarthy, Roger Aaron Brown
Thriller

The Wind Rises PG-13

Follows Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.
John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Elijah Wood, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Martin Short, Mandy Patinkin, Hayao Miyazaki
Drama Fantasy Historical Biography Animation

Black Out

On the day before his wedding, retired criminal Jos (Raymond Thiry) wakes up with a splitting headache, a missing wedding ring, and a dead body in bed next to him. With no memory of the previous day's events, he quickly finds himself pursued by suspicious narcotics officers and an assortment of eccentric and dangerous criminals who believe Jos has stolen 20 kilos of cocaine. With less than 24 hours to unravel the mystery, Jos is forced back into the seedy Amsterdam underworld in hopes that he can recover the coke and ring, and live long enough to make it to the altar.
Arne Toonen, Raymond Thiry, Kim van Kooten
Action Comedy Thriller

Friday, February 21