By Amy Renner Jul. 26, 2018
Friday, January 15
Norm of the North
"Norm of the North" tells the story of the titular polar bear and his three Arctic lemming buddies, who are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in New York, Norm begins life anew as a performing corporate mascot, only to discover that his new employers are directly responsible for the destruction of his polar home.
Bill Nighy, Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Zachary Gordon, Trevor Wall, Gabriel Iglesias, Derek Elliott
Family Animation 3D
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
An attack takes place on the U.S. Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA Annex in Benghazi on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11. Four Americans are killed in the attack, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
Michael Bay, James Badge Dale, Toby Stephens, Erwin Stoff, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Chuck Hogan, John Krasinski
Drama Adaptation True Story
Ride Along 2
A second-grade teacher must deal with his wife's tough cop brother.
Kevin Hart, Sherri Shepherd, Tim Story, Glen Powell, Matt Manfredi, Ice Cube, Ken Jeong, Bruce McGill
Action Comedy Sequel Crime
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The Lady in the Van
Miss Shepherd, a vagrant woman, parks her decrepit van outside a man's house and stays living there for 15 years. He eventually allows her to park her vehicle in his drive, sparking an often-strained relationship which ends when she dies in 1989.
James Corden, Alan Bennett, Jim Broadbent, Nicholas Hytner, Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam
Drama Biography
Intruders
Anna suffers from agoraphobia so crippling that when a trio of criminals break into her house, she cannot bring herself to flee. But what the intruders don’t realize is that agoraphobia is not her only psychosis.
Martin Starr, Rory Culkin, Adam Schindler, Beth Riesgraf
Thriller Horror
Band of Robbers
A comedic adventure that reimagines the characters as grown men, and small-time crooks. When Huck Finn is released from prison, he hopes to leave his criminal life behind, but his lifelong friend, and corrupt cop, Tom Sawyer, has other plans. Not ready to give up on his childhood fantasies, Tom forms the Band of Robbers, recruiting their misfit friends, Joe Harper and Ben Rogers, to join them for an elaborate plan to find a fabled treasure. But the plan soon unravels, thrusting the guys on a wild journey with dangerous consequences…
Hannibal Buress, Matthew Gray Gubler, Adam Nee, Kyle Gallner, Aaron Nee, Melissa Benoist
Adventure Comedy
A Perfect Day
The setting is 1995, “somewhere in the Balkans.” Over the course of 24 breathless hours, Mambrú (Benicio del Toro), leads his team of humanitarians—including hard-bitten, wisecracking veteran B (Tim Robbins) and new recruit Sophie (Melanie Thierry)—as they deal with a most unexpected crisis, layers of bureaucratic red tape, and the reappearance of Mambrú’s old flame (Olga Kurylenko).
Melanie Thierry, Fernando León de Aranoa, Benicio Del Toro, Olga Kurylenko, Tim Robbins
Drama
Eisenstein In Guanajuato
In 1931, at the height of his artistic powers, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film to be titled Que Viva Mexico. Freshly rejected by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, Eisenstein arrives at the city of Guanajuato. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, he vulnerably experiences the ties between Eros and Thanatos, sex and death, happy to create their effects in cinema, troubled to suffer them in life.
Peter Greenaway
Comedy Biography
The Benefactor
A newly married couple (Dakota Fanning and Theo James) are forced to navigate the all-consuming interest of a powerful, mysterious, and possessive philanthropist (Richard Gere).
Dakota Fanning, Andrew Renzi, Richard Gere, Theo James, Cheryl Hines
Drama Thriller
Moonwalkers
After failing to locate the legendary Stanley Kubrick, an unstable CIA agent (Ron Perlman) must instead team up with a seedy rock band manager (Rupert Grint) to develop the biggest con of all time—staging the moon landing.
Rupert Grint, Stephen Campbell Moore, Ron Perlman, Antoine Bardou-Jacquet, Robert Sheehan
Action Comedy
Detective Chinatown
Talented yet suffering from severe stuttering, Qing did not get into the Police Academy. In order to feel better, Qing travels to Thailand to visit his distant relative Tang, who claims to be the “number one detective in Chinatown,” but is in fact a shallow and scheming hooligan. After a night of drinking, Tang becomes the prime suspect of a mysterious murder, and goes on the run with Qing. While trying to evade the police, many colorful characters from Chinatown emerge. How can Tang and Qing clear their names within seven days, while being pursued by both the cops and the mafia?
Sicheng Chen
Action Crime Detective
