Movies Released March 1, 2013

Friday, March 1

115 mins

Jack the Giant Slayer PG-13

A drama that takes an adult look at the Jack and the Beanstalk legend. When a princess is kidnapped, the long-standing peace between men and giants is threatened. A young farmer is given an opportunity to lead a dangerous expedition to the giants' kingdom in hopes of rescuing her.
Nicholas Hoult, Bill Nighy, Neal H. Moritz, David Dobkin, Ewan McGregor, Bryan Singer, Stanley Tucci, Michael Bomback
Action Adventure Fantasy

Phantom

Ed Harris plays the captain of a Cold War Soviet missile submarine who has secretly been suffering from seizures that alter his perception of reality. Forced to leave his wife and daughter, he is rushed into a classified mission, where he is haunted by his past and challenged by a rogue KGB group (led by David Duchovny) bent on seizing control of the ship's nuclear missile. With the fate of humanity in his hands, Harris discovers he's been chosen for this mission in the belief he would fail.
David Duchovny, Ed Harris, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jason Beghe, Jason Gray-Stanford, Todd Robinson, William Fichtner, Lance Henriksen
War Thriller Historical
93 mins

21 and Over R

Two college seniors get their best friend drunk on his 21st birthday and then must race to get him to his medical school exam the next morning.
Miles Teller, Skylar Astin, Todd LIeberman, Justin Chon, Ryan Kavanaugh, David Hoberman, Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Comedy
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The Last Exorcism Part 2 PG-13

Sequel to the 2010 found-footage horror in which an Evangelical preacher allows a documentary crew to film his last exorcism to demonstrate his work is a fraud. The sequel picks up three months after the events of the original.
Marc Abraham, Joe Chrest, Ed Gass-Donnelly, Eric Newman, Damien Chazelle, Ashley Bell, Spencer Treat Clark, Andrew Sensenig
Sequel Thriller Horror
102 mins

Molly's Theory of Relativity

A recently unemployed astronomer makes a reckless decision on Halloween.
Jeff Lipsky, Nick Athas, Sophia Takal, Reed Birney, Cady Huffman, Adam LeFevre, Lawrence Michael Levine
Drama Family
87 mins

Leviathan NR

A documentary that takes you deep inside the dangerous world of commercial fishing. Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast—the very waters that once inspired Moby Dick—the film captures the world of the fishermen in starkly haunting, yet beautiful detail.
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Documentary
97 mins

Bunohan: Return to Murder NR

Set in a border town in northeastern Malaysia of the same name, Bunohan tells the powerful story of three estranged brothers—Adil, Bakar and Ilham—and their ailing father, whose fates become tragically intertwined in a web of deceit and corruption. After fleeing a deathmatch in Thailand, Adil the kickboxer is on the run from Ilham the hitman. The chase brings them to Bunohan, where they crash into the shady schemes of the ambitious businessman, Bakar. The trio’s unlikely homecoming brings to light the past of Pok Eng the patriarch, whose secrets will unravel the lives of all. Each man’s unfulfilled struggle for reconciliation and forgiveness leads to the violence of loss, betrayal, corruption and murder.
Zahiril Adzim, Dain Said, Faizal Hussein, Pekin Ibrahim
Drama Action

Stoker R

The story will focus on a moody teenager who -- after the death of her father -- has to deal with a mysterious uncle who returns to spend time with the family.
Dermot Mulroney, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael Costigan, Wentworth Miller, Carey Mulligan, Mia Wasikowska, Park Chan-wook
Drama Thriller Suspense Horror
95 mins

Koch

Former Mayor Ed Koch is the quintessential New Yorker. Still ferocious, charismatic, and hilariously blunt, the now 88-year-old Koch ruled New York from 1978 to 1989—a down-and-dirty decade of grit, graffiti, near-bankruptcy and rampant crime. First-time filmmaker (and former Wall Street Journal reporter) Neil Barsky has crafted a revealing portrait of this intensely private man, his legacy as a political titan, and the town he helped transform. His three terms included a fiercely competitive 1977 election; the burgeoning AIDS epidemic; landmark housing initiatives; and an irreparable municipal corruption scandal. Through candid interviews and rare archival footage, Koch thrillingly chronicles the personal and political toll of running the world’s most wondrous city.
Neil Barsky
Historical Biography Documentary
84 mins

A Place at the Table PG

49 million people in the U.S. – one in four children – don’t know where their next meal is coming from, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all Americans. Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush examine this issue through the lens of three people who are struggling with food insecurity.
Kristi Jacobson, Jeff Bridges, Lori Silverbush
Documentary
210 mins

Day of the Falcon

Starring Antonio Banderas (Desperado), Mark Strong (Zero Dark Thirty), Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) and Tahar Rahim (The Eagle), Day of the Falcon is an epic film that tackles honor, greed, betrayal and love between rival kingdoms. Just as the two groups cease to fight after years of bloodshed, oil is discovered between their territories, reigniting their once violent past. It’s now up to their children—young lovers who married in hopes of bringing the families together—to find a way to end the violence and to bring peace to the land.
Antonio Banderas, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Mark Strong, Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Tahar Rahim, Corey Johnson, Adriano Giannini
Drama Action Adventure Historical
90 mins

The End of Love NR

A struggling actor deals with his two-year-old son after the death of the boy’s mother.
Amanda Seyfried, Aubrey Plaza, Shannyn Sossamon, Michael Cera, Mark Webber, Mollie Engelhart, Jason Ritter, Jocelin Donahue
Drama
81 mins

Welcome to Pine Hill

With an unexpected encounter surrounding a lost dog, Welcome to Pine Hill blurs the line between documentary and fiction, following protagonist Shannon - a reformed drug dealer who is now an insurance claims adjuster - in the days following a grim medical diagnosis. Shannon, portrayed in an extraordinarily intimate performance by first time actor Shannon Harper, sets out to make peace with those around him and, in turn, find his own peace beyond the cacophony of New York City.
Keith Miller, Shanon Harper
Drama
100 mins

Vamp U NR

Wayne Gretzky (Adam Johnson) is a vampire with teeth that won't grow. His impotence began when he inadvertently killed Mary, the love of his life, 300 years ago. To take his mind off the pain, he teaches college history—who better than a guy who's been around for centuries? Attempting to regain his full vampire powers, he enlists help from his friend and colleague, Dr. Levine (Gary Cole). Nothing works... that is until a new semester brings freshman Chris Keller (Julie Gonzalo)—a dead ringer for his beloved Mary. They begin to have an affair, which quickly goes south when he accidentally turns Chris into a vampire. Now, as she leaves a bloody trail of destruction across campus—converting a sorority house full of co-eds including the irresistible Samantha (Alexis Knapp) to her vampire legion—Wayne is faced with the task of stopping her before she kills half the student body!
Julie Gonzalo, Matt Jespersen, Maclain Nelson, Adam Johnson, Gary Cole, Matt Mattson, Bart Johnson, Alexis Knapp
Action Comedy Horror Vampires
112 mins

The Sweeney R

Follows a hardened detective in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan police.
Allen Leech, Damian Lewis, Hayley Atwell, Steven Mackintosh, Nick Love, Christopher Simon, Felix Vossen, John Hodge
Drama Crime

Genius on Hold PG

Story centers on Walter L. Shaw, a prolific inventor in the telecommunications field who turned to the mob, whose bookies used his "black box" to run their gambling operations and wound up destitute before passing away in 1996. His son, embittered by his father's destruction, turned to organized crime in the 1970s and 1980s before attempting to set the record straight about his father.
Gregory Marquette
Documentary
87 mins

The Frankenstein Theory NR

What if the most chilling novel of all time was actually based on a true account of a horrific experiment gone awry? When he is suspended from his university job for his outlandish ideas, Professor John Venkenheim leads a documentary film crew to the rim of the Arctic Circle in a desperate effort to vindicate his academic reputation. His theory: Mary Shelley's ghastly story, Frankenstein, is, in fact, a work of non-fiction disguised as fantasy. In the vast, frozen wilderness, Venkenheim and his team search for the legendary monster, a creature mired in mystery and drenched in blood. What they find is an unspeakable truth more terrifying than any fiction… a nightmare from which there is no waking.
Andrew Weiner, Kris Lemche, Joe Egender, Timothy V. Murphy, Eric Zuckerman
Thriller Horror Sci-Fi

Friday, March 1