March 2014 Movies

The Monkey King, armed with a magic staff, journeys with a monk, a pig spirit and a fish spirit to India to retrieve Buddha's scrolls in an effort to find enlightenment.

Story follows the son (Gilbertson) of a family recently moved into a new house with a dark past who begins a sexual relationship with the girl next door (Liberato) that prompts the opening of a terrifying alternate reality of the house. Weaver will play a former resident of the house who has suffered a terrible family tragedy.

Five years after losing her husband, a woman (Annette Bening) falls in love with a handsome art teacher (Ed Harris) who happens to look exactly like her deceased spouse.

When young couple Tom (Iain De Caestecker) and Lucy (Alice Englert) lose their way while driving to a music festival in the remote Irish countryside, they find themselves trapped in a maze of back-roads with only their vehicle for protection, terrorized by an unseen tormentor hell-bent on exploiting their worst nightmares. Driving, lost and tormented in the night, primal anxieties of the dark and the unknown take hold as the couple realizes that they may have to let the evil in, or that it is already there.

An artist cares for her husband after a debilitating bar fight. As she nurses him back to health, her childhood crush attempts to coax her back into living her normal life again.

Follows a piano virtuoso who returns to perform after being forced into early retirement because of stage fright.

Donnie Yen is Zilong "Dragon" Chen, an undercover cop deep inside China’s most ruthless crime syndicate. The boss, Xiong (Collin Chou) swears to find every traitor and make them pay with their lives. Agents are turning up dead. His days are numbered. Desperate to protect his family and his life, Chen must risk everything to protect the SPECIAL IDENTITY he never wanted before it’s too late.

The film chronicles the mid-1970's attempt by filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky to adapt Frank Herbert's landmark sci-fi novel, Dune.

Follows estranged brothers, played by James Pumphrey and Alex Rennie, who are forced to travel to Branson together to renovate and flip the lake house they've inherited from their just-deceased father.

The bitter child of the organizer of the national spelling bee gets his revenge by finding a loophole and attempting to win the bee as an adult. Along the way, he befriends a female reporter and a young Indian contestant who he exposes to the wilder side of life.

Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan play a long-married middle-class British couple who attempt to reinvigorate their marriage by visiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon. While there, they run into an old friend (Jeff Goldblum) who acts as a catalyst for them to recapture their youthful fearlessness, lack of responsibility and idealism.

Story centers on a meek small-town pharmacist, stuck in a loveless marriage, who rediscovers himself through an affair with a trophy wife who introduces him to the wonderful world of prescription drugs, and the idea of murdering her husband.

Nazanin Boniadi plays Shirin, an absent-minded, young Iranian-American living in "Tehrangeles" (the large Iranian community in Los Angeles) with her overbearing mother and empathetic father. Despite being engaged for years to a successful Iranian plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, Shirin finds herself breaking loyalty and tradition when she falls in love with a mysterious young man who lives in a lighthouse in northern California. As her secret unravels and cultures clash, Shirin discovers what it ultimately means to be true to herself.

After receiving a grant for her graduate thesis, Elizabeth Benton (Melanie Papalia) logs onto a video-chat site known as THE DEN, on a mission to explore the habits of its users. During one of her random video-chats, Elizabeth watches in horror as a teenage girl is gruesomely murdered in front of her webcam.

While the police dismiss it as a viral prank, Elizabeth believes what she saw is real and takes it upon herself to find the truth. Her life quickly spirals out of control as she gets pulled deeper into the darkest recesses of the internet. And eventually, Elizabeth finds herself trapped in a twisted game in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.

Follows a former killer who is now a comatose patient in a small psychiatric clinic. When a pretty young nurse begins working with him, she senses that Patrick is communicating with her, and he seems to be using his powers to manipulate events in her life.

A strange Internet relationship turns deadly between a 14-year-old loner and a 16-year-old when the younger boy winds up being stabbed twice and nearly kills by the older boy.

A dysfunctional history teacher accidentally discovers his exact double on a rented DVD, seeks him out and ends up turning both of their lives upside down.

Facing a failed relationship and a struggling restaurant, a woman hits the road for a trip with her grandson.

The Missing Picture explores filmmaker Rithy Panh's quest to create the missing images during the period when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. Panh uses intricately detailed clay figurines intercut with archival footage he could find to relay what is indelibly recorded in his memory, he creates the missing pictures of what does not exist in photograph or film.

Set in a futuristic dystopia where society is divided into factions based on human traits, a 16-year old leaves her faction to join a rival faction, but during the violent initiation into the new faction, she falls in love with a young man. They realize each is a "Divergent" who doesn't belong to any specific group.

A couple rob from mob-controlled social clubs in New York until they come across a list of every gangster in town and become the targets both of organized crime and the FBI.

Taylor Schilling and Aidan Quinn deliver performances as Abbey and Dermot, a couple struggling to find their way in life. After retreating to the rugged expanse of the Irish countryside, their happy existence is upended when Abbey discovers she’s pregnant. Dermot, a long-since disgraced professor, has no interest in being a father. With their lives now at a crossroads, Abbey and Dermot’s relationship hangs in the balance. They must both face the truth of who they are and which path in life to take that will finally lead them home.

When narcotics detective Eugene “Mack” McCanick (David Morse) discovers that a seemingly harmless young criminal, Simon Weeks (Cory Monteith), has been released from prison, it triggers a firestorm of paranoia and violence. Unbeknownst to the chief of police (Ciaran Hinds), Mack and his partner, Floyd (Mike Vogel) mercilessly hunt down Weeks for unknown reasons over the course of one long, hot day. The closer Mack gets to his prey, the more we understand that his frenzy stems from a truth from the past, which only Weeks can expose.

Finding Vivian Maier unearths the mysteries behind Vivian Maier, who was a nanny in the wealthy North Shore suburbs of Chicago. Maier’s secret world is unraveled slowly through her photo collections and interviews with those who knew her, from the parents who hired her and the children she cared for to store owners, movie theater operators, and neighbors.

Follows college student Josh Wheaton (Shane Harper) whose faith is challenged by his Philosophy Professor Mr. Radisson (Kevin Sorbo) who believes God does not exist. It revolves around the lives of several individuals who are also challenged by a world that believes God doesn't exist.

Maladies follows three people struggling to coexist together in a little house in a beach town, separated and bonded by their mental illnesses from the rest of the world. James Franco plays a former actor whose schizophrenia forces him to leave his craft and remain only a shell of his former self. Catherine Keener supports his the cross-dressing best friend whose struggle with her own gender identity precludes her from keeping the group together, and Fallon Goodson rounds out the trio as Franco’s sister whose mental detachment exacerbates the tensions already prevalent in the house.

Some call him a hero. Some call him a villain. He’s “John Doe: Vigilante” – an ordinary man who decides to take the law into his own hands. Frustrated with a failing legal system that continues to allow violent criminals to go free, John Doe begins exacting justice the only way he knows how – by killing one criminal at a time. Soon he becomes a media sensation and inspires a group of copycat vigilantes, but who is the real John Doe – a pillar of justice or a cold-blooded murderer? You decide.

Starting in the 1950s, civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez works as a community organizer and fights for improved working conditions for California farm workers. The Mexican-American co-founds the National Farm Workers Assn., which later becomes the United Farm Workers union, and campaigns to prevent illegal immigration from undermining unionization efforts. Chavez dies in 1993.

Picking up right where the first film ends, The Raid 2 follows Rama (Uwais) as he goes undercover and infiltrates the ranks of a ruthless Jakarta crime syndicate in order to protect his family and uncover the corruption in his own police force.