Avatar takes us to a spectacular world beyond imagination where a reluctant hero embarks on an epic adventure, ultimately fighting to save the alien world he has learned to call home. Stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Siguourney Weaver. Rated PG-13 for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language, some smoking. 160 min.
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightening Thief is a story about bout the gods of Mount Olympus who walked out of the pages of high school student Percy Jackson’s Greek mythology texts. Zeus’s lightning bolt has been stolen and Percy is the prime suspect. Troubling too is the disappearance of Percy’s mother. As Percy adapts to his newly-discovered status as a demi-god, he’s caught between the battling titans of Mt. Olympus. Rated PG for action, violence and peril, some scary images and suggestive materials. 120 min.
Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese adapts a story by Dennis Lahane of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island’s fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane. Rated R for disturbing, violent content, language and some nudity. 138 min.
Two long-time New York police officers on the trail of a stolen baseball card find themselves up against a merciless gangster. Jimmy (Bruce Willis) is a veteran detective whose missing collectible is his only hope to pay for his daughter’s wedding, and Paul (Tracy Morgan) is his partner. Rated R for pervasive language including sexual references, violence and brief sexuality. 110 min.
In a terrifying tale of the American Dream gone horribly wrong, four friends find themselves trapped in their hometown. David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) is sheriff of Ogden Marsh, a picture-perfect American town with law-abiding citizens. Within days, the town transforms into a sickening asylum. People who days ago lived quiet, unremarkable lives have become depraved, blood-thirsty killers, hiding in the darkness with guns and knives. Rated R for bloody violence and language. 100 min.
Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends: the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Chesire Cat and, of course, the Mad Hatter. Alice embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny and end the Red Queen’s reign of terror. Stars Helena Carter, Mia Wasikowska, Matt Lucas, Johnny Depp, Stephen Fry. Rated PG-13 for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar. 109 min.
Chief Warrant Office Roy Miller is a rogue U.S. Army officer who must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil before war escalates in an unstable region. Stars Matt Damon, Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Nicoye Banks. Rated R for violence and language. 115 min.
Kirk, an average Joe, can’t believe his luck. Though he’s stuck in a seemingly dead-end job as an airport security agent, against all odds, Molly, a successful and outrageously gorgeous babe, has fallen for him. Not only is Kirk stunned, but his friends, family and his ex-girlfriend are, too. Now he has to figure out how to make the relationship work. Stars Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve, TJ Miller, Mike Vogel. Rated R for language and sexual content. 105 min.