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This Is It (WEDNESDAY OPENING) PG 112 minutes

Michael Jacksons’s ‘This Is It’ will offer moviegoers and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created, and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer in London’s 02 Arena. Chronicling the months from April through June, 2009, the film is produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson and and drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scene footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show.

 

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Gentlemen Broncos PG13 90 minutes FLAT

Benjamin (Michael Angarano), home-schooled by his eccentric mother (Jennifer Coolidge), is a loveable loner whose passion for writing leads him on an offbeat and hilarious journey as his story first gets ripped off by the legendary fantasy novelist, Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement) and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town’s most prolific homespun filmmaker.

 

Halloween II (RE-RELEASE) R 105 minutes FLAT

Evil has a new destiny. Michael Myers is back in this terrifying sequel to Rob Zombie’s visionary re-imagining of Halloween. It is that time of year again, and Michael Myers has returned home to sleepy Haddonfield, Illinois to take care of some unfinished family business. Unleashing a trail of terror that only horror master Zombie can, Myers will stop at nothing to bring closure to the secrets of his twisted past. But the town’s got an unlikely new hero, if they can only stay alive long enough to stop the unstoppable.

 

The Fall NR 118 minutes FLAT

Tony Jakubiak (Benny Ciaramello) is careening through life as a black sheep under-achiever. He is the polar opposite of his older brother Frank (Scott Kinworthy), a D.A. with a beautiful and ambitious wife (Erica Shaffer), who is on his way to becoming the youngest Governor in history. One night and with one wrong turn, Tony is arrested for the brutal murder of a priest. A murder he didn’t commit. Big brother Frank wants to come to his rescue, but Tony won’t reveal his alibi for where he was at the time of the murder. As the trial gets closer, and a lifetime in prison becomes a possibility, Frank is shocked when he discovers where Tony was, and with whom. Frank now has the alibi and evidence to set his brother free. But this revealing and tawdry evidence threatens to end Frank’s career and dredge up a very incriminating incident in their past. Will Frank risk everything to speak out and save his brother? Or will he let Tony take the fall?

 

Storm (Sturn) NR 105 minutes SCOPE

Hannah Maynard, prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, is leading a trial against a former commander of the Yugoslavian National Army who is accused of the deportation and later killing of dozens of Bosnian-Muslim civilians. When a key witness commits suicide, it looks like the case will unravel, however Hannah refuses to give in. Hoping to uncover new findings, she travels to the witness’ burial in Sarajevo and meets his sister Mira who she senses has much more to say than she is willing to admit. Despite threats of violence, Mira reluctantly agrees to testify at The Hague. However, she and Hannah must both risk life and limb to make it to the court, only to discover that there are traitors among their own ranks.

 

The House of the Devil R FLAT

From writer-director Ti West comes THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, a satanic thriller set in the 1980s starring Jocelin Donahue (JT Petty’s forthcoming THE BURROWERS), indie ingenue Greta Gerwig (HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS, BAGHEAD), Tom Noonan (SNOW ANGELS, MANHUNTER), Mary Woronov (EATING RAOUL, THE DEVIL’S REJECTS), AJ Bowen (THE SIGNAL) and Dee Wallace (E.T., Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN). Sam (Donahue) is a pretty college sophomore, so desperate to earn some cash for a deposit on an apartment that she accepts a babysitting job even after she finds out there is no baby. Mr. and Mrs. Ulman (cult actors Noonan and Woronov) are the older couple who lure Sam out to their creeky Victorian mansion deep in the woods, just in time for a total lunar eclipse. Megan (Gerwig) is Sam’s best friend, who gives her a ride out to the house, and reluctantly leaves her there despite suspecting that something is amiss. Victor (Bowen) at first seems like just a creepy guy lurking around the house, but quickly makes it clear that Sam will end this night in a bloody fight for her life….

 

21 and a Wakeup R 123 minutes FLAT

A dozen true stories of Vietnam are woven together over a 96 hour period surrounding the 24th Evac Hospital, the last major US Army hospital caring for our valiant soldiers as America was abandoning the war in Southeast Asia. It is the first American motion picture about the war ever allowed by the government to film on location in Vietnam. Written and Directed by Vietnam Veteran Chris McIntyre, who served with the US Marines from 1967 through 1971, the film follows 96 hours in the life of nurse Caitlin Murphy (Amy Acker) who has just 21 days left in Vietnam when she embarks on a terrifying mission to save a three old-girl’s life in nearby Cambodia. Along with best friends Jenny Valentine (Danica McKellar), rookie Skyler Paige (Kristyn Green), and USO singer Xenia Salinas (T Lopez), Murphy’s gives a solemn oath to Dr. Tom Drury (JC Chasez) to rescue the young girl before she is killed in a US bombing raid. Clashing constantly with her superior Faye Dunaway, Murphy must use her friendship with General Jim Gleason (Wes Studi), General Garner (Ben Vereen),Col David Ritchie ( Ed Begley, Jr), and Dr Jim West (Andre Royo) to coerce CIA station chief Jack Breedlau (Tom Sizemore) into helping her. As she and her lover, journalist Chris Cameron (Todd Cahoon) undertake the perilous journey up the Mekong River with the help of Australian special forces operative Mark Harrington (Mark Warner), she encounters vicious Cambodian border guards; a cruel Khmer Rouge patrol, and ultimately the resistance of US forces themselves. ‘21 and a Wakeup’ has been called ‘The best portrayal of women at war ever put on film.’