Category Archives: Drama
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Release 2014
Genre Drama
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Director: Ned Benson
Stars: James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Nina Arianda, Viola Davis, Bill Hader
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3729920/
One couple's story as they try to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Dying of the Light
Release 2014
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Director: Paul Schrader
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Alexander Karim, Irène Jacob, Aymen Hamdouchi
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1274586/
Evan Lake refuses to retire from his career in the CIA and goes rogue to hunt down his terrorist who tortured him during a mission gone awry years ago.
Nightcrawler
Release 2014
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Director: Dan Gilroy
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Papajohn, Marco Rodríguez, Bill Paxton, James Huang
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2872718/
When Lou Bloom, a driven man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
This Is Where I Leave You
Release 2014
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Director: Shawn Levy
Writers: Jonathan Tropper
Stars: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371150/
When their father passes away, four grown siblings are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens.
Tusk
Release 2014
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Director: Kevin Smith
Stars: Michael Parks, Justin Long, Genesis Rodriguez, Haley Joel Osment, Johnny Depp
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3099498/
When podcaster Wallace Bryton goes missing in the backwoods of Manitoba while interviewing a mysterious seafarer named Howard Howe, his best friend Teddy and girlfriend Allison team with an ex-cop to look for him.
Annie
Release 2014
Genre Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
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Director: Will Gluck
Writers: Will Gluck, Aline Brosh McKenna, Thomas Meehan, Harold Gray
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1823664/
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in.
The Departed
Release 2006
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Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: William Monahan, Alan Mak, Felix Chong
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/
An undercover state cop who has infiltrated an Irish gang and a mole in the police force working for the same mob race to track down and identify each other before being exposed to the enemy, after both sides realize their outfit has a rat.
The Losers
Release 2010
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Sylvain White
Writers: Peter Berg, James Vanderbilt, Andy Diggle
Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480255/
A CIA special forces team are betrayed and left for dead by their superiors, galvanizing them to mount an offensive on the CIA.
The Theory of Everything
Release 2014
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance
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Director: James Marsh
Writers: Anthony McCarten, Jane Hawking
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry, Finlay Wright-Stephens
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2980516/
A look at the relationship between the famous physicist
Dolphin Tale 2
Release 2014
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Director: Charles Martin Smith
Writers: Charles Martin Smith, Karen Janszen, Noam Dromi
Stars: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Nathan Gamble, Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Harry Connick Jr.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2978462/
The team of people who saved Winter's life reassemble in the wake of her surrogate mother's passing in order to find her a companion so she can remain at the Clearwater Marine Hospital.