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ParaNorman

ParaNorman ( 88%)

The new 3D stop-motion comedy thriller from animation company LAIKA, reteaming the company with Focus Features after the groundbreaking Academy Award-nominated Coraline. ParaNorman is, following Coraline, the company's second stop-motion animated feature to be made in 3D. In ParaNorman, a small town...

Starring:
Kodi Smit-McPhee, Casey Affleck
Directed by:
Chris Butler (XII), Sam Fell
Rated:
PG

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The Invisible War

The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of our country's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within our US military. Today, a female soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan is more likely to be raped by… More

June 22, 2012 — Unrated, 1 hr. 37 min. - Showtimes - Trailer
Oslo, August 31st

Thirty-four-year-old Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie) is a fortunate, but deeply troubled man battling drug addiction. As part of his rehabilitation program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview, but instead uses the opportunity as a… More

May 25, 2012 — Unrated, 1 hr. 35 min. - Showtimes - Trailer
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is the first feature-length film about the internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist, Ai Weiwei. In recent years, Ai has garnered international attention as much for his ambitious artwork as his political… More

July 27, 2012 — R, 1 hr. 31 min. - Showtimes - Trailer
The Imposter

Nicholas was 13 the day he disappeared (June 13, 1994). He would have been 16 and 8 months when he was reported found in Spain (October 7, 1997)... In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappears without a trace from San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years… More

July 13, 2012 — R, 1 hr. 35 min. - Showtimes - Trailer
Searching for Sugar Man

Searching for Sugar Man tells the incredible true story of Rodriguez, the greatest '70s rock icon who never was. Discovered in a Detroit bar in the late '60s by two celebrated producers struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics, they… More

July 27, 2012 — PG-13, 1 hr. 25 min. - Showtimes - Trailer
The Queen of Versailles

The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. With epic proportions of Shakespearean tragedy, the film follows two unique characters, whose… More

July 20, 2012 — PG, 1 hr. 40 min. - Showtimes - Trailer
Moonrise Kingdom

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them… More

May 25, 2012 — PG-13, 1 hr. 33 min. - Showtimes - Trailer
Neil Young Journeys

In May of 2011, Neil Young drove a 1956 Crown Victoria from his idyllic hometown of Omemee, Ontario to downtown Toronto's iconic Massey Hall where he intimately performed the last two nights of his solo world tour. Along the drive, Young recounted… More

June 29, 2012 — PG, 1 hr. 27 min. - Showtimes - Trailer
Safety Not Guaranteed

From the producers of Little Miss Sunshine - When an unusual classified ad inspires three cynical Seattle magazine employees to look for the story behind it, they discover a mysterious eccentric named Kenneth, a likable but paranoid supermarket… More

June 8, 2012 — R, 1 hr. 25 min. - Showtimes - Trailer
Farewell, My Queen

Farewell, My Queen marks the return of acclaimed director Benoît Jacquot and brilliantly captures the passions, debauchery, occasional glimpses of nobility and ultimately the chaos that engulfed the court of Marie Antoinette in the final days before… More

July 13, 2012 — R, 1 hr. 40 min. - Showtimes - Trailer
Compliance

Becky and Sandra aren't the best of friends. Sandra is a middle-aged manager at a fast-food restaurant; Becky is a teenaged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day (too many customers and too little bacon), a police officer calls,… More

August 17, 2012 — R, 1 hr. 30 min. - Showtimes - Trailer
ParaNorman

The new 3D stop-motion comedy thriller from animation company LAIKA, reteaming the company with Focus Features after the groundbreaking Academy Award-nominated Coraline. ParaNorman is, following Coraline, the company's second stop-motion animated… More

August 17, 2012 — PG, 1 hr. 32 min. - Showtimes - Trailer
The Dark Knight Rises

It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped… More

July 20, 2012 — PG-13, 2 hr. 45 min. - Showtimes - Trailer
Beasts of the Southern Wild

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural… More

June 27, 2012 — PG-13, 1 hr. 31 min. - Showtimes - Trailer
Battle Royale 3D

A long-unavailable underground hit that anticipated The Hunger Games novels by eight years, veteran director Fukasaku's epically violent, still-controversial and deeply influential genre masterpiece takes place in a dystopian alternate universe. In… More

May 25, 2012 — Unrated, 1 hr. 54 min. - Showtimes - Trailer
Your Sister's Sister

A year after his brother Tom's death, Jack (Mark Duplass) is still struggling emotionally. When he makes a scene at a memorial party, Tom's best friend Iris (Emily Blunt) offers up her family cabin on an island in the Pacific Northwest so Jack can… More

June 15, 2012 — R, 1 hr. 31 min. - Showtimes - Trailer

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