Conviction (14A)
When Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, his sister Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is innocent, Betty Anne puts herself through high school, college and, finally, law school in an 18-year quest to free Kenny.
Due Date (14A)
Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) is an expectant first-time father whose wife’s due date is a mere five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at her side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry when a chance encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis) forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan on what turns out to be a cross-country road trip that will ultimately destroy several cars, numerous friendships and Peter’s last nerve.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (14A)
In the final installment of the Millenium trilogy, Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In intensive care and charged with three murders, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.
From director Clint Eastwood, Hereafter tells three parallel stories about three people affected by death in different ways. Matt Damon plays American factory worker George, who is somehow able to communicate with the dead. CĂ©cile de France plays French TV journalist Marie, who survives a tsunami. Frankie and George McLaren play Marcus and Jason, an English boy and his brother who is killed in a car accident.
Jackass 3D follows the same premise as the first two movies. It is a compilation of various stunts, pranks and skits, and essentially has no plot. Some of the reported stunts include playing tetherball with a beehive instead of a ball, Steve-O being launched in the air in a porta-potty, several clips that were shot in 1,000 frames per second, a jet engine taking out cast members, and much more.
Based on the beloved books by Kathryn Lasky, the film follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father’s epic stories of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones. While Soren dreams of someday joining his heroes, his older brother, Kludd, scoffs at the notion, and yearns to hunt, fly and steal his father’s favour from his younger sibling. But Kludd’s jealousy has terrible consequences — causing both owlets to fall from their treetop home and right into the talons of the Pure Ones.
Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) is an up-and-coming caterer and Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel) is a promising network sports director. After a disastrous first date, the only thing they have in common is their dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter, Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in the world, Holly and Eric are forced to put their differences aside. Juggling career ambitions and competing social calendars, they’ll have to find some common ground while living under one roof.
Megamind is the most brilliant super-villain the world has ever known … and the least successful. Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way but each attempt has been a colossal failure thanks to the caped superhero known as Metro Man. That is, until the day Megamind actually defeats him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans. Suddenly, the fate of Metro City is threatened when a new villain arrives and chaos runs rampant.
When hard-working TV producer Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) is fired from a local news program, her career begins to look as bleak as her hapless love life. Stumbling into a job at “Daybreak,” a poorly rated morning news show, Becky decides to revitalize the show by bringing on legendary TV anchor Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford). Unfortunately he has a few run-ins with his new co-host Colleen Peck (Diane Keaton) leaving Becky to play peacemaker.
After experiencing what they think are a series of break-ins, a family sets up security cameras around their home, only to realize that the events unfolding before them are more sinister than they seem.
Frank (Bruce Willis), Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen Mirren) used to be the CIA’s top agents — but the secrets they know just made them the agency’s top targets. Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cunning, experience and teamwork to stay one step ahead of their deadly pursuers and stay alive. To stop the operation, the team embarks on an impossible, cross-country mission to break into the top-secret CIA headquarters, where they will uncover one of the biggest conspiracies and cover-ups in government history.
The seventh and possibly final installment of the Saw franchise features a deadly battle over Jigsaw’s brutal legacy. A group of Jigsaw survivors gather to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror.
The film tells the story of the Penny Chenery and her National Museum of Racing and hall of fame racehorse, Secretariat who, in 1973, became the first horse in 25 five years to win the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. Penny Chenery took over the financially troubled Meadow Stable from her ailing father and guided the horse through his Triple Crown season. Other key characters are trainer Lucien Laurin and jockey Ron Turcotte.
Feeling anguish over being dumped by his girlfriend Erica, Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg decides to create a university version of Hot or Not. Inspired by his technical knowhow, Harvard classmates, the Winklevoss twins, come to him for help in starting ‘Harvard Connection,’ an online community for Harvard students. Perfecting this idea, Zuckerberg takes their idea to create ‘The Facebook,’ immediately becoming a runaway campus success. Infuriated by Zuckerberg’s betrayal, his classmates decide to bring him to federal court on charges of intellectual property theft. In his pursuit to create the most popular website on the internet, Zuckerberg burns multiple bridges to get his way.
The Tempest (STC)
This adaptation of William Shakespeare’s work involves changing the gender of the sorcerer Prospero into the sorceress Prospera (Helen Mirren). Prospera’s journey spirals through vengeance to forgiveness as she reigns over a magical island, cares for her young daughter, Miranda, and unleashes her powers against shipwrecked enemies in this exciting, masterly mix of romance, tragicomedy and the supernatural.
The Town (14A)
Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is an unrepentant criminal, the de facto leader of a group of ruthless bank robbers who pride themselves in stealing what they want and getting out clean. With no real attachments, Doug never has to fear losing anyone close to him. But that all changed on the gang’s latest job, when they briefly took a hostage, bank manager Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall). Though they let her go unharmed, Claire is nervously aware that the robbers know her name and where she lives.
