Coming Attractions

Coming Attractions: Week of May18th

Opening This Week – May 22

Tomorrowland (2015)
PG 130 min – Action | Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi

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Director: Brad Bird  Stars: George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie, Raffey Cassidy

Poltergeist (2015)
PG-13 93 min – Horror | Thriller

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A family whose suburban home is haunted by evil forces must come together to rescue their youngest daughter after the apparitions take her captive.
Director: Gil Kenan
Stars: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kennedi Clements, Saxon Sharbino


When Marnie Was There (2014)
PG 103 min – Animation | Drama

A young girl is sent to the country for health reasons, where she meets an unlikely friend in the form of Marnie, a young girl with flowing blonde hair. As the friendship unravels it is possible that Marnie has closer ties to the protagonist than we might expect.
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Stars: Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima, Susumu Terajima


Aloft (2014)
R 112 min – Drama

Aloft tells of a struggling mother who encounters the son she abandoned 20 years earlier.
Director: Claudia Llosa  Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy, Mélanie Laurent, Oona Chaplin

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Chocolate City (2015)
R 91 min – Drama

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Life for a struggling college student changes in an instant when he meets the owner of a male strip club who convinces him to give amateur night a whirl.
Director: Jean-Claude La Marre  Stars: Robert Ri’chard, Tyson Beckford, DeRay Davis, Vivica A. Fox

The Farewell Party (2014)
95 min – Comedy | Drama

Residents of a retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend, though they are faced with a series of dilemmas when rumors of the machine begin to spread.
Directors: Tal Granit | Sharon Maymon
Stars: Ze’ev Revach, Levana Finkelstein, Aliza Rosen, Ilan Dar
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Sunshine Superman (2014)
PG 100 min – Documentary

A heart-racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular -and dangerous- feats of foot-launched human flight.
Director: Marah Strauch
Stars: Carl Boenish, John B. Macaulay, Cecilie Bull, Marah Strauch

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