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Alpha and Omega
Studio: Lionsgate
Director: Anthony Bell, Ben Gluck
Screenwriter: Chris Denk, Steve Moore
Starring: Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Dennis Hopper, Danny Glover, Larry Miller, Eric Price, Vicki Lewis, Chris Carmack, Kevin Sussman, Brian Donovan, Christina Ricci
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
MPAA Rating: PG (for rude humor and some mild action)
Official Website: AlphaandOmega3D.com
Plot Summary: What makes for the ultimate road trip? Hitchhiking, truck stops, angry bears, prickly porcupines and a golfing goose with a duck caddy. Just ask Kate and Humphrey, two wolves who are trying to get home after being taken by park rangers and shipped halfway across the country. Humphrey is an Omega wolf, whose days are about quick wit, snappy one-liners and hanging with his motley crew of fun-loving wolves and video-gaming squirrels. Kate is an Alpha: duty, discipline and sleek Lara Croft eye-popping moves fuel her fire. Humphrey's motto – make 'em laugh. Kate's motto – I'm the boss. And they have a thousand miles to go.
Back home rival wolf packs are on the march and conflict is brewing. Only Kate and Humphrey can restore the peace. But first, they have to survive each other.
Devil
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle
Screenwriter: Brian Nelson
Starring: Chris Messina, Geoffrey Arend, Logan Marshall-Green, Bojana Novakovic, Jenny O'Hara, Bokeem Woodbine, Jacob Vargas
Genre: Supernatural, Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for violence and disturbing images, thematic material and some language including sexual references)
Official Website: TheNightChronicles.com/Devil
Plot Summary: "Devil" is a supernatural thriller with M. Night Shyamalan's signature touch. A group of people trapped in an elevator realize that the devil is among them.
Easy A
Studio: Screen Gems (Sony)
Director: Will Gluck
Screenwriter: Bert V. Royal
Starring: Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes, Thomas Haden Church, Patricia Clarkson, Cam Gigandet, Lisa Kudrow, Malcolm MacDowell, Aly Michalka, Stanley Tucci
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for mature thematic elements involving teen sexuality, language and some drug material)
Official Website: LetsNotandSayWeDid.com
Plot Summary: After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl (Emma Stone) sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in "The Scarlet Letter," which she is currently studying in school – until she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.
Leaves of Grass
Studio: First Look Studios
Director: Tim Blake Nelson
Screenwriter: Tim Blake Nelson
Starring: Edward Norton, Tim Blake Nelson, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss, Keri Russell, Lucy DeVito, Steve Earle, Josh Pais
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for violence, pervasive language, and drug content)
Official Website: LeavesofGrassmovie.com
Plot Summary: When Ivy League classics professor Bill Kincaid receives news of the murder of his estranged identical twin brother, Brady (both played by two-time Academy Award® nominee Edward Norton), in a pot deal gone bad, he leaves the world of Northeastern academia to travel back to his home state of Oklahoma. Upon arrival, he finds that reports of his brother's death are greatly exaggerated, and he's soon caught up in the dangerous and unpredictable world of drug commerce in the backwaters of the Southwest. In the process, he reconnects with his eccentric mother (Academy Award® winner Susan Sarandon), meets a wise and educated young woman who has bypassed academia in favor of the gentler rhythms of life (Keri Russell), and unwittingly helps his troubled brother settle a score with a pernicious drug lord (Academy Award® winner Richard Dreyfuss) who uses Tulsa, Oklahoma's small Jewish community for cover. "Leaves of Grass" follows a twisting narrative path merging crime drama, drug comedy, classical philosophy and sudden violence in pursuit of answering one of humanity’s oldest questions: What does it truly mean to live a happy and constructive life?
The Town
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Ben Affleck
Screenwriter: Ben Affleck, Peter Craig, Aaron Stockard
Starring: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Pete Postlethwaite, Chris Cooper
Genre: Crime, Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for strong violence, pervasive language, some sexuality and drug use)
Official Website: TheTownmovie.com
Plot Summary: 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. But she lets her guard down when she meets an unassuming and rather charming man named Doug...not realizing that he is the same man who only days earlier had terrorized her. The instant attraction between them gradually turns into a passionate romance that threatens to take them both down a dangerous, and potentially deadly, path.