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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] Taken

[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Pierre Morel
Screenwriter: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Starring: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Katie Cassidy, Goran Kostic
Genre: Action, Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence, disturbing thematic material, sexual content, some drug references and language)
Official Website: Takenmovie.com

Plot Summary: Liam Neeson stars in this action-packed international thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. When his estranged daughter is kidnapped in Paris, a former spy (Neeson) sets out to find her at any cost. Relying on his special skills, he tracks down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launches a one-man war to bring them to justice and rescue his daughter.

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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] New in Town

[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: Lionsgate
Director: Jonas Elmer
Screenwriter: Kenneth Rance, C. Jay Cox
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr., J.K. Simmons, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Frances Conroy, Mike O'Brien, Rashida Jones
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG (for language and some suggestive material)
Official Website: NewinTownmovie.com

Plot Summary: Lucy Hill (Renée Zellweger) is an ambitious, up and coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, she loves her cars and she loves climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment - in the middle of nowhere - to restructure a manufacturing plant, she jumps at the opportunity, knowing that a big promotion is close at hand. What begins as a straight forward job assignment becomes a life changing experience as Lucy discovers greater meaning in her life and most unexpectedly, the man of her dreams (Harry Connick, Jr.).

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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] Luck by Chance

[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: Adlabs Films
Director: Zoya Akhtar
Screenwriter: Zoya Akhtar
Starring: Farhan Akhtar, Hrithik Roshan, Konkona SenSharma, and Rishi Kapoor
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: ExcelMovies.com

Plot Summary: The fantasy sellers and the devoted audience, the insane love for Cinema mixed with the eccentric notion of divinity and archaic beliefs; these are the contradictions that keep this world spinning. The stark reality of living in India juxtaposed with the fantastical world depicted on screen suddenly begins to make sense...

Sona arrives in Bombay with her dreams of becoming a film star. Wide eyed but ambitious, she does whatever it takes, to make it. She lives on her own in a rented apartment - a luxury for most in this bustling city and spends her time with a motley crew of loyal friends whose lives are also entwined with Bollywood, each one in search of a bigger dream.

Vikram has just moved to the City leaving the comforts of his parents Delhi Home. He is a mover, he is used to getting what he wants and is smart enough to know when to demand it and when to manipulate it. He is young and handsome, and full of promise. Sona begins to enjoy Vikram's attention and affections; they develop a romantic relationship.

Rolly is a successful though superstitious producer who only works with the biggest stars. He is making a potential blockbuster launching the nubile Nikki Khurana, the 18-year-old daughter of '70s superstar, Neena. The hero of the film, Zaffar Khan, is Rolly's favorite superstar. He was launched by Rolly and went on to become a huge draw at the box office.

The wheels of fate indeed continue to spin favorably for Vikram, as elsewhere in the industry, havoc spreads on the sets of producer Rommy Rolly's new film. Vikram is called in for an audition and uses this opportunity to the fullest. The film is about a slice of Bollywood life, in which Kismet plays a huge role. Here, notions of superstition, fate and destiny underline every life, as grand desires and opportunity converge to form strange patterns. In such an unpredictable climate is success and failure what others define for you or is it something you decide for yourself.

"Luck by Chance" is a contemporary tale set in a world desperate to escape its own reality.


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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1] The Uninvited

[/SIZE][/FONT] Studio: DreamWorks Pictures (Paramount)
Director: Thomas Guard, Charles Guard
Screenwriter: Craig Rosenberg, Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard
Starring: Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel, David Strathairn
Genre: Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for violent and disturbing images, thematic material, sexual content, language and teen drinking)
Official Website: Uninvitedmovie.com

Plot Summary: In the suspense thriller "The Uninvited," based on the 2003 Korean motion picture "Changhwa, Hongryon" written and directed by Kim Jee-woon, Anna (Emily Browning) returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel (Elizabeth Banks), has moved into their house and become engaged to her father, Steven (David Strathairn). Soon after she learns this shocking news, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her that Rachel has evil intentions. Together, Anna and her sister (Arielle Kebbel) must convince their father that his new fiancee is not who she pretends to be, and what should have been a happy family reunion becomes a lethal battle of wills between stepdaughters and stepmother.


Medicine for Melancholy


Studio: IFC Films
Director: Barry Jenkins
Screenwriter: Barry Jenkins
Starring: Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: StrikeAnywhereFilms.com

Plot Summary: A love story about a one-night stand told through two African-American twenty-something's dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco - a city with the smallest black population of any other major American City. When Micah (Wyatt Cenac) and Jo (Tracey Heggins) stumble into the brightness of a sunny San Francisco day after a hook-up, Jo' can't wait to escape the uncomfortable silence, but a shared cab ride and a lost wallet soon bring a well intentioned Micah to her front door. As caution turns to curiosity, the young couple sets off on a romantic ramble through eclectic neighborhoods and their own lives as they swap views on everything from the meaning of blackness to the letting go of heartbreak.
 
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