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A group of suburban teenages share one common bond; they are all being stalked by Freddy Krueger, a horribly disfigured killer who hunts them in their dreams. As long as they stay awake, they can protect one another… but when they sleep, there is no escape.
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Starting during the summer before Harry’s third year at Hogwarts, this is the adventure that happens when he has to go on the run after an incident where he was unable to control his anger… getting on a bus, he hears about Sirius Black, a renegade wizard who was a Prisoner at Azkaban. What Harry doesn’t suspect is that Black escaped to look for… him.
Proving that he’s more than just a pretty, funny face, THE OFFICE’s John Krasinski gets credit as writer and director in this adaptation of a David Foster Wallace novel. Julianne Nicholson (LAW & ORDER: SVU) stars as Sara Quinn, an anthropology grad student who attempts to dissect a recent breakip with her knowledge of human behavior and interviews with a number of men. BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN also stars Bobby Cannavale, Josh Charles, Deathcab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard, Christopher Meloni, and Timothy Hutton.
Early twentysomething writer/director Antonio Campos makes a startlingly assured directorial debut with AFTERSCHOOL. Set in an exclusive Northeastern prep school, the film follows Robert (Ezra Miller), a confused youngster who spends most of his time watching videos on the Internet. Some of these are harmless, but some are much more troubling, including pornography and actual fights that have been captured on various consumer-grade video cameras. Robert himself doesn’t appear to have violent desires, yet when he gets his hands on a video camera for a class project and starts becoming closer to fellow classmate Amy (Addison Timlin), he experiences feelings he has previously only encountered on a computer screen. During the filming of a class project, Robert unwittingly captures the overdose of two of the school’s most popular girls–twins, no less–sending him into an introverted, despondent tailspin. Campos’s film owes an obvious debt to the work of German provocateur Michael Haneke, and not only in its controversial subject matter. More directly, it’s in Campos’s ability to create a palpable sense of tension with the camera. Credit must be given here to cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes (WILD COMBINATION: A PORTRAIT OF ARTHUR RUSSELL), who uses a slowly roaming camera when necessary, but otherwise maintains a static, off-kilter frame, hinting at the dangers that lurk just beyond every corner. AFTERSCHOOL speaks volumes about the influence of the Internet and technology on our nation’s impressionable youth.
Harry Potter has not had a good summer. Not only has he had to put up with his overbearing Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon Dursley and their dread of his magical abilities, but it seems as if Harry’s best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger have forgotten him as they haven’t replied to a single one of his letters. Then, suddenly and mysteriously, house-elf Dobby appears in Harry’s bedroom and warns him of great danger if he should attempt to return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But despite the elf’s mischievous efforts to thwart Harry’s return to school, the ever determined Harry is rescued from the Dursley’s dreary clutches by Ron and his brothers and whisked into the warmth of the Weasley household. Upon arriving at Hogwarts, Harry finds that his first year heroics have caused him to become the center of much unwanted attention. His new fans include Ron’s little sister Ginny; first year would-be photographer Colin Creevey; and most irritatingly, the New Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor, Gilderoy Lockhart. Outshone only by his own vanity, Lockhart craves the attention that Harry shuns. But not even Lockhart can offer an explanation for the sinister new terror that is gripping the school.
A haunted house makes no secret of the fact it is not pleased with its new tenants in this independent tale of supernatural horror. Katie (Katie Featherson) and Micah (Micah Sloat) are a twentysomething couple who’ve just moved into a new home in San Diego, California. Katie has an interest in the paranormal and believes that malevolent spirits have been following her since childhood, though Micah is not so easily convinced. However, after several nights of loud noises and strange happenings, Micah starts to agree with Katie that some sort of ghost may have followed them to the new home. After a paranormal researcher tells the couple he can’t help them, Micah decides to take control of the situation and sets up a battery of video cameras so that if a spirit manifests itself, he can capture its behavior on tape. Once the surveillance cameras are in place, Katie and Micah bring in a Ouija board in an effort to talk to the spirits, a move that deeply offends the ghosts. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY was the first feature film from writer-director Oren Peli.
John Travolta shaves his head and Jonathan Rhys Meyers does an American accent for this thriller directed by Pierre Morel (TAKEN). In FROM PARIS WITH LOVE, a traditional man (Rhys Meyers) is paired up with a renegade cop (Travolta) when things get dangerous in the French capital.
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