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if their father has become deranged, or if the folklore is true. Gray 1
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SILENT HOUSE (US) 86mins. Elle Driver. Dir: Chris Kentis, Laura Lau. Key cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Barnett, Adam Trese. Sarah, along with her uncle and father, prepare their long-time family summer home, recently violated by squatters, for sale. But broken windows and
When two drifters hear rumours of a Chinese railroad worker hiding stolen gold at a isolated ranch, the desperate men put a conspiracy into motion to steal the “Chinaman’s Gold’’ themselves — before other interested parties close in. Palais E
METEORA (Greece) 81mins. Coproduction Office (Paris). Dir: Spiros Stathoulopoulos. Key cast: Tamila Koulieva, Theo Alexander. In the hot plains of central Greece, the Orthodox monasteries of Meteora are perched atop sandstone pillars, suspended between heaven and earth. Down in the valley, the eternal cycles of farm life — birth, milking, slaughter — provide a stark contrast to their ascetic world. The young monk Theodoros and the nun Urania have
cracks in the plaster are the least of their problems when they discover they are not alone and there’s more than just mold concealed behind the walls. Their idyllic isolated retreat is transformed into a site of horror as the family’s past returns to taunt then terrorise them, exposing a hidden and distorted history. Palais C
devoted their lives to the strict rituals and practices of their community. A growing affection for one another puts their monastic life under question. Torn between spiritual devotion and their human desire, they must decide which path to follow. Arcades 2
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(US) 100mins. RCR Media Group. Dir: Todd Robinson. Key cast: Ed Harris, David Duchovny, William Fichtner The captain of a Cold War Soviet missile submarine has secretly been suffering from seizures that alter his perception of reality. Forced to leave his wife and daughter, he is rushed into a classified mission, where he is haunted by his past and challenged by a rogue KGB group bent on seizing control of the ship’s nuclear missile. With the fate of
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SILENT HOUSE See box, above
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(US) 90mins. Camelot Entertainment Group. Dir: Joe Cacaci Key cast: Andrew McCarthy, Ernest Borgnine, Jonathan Silverman. A nice guy goes into hospital for surgery and through a series of mishaps suffers every man’s worst nightmare. Palais I
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TIM & ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE (US) 94mins. Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing. Dir: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim. Key cast: Eric Wareheim, Jeff Goldblum, John C Reilly. Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime and the sinister Schlaaang
humanity in his hands, the captain discovers he’s been chosen for this mission in the belief he would fail. ‘Phantom’ is a psychological submarine thriller about extraordinary men facing impossible choices. Olympia 7
REDEMPTION STREET (Serbia) 97mins. Film Center Serbia. Dir: Miroslav Terzic. Key cast: Gordan Kicic, Rade Serbedzija, Uliks Fehmiu. Dusan, a young deputy prosecutor for war crimes, investigates a paramilitary formation. The First pioneer’s unit was operating on the battlefields in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo when it disappeared without a trace. Dusan is determined to bring the case to the end. Gray 5
THE BARRENS (US) 110mins. Voltage Pictures. Dir: Darren Bousman. Key cast: Stephen Moyer, Mia Kirschner, Erik Knudsen, J Larose. Intent on bringing his family closer together, Richard Marlow organises a weekend camping trip to the Pine Barrens. When rumours of the New Jersey Devil circulate, the trip soon takes a dark turn as numerous animals wind up mutilated and murdered. As Richard becomes violently ill, his family begins to wonder
THE DAY OF THE CROWS (France) 94mins. Le Pacte. Dir: Jean- Christophe Dessaint. Key cast: Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Carre, Jean Reno, Lorant Deutsch. In a cabin in the deep of the forest, a child and his father lead a wild and hard life in utmost isolation. The child grows up fearing and admiring his father, with the ghosts haunting the forest as his only companions. Until the day he discovers a neighbouring village and meets a young girl there, Manon. At her side, he discovers that love exists. From then on he won’t cease to search for the place where his father’s love for him is hiding. Olympia 6
THE TALL MAN (France) 105mins. Snd — Groupe M6. Dir: Pascal Laugier. Key cast: Jessica Biel, Jodelle Ferland, Stephen McHattie. Cold Rock, US. A darkness hovers upon the town: children have gone missing over the years leaving neither a clue nor a witness. Superstitious locals talk of The Tall
Man, a legendary, mysterious dark figure who takes children away never to be seen again. Julia is a nurse living in Cold Rock who doesn’t believe in legends. Until one night, waking up with an erie feeling, she goes to her son’s bedroom and finds his bed empty. Rushing downstairs she stops dead in her tracks: a huge dark figure stands in the entrance holding her son David. Driven by pure instinct, Julia rushes after them willing to do whatever it takes to get her son back. The chase is on and with it the quest for answers: who is The — Tall Man? What becomes of the children? Star 1
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WINSTON CHURCHILL: WALKING WITH DESTINY (US) 101mins. Cinema Management Group. Dir: Richard Trank. Key cast: Ben Kingsley Highlights Churchill’s years in the political wilderness, his early opposition to Adolf Hitler and Nazism, and his support for Jews under threat by the Nazi regime. As historian John Lukacs explains, Churchill may
corporation is pissed. Their lives at stake, the guys skip town in search of a way to pay the money back. When they happen upon a chance to rehabilitate a bankrupt mall full of vagrants, bizarre stores and a man-eating wolf that stalks the food court, they see dollar signs — a billion of them. Palais G
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