January 1
Cosmopolis
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Samantha Morton, Jay Baruchel
While on his way to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire’s (Pattinson) life gets turned upside down when his limo gets overturned by a cast of people trying to tear his world apart.
Rotten Tomatoes: 65%
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d_kqaiyl3U&feature=youtube_gdata_player
January 8
House at the End of the Street
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Elisabeth Shue, Max Theriot
A woman (Shue) and her daughter (Lawrence) move next door to a house where a gruesome murder had taken place when a daughter killed her parents and their son (Theriot) still lives there.
Rotten Tomatoes: 11%
My Review: http://www.examiner.com/review/house-at-the-end-of-the-street-review
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA22wGGPn3Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Frankenweenie
Starring: Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton, Catherine O’Hara
A young boy loses his dog so he works on a science experiment so that he can bring him back to life but it has dire consequences.
Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2luLW-9ySw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Hit and Run
Starring: Dax Shepherd, Kristen Bell, Bradley Cooper
A man (Shepherd) sells out his friends after a hit and goes into Witness Protection. But when one of his friends (Cooper) gets out and starts to look for him, he goes on the run with his girlfriend (Bell).
Rotten Tomatoes: 48%
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nZIXB5okeo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
January 15
Taken 2
Starring: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen
Bryan Mills (Neeson) returns in the sequel to try and save his daughter (Grace) and ex-wife (Janssen) when they are taken while vacationing in Istanbul.
Rotten Tomatoes: 21%
My Review: http://www.examiner.com/review/taken-2-review
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpaT8NzkLgE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Won’t Back Down
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Ving Rhames
Two mothers (Gyllenhaal and Davis) join a teacher trying to transform the school bureaucracy so that no children fall through the cracks.
Rotten Tomatoes: 33%
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvYPxZpstkE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
January 22
End of Watch
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena, Anna Kendrick
A story about two cops (Gyllenhaal and Pena) and the brothership of their relationship and all the other ups and downs for being a cop in California.
Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
My Review: http://www.examiner.com/review/end-of-watch-review
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf2K9GzgiF0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
The Paperboy
Starring: Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Matthew McConaughey
A reporter (McConaughey) returns back home to Florida to investigate a murder about a man (Cusack) that is on death row.
Rotten Tomatoes: 39%
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2GMwWaDSr0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
January 29
Hotel Transylvania
Starring: Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samburg
It’s Dracula’s (Sandler) daughter’s (Gomez) birthday and all she wants to do is live in the world with the humans, but he is afraid to let her go.
Rotten Tomatoes: 43%
My Review: http://www.examiner.com/review/hotel-transylvania-review-1
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dac4_cR1Trl&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Paranormal Activity 4
Starring: Katie Featherston, Kathryn Newton, Matt Shively
It’s been 5 years since Katie and Hunter disappeared, and a neighboring family starts seeing strange things in that house when a mother moves in with child.
Rotten Tomatoes: 25%
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Xn2JqH5ng&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Seven Psychopaths
Starring: Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken
A struggling writer (Farrell) enters the underworld crime world in LA when his friend (Rockwell) kidnaps a Shih Tzu.
Rotten Tomatoes: 81%
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOsd5d8lVoA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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