Starring: Anjelica Huston, Christian Borle, Debra Messing, Jack Davenport, Katharine McPhee, Megan Hilty

Genre: Drama, Musical

Network: NBC

Smash is about a group of characters all converging to create a new Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe.  A mid-west transplant actress/waitress (McPhee), an current ensemble actress (Hilty), a pair of writing partners (Messing & Borle), an egotistical director (Davenport), and a newly divorced and trying to prove she’s still in the game producer (Huston), all have their own stories to be told and must come together to create the next Broadway “smash”.

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Directed by: Jason Reitman

Written by: Diablo Cody

Starring: Charlize Theron, Elizabeth Reaser, Patrick Wilson, Patton Oswalt

Genre: Comedy, Drama

MPAA Rating: R

Young Adult is about Mavis Gary (Theron; Monster, Aeon Flux), a ghost author of young adult books who’s life isn’t going too well.  She receives a birth announcement from her high school sweetheart Buddy Slade (Wilson; Hard Candy, Watchmen) and decides to go visit her hometown for a bit to win him back as her life spirals out of control.  Once there she befriends Matt (Oswalt; Big Fan), a guy who was beaten and crippled by the popular kids in high school and who also harbors a crush on her.

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Directed by: Bennett Miller

Written by: Aaron Sorkin, Stan Chervin, Steven Zaillian

Starring: Brad Pitt, Chris Pratt, Jonah Hill, Kerris Dorsey, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Stephen Bishop

Genre: Based on a true story, Drama, Sports

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Moneyball is the true story of Oakland A’s manager Billy Beane (Pitt; Seven, Fight Club) who needs to improve his team if they ever hope to get into the championships and keep his job.  The problem he faces in the modern age of professional sports is that his team doesn’t have a lot of money and can’t compete with bigger budget teams like the Yankees.  He finds statistician Peter Brand (Hill; Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) who has ideas about how a team can win using lower priced players that have been written off for one reason or another.  He takes a chance on this new system despite having to fight with everyone around him who is set on using traditional methods of playing ball.  The movie is based off the book( ) of the same name by Michael Lewis.

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Directed by: David Gordon Green

Written by: Alessandro Tanaka, Brian Gatewood

Starring: Ari Graynor, Jonah Hill, Kevin Hernandez, Kylie Bunbury, Landry Bender, Max Records, Sam Rockwell

Genre: Adventure, Comedy

MPAA Rating: R

The Sitter is about Noah (Hill; Moneyball, Superbad), a college dropout who gets wrangled into babysitting for 3 eccentric kids when he wants to go to a party with his “girlfriend” (Graynor; Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist).  Being a horrible babysitter he goes to buy some cocaine for his girlfriend and this sets off a series of events that leave him and the kids on the run from various characters in New York City.

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Directed by: Jon Hewitt

Written by: Belinda McClory, Jon Hewitt

Starring: Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Peter Docker, Viva Bianca

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

MPAA Rating: Unrated

X (also known as Exit: A Night From Hell) is a story of one escort, Holly (Bianca), who’s about to retire and start a new life in Paris, and another prostitute, Shay (Lawrence), who’s starting her first night on the job.  The two meet up for a job that unfortunately goes bad and leaves both of them running for their lives.

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Directed by: John Pogue

Written by: John Pogue

Starring: Bre Blair, Ignacio Serricchio, Josh Cooke, Mattie Liptak, Mercedes Masöhn

Genre: Horror

MPAA Rating: R

Quarantine 2: Terminal is the sequel to Quarantine which itself was a remake of the the Spanish movie [Rec].  Although [Rec] has a sequel, this sequel to the remake is a completely different story not related to [Rec] at all.  In it a late night flight leaves Los Angeles on the night of the events of Quarantine with a small number of passengers.  One of the passengers gets sick and violent and the plane is forced to land.  When they arrive at the airport however the crew and passengers find themselves trapped in an empty terminal and the infection is spreading.  If they go outside they’ll be killed by police trying to contain the disease.  If they stay they’ll be killed by the infected.

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Directed by: Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck

Written by: Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck

Starring: Angela Sarafyan, Jason Sudeikis, Lake Bell, Leslie Bibb, Lindsay Sloane, Martin Starr, Michelle Borth, Nick Kroll, Tyler Labine

Genre: Comedy

MPAA Rating: R

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy is about a group of friends who are entering their 30′s who have been friends since high school.  During the summer they head out to one of the group’s (Sudeikis; Hall Pass) parents house in the Hamptons and throw massive themed parties.  They learn though that the house is up for sale and this will be their last summer to party like this before losing the house and also having life tear the group apart.  It’s decided that the final party will just be the core group and will be an orgy.

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Directed by: David Fincher

Written by: Steven Zaillian

Starring: Christopher Plummer, Daniel Craig, Joely Richardson, Robin Wright, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgård

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Remake, Thriller

MPAA Rating: R

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is about recently disgraced investigative journalist, Mikael Blomkvist (Craig; Casino Royale, Cowboys & Aliens) who is hired by an Swedish industrialist (Plummer; Beginners, The Insider) to solve the 40 year old mystery of the disappearance of his niece.  He’s assisted by a young, anti-social computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander (Mara; The Social Network, A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)).  It’s based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson.

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Directed by: George Clooney

Written by: Beau Willimon, George Clooney, Grant Heslov

Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, George Clooney, Max Minghella, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ryan Gosling

Genre: Drama, Political

MPAA Rating: R

The Ides of March is about an idealistic high ranking staffer (Gosling; Drive, Crazy Stupid Love) during the democratic primaries for a presidential campaign.  As he backs his candidate (played by George Clooney who also wrote and directed) with wild optimism and blows off steam at night with an intern named Molly (Wood; The Wrestler, Across The Universe) he soon learns the dark side of politics the hard way.

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Directed by: David Schwimmer

Written by: Andy Bellin, Robert Festinger

Starring: Catherine Keener, Chris Henry Coffey, Clive Owen, Jason Clarke, Liana Liberato

Genre: Drama

MPAA Rating: R

Trust is about 14 year old Annie who has spent months talking online and on the phone with a guy she thinks is her own age.  She sneaks out to meet him and learns he’s really an adult.  This leads to a rape and Annie’s family seeking vengeance and wondering how this could happen to their daughter.

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