(NY; LA release: July 25) Rated:R for for language, sexuality, some disturbing content and brief drug use "Boy A" is a powerful coming-of-age drama that raises difficult questions about the morals of our times.
Rated:PG-13 for for violent and disturbing content and thematic material In grand "X-Files" manner, the film's storyline is being kept under wraps, known only to top studio brass and the film's principals. This much can be revealed: The supernatural thriller is a stand-alone story in the tradition of some of the show's most acclaimed and beloved episodes, and takes the always-complicated relationship between Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) in unexpected directions. Mulder continues his unshakable quest for the truth, and Scully, the passionate, ferociously intelligent physician, remains inextricably tied to Mulder's pursuits.
Rated:R for for crude and sexual content, and pervasive language Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly will play coddled guys who live with their respective single parents. Their folks fall in love and marry, making the guys stepbrothers. From the team that brought you "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" and "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy."
(Limited) Rated:PG-13 for for some strong language, sexual material, some drinking and brief smoking--all involving teens A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques.
(Limited) Rated:PG-13 for for some sexual content The memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and remembers his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate: the aristocratic yet Catholic Flyte family and in particular brother and sister Sebastian and Julia.
Rated:R for for language, some sexual content and nudity. The Duplass Brothers explore the minutiae of relationship dynamics in this in-depth study of a group of desperate actor friends. And a bag. And a head.
(NY, LA) Rated:NONE "Bustin' Down The Door" chronicles a tumultuous two-year period of competitive and cultural clashes in the mid-Seventies in surfing's Mecca - Hawaii's North Shore of Oahu - as a small crew of Australians and South Africans set out with attitude and determination to change the world of surfing. Framed around the emerging careers of World Champions-to-be Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew, Shaun Tomson and Mark Richards, Bustin' documents how these young men risked everything to become the best surfers in the world, and how their courage and vision began a cultural revolution that led to the birth of professional surfing and ultimately what has become today's billion-dollar surf industry.
(NY) Rated:NONE In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated... and complicated. Following a cast of characters, parades, and parties across an enduring color line, we see that beneath the surface of pageantry lies something else altogether.
(NY; LA release: Aug. 8) Rated:NONE Both a tragedy and an inspiring tale, "Canary" follows the story of two children, Koichi and Yuki, who must rebuild their lives after suffering from their parents' mistakes, and find a family to call their own. After being indoctrinated in the fanatical beliefs of the religious cult Nirvana with his mother and sister, Koichi has lost all sense of his own identity. A murderous attack instigated by members of the cult, inspired by the 1995 Sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, leads to Koichi being abandoned by his mother, rejected by his grandfather, and separated from his younger sister. Unable to deal with the loss, Koichi decides to break out of the child welfare system to reunite with his sister. On his way to Tokyo , he encounters Yuki, a girl fleeing from her abusive father. Together, they face the troubles of children traveling alone without the guidance or protection of adults, and learn to set aside their differences for the sake of survival and a chance for true happiness.