This weeks trailers are about a group executing cvert attacks, an attack at the white house, a singer-songwriter, a fancyful world and a teenage girl trying to deal with her parents.
The East
Description: Sarah Moss (Brit Marling) is a brilliant operative for an elite private intelligence firm whose top objective is to ruthlessly protect the interests of their A-list corporate clientele. She is assigned to go undercover to infiltrate an anarchist collective known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations. Living amongst them in an effort to get closer to their members, Sarah finds herself unexpectedly torn between two worlds as she starts to fall in love with the group's charismatic leader, finding her life and her priorities irrevocably changed.
Director: Zal Batmanglij
Starring: Brit Marling,Alexander Skarsgård, Ellen Page, Julia Ormond, Patricia Clarkson
Trailer:
Trailer "The East"
Olympus Has Fallen
Description: When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) finds himself trapped within the building. As our national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President, and avert an even bigger disaster.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Dylan McDermott, Ashley Judd, Melissa Leo
Trailer:
Trailer "Olympus Has Fallen"
Inside Llewyn Davis
Description: A singer-songwriter navigates New York's folk music scene during the 1960s.
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund
Trailer:
Trailer "Inside Llewyn Davis"
Comment: Always love a good Coen brothers movie.
Mood Indigo
Description: In a world where you can travel around on a pink cloud or literally be swept off an ice-skating rink into a hole, Colin, a wealthy young man and inventor of the cocktail-mixing piano, wants to fall in love. With the help of his cook Nicolas and best friend Chick, he meets Chloe, the incarnation of a Duke Ellington tune. But soon after their wedding, Chloe falls ill. She has a water lily growing in her chest. Ruined by medical expenses, Colin resorts to increasingly desperate methods to save his beloved's life
Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Romain Duris, Omar Sy, Gad Elmaleh, Philippe Torreton, Charlotte le Bon
Trailer:
Trailer "Mod Indigo"
Comment: A French movie with Audrey Tatou, loving it already!
The Playroom
Description: Set in the suburbs during the 1970s, the story unfolds like a dream wrapped around a family drama, one in which all members of the Cantwell family struggle to find their way in a rapidly changing world. Maggie (Olivia Harris) is a vulnerable yet tempestuous teenager who acts as big sister and surrogate mother to her three younger siblings. Upstairs in the attic she tells them fantastical stories, but only to mask what is happening downstairs. As her hard-drinking parents, Martin and Donna (John Hawkes and Molly Parker), entertain guests, Maggie grapples with their flawed choices and is thrust into a world she might not be ready for.
Director: Julia Dyer
Starring: John Hawkes, Molly Parker, Olivia Harris, Jonathan Brooks, Cody Linley
Trailer:
Trailer "The Playroom"
