New to Own: Week of November 25, 2014
1.
The Expendables 3
(2014)
Barney augments his team with new blood for a personal battle: to take down Conrad Stonebanks, the Expendables co-founder and notorious arms trader who is hell bent on wiping out Barney and every single one of his associates. (126 mins.)
Director: Patrick Hughes
2.
The Giver
(2014)
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world. (97 mins.)
Director: Phillip Noyce
3.
A Merry Friggin' Christmas
(2014)
Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise. (88 mins.)
Director: Tristram Shapeero
4.
Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
(2013)
Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas. (100 mins.)
Director: Tyler Perry
5.
What If
(2013)
Wallace, who is burned out from a string of failed relationships, forms an instant bond with Chantry, who lives with her longtime boyfriend. Together, they puzzle out what it means if your best friend is also the love of your life. (98 mins.)
Director: Michael Dowse
6.
The November Man
(2014)
An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect. (108 mins.)
Director: Roger Donaldson
7.
Stretch
(2014)
A hard-luck limo driver struggling to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie takes on a job with a crazed passenger whose sought-after ledger implicates some seriously dangerous criminals. (94 mins.)
Director: Joe Carnahan
8.
A Life in Dirty Movies
(2013 Documentary)
A documentary shot at the end of pornographer Joe Sarnos's life, which reveals his attempt to make one last film, as well as his relationship with his wife, Peggy. (80 mins.)
Director: Wiktor Ericsson
9.
War Story
(2014)
A war photographer who recently endured a brutal detainment in Libya holes up in Sicily to come to terms with her ordeal... (90 mins.)
Director: Mark Jackson
10.
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
(2013)
Red Crow Mi'g Maq reservation, 1976: By government decree, every Indian child under the age of 16 must attend residential school. In the kingdom of the Crow, that meansimprisonment at St. Dymphna's. That means being at the mercy of "Popper", the sadistic Indian agent who runs the school. (88 mins.)
Director: Jeff Barnaby