Based on information provided by the Dark Horizons website and internet research, here are just some of the movies you can expect to see in the movie theatres in January.
A Dark Truth
Opens: January 4
Andy Garcia plays an ex-CIA operative -turned political talk show host. He is hired by a corporate whistle blower to expose her company’s cover-up of a massacre in a South American village. The cast includes Kevin Durand, Eva Longoria, Kim Coates, Forest Whitaker and Steven Bauer.
All Superheroes Must Die
Opens: January 4
The film follows four masked avengers – Charge (Jason Trost), Cutthroat (Lucas Till), The Wall (Lee Valmassy) and Shadow (Sophie Merkley) – who find themselves stripped of their powers by their arch-nemesis (James Remar), whom they defeated years earlier…or so they thought. When the sinister mastermind puts the heroes through a series of brutal challenges that are virtually impossible to overcome, they must battle the clock – and even each other – in a race to stop a deadly countdown that could mean total destruction. Will the superheroes prevail, or will they be forced to meet their demise as mere human beings?
Gangster Squad
Opens: January 11
Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin star in this period piece drama about a pair of Los Angeles cops assigned to take down notorious 1940’s mob kingpin Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn). The cast includes Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Frank Grillo and Michael Pena.
Quartet
Opens: January 11
Cissy (Pauline Collins), Wilf (Billy Connolly), and Reg (Tom Courtenay) are all retired members of an operatic quartet, living in Beecham House, a retirement home for gifted musicians, who put on a concert on Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday every year. However, the arrival of the fourth member of the quartet, and Reg’s ex-wife, Jean (Maggie Smith), results in old rivalries and theatrical temperaments and it becomes unclear if the show will or will not go on. The cast includes Michael Gambon.
Stand Up Guys
Opens: January 11
Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin star as retired gangsters who reunite for one epic last night. Val (Al Pacino) is released from prison after serving twenty-eight years for refusing to give up one of his close criminal associates. His best friend Doc (Christopher Walken) is there to pick him up, and the two soon re-team with another old pal, Hirsch (Alan Arkin). Their bond is as strong as ever, and the three reflect on freedom lost and gained, loyalties ebbed and flowed, and days of glory gone by. And despite their age, their capacity for mayhem is still very much alive and well – bullets fly as they make a hilariously valiant effort to compensate for the decades of crime, drugs and sex they’ve missed. But one of the friends is keeping a dangerous secret- he’s been put in an impossible quandary by a former mob boss, and his time to find an acceptable alternative is running out. As the sun rises on the guys’ legendary reunion, their position becomes more and more desperate and they finally confront their past once and for all.
Struck By Lightning
Opens: January 11
High school senior Carson Phillips (Chris Colfer) was destined for bigger things than his close-minded small town could ever offer. He was on a path to greatness, but destiny had a different plan when he was suddenly killed by a bolt of lightning in his school parking lot. Demonstrating that life is what happens while you’re busy planning your future, Carson recounts the last few weeks of his life via witty, insightful flashbacks, including a blackmail scheme targeting the popular kids in school that he concocts with his best friend (Rebel Wilson), and a home life that includes a mother (Allison Janney) who’s more interested in the bottle than her son’s future and an estranged father (Dermot Mulroney) who suddenly appears with a pregnant fiancée (Christina Hendricks).
Broken City
Opens: January 18
Mark Wahlberg plays a New York cop hired by the mayor (Russell Crowe) to find out who has been sleeping with the mayor’s wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Things get a lot more complicated when the cop is double-crossed and then framed by the mayor for an execution style killing carried out to hide the mayor’s dirty secrets. The cast includes Jeffrey Wright and Kyle Chandler.
The Last Stand
Opens: January 18
Sheriff Owens (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a man who has resigned himself to a life of fighting what little crime takes place in the sleepy border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving his LAPD post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with failure and defeat after his partner was crippled. After a spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy, the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the hemisphere is hurtling toward the border at 200 mph in a specially outfitted car with a hostage and a fierce army of gang members. He is headed, it turns out, straight for Summerton Junction, where the whole of U.S. law enforcement will have their last opportunity to make a stand and intercept him before he slips across the border forever. At first reluctant to become involved, and then counted out because of the perceived ineptitude of his small town force, Owens ultimately accepts responsibility for the face off. The cast includes Rodrigo Santoro, Jaimie Alexander, Forest Whitaker, Genesis Rodriguez, Peter Stormare, Johnny Knoxville and Zach Gilford.
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Opens: January 25
Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton star as the legendary siblings now grown up and gun-wielding witch hunters. Famka Janssen and Peter Stormare co-star.
Parker
Opens: January 25
A professional thief (Jason Statham) teams up with a beautiful novice crook (Jennifer Lopez) to pull off a massive heist in Palm Beach. The cast includes Nick Nolte, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Chiklis and Clifton Collins, Jr.
Movies coming out in February will be posted at the end of January.
Enjoy!
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