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Based on information provided by the Dark Horizons site and internet research, here are just some of the movies you can expect to see in the movie theatres in March:

Being Flynn
Opens: March 2

The story follows a young writer (Paul Dano) who goes to work at a Boston homeless shelter only to encounter his long-absent father: a con man and self-proclaimed poet (Robert De Niro). Julianne Moore and Olivia Thirlby star.

Bernie
Opens: March 2

The film is based on a true story of a local mortician who strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow and then kills her – going to great lengths to maintain the illusion that she’s alive. The film stars Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Shirley MacLaine and Rip Torn.

Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax
Opens: March 2

This animated film deals with Ted (Zac Efron), an idealistic young boy who lives in a completely artificial town and sets out to find a real tree. Along the way he learns the story of the Lorax (Danny DeVito), a grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world. Other voices are be provided by Taylor Swift, Ed Helms and Betty White.

Safe
Opens: March 2

This is a straight forward action thriller starring Jason Statham as a soldier of fortune who finds himself on the run across the U.S. eastern seaboard with a young Chinese girl carrying vital secrets that both the Chinese and Russian Mafia are intent on obtaining in order to blackmail world governments. The cast also includes Chris Sarandon.

John Carter
Opens: March 9

This film follows an American Civil War veteran who is miraculously transported to Mars where he learns the planet is dying from the loss of its atmosphere and water. Only a peaceful alliance of its intelligent inhabitants can save the inhabitants from extinction. The cast includes Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Thomas Haden Church, Samantha Morton and Ciarán Hinds.

The Raven
Opens: March 9

The story is a fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe’s life in which the macabre author teams with a detective in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in Poe’s stories. John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Pam Ferris star.

21 Jump Street
Opens: March 16

This is an action comedy spoof-remake of the 80’s TV series that has only one similarity with the show; it’s about cops who go undercover in high school. The cast includes Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Brie Larson and Dave Franco.

Butter
Opens: March 16

The film follows an adopted teen who discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman (Jennifer Garner) in their small Iowan town’s annual contest. The cast includes Ashley Greene, Olivia Wilde, Rob Corddry and Hugh Jackman.

Seeking Justice
Opens: March 16

The story follows a bookish school teacher (Nicolas Cage) whose wife (January Jones) is the victim of a brutal rape while the pair are celebrating Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The bereaved husband subsequently becomes entangled with an underground vigilante organization in an effort to get revenge and soon finds himself in too far over his head. Guy Pearce and Harold Perrineau also star.

The Hunger Games
Opens: March 23

Based on the popular Suzanne Collins novel, the film focuses on what remains of North America that has now been split into twelve districts where every year a teenage boy & girl are chosen from each district to risk their lives in a ruthless competition for survival – 24 go in, but only one can come out. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci and Lenny Kravitz star.

Goon
Opens: March 30

The story follows a bouncer who is an outcast in his brainy family and soon finds himself a new gig as an ice hockey enforcer, a player whose role it is to protect his teammates and act as a deterrent by hitting or fighting opposing players who take liberties with them. The cast includes Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Alison Pill, Liev Schreiber and Eugene Levy.

Learning to Fly
Opens: March 30

This film is based on a true story tale that follows two strong mothers – one lower class, one upper class – who channel their frustration into action and join forces to transform an inner-city school to make a difference in the education and the lives of their children. Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ving Rhames, Holly Hunter and Oscar Isaac star.

Mirror Mirror
Opens: March 30

Julia Roberts plays an enchantress who schemes her way to the throne; but when a spirited young orphan (Lily Collins) wins the attention of a charming prince (Armie Hammer), the Queen banishes her to the forest. With the help of several highway robber dwarves, she sets out to take back her realm. The cast includes Nathan Lane and Sean Bean.

The Deep Blue Sea
Opens: March 30

The film is based on the infamous 1952 play about a judge’s middle-aged trophy wife who reaches her sexual awakening while engaging in an affair with a traumatized alcoholic young war pilot. The film stars Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston.

The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Opens: March 30

This 3D tale follows the vain, self-deluded and mostly incompetent Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) and his crew as they attempt to win the coveted Pirate of the Year award. Other voices featured in this Claymation film include Salma Hayek, Martin Freeman and Brendan Gleeson.

Wrath of the Titans
Opens: March 30

This sequel stars Sam Worthingon as Perseus, who – along with a few others – set out on a quest to rescue Zeus from the Underworld where Hades and Ares are holding him after making a deal with their Titan father Kronos. The cast includes Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Edgar Ramirez and Rosamund Pike.

Movies coming out in April will be posted at the end of March.

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Based on information provided by the Dark Horizons site and internet research, here are just some of the movies you can expect to see in the movie theatres in February:

Big Miracle
Opens: February 3

The real life 1988 international effort to rescue three gray whales trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska is recounted in this fact-based film that stars Drew Barrymore as a Greenpeace volunteer and John Krasinski as news reporter. The cast also includes Kristen Bell, Vinessa Shaw and Ted Danson.

Chronicle
Opens: February 3

The film is about three high school friends who gain superpowers – namely telekinesis – and how, as their powers grow, one of the three begins to embrace a darker side. The cast includes Michael B. Jordan, Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael Kelly and Ashley Hinshaw.

House at the End of The Street
Opens: February 3

A mother (Elisabeth Shue) and daughter (Jennifer Lawrence) move in to a new community and find themselves next door to a house with a terrible past. Years ago, in a notorious incident, a psychotic young girl murdered her parents. While the locals insist the girl vanished after the brutal murders, the new arrivals quickly discover the sinister house’s story is far from over and the daughter may become part of its dark legacy. This horror flick also stars Max Thieriot and Gil Bellows.

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Opens: February 10

Josh Hutcherson returns in this sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth with his character setting out in search of his missing grandfather (Michael Caine). Dwayne Johnson and Vanessa Hudgens have stepped in to play the stepfather and love interest respectively. Kristin Davis also stars.

Perfect Sense
Opens: February 10

The film deals with a couple (Eva Green and Ewan McGregor) falling in love as the world falls victim to a pandemic that causes people to slowly lose their sensory perception. The cast includes Connie Nielsen and Stephen Dillane.

Return
Opens: February 10

This indie drama follows a wife and mother (Linda Cardinelli) returning from a tour of duty in the Middle East and her readjustment to regular suburban life. Co-stars include Michael Shannon, John Slattery and Talia Balsam.

Safe House
Opens: February 10

The film follows a group of rebel soldiers from a nearby region destroying a CIA-operated safe house. The facility’s young house-sitter must work to move the dangerous former operative gone rogue who is being temporarily stored there to another secure location while avoiding his escape or both of them getting killed. The film stars Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Joel Kinnaman, Brendan Gleeson and Robert Patrick.

The Vow
Opens: February 10

A newlywed couple recovers from a car accident that puts the wife in a coma. Waking up with severe memory loss, her husband endeavors to win her heart again. The cast includes Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Sam Neill, Scott Speedman and Jessica Lange.

This Means War
Opens: February 14

The story has two best friends and veteran spies (Chris Pine and Tom Hardy) falling for the same woman (Reese Witherspoon). They end up fighting for her affections using their black-ops warfare tactics, a fight which literally demolishes much of New York City along the way. Chelsea Handler and Til Schweiger co-star.

Act of Valor
Opens: February 17

What first began as a recruitment video for the U.S. military’s NSWC division is now a full-fledged feature with a few actual actors having small roles, but the rest are actual real-life active duty Navy SEALs. Among the few actors in this film are Rosalyn Sanchez and Nestor Serrano.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Opens: February 17

This is the sequel to the 2007 film with Nicolas Cage back as Johnny Blaze with Johnny Whitworth playing the main antagonist, Blackout, who is a servant helping the Devil (Ciaran Hinds) who wants to take over his son’s body. Christopher Lambert also plays as a bald sword-fighting monk. Idris Elba co-stars.

The Lady
Opens: February 17

Michelle Yeoh stars as Aung San Suu Kyi lead the National League for Democracy (NLD) party to a landslide election win in Burma (Myanmar) in 1990. But, the win was never recognized by the country’s ruling military junta, who had been in power since a coup d’état in 1962. They kept her incarcerated for most of the past two decades. She was freed in late 2010 after seven straight years of house arrest at her lakeside mansion in Rangoon. General elections that year also lead to various reforms including the dissolving of the junta in March 2011. David Thewlis also stars.

The Secret World of Arrietty
Opens: February 17

This is a new adaptation of the Mary Norton novel “The Borrowers” that follows Sho, a boy who moves into his great aunt’s house and soon discovers the presence of tiny people, the Borrowers, living there. He develops a friendship with a 14-year-old Borrower named Arrietty, despite it breaking the cardinal rule that humans must not know about the Borrowers’ existence. The cast includes Bridgit Mendler, Moises Arias, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett and Carol Burnett.

Gone
Opens: February 24

The film stars Amanda Seyfried as Jill, a young woman whose sister has disappeared. Jill believes the disappearance is the work of a serial killer who kidnapped her two years ago and has returned. She sets out to once again face her abductor. The film co-stars Jennifer Carpenter, Wes Bentley and Sebastian Stan.

Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds
Opens: February 24

The story follows an affluent man (Tyler Perry, of course), groomed from birth to take over his family’s multinational business, who develops complicating feelings for a single mom (Thandie Newton) on the eve of his wedding. The cast includes Brian J. White, Rebecca Romijn and Jamie Kennedy.

Movies coming out in March will be posted at the end of February.

Enjoy!

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