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starring: Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer, Nathan Lane, Mare Winningham, Michael Lerner, Sean Bean, Mark Povenelli, Martin Klebba
written by: Marc Klein and Jason Keller
directed by: Tarsem
MPAA: Rated PG for some fantasy action and mild rude humor
starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, Wes Bentley, Donald Sutherland, Alexander Ludwig, Toby Jones, Isabelle Fuhrman
written by: Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins, and Billy Ray
directed by: Gary Ross
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for intense violent thematic material and disturbing images – all involving teens
starring: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Ice Cube, Rob Riggle, Nick Offerman, Ellie Kemper, Jake M. Johnson, Chris Parnell
written by: Michael Bacall and Jonah Hill
directed by: Phil Lord and Chris Miller
MPAA: Rated R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, drug material, teen drinking and some violence
The lineup at Yoshi’s San Francisco on Wednesday evening was basically the ideal music program for a dreamy hipster cruise of the Caribbean. It was a night of transporting melodies and gently swaying rhythms, soothing vocals and sleepy-eyed acoustics. There were moments I could literally feel little blasts of sea breeze on my face. But then Mia Doi Todd complained that the air conditioner was too strong, so they turned it off.
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starring: Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd, Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm, Megan Fox, Edward Burns
written and directed by: Jennifer Westfeldt
MPAA: Rated R for sexual content and language
starring: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Willem Dafoe, Thomas Haden Church, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, Dominic West, James Purefoy, Bryan Cranston, Polly Walker
written by: Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews, and Michael Chabon
directed by: Andrew Stanton
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action
starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Julia Taylor Ross
written by: Laura Lau
directed by: Chris Kentis and Laura Lau
MPAA: Rated R for disturbing violent content and terror
starring: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, Chelsea Handler, Til Schweiger, Abigail Spencer, Angela Bassett, Rosemary Harris
written by: Timothy Dowling and Simon Kinberg
directed by: McG
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for sexual content including references, some violence and action, and for language.
starring: Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough, Oscar Isaac, James D’Arcy, Richard Coyle, James Fox, Judy Parfitt
written by: Madonna and Alek Keshishian
directed by: Madonna
MPAA: Rated R for some domestic violence, nudity and language
starring: Channing Tatum, Rachel McAdams, Jessica Lange, Sam Neill, Scott Speedman, Wendy Crewson
written by: Jason Katims, Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein, and Michael Sucsy
directed by: Michael Sucsy
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for an accident scene, sexual content, partial nudity and some language