Movie: Tomorrowland

 

 Studio:  Walt Disney Pictures (1 hr. 47 min.)

Plot:     Bound by a shared destiny, a former boy-genius and an optimistic teen embark on a dangerous mission to a futuristic city.

Cast:     George Clooney, Raffey Cassidy, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie, Tim McGraw, Keegan-Michael Key, Kathryn Hahn

Rating:     PG

 

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Movie: Home

Studio:   20th Century Fox (1 hr. 34 min.)

Plot:     Oh, an alien on the run from his own people, lands on Earth and makes friends with the adventurous Tip, who is on a quest of her own.
Cast:   Voices of Jim Parsons, Rhianna, Jennifer Lopez, and Steve Martin
Rating:     PG
Bottom Line:     ***

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Movie: Get Hard

  Studio:  Warner Bros. Pictures (1 hr. 40 min.)

Plot:  When a millionaire is nailed for fraud and bound for San Quentin, he turns to his car detailer to help him prepare for the jail stint.
Cast: Kevin Hart, Will Ferrell, T.I.  “Tip” Harris, Alison Brie, Craig T. Nelson and Edwina Findley
Rating:     R
Bottom Line:     ***
 

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Blackflix.com: Movie: Focus

 Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures (1 hr. 45 min.)

Plot:    A con man takes on an inexperienced apprentice.
Cast:   Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Rodrigo Santoro, Adrian Martinez
Rating:     R
Bottom Line:     **

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Movie: Black or White

 Studio:     Relativity Media (2 hr. 1 min.)

Plot:      A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.

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Movie: Selma

  Studio:     Paramount (2 hr. 7 min.)

Plot:     A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. in 1965.

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Movie: Into The Woods

 

Studio:     Disney (2 hr. 5 min.)
Plot:     A modern twist on several Brothers Grimm fairy tales tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife.
Cast:     Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Chris Pine, Johnny Deep, Jake Gyllenhaal, Christine Baranski
Rating:     R
Bottom Line:  *
 

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Movie: Top Five

  Studio:  Paramount (1 hr. 42 min.)

Plot:  A comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality-TV star fiancée talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her TV show.
Cast:     Chris Rock, Rosario Dawson, Gabrielle Union, Kevin Hart, Cedric the Entertainer, Tracy Morgan
Rating:     R
Bottom Line:     ****

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Channing Tatum: “Foxcatcher is the most painful movie I have ever done.”

 

By Samantha Ofole-Prince

We’ve seen him strip down to his undies in “Magic Mike,” protect the President in “White House Down” and play an undercover police officer at a college in “22 Jump Street.”

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Movie: Dear White People

  Studio:   Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions (100 min.)

Plot:     The lives of four black students at an Ivy League college converge after controversy breaks out due to the ill-conceived annual Halloween party.

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