151. Omar
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Actors: Essam Abu Aabed, Foad Abed-Eihadi, Adel Abu-Lasheen, Baher Agbariya, Mousa Habiib Allah, Wafaa Aon
Plot: A young Palestinian man walks a deadly line after being found guilty by
association following the death of an Israeli soldier. With a girlfriend
on the other side of the wall, childhood friends who trust him and a
handler who now expects him to work as an informant - he will have to
decide where his true loyalty lies.
152. Ender's Game
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gavin Hood
Actors: Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Abigail Breslin, Moises Arias
Plot: Based on the novel by Orson Scott Card, after an alien war has nearly wiped out humanity, the most gifted children in the world are sent to an advanced military academy in space with the hope of developing a strategy to stop the next invasion.
153. Lovelace
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Actors: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Chris Noth, Robert Patrick, Bobby Cannavale
Plot: Biography of Linda Lovelace, who became a sensation in the porn industry thanks to her role in the film Deep Throat. Yet that is not the life she wanted but rather the life her abusive husband forced on her - until she found the courage to take control of her own life.
154. Escape Plan
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mikael Håfström
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Caviezel, Sam Neill, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vinnie Jones
Plot: Ray Breslin designs the most secure buildings in the world, including many prisons. But when he is framed for murder and put inside one of his own master prisons, he will have to put his knowledge to good use to escape and find the people who framed him.
155. Mental
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: P.J. Hogan
Actors: Liev Schreiber, Toni Collette, Caroline Goodall, Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry Fox, Deborah Mailman
Plot: After their mother cracks from the stress of political pressure facing her
husband, five girls are assigned a new nanny - a charismatic slightly
crazy woman who plans to shake things up for the family.
156. Hours
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Eric Heisserer
Actors: Paul Walker, Genesis Rodriguez, Judd Lormand, Christopher Matthew Cook, Nick Gomez, Kerry Cahill
Plot: Nolan (Paul Walker) tries to survive a horrendous situation brought upon by Hurricane Katrina and tries to keep his new born daughter alive and away from danger.
157. Cheap Thrills
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: E.L. Katz
Actors: Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, Sara Paxton, David Koechner, Amanda Fuller, Eric Neil Gutierrez
Plot: A couple with some twisted notions approach a broken-down family man and
his long-time friend and put them through an increasingly bizarre and
dangerous set of dares over the course of an evening at a local bar.
158. Terms and Conditions May Apply
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cullen Hoback
Actors: Orson Scott Card, Moby, Mark Zuckerberg, Raymond Kurzweil, Joe Lipari
Plot: Just what do you give up when you share your information across the Internet and cell phones? Terms and Conditions May Apply goes into exactly how much you supply when you hit "I Agree" without reading all the fine print - and what, if anything, can save your privacy as the world becomes more interconnected.
159. Miracle in Cell No.7
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lee Hwan-Kyung
Actors: Man-shik Jeong, Dal-su Oh, Shin-Hye Park, Won-sang Park, Seung-yong Ryoo, Kal So-Won
Plot:
160. Hannah Arendt
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Nicholas Woodeson, Julia Jentsch, Ulrich Noethen
Plot: Explores the life of philosopher, political theorist and reporter Hannah Arendt as she covers the trial of notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
