Trailer Park- 2/3 Edition
If horror films are your thing, then you might want to head to theaters this week. Ghosts haunt a hotel and house in two of the new releases. For something more family oriented, there's a film about animal rights.
The inspiring true story about three whales trapped in the icy ocean is told in Big Miracle. In the family film, Drew Barrymore plays an outspoken environmentalist, who along with a local news reporter (The Office's John Krasinski), leads the charge to save the grey whales from the trap of the Arctic Circle. Unfortunately, not everyone believes in the cause. The adventure film is rated PG. It plays for one hour and forty-seven minutes.
A young, widowed lawyer travels to a desolate home to work on the deceased owner's paperwork in The Woman in Black. While there, he discovers that the house is haunted and that the locals are keeping mum on the subject. He tries to uncover her identity and her reason for hanging around. The PG-13 horror film runs for one hour and thirty-five minutes.
Three high school students learn the downfalls of having super powers in Chronicle. A nerdy teen, his cousin and the popular kid at school come across a substance that give them all sorts of special powers. The one hour an twenty-four minute sci-fi drama is rated PG-13.
Two employees of an over one hundred year old hotel go hunting of ghosts in The Innkeepers. Before The Yankee Pedlar closes its doors for good, Claire and Luke go on a mission to prove that the apparitions do exist in one of New England's most haunted hotels. The one hour and forty minute horror film is playing in limited theaters. It's rated R for language, sex, and drugs.
Also in limited release is Madonna's W.E.. The film, which was featured in Trailer Park- 12/9 Edition, tells the story of the love affair between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII.
A former hitman goes back into the biz for a big pay check in Kill List. At the beginning, the assassinations seem to go off easy, but things start to change and paranoia sets in. The unrated horror film is playing in NY and LA theaters. It runs for one hour and thirty-four minutes.
The documentary Splinters shows the influence surfing has on the lives of Papua New Guinea natives. Back in the 80's, an Australian pilot left behind a surfboard in the remote seaside village of Vanimo. The villagers took to the sport and found it as the only way to get out and see the world. The film shows the intensity and prestige of joining the Papua New Guinea national surfing team. The unrated biopic is currently playing in NY for one hour and thirty-five minutes. It is opening in LA on Feb. 17.
This week a former assassin went back on the scene. Next week, Denzel Washington plays a renegade CIA agent who gets back in the mix in Safe House. Also in theaters on Feb. 10, are the 3D films Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.