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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

AT THE MOVIES
This Week   January 31-February 4


A scene from Madonna's drama "W.E.", starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough.  The Weinstein Company  
  
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Here are just some of the theatrical film releases opening this week in the U.S.:


BIG MIRACLE - Ken Kwapis directs Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski in a film about a Greenpeace volunteer recruited by a journalist-reporter to save whales from being trapped in the Arctic Circles icy enclaves.  Opens nationwide on Friday.



CHRONICLE - High school trio stumble upon a wild discovery and gain superpowers as a result.  It's all fun and games when the powers are tested, until things go too far.  Josh Trank's horror-thriller stars Michael B. Jordan and Michael Kelly.  Opens nationwide on Friday.



THE INNKEEPER - Old guests check in, and the horror begins, as two hotel employees suspicious of their surroundings and the place they work in, try to uncover the true nature of their work place.  With Kelly McGillis, Sara Paxton, Pat Healy.  Horror-thriller, directed by Ti West.  Opens nationwide on Friday.



KILL LIST - Hit man who botched an assignment a year prior, is promised a big payoff if he can kill three targets.  Easy enough?  Think again.  Ben Wheatley's film stars Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring and Harry Simpson.  Yet another horror-thriller, directed by James Watkins.  Opens in limited release on Friday.



W.E. - Madonna's second directing effort, this time about the scandalous and notorious affair between Prince Edward and Nazi sympathizer Wallis Simpson.  The romantic drama also has a contemporary love affair as a parallel story.  With Andrea Riseborough, James D'Arcy, Abbie Cornish, Oscar Isaac.  Limited release on Friday.



WINDFALL - Laura Israel's documentary explores the not-so great side of wind energy, and the consequences it brings to an upstate New York town.  Limited release on Friday.



THE WOMAN IN BLACK - Daniel Radcliffe as a lawyer in the 19th century, trying to take care of some paperwork of a deceased woman, and getting in over his head with a woman in black who haunts a house he's working in.  With Ciaran Hinds and "Albert Nobbs" Oscar nominee Janet McTeer.  Horror-thriller, directed by James Watkins.  Opens nationwide on Friday.


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