Movies Opening in Cinemas On January 16
Every week Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Still Alice, Paddington, The Wedding Ringer, Blackhat, Spare Parts, Match, and Son of a Gun, .
Note that these are based on the opening dates in the United States. If you’re looking for the opening dates for a certain movie in your country, click the ‘international release dates” below the movie details.
Opening in Cinemas This Week:
Still Alice (2014)
101 minutes – Drama
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Directors: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
Stars: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth
Paddington (2014)
95 minutes – Comedy, Family
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.
Director: Paul King
Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent
The Wedding Ringer (2014)
101 minutes -Comedy
Two weeks shy of his wedding, a socially awkward guy enters into a charade by hiring the owner of a company that provides best men for grooms in need.
Director: Jeremy Garelick
Stars: Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Alan Ritchson
Blackhat (2014)
133 minutes – Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta.
Director: Michael Mann
Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Wei Tang, Leehom Wang
Spare Parts (2014)
83 minutes – Drama
Four Hispanic high school students form a robotics club. With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and a dream, this rag tag team goes up against the country’s reigning robotics champion, MIT.
Director: Sean McNamara
Stars: George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis, Carlos PenaVega, Marisa Tomei
Son of a Gun (2014)
108 minutes – Action, Crime, Drama
JR busts out of prison with Brendan Lynch, Australia’s most notorious criminal, and joins Lynch’s gang for a gold heist that soon pits the two men against one another.
Director: Julius Avery
Stars: Brenton Thwaites, Ewan McGregor, Alicia Vikander, Matt Nable
Match (2014)
90 minutes – Comedy, Drama, Family
As a Juilliard professor is interviewed by a woman and her husband for her dissertation on the history of dance in 1960’s New York, it becomes increasingly clear that there are ulterior motives to the couple’s visit.
Director: Stephen Belber
Stars: Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino, Matthew Lillard, Maduka Steady
Releases on January 14 – no international release dates as of yet
What do you think: do any of these appeal to you?
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(top image source: Still Alice – Sony Pictures Classics)
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