Every week Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Tomorrowland, Poltergeist, When Marnie Was There, Aloft, Chocolate City, The Farewell Party and Sunshine Superman.
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:
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_text_separator title=”Tomorrowland (2015)” title_align=”separator_align_center” color=”grey”][vc_column_text]Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory.
Director: Brad Bird
Stars: George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie, Raffey Cassidy
A family whose suburban home is haunted by evil forces must come together to rescue their youngest daughter after the apparitions take her captive.
Director: Gil Kenan
Stars: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kennedi Clements, Saxon Sharbino
A young girl is sent to the country for health reasons, where she meets an unlikely friend in the form of Marnie, a young girl with flowing blonde hair. As the friendship unravels it is possible that Marnie has closer ties to the protagonist than we might expect.
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Stars: Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima, Susumu Terajima
limited release in US – International Release Dates
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] [vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_text_separator title=”Aloft (2014)” title_align=”separator_align_center” color=”grey”][vc_column_text]Aloft tells of a struggling mother who encounters the son she abandoned 20 years earlier.
Director: Claudia Llosa
Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy, Mélanie Laurent, Oona Chaplin
Life for a struggling college student changes in an instant when he meets the owner of a male strip club who convinces him to give amateur night a whirl.
Director: Jean-Claude La Marre
Stars: Robert Ri’chard, Tyson Beckford, DeRay Davis, Vivica A. Fox
Residents of a retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend, though they are faced with a series of dilemmas when rumors of the machine begin to spread.
Directors: Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon
Stars: Ze’ev Revach, Levana Finkelstein, Aliza Rosen, Ilan Dar
A heart-racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular -and dangerous- feats of foot-launched human flight.
Director: Marah Strauch
Stars: Carl Boenish, John B. Macaulay, Cecilie Bull, Marah Strauch
(top image source: When Marnie Was There – Toho)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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