Crimson Peak

Horror/Romance

Rated R for bloody violence, some sexual content and brief strong language.

A mysterious stranger woos a young woman and brings her to his mansion atop a clay mountain. There, she learns that her new home holds many disturbing secrets as she fights for her sanity and her very life.

Hocus Pocus

Family

Rated PG for some scary sequences, and for language.

Three 17th-century witches, hanged for their murderous crimes, are resurrected on Halloween in modern-day Salem by an unsuspecting boy, who must now figure out how to get them back in the ground.

Slash/Back

Horror/Adventure/Sci-Fi

NR; Canada: 14A Violence and gore, language, smoking, some intense scenes.

In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.

Moneyball

Sports

Rated PG-13 for some strong language.

Baseball general manager Billy Beane reinvents the Oakland A's by employing unorthodox scouting methods that initially make him a laughingstock in the major leagues.

Sahara

Adventure

Rated PG-13 for action violence.

An explorer (Matthew McConaughey) and his sidekick (Steve Zahn) search for treasure and help a doctor (Penélope Cruz) contain a plague in Africa. Based on Clive Cussler's novel.

Asteroid City

Comedy/ SciFi

Rated PG-13 on appeal for brief graphic nudity, smoking and some suggestive material.

In an American desert town in the mid-fifties, the Junior Stargazer Convention attracts stargazers of different ages. A group of students and their parents visit the town to attend the event. What follows is an unexpected exchange of ideas and experiences that lead to eye-opening revelations.

Frida

Drama/Biopic

Rated R for sexuality/nudity and language.

Best Actress nominee Salma Hayek stars as Mexican surrealist Frida Kahlo in this biopic, which chronicles her turbulent marriage to Diego Rivera, her political activism and the severe pain she experienced following a bus accident.

12 Angry Men

Drama

TV-PG for smoking and thematic elements.

A young Puerto Rican is on trial for his father’s murder, and 11 of 12 jurors have voted him guilty. The sole innocent vote comes from Juror #8, who persuades the others to reconsider, showing the motivations of each juror.

Reginald Rose was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for a script based on his play, and the film received a nod for Best Picture.

Newsies

Family/Musical

Rated PG for mild violence.

Musical about the 1899 strike of New York newsboys.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Adventure/Comedy

Rated PG-13 for some violence and language

Quirky Coen brothers effort follows Depression-era convicts who escape a Mississippi chain gang and embark on an odyssey to find a hidden treasure.

The Iron Giant

Family

Rated PG for fantasy action violence, language, some thematic material and smoking

A giant metal machine falls to Earth in 1958 and frightens the residents of a small town in Maine, until it befriends a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.

Airplane

Comedy

Rated PG for brief nudity, language, mild violence.

A traumatized ex-flier boards a plane hoping to win back his flight attendant girlfriend. Meanwhile, the pilots get food poisoning, and someone has to land the jet.

Tremors

Rated PG-13 for violence, language, smoking, and peril.

Men living in a small desert community come upon some inexplicable phenomena, including at least one very grisly body. It turns out that there are gigantic wormlike carnivores living under the desert that come up to feed on humans.

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Holes

Family

Rated PG for violence, mild language and some thematic elements

Faithful, entertaining adaptation of Louis Sachar's popular, prize-winning children's novel about a bizarre juvenile-correctional facility run by an intimidating warden.