Friday January 31 to Thursday February 6, 2014

FILMS SHOWING Friday January 31 to Thursday February 6

Her

14A

5 OSCAR NOMINATIONS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE & ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The story of how Walt Disney courted P.L. Travers into letting him option the rights to Mary Poppins is brought to the screen in this non-fiction drama starring Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, and Colin Farrell. A doting father, Walt Disney (Hanks) promises his adoring daughters that he will bring their favorite fictional nanny Mary Poppins to the big screen.

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Dallas Buyers Club

18A

6 OSCAR NOMINATIONS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, ACTOR & SUPPORTING ACTOR

“In the new biopic Dallas Buyers Club, Matthew McConaughey has shed nearly 50 pounds to play an AIDS victim. At a third of his normal weight, McConaughey is almost literally a shadow of his former self. He is also twice the actor he's ever been, delivering the performance of his career as a homophobic Texan diagnosed with HIV in 1985.

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Nebraska

6 OSCAR NOMINATIONS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, DIRECTOR & ACTOR

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Philomena

4 OSCAR NOMINATIONS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE & ACTRESS

The title character of Stephen Frears' Philomena is played by Judi Dench. She is an elderly Irish woman who, as a teenager, gave birth while she was working at a convent. The Catholic Church had the child adopted, and now, decades later, Philomena is introduced to Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan), onetime government spokesperson who is now working as a freelance journalist.

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12 Years a Slave

14A

9 OSCAR NOMINATIONS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, DIRECTOR & ACTOR

Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave stars Chiwetel Ejifor as Solomon Northup, a free black man in 1840s America. He makes his living as a fiddle player, and his wife is a teacher.

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Lee Daniels' The Butler

14A

Director Lee Daniels (Precious) teams up with Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Danny Strong to tell the remarkable story of White House butler Eugene Allen (played by Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker), who served eight U.S. presidents over the course of 30 years, and witnessed sweeping social change during his three decades of service at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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The Broken Circle Breakdown

18A

OSCAR NOMINATED - BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

“The Broken Circle Breakdown, Belgium’s official submission to the Foreign Language Oscars, is an ebullient, life-affirming movie about the most depressing subject imaginable: a couple dealing with the impending death of their young daughter.

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All is Lost

Academy Award winner Robert Redford stars in All Is Lost, an open-water thriller about one man's battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. Written and directed by Academy Award nominee J.C.

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The Big Lebowski

14A

The plot of this Raymond Chandler-esque comedy crime caper from the Coen Brothers (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen) pivots around a case of mistaken identity complicated by extortion, double-crosses, deception, embezzlement, sex, pot (lots of it), and gallons of White Russians (made with fresh cream, please).

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When Jews Were Funny

“The intentionally provocative title of Alan Zweig’s documentary will make a few people ask, probably a little testily, When did Jews stop being funny?

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Blue Jasmine

14A

3 OSCAR NOMINATIONS INCLUDING BEST ACTRESS & SCREENPLAY

After recent excursions to London, Paris, and Rome, Woody Allen shifts his focus back to American shores, following Cate Blanchett's New York housewife through a personal crisis that takes her to San Francisco. Alec Baldwin plays Blanchett's husband, whom the actor describes as ''a go-getter, hard-charging corporate type who wants to buy her everything and keep her happy.

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