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Top 10 Films Released This Week
The top 10 films released at cinemas today, 29th August, 2014 according to Metacritic.com (the metascore is shown after the movie title)
 No.10. The Last of Robin Hood - 46Director: Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland - Starring: Kevin Kline, Dakota Fanning & Susan Sarandon - Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an aspiring actress, Beverly Aadland. The Last of Robin Hood is a story about the desire for fame and the price it exacts. (lastofrobinhood.tumblr.com) |  No.9 Jamie Marks is Dead - 49Director: Carter Smith - Starring: Cameron Monaghan & Noah Silver - Based on the novel “One For Sorrow” by Christopher Barzak, Jamie Marks is Dead is the story of a murdered high school boy who returns as a ghost, looking for the love and the friendship that he never had when he was alive. (www.jamiemarksisdead.net) |
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 No.8. The Calling - 51Director: Jason Stone - Starring: Susan Sarandon & Gil Bellows - Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Fort Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a higher calling. (www.imdb.com) |  No.6. The Notebook - 55(Le Grand Cahier) Director: János Szász - Starring: László Gyémánt & András Gyémánt - Twin siblings enduring the harshness of WWII in a village on the Hungarian border hedge their survival on studying and learning from the evil surrounding them. (www.imdb.com) |
 No.6. Kundo: Age of the Rampant - 55Director: Jong-bin Yun - Starring: Jung-woo Ha & Ye-ri Han - In the last days of the Joseon Dynasty, a band of fighters called Kundo steal from the rich and give to the poor. They risk their lives for honor - and for one man, a debt of revenge owed to the aristocrat that robbed him of his family and his name. (www.google.com) |  No. 4. Life of Crime - 60Director: Daniel Schechter - Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Mos Def & Isla Fisher - Two common criminals get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer who shows no interest in paying the $1 million dollar ransom for her safe return. (www.imdb.com) |
 No. 4. Through a Lens Darkly - 60Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and a Emergence of a People - Director: Thomas Allen Harris - Starring: Lyle Ashton Harris & Thomas Allen Harris - A film that explores how African American communities have used the camera as a tool for social change from the invention of photography to the present. (www.imdb.com) |  No. 3. The Congress - 61Director: Ari Folman - Starring: Robin Wright & Harvey Keitel - An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider. (www.imdb.com) |
 No.2. Canopy - 68Director: Aaron Wilson - Starring: Khan Chittenden & Tzu-yi Mo - Wartime, 1942. Singapore. An Australian fighter pilot shot down in combat awakens suspended in the treetops. As night devours day, he must navigate through dangerous jungle in search of sanctuary. Transcending language and culture, Canopy is a cinematic tour de force exploring the collision of war, nature and its impact on humanity. (www.imdb.com) |  No.1. Starred Up - 82Director: David Mackenzie - Starring: Jack O'Connell, Ben Mendelsohn & Rupert Friend - A troubled and explosively violent teenager is transferred to adult prison where he finally meets his match - a man who also happens to be his father. (www.imdb.com) |
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