During World War II, the "Grand Budapest Hotel" was the most prestigious hotel from top to bottom, frequented by the elite and political & business VIPs who all vied to stay there—rooms were often hard to come by. But to check into the "Grand Budapest Hotel," the concierge Monsieur Gustave had to be involved.
Want to stay at the "Grand Budapest Hotel"? You’ll first need to meet the concierge, Monsieur Gustave. (Image source / 20th Century Fox Films Fan Page)
The smooth-talking and perceptive concierge Gustave finds himself in trouble when his elderly lover, Madame D, who is over 80 years old, suddenly dies and leaves him a large inheritance. This angers Madame D’s family, leading to mobsters hunting him down and the police wanting to arrest him. Fortunately, Gustave is no pushover—he trains the young new lobby boy Zero so well that they work together in tandem. But in an era without Facebook, how does he rally hotels across the region to help him through the crisis?
Welcome to the Grand Budapest Hotel
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
Release Date: 2014-04-18
Runtime: Not provided
Director: Wes Anderson ("Moonrise Kingdom")
Cast: Ralph Fiennes ("Harry Potter"), Jude Law ("Sherlock Holmes"), Adrien Brody ("King Kong"), Tilda Swinton ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"), Saoirse Ronan ("Atonement")
The Butler
The Butler
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Magic Adventure King: The Lost Golden Box
Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box
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Release Date: 2014-04-18
Runtime: 2 hours 12 minutes
Director: Lee Daniels ("Precious")
Cast: Forest Whitaker ("Last King of Scotland"), Oprah Winfrey ("Precious"), John Cusack ("2012"), Robin Williams ("Good Will Hunting"), Cuba Gooding Jr. ("Jerry Maguire"), Jane Fonda
The seven U.S. presidents’ personal butler – How the ordinary changed the extraordinary
Cecil Gaines (played by Forest Whitaker) served as a White House butler at the heart of political power for 34 years, through seven presidential administrations. During this time, he witnessed the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the rise of the civil rights movement. Yet he was just a poor black kid from the cotton fields of Georgia in the 1920s, a nobody at the bottom of society, constantly oppressed by racism. As he stayed committed to his job, his once-happy family began to fall apart—his eldest son became actively involved in protests and faced life-threatening danger, while his younger son went MIA during the Vietnam War. His wife Gloria (Oprah Winfrey) drowned her sorrows in alcohol. Faced with family issues and his own conscience, Cecil reached an unimaginable crossroads in life...
How did he manage to stay resolute amid the tides of history and carve out his own path? When faced with conflicts between his loved ones and his own stance, how did he overcome this family trial that transcended nations and races? Based on a true story, this box office champion in the U.S. for three consecutive weeks is emotionally recommended by President Obama himself.
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Release Date: 2014-04-18
Runtime: Not provided
Director: Jonathan Newman
Cast: Michael Sheen ("Twilight"), Lena Headey ("300"), Sam Neill ("Jurassic Park"), Ian McKellen ("Fantastic Four")
Legend has it that a golden box possesses magical powers. Long lost to time, only a map can lead people to it. The box’s magic is so powerful that whoever owns this mysterious golden box can rule the world...
After his parents mysteriously disappear, Malia Mondy and his younger brother Felix are left to fend for themselves. The sinister and ambitious Otto Luger (played by Sam Neill) kidnaps Felix to find the golden box. Desperate, Malia meets Captain Will Charetti (Michael Sheen), who tells him that their parents worked for a secret government agency—the Relic Investigation Bureau—and were killed trying to stop Luger from seizing the golden box. To thwart Luger’s plan, Charetti arranges for Malia to go undercover as a lobby boy at Luger’s Regent Hotel. Though the hotel appears luxurious, it hides many conspiracies and adventures. Malia must find the golden box within a limited time to have a chance of rescuing his brother...
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Ghost Stories 2
3AM part 2
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Deadly Gamble
Cheap Thrills
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Release Date: 2014-04-18
Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
Directors: Pasith Buranajan ("Pee Mak 3"), Kartikit Ngiemjinda ("Ghost Stories 2: Yin Yang Coffin"), Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit ("Ghost Stories 2: Punch Card Ending")
Cast: Sa-wat from "Love of Siam", Tina from "Holding Hands", Sinjai Plengpanich from "Bangkok Traffic Love Story", and Laila Boonyasak from "4bia"
Three o’clock in the morning is when yin energy is at its strongest, wild dogs begin to “howl”, and it’s also the time of day when hospital death rates are highest.
Explained scientifically, ghosts are a form of magnetic field that can become visible by absorbing energy, and three in the morning is when human energy is at its weakest—making it the easiest time to encounter one...
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Release Date: 2014-04-18
Runtime: 1 hour 27 minutes
Director: E.L. Katz
Cast: Pat Healy from "The Devil's Rejects", Ethan Embry from "Eagle Eye", Sara Paxton from "Shark Night 3D", and David Koechner from "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy"
Craig is broke, unemployed, and having the worst luck imaginable. For his wife and child, he’ll do anything. On the unluckiest night of his life, he meets his equally down-on-his-luck old friend Vince at a bar. The two are challenged by a mysterious upper-class couple to play a series of escalating “Would you dare?” games. The stakes move to a luxury mansion where the twisted pair push the dares higher and higher—like playing Russian roulette—with ever-increasing bets. Shitting oneself, cutting off fingers, sleeping with another man’s wife, eating dog meat raw… each dare more gruesome than the last. What begins as a cozy “reunion of old friends” quickly turns into a terrifying “survival game”. Who will dare to go all the way in the end?
What begins as what seems like a realistic family drama suddenly morphs into dark humor reminiscent of "The Hangover", before ultimately transforming into a brutal, horrifying, and blood-soaked thriller—strikingly similar to the early works of Quentin Tarantino or Peter Jackson. As the feature-length debut of director E.L. Katz, "Cheap Thrills" showcases his talent for genre filmmaking. With only four characters and simple settings throughout, the rollercoaster ride of a plot not only reveals the darkest and most twisted sides of humanity but also challenges viewers’ sensory limits with wild creativity. The content is very explicit—so viewer discretion is strongly advised.
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Almodóvar Retrospective (Part 2): Women Are Not GuiltyPedro Almodóvar Collections
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The Silver Spoon
Silver Spoon
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Release Date: 2014-04-18
Runtime: Not provided
Director: Pedro 'Almodóvar
Cast: Not provided
When it comes to love, it’s often women who throw caution to the wind...
Colorful visual design, rapid-fire dialogue, and gorgeous, vibrant women
The swirling passions between men and women, men and men, women and women
In Almodóvar’s films, love and hate constantly defy imagination in every way possible.
The love, lust, and emotional turmoil in Almodóvar’s films always twist and turn in ways no one expects—often involving things most people fear or are too ashamed to face.
Homosexuality, heterosexuality, transgender identities, sadism and masochism, cross-dressing, sexual assault—yet Almodóvar always finds a way to play with these so-called taboos, embracing these “abnormal” elements that break societal norms. Watching his films is like drinking a bold shot of red tomato chili juice—intensely pleasurable and warm.
Naturally sensitive and perceptive, Almodóvar skillfully weaves various feminine symbols and metaphors into his films. No matter how unusual the subject, he makes it both accessible and deeply emotional. He can capture the essence of a character through costumes, appearance, and dialogue in no time, whether they are women by birth or by identity—these are the vibrant, fiery elements that Almodóvar loves most.
Four of Almodóvar’s films about women delve deep into themes of female repression, denial, abandonment, and the many twists and turns of love.
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Release Date: 2014-04-18
Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
Director: Keisuke Yoshida from "Miss Wheat"
Cast: Kento Nakajima, Alice Hirose from "Recycle", Tomohiro Ichikawa from "Shodo Girls: Brush of the Gods", Ryota Yabe from "Otaku's Love Dictionary", Ryûhei Ueshima from "The Flower Warrior", Fumika Baba from "The Wife of Ghost Man", Mitsuru Karahashi from "Lesson of the Evil", Sho Aikawa from "Helter Skelter", Naoto Takenaka from "Thermae Romae", and Lion Hoshino from "Red Cliff"
A heartwarming, educational coming-of-age dairy farming story filled with sweat, tears, and dirt.
Kensuke Hachiken (played by Kento Nakajima), a sheltered and unathletic youth with no farming background and no dreams for the future, had been suffocated by intense academic competition and high parental expectations in middle school. Pushed to his limit, he began avoiding his family and enrolled in the boarding-based Hokkaido Agricultural High School simply because “he didn’t have to go home.”
But when he leaves the noise and chaos of urban life and arrives at this countryside school surrounded by rural charm, everything here surprises him. Especially since the students are all from farming families with clear goals for their lives, Kensuke—who has no idea what he wants to do with his future—begins to explore his own dreams, friendships, and even budding feelings through the daily hard work of dairy farming. And thus begins his laughter-filled, tear-streaked high school life...
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