Movies Opening in Cinemas On January 23
Every week Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Mortdecai, Cake, The Boy Next Door, Black Sea, Strange Magic, Mommy and Red Army.
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:
Mortdecai (2015)
106 minutes – Action, Comedy
Juggling angry Russians, the British Mi5, and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part time rogue Charlie Mortdecai races to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain a code that leads to lost Nazi gold.
Director: David Koepp
Stars: Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Munn
Cake (2014)
102 minutes – Drama
Claire becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group while grappling with her own, very raw personal tragedy.
Director: Daniel Barnz
Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington
The Boy Next Door (2015)
91 minutes – Thriller
Shortly after her divorce, a woman falls for a younger man who just moved in across the street, though their torrid affair takes an obsessive, dangerous turn.
Director: Rob Cohen
Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, Kristin Chenoweth, John Corbett
Black Sea (2014)
115 minutes – Adventure, Thriller
In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a submarine rumored to be loaded with gold.
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Stars: Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall
Strange Magic (2015)
99 minutes – Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Goblins, elves, fairies and imps, and their misadventures sparked by the battle over a powerful potion.
Director: Gary Rydstrom
Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Elijah Kelley, Kristin Chenoweth, Maya Rudolph
Mommy (2014)
139 minutes – Drama
A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.
Director: Xavier Dolan
Stars: Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément, Patrick Huard
Red Army (2014)
76 minutes – Documentary, Biography, History, Sport
A documentary that tells the story of the Soviet Union’s famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its captain, Slava Fetisov.
Director: Gabe Polsky
Stars: Vyacheslav Fetisov, Scotty Bowman, Anatoli Karpov, Alexei Kasatonov
What do you think: do any of these appeal to you – which would you see in cinema, which would you see at home – or not at all?
Sound off in the comments! 😀
(top image source: Mortdecai – Lionsgate)
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