Four-time Academy Award® nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film "Crazy Heart" from writer-director Scott Cooper. Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man's crazy heart.

Rating: R - Restricted

Cast:
Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, Sarah Jane Morris

Crew:
Directed by Scott Cooper

Genre(s):
Drama

Running Time:
111 min

The joy has been drained from George(Colin Firth) by the death of Jim (Matthew Goode), his lover of 16 years, in a car accident, a loss that leaves him utterly alone save for the attentions of his longtime friend and onetime lover, Charley (Julianne Moore), a bibulous divorcée who quietly nurses the hope that they will rekindle their relationship. Apart from that, the only important figure in his life is one of his students, played by Nicholas Hoult, who persistently worms his way into George's life, sensing an absence in need of filling.

Rating: R - Restricted

Cast:
Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode

Crew:
Directed by Tom Ford

Genre(s):
Drama

Running Time:
101 min

After getting Oscar attention for JUNO, director Jason Reitman turns to this adaptation of Walter Kirn's comic novel. Academy Award-winner George Clooney stars as Ryan Bingham, a businessman on the verge of reaching five million frequent flyer miles when his company decides to cut back on travel. But his goal isn't the only thing just out of reach: he now won't be able to see a fellow frequent traveler (THE DEPARTED's Vera Farmiga) who has caught his eye.

Rating: R - Restricted

Cast:
George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey

Crew:
Directed by Jason Reitman

Genre(s):
Comedy

Running Time:
109min

Because this film received 3 Academy Awards, we decided to bring it back. So, if you happened to miss it the first time around, this is your second chance! "An Education" is the story of a teenage girl's coming-of-age set in 1961 London, a city caught between the drab, post-war 1950s and the glamorous, more liberated decade to come. Jenny (Carey Mulligan) stands on the brink of becoming a woman: a brilliantly witty and attractive 16-year-old whose suburban life is about to be blown apart by the utterly unsuitable 30-something David (Peter Sarsgaard). Urbane and witty, David manages to charm her conservative parents Jack (Alfred Molina) and Marjorie (Cara Seymour). David introduces Jenny to a glittering new world of classical concerts and late-night suppers with his attractive friend and business partner, Danny (Dominic Cooper) and Danny's girlfriend, the beautiful but vacuous Helen (Rosamund Pike). Just as Jenny's family's long-held dream of getting their brilliant daughter into Oxford seems within reach, Jenny is tempted by another kind of life.

Rating: PG13 - No one under 13 admitted without parent

Cast:
Peter Sarsgaard, Rosumund Pike, Emma Thompson, Olivia Williams, Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper, Alfred Molina, Sally Hawkins, Matthew Beard

Crew:
DIRECTED BY: Lone Scherfig

Genre(s):
Drama

Running Time:
1hr 35min

Lee Daniels’s PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL “PUSH” BY SAPPHIRE is a vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome. Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She’s pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother (Mo’Nique), a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write. Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her. Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One. Precious doesn’t know the meaning of “alternative,” but her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for. In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination.

Rating: R - Restricted

Cast:
Gabourey "Gabbie" Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Lenny Kravitz

Crew:
Directed By: Lee Daniels

Genre(s):
Drama

Running Time:
1hr 49min

In The Young Victoria, Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) delivers an incredibly compelling performance as Queen Victoria in the turbulent first years of her reign. Rupert Friend (Pride & Prejudice) portrays Prince Albert, the suitor who wins her heart and becomes her partner in one of history’s greatest romances. This love story, set amongst all the intrigue of the court, also features Paul Bettany (Iron Man, The Da Vinci Code), Miranda Richardson (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), Jim Broadbent (The Damned United, The Chronicles of Narnia), Thomas Kretschmann (Valkyrie), and Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes, Tristan & Isolde).

Rating: PG - Parental Guidance Suggested

Cast:
Emily Blunt, Jim Broadbent, Mark Strong, Miranda Richardson, Paul Bettany, Rupert Friend, Thomas Kretschmann

Crew:
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallee

Genre(s):
Drama

Running Time:
1hr 44min