221. Black Bread ( Pa negre )
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Agustí Villaronga
Actors: Francesc Colomer, Marina Comas, Nora Navas, Roger Casamajor, Lluïsa Castell, Marina Gatell
Plot: In a post-war Catalonian village, a boy seeking the truth is forced to confront himself, his family and an entire village with the dark secrets they tried to hide.
222. The Myth of the American Sleepover
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Actors: Jade Ramsey, Amy Seimetz, Nikita Ramsey, Amanda Bauer, Jean Louise O'Sullivan, Claire Sloma
Plot: Facing personal and interpersonal crossroads on the last night of summer vacation, four high school friends wander the streets of suburban Detroit, each taking the first tentative steps into the world of adulthood in this thought-provoking drama.
223. Dead Space: Aftermath
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mike Disa
Actors: Ricardo Chavira, Curt Cornelius, Erin Fitzgerald, H. Richard Greene, Christopher Judge, Yorgo Constantine
Plot: The year is 2509 and not only has Earth lost contact with the Ishimura and Isaac Clarke, but now also the USG O'Bannon, the first responder ship sent to rescue them. Four crew members of the O'Bannon have survived. But what happened to the rest of the crew? What follows is a fast paced, horrifying thrill ride told through the perspective of the four survivors by several renowned international directors.
224. Mr. Popper's Penguins
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mark Waters
Actors: Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury, Ophelia Lovibond, Madeline Carroll, Philip Baker Hall
Plot: An ordinary businessman finds his life turned upside down when he inherits six penguins. As he transforms his life, and apartment, to accommodate his new charges, it begins to impact his professional life.
225. Mars Needs Moms!
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Simon Wells
Actors: Joan Cusack, Seth Green, Elisabeth Harnois, Mindy Sterling, Dan Fogler, Ryan Ochoa
Plot: A young boy doesn't think much of his mother, that is until martians kidnap her and he realizes just how much he needs her. Now he must come up with a plan to get her back home.
226. Hobo with a Shotgun
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jason Eisener
Actors: Rutger Hauer, Molly Dunsworth, Brian Downey, Gregory Smith, Jeremy Akerman, Nick Bateman
Plot: Criminals and crooked cops beware - a homeless man, with his trusty pump-action shotgun - is out to clean up the streets.
227. Dirty Girl
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Abe Sylvia
Actors: Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, Mary Steenburgen, William H. Macy, Jeremy Dozier, Tim McGraw
Plot: A group of outcasts run away from their school on a road trip to California in search of meaning to their lives.
228. Cedar Rapids
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Miguel Arteta
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Alia Shawkat, Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Mike O'Malley, Anne Heche
Plot: A small-town insurance agent who has settled into his humdrum life finds his life turned upside down when he attends an annual insurance convention in Cedar Rapids, IA.
229. House of Pleasures ( Apollonide, L' (Souvenirs de la maison close) )
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Actors: Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette, Jasmine Trinca, Adele Haenel, Alice Barnole, Iliana Zabeth
230. The Change-Up
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Dobkin
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Olivia Wilde, Leslie Mann, Mircea Monroe, Alan Arkin
Plot: Once close friends, Mitch and Dave eventually go their different ways - Dave becomes the hard-working family man while Mitch is the free-wheeling bachelor. A drunken night out together has the two men wishing they could switch lives, but the next morning when the wake up in opposite bodies, it proves the adage of being careful what you wish for.
