This Week In Movies: ‘Non-Stop,’ ‘Son of God,’ ‘Stalingrad 3D’

We begin the last week of February with eight movie releases and they’re mostly a combination between B-Movies and foreign films. Perhaps the biggest film of the week is ‘Son of God’ from 20th Century Fox which is making a big push with Hispanic audiences. Interesting is that they’re pushing a “Latino” Jesus, yet he was born in Lisbon, Portugal, making him European and Portuguese, not Latino from Latin America. Fox must think we’re idiots to fall for this gag. Nevertheless, audiences should have fun with the return of Liam Neeson to the B-movie genre with Non-Stop (directed by a Spaniard). Absurd escapism at its best!

Below is the list of ALL the movies coming out this weekend and I rank them in descending order of my interest…

8. The Lunchbox (PG, 104 min, Drama/Romance, Limited)
Director: Ritesh Batra
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Synopsis: A mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.

7. Two Lives (97 min, Drama/Thriller, Limited)
Director: Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann
Cast: Juliane Köhler, Liv Ullmann, Sven Nordin
Synopsis: As the Berlin Wall crumbles, Katrine, the daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier, finds her idyllic life disrupted as she refuses to testify a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of her fellow “war children.”

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6. HairBrained (PG-13, Comedy, Limited)
Director: Billy Kent
Cast: Alex Wolff, Brendan Fraser, Julia Garner
Synopsis: When 14-year old genius/outcast Eli Pettifog is rejected from Harvard, he ends up at Ivy League wannabe Whittman College. It’s hate at first sight. At Whittman, Eli meets 41- year-old freshman Leo Searly. Leo, a gambler whose world has imploded, has dropped out of life to enroll in college. This odd duo becomes unlikely friends.

Director: Philippe Caland
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Anthony Mackie, Sanaa Lathan
Synopsis: A successful author and spiritual advisor takes on a troubled man as a client, completely unaware that the man’s fixation on his mother’s death will soon put his life in jeopardy.

4. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (Re-release) (PG-13, 119 min, Comedy)
Director: Adam McKay
Cast: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd
Synopsis: With the 70s behind him, San Diego’s top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York’s first 24-hour news channel by storm.

3. Stalingrad: An IMAX 3D Experience (R, 131 min, Action/War)
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk
Cast: Mariya Smolnikova, Yanina Studilina, Pyotr Fyodorov
Synopsis: A band of Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women who have been living there.

2. Son of God (PG-13, Drama)
Director: Christopher Spencer
Cast: Diogo Morgado, Amber Rose Revah, Sebastian Knapp
Synopsis: The life story of Jesus is told from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion and ultimate resurrection.

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1. Non-Stop (PG-13, 106 min, Action/Mystery/Thriller)
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Cast: Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong’o
Synopsis: An air marshal springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages that put his fellow passengers at risk unless the airline transfers $150 million into an off-shore account.