This Week In Movies: ‘Captain America 2,’ ‘Under The Skin’

We begin the first week of April movie releases with 16 movie releases, which is a huge number of films for one week, not including all those arriving on VOD.

Big names are headlining mainstream and indie films this week as almost everything on slate is interesting, intriguing, or flat-out just raises curiosity on their premises. Halle Berry returns to the big screen, Jude Law tries to be a gangsta, Scarlett Johansson goes indie/sci-fi and blockbuster in the same week on us, and a French movie flat-out copies Beverly Hills Cop and 48Hrs. But perhaps the biggest revelation of the week is the horror film ‘Afflicted‘ which has been very well received by all who have seen it. These April movie releases seem to be shaping up to be a good month for movies!

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

16. 10 Rules for Sleeping Around (R, 1hr 34 min, Comedy)
Director: Leslie Greif
Cast: Tammin Sursok, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Virginia Williams, Jesse Bradford, Chris Marquette, Bill Bellamy,
Synopsis: A screwball sex comedy following two couples and their ten rules to a happy healthy and open relationship.

15. Alien Abduction (85 min, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller)
Director: Matty Beckerman
Cast: Katherine Sigismund, Corey Eid, Riley Polanski
Synopsis: A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.

14. Jinn (PG-13, Thriller)
Director: Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad
Cast: Serinda Swan, Ray Park, Faran Tahir
Synopsis: In the beginning, three were created. Man made of clay. Angels made of light. And a third made of fire. For centuries, stories of angels and men have captured the imagination and been etched into history crossing all boundaries of culture, religion, and time.

13.  (R, 96 min, Action, Comedy, Crime)
Director: David Charhon
Cast: Omar Sy, Laurent Lafitte, Sabrina Ouazani
Synopsis: Two mismatched cops team up to investigate the murder of a business mogul’s wife.

12. The Players (Les Infideles) (R, 109 min, Comedy)
Directors: Jean Dujardin, Michel Hazanavicius, Emmanuelle Bercot, Fred Cavay, Alexandre Courts, Jan Kounen, Eric Lartigau, Gilles Lellouche
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Geraldine Nakache
Synopsis: A series of short films set around the theme of infidelity.

11. The Unknown Known (PG-13, 103 min, Documentary)
Director: Errol Morris
Cast: Kenn Medeiros, Errol Morris, Donald Rumsfeld
Synopsis: Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

10. Flex Is Kings (80 min, Documentary)
Director: Michael Beach Nichols, Deidre Schoo
Cast: Flizzo, Jay Donn, Reem
Synopsis: “Flexing” is a dance style forged in far east Brooklyn, at the dead-end of a handful of subway lines. Flex dancers channel the grittiness and crime of East New York into choreographed violence with gun movements, simulated bone-breaking, and the mimicked ripping of hearts from opponent’s chests.

9. Frankie & Alice (R, 101 min, Biography, Drama)
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Cast: Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgard, Phylicia Rashad
Synopsis: A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorders who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.

8. In the Blood (R, 1hr 48 min, Action/Adventure, Suspense/Thriller)
Director: John Stockwell
Cast: Gina Carano, Danny Trejo, Amaury Nolasco, Luis Guzman, Treat Williams, Cam Gigandet
Synopsis: Gina Carano stars as Ava, a trained fighter with a dark past. When her new husband (Cam Gigandet) vanishes during their Caribbean honeymoon, Ava uncovers a violent underworld of conspiracy in the middle of an island paradise. Armed with a deadly set of skills, Ava sets out to discover the truth and to take down the men she thinks are responsible for his abduction, one by one.

7. Nymphomaniac: Volume II (NR, 123 min, Drama, Mystery)
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgrd, Willem Dafoe, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell
Synopsis: The continuation of Joe’s sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman’s care.

6. Island of Lemurs: Madagascar IMAX 3D (G, 39 min, Documentary, Adventure, Biography)
Director: David Douglas
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Patricia Wright
Synopsis: Captured with IMAX 3D cameras, “Island of Lemurs: Madagascar takes audiences on a spectacular journey to the remote and wondrous world of Madagascar. Lemurs arrived in Madagascar as castaways millions of years ago and evolved into hundreds of diverse species but are now highly endangered.

5. Dom Hemingway (R, 1hr 33 min, Black Comedy, Caper, Crime)
Director: Richard Shepard
Cast: Jude Law, Richard E. Grant, Demian Bichir, Emilia Clarke
Synopsis: Jude Law plays DOM HEMINGWAY, a larger-than-life safecracker with a loose fuse who is funny, profane, and dangerous. After twelve years in prison, he sets off with his partner in crime Dickie (Richard E. Grant) looking to collect what he’s owed for keeping his mouth shut and protecting his boss Mr. Fontaine (Demian Bichir).

4. Alan Partridge (R, 1hr 29 min, Comedy)
Director: Declan Lowney
Cast: Steve Coogan, Felicity Montagu, Simon Greenall, Colm Meaney, Tim Key
Synopsis: In this April movie releases, Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) has had many ups and downs in his life. National television broadcaster. Responsible for killing a guest on live TV. Local radio broadcaster. A nervous breakdown in Dundee. His self-published book, ‘Bouncing Back’, subsequently remaindered and pulped.

3. Afflicted (R, 1hr 25 min, Horror, Suspense/Thriller)
Director: Derek Lee, Clif Prowse
Cast: Derek Lee, Clif Prowse
Synopsis: This terrifying horror thriller follows two best friends who set out on the trip of a lifetime around the world. Their journey, documented every step of the way, soon takes a dark and unexpected turn after an encounter with a beautiful woman in Paris leaves one of them mysteriously afflicted.

2. Under the Skin (R, 108 min, Drama, Sci-Fi)
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Paul Brannigan, Lynsey Taylor Mackay
Synopsis: From visionary director Jonathan Glazer (SEXY BEAST, BIRTH) comes a stunning career transformation, a masterpiece of existential science fiction that journeys to the heart of what it means to be human, extraterrestrial, or something in between.

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG-13, 136 min, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi)
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Cast: Chris Evans, Frank Grillo, Sebastian Stan, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Maximiliano Hernandez, Toby Jones
Synopsis: In this sequel, Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and battles a new threat from old history: the Soviet agent known as the Winter Soldier.

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