Butterfly Effect: Revelation
Release Date: Jan. 2 limited (Jan. 9 nationwide)
Director: Seth GrossmanF
Starring: Chris Carmack, Shawntay Dalon, Sonya A. Avakian
Rating: R
A young man comes to discover that he has inherited the curse of the butterfly Effect, and attempts to use his ability to solve the death of his girlfriend. Naturally, that doesn't exactly work out as planned, and he unwittingly unleashes a horrific serial killer. Whoops.
CraveOnline's Call: How many of these movies are they going to make? The first was a low-brow Ashton Kutcher vehicle, for Pete's sake. Not exactly fertile soil for a film franchise.
From Within
Release Date: Jan. 2 limited (Jan. 9 nationwide)
Director: Phedon Papamichael
Starring: Thomas Dekker, Elizabeth Rice, Adam Goldberg, Jake Weber
Rating: R
A young lady is torn between her conservative Christian upbringing and the natural adolescent desire to explore and experience all that the world has to offer. That drive to break free is understandably amplified in an exponential way when the townsfolk begin to die in strange and suspicious ways, evidence of an evil feeding on the victims.
CraveOnline's Call: Hey, have you guys seen Twilight yet? We hear it sucked.
Let Them Chirp Awhile
Release Date: Jan. 2
Director: Jonathan Blitstein
Starring: Justin Rice, Brendan Sexton III, Zach Galligan, Anthony Rapp
Rating: N/R
Three artists in New York City attempt to juggle their careers, relationships and emotions in what starts out as an offbeat comedy about relationships and writer’s block and becomes a would-be coming-of-age tale about competition and self-reliance among a generation of narcissists.
CraveOnline's Call: Chirp Awhile seems to be the best bet for mainstream moviegoers in search of new blood this week.
Cargo 200
Release Date: Jan. 2
Director: Alexey Balabanov
Director: Alexey Balabanov
Starring: Agniya Kuznetsova, Aleksei Poluyan, Leonid Gromov
Rating: N/A
The title is a military term for the coffins transporting dead soldiers back home during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The decade-long conflict is the centerpiece of the film, as told from a Russian point-of-view.
Cargo 200 focuses on a philosophical argument about the existence of God with a family patriarch, whose intense critique of atheism are fueled in no small part by impossible ideals, as well as the high-potency vodka distilled in the family barn.
CraveOnline's Call: A fascinating concept, and certainly worth a look if you're interested in a more philosophical moviegoing experience. This one could be worth stepping outside your own box.
