Arts & Entertainment

The Top Five Most Popular Movies In Cedar Falls This Week

Here are the top five movies rented from Redbox in Cedar Falls, according to www.redbox.com, in the last week.

  • PG-13
  • Released: June 12, 2012
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • Starring: Nicolas Cage, Violante Placido, Ciarán Hinds, Idris Elba, Johnny Whitworth

Former stuntman and bounty hunter of rogue demons Johnny Blaze has been living in self-imposed exile, believing that his powers are a curse. But when he is approached by a member of a monastic order who is looking for someone to protect a mother and her son, who are being pursued by the devil in the figure of a man named Roarke, the Ghost Rider takes the case.

2. The Grey

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  • R
  • Released: June 12, 2012
  • Genre: Action, Drama, Adventure, Suspense
  • Starring: Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts, Joe Anderson

When their plane goes down somewhere in freezing cold Alaska, Ottway, a man aching to get back to the woman he loves and the rest of his oil drilling team find themselves struggling to survive in the wild. If that wasn't bad enough, the men come under attack by large, vicious, aggressive wolves who see the humans as intruders who must be killed.

3. Chronicle

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  • PG-13
  • Released: June 12, 2012
  • Genre: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Suspense
  • Starring: Dane Dehaan, Alex Russell, Michael B Jordan, Michael Kelly, Ashley Hinshaw

Teenagers Andrew, Matt and Steve have stumbled upon something beyond their - or anyone's - understanding. Their discovery leads them to acquire powerful telekinetic abilities; in graphic novel parlance, they have superpowers. They're now capable of, well, almost anything. They can move objects just by thinking about them, crush cars through force of will. They learn to fly the ultimate wish fulfillment. Then things get dark.

4. Man on a Ledge

  • PG-13
  • Released: May 29, 2012
  • Genre: Action, Drama, Suspense
  • Starring: Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Anthony Mackie, Jamie Bell, Ed Burns

An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled. The psychologist and the con find themselves romantically attracted and might just end up partners in crime.

5. John Carter

  • PG-13
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Bryan Cranston, Daryl Sabara, Lynn Collins, Ciarán Hinds

War-weary, former military captain John Carter is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris. In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes that the survival of Barsoom (Mars) and its people rests in his hands.

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