Movies

Film (2013)
Directed by Steve McQueen
Screenplay by John Ridley
based on Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A devastating and penetrating account of the abduction and subjection of a Northern free black man in the South during the decades before the Civil War.

Film (2013)
Directed by Nick Ryan
Screenplay by Mark Monroe
A partially dramatized documentary about the tragic loss of life in the Himalayas on K2, the second tallest mountain in the world, in August, 2008.

Film (2013)
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón
With Sandra Bullock, George Clooney
A white-knuckle film about problems in space and the will and ingenuity to overcome them.

Film (2013)
Directed by Paul Greengrass
Screenplay by Billy Ray
With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi
A suspenseful dramatization of the 2009 kidnapping of Richard Phillips, a captain of a civilian container ship, by Somali pirates off the coast of East Africa.

Film (2013)
Directed by Jim Mickle
A horror-suspense film in a somewhat different mode – darkly restrained, then plenty grisly – about a family with odd and extreme practices carried out and handed on with religious fervor.