HBO and Cinemax
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ADMISSION
Denials are a way of life for Princeton University admissions officer Tina Fey...until she meets a young man who may be the son she gave up for adoption. Jeremiah is not the traditional Princeton student, but his autodidactic brilliance and possible heritage prompt Fey to risk everything to get him accepted. Paul Rudd, Michael Sheen, Wallace Shawn and Lily Tomlin co-star. (AC,AL,MV) PG13-1:47. Starts January 4

ARGO
Winner of three Oscars®, including Best Picture, this gripping drama directed by and starring Ben Affleck looks at the 1979 Iran hostage crisis from the perspective of a daring C.I.A. operative who uses a hair-brained scheme to rescue six U.S. embassy workers who hid during the siege. (AC,AL,MV) R-2:00. MAX

ARMAGEDDON
A catastrophic meteor shower portends the end of the world: an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth. It’s up to cagey oil driller BruceWillis and his crack team to try a risky mission to plant a nuclear depth charge on the rock and blow it to smithereens before it can do the same to humanity. Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck,Will Patton, Peter Stormare, Keith David and Steve Buscemi co-star in this blockbuster disaster epic. Directed by Michael Bay; screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh and J.J. Abrams, adaptation by Tony Gilroy and Shane Salerno, story by Robert Roy Pool and Jonathan Hensleigh. (AC,AL,V) PG13-2:31 MAX

BANSHEE "Good Town, Bad Blood"
Lucas Hood, Carrie Hopewell and the Banshee Sheriff’s Department cope with the fallout from their bloody face-off against Rabbit while Lucas faces a new and deadly threat in Season 2 of this gritty Cinemax action series. Created by Alan Ball (True Blood), the show focuses on Lucas, an ex-convict who assumed the identity of the new sheriff in the rural town of Banshee, PA. Picking up where the first season left off, Season 2 finds Carrie exposed and estranged from her family while Lucas has his hands fuller than ever dealing with the murder of a Kinaho tribe girl, escalating tensions between Amish overlord Kai Proctor and tribe leader Alex Longshadow, and an unwelcome visitor. (AC,AL,GV,N,RP,SC) TVMA/V,S,L-1:00. Second Season premiers January 10

THE BATTLE OF AMFAR
In the early days of the AIDS crisis, two dynamic personalities joined forces to make a difference. The result was amfAR. An official selection of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, this illuminating film charts how renowned research scientist Dr. Mathilde Krim enlisted Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor to create America’s first national AIDS research foundation. (AC,AL) TV14/L,D-:40. HBO

BEAUTIFUL CREATURES
Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich) had been dreaming of a girl like Lena (Alice Englert). He just never expected she’d be a witch. From the bestselling “Caster Chronicles” series comes this compelling tale of a star-crossed romance that is enhanced by magic...but threatened by the forces of darkness. Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis, Emmy Rossum, Thomas Mann and Emma Thompson star. (AC,AL,MV) PG13-2:04

BROKEN CITY
Nothing is quite as it seems in this twisty political thriller starring Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Ex-cop Billy Taggart (Wahlberg) is a private eye hired by the mayor of New York City (Crowe) to follow his wife (Zeta-Jones), whom he suspects of cheating on him. But when the wife’s lover turns up dead, Taggart finds himself in the middle of a dangerous conspiracy. (AC,AL,BN,V) R-1:49. HBO

BULLET TO THE HEAD
Sly’s on a rampage of revenge in the Big Easy! When hulking hit man Sylvester Stallone’s partner gets iced, he forms an unlikely partnership with a young detective to find the killer in this explosive action flick. Together, they leave an epic level of destruction throughout New Orleans as they find themselves up against a corrupt developer and his lethal mercenary messenger. Sung Kang, Sarah Shahi, Adewale Akinnuoye- Agbaje, Christian Slater and Jason Momoa costar. (AC,AL, BN,V) R-1:32. Starts January 17

EPIC
Size doesn’t matter...unless you are from a race of tiny woodland creatures whose secret existence has just been discovered by a human girl. MK always thought her dad’s belief in the Leaf Men was lunacy—until she gets shrunk down to their size during the most crucial time in their history. (MV) PG-1:43

42
Jackie Robinson’s rise to become the first African American player in baseball—and the relentless hatred he faced for it—are chronicled in this “stirring” (The New Yorker) film. Chadwick Boseman stars as the Brooklyn Dodgers star who stood tall in the face of racism. Harrison Ford co-stars. (AC,AL,MV) PG13- 2:08. HBO

GANGSTER SQUAD
An undercover crime unit in 1949 L.A. fights fire with fire to put the clamps on notorious underworld kingpin Mickey Cohen. Josh Brolin stars as the squad’s gung-ho leader who gets the go-ahead to wage war on Cohen and his numerous crime rackets—by any means necessary. Co-starring Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi and Michael Pena. (AC,AL,GV,RP) R-1:53

GIRLS
HBO presents Season 3 of this Emmy® and Golden Globe®-winning comedy series about Hannah Horvath and her circle of 20-something friends in New York City. As the season continues, Hannah (Lena Dunham) is entering her mid-20s and is in a committed relationship with Adam (Adam Driver), with both settling into newfound domesticity in Hannah’s apartment…but she’s still a volatile mess of anxieties, insecurities and uncertainty. As Hannah works to rehabilitate her career, Marnie (AllisonWilliams) adjusts to life after Charlie; newly single Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) looks to balance partying and studying; and Jessa continues her streak of disrupting the lives of everyone around her. (AC,AL,MV,N) TVMA/S,L-0:29

A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD
Bruce Willis takes his ever tough, crime-fighting alter ego John McClane all the way to Russia in this fifth thrilling installment in the “Die Hard” series. This time, McClane heads to Moscow for a little father estranged son bonding... and a lot of explosive action. Jai Courtney co-stars as the younger McClane who partners up with his super-cop dad to take down a wealthy gangster with political aspirations and nuclear capabilities. Sebastian Koch, Rasha Bukvic, Cole Hauser co-star. Directed by John Moore; written by Skip Woods. (AC,AL,V) R- 1:38. Starts January 10

THE HOBBIT, AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
Return to Middle Earth in this thrilling first adventure in Peter Jackson’s prequel trilogy to “The Lord of the Rings.” Based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved novel, the film follows a young Bilbo Baggins on a journey to face the evil dragon Smaug with the help of a surly group of dwarves. Ian McKellen stars. (AC,V) PG13-2:50. Starts on MAX January 31

IDENTITY THIEF
Average schnook Jason Bateman undertakes a mission to bring down the crook who stole his identity in this outrageous comedy. With little help from the law and his job on the line, Bateman jets to Florida to catch the thief.What he finds is a vile, unrepentant, throat-punching head-case (played hilariously by Melissa McCarthy) who he must drag back to Denver on a screwball journey for justice. (AC,AL,BN,V) R-1:51. MAX

THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE
Steve Carell is “at the top of his form” (Variety) as flamboyant magician Burt Wonderstone, whose ego is as big as the Las Vegas stage show he performs with partner Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi). When the magical friends split, a hotshot new breed of magician takes over the Vegas strip. Can the deeply humbled Burt—resigned to a gig at a retirement home— ever make it back to the big time? Maybe...with the help of his childhood hero and his ex-partner! Co-starring Olivia Wilde with Alan Arkin, James Gandolfini and Jim Carrey. (AC,AL,MV) PG13-1:40. Starts January 25

JACK THE GIANT SLAYER
A farmhand becomes an unlikely hero as he leads the charge to save his kingdom’s princess from a nasty race of giants in this effects-laden take on “Jack & the Beanstalk.” When a huge beanstalk carries Princess Isabelle into the sky, young Jack (Nicholas Hoult) and the bravest knights head up a dangerous rescue mission to save her from the vengeful giants. Eleanor Tomlinson co-stars as the Princess; also with Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy and Ewan McGregor. (MV) PG13- 1:54. HBO

LOOKING
Meet Patrick, Agustin and Dom: three 30-something friends living in San Francisco exploring the exciting, sometimes overwhelming, options available to a new generation of gay men. From HBO comes this comedy series that offers up the unfiltered experiences of these three close friends. Patrick (Jonathan Groff) is a video game designer getting back into the dating game; Agustín (Frankie J. Alvarez) is an aspiring artist who questions the concept of monogamy amid a move to domesticate with his boyfriend; Dom (Murray Bartlett) is a long-time waiter who is facing middle- age and unfulfilled dreams. Together, their stories intertwine within the progressive, unpredictable, sexually open culture of the Bay Area. (AC,AL) TVMA/S,L-0:29. Premiers January 19

MAMA
A mother’s love reaches from beyond the grave in this chilling old-school ghost story that “delivers good oldfashioned scares” (Urban Cinefile). Lost in the wild five years earlier, two little sisters are found and taken in by their uncle and his girlfriend. But as the girls struggle to adjust, they come to realize that the matronly force that helped them survive their ordeal has followed them into their new home...and will stop at nothing to get them back. Two-time Oscar®-nominee Jessica Chastain stars. (AC,MV) PG13- 1:40. MAX

OBLIVION
In the year 2077, Earth is an uninhabitable wasteland in the wake of a nuclear holocaust against alien invaders. Tom Cruise stars as Jack Harper, a technician still stationed on Earth to keep defense drones operational while the planet’s remaining water is siphoned. But as enemy “Scavs” close in, Jack comes face to face with the frightening truth of his existence. Morgan Freeman co-stars. (AC,AL,BN,V) PG13-2:05. Premiers January 12

SIX BY SONDHEIM
He is one of America’s true giants of the musical stage: renowned Broadway lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim. This documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend through six of his iconic songs: “Something’s Coming,” “Opening Doors,” “Send in the Clowns,” “I’m Still Here,” “Being Alive,” and “Sunday.” Directed by award-winning Broadway director and playwright James Lapine, the film is predominantly told by Sondheim himself as it weaves together dozens of interviews from his career, along with archival performances of his classics. (AC,AL) TV14/ L,D-1:20. HBO

SNITCH
“How far would you go to save your son?” That’s the question facing businessman Dwayne Johnson who, in an effort to reduce his son’s jail sentence, cuts a dangerous deal with a politically ambitious U.S. attorney to go undercover and infiltrate a brutal drug cartel. (AC,AL,SC,V) PG13-1:52. MAX

STOKER
Reeling from the death of her beloved father, an introverted young girl is changed by the sudden arrival of a mysterious relative in this “splendidly demented gumbo of Hitchcock thriller, American Gothic fairy tale and a contemporary kink” (Variety). While India (Mia Wasikowska) is initially wary of “Uncle Charlie” (Matthew Goode)— whom she never knew existed—her unstable mother lets him move in, leading all of them down a dark, twisted path. Dermot Mulroney, Jacki Weaver and Nicole Kidman co-star. (AC,AL,V) R-1:39. HBO

THIS IS 40
Reprising their roles from Knocked Up, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann portray a longtime married couple who must deal with an escalating series of pressures and changes as they prepare to turn 40. Co-starring John Lithgow, Megan Fox and Albert Brooks. (AC,AL,BN,MV) R-2:14. MAX

TRANCE
In this twist-filled tale of thievery and deception, James McAvoy stars as an art auctioneer who plays a key role in the theft of a priceless painting. The only trouble is amnesia is preventing him from remembering where it is. Vincent Cassel co-stars as his co-conspirator who hires sexy hypnotherapist Rosario Dawson to draw out the information from McAvoy’s foggy brain. (AC,AL,GV,N) R-1:41.

TREME
New Orleans, 38 months after. Barack Obama has just been elected to the White House, giving entrenched residents of this still-battered city reason for optimism. Yet for everyone who hopes to improve their lot—or just return to a sense of pre-Katrina normalcy—others are intent on capitalizing on the city’s vulnerability and suffocating its culture. HBO presents the final five episodes, including the 76-minute series finale, of this acclaimed drama series that follows the musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and other familiar New Orleanians who continue to rebuild their lives and culture in the aftermath of the devastating 2005 hurricane. Throughout the final five episodes, which take place between November 2008 and Mardi Gras 2009, the promise of recovery is tempered by sobering economics, police corruption, and the ongoing specter of violence and crime. (AC,AL,V) TVMA/V,L-1:16

TRUE DETECTIVE
HBO presents more new episodes of this searing drama series about two detectives—played by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson—and their hunt for a killer in Louisiana. In 2012, Martin Hart (Harrelson) and “Rust” Cohle (McConaughey), for reasons not immediately revealed, are interviewed separately by investigators about their most notorious case: the macabre 1995 murder of a prostitute by a possible serial killer with disturbing occult leanings. As they look back on the case, Hart and Cohle’s personal backstories and often-strained relationship come into focus, all connected by one thing: their shared obsession to hunt down the killer. (AC,AL,N,V) TVMA/V,S,L-1:00. (AC,AL,N,V) TVMA/V,S,L-1:00. Premiered January 12

WARM BODIES
He’s a flesh-eating zombie making his way in a post-apocalyptic world...she’s a pretty, gun-toting survivor just trying to get by. Can true love overcome the fact that she’s alive and he’s dead? Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer star as the unlikely romantics in this horror-comedy that Variety magazine described as “an inspired mashup of zombie heart and romantic comedy brains.” Analeigh Tipton, Rob Corddry, Dave Franco, John Malkovich and Cory Hardrict co-star. (AC,AL,V) PG13-1:38. HBO
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY America’s First Family of Ghouls hits the big screen in this comedy. Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston and Christopher Lloyd star. (AC,AL,MV) PG13 and ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES Sibling rivalry rears its ugly head with the arrival of a new addition to America's most ghoulish family. Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston. (AC,MV) PG13
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