October 2010 Movies

On the Harvard campus in 2004, sophmore Mark Zuckerberg starts the social networking site, Facebook.

Brenda Song, Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Scott Rudin, Rooney Mara, David Fincher, Michael De Luca, Kevin Spacey

PG-13 Drama Adventure 2 hrs, 0 mins

69% WILL SEE

Let Me In

A 12-year-old boy, who is bullied in school, befriends a young female neighbor who moves to town and turns out to be a vampire.

Cara Buono, Matt Reeves, Chloë Grace Moretz, John Ptak, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alex Brunner, Simon Oakes, Guy East

R Suspense Horror 1 hr, 55 mins

75% WILL SEE

"Case 39" is a horror film starring Renée Zellweger as family services social worker Emily Jenkins. Emily thinks she has seen it all until she meets her newest, most mysterious case, troubled 10-year old Lilith Sullivan (Jodelle Ferland). Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to kill Lilith, their only daughter. Emily saves her and decides to take her in herself until the right foster family comes along.

Renée Zellweger, Kevin Misher, Callum Keith Rennie, Christian Alvart, Steve Golin, Ray Wright, Ian McShane, Kerry O'Malley

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 49 mins

84% WILL SEE

Hatchet II

After Marybeth escapes from the clutches of Victor Crowley, she learns the truth about his curse, and heads back into the haunted New Orleans swamp to seek revenge for her family.

Tony Todd, Will Barratt, Adam Green, Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, R. A. Mihailoff

R Sequel Suspense 1 hr, 29 mins

77% WILL SEE

Chain Letter

A serial killer targets teens that refuse to forward chain letters.

Nikki Reed, Brad Dourif, Diana Erwin, Ling Bai, Deon Taylor, Michael J. Pagan, Keith David, Betsy Russell

R Thriller Horror 1 hr, 26 mins

69% WILL SEE

Freakonomics

Based on the bestseller Freakonomics, where economist Steven D. Levitt uses statistics and theory to analyze pop culture.

Seth Gordon, Alex Gibney, Eugene Jarecki, Morgan Spurlock, Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Chad Troutwine, Jeremy Chilnick

PG-13 Documentary 1 hr, 25 mins

50% WILL SEE

Speed-Dating

Three bachelors set up a speed dating scheme to attract women and money. The plan runs into problems when they are denied a liquor license and an ex-girlfriend attempts to expose the scam.

Joseph A. Elmore

R Comedy Romance 1 hr, 38 mins

78% WILL SEE

Barry Munday

LA Only

The story concerns a womanizer who wakes up sans his "family jewels" after an irate father attacks him with a trumpet. Things go from bad to worse for the title character when he learns that he's being sued for paternity by a woman he can't even remember having sex with.

Mae Whitman, Matthew Weaver, Marcos Siega, Colin Hanks, Patrick Wilson, Carl Levin, Chris D'Arienzo, Judy Greer

R Comedy 1 hr, 38 mins

68% WILL SEE

Ip Man

The story of Yip Man, the first master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun.

Wilson Yip, Simon Yam

R Action Foreign 1 hr, 46 mins

84% WILL SEE

Released Wednesday, October 6th

1 a Minute

Somewhere in the world, a woman dies of breast cancer every sixty-eight seconds.

Namrata Singh Gujral

Drama

76% WILL SEE

Released Friday, October 8th

Life As We Know It

Two single people suddenly become caregivers to an orphaned girl after the parents, their mutual best friends, are killed in an accident.

Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Christina Hendricks, Josh Lucas, Jean Smart, Norm Waitt, Scott Niemeyer, Greg Berlanti

PG-13 Drama Comedy 1 hr, 52 mins

85% WILL SEE

Secretariat

Based on "Secretariat," the 1973 Triple Crown-winning racehorse and its owner, Penny Chenery. Chenery was a mother and housewife who knew little about horses when she was pressed to take over her ailing father's horse farm in Virginia. Though Secretariat came along and began to take shape as a potential champion, Chenery was pressured to sell the farm after her father died and she was hit with a multimillion-dollar inheritance tax. She saved both the farm and the horse, and watched as Secretariat became the first thoroughbred to win the Triple Crown in 25 years, taking the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in dominating fashion. Chenery became known as the "first lady of racing."

James Cromwell, Randall Wallace, John Malkovich, Diane Lane, Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray, Scott Glenn, Nestor Serrano

PG Drama Historical 1 hr, 56 mins

84% WILL SEE

Buried

Ryan Reynolds will star in "Buried", playing a civilian contractor who's kidnapped in Iraq and awakens buried in a coffin in the desert, armed only with a cell phone, a candle and a knife.

Ryan Reynolds, Samantha Mathis, Rodrigo Cortés, Chris Sparling, Robert Paterson, Warner Loughlin

R Drama War 1 hr, 40 mins

83% WILL SEE

My Soul to Take

The story concerns a serial killer who shows up 15 years after he is believed dead to kill seven children born on his supposed death day.

Anthony Katagas, Henry Lee Hopper, Shareeka Epps, Iya Labunka, Wes Craven, Denzel Whitaker, Emily Meade, Raul Esparza

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 28 mins

85% WILL SEE

It's Kind of a Funny Story

A clinically depressed 15-year-old checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward where he gains a new lease on life.

Emma Roberts, Anna Boden, Zach Galifianakis, Ryan Fleck, Zoe Kravitz, Patrick Baker, Viola Davis, Keir Gilchrist

PG-13 Drama Teen 1 hr, 41 mins

89% WILL SEE

Stone

Based on a play by "Junebug" screenwriter Angus MacLachlan. Robert De Niro will play a parole officer who develops a friendship with a teaching assistant.

Milla Jovovich, Edward Norton, Robert De Niro, John Curran, Angus MacLachlan, Frances Conroy

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 45 mins

88% WILL SEE

Nowhere Boy

A biopic of a young John Lennon.

Kristin Scott Thomas, Aaron Johnson, Sam Taylor Wood, Kevin Loader, Douglas Rae, Matt Greenhalgh, Thomas Sangster, Anne-Marie Duff

R Drama 1 hr, 27 mins

64% WILL SEE

I Spit On Your Grave

A remake of the controversial 1979 horror movie, it retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer’s presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson.

Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson, Chad Lindberg, Steven R. Monroe, Rodney Eastman, Daniel Franzese

R Thriller Horror 1 hr, 48 mins

84% WILL SEE

Inside Job

The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, "Inside Job" traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.

Matt Damon, Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs, Jeffrey Lurie

PG-13 Documentary 1 hr, 48 mins

75% WILL SEE

Never Let Me Go

As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory. And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed–even comforted–by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.

Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Alex Garland, Carey Mulligan, Charlotte Rampling, Mark Romanek, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich

R Drama Adaptation 1 hr, 44 mins

71% WILL SEE

Tamara Drewe

The story centers on a sexy flirtatious woman who returns to her small country village and stirs up dark passions among the locals.

Luke Evans, Stephen Frears, Gemma Arterton, Moira Buffini, Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam, Bill Camp, Alison Owen

R Comedy 1 hr, 49 mins

61% WILL SEE

It's a Wonderful Afterlife

A British-Asian mother's obsession to marry off her daughter leads to serial murder.

Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges

Comedy Horror 1 hr, 40 mins

27% WILL SEE

Down Terrace

A genre-bending portrait of a crime family.

Ben Wheatley, Robin Hill

R Comedy 1 hr, 29 mins

25% WILL SEE

As Good as Dead

Fundamentalists kidnap the man they believe murdered their religious leader, but they may have the wrong person.

Andie MacDowell, Cary Elwes, Matt Dallas, Jonathan Mossek, Frank Whaley, Brian Cox

R Thriller

29% WILL SEE

Released Wednesday, October 13th

Vision

The 12th-century Benedictine nun who was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist.

Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa

Drama 1 hr, 51 mins

41% WILL SEE

Released Friday, October 15th

Red

A former black-ops CIA agent's quiet life in retirement is disrupted when a high-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him. With his secret identity compromised and his love interest in danger, the man must reassemble his old team to figure out who is out to get them.

Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mary-Louise Parker, Richard Dreyfuss, Gregory Noveck

PG-13 Action Adventure 1 hr, 51 mins

90% WILL SEE

Jackass 3D

The third segment of the Jackass series that will be shot in 3D.

Preston Lacy, Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Ryan Dunn, Chris Pontius

R Comedy 3D 1 hr, 33 mins

89% WILL SEE

Conviction

About a single mother who worked her way through law school in order to free her brother, who was wrongfully convicted of murder. Hilary Swank will play the title role in the true story of a high school dropout who would not give up her belief that her brother, Kenneth, had been framed. In between raising kids and waiting tables, she worked her way through college and law school so she could represent her brother after he’d used up his attempts to appeal his conviction through public defenders.

Juliette Lewis, Andrew Karsch, Hilary Swank, Tony Goldwyn, Pamela Gray, Richard LaGravenese, Minnie Driver, Sam Rockwell

R Drama Biography 1 hr, 48 mins

89% WILL SEE

The Trouble with Terkel

Terkel is a miserable, unhappy sixth grader who is constantly picked on by two merciless bullies. One day Terkel finds a way to be cool, but it involves making fun of his best friends’ sister and his girlfriend.

Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen, Thorbjørn Christoffersen, Stefan Fjeldmark, Randolph Kret, Anders Matteson, Bill Baily, Heddy Burress, Shark Firestone

R Adventure Comedy 1 hr, 28 mins

50% WILL SEE

Hereafter

Being described as in the vein of "The Sixth Sense".

Matt Damon, Steven Spielberg, Bryce Dallas Howard, Kathleen Kennedy, Peter Morgan, Cecile de France, Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz

PG-13 Thriller Suspense 2 hrs, 9 mins

91% WILL SEE

I Want Your Money

A political documentary that examines two philosophies for the roles of the federal government as examplified by Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.

Ray Griggs

Documentary

83% WILL SEE

Carlos

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization.

Edgar Ramirez, Olivier Assayas

Drama Thriller

67% WILL SEE

N-Secure

The downfall of a successful man that leads to a series of troubled romantic relationships, betrayal and murder.

David M. Matthews

R Drama

79% WILL SEE

Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah live in an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival.

Warwick Thornton

Drama

33% WILL SEE

Carmo, Hit the Road

A smuggler trying to sell out cheap goods in Brazil is assaulted by two bandits, but is saved by a beautiful local girl.

Murilo Pasta

Drama Adventure 1 hr, 39 mins

40% WILL SEE

White Lion

When a white lion is miraculously born into a remote African valley, a young Shangaan named Gisani finds himself destined to protect this rare and magnificent creature at all costs.

Michael Swan, Janet van Eeden

PG Drama

92% WILL SEE

Released Tuesday, October 19th

The Sound of Music

In 1930's Austria, Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp asks the convent for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, they give Maria the job.

Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer

Musical

83% WILL SEE

Released Wednesday, October 20th

Truth In Numbers

Filmmakers Scott Glosserman and Nic Hill explore the history and cultural implications of one of the referenced sites on the Internet, Wikipedia.org.

Scott Glosserman, Nic Hill

NR Documentary 1 hr, 25 mins

0% WILL SEE

Released Thursday, October 21st

The Last Play at Shea

Focused on Billy Joel's final concert at Shea Stadium before it was demolished, with the ballpark and the New York Mets' history intertwined into the storyline.

Paul Crowder, Nigel Sinclair, Steve Cohen, Mark Monroe, Alec Baldwin

NR Documentary Music 1 hr, 30 mins

57% WILL SEE

Released Friday, October 22nd

Paranormal Activity 2

A sequel the low-budget camcorder-filmed horror movie, "Paranormal Activity 2" will look to repeat the original's surprise box office success. No plot details are available.

Steven Schneider, Jason Blum, Katie Featherston, Oren Peli, Akiva Goldsman, Tod Williams, Michael R. Perry

R Sequel Suspense 1 hr, 29 mins

62% WILL SEE

Hereafter

Being described as in the vein of "The Sixth Sense".

Matt Damon, Steven Spielberg, Bryce Dallas Howard, Kathleen Kennedy, Peter Morgan, Cecile de France, Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz

PG-13 Thriller Suspense 2 hrs, 9 mins

91% WILL SEE

Rising Stars

About a group of teenagers on the verge of making it big in music and film.

Barry Corbin, Daniel Millican, Fisher Stevens, Catherine Mary Stewart, Graham Patrick Martin, Kyle Riabk, Leon Thomas III, Jessie Payo

PG Drama Musical 1 hr, 30 mins

58% WILL SEE

Inhale

A district attorney uncovers nefarious activities while on a desperate search for a doctor to save his young daughter.

John Claflin, Dermot Mulroney, Sam Shepard, Rosanna Arquette, Baltasar Kormakur, Nathalie Marciano, Jennifer Kelly, Michelle Chydzik Sowa

R Drama 1 hr, 40 mins

54% WILL SEE

Boxing Gym

A documentary about Lord's Gym, an Austin Texas gym founded by a former professional boxer, and the training discipline to reach one's personal best.

Frederick Wiseman

Documentary 1 hr, 31 mins

Released Saturday, October 23rd

Knucklehead

The film centers on a fight promoter (Mark Feuerstein) deeply in debt to his crooked rival. Desperate for a new fighter that will help him win back everything he owes, the promoter catches a break when a 450-pound church handyman (Paul "Big Show" Wight) who has spent his entire life in an orphanage agrees to wrestle on behalf of his fellow orphans.

Mark Feuerstein, Michael Watkins, Mike Pavone, David Calloway, Melora Hardin, Paul Wight, Wendie Malick, Rebecca Creskoff

PG-13 Action Adventure

85% WILL SEE

Released Tuesday, October 26th

The Sound of Music

Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer

Musical

83% WILL SEE

Released Friday, October 29th

Saw 3D

The seventh installment of the highly successful horror franchise.

Mark Burg, Patrick Melton, Cary Elwes, Kevin Greutert, Gregg Hoffman, Oren Koules, Marcus Dunstan, Tobin Bell

R Sequel Suspense 1 hr, 31 mins

62% WILL SEE

Eichmann

Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli Police Officer, of his past as the architect of Hitler's plan for the final solution.

Robert Young, Snoo Wilson, Thomas Krestchmann

Drama 1 hr, 40 mins

83% WILL SEE

Monsters

A US journalist agrees to escourt an American tourist through Mexico, which has been designated an "infected zone" after a NASA probe carrying an alien life sample crashed in the country.

Gareth Edwards, Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 32 mins

55% WILL SEE

Waste Land

Follows artist Vik Muniz to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" - or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials.

Lucy Walker, Angus Aynsley

Documentary

17% WILL SEE

Wild Target

A hitman tries to retire but a beautiful thief may change his plans.

Emily Blunt, Bill Nighy, Rupert Everett, Jonathan Lynn, Rupert Grint, Martin Pope, Lucinda Coxon, Eileen Atkins

PG-13 Action Comedy 1 hr, 38 mins

76% WILL SEE

Welcome to the Rileys

A troubled young woman unites a grieving couple who have drifted apart after the death of their daughter.

Kristen Stewart, Ridley Scott, Ken Hixon, David Jensen, Kathy Lamkin, Steven Zaillian, Tony Scott, Michael Costigan

R Drama 1 hr, 50 mins

91% WILL SEE

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's...

In the final part of the Millennium Trilogy, Lisbeth Salander is hospitalized after meeting with her father. Mikael Blomqvist continues to uncover the reasons why Lisbeth has been treated harshly by the Swedish authorities.

Jonas Frykberg, Daniel Alfredson, Ulf Ryberg, Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Peter Haber

R Drama Sequel 2 hrs, 28 mins

63% WILL SEE

Shake Hands with the Devil

General Romeo Dallaire's frustrated efforts to stop the Rwandan Genocide.

Roger Spottiswoode

R Drama War 1 hr, 52 mins

55% WILL SEE

The Kids Grow Up

A look at father-daughter relationships, modern-day parenting, marriage and the looming empty nest.

Doug Block, Lori Cheatle

Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins

42% WILL SEE

Walkaway

Four friends struggle to find their way through the meanders of Indian matrimony in an attempt to combine their deep-rooted tradition and modern New York life.

Shailja Gupta

Drama Comedy 1 hr, 37 mins

73% WILL SEE