September 2010 Movies

With George Clooney • Bruce Altman • Anton Corbijn • Rowan Joffe • Violante Placido • Thekla Reuten • Grant Heslov • Anne Carey • Paolo Bonacelli

Academy Award winner George Clooney stars in the title role of this suspense thriller, filmed on location in Italy. Alone among assassins, Jack (Clooney) is a master craftsman. When a job in Sweden ends more harshly than expected for this American abroad, he vows to his contact Larry (Bruce Altman) that his next assignment will be his last. Jack reports to the Italian countryside, where he holes up in a small town and relishes being away from death for a spell. The assignment, as specified by a Belgian woman, Mathilde (Thekla Reuten of "In Bruges"), is in the offing as a weapon is constructed. Surprising himself, Jack seeks out the friendship of local priest Father Benedetto (Italian stage and screen veteran Paolo Bonacelli) and pursues romance with local woman Clara (Italian leading lady Violante Placido). But by stepping out of the shadows, Jack may be tempting fate.

With Christopher Plummer • Isabella Rossellini • Norman Twain • Frank Pellegrino • Paul Fierlinger • Lynn Redgrave • Brian Murray • Paul Hecht • Peter Gerety • Euan Morton • Howard Kaminsky • Sandra Fierlinger

Based on the 1956 British novel by J.R. Ackerley, "My Dog Tulip" follows a 14-year friendship between Ackerley and his German Shepherd, Tulip, after the writer rescued the dog.

With Justin Long • Drew Barrymore • Jason Sudeikis • Rob Riggle • Richard Brener • Charlie Day • Ron Livingston • Christina Applegate • Geoff LaTulippe • Garrett Grant • Adam Shankman • Jennifer Gibgot • Nanette Burstein • Dave Neustadter • Michael Disco

Erin and Garrett are good together--even when they're apart. When aspiring journalist Erin (Drew Barrymore) moves to San Francisco to finish her last year of school, boyfriend Garrett (Justin Long), an assistant music scout, stays in Manhattan to pursue his ambitions and wait on that promotion he's been promised. With a webcam connection and frequent flier miles, the two gamely navigate the pitfalls and miscommunications of their bi-coastal romance, dodging bad advice from friends and some predatory singles who won't take "taken" for an answer. But when it seems their wait is almost over, Erin scores her dream job in California just as Garrett's career heats up in New York. The big breaks they've been hoping for could break them up for good...unless their love can truly go the distance.

With Jessica Alba • Quentin Tarantino • Michelle Rodriguez • Danny Trejo • Cheech Marin • Robert Rodriguez • Don Johnson • Steven Seagal • Lindsay Lohan • Jeff Fahey • Rick Schwartz • Aaron Kaufman • Ethan Maniquis • Iliana Nikolic

He looked like just another day laborer from the streets, and the perfect fall guy for a crooked political assassination. But he turned out to be Machete (Danny Trejo), a legendary ex-federale with a deadly attitude and the skills to match.

With Lixin Fan

A family embarks on an annual journey, along with 200 other million peasant workers, to reunite with their distant family.

With Sidharth Malhotra

Maya's life revolves around her three children, who think nothing less than the world of her. Despite being divorced from her husband, Maya has ensured that everything runs smoothly in her house, under her watch, and that they continue to remain a happy family unit. However, when Aman introduces his girlfriend, Shreya, a career oriented woman, who has a lot to learn about children, to the family, the situation immediately takes an unexpected turn.

With Jann Turner

Elvis sets off from Johannesburg to travel the 1800 kilometers that lie between him and his bride to be. They are to be married on Saturday. Firrst stop is Durban by Greyhound, but he misses the bus, misses his bachelor party and then things get worse.

With Emma Roberts • Sam Rockwell • Rooney Mara • Rob Corddry • Margo Martindale • Daniela Lundberg Taplin • Shareeka Epps • Emily Rios • Jessica Hecht • James Strouse • Celine Rattray • Galt Niederhoffer • Kara Baker • Gia Walsh

Sam Rockwell plays a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he's asked to run the local high school's girls basketball team. Emma Roberts is cast as a player he befriends, and Rob Corddry will play the school's principal.

With Yimou Zhang

Wang is a gloomy and cunning noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. Feeling neglected, Wang's wife secretly goes out with Li, one of Wang's employees.

In the course of seven Tuesdays over seven tumultuous years, eleven New Yorkers are transformed by love, desire, art, ambition, fury, grief, faith, fear, hope and, ultimately, connection with each other in the rousing indie rock musical drama.

With Rob Reiner • David Siegel • Penelope Ann Miller • Anthony Edwards • Aidan Quinn • Liz Glotzer • Madeline Carroll • John Mahoney • Rebecca De Mornay • Kevin Weisman • Kelly Gonda • Tracy Trench • Martin Shafer • Andrew Scheinman • Cody Horn

When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows it's love. But Bryce isn't so sure. Girl-phobic and easily embarrassed, young Bryce does everything he can to keep his outspoken wannabe girlfriend at arm's length... for the next six years, which isn't easy since they go to the same school and live across the street from each other. But if Juli finally looks away, will it be Bryce's turn to be dazzled? "Flipped" takes Bryce and Juli from grade school to junior high, through triumph and disaster, family drama and first love, as they make the discoveries that will define who they are - and who they are to each other.

With Ali Larter • Wentworth Miller • Milla Jovovich • Paul W.S. Anderson • Don Carmody • Shawn Roberts • Robert Kulzer • Samuel Hadida • Bernd Eichinger • Kim Coates • Boris Kodjoe • Johnny Messner • Spencer Locke • Jeremy Bolt

In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, ALICE (Milla Jovovich), continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead leads them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.

With Elizabeth Banks • Ellen Burstyn • Adam Scott • Martin Landau • Nicholas Fackler

Robert Malone, 78, has been alone his whole life. A week before Christmas a new mysterious woman moves in across the street and teaches him that love conquers all.

With Geoffrey Rush • Rocky McKenzie • Ernie Dingo • Rachel Perkins • Reg Cribb • Jimmy Chi

Loosely based on one of Australia's most beloved and popular musicals, "Bran Nue Dae" is a foot stomping tour-de-force centering on the romantic adventures of a young aboriginal couple set against the spectacularly beautiful Australian landscape.

With Joaquin Phoenix • Casey Affleck

A year in Phoenix's life after he publicly gave up acting and tried to establish himself as a hip hop musician.

With Francois Ozon

Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love, but drugs have invaded their lives. After Louis fatal overdose, Mousse soon learns she is pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse escapes to a beautiful beach house far from Paris and is soon joined in her refuge by Louis gay brother, Paul.

With John Cena • Danny Glover • John Posey • Patricia Clarkson • David Calloway • Devon Graye • Madeleine Martin • Mel Damski • Michael Pavone

"Legendary" explores one teenage boy’s journey (Devon Graye) to reunite his mother (Patricia Clarkson) with his older, estranged brother (John Cena) ten years after the death of their beloved father, a state collegiate wrestling legend.

With Adam Brody • Elijah Wood • Jennifer Todd • Josh Duhamel • Katie Holmes • Malin Akerman • Anna Paquin • Dianna Agron • Galt Niederhoffer • Suzanne Todd • Daniela Taplin Lundberg • Candice Bergen

Set on the eve of a wedding celebration, seven close friends gather to watch two of their friends get married, but the maid of honor and the bride have had a long rivalry over the groom.

With Pascal Chaumeil

Alex and his sister run a business to break up relationships. A rich man hires them to break up the wedding of his daughter that is in one week.

With Michele Hozer • Peter Raymont

Documentary about the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.

With Jordan Brady

Through candid interviews and backstage access, this documentary on Stand-Up explores the world of the working comedian and reveals a funny psychological profile of its practitioners.

With Keira Knightley • Andrew Garfield • Alex Garland • Carey Mulligan • Andrew Macdonald • Tessa Ross • Charlotte Rampling • Sally Hawkins • Kazuo Ishiguro • Allon Reich • Mark Romanek

Kathy (Carey Mulligan), Tommy (Andrew Garfield) and Ruth (Keira Knightley) spent their childhood at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. When the they leave the school and the terrible truth of their fate is revealed to them, they must also confront the deep feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten to pull them apart.

Sixteen French pastry chefs gathered in Lyon for three intense days of mixing, piping and sculpting everything from delicate chocolates to six-foot sugar sculptures in hopes of being declared by President Nicolas Sarkozy one of the best.

With Ben Affleck • Blake Lively • Jon Hamm • Jeremy Renner • Peter Craig • Basil Iwanyk • Rebecca Hall • Jon Jashni • David Crockett • Chris Cooper • William Fay • Graham King • Thomas Tull • Chuck Hogan

Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is an unrepentant criminal, the de facto leader of a group of ruthless bank robbers who pride themselves in stealing what they want and getting out clean. With no real attachments, Doug never has to fear losing anyone close to him. But that all changed on the gang's latest job, when they briefly took a hostage--bank manager, Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall). Though they let her go unharmed, Claire is nervously aware that the robbers know her name...and where she lives. But she lets her guard down when she meets an unassuming and rather charming man named Doug...not realizing that he is the same man who only days earlier had terrorized her. The instant attraction between them gradually turns into a passionate romance that threatens to take them both down a dangerous, and potentially deadly, path.

With Justin Long • Hayden Panettiere • Christina Ricci • Danny Glover • Anthony Bell • Chris Denk • Richard Rich • Dennis Hopper • Larry Miller • Kevin Sussman • Chris Carmack • Ben Gluck • Steve Moore • Ken Katsumoto • Vicki Lewis • Eric Price

What makes for the ultimate road trip? Hitchhiking, truck stops, angry bears, prickly porcupines and a golfing goose with a duck caddy. Just ask Kate and Humphrey, two wolves who are trying to get home after being taken by park rangers and shipped halfway across the country. Humphrey is an Omega wolf, whose days are about quick wit, snappy one-liners and hanging with his motley crew of fun-loving wolves and video-gaming squirrels. Kate is an Alpha: duty, discipline and sleek Lara Croft eye-popping moves fuel her fire. Humphrey’s motto – make ‘em laugh. Kate’s motto – I’m the boss. And they have a thousand miles to go. Back home rival wolf packs are on the march and conflict is brewing. Only Kate and Humphrey can restore the peace. But first, they have to survive each other.

With Emma Stone • Stanley Tucci • Cam Gigandet • Malcolm McDowell • Lisa Kudrow • Dan Byrd • Thomas Haden Church • Will Gluck • Amanda Bynes • Zanne Divine • Bert Royal • Alyson Machalka

After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in "The Scarlet Letter," which she is currently studying in school - until she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.

With Chris Messina • M. Night Shyamalan • Bokeem Woodbine • Trish Hofmann • Jacob Vargas • Matt Craven • Drew Dowdle • Logan Marshall-Green • Geoffrey Arend • Bojana Novakovic • Caroline Dhavernas • John Erick Dowdle • Sam Mercer • Brian Nelson • Jenny O'Hara

A supernatural thriller set inside of an office building. There are some people stuck in an elevator, and one of them is the devil.

With Edward Norton • Tim Blake Nelson • Richard Dreyfuss • Keri Russell • Danny Dimbort • Avi Lerner • Elie Cohn • Lucy DeVito • Steve Earle • Eric Gitter • Trevor Short • Boaz Davidson • John Langley • Kristina Dubin • Bill Migliore • Stuart Blumberg

Bill Kincaid, an Ivy League classics professor, returns to rural Oklahoma to bury his dangerously brilliant identical twin brother, only to discover that the brother he believes to have been murdered has lured him home to involve him in a doomed plot against a local drug lord. Before Bill can flee, he's implicated in a murder, and his life has become completely unraveled, suggesting that no rational philosophy can protect us from life's twists and dangers.

With Philip Seymour Hoffman • John Ortiz • Amy Ryan • Marc Turtletaub • Daphne Rubin-Vega

A stoner limo driver embarks on such missions as cooking and swimming lessons, and developls an unlikely relationship with another lovable loser.

With Brett Ratner • Andrew Jarecki • Ryan Kavanaugh • Ariel Schulman • Henry Joost • Marc Smerling

In late 2007, filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost sensed a story unfolding as they began to film the life of Ariel’s brother, Nev. They had no idea that their project would lead to the most exhilarating and unsettling months of their lives.

With Alexandre Franchi

A medieval reenactment game turns into a Shakespearean tragedy when a non-player crashes the event to win back his girlfriend.

With Mark Duplass • Dax Shepard • Katie Aselton • Sean Nelson • Bellamy Young

Darren (Dax Shepard) and Annie (Aselton) have an enviable relationship built on love, trust and communication-they still enjoy each other's company and laugh at each other's jokes. Unfortunately, they can't remember the last time they had sex. They begin to flirt with an idea for a way to spice things up. The deal: one night of freedom, no strings attached, no questions asked.

With Ole Schell • Sara Ziff

A personal video diary charting model Sara Ziff’s rise from fresh face to one that adorns billboards. The film considers the demand for adolescent models, the pressure to stay thin, the abuse of drugs and the persistence of sexual harassment.

With Werner Herzog

Documentary about the Chauvet caves in Southern France that contain the oldest known cave paintings.

With Freida Pinto • Naomi Watts • Anthony Hopkins • Antonio Banderas • Josh Brolin • Lucy Punch • Gemma Jones • Woody Allen • Steve Tenenbaum • Jaume Roures • Letty Aronson

The movie centers around different members of a family, their tangled love lives and their attempts to try to solve their problems.

With Zack Snyder • Dana Goldberg • Geoffrey Rush • Jim Sturgess • John Orloff • Bruce Berman • Emily Barclay • Abbie Cornish • Deborah Snyder • John Collee • Emilie de Ravin • Hugo Weaving • Ryan Kwanten • Donald De Line • Lionel Wigram • Rachael Taylor • David Wenham • Kathryn Lasky • Zareh Nalbandian

Acclaimed filmmaker Zack Snyder makes his animation debut with the fantasy family adventure "Guardians of Ga'Hoole," based on the beloved books by Kathryn Lasky. The film follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones. While Soren dreams of someday joining his heroes, his older brother, Kludd, scoffs at the notion, and yearns to hunt, fly and steal his father's favor from his younger sibling. But Kludd's jealousy has terrible consequences--causing both owlets to fall from their treetop home and right into the talons of the Pure Ones. Now it is up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave young owls. Together they soar across the sea and through the mist to find the Great Tree, home of the legendary Guardians of Ga'Hoole--Soren's only hope of defeating the Pure Ones and saving the owl kingdoms.

With Jamie Lee Curtis • Kristen Bell • Sigourney Weaver • Kristin Chenoweth • Andy Fickman • Moe Jelline • Mario Iscovich • Eric Tannenbaum • Betsy Sullenger • Odette Yustman • John J. Strauss • Dave Johnson • Patrick Duffy

No matter how old you are, you never get over high school. Successful PR pro Marni (Kristen Bell) heads home for her older brother's (Jimmy Wolk) wedding and discovers that he's marrying her high school arch nemesis (Odette Yustman), who's conveniently forgotten all the rotten things she did so many years ago. Then the bride's jet-setting aunt (Sigourney Weaver) bursts in and Marni's not-sojet-setting mom (Jamie Lee Curtis) comes face to face with her own high school rival. The claws come out and old wounds are opened in this crazy comedy about what happens when you're reunited with the one person you'd like to forget.

With Will Ferrell • Adam McKay • Matt Bennett • Jacob Davich • Huck Botko • Zack Pearlman

Follows four friends exploiting their teen sexuality for Internet popularity.

With Shia LaBeouf • Carey Mulligan • Josh Brolin • Michael Douglas • Susan Sarandon • Allan Loeb • Charlie Sheen • Oliver Stone • Frank Langella • Edward R. Pressman • Stephen Schiff • John Buffalo Mailer

Two decades after being imprisoned for insider trading, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) is set free, profiting on his infamy as an author and public speaker. At a time when the market is crumbling and those working on Wall Street are scrambling to catch a break, Gekko is approached by Jacob (Shia LaBeouf), a young trader looking for Gekko’s guidance.

With Philip Seymour Hoffman • John Ortiz • Amy Ryan • Marc Turtletaub • Daphne Rubin-Vega

A stoner limo driver embarks on such missions as cooking and swimming lessons, and developls an unlikely relationship with another lovable loser.

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

Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds), truck driver and family man, wakes up buried alive in an old wooden coffin. Not knowing who might have put him there or why, his only chance to escape from this nightmare is a mysterious cell phone. Poor reception, low battery and lack of oxygen are his worst enemies in a race against time: Paul has only 90 minutes to be rescued.

With James Franco • Jon Hamm • Paul Rudd • David Strathairn • Gus Van Sant • Bob Balaban • Jeff Daniels • Alan Alda • Mary-Louise Parker • Rob Epstein • Jeffrey Friedman

A 1950s-era tale, focusing on the obscenity trial launched to censor Allen Ginsberg's groundbreaking book-length poem.

With Gaspar Noe • Nathaniel Brown

Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la Huerta star in a visceral journey set against the thumping, neon club scene of Tokyo, which hurls the viewer into an astonishing trip through life, death, and the universally wonderful and horrible moments between.

Sixteen French pastry chefs gathered in Lyon for three intense days of mixing, piping and sculpting everything from delicate chocolates to six-foot sugar sculptures in hopes of being declared by President Nicolas Sarkozy one of the best.

With Davis Guggenheim • Lesley Chilcott • Billy Kimball

"Waiting for Superman" examines the crisis of public education in the United States through multiple interlocking stories—from a handful of students and their families whose futures hang in the balance, to the educators and reformers trying to find real and lasting solutions within a dysfunctional system.

With Ngawang Choephel

Director Ngawang Choephel, traveled to Tibet in 1995 to make a documentary about Tibetan folk music threatened by the Chinese occupation. While there, he was accused of being a spy by the Chinese and imprisoned for an 18-year sentence, of which he served seven years before he was released under international pressure.