August 2010 Movies

A 17-year-old Sicilian girl goes to see an anti-Mafia judge to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother.

Marco Amenta

Drama Crime 1 hr, 47 mins

61% WILL SEE

Released Friday, August 6th

The Other Guys

An Adam McKay-directed action comedy that will team Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as cops.

Dwayne Johnson, Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Charles Roven, Lindsay Sloane, Adam McKay, Jimmy Miller

PG-13 Comedy 1 hr, 47 mins

91% WILL SEE

Moose plans on hitting the books and studying but can't keep his feet keep tap-tapping to an unheard beat whenever he's in class. But before long he's joined the infamous underground dance crew known as the "House of Pirates".

Jon M. Chu, Sharni Vinson, Rick Malambri, Adam Shankman, Jennifer Gibgot, Patrick Wachsberger, Erik Feig, Amy Andelson

PG-13 Drama Sequel 1 hr, 37 mins

75% WILL SEE

Cemetery Junction

LA Only

The story of being trapped in a small town in the UK and dreaming of escape.

Emily Watson, Matthew Goode, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Ralph Fiennes

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 35 mins

29% WILL SEE

Flipped

Two kids lock horns at age 7 and then go on to share their first kiss at 13.

Rob Reiner, Kelly Gonda, John Mahoney, Penelope Ann Miller, Anthony Edwards, Rebecca De Mornay, Martin Shafer, Tracy Trench

PG Drama Comedy 1 hr, 30 mins

89% WILL SEE

Middle Men

"Middle Men" centers on a straight-and-narrow businessman who builds the first online billing company dealing exclusively with adult entertainment and finds himself in the middle of a whirlwind filled with starlets, conmen, Russian mobsters, federal agents and international terrorists -- all while trying to hold on to his marriage and family.

Laura Ramsey, Peter Stormare, Giovanni Ribisi, Gabriel Macht, Kevin Pollak, Terry Crews, George Gallo, William Sherak

R Comedy 1 hr, 45 mins

72% WILL SEE

Twelve

Based on the controversial Nick McDonell novel, "Twelve" follows high school dropout turned successful drug dealer White Mike (Chace Crawford) in New York's Upper East Side. Business is booming when all of the kids are home from boarding school and everyone has money to blow. Mike leads a double life, concealing the truth from his childhood friend Molly (Emma Roberts) while his supplier Lionel (Curtis Jackson) pulls Mike further into the world of the Manhattan drug trade. Mike's two lives begin to collide when his cousin is brutally murdered on an East Harlem playground and a new drug, twelve, emerges as the recreational drug of choice.

Emma Roberts, Ted Field, Rory Culkin, Kiefer Sutherland, Billy Magnussen, Mike Weber, Joel Schumacher, Jordan Melamed

R Drama Crime 1 hr, 57 mins

64% WILL SEE

The Concert

Thirty years ago, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns that the Châtelet Theater in Paris has invited the Bolshoi orchestra to play. He decides to gather his former musicians and perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra.

Matthew Robbins, Radu Mihaileanu, Mélanie Laurent, Alexei Guskov, Francois Berléand

PG-13 Comedy 1 hr, 59 mins

34% WILL SEE

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The Wildest Dream

Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Anthony Geffen and featuring the vocal talents of narrators Liam Neeson, Hugh Dancy, the late Natasha Richardson, Ralph Fiennes and Alan Rickman, "The Wildest Dream" is a breathtaking mountaineering adventure that seeks to provide answers to the enduring mystery of the death of George Mallory on Mount Everest. Foremost among them: Did Mallory succeed in reaching the summit before he and fellow climber Sandy Irvine died that fateful day in 1924?

In 1999, renowned American mountaineer Conrad Anker made a discovery that reverberated around the globe. High in Mount Everest's "death zone," he found the remarkably preserved body of George Mallory—75 years after the British explorer mysteriously vanished during his attempt to become the first man to summit the world's tallest peak.

In the quest for answers, Anker returns to Everest in 2007 with British climbing prodigy Leo Houlding, replicating as closely as possible Mallory's fateful expedition. The men retrace the North East Ridge Route, even removing the 90-foot ladder from the infamous Second Step to "free climb" this terrifying section of the mountain, just as Mallory and Irvine would have done 83 years earlier.

Far more than a documentary about mountain climbing, "The Wildest Dream" tells the passionate story of a man torn between two overwhelming and competing loves: his wife and the mountain that ultimately took his life. Told through revealing letters between Mallory and his beloved Ruth, the film combines previously unseen archival photos and film footage with the present-day story of Anker's expedition.

Liam Neeson, Hugh Dancy, Anthony Geffen, Mark Halliley, Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Alan Rickman

PG Documentary 1 hr, 34 mins

74% WILL SEE

Cairo Time

NYC/LA +

A romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard.

Patricia Clarkson, Ruba Nadda, Alexander Siddig

PG Drama Romance 1 hr, 28 mins

44% WILL SEE

The Oxford Murders

A professor and a grad student work together to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.

Leonor Watling, Alex de la Iglesia, Elijah Wood, John Hurt

Thriller Crime 1 hr, 50 mins

56% WILL SEE

Colin Fitz Lives!

Two security guards, Paul and Grady, guard the grave of dead rock legend, Colin Fitz, on the fifth anniversary of his death.

John C. McGinley, Robert Bella, William H. Macy

Comedy 1 hr, 31 mins

50% WILL SEE

The Disappearance of Alice Creed

On a suburban street, two masked men seize a young woman. They bind and gag her and take her to an abandoned, soundproofed apartment. She is Alice Creed, daughter of a millionaire. Her kidnappers, the coldly efficient Vic and his younger accomplice Danny, have worked out a meticulous plan. But Alice is not going to play the perfect victim – she's not giving in without a fight. In a tense power-play of greed, duplicity and survival we discover that sometimes disappearances can be deceptive...

Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston, J Blakeson, Adrian Sturges, Eddie Marsan

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 40 mins

72% WILL SEE

Lebanon

NYC/LA +

June, 1982 - The First Lebanon War. A lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they cannot contain. Motivated by fear and the basic instinct of survival, they desperately try not to lose themselves in the chaos of war.

Samuel Maoz, Yoav Donat, Michael Moshonov, Zohar Shtrauss, Dudu Tassa, Itay Tiran

R Drama 1 hr, 34 mins

55% WILL SEE

Released Friday, August 13th

Eat Pray Love

A married woman with a big apartment, a weekend home and who is trying to get pregnant, suddenly realizes this isn't the life she wants. After a painful divorce, she sets off on a journey of self-discovery around the world.

Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Ryan Murphy, Dede Gardner, Javier Bardem, Richard Jenkins, Viola Davis

PG-13 Drama Comedy 2 hrs, 13 mins

89% WILL SEE

The Expendables

A team of mercenaries go on a mission to overthrow a South American dictator.

Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jet Li, Dave Callaham, Avi Lerner, Eric Roberts, Giselle Itie

R Action Adventure 1 hr, 43 mins

85% WILL SEE

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

A suburban slacker finds himself in a kung fu tale, battling his dream girl's seven evil ex-boyfriends to win her hand.

Marc Platt, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Edgar Wright, Brie Larson, Mae Whitman, Brandon Routh, Eric Gitter

PG-13 Comedy 1 hr, 53 mins

82% WILL SEE

Peepli Live

On the eve of national elections in the Indian village of Peepli, two poor farmers, Natha and Budhia, face losing their land over an unpaid government loan.

Mahmood Farooqui, Anusha Rizvi

Drama 1 hr, 46 mins

50% WILL SEE

Animal Kingdom

The story of seventeen year-old Josh as he navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.

Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, David Michôd, Liz Watts, James Frecheville

R Drama Crime 1 hr, 52 mins

40% WILL SEE

Salt of This Sea

A Brooklyn-born woman follows her Palestinian roots back to Israel, where she attempts to recover the funds from a family bank account that was frozen and seized in 1948.

Annemarie Jacir

Drama

35% WILL SEE

The Butcher's Son

A cop works against his country's corrupt government in order to find justice on a case.

Josh Crook, Manny Perez

Crime 1 hr, 40 mins

60% WILL SEE

Tales from Earthsea

A Japanese anime loosely based on the book series Earthsea.

Goro Miyazaki

PG-13 Fantasy Animation 1 hr, 55 mins

86% WILL SEE

Neshoba

A Mississippi town still divided about the meaning of justice, 40 years after the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.

Micki Dickoff, Tony Pagano

Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins

67% WILL SEE

Released Wednesday, August 18th

Vampires Suck

A spoof of the vampire movie genre, particularly "The Twilight Saga." Becca, an anxious, non-vampire teen, is torn between two boys. Before she can choose, Becca must get around her controlling father, who embarrasses Becca by treating her like a child. Meanwhile, Becca’s friends contend with their own romantic issues – all of which collide at the prom.

Ken Jeong, Aaron Seltzer, Matthew Warzel, Jason Friedberg, Matt Lanter, Charlie Weber, Marcelle Baer, Chris Riggi

PG-13 Comedy Spoof 1 hr, 20 mins

71% WILL SEE

A Film Unfinished

The documentary examines an unfinished Nazi-produced film about the Warsaw Ghetto.

Yael Hersonski

NR Drama Documentary 1 hr, 28 mins

40% WILL SEE

Released Friday, August 20th

Lottery Ticket

The urban comedy is about an 18 year-old in the projects who has a winning lottery ticket but must try to keep it a secret over a long three-day weekend.

Bow Wow, Loretta Devine, Keith David, Terry Crews, Brad Kaplan, Erik White, Broderick Johnson, Mark Burg

PG-13 Comedy 1 hr, 35 mins

67% WILL SEE

Nanny McPhee Returns

The story follows Emma Thompson as a warty, buck-toothed nanny who uses magic to teach her bratty wards to behave. She gets prettier with each life lesson they learn. Thompson's only hint about the sequel's plot involved its animal co-star.

Asa Butterfield, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Eric Fellner, Emma Thompson, Susanna White, Lindsay Doran, Tim Bevan, Ralph Fiennes

PG Adventure Sequel 1 hr, 49 mins

82% WILL SEE

Piranha 3D

The updated picture will take place at a spring break destination in Arizona when a tremor in the ground causes the lake to open up and release a group of ravenous piranhas.

Ving Rhames, Adam Scott, Mark Canton, Elisabeth Shue, Jerry O'Connell, Jessica Szohr, Richard Dreyfuss, Steve Barnett

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 29 mins

61% WILL SEE

The Switch

A neurotic and insecure man finds out his best friend wants to have a child through artificial insemination. He surreptitiously replaces her donor's semen with his own and is then forced to live with the secret that he is the child's real father.

Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Allan Loeb, Josh Gordon, Ron Yerxa, Jeff Goldblum, Patrick Wilson, Juliette Lewis

PG-13 Comedy 1 hr, 40 mins

84% WILL SEE

The Tillman Story

A documentary about the coverup of the friendly-fire death of Pat Tilman, the NFL player who joined the Army Ranger after the 9/11 attacks.

Amir Bar-Lev, John Battsek

R Documentary 1 hr, 34 mins

55% WILL SEE

What If...

Fifteen years ago, Ben Walker left his girlfriend and his ministry calling for a business opportunity. Now with a high-paying career and a trophy fiancé, he is visited by an angel, who gives him a glimpse into what his life would look like had he followed his calling.

Dallas Jenkins

PG Drama 1 hr, 40 mins

85% WILL SEE

Altiplano

A former war photographer and her physician husband are caught up in a riot when locals in an Andean village vent their unhappiness with contamination from a nearby mine.

Peter Brosens, Jessica Hope Woodworth

Drama 1 hr, 49 mins

60% WILL SEE

Soul Kitchen

Chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.

Fatih Akin

Comedy 1 hr, 39 mins

60% WILL SEE

Mao's Last Dancer

The true-life story of Chinese dancer Li Cunxin and his defection to the US and subsequent life in Australia.

Bruce Beresford, Kyle MacLachlan, Bruce Greenwood, Joan Chen

PG Drama 1 hr, 57 mins

33% WILL SEE

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Hiding Divya

As a young woman in India, Divya seemed to have it all. She was beautiful, married to a handsome man of great wealth, and was mother to their precious daughter Linny. But when Divya began acting erratically, and, at times, outrageously, her seemingly-perfect life fell apart. Divya's husband abandoned both Divya and their three-year-old daughter, and the family disowned her after accusing Divya of having "bad blood." Rather than remain a pariah, Divya summoned the strength to take Linny to America, where she started life anew in suburban New Jersey. She fell deeply in love with an American, John, who not only became a surrogate father to Linny, but also cared for Divya during her bipolar episodes. Yet, her untreated illness took its toll. Linny became rebellious, and eventually ran away from home, sixteen and pregnant.

Rehana Mirza

Drama 1 hr, 28 mins

67% WILL SEE

Released Wednesday, August 25th

Louis

A silent film about Louis Armstrong as a young boy and how he acquired his first cornet.

Dan Pritzker, Jackie Earle Haley, Shanti Lowry, Anthony Coleman

R Drama 1 hr, 10 mins

30% WILL SEE

Released Friday, August 27th

Takers

The thriller casts Idris Elba as a member of a group of bank robbers enlisted in pulling off a $20 million heist. Matt Dillon stars as Los Angeles Det. Jack Welles, a troubled workaholic who pursues the robbers.

Matt Dillon, Zoe Saldana, Idris Elba, Hayden Christensen, Paul Walker, William Packer, Chris Brown, Jason Geter

PG-13 Drama Action 1 hr, 47 mins

75% WILL SEE

The Last Exorcism

A troubled evangelical minister agrees to let his last exorcism be filmed by a documentary crew.

Eli Roth, Daniel Stamm, Andrew Gurland, Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Caleb Landry Jones, Marc Abraham, Eric Newman

PG-13 Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 30 mins

64% WILL SEE

Centurion

Set during the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 117, the story of Quintus Dias who marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth.

Neil Marshall, Christian Colson, Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 37 mins

87% WILL SEE

Daniel and Ana

Ana is about to be married, Daniel is a gregarious teenager discovering his personal and sexual identity. Yet their harmony is instantly shattered when they are kidnapped and something shocking happens which forces them to confront their desires and fears.

Michel Franco

Drama Thriller 1 hr, 30 mins

83% WILL SEE

Aashayein

After a long streak of losing, a compulsive gambler wins a large sum of money, but then finds that he is dying of cancer.

Nagesh Kukunoor

Drama

100% WILL SEE

Chak Jawana

After retiring from the Indian Navy, a sailor returns to the village of his birth and finds an abundance of irresponsible kids.

Simerjit Singh

Drama

100% WILL SEE

Mesrine: Killer Instinct

Mesrine, a dedicated soldier, returns home to his parents after serving in the Algerian War, but he is soon seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido (Gerald Depardieu), Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder. After pulling off an audacious heist he and his lover Jeanne (Cecile de France) flee to Canada where the opportunity of one big payout lures him out of hiding and propels his towards international notoriety.

Vincent Cassel, Jean-Francois Richet, Cecile de France, Gerard Depardieu

R Action Thriller 1 hr, 53 mins

44% WILL SEE

Change of Plans

A group of friends meet for a dinner party in Paris.

Danièle Thompson

Drama Comedy 1 hr, 40 mins

31% WILL SEE