February 2011 Movies

With Lise Lense-Møller • Michael Madsen • Jesper Bergmann

Every day, nuclear power plants place large amounts of high-level radioactive waste in interim storage that is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and societal changes. In Finland, the world’s first permanent repository is hewn out of solid rock. It is a huge system of underground tunnels that must last 100,000 years.

With Minka Kelly • Cam Gigandet • Doug Davison • Frances Fisher • Leighton Meester • Roy Lee • Irene Young • Christian E. Christiansen • Beau Marks • Matt Lanter • Sonny Mallhi • Aly Michalka

A psychological thriller about a deranged college freshman (Leighton Meester) who becomes obsessed with her new roommate (Minka Kelly).

With James Cameron • Richard Roxburgh • Peter Rawlinson • Ioan Gruffudd • Alister Grierson • Rhys Wakefield • Christopher Baker • Ben Browning • Ryan Kavanaugh • Andrew Wight • John Garvin • Michael Maher • Alice Parkinson • Dan Wyllie

Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank's team—including 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd)—are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out.

With Natalie Portman • Lisa Kudrow • Charlie Tahan • Lauren Ambrose • Anthony Rapp • Don Roos • Scott Cohen

Emilia (Natalie Portman) is a Harvard law school graduate and a newlywed, having just married Jack (Scott Cohen), a high-powered New York lawyer, who was her boss — and married — when she began working at his law firm. Unfortunately, her life takes an unexpected turn when Jack and Emilia lose their newborn daughter. Emilia struggles through her grief to connect with her new stepson William (Charlie Tahan), but is finding it hard to connect with this precocious child. Perhaps the most difficult obstacle of all for Emilia is trying to cope with the constant interferences of her husband’s angry, jealous ex-wife, Carolyn (Lisa Kudrow).

With Tom Sturridge • Jaime King • Scott Mechlowicz • Rachel Bilson • Nikki Blonsky • Riley Smith • Blythe Danner • Richard Jenkins • Steve Adams • James Keach

Best friends while they were growing up, Emma (Rachel Bilson) and Will (Tom Sturridge) lost touch a long time ago-as far as she knows. To Will, Emma never stopped being the most important person in his life. Believing them to be forever linked, he goes wherever she goes. Will doesn't have a home, a car, or a "real" job. He survives on his talent as a juggler and entertainer-talents honed through years of showing off for Emma. When her father gets sick, Emma returns to their hometown, trying to leave behind her complicated love life and failing career as a TV actress. As its characters face love, death and their own preconceptions, "Waiting for Forever" questions the realities of life.

With Trieste Kelly Dunn • Lars Knudsen • Aaron Katz • Brendan McFadden • Ben Stambler • Jay Van Hoy • Cris Lankenau • Raul Castillo

Doug (Cris Lankenau) has just moved back to his hometown of Portland, Oregon, to move in with his sister (Trieste KellyDunn), hoping for another chance at jumpstarting their grown up lives. When Doug’s ex-girlfriend comes to town unexpectedly, only to disappear shortly after, Doug, Gail, and their new friend Carlos (Raul Castillo) appoint themselves as detectives in what they see as a real life Sherlock Holmes situation.

With Nicole Kidman • Adam Sandler • Jennifer Aniston • Bailee Madison • Dennis Dugan • Barry Bernardi • Jack Giarraputo • Kevin Nealon • Dave Matthews • Allan Loeb • Heather Parry • Tim Dowling • Brooklyn Decker • Heidi Montag

After spending years using a fake marriage to help score with the ladies, commitment phobe, Patrick (Adam Sandler), finally meets the girl of his dreams. But, when his dream girl finds the ring in his pocket and notices the tan line on his finger, she demands to get the soon-to-be ex-wife’s permission before moving forward in the relationship. Patrick must find a good female friend to play the role of his wife and who knows him better than his own office assistant, Katherine (Jennifer Aniston).

With Emily Blunt • James McAvoy • Michael Caine • Patrick Stewart • David Furnish • Maggie Smith • Kelly Asbury • Elton John • Andy Riley • Steve Hamilton-Shaw • Igor Khait • Kevin Cecil • Ron Sprackling • Baker Bloodworth

Two garden gnomes, Gnomeo (voice of James McAvoy) and Juliet (voice of Emily Blunt), try to avoid tragedy and find a happy ending to their star-crossed love affair when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors.

With Jon M. Chu • Jane Lipsitz • Justin Bieber • Scooter Braun • Usher • L.A. Reid • Dan Cutforth

Justin Bieber will play himself in his life story. The pic will be sprinkled with performances from his current concert tour.

With Channing Tatum • Jamie Bell • Donald Sutherland • Jeremy Brock • Kevin Macdonald • Mark Strong • Duncan Kenworthy • Paul Ritter

In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila (Tatum) arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca (Bell), Marcus sets out across Hadrian's Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia - to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father's memory, and retrieve the lost legion's golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth.

With Stephen Root • Ed Helms • Sigourney Weaver • Alia Shawkat • Phil Johnston • Jim Burke • Anne Heche • John C. Reilly • Miguel Arteta • Jim Taylor • Alexander Payne

A wholesome and naive small-town Wisconsin insurance agent goes to an industry convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to try to save the jobs of his colleagues.

With Danny Glover • Nia Long • Evan Ross • Summer Bishil • Qasim Basir • Dana Offenbach

A young Muslim man enrolls in college against the politically charged 9/11 backdrop, with deep personal and familial traumas to overcome.

With Pablo Trapero

This love story begins the night Lujan and Sosa meet, on the street. She is fighting to save a car accident victim's life. He wants the victim to be his client. Together they will try to change the course of their lives, but Sosa's turbulent past will come up against them.

With Peter Byck

An optimistic, solutions-based, non-preachy, non-partisan, big tent film that shows tackling climate change boosts the economy, increases national and energy security and promotes health and a clean environment.

With Craig Teper

The documentary traces the life of a self-made man whose passion and perseverance took him from a Jewish orphanage in London to the absolute pinnacle of hairdressing.

With Mercedes Álvarez • Arturo Redin

Mercedes Alvarez was three years old when her parents left La Aldea, a village in the barren Northern Spanish Soria region. She was the last child born in La Aldea. Now, only fourteen people live there. Soon this village, like so many other rural communities all over the world, will be deserted. Alvarez returns for the first time to her ancestral home and makes a film about memory and the terrifying passing of time.

With Liam Neeson • Diane Kruger • Joel Silver • Steve Richards • January Jones • Aidan Quinn • Jaume Collet-Serra • Frank Langella • Susan Downey • Bruno Ganz • Leonard Goldberg • Andrew Rona • Oliver Butcher • Stephen Cornwell • Peter McAleese • Sarah Meyer

Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) awakens after a car accident in Berlin to discover that his wife (January Jones) suddenly doesn’t recognize him and another man (Aidan Quinn) has assumed his identity. Ignored by disbelieving authorities and hunted by mysterious assassins, he finds himself alone, tired and on the run. Aided by an unlikely ally (Diane Kruger), Martin plunges headlong into a deadly mystery that will force him to question his sanity, his identity, and just how far he’s willing to go to uncover the truth.

With Michael Bay • Steven Spielberg • Kevin Durand • Teresa Palmer • Timothy Olyphant • Jake Abel • Dianna Agron • Callan McAuliffe • Alex Pettyfer • Marti Noxon • D.J. Caruso • JC Spink • Al Gough • Mils Millar

Storyline revolves around a group of nine Earthbound aliens who escaped their planet just before it was destroyed by a rival species. The group hide out on Earth, disguised as teenagers. The title character (Alex Pettyfer) soon discovers, however, that he is still being hunted by the enemy.

With Martin Lawrence • John Whitesell • Faizon Love • Jessica Lucas • Emily Rios • Don Rhymer • Brandon T. Jackson • Matthew Fogel • Randi Mayem Singer • Portia Doubleday • Michelle Ang

FBI Agent Malcolm Turner and his 17-year-old nephew Trent go undercover at an all-girls' school for the arts, after Trent witnesses a murder. They pose, respectively, as Big Momma and Charmaine, in order to find evidence incriminating the murderer before he finds them.

With Lee Pace • Jeffrey Dean Morgan • Hilary Swank • Christopher Lee • Erin Cressida • Antti J. Jokinen • Robert Orr

The film stars Hilary Swank as a beautiful young doctor who begins a new life in Brooklyn after separating from her husband. Her stunning loft seems too good to be true, until mysterious occurrences lead her to believe she's not alone.

With Gael García Bernal • Luis Tosar • Paul Laverty • Carlos Aduviri • Iciar Bollain

Chronicles some of Christopher Columbus' exploits with the indigenous people he encountered in the Americas, circa 1492.

With Jeremy Irons • Dereck Joubert

Dereck and Beverly Joubert examine the dramatic decline in the number of lions in Africa and the moral duty to protect them.

With Tom Shadyac

A first person documentary of Tom Shadyac (helmer of bigscreen comedies including "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Bruce Almighty") on his unusual journey of self-discovery. Film includes interviews with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Desmond Tutu, among others.

With David Burton Morris • Elika Portnoy

An American couple and a foreign couple test the limits of friendship and love when they switch partners and get married for green cards.

With Ariel Winter • Billy Slaughter • Stephen Herek • David Calloway • Jake Austin Walker • Kevin Corrigan • Paul Levesque • S.J. Roth • Michael Pavone

An ex-con tries to rekindle his relationship with his daughter by being a chaperone on her class trip.

With Will Canon

College freshman Adam Buckley sits blindfolded in the back of a van outside of a convenience store as the final step of his initiation into the Sigma Zeta Chi fraternity. Minutes later a fellow pledge is shot. The senior fraternity brother is able to get the injured pledge out of the store alive, but the fraternity's troubles are just beginning.

With Philippe Diaz

An illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in and through soul-searching conversations and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview.

With Hayden Christensen • Thandiwe Newton • Celine Rattray • Jacob Latimore • John Leguizamo • Lawrence Mattis • Anthony Jaswinski • Norton Herrick • Brad Anderson • Tove Christensen

In the film, when a massive power outage plunges the city of Detroit into total darkness, a disparate group of individuals (Christensen, Leguizamo, Newton) find themselves alone. The entire city's population has vanished into thin air, leaving behind heaps of empty clothing, abandoned cars and lengthening shadows. Soon the daylight begins to disappear completely, and as the survivors gather in an abandoned tavern, they realize the darkness is out to get them, and only their rapidly diminishing light sources can keep them safe.

With Matthew Porterfield

At a neighborhood karaoke bar, friends and family gather to remember a young man who passed away. Knowing little about his final days, they attempt to reconstruct his life.

With Martin Scorsese • Graydon Carter • Fran Lebowitz

Features Fran Lebowitz expressing insights on social issues in an onstage discussion with longtime friend Toni Morrison, and on the streets of New York.

With Alexandra Daddario • Jason Sudeikis • Owen Wilson • Christina Applegate • Stephen Merchant • J.B. Smoove • Jenna Fischer • Tyler Hoechlin • Nicky Whelan • Alyssa Milano • Bradley Thomas • Richard Jenkins • Peter Farrelly • Bobby Farrelly • Merideth Finn • Toby Emmerich • Richard Brener • Pete Jones • Marc S. Fischer • Kevin Barnett • Larry Joe Campbell

Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) are best friends who have a lot in common, including the fact that they have each been married for many years. But when the two men begin to show signs of restlessness at home, their wives (Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate) take a bold approach to revitalizing their marriages: granting them a "hall pass," one week of freedom to do whatever they want…no questions asked. At first, it sounds like a dream come true for Rick and Fred. But it isn’t long before they discover that their expectations of the single life—and themselves—are out of sync with reality.

With Nicolas Cage • Amber Heard • William Fichtner • Avi Lerner • Billy Burke • David Morse • Christa Campbell • Patrick Lussier • Danny Dimbort • Trevor Short • Boaz Davidson • Adam Fields • Todd Farmer • Charlotte Ross • Simona Williams

The story centers on a man (Nicholas Cage) driven by rage who is chasing the people who killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby. The vendetta/rescue spins out of control as the chase gets bloodier by the mile, leaving bodies strewn along the highway.

With Jon M. Chu • Jane Lipsitz • Justin Bieber • Scooter Braun • Usher • L.A. Reid • Dan Cutforth

Justin Bieber will play himself in his life story. The pic will be sprinkled with performances from his current concert tour.

With John Saunders • Howard Klausner • David G. Evans • Michael Joiner • Louis Gossett Jr. • Michael Higgenbottom • Joy Moore • Dawntoya Thomason • Cindy Hodge • John Nasraway

When Mac McDonald loses his son in an accident, the ensuing 17 years of bitterness and pain erodes his love for his family and leaves him angry with God ... and just about everyone else. Mac's rage stonewalls his career in the police department and makes for a combustible situation when he's partnered with Sam Wright, a rising star on the force-who happens to be a part-time pastor and a loving family man. Can they somehow join forces to help one another when it's impossible for either of them to look past their differences-especially the most obvious one?

With Lambert Wilson • Xavier Beauvois • Michael Lonsdale

Eight French monks live peacefully in a monastery perched in the mountains of Algeria until post-colonial tensions escalate.

With Xavier Dolan

Francis and Marie are close friends and one day they meet Nicolas. As one rendezvous leads to another, whether real or imagined, the two friends slide deeper into obsessive fantasies around Nicolas.

With Philippe Diaz

An illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in and through soul-searching conversations and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview.