January 2010 Movies

Leap Year

An uptight woman who travels to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on leap day, Feb. 29, following an Irish tradition in which women propose to men on that day and the man has to say yes. When weather derails her trip, she enlists the help of a surly Irish innkeeper to make an unexpected cross-country trek to pull off the perfect proposal in time.

Jonathan Glickman, Deborah Kaplan, Adam Scott, Kaitlin Olson, Bill Nighy, Anand Tucker, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber

Youth in Revolt

"Youth in Revolt" is the irreverent story about the wild adventures of a teenage boy named Nick Twisp who meets the girl of his dreams while on a family vacation and has to turn his life and the lives of all those around him upside down in order to be with her.

Michael Cera, Steve Buscemi, Ray Liotta, M. Emmet Walsh, Rooney Mara, David Permut, Steve Longi, Gustin Nash

Daybreakers

Ethan Hawke will play a researcher who is working in the year 2017. At this point in the future, a plague has caused most of the world's population to transform into vampires. Humans are nearing extinction, and vampires are forced to farm humans or find a blood substitute before it's too late.

Michael Spierig, Chris Brown, Willem Dafoe, Peter Spierig, Bryan Furst, Sean Furst, Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill

Bitch Slap

"Bitch Slap" follows three bad girls (a down-and-out stripper, a drug-running killer and a corporate powerbroker) as they arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort and steal $200 Million in diamonds from a ruthless underworld kingpin. Things quickly spin out of control as allegiances change, truths are revealed, other criminals arrive for the score, the fate of the world hangs in the balance and they are forced to confront a villain much worse than they ever expected -- themselves. It's the ultimate morality tale as, one by one, they realize the whole she-bang was a set-up and one of them may not even be human.

Eric Gruendemann, Erin Cummings, Rick Jacobson, Julia Voth, Michael Hurst, America Olivo

Wonderful World

Could fish really fall from the sky? Ben Singer, the world’s most negative man, refuses to believe even the tiniest miracle is possible. He spends all his time fighting the corporate super organism, otherwise known as “The Man.” That fight becomes more personal when visions of “The Man” start to visit him in his small one bedroom apartment.

Joshua Goldin, Matthew Broderick, Ally Walker, Sanaa Lathan, Philip Baker Hall

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

A young and rebellious socialite Fisher Willow, tainted by a family scandal, boldly hires farm hand Jimmy Dobyne to be her escort for the elaborate party season. As her passion for Jimmy grows, Fisher defies social convention and the burden of history to risk everything for a chance at real love... until the loss of a priceless diamond sets off a series of accusations and betrayals that threaten to shatter their hopes for the future. With his indelible characters and breathtaking Southern backdrops, Williams paints a heartbreaking tale of seduction and loss.

Chris Evans, Jodie Markell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ann Margret, Tennessee Williams, Ellen Burstyn

Crazy on the Outside

In the movie, Tim Allen stars as a parolee who finds life outside a prison cell to be much crazier once he enters his quirky sister's world.

Anastasia Stanecki, Tim Allen, Richard Baker, Brett Gregory, Brian Reilly, Ray Liotta, Carrie-Anne Moss, Julie Bowen

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space O...

Dave, a photon who lives in the sun, is drawn into a galactic battle between the Core and the Void.

Hayden Christensen, Chris Pine, James Earl Jones, Amanda Peet, Dan St. Pierre, Harry Kloor, William Shatner, Samuel L. Jackson

The Book of Eli

The story centers on a lone hero named Eli (Denzel Washington) who must fight his way across the wasteland of post apocalyptic America to protect a sacred book that might hold the key to saving the future of humanity. Gary Oldman will play Carnegie, the despot of a small makeshift town deficient of standard necessities, services, and most noticeably, laws. Carnegie is determined to take possession of the book Eli is guarding.

Denzel Washington, Joel Silver, Andrew Kosove, Steve Richards, Mila Kunis, Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes, Susan Downey

The Lovely Bones

The story of Susie Salmon, a young girl who is murdered but continues to observe her family on Earth after her death. She witnesses the effect of her loss on her loved ones, while her killer skillfully covers his tracks and prepares to murder again.

Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan, Steven Spielberg, Jan Blenkin, Tessa Ross, Ken Kamins, Caro Cunningham, Aimee Peyronnet

The Spy Next Door

A man is asked to baby-sit his neighbor's children and winds up having to fight off secret agents after one of the kids inadvertently downloads a secret code.

Jackie Chan, Billy Ray, Madeline Carroll, Solon So, Brian Levant, Robert Simonds, Ryan Kavanaugh, Jonathan Bernstein

44 Inch Chest

The "44 Inch Chest" story unfolds when a jealous husband and his friends kidnap his wife's young lover, seeking retribution for his wounded ego. The film is a darkly funny and confrontational drama about a wronged man trying to rebuild his self-respect, aided only by a motley crew of his old friends.

Ian McShane, Malcolm Venville, Louis Mellis, David Scinto, Ray Winstone, Tom Wilkinson, Joanne Whalley

Fish Tank

Everything changes for 15yr old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.

Katie Jarvis, Andrea Arnold

The Last Station

The story follows the last chaotic years of author Leo Tolstoy (Hopkins) as he faces a struggle for his soul between his wife (Streep) and his leading disciple (Giamatti). Tolstoy ends up fleeing from his home to a small railway station at Astapovo, where he thinks he's dying alone, not realizing that over one hundred newspapermen are camped outside waiting for reports of his condition.

James McAvoy, Michael Hoffman, Bonnie Arnold, Chris Curling, Jens Meurer, Paul Giamatti, Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren

Chance Pe Dance

New love convinces a struggling actor and dancer to enter a talent competition that could make him a superstar.

Ken Ghosh

House of Numbers

What is HIV? What is AIDS? What is being done to cure it? These questions sent Canadian filmmaker Brent Leung on a worldwide journey, from the highest echelons of the medical research establishment to the slums of South Africa, where death and disease are the order of the day. In this up-to-the-minute documentary, he observes that although AIDS has been front-page news for over 28 years, it is barely understood. Despite the great effort, time, and money spent, no cure is in sight. Born in 1980 (on the cusp of the epidemic), Leung reveals a research establishment in disarray, and health policy gone tragically off course. Gaining access to a remarkable array of the most prominent and influential figures in the field — among them the co-discoverers of HIV, presidential advisors, Nobel laureates, and the Executive Director of "UNAids," as well as survivors and activists — his restrained approach yields surprising revelations and stunning contradictions. The HIV/AIDS story is being rewritten, and this is the first film to present the uncensored POVs of virtually all the major players — in their own settings, in their own words. It rocks the foundation upon which all conventional wisdom regarding HIV/AIDS is based. If, as South African health advocate Pephsile Maseko remarks, "this is the beginning of a war...a war to reclaim our health," then House of Numbers could well be the opening salvo in the battle to bring sanity and clarity to an epidemic clearly gone awry.

Brent Leung

Tooth Fairy

Dwayne Johnson is “The Tooth Fairy,” also known as Derek Thompson, a hard-charging minor league hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. When Derek discourages a youngster’s hopes, he’s sentenced to one week’s hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand. At first, Derek “can’t handle the tooth” – bumbling and stumbling as he tries to furtively wing his way through strangers’ homes…doing what tooth fairies do. But as Derek slowly adapts to his new position, he begins to rediscover his own forgotten dreams.

Jason Blum, Dwayne Johnson, Joshua Sternin, Ashley Judd, Lowell Ganz, Jeffrey Ventimilia, Stephen Merchant, Michael Lembeck

Legion

The story follows what happens when God loses faith in humanity and sends his legion of angels to wipe out the human race for the second time. Mankind's only hope lies in a group of misfits holed up in a diner in the desert who are aided by the archangel Michael (Bettany).

Charles S. Dutton, David Lancaster, Scott Stewart, Dennis Quaid, Michel Litvak, Marc Sadeghi, Peter Schink, Paul Bettany

Extraordinary Measures

John and Aileen Crowley's two children have a rare genetic disorder. Rather than give up hope that nothing can help his children, John Crowley finds a researcher with a potential cure.

Tom Vaughan, Carla Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Brendan Fraser, Jared Harris, Michael Shamberg, Robert Nelson Jacobs, Harrison Ford

To Save a Life

Ever since Jake Taylor was a kid, he was the type of guy you couldn't help but like. For Jake, life is good. He has a ton of friends, a basketball scholarship, a hot girlfriend and a really bright future. Not much to get down about, right? Enter Roger Dawson. He was Jake's childhood best friend before Jake's growing popularity pushed him out. Tired of not fitting in and having a place to belong, Roger walks onto campus and, with a gun in his pocket and pain in his heart, makes a tragic move. Jake is devastated by what Roger has done, and something in him changes. In seeking answers in his own life, one question plagues him the most: Could I have saved him? He finds himself deeply compelled to reach out to kids on the fringe -- kids who aren't viewed as cool enough. But, this decision among other things, threatens Jake's world. He may lose his friends, his scholarship and even his reputation by asking "What do I want my life to be about?"

Brian Baugh, Jim Britts, Randy Wayne, Deja Kreutzberg, Joshua Weigel

The Paranoids

Luciano works in birthday parties and writes his first feature when friend Manuel returns from Spain to repeat his TV show, "The Paranoids", together with his girl Sofia.

Gabriel Medina

Creation

Paul Bettany will protray Charles Darwin and Jennifer Connelly will play his wife, Emma, in a biopic about the controversial Brit author.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones, Jon Amiel, Jeremy Thomas, John Collee, Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Jeremy Northam

The Weathered Underground

An interactive movie with thirty different endings.

David N. Donihue

When in Rome

A successful New York realtor can't find love, but when her younger sister marries in Rome, she flies out for the wedding and after picking up coins from a reputed "fountain of love," she finds an overabundance of suitors waiting for her back home.

Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Danny DeVito, Jon Heder, Alexis Dziena, Mindy Farrell, Gary Foster, Andrew Panay

Edge of Darkness

As homicide detective Thomas Craven investigates the death of his activist daughter, he uncovers not only her secret life, but a corporate cover-up and government collusion that attracts an agent tasked with cleaning up the evidence.

Mel Gibson, Bojana Novakovic, Martin Campbell, Suzanne Warren, Graham King, Michael Wearing, Dan Rissner, William Monahan

Dread

Three college students set out to study other people's fears. As the study progresses, one of the students, Quaid, begins to seek salvation from his obsession by exploiting the terrors of his fellow participants.

Hanne Steen, Anthony DiBlasi, Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans, Laura Donnelly

North Face

Benno Furmann, Philipp Stölzl

Preacher's Kid

Tired of being a Preacher's daughter and longing to experience more of life, 20-something Angie King strikes out on her own for the very first time and joins a traveling gospel show. In this modern-day rendition of the fable of The Prodigal Son, she soon discovers life on the road is tough but fears going home with nothing to show for herself, or worse, to a father who no longer loves her.

Saint John of Las Vegas

An ex-gambler is lured back into the game by a veteran insurance-fraud investigator.

Kelly McCormick, Hue Rhodes, Lawrence Mattis, Mark Burton, Matt Wall, Steve Buscemi, Emily Mortimer, John Cho

Falling Awake

A young Latino musician in the Bronx who struggles to find his identity in a home crowded with family members and a neighborhood of loyal friends and dangerous enemies.

Agustin, Nicholas Gonzalez, Jenna Dewan

Off and Running

With white Jewish lesbians for parents and two adopted brothers - one mixed-race and one Korean-Brooklyn teen Avery grew up in a unique and loving household. But when her curiosity about her African-American roots grows, she decides to contact her birth mother.