January 2010 Movies

With Amy Adams • Harry Elfont • Matthew Goode • Adam Scott • Gary Barber • Kaitlin Olson • Bill Nighy • Deborah Kaplan • Roger Birnbaum • Jonathan Glickman • Simon Beaufoy • Cassidy Lange • Anand Tucker

Amy Adams and Matthew Goode star in "Leap Year", a romantic comedy that follows one woman’s determined quest to get married to the perfect guy…despite what fate has in store for her. When their four-year anniversary passes without a marriage proposal, Anna (Amy Adams) decides to take matters into her own hands. Investing in an Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on February 29th, Anna decides to follow her boyfriend Jeremy (Adam Scott) to Dublin and get down on one knee herself. But airplanes, weather and fate leave Anna stranded on the other side of Ireland, and she must enlist the help of handsome and surly Declan (Matthew Goode) to get her across the country. As Anna and Declan bicker across the Emerald Isle, they discover that the road to love can take you to very unexpected places.

With Ethan Hawke • Willem Dafoe • Chris Brown • Sam Neill • Isabel Lucas • Peter Spierig • Michael Spierig • Sean Furst • Bryan Furst

The year is 2019. A mysterious plague has swept over the earth, transforming the majority of the world's population into vampires. Humans are now an endangered, second-class species – forced into hiding as they are hunted and farmed for vampire consumption to the brink of extinction.

It’s all up to Edward Dalton, a vampire researcher who refuses to feed on human blood, to perfect a blood substitute that might sustain vampires and spare the few remaining humans. But time and hope are running out – until Ed meets Audrey, a human survivor who leads him to a startling medical breakthrough. Armed with knowledge that both humans and vampires will kill for, Ed must battle his own kind in a deadly struggle that will decide the fate of the human race.

With David Permut • Michael Cera • Rooney Mara • Steve Buscemi • M. Emmet Walsh • Ray Liotta • Jean Smart • Gustin Nash • Steve Longi

"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.

With Kelsey Grammer • Julie Bowen • Tim Allen • Brian Reilly • Ray Liotta • Carrie-Anne Moss • Judd Pillot • John Peaslee • Richard Baker • Brett Gregory • Anastasia Stanecki

Tommy is fresh out of prison and ready for a second chance in life. Enter his loving sister Vicky, her cynical husband Ed and their family. Tommy moves in with them, and when it comes to explaining to Grandma Tommy’s whereabouts for the last three years, the truth-challenged Vicky has the answer: “He’s been in France!”

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

"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.

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

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.

With Sanaa Lathan • Matthew Broderick • Philip Baker Hall • Ally Walker • Joshua Goldin

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.

With Hayden Christensen • Samuel L. Jackson • Mark Hamill • Chris Pine • Amanda Peet • James Earl Jones • Abigail Breslin • Spencer Breslin • Sandra Oh • Dan St. Pierre • William Shatner • Jason Alexander • Neil Armstrong • Harry Kloor

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

With Mark Wahlberg • Peter Jackson • Steven Spielberg • Stanley Tucci • Saoirse Ronan • Fran Walsh • Rachel Weisz • Ken Kamins • Jim Wilson. • Susan Sarandon • Michael Imperioli • Aimee Peyronnet • Jan Blenkin • Caro Cunningham • Tessa Ross • Philippa Boyens

"The Lovely Bones" centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family – and her killer – from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal. Oscar® nominee Mark Wahlberg and Oscar® winners Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon star along with Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli and Oscar® nominee Saoirse Ronan.

With Denzel Washington • Mila Kunis • Gary Oldman • Joel Silver • Steve Richards • Michael Gambon • Jennifer Beals • Ray Stevenson • Erik Olsen • Evan Jones • Broderick Johnson • Susan Downey • Allen Hughes • Albert Hughes • Andrew Kosove • Anthony Peckham • Gary Whitta

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.

With Jackie Chan • Billy Ray • Tucker Tooley • George Lopez • Robert Simonds • Jonathan Bernstein • Amber Valletta • Madeline Carroll • Brian Levant • Ryan Kavanaugh • Jim Greer • Solon So • Alina Foley • Katherine Boecher

Jackie Chan is set to star in "The Spy Next Door," an action-comedy which centers on a man (Chan) who is called 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.

With Ken Ghosh

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

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

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.

With Andrea Arnold • Katie Jarvis

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

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

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.

With Brent Leung

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.

With Dennis Quaid • Tyrese Gibson • Paul Bettany • Jon Tenney • Doug Jones • Scott Stewart • David Lancaster • Gary Michael Walters • Marc Sadeghi • Charles S. Dutton • Lucas Black • Kate Walsh • Adrianne Palicki • Michel Litvak • Peter Schink • Jonathan Rothbart

In the supernatural action thriller "Legion", an out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner and the Archangel Michael (Paul Bettany).

With Dwayne Johnson • Julie Andrews • Stephen Merchant • Jason Blum • Billy Crystal • Jeffrey Ventimilia • Mark Ciardi • Lowell Ganz • Ryan Sheckler • Ashley Judd • Jim Piddock • Michael Lembeck • Gordon Gray • Joshua Sternin

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.

With Harrison Ford • Brendan Fraser • Keri Russell • Jared Harris • Carla Shamberg • Patrick Bauchau • Tom Vaughan • Michael Shamberg • Stacey Sher • Robert Nelson Jacobs • Lily Mariye • Gavin Bristol

From his working class roots, John Crowley (Brendan Fraser) has finally begun to taste success in corporate America. Supported by his beautiful wife Aileen (Keri Russell) and their three children, John is on the fast track. But just as his career is taking off, Crowley walks away from it all when his two youngest children, Megan and Patrick, are diagnosed with a fatal disease. With Aileen by his side, harnessing all of his skill and determination, Crowley teams up with a brilliant, but unappreciated and unconventional scientist, Dr. Robert Stonehill (Harrison Ford). Together they form a bio-tech company focused on developing a life-saving drug. One driven to prove himself and his theories, the other by a chance to save his children, this unlikely alliance eventually develops into mutual respect as they battle the medical and business establishments in a fight against the system – and time.

But, at the last minute, when it appears that a solution has been found, the relationship between the two men faces a final test - the outcome of which will affect the fate of John's children.

With Brian Baugh • Jim Britts • Randy Wayne • Deja Kreutzberg • Joshua Weigel

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?"

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

Charles Darwin struggles to find a balance between his revolutionary theories on evolution and the relationship with religious wife, whose faith contradicts his work.

With Gabriel Medina

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.

With David N. Donihue

An interactive movie with thirty different endings.

With Kristen Bell • Josh Duhamel • Danny DeVito • Dax Shepard • Jon Heder • Will Arnett • Mark Steven Johnson • Steven Roffer • Alexis Dziena • Bobby Moynihan • Anjelica Huston • Andrew Panay • Gary Foster • Rikki Bestall • Mindy Farrell • Ezra Swerdlow

An ambitious young New Yorker (Kristen Bell), disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a "foolish" fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of an odd group of suitors: a sausage magnate (Danny DeVito), a street magician (Jon Heder), an adoring painter (Will Arnett) and a self-admiring model (Dax Shepard). But when a charming reporter (Josh Duhamel) pursues her with equal zest, how will she know if his love is the real thing?

With Mel Gibson • William Monahan • Danny Huston • Shawn Roberts • Graham King • Tim Headington • Ray Winstone • Martin Campbell • Bojana Novakovic • Michael Wearing • Gail Lyon • David Thompson • Dan Rissner • E. Bennett Walsh • Andrew Bovell • Suzanne Warren

"Edge of Darkness" is an emotionally charged thriller set at the intersection of politics and big business. Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) is a veteran homicide detective for the Boston Police Department and a single father. When his only child, twenty-four year old Emma (Bojana Novakovic), is murdered on the steps of his home, everyone assumes that he was the target. But he soon suspects otherwise, and embarks on a mission to find out about his daughter's secret life and her killing. His investigation leads him into a dangerous looking-glass world of corporate cover-ups, government collusion and murder - and to shadowy government operative Darius Jedburgh (Ray Winstone), who has been sent in to clean up the evidence. Craven's solitary search for answers about his daughter's death transforms into an odyssey of emotional discovery and redemption.

With Jackson Rathbone • Anthony DiBlasi • Shaun Evans • Hanne Steen • Laura Donnelly

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.

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.

With Benno Furmann • Philipp Stölzl

With Peter Dinklage • Sarah Silverman • John Cho • Emmanuelle Chriqui • Tim Blake Nelson • Hue Rhodes • Matt Wall • Steve Buscemi • Romany Malco • Lawrence Mattis • Emily Mortimer • Mark Burton • Kelly McCormick

After a run of bad luck, John, a compulsive gambler, runs away from Las Vegas and toward a normal job and life. Taking a nondescript position in an auto insurance company in Albuquerque, he tries to get ahead in the straight world, amid the ever-present temptations of scratch-off lotto tickets. When his boss, Mr. Townsend, asks John to accompany his top fraud debunker, Virgil on an investigation of a dubious car "accident" near Vegas, John sees an opportunity to get a promotion, although he's concerned about returning to the gambling game. Before leaving he becomes involved with his eccentric co-worker Jill, a dalliance that has the potential to become a real relationship. Soon John is on the road with Virgil. While Virgil is the supposed leader of the investigation, it's John who begins to finally assert himself, pushing the case closer to a conclusion. Through the journey, John's confidence builds, and he realizes that he can't escape his gambling addiction by running away from it -- it will follow him wherever he goes. It's only when he returns to Vegas that his experiences there finally send him on the path to breaking free.

With Nicholas Gonzalez • Agustin • Jenna Dewan

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.

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.