January 2012 Movies

With Ryan Gosling • George Clooney • Paul Giamatti • Max Minghella • Marisa Tomei • Philip Seymour Hoffman • Evan Rachel Wood • Beau Willimon • Grant Heslov

A young communications director works for a fast-rising presidential candidate. During the course of the campaign, the idealistic young man falls prey to the backstabbing and other dirty trickery of seasoned rival politicos.

With Tom Hardy • Ralph Fiennes • Benedict Cumberbatch • Colin Firth • Gary Oldman • Debra Hayward • Toby Jones • Ciaran Hinds • Jared Harris • Peter Straughan • Kathy Burke • Liza Chasin • Bridget O'Connor • Mark Strong • John Hurt • Tim Bevan • Eric Fellner • Tomas Alfredson

At the height of the Cold War, Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, has been compromised. An ever-watchful former top lieutenant and career spy, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), is called out of retirement by the government to help identify and track a suspected mole at the top of the agency. The list of suspects is narrowed to five men. Even before the startling truth is revealed, the emotional and physical tolls on the players enmeshed in the deadly international spy game will escalate…

With Steven Schneider • William Brent Bell • Morris Paulson • Lorenzo di Bonaventura • Matthew Peterman • Fernanda Andrade • Simon Quarterman • Evan Helmuth • Suzan Crowley • Ionut Grama • Bonnie Morgan

In 1989, emergency responders received a 9-1-1 call from Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) confessing that she had brutally killed three people. 20 years later, her daughter Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) seeks to understand the truth about what happened that night. She travels to the Centrino Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Italy where her mother has been locked away to determine if her mother is mentally ill or demonically possessed. When she recruits two young exorcists (Simon Quarterman and Evan Helmuth) to cure her mom using unconventional methods combining both science and religion, they come face-to-face with pure evil in the form of four powerful demons possessing Maria.

With Michael Cuesta • Jill Hennessy • Bobby Cannavale • Lois Smith • Ron Eldard • David Margulies

After 20 years of touring, a roadie for a defunct 80s hair band returns home to live with his mother.

With Dennis Quaid • Brett Cullen • Martin Guigui • Dahlia Waingort • Devon Werkheiser • Stephen Lunsford • Scott Mednick • Aimee Teegarden • Ronnie Clemmer • Bruce Wilkinson • Tony Oller • Wilbur Penn

After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the psychopathic killer and keep from becoming his next victims.

With Tran Anh Hung

The story centers on the loves and losses of a sensitive college boy in the 1960s who is more interested in American literature than in the era's political upheavals.

With Jaimie Alexander • Michael Madsen • Peter Facinelli • Vincent Gallo • Michael Corrente • William Forsythe • Joe Pantoliano • Glenn Ciano • Chad Verdi

About a young, successful pickpocket in the New York subways living the fast, free, outlaw lifestyle until confronted with an old one-night stand who informs him that she is pregnant with his child.

With Kate Beckinsale • Mark Wahlberg • J.K. Simmons • Caleb Landry Jones • Ben Foster • Diego Luna • Aaron Guzikowski • Lukas Haas • Giovanni Ribisi • Tim Bevan • Eric Fellner • Baltasar Kormakur • Stephen Levinson • Michael Beasley

Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris is forced back into doing what he does best— running contraband—to settle Andy’s debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian (Ben Foster), for one final run to Panama and back, hoping to return with millions in counterfeit bills. Things quickly fall apart and with only hours to reach the cash, Chris must use his rusty skills to successfully navigate a treacherous criminal network of brutal drug lords, cops and hit men before his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and sons become their target.

With Richard E. Grant • Meryl Streep • Jim Broadbent • Damian Jones • Anthony Head • Phyllida Lloyd • Abi Morgan • Michael Hirst • Harry Lloyd

Story will focus on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the 17 days before the Falklands War in 1982.

With Keke Palmer • Queen Latifah • Todd Graff • Broderick Johnson • Jeremy Jordan • Andrew Kosove • Michael Nathanson • Joe Farrell • Catherine Paura • Dolly Parton

The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The choir has always known how to sing in harmony, but the discord between its two leading ladies now threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill (Queen Latifah), stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, while the fiery G.G. Sparrow (Dolly Parton) thinks tried-and-true translates to tired-and-old.Shaking things up even more is the arrival of G.G.’s rebellious grandson, Randy (Jeremy Jordan). Randy has an ear for music, but he also has an eye for Vi Rose’s beautiful and talented daughter, Olivia (Keke Palmer), and the sparks between the two teenagers are causing even more heat between G.G. and Vi Rose.

With Jerry Orbach • David Ogden Stiers • Gary Trousdale • Don Hahn • Linda Woolverton • Robby Benson • Richard White • Kirk Wise

The fantastic journey of Belle, a bright and beautiful young woman who's taken prisoner by a hideous beast in his castle. Despite her precarious situation, Belle befriends the castle's enchanted staff -- a teapot, a candelabra and a mantel clock, among others -- and ultimately learns to see beneath the Beast's exterior to discover the heart and soul of a prince.

With Charles Evans Jr

A documentary made over the course of 15 years telling the story of Victor DeNoble's journey from research scientist to star informant against the tobacco industry.

With Vincent D'Onofrio • Sam Bisbee • Tim Lajcik • Eric Bogosian • Joe Vinciguerra • Gwynn Galitzer • Jorgen Jorgensen • Soomin Lee

A young band heads to the woods to get away from their everyday lives in order to focus on writing new songs. Hoping to walk away from the trip with new tunes that will score them their big break, they instead find themselves in the middle of a nightmare beyond comprehension.

With Milo Ventimiglia • Rosanna Arquette • Michael Biehn • Lauren German • Darryn Welch • Xavier Gens • Tony Krantz • Ross Dinerstein • Karl Mueller • Eron Sheean

Set in New York City as civilization collapses, eight survivors huddle in a bomb shelter and begin to turn on each other as they wait for a rescue.

With Harry Belafonte • Susanne Rostock

Told from Harry’s point of view, the film charts his life from a boy born in New York and raised in Jamaica, who returns to Harlem in his early teens where he discovers the American Negro Theater and the magic of performing.

With Felicity Jones • Julia Ormond • Sebastian Koch • Jessica Brown Findlay

The story of Emelia Conan-Doyle (Jessica Brown Findlay), a cheeky force of nature and the 17 year old heir to the legacy of Arthur Conan Doyle. Harboring an ambition to follow in the literary footsteps of her grandfather, Emelia writes while working at a stuffy seaside hotel populated by another blocked novelist Jonathan (Sebastian Koch), his put-upon wife (Julia Ormond) and their daughter Beth (Felicity Jones). Befriending Beth, Emelia begins to inch her way into their family life before casually seducing the sexually-frustrated Jonathan, forcing all involved to confront some uncomfortable truths about their situation.

With Mike Woolf

Richard Garriott's quest to become the first second-generation astronaut, from making his fortune to spending $30 million to reach the International Space Station via Russian rocket.

With Ian Cheney

Ian Cheney moves from Maine to New York City and discovers an urban sky almost completely devoid of stars. The film poses a deceptively simple question, "What do we lose, when we lose the night?" and leads viewers on a quest to understand how light pollution affects people and the planet.

With Frederick Wiseman

A documentary that looks behind the curtain on Le Crazy Horse de Paris, a landmark that has prided itself as "the best nude dancing show in the world" since 1951.

With Kate Beckinsale • Charles Dance • John Hlavin • Michael Ealy • Scott Speedman • Len Wiseman • India Eisley • Tom Rosenberg • Gary Lucchesi • Richard Wright • J. Michael Straczynski • Mans Marlind • Bjorn Stein

Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species.

With Channing Tatum • Michael Fassbender • Gina Carano • Michael Douglas • Steven Soderbergh • Ewan McGregor • Antonio Banderas • Tucker Tooley • Bill Paxton • Mathieu Kassovitz • Michael Angarano • Greg Jacobs • Ryan Kavanaugh • Lem Dobbs

A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is given a second chance to use her skills for constructive purposes.

With Michael B. Jordan • Bryan Cranston • Method Man • George Lucas • Cuba Gooding Jr. • David Oyelowo • Nate Parker • Terrence Howard • Ne-Yo • John Ridley • Leslie Odom Jr. • Kevin Phillips • Tristan Wilds • Elijah Kelley • Marcus T. Paulk • Lee Tergesen • Anthony Hemingway • Rick McCallum • Charles Floyd Johnson • Rick Otto • Andre Royo • Daniela Ruah

1944. As the war in Europe continues to take its toll on Allied forces, the Pentagon brass has no recourse but to consider unorthodox options -- including the untried and untested African-American pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, they are given the ultimate chance to show their courage. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies to fight for their country -- and the fate of the free world.

With Tom Hanks • Sandra Bullock • John Goodman • Viola Davis • Scott Rudin • James Gandolfini • Stephen Daldry • Jeffrey Wright • Eric Roth • Thomas Horn

Eleven-year-old Oskar Schell is an exceptional child: amateur inventor, Francophile, pacifist. And after finding a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, he embarks on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. As Oskar roams the city, he encounters a variety of individuals, all survivors in their own way. Ultimately, Oskar’s journey ends where it began, but with the solace of that most human experience: community.

With Gerardo Naranjo

An aspiring beauty queen finds her dream corrupted when she unwillingly gets involved with a criminal group at war in Mexico.

With Leigh Dunlap • Adam Lipsius • Mark Elias • Lindsey Black • Lindsey Shaw • Chandler Massey • Keith Coulouris • Susie Abromeit

When the number one junior player in the country is injured, she begins to discover the teenage life she never got to live… and find the love she never thought she’d have.

With Dori Berinstein

Chronicles the 90-year-old icon - both onstage and off...past and present. The film is both an intimate love story and a rarefied journey inside Broadway's most glamorous era.

With Gerard Butler • Jessica Chastain • Ralph Fiennes • William Hurt • Eddie Marsan • Vanessa Redgrave • Brian Cox • Julia Taylor-Stanley • Gabrielle Tana

Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, is manipulated and out-maneuvered by politicians and even his own mother Volumnia, resulting in his banishment. He subsequently offers himself to his sworn enemy, and together they march on Rome intending to destroy the city.

With Christian Bale • Zhang Weiping • Zhang Yimou • Liu Heng

The story of China's Nanjing Massacre, which involved Japanese troops killing thousands of Chinese citizens in what was then the nation's capital in 1937. Christian Bale will play an American priest called John who helps a great number of Chinese escape certain death.

With Kazuya Murata

In the lost holy land of Milos, the Elrics search for the truth behind an unknown form of alchemy.

With Ryan O'Nan • Shimon Dotan

In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.

With Norberto López Amado • Carlos Carcas

The film traces the rise of one of the world’s premier architects, Norman Foster and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design. Portrayed are Foster’s origins and how his dreams and influences inspired the design of emblematic projects such as the largest building in the world Beijing Airport, the Reichstag, the Hearst Building in New York and works such as the tallest bridge ever in Millau France.

With Joe Carnahan • Liam Neeson • Dermot Mulroney • Ridley Scott • Frank Grillo • James Badge Dale • Tony Scott • Joe Anderson • Dallas Roberts • Ian Jeffers

Liam Neeson leads an unruly group of oil-rig roughnecks when their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Battling mortal injuries and merciless weather, the survivors have only a few days to escape the icy elements – and a vicious pack of rogue wolves on the hunt – before their time runs out.

With Katherine Heigl • Ana Reeder • John Leguizamo • Wendy Finerman • Sherri Shepherd • Fisher Stevens • Nate Mooney • Tom Rosenberg • Bruce Toll • Liz Brixius • Gavin Keith Umeh • Debra Monk • Annie Parisse • Leonardo Nam • Nancy Heigl • Gary Lucchesi • Zane Weiner • Andre Lamal • Richard Wright • Eric Reid • Sidney Kimmel • Karen McCullah Lutz • Kirsten Kiwi Smith • Jim Tauber • James 'Jim' Whitaker • Julie Anne Robinson • Jason O'Mara • Patrick Fischler • Ryan Michelle Bathe • Debbie Reynolds • Adam Paul

A proud, born-and-bred Jersey girl, Stephanie Plum's got plenty of attitude, even if she's been out of work for the last six months and just lost her car to a debt collector. Desperate for some fast cash, Stephanie turns to her last resort: convincing her sleazy cousin to give her a job at his bail bonding company...as a recovery agent. True, she doesn't even own a pair of handcuffs and her weapon of choice is pepper spray, but that doesn't stop Stephanie from taking on Vinny's biggest bail-jumper: former vice cop and murder suspect Joe Morelli - yup, the same sexy, irresistible Joe Morelli who seduced and dumped her back in high school. Nabbing Morelli would be satisfying payback - and a hefty payday - but as Stephanie learns the ins and outs of becoming a recovery agent from Ranger, a hunky colleague who's the best in the business, she also realizes the case against Morelli isn't airtight. Add to the mix her meddling family, a potentially homicidal boxer, witnesses who keep dying and the problem of all those flying sparks when she finds Morelli himself...well, suddenly Stephanie's new job isn't nearly as easy as she thought.

With Sam Worthington • Elizabeth Banks • Anthony Mackie • Jamie Bell • Edward Burns • Ed Harris • Titus Welliver • Erich Hoeber • Kyra Sedgwick • Lorenzo di Bonaventura • Mark Vahradian • Jon Hoeber • Pablo Fenjves • Patrick Kelly • Jamie Tarses • Asger Leth • David Ready • Genesis Rodriguez

Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) makes a desperate and life-threatening move to prove his innocence after he is framed for the theft of a rare, prized diamond. Recently escaped from prison and with nowhere else to go, Nick climbs onto the ledge of a towering skyscraper, inviting the eyes of New York City to anxiously watch as one wrong step could mean plunging to his death. But as one police negotiator soon learns, Nick’s daredevil stunt, captivating the eyes of the public and media, masks a dangerous ploy to reveal the truth about his tarnished name. With the help of his brother and with time running out, Nick’s intricate plan must work perfectly, but when you’re on the 25th floor ledge of a building, going down takes on an entirely more hair-raising meaning.

With Ezra Miller • Steven Soderbergh • Tilda Swinton • Jennifer Fox • John C. Reilly • Robert Salerno • Christine Langan • Paula Jalfon • Lynne Ramsay • Rory Stewart Kinnear • Luc Roeg

The movie, based on Lionel Shriver's novel, tells the story of a smart, educated New York mother who does her best to raise a son she never wanted in the first place. He turns out to be extremely difficult and is at the center of the woman's marital breakdown before going on a killing spree at his high school with a crossbow.

With Henry Garrett • Christopher Lee • Graham McTavish • Robin Hardy • Peter Watson-Wood • Peter Snell • Brittania Nicol

Follows two evangelists from Texas who visit Scotland to spread the gospel. They encounter a local man practicing ancient magic with sinister motives.

With Edouard Weil • Valrie Donzelli • Jeremie Elkaim

Follows a new couple, Romeo (Jeremie Elkaim) and Juliette (Valerie Donzelli), who must face the ultimate test when they discover their newborn child is very ill. Gathering their friends and family together, they confront the ordeal together as a form of warfare.

With Fernando León de Aranoa

A portrait of a young immigrant woman living in Spain.

With Fabio Barreto • Marcelo Santiago

A working class boy moves to the financial capital of Brazil and becomes one the most influential politician in Brazil's history.