March 2011 Movies

With Apichatpong Weerasethakul

A dying old man choses to spend his last days with his loved ones in the countryside. The ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him and his long-lost son returns home in a non-human form.

With Johnny Depp • Isla Fisher • Stephen Root • Timothy Olyphant • Alfred Molina • Abigail Breslin • Graham King • Tim Headington • Ray Winstone • John Logan • Hemky Madera • Bill Nighy • Harry Dean Stanton • Ian Abercrombie • Gore Verbinski • John B. Carls • David Shannon

The story of a chameleon with an identity crisis.

With Matt Damon • Emily Blunt • Anthony Mackie • George Nolfi • Shohreh Aghdashloo • Daniel Dae Kim • Michael Kelly • Michael Hackett • Chris Moore • Bill Carraro • John Slattery

Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? Matt Damon stars in the thriller "The Adjustment Bureau" as a man who glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else. To get it, he must pursue the only woman he's ever loved across, under and through the streets of modern-day New York.

On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitious politician David Norris (Damon) meets beautiful contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt)—a woman like none he's ever known. But just as he realizes he's falling for her, mysterious men conspire to keep the two apart.

David learns he is up against the agents of Fate itself—the men of The Adjustment Bureau—who will do everything in their considerable power to prevent David and Elise from being together. In the face of overwhelming odds, he must either let her go and accept a predetermined path...or risk everything to defy Fate and be with her.

With Anna Faris • Michael Dowse • Topher Grace • Teresa Palmer • Michael Biehn • Wade Allain-Marcus • Brian Grazer • Jackie Filgo • Michelle Trachtenberg • Dan Fogler • Michael Ian Black • Gordon Kaywin • Jeff Filgo

As the summer of 1988 winds down, three friends on the verge of adulthood attend an out-of-control party in celebration of their last night of unbridled youth

With Dakota Johnson • Vanessa Hudgens • Neil Patrick Harris • Susan Cartsonis • Alex Pettyfer • Roz Wesiberg • LisaGay Hamilton • Peter Krause • Daniel Barnz • Maria Faillace • Mary Kate Olsen • Erik Knudsen

Kyle Kingson (Alex Pettyfer) has it all – looks, intelligence, wealth and opportunity – and a wicked cruel streak. Prone to mocking and humiliating “aggressively unattractive” classmates, he zeroes in on Goth classmate Kendra, inviting her to the school’s extravagant environmental bash. Kendra accepts, and, true to form, Kyle blows her off in a particularly savage fashion. She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he despises. Enraged by his horrible and unrecognizable appearance he confronts Kendra and learns that the only solution to the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is – a task he considers impossible.

Repulsed by his appearance, Kyle’s callous father banishes him to Brooklyn with a sympathetic housekeeper and blind tutor. As Kyle ponders how to overcome the curse and get his old life back, he chances upon a drug addict in the act of killing a threatening dealer. Seizing the opportunity, Kyle promises the addict freedom and safety for his daughter, Lindy (Vanessa Hudgens) if she will consent to live in Kyle’s Brooklyn home. Thus begins Kyle’s journey to discover true love in this hyper-modern retelling of the classic “Beauty and the Beast” story.

With Stevan Mena

In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable horrors.

With Malin Akerman • Kate Mara • Zoe Kazan • Josh Radnor

Young people who are on the cusp of truly growing up. Tiring of their reflexive cynicism and struggling to connect and define what it means to love and be loved.

With Ji-woon Kim

A special agent's pregnant wife becomes the latest victim of a disturbed and brutal serial killer. Vowing revenge, the agent blurs the lines between hunter and hunted.

With Eran Riklis • Mark Ivanir

The human resources manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery attempts to block the publication of a defamatory article and save the reputation of his business.

With Sebastián Silva • Pedro Peirano • Claudia Celadon • Belgica Castro • Catalina Saavedra • Alejandro Sieveking

Isidora, an old woman, discovers that her mind is quickly deteriorating. At an apparently relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her state from her daughter, a demanding woman who awaits any sign of senility in order to take away everything she has.

With Josh Hutcherson • Hayden Panettiere • Alfred Molina • Billy Boyd • Dina Eastwood • Craig Comstock • Lauren Bacall • Alexandra Carl • Carlos de los Rios • Lawrence Roeck • Michael-Ryan Fletchall

The story focuses on a troubled 16-year-old boy, who wanders into Carmel, falls into the wrong crowd and becomes involved in art forgery. He's befriended by a retired local artist who traces her career back to the early days of Carmel artists, writers and other creative types, all with skeletons in their closets.

With Aaron Eckhart • Michelle Rodriguez • Michael Peña • Ori Marmur • Scott Silver • Ne-Yo • Jonathan Liebesman • Neal H. Moritz • Bridget Moynahan • Chris Bertolini • Gabourey Sidibe

Meteors shoot into the ocean a couple of miles off the coast of Los Angeles. Minutes later, beachgoers witness a strange alien like army oozing out of the water. These aliens are nasty, they're fast, and they kill on site. Within seconds they're shredding the suntanning populace to pieces and moving into the city of Santa Monica. Marine Sgt. Nantz leads his new platoon against a surprise attack on Los Angeles, attempting to rescue civilians in Santa Monica and destroy the hub of the enemy's mysterious power grid, while similar epic battles are waged across the world in other cities.

With Leonardo DiCaprio • Amanda Seyfried • Virginia Madsen • Gary Oldman • Julie Yorn • Shiloh Fernandez • Lukas Haas • Max Irons • Julie Christie • Catherine Hardwicke • David Leslie Johnson • Jennifer Davisson • Jim Rowe • Michael Ireland

Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Max Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie’s older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. For years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the creature a monthly animal sacrifice. But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon’s arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast—one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect…and bait.

With Robert Zemeckis • Joan Cusack • Seth Green • Steve Starkey • Simon Wells • Dan Fogler • Elisabeth Harnois • Jack Rapke • Wendy Wells

Nine-year-old Milo (Seth Green) finds out just how much he needs his mom (Joan Cusack) when she’s nabbed by Martians who plan to steal her mom-ness for their own young. The animated film showcases Milo's quest to save his mom—an adventure that involves stowing away on a spaceship, navigating an elaborate, multi-level planet and taking on the alien nation and their leader (Mindy Sterling). With the help of a tech-savvy, underground earthman named Gribble (Dan Fogler) and a rebel Martian girl called Ki (Elisabeth Harnois), Milo just might find his way back to his mom—in more ways than one.

With Malin Akerman • Timothy Olyphant • Carla Gugino • Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Emmanuelle Chriqui • Kathleen Quinlan • Adrianne Palicki • Marley Shelton • Justin Kirk • Sebastian Gutierrez

Recently retired from the adult film industry, superstar Elektra Luxx (Carla Gugino) is pregnant with the child of late rock star Nick Chapel. She is trying to make ends meet by teaching a community college sex education class aimed at housewives when a figure from her past, flight attendant Cora (Marley Shelton), approaches her with a proposition. In exchange for the (stolen) lyrics to Nick Chapel's last record, all of which is about Elektra, Cora needs Elektra to seduce her fiancee. Elektra reluctantly agrees to do this favor, setting in motion a series of hilarious events which will see her come face to face with detectives, sex bloggers, emotionally unstable neighbors and the Virgin Mary herself as she wrestles with the prospect of motherhood and tries to become a person of substance.

With Christopher Walken • Val Kilmer • Vincent D'Onofrio • Ray Stevenson • Al Corley • Tommy Reid • Bart Rosenblatt • Vinnie Jones • Paul Sorvino • Laura Ramsey • Linda Cardellini • Jonathan Hensleigh • Eugene Musso • Jeremy Walters • Jonathan Dana

Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene’s heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob. Turning the tables on loan shark Shondor Birns (Christopher Walken) and allying himself with gangster John Nardi (Vincent D’Onofrio), Greene stops taking orders from the mafia and pursues his own power. Surviving countless assassination attempts from the mob and killing off anyone who went after him in retaliation, Danny Greene’s infamous invincibility and notorious fearlessness eventually led to the collapse of mafia syndicates across the U.S. and also earned him the status of the man the mob couldn’t kill.

With John Grooters

In the last gasp of winter in a small Northern Michigan town, four high school sophomore boys are living on top of the world. Best friends, classmates, and peers, T.J., Jed, and Brent are all starting players for an undefeated varsity basketball team. Suddenly, the entire town is shaken when T.J. falls into a coma after a drive-by-shooting.

With Michael Fassbender • Cary Joji Fukunaga • Jamie Bell • Judi Dench • Imogen Poots • Sally Hawkins • Alison Owen • Moira Buffini • Paul Trijbits • Harry Lloyd

In the story, Jane Eyre (Mia Wasikowska) flees Thornfield House, where she works as a governess for wealthy Edward Rochester (Michael Fassbender). As she reflects upon the people and emotions that have defined her, it is clear that the isolated and imposing residence – and Mr. Rochester’s coldness – have sorely tested the young woman’s resilience, forged years earlier when she was orphaned. She must now act decisively to secure her own future and come to terms with the past that haunts her – and the terrible secret that Mr. Rochester is hiding and that she has uncovered.

With Sean Bean • Eddie Redmayne • Christopher Smith • Carice van Houten

The year is 1348. Europe has fallen under the shadow of the Black Death. As the plague decimates all in its path, fear and superstition are rife. In this apocalyptic environment, the church is losing its grip on the people. There are rumors of a village, hidden in marshland that the plague cannot reach. There is even talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to bring the dead back to life. Ulric (Sean Bean), a fearsome knight, is charged by the church to investigate these rumors.

With William Shimell • Juliette Binoche • Abbas Kiarostami

A gallery owner living in a Tuscan village attends a lecture by a British author on authenticity and fakery in art. Afterwards she invites him on a tour of the countryside during which he is mistaken for her husband.

With Eran Riklis • Mark Ivanir

The human resources manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery attempts to block the publication of a defamatory article and save the reputation of his business.

With Richard Press

For decades, the Schwinn-riding Bill Cunningham, cultural anthropologist, has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the New York Times Style section.

With Wuershan

A stylized thriller rooted in a Chinese legend about a mystical blade that changes the fate of each of its three ambitious owners.

With Michael Flatley • Marcus Viner

A 3D movie version of Michael Flatley's Irish dance production.

With Robert De Niro • Bradley Cooper • Tucker Tooley • Abbie Cornish • Scott Kroopf • Johnny Whitworth • Anna Friel • Andrew Howard • Neil Burger • Ryan Kavanaugh • Leslie Dixon

The story centers on a down-and-out writer who gets his hands on a top-secret pharmaceutical drug that makes one smarter. He experiences sudden financial and social success but soon discovers that the drug has lethal and lasting side effects, including "trip-switching," a phenomenon in which time moves with a stop-motion quality. Before long, mysterious antagonists are pursuing him.

With Seth Rogen • Jason Bateman • Bill Hader • Simon Pegg • Kristen Wiig • Sigourney Weaver • Edgar Wright • Nick Frost • Jane Lynch • Greg Mottola • Nira Park • Blythe Danner • Tim Bevan • Eric Fellner

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost ("Hot Fuzz," "Shaun of the Dead") reunite for the comedy adventure "Paul" as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America's UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever.

For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town -- a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost).

Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.

With Matthew McConaughey • Bryan Cranston • Ryan Phillippe • Marisa Tomei • Michael Peña • William H. Macy • Trace Adkins • John Leguizamo • Brad Furman • Tom Rosenberg • Katherine Moennig • Bob Gunton • Scott Steindorff • Gary Lucchesi • John Romano • Erin Carufel

Mickey Haller (Matthew McConaughey) is a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Haller has spent most of his career defending garden-variety criminals, until he lands the case of a lifetime: defending a Beverly Hills playboy accused of murder. But the seemingly straightforward case suddenly develops into a deadly game of survival for Haller.

With Paul Giamatti • Jeffrey Tambor • Tom McCarthy • Amy Ryan • Lisa Maria Falcone • Bobby Cannavale • Melanie Lynskey • Mary Jane Skalski • Tom Heller • Joe Tiboni

A light-hearted comedy about how a rough-and-tumble runaway changes the lives of a suburban New Jersey family and turns around the luck of a high school wrestling team.

With J.K. Simmons • Lou Taylor Pucci • Julia Ormond • Jim Kohlberg • Cara Seymour

Chronicles the journey of a father and son adjusting to cerebral trauma and a lifetime of missed opportunities.

With Ken Loach • Paul Laverty

A tense love triangle between two men and a woman working in Iraq. When Frankie is killed on "Route Irish" -- the road linking Baghdad airport with the Green Zone -- Fergus, wracked with grief and guilt, rejects the official explanation and determines to investigate the truth of his friend's death.

With Eva Green • Imogen Poots • Juno Temple • Jordan Scott • Maria Valverde • Ben Court

"Cracks" follows an elite group of boarding school girls who compete for the attention of their free-thinking and glamorous young teacher Miss G (Green). She encourages them to indulge their desires, flout the establishment and - suggesting a world of adventures in her own past - pursue a life of independence and travel. The girls are thrilled to have such an inspiring teacher, but the status quo is threatened when the arrival of an exotic and beautiful Spanish student (Maria Valverde) disturbs the girl's rigid and remorseless power structure. Favored girl Di Radfield (Juno Temple) feels especially threatened and, as Ms G's hold over the girls progresses from emancipation to obsession, there are tragic consequences for everyone.

With Martin Koolhoven

Near the end of World War II, 14-year-old Michiel becomes involved with the Resistance after helping a wounded British soldier.

With Sherry Horman

The autobiography of Waris Dirie, who fled from an arranged marriage in Somalia when she was 13-years-old and then lived in the streets of London before she became a supermodel and UN spokeswoman.

With Robin Hessman

Five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times, from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia.

With Vanessa Hudgens • Zack Snyder • Jon Hamm • Oscar Isaac • Emily Browning • Carla Gugino • Jon Jashni • Steve Shibuya • William Fay • Jena Malone • Abbie Cornish • Jamie Chung • Deborah Snyder • Greg Silverman • Wesley Coller • Thomas Tull • Chris deFaria • Jim Rowe

"Sucker Punch" is that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality. Unrestrained by the boundaries of time and place, she is free to go where her mind takes her, and her incredible adventures blur the lines between what’s real and what is imaginary. She has been locked away against her will, but Babydoll (Emily Browning) has not lost her will to survive. Determined to fight for her freedom, she urges four other young girls—the outspoken Rocket (Jena Malone), the street-smart Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), the fiercely loyal Amber (Jamie Chung) and the reluctant Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish)—to band together and try to escape their terrible fate at the hands of their captors, Blue (Oscar Isaac), Madam Gorski (Carla Gugino) and the High Roller (Jon Hamm). Led by Babydoll, the girls engage in fantastical warfare against everything from samurais to serpents, with a virtual arsenal at their disposal. Together, they must decide what they are willing to sacrifice in order to stay alive. But with the help of a Wise Man (Scott Glenn), their unbelievable journey—if they succeed—will set them free.

With Karan Brar • Devon Bostick • Steve Zahn • Zachary Gordon • Jackie Filgo • David Bowers • Nina Jacobson • Gabe Sachs • Jeff Judah • Rachel Harris • Robert Capron • Laine MacNeil • Owen Best • Peyton List • Grayson Russell

"Rodrick Rules," which will be based on the second book in the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series, follows middle school student Greg Heffley, his older brother Rodrick, and the school talent show.

With Matt McCormick

A film that asks why the good times slip by so fast while the difficult times seem so sticky. It explores ideas of abundance, emptiness, human connection and abandonment while observing an interweaving web of awkward characters who maintain hope by inventing their own forms of communication and self-fulfillment.

With Francois Ozon • Catherine Deneuve • Gerard Depardieu

A trophy wife of an umbrella company magnate who shakes off the shackles of her cloistered well-to-do existence and takes the reigns of the family business when her husband suffers a heart attack.

With Aidan Quinn • Ryan Merriman • Andie MacDowell • Alan Cohen • Rick Bieber • Stacy Earl • Michael Harding

After Luke Abbate is killed in a car crash, his family donates his organs to five people. His brother, Wake Forest Junior Jon Abbate, begins to honor his brother by holding up five fingers just before the fourth quarter while his parents do the same while sitting in the 5th section of the stadium. News spreads, opposing players and fans begin to do the same and the team goes on to win a record of 11 games and a trip to the Orange Bowl.

With Stephen Lang • Karen Allen • John Gray • Nick Thurston • Geoff Wigdor

In the autumn of 1975 in Brooklyn, Danny tries to enlist his brother Brian in one last scheme - to rob the Lafayette on the night of the Rolling Stones concert. Danny sees this as their only chance to get enough money to skip town and start them both off in a new life, somewhere far away from Brooklyn.

With John Grooters

In the last gasp of winter in a small Northern Michigan town, four high school sophomore boys are living on top of the world. Best friends, classmates, and peers, T.J., Jed, and Brent are all starting players for an undefeated varsity basketball team. Suddenly, the entire town is shaken when T.J. falls into a coma after a drive-by-shooting.

With Freida Pinto • Willem Dafoe • Vanessa Redgrave • Julian Schnabel • Jon Kilik • Hiam Abbass • Rula Jebreal

The story of Hind Husseini, who founded an orphanage in Jerusalem in the wake of the 1948 partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel.

With Taraji P. Henson • Michael C. Hall • Rainn Wilson • Ben Schwartz • Sarah Silverman • Kate Mara • Judy Greer • Barry Blaustein • Felipe Marino • Joe Neurauter • Jason Hefter • Ron Rifkin • Keith Calder • Peter Himmelstein

The story charts the mayhem caused by a family member's kiss-and-tell novel that comes to light during a family celebration.

With Marie-Josee Croze • Tony Gatlif

In a small French town, a mayor and a schoolteacher try to help a tribe of Gypsies who are persecuted by both the Nazis and the French.