May 2011 Movies

With William Dear • Daniel de Liege • David Salzberg • Mark W. Koch • W. William Winokur • Cheech Marin • Christian Tureaud • Emilie de Ravin • Clifton Collins Jr. • Bruce McGill • Richard M. DeVos Sr. • Lou Gossett Jr. • Patricia Manterol • Helen DeVos

In 1957, former baseball player Cesar Faz returns home to Mexico as he is defeated by the racism of the Major Leagues. He coaches a local youth league team, leading them all the way to the Little League World Series.

With Benjamin Hessler • Brigitte Kren • Theo Trebs • Michael Fuith • Marvin Kren • Anka Graczyk • Emily Cox

Just when Michael arrives in Berlin to visit his ex-girlfriend Gabi, a terrible virus starts spreading across the city at a rapid pace, turning people into mindless homicidal maniacs. Much to Michael's concern, Gabi's not home; instead, he meets Harper, a teenage plumber's apprentice at work in her apartment block. Together, they manage to barricade themselves when raging hordes of infected people swarm the building. Surrounded by these thirsty zombies, Michael and Harper have their hands full to survive - and it will take all of their ingenuity to make their way out to try and find Gabi.

With Mike Epps • Paula Patton • Loretta Devine • Glendon Palmer • Angela Bassett • Julie Bowen • Laz Alonso • Tracey Edmonds • Arlene Gibbs • Romeo Miller • T.D. Jakes • Curtis Wallace • Elizabeth Hunter • Salim Akil

Two African-American families from divergent backgrounds come together for a wedding on Martha’s Vineyard.

With Tom Hiddleston • Idris Elba • Stellan Skarsgard • Chris Hemsworth • Kenneth Branagh • Stan Lee • Natalie Portman • Avi Arad • Anthony Hopkins • Clark Gregg • Kat Dennings • Kevin Feige • Zack Stentz • Jaimie Alexander • Ray Stevenson • Dakota Goyo • Rene Russo • Joshua Dallas • Colm Feore • Mark Protosevich • Tadanobu Asano

Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment present the epic adventure, "Thor," which spans the Marvel Universe from present day Earth to the realm of Asgard. At the center of the story is the mighty Thor (Chris Hemsworth), a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth by his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins) and is forced to live among humans. A beautiful, young scientist, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), has a profound effect on Thor, as she ultimately becomes his first love. It’s while here on Earth that Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.

With Kate Hudson • John Krasinski • Colin Egglesfield • Ginnifer Goodwin • Steve Howey • Luke Greenfield • Hilary Swank • Molly Smith • Jennie Urman • Peyton List • Broderick Johnson • Aaron Lubin • Pamela Schein Murphy • Andrew A. Kosove • Hank Nelken • Ellen H. Schwartz

Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a talented attorney at a top New York law firm, a generous and loyal friend and, unhappily, still single…as her engaged best friend Darcy (Kate Hudson) is constantly reminding her. But after one drink too many at her 30th birthday party, perpetual good girl Rachel unexpectedly ends up in bed with the guy she’s had a crush on since law school, Dex (Colin Egglesfield), who just happens to be Darcy’s fiancé. When Rachel and Darcy’s lifelong friendship collides with true love, it leads to unexpected complications and potentially explosive romantic revelations. Meanwhile, Ethan (John Krasinski), who has been Rachel’s constant confidante and sometimes conscience, has been harboring a secret of his own, and Marcus (Steve Howey), an irrepressible womanizer, can’t keep his mind out of the gutter or his hands off any girl within reach.

With Mel Gibson • Jennifer Lawrence • Jodie Foster • Steve Golin • Kyle Killen • Anton Yelchin • Keith Redmon • Michelle Ang

A man walks around with a beaver puppet on his hand, treating it as something close to a human creature with human feelings.

With Charlie Cox • Olga Kurylenko • Wes Bentley • Guy J. Louthan • Dougray Scott • Derek Jacobi • Roland Joffe • Ignacio Gomez Sancha • Ignacio Nunez

Tells the story of a Spanish journalist trying to mend his relationship with his dying father, a former fighter in the Spanish Civil War. He discovers his father was a close friend of Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, the founder of the Catholic prelature Opus Dei.

With Vikram Bhatt

Rehan visits Glen Manor to complete its sale, which his father had initiated, but he realizes that certain mysterious occurrences in the manor may jeopardise the sale.

With Keira Knightley • Sam Worthington • Scott Adsit • Guillaume Canet • Griffin Dunne • Nick Wechsler • Eva Mendes • Massy Tadjedin

A married couple is apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.

With Jason Eisener • Rutger Hauer • Gregory Smith

Based on one of the fake trailers Jason Eisener created for "Grindhouse," pic follows a homeless vigilante on a mission to clean up the city.

With Brian Downey • Chaz Thorne • Gregory Smith • Michael Amo • Fiona Highet

When a young man attempts to woo an older woman, he winds up befriending her adopted son.

With Kôji Wakamatsu

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a village woman is given the grueling task of looking after her quadruple-amputee husband, a decorated solider tortured by memories of his war crimes.

With Josh Lucas • Andie MacDowell • Scott Speedman • Kat Dennings • Reece Thompson • Michael Goldbach

A teenage girl moves to a small town, to find nothing in common with the stoner-hicks who populate her highschool. So she begins an affair with her teacher. But with a serial killer on the loose and townsfolk disappearing around them, their relationship takes a turn for the worse. She breaks off the relationship and the rejection makes her teacher crazy.

With Mickey Rourke • Megan Fox • Jonah Hirsch • Bill Murray • Daniel Dubiecki • Mitch Glazer • Kelly Lynch • Rebecca Wang

An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.

With Lee Fulkerson

Examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.

With Jessica Alba • J.K. Simmons • Chris Messina • Mike Ellis • Marilyn Agrelo • Pam Falk

"An Invisible Sign of My Own" is a coming-of-age drama based on Aimee Bender's quirky novel about a 20-year-old loner named Mona Gray (Alba) who as a child turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Gray now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises.

With John Martoccia

Vito Bonafacci is a successful businessman who enjoys his lifestyle and the riches he has accumulated, but all that changes when one night he dreams he is having a heart attack. In that dream his mother appears from her grave and pleads with him to abandon his pursuit of greed and materialism. When Vito wakes, he is deeply affected by this vision and this leads him on a soul-searching journey to understand his life’s purpose. In a series of encounters with family and friends, he questions and explores the meaning of faith and the role religion plays in tempering one’s soul.

With Daniel Vega Vidal • Diego Vega Vidal

Clemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles. They're brought together over a new-born baby, fruit of Clemente's relationship with a prostitute who's nowhere to be found.

With Aleksei Uchitel • Konstantin Ernst • Alexander Gonorovsky

The Russian submission for the 83rd Oscars is set in a Siberian gulag at the end of World War II.

With Kyle Gallner • Jim Belushi • Kathryn Morris • Jack Schuster • Denise Richards • Sarah Hyland • Ryan Pinkston • K. Asher Levin • Henry Boger • Graham Larson

When Sam (Kyle Gallner) learns his mother cannot afford to send him to another school after he is kicked out, he and his friends start their own escort service for mature women to pay for his tuition.

With Jon Hamm • Judd Apatow • Rose Byrne • Maya Rudolph • Paul Feig • Melissa McCarthy • Kristen Wiig • Annie Mumolo • Matt Lucas • Kali Hawk • Chris O'Dowd • Ellie Kemper • Dianne Wiest • Barry Mendel • Jill Clayburgh • Wendi McLendon-Covey

When Annie (Kristen Wiig), a simple Midwestern girl is asked to be her best friend Lillian's (Maya Rudolph) maid of honor, she struggles to please the snobby, rich bridesmaids at every pre-wedding event.

With Karl Urban • Lily Collins • Cam Gigandet • Stephen Moyer • Sam Raimi • Maggie Q • Michael De Luca • Paul Bettany • Scott Stewart • Glenn S. Gainor • Mitchell Peck • Josh Donenwill • Cory Goodman

"Priest", a post-apocalyptic sci fi thriller, is set in an alternate world -- one ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires. The story revolves around a legendary Warrior Priest (Paul Bettany) from the last Vampire War who now lives in obscurity among the other downtrodden human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities ruled by the Church. When his niece (Lily Collins) is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires, Priest breaks his sacred vows to venture out on an obsessive quest to find her before they turn her into one of them. He is joined on his crusade by his niece’s boyfriend (Cam Gigandet), a trigger-fingered young wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess (Maggie Q) who possesses otherworldly fighting skills.

With Rainn Wilson • Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Natalie Portman • Devin Brochu • Piper Laurie • Spencer Susser

"Hesher" is the story of a twenty-something long-haired tattooed metal-head who one day unexpectedly enters the life of a grieving family. Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is the most unlikely person to help 13-year-old TJ (Devin Brochu) cope with the death of his mother, but he proves to be the only one who can truly free TJ from his overwhelming sadness. The charismatic and dangerous Hesher drags TJ out of loss and confusion by sheer force of will and gives the young boy and his grieving father (Rainn Wilson) a chance to be a family again.

With Bradley Cooper • Jon Favreau • Dax Shepard • Josh Temple • David Koechner • Tom Arnold • Ashton Kutcher • Michael Rosenbaum • David Palmer • Nate Tuck

Dax Shepard tries to radically change the direction of his career. Known as a comedian, Dax is met with strong opposition while trying to secure financing for his martial arts film.

With Will Ferrell • Stephen Root • Wyck Godfrey • Rebecca Hall • Laura Dern • Michael Peña • Gabourey Sidibe • Marty Bowen • Dan Rush • Christopher Wallace

A guy loses his job and gets locked out of the house by his wife. She deposits his belongings on the front lawn, and he spends the next four days trying to sell his possessions.

With Michelle Yeoh • Woo-ping Yuen • Man Cheuk Chiu

Su Can’s (Vincent Zhao) respectable life is obliterated when his vengeful brother, Yuan (Andy On), returns from war armed with the deadly Five Venom Fists. Weakened but not destroyed, Su Can learns a never-before-seen form of martial arts: the Drunken Fist. Armed with this new power, he returns home to honor his family through retribution by taking on his brother in a battle to become the ultimate warrior.

With Gina Rodriguez • Carmen Marron • Aimee Garcia • Al Bandiero • Jossara Jinaro

Carmen, a young woman living in Chicago, struggles to overcome her fears and follow her dream to be a dancer.

With Patrick Breen • Charlie Hewson • Richard Bekins • Philip Gelatt • Alexandra Chando • Nina Lisandrello • Betsy Aidem

Meet the Smiths - parents, Marilyn and Matt, and teens, Gloria, 16, and Quentin, 18 - a family full of secrets who keep themselves to themselves living on a back road outside a small Midwestern town. In this tightly wound and visceral horror/thriller, their lives are turned upside down when a sweet-talking Texan arrives on their doorstep on a mission for retribution. Will he succeed in his goal to bleed them of their sins or will the family's haunted past prove to be even more deadly than he bargained for?

With Lee Fulkerson

Examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.

With Ann Peacock • Justin Chadwick

Based on a true story, an 84-year-old Kenyan fights to go to school after the country introduces universal education.

With Antonio Banderas • Snoop Dogg • Rebecca Mader • Bill Duke • Sam Elliott • Erik Jendresen • Delroy Lindo • Tony Krantz • Thomas Kretschmann • Sienna Guillory • William Fichtner • Autumn Reeser • Richard Rionda

Antonio Banderas as a private detective searching for a former stripper who is supposed to exist but no one has ever seen in a mystery connected to a particle collider. She plays a meth addict who works at a medical center pretending to have different diseases for interns to react to.

With Mary Murphy

Mary Murphy, who wrote the book, "Scout, Atticus and Boo: A Celebration of 50 Years of To Kill A Mockingbird"—reflects upon the impact of Harper Lee’s classic masterpiece with such personalities as Tom Brokaw, Mary Badham, Oprah Winfrey and James Patterson.

With Zach Braff • Deborah Chow • Isabelle Blais • Patrick Labbe

The story on the burgeoning relationship between an unlikely pair. Nathalie (Isabelle Blais) is expecting her first child and Henry (Zach Braff) is on his way to his next drug deal. Their paths fatefully collide one night in an event that will irrevocably change their lives.

With Ashley Greene • Haley Ramm • Shiloh Fernandez • James LeGros • Anthony Burns • Taylor Handley • Heath Freeman • Justin Gilley • Victor Moyers • Nicholas Jayanty

Shiloh Fernandez will play Ritchie Wheeler, a teen forced out of a job when his small-town roller rink shuts down. He faces tough decisions about his future, his parents' divorce and complicated relationships with friends Brent (Heath Freeman) and Kenny (Taylor Handley), his sister Mary (Haley Ramm) and Brent's sister Michelle (Ashely Greene). James LeGros plays Brent and Michelle's father.

With Pierre Thoretton

The public life of Yves Saint Laurent was an extravagant spectacle, as a design prodigy and then the grand coutourier of a fashion empire, he influenced fifty years of style and was an icon to millions -- but few are familiar with the private life of the legend. In Pierre Thoretton's L'Amour Fou, Pierre Berge, the man with which YSL shared four decades of his life, reflects on the equally extravagant history of their personal relationship.

With J. Clay Tweel • Cleven S. Loham

In Make Believe, director J. Clay Tweel follows six adolescent outsiders who all share an extraordinary passion: the art of magic. Armed with great skill and a dazzling array of illusions, these teenagers embark from the varied hometowns of Malibu, California; Chicago, Illinois; Capetown, South Africa; Littleton, Colorado; and Kitayama, Japan to attend the annual World Magic Seminar in Las Vegas, where they each hope to be named Teen World Champion by master magician Lance Burton. The film's six subjects are remarkably assured and dedicated entertainers. Offstage, however, they face the diverse obstacles of adolescence: loneliness, high parental expectations, the pressures of impending stardom, abject poverty, and the deep desire to fit in. With great humor, honesty, and heart, Make Believe reveals an enduring world that audiences know little about while it also explores a time of life no one ever forgets.

With Craig McCall

Jack Cardiff's career spanned an incredible nine of moving picture's first ten decades and his work behind the camera altered the look of films forever through his use of Technicolor photography. Craig McCall's film about the legendary cinematographer reveals a unique figure in British and international cinema.

With Lynda Topp • Leanne Pooley • Jools Topp

A documentary about the world’s only comedic, singing, yodelling lesbian twin sisters, Lynda and Jools Topp, whose political activism and unique brand of entertainment has helped change New Zealand’s social landscape.

With Mark Wexler

The director takes a world trip to discover the secrets to extending life.

With Clio Barnard • Kate Rutter • Christine Bottomley

The true story of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar (The Arbor, Rita, Sue and Bob Too) and her daughter Lorraine.

With Greg Jacobs • Jon Siskel

Four Chicago high school poetry teams prepping to compete in the world's largest youth poetry slam.

With Johnny Depp • Jerry Bruckheimer • Stephen Graham • Rob Marshall • Penelope Cruz • Ian McShane • Yuki Matsuzaki • Astrid Bergès-Frisbey • Keith Richards • Gemma Ward • Damian O'Hare • Geoffrey Rush • Kevin McNally • Greg Ellis • Terry Rossio • Ted Elliott

When Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) crosses paths with a woman from his past (Penelope Cruz) he's not sure if it's love—or if she's a ruthless con artist who’s using him to find the Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane), Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn’t know who to fear more: Blackbeard or the woman from his past.

With Mel Gibson • Jennifer Lawrence • Jodie Foster • Steve Golin • Kyle Killen • Anton Yelchin • Keith Redmon • Michelle Ang

A man walks around with a beaver puppet on his hand, treating it as something close to a human creature with human feelings.

With Lee Fulkerson

Examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.

With Rachel McAdams • Tom Hiddleston • Michael Sheen • Owen Wilson • Elsa Pataky • Mimi Kennedy • Marion Cotillard • Adrien Brody • Woody Allen • Carla Bruni • Léa Seydoux • Kurt Fuller • Corey Stoll • Alison Pill • Kathy Bates • Letty Aronson • Gad Elmaleh • Manu Payet • Steve Tenenbaum • Jaume Roures

The story centers on a family traveling to Paris for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

With Maddie Morris Jones • Judy Jerome • Will Blagrove • Gregg Almquist • Sean Kirkpatrick • Chris Kerson • Mark Borkowski

A gritty tale of two wounded veterans who return home to the ghetto they joined the military to escape. As they struggle for redemption, their own families become entangled in a web of crime, corruption and violence.

With Kevin Hart • Mike Epps • Nicole Ari Parker • Wendy Raquel Robinson • Meagan Good • Clifton Powell • Russ Parr • Tamala Jones

A romantic comedy which looks at a group of thirty-somethings trying to figure out life, love and marriage.

With Val Kilmer • Hilary Duff • Hilarie Burton • Dwight Yoakam • Reece Thompson • Kris Kristofferson • W. Earl Brown • Shane Dax Taylor • Frances Conroy

It's been 40 years since E.F. Bloodworth (Kris Kristofferson) abandoned his loving wife and sons for a life on the road. Now at the end of the line, Bloodworth reappears, forced to reckon with the stale aftermath of his departure. With his ex-wife Julia (Frances Conroy) mentally destroyed, his three sons; Warren (Val Kilmer), Boyd (Dwight Yoakam) and Brady (W. Earl Brown) soured by years of anger, Bloodworth's only solace is a budding relationship with Fleming, the grandson he never knew. But when Fleming meets Raven (Hilary Duff), the woman of his dreams, will Bloodworth's presence force history to repeat itself?

With Lynda Topp • Leanne Pooley • Jools Topp

A documentary about the world’s only comedic, singing, yodelling lesbian twin sisters, Lynda and Jools Topp, whose political activism and unique brand of entertainment has helped change New Zealand’s social landscape.

With Mark Wexler

The director takes a world trip to discover the secrets to extending life.

With Radu Muntean

In the days leading up to Christmas, a married man forces himself to choose between his wife and his mistress.

With Bradley Cooper • Zach Galifianakis • Nick Cassavetes • Ken Jeong • Paul Giamatti • Thomas Tull • Todd Phillips • Jon Jashni • Ed Helms • Mike Tyson • Jamie Chung • David Siegel • Scott Budnick • Sasha Barrese • Justin Bartha • Bryan Callen • J.C. Spink • Chris Bender • Craig Mazin • Scot Armstrong • Dan Goldberg • William Fay • Bill Clinton

Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and Doug (Justin Bartha) travel to exotic Thailand for Stu’s wedding. After the unforgettable bachelor party in Las Vegas, Stu is taking no chances and has opted for a safe, subdued pre-wedding brunch. However, things don’t always go as planned. A source familiar with the production said the character of the tattoo artist (played by Liam Neeson) is "pivotal" to the plot, in which one of the stars gets a tattoo during a night of debauchery.

With Angelina Jolie • Jackie Chan • Seth Rogen • Jack Black • Lucy Liu • Guillermo del Toro • Dustin Hoffman • Michelle Yeoh • Gary Oldman • James Woods • Jennifer Yuh Nelson • Victor Garber • Charlie Kaufman • James Hong • David Cross • Melissa Cobb • Jean Claude Van Damme

The film continues the adventures of Po the Panda (Jack Black) and and his friends known as the Furious Five - Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey. This time the story follows Po who, whilst in search of other pandas, happens across a group of bandits. Gary Oldman will voice a character called Peacock who helps Po on his way but is more than he seems.

With Kôji Wakamatsu

The docudrama explores the political unrest of 1960s Japan, when mass student uprisings coincided with the beginnings of the far-left United Red Army group, which tortured and murdered its “deviant” members during a 1972 training session.

With Maria Onetto • Arturo Goetz • Natalia Smirnoff

Maria del Carmen (Maria Onetto) is a forty-something housewife from the suburbs of Buenos Aires, whom everyone, including her indifferent husband and teenage sons, takes for granted. When she discovers her extraordinary gift at assembling puzzles, Maria starts to secretly train with a magnetic millionaire bachelor (Arturo Goetz) for Argentina’s national championship, which, if she wins, would take her to Germany and the World Puzzle Championship. At the risk of alienating her family, Maria nevertheless pursues her new passion, as she gradually comes into her own and asserts her newfound independence.

With Ed Gass-Donnelly

An aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life.

With Brad Pitt • Sean Penn • Jessica Chastain • Tye Sheridan • Terrence Malick

The story of a Midwestern family in the 1950's. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

With Jan Berger • Karoline Herfurth • Dennis Gansel • Max Riemelt • Nina Hoss • Jennifer Ulrich • Anna Fischer

An tale of a provocative gang of female vampires living large, making their own rules and leaving a merciless trail of blood. The film centers on a 20-year-old Berlin native Lena (Karoline Herfurth) who gets by as a petty thief. On one of her nightly job runs through an underground club, she meets 250-year-old Louise (Nina Hoss). Louise is a glamorous vixen, who is not only the owner of the club, but also the leader of an unusual all-female vampire trio - the other two members being wild child Nora (Anna Fischer) and elegant Charlotte (Jennifer Ulrich). Louise falls head over heels in love with the scruffy Lena and bites her during their first night together. Once bitten, Lena discovers the curse and the blessing of her new, eternal life. She revels in the glamour, parties and infinite freedom. But she quickly discovers that the endless blood thirst and murderous appetite of her new girlfriends come at a steep price. When Berlin police commissioner Tom Serner (Max Riemelt) begins investigating the women, it is just a matter of time before their day comes and events spiral out of control.