November 2013 Movies

Narco Cultura

Follows Mexican drug cartels' influence on life and popular culture on both sides of the border.

Shaul Schwarz

Ender's Game

Set in a world in which humans face a serious threat from an alien race known as the Formics and begin training elite military units in response. Andrew Wiggin, also known as Ender, a child becomes a top-flight solider and helps to save Earth by fighting simulations that turn out to be real.

Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Roberto Orci, Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Gigi Pritzker, Michael Dougherty, Ben Kingsley

Free Birds

Story centers on two turkeys, Reggie and Brock, who discover a time machine and travel back to the first Thanksgiving to take themselves off the menu.

Woody Harrelson, Craig Mazin, Peter Farrelly, Dan Fogler, George Takei, Cary Granat, Owen Wilson, Amy Poehler

Last Vegas

The comedy centers on four semi-retired baby boomers who head to Las Vegas when the last of the Coney Island buddies, a successful lawyer in his 60s, decides to tie the knot.

Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro, Jon Turteltaub, Michael Douglas, Mary Steenburgen, Lawrence Grey, Laurence Mark, Amy Baer

Mr. Nobody

"Mr. Nobody" is described as a multi-layered love story inspired by the 'butterfly effect,' the chaos-theory notion that the beat of a butterfly's wings can cause a storm thousands of miles away. Set in the not-so-distant future, the story follows Nemo Nobody (Leto) who, at 120 years old, is the last mortal surrounded by happy immortals as he relives his real and imaginary years of marriage.

Jared Leto, Juno Temple, Jaco Van Dormael, Rhys Ifans, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger

The Dallas Buyers Club

In 1986, Ron Woodroof, a tough Texas electrician, is diagnosed with AIDS and is given six months to live. Frustrated with the lack of available medical options and unwilling to accept a death sentence, Woodroof finds a lifeline using alternative drugs and creates a lucrative smuggling business that makes the drugs available to AIDS patients. Woodroof dies in 1992.

Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Melissa Wallach, Jennifer Garner, Denis O'Hare, David Bushell, Chase Palmer, Jean-Marc Vallee

About Time

A young man comes from a family of time-travelers. When he learns of his unique gift from his father, he uses his newfound abilities to change situations for the better.

Margot Robbie, Vanessa Kirby, Domhnall Gleeson, Liza Chasin, Eric Fellner, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Richard Curtis

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, Slavoj Zizek literally goes inside some truly epochal movies, all the better to explore and expose how they reinforce prevailing ideologies. As the ideology that undergirds our cinematic fantasies is revealed, striking associations emerge: What hidden Catholic teachings lurk at the heart of The Sound of Music? What are the fascist political dimensions of Jaws? Taxi Driver, Zabriskie Point, The Searchers, The Dark Knight, John Carpenter’s They Live, and propaganda epics from Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.

Slavoj Zizek, Sophie Fiennes

Diana

Follows Princess Diana's secret affair with heart surgeon, Dr. Hasnat Kahn, "who was said to be the love of her life."

Naomi Watts, Douglas Hodge, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Stephen Jeffreys, Naveen Andrews, Juliet Stevenson

The Broken Circle Breakdown

Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage — but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested.

Felix Van Groeningen

Angels Sing

A father's holiday spirit was crushed by an accident when he was a child. When his son faces a tragedy, a mysterious man instills in him the courage to find the joy he lost.

Tim McCanlies, Elizabeth Avellan, Lou Berney, Connie Britton, Harry Connick Jr., Kris Kristofferson, Chandler Canterbury, Willie Nelson

Big Sur

Tells the story of Jack Kerouac following his sudden literary success ("On the Road" was released in 1957) and his troubles with substance abuse.

Michael Polish, Patrick Fischler, Josh Lucas, Radha Mitchell, Stana Katic, Henry Thomas, Ross Jacobson, Mark Roberts

Assumed Killer

Explores the fatal assumptions that can be made in the absence of proof.

Eric Roberts, Armand Assante, Bernard Salzman, Casper Van Dien, Eric Castro, Barbie Castro, William R. Moses

Man of Tai Chi

In Beijing, a young martial artist's skill places him in position to experience opportunities and sacrifices.

Keanu Reeves, Iko Uwais, Tiger Hu Chen

A Perfect Man

On the cusp of their ninth anniversary, James and Nina seem to have the perfect marriage and ideal lives - an affluent life in Amsterdam, lucrative jobs and adoring friends. Yet when Nina discovers James’s infidelity with a mutual friend of theirs after a long line of extramarital affairs, it’s the final straw, shattering whatever illusions they’ve created about their relationship and leaving them separated. Heartbroken about their separation, a stroke of luck leads Nina to impersonate James’s chatty travel agent on the phone, and he’s soon pouring his heart out and unwittingly falling for his wife all over again as they discuss the uncertainty of love and the eternal misunderstanding between men and women.

Liev Schreiber, Joelle Carter, Kees Van Oostrum, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Renee Soutendijk

We Are the Nobles

Centers on three spoiled children who are cut off from their family fortune and forced to do the unthinkable – get a job.

Gary Alazraki

Sal

In the 1950's, actor Sal Mineo rises to fame in such films as Rebel Without a Cause and Exodus, has conflicts with his sexuality, friendships with James Dean and Natalie Wood, and is eventually murdered at the age of 37 by a pizza delivery man.

James Franco, Val Lauren, Jim Parrack

A Case Of You

A young writer pursues his ideal girl with the help of her online profile. After he starts a relationship, he has to figure out how to keep up the facade he's created that allows him to appear her perfect match.

Sienna Miller, Justin Long, Kat Coiro, Palak Patel, Peter Dinklage, Busy Phillips, Christian Long, Joe Roth

Thor: The Dark World

Sequel to the 2011 movie that was based on the Marvel comic character.

Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman, Chris Hemsworth, Kevin Feige, Idris Elba, Zachary Levi, Stellan Skarsgard, Alan Taylor

About Time

A young man comes from a family of time-travelers. When he learns of his unique gift from his father, he uses his newfound abilities to change situations for the better.

Margot Robbie, Vanessa Kirby, Domhnall Gleeson, Liza Chasin, Eric Fellner, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Richard Curtis

The Book Thief

Set during WWII, centers on nine year old Liesel who is taken to live with a foster family in a German working-class neighborhood.

Emily Watson, Sophie Nelisse, Ben Schnetzer, Nico Liersch, Sandra Nedeleff, Rafael Gareisen, Brian Percival, Karen Rosenfelt

Ass Backwards

Two best friends embark on a cross country road trip back to their hometown to attempt to win a pageant that eluded them as children.

Molly Conners, Jon Cryer, Casey Wilson, Alicia Silverstone, Vincent D'Onofrio, Paul Cho, Michael Romero, Chris Nelson

The Starving Games

A spoof of The Hunger Games with jokes about The Avengers, Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter.

Peter Safran, Maiara Walsh, Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer, Brant Daugherty, Cody Christian, Alexandria Deberry, Lauren Bowles

Best Man Down

When their obnoxious and over-served best man, Lumpy (Labine) unexpectedly dies at their destination wedding in Phoenix, bride and groom Kristin (Weixler) and Scott (Long) are forced to cancel their honeymoon and fly home to the snowy Midwest to arrange for his funeral. But when they arrive they realize that there was a lot more to their friend than met the eye.

Justin Long, Jess Weixler, Frances O'Connor, Evan Jones, Ted Koland, Tyler Labine, Addison Timlin, Shelley Long

The Motel Life

After Jerry Lee Flannigan drunkenly kills a boy in a hit-and-run accident, he and his brother Frank ditch their Reno motel. The grief-stricken, working class, self-described “losers” do their best to keep each other’s spirits up, but all signs point toward more tragedy.

Dakota Fanning, Noah Harpster, Gabe Polsky, Alan Polsky, Gabriel Polsky, Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Emile Hirsch, Joshua Leonard

Great Expectations

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Ralph Fiennes, David Nicholls, Helena Bonham Carter, Mike Newell, Jeremy Irvine, Jason Flemyng, Robbie Coltrane, Sally Hawkins

Paris Countdown

Follows two best friends and co-owners of a Paris nightclub who, in order to pay their debts, are lured into a drug deal that goes bad.

Edgar Marie, Olivier Marchal, Jacques Gamblin

How I Live Now

Daisy (Saoirse Ronan), a teenager from New York, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with cousins. She soon immerses herself in a dreamy pastoral idyll as she falls madly in love with Eddie (George McKay), until their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a 21st century world war. Along with Eddie’s younger siblings, Isaac (Tom Holland) and Piper (Harley Bird), they are left in isolation and forced to fend for themselves. When they are violently separated Daisy must embark on a terrifying journey in order to be reunited with the boy she loves. Eddie is never far from Daisy’s mind but as her journey to find him becomes more desperate, the idea of what she may or may not find consumes her consciousness and haunts her soul.

George MacKay, Tom Holland, Saoirse Ronan, Kevin Macdonald, Harley Bird

The Armstrong Lie

In 2009 Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong's confession. The Armstrong Lie picks up in 2013 and presents a riveting, insider's view of the unraveling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports. As Lance Armstrong himself says: "I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one."

Frank Marshall, Alex Gibney

The Best Man Holiday

Sequel to the 1999 film, Best Man, which starred Taye Diggs, Morris Chestnut, Terrence Howard, Harold Perrineau, Nia Long and Sanaa Lathan. The original followed a group of old friends that reunite for a wedding.

Nia Long, Terrence Howard, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau, Sanaa Lathan, Malcolm D. Lee, Taye Diggs, Monica Calhoun

Sunlight Jr.

Set in the underbelly of usually sunny Florida, Melissa Winters (two-time Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts) works as a cashier at the local convenience store, SUNLIGHT JR. She lives in a seedy motel with her boyfriend Richie (Academy Award nominee Matt Dillon), a former TV repairman who lives month-to-month on his government disability check, spending most of it at a neighborhood tavern. When an unexpected pregnancy takes their lives in a new direction, they are forced to examine the realities of both of their lives, and to face tough choices about what lies on the horizon.

Naomi Watts, Laurie Collyer, Matt Dillon, Norman Reedus, Tess Harper, Antoni Corone

Charlie Countryman

A young man travels to Budapest after his mother dies of cancer, and he becomes entwined with a mysterious Hungarian girl with romantic and violent repercussions.

Shia LaBeouf, Fredrik Bond, Mads Mikkelsen, Patrick Newall, William Horberg, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, Matt Drake

Nebraska

An aging alcoholic drafts his son to drive him from Montana to Nebraska so the old man can redeem his winning sweepstakes ticket. The son goes reluctantly, suspecting his dad's winning ticket is the same personalized form letter sent to millions.

Bruce Dern, June Squibb, Alexander Payne, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, Bob Nelson, Phil Johnston, Will Forte

Cold Turkey

Set in present-day Pasadena, the film centers on the eccentric Turner clan, an upper-class family torn apart by secrets revealed over a Thanksgiving weekend. Patriarch Poppy (Bogdanovich) has invited his black sheep daughter Nina (Witt) home for the holiday – her first visit in 15 years. Nina immediately clashes with stepmother Deborah (Hines), and competes with her siblings (Holmes and Walger) for Poppy’s affection – and money. Over three days, the family gradually disintegrates over who will get Poppy’s money – only to discover he’s broke.

Cheryl Hines, Peter Bogdanovich, Ashton Holmes, Will Slocombe, Graham Ballou, David Mandel, Alicia Witt, Sonya Walger

Geography Club

Follows contemporary teens as they navigate the clique-mined landscape of Goodkind High School.

Nikki Blonsky, Gary Entin, Anthony Bretti, Andrew Caldwell, Edmund Entin, Cameron Deane Stewart, Justin Deeley, Allie Gonino

Dear Mr. Watterson

Calvin & Hobbes dominated the Sunday comics in thousands of newspapers for over 10 years, having a profound effect on millions of readers across the globe. When the strip’s creator, Bill Watterson, retired the strip on New Year’s Eve in 1995, devoted readers everywhere felt the void left by the departure of Calvin, Hobbes, and Watterson’s other cast of characters, and many fans would never find a satisfactory replacement.

It has now been more than a decade since the end of the Calvin & Hobbes era. Bill Watterson has kept an extremely low profile during this time, living a very private life outside of Cleveland, Ohio. Despite his quiet lifestyle, Mr. Watterson is remembered and appreciated daily by fans who still enjoy his amazing collection of work.

Mr. Watterson has inspired and influenced millions of people through Calvin & Hobbes. Newspaper readership and book sales can be tracked and recorded, but the human impact he has had and the value of his art are perhaps impossible to measure.

This film is not a quest to find Bill Watterson, or to invade his privacy. It is an exploration to discover why his 'simple' comic strip made such an impact on so many readers in the 80s and 90s, and why it still means so much to us today.

12-12-12

The benefit concert documentary is a behind the scenes look at the show, which took place at New York’s Madison Square Garden on December 12, 2012. Spearheaded by TWC Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein, Madison Square Garden Executive Chairman Jim Dolan, and Clear Channel Entertainment President John Sykes, the concert featured performances by some of the music industry’s most iconic acts: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Roger Waters, Eddie Vedder, Chris Martin, Michael Stipe, Adam Sandler, Eric Clapton, Jon Bon Jovi, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Kanye West and included involvement from entertainment and media such as Billy Crystal, Susan Sarandon, Paul Shaffer, Brian Williams, Kristen Stewart, Jon Stewart, Chelsea Clinton, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Sean Combs, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, Chris Rock, Seth Meyers, Jake Gyllenhaal, Blake Lively, Katie Holmes, Jason Sudekis, Jamie Foxx, Quentin Tarantino, and Christoph Waltz.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The second book in the trilogy, although Lionsgate has the rights for four Hunger Games movies. The plot details involve spoilers to the first movie.

Josh Hutcherson, Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, Nina Jacobson, Toby Jones, Francis Lawrence, Elizabeth Banks

The Delivery Man

A middle-aged man's life is turned upside down when he learns he has fathered 533 children through sperm donation. When a few hundred of the children express an irrepressible need to meet their father, he must decide whether or not he will step up and reveal his identity.

Chris Pratt, Vince Vaughn, Jack Reynor, Cobie Smulders, Bobby Moynihan, Britt Robertson, Andre Rouleau, Scott Mednick

The Christmas Candle

Nothing out of the ordinary ever happens in the small village of Gladbury -- except at Christmas. Legend has it that every twenty-five years an angel visits the village candlemaker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights the Christmas Candle receives a miracle on Christmas Eve But in 1890, at the dawn of the modern age, all that is about to change. With the arrival of David Richmond, a skeptical, young minister, Gladbury's humble candlemaker, Edward Haddington must fight to preserve his family's legacy. When the Christmas Candle goes missing, the miraculous and the human collide in the most astonishing Christmas the town of Gladbury has ever seen.

Barbara Flynn, Lesley Manville, John Stephenson, Eric Newman II, Candace Lee, Susan Boyle, Hans Matheson, Samantha Barks

Philomena

A woman searches for her adult son, who taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Stephen Frears, Tracey Seaward, Gaby Tana, Jeff Pope, Michelle Fairley, Mare Winningham

Contracted

A young woman who fears she’s picked up a nasty STD only to discover it’s something far worse.

J.D. Lifshitz, Eric England, Najarra Townsend, Matt Mercer, Alice Macdonald, Katie Stegeman, Charley Koontz, Caroline Williams

Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?

An animated documentary on the life of controversial MIT professor, philosopher, linguist, anti-war activist and political firebrand Noam Chomsky.

Michel Gondry

Frozen

A take on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen.

Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho, Jonathan Groff, Santino Fontana, John Lasseter

Homefront

Follows a an ex-DEA agent (Jason Statham) who moves to a small town in the hope of a quiet life but runs afoul of a villainous meth kingpin named Gator (James Franco).

Jason Statham, Frank Grillo, James Franco, Sylvester Stallone, Winona Ryder, Izabela Vidovic, Rachelle Lefevre, Gary Fleder

OldBoy

A man gets kidnapped and held in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. Suddenly, he's released and given money, a cell phone and clothes and is set on a path to discover who destroyed his life so he can take revenge.

Elizabeth Olsen, Roy Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Doug Davison, Mark Protosevich, Josh Brolin, Sharlto Copley, James Ransone

Black Nativity

The popular Langston Hughes' gospel retelling of the birth of Jesus.

Celine Rattray, Galt Niederhoffer, Kasi Lemmons, Angela Bassett, Mary J. Blige, Jacob Latimore, Luke James, Grace Gibson

Get a Horse!

Featuring Walt Disney himself as the voice of Mickey Mouse, this black-and-white, hand-drawn theatrical short follows Mickey, his favorite gal pal Minnie Mouse and their friends Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow as they delight in a musical haywagon ride—until Peg-Leg Pete shows up and tries to run them off the road.

Lauren MacMullan, Dorothy McKim

Philomena

A woman searches for her adult son, who taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Stephen Frears, Tracey Seaward, Gaby Tana, Jeff Pope, Michelle Fairley, Mare Winningham

Journey to the South Pacific

An IMAX® 3D adventure to the lush tropical islands of remote West Papua, where life flourishes above and below the sea. Join Jawi, a young island boy, as he takes us on a journey of discovery to this magical place where we encounter whale sharks, sea turtles, manta rays, and other iconic creatures of the sea. Home to more than 2,000 species of sea life, this exotic locale features the most diverse marine ecosystem on earth.

Cate Blanchett, Stephen Judson, Greg MacGillivray

The Punk Singer

Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons, a cultural lightning rod. Her critics wished she would just shut-up, and her fans hoped she never would. So in 2005, when Hanna stopped shouting, many wondered why. Through 20 years of archival footage and intimate interviews with Hanna, The Punk Singer takes viewers on a fascinating tour of contemporary music and offers a never-before-seen view into the life of this fearless leader.

Sini Anderson

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Biographical film about the life of Nelson Mandela.

Idris Elba, David Thompson, Anant Singh, Zolani Mkiva, Justin Chadwick, Naomie Harris, Riaad Moosa, Jamie Bartlett

Bettie Page Reveals All

Mark Mori’s Bettie Page Reveals All is an intimate look at one of the world’s most recognized sex symbols, featuring Bettie Page herself telling her story for the first time in her own words. In Mori’s documentary, the real Bettie Page emerges from the veil of myth and rumor via interviews Mori taped a decade prior to her death in 2008.

Mark Mori