October 2011 Movies

Giorgio Moroder Presents Met...

Giorgio Moroder's 1984 version of Metropolis, which added a new score from '80s pop acts including Pat Benatar, Freddie Mercury and Bonnie Tyler.

Hell and Back Again

From his embed with US Marines Echo Company in Afghanistan, photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis reveals the devastating impact a Taliban machine-gun bullet has on the life of 25-year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris. The film seamlessly transitions from st

Danfung Dennis

Real Steel

In the future, 2,000-pound robots resembling humans battle in a boxing ring. A promoter takes his fighter to the championships.

Anthony Mackie, Steven Spielberg, Hugh Jackman, Shawn Levy, Don Murphy, Dan Gilroy, Susan Montford, Evangeline Lilly

The Ides of March

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.

Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Beau Willimon, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei, Grant Heslov

The Way

Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking The Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of St. James. Driven by his profound sadness and desire to understand his son better, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage, leaving his "California bubble life" behind.

Martin Sheen, James Nesbitt, Emilio Estevez, Deborah Kara Unger

1911

An epic war film that details the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the violent rebellion that brought it down. With China split into warring factions and the starving citizens beginning to revolt, the ruling Qings are building a powerful army to quash any rebellion. But revolutionary leader Huang Xing (Chan) decides he must act before the Qing army becomes too powerful and leads an increasingly desperate series of violent uprisings against the power Qings.

Jackie Chan, Joan Chen

Blackthorn

An old American named cowboy in Bolivia who dreams of returning to the US. crosses paths with a young Spanish mining engineer accused of robbing a mine, and the two slowly strike up a friendship.

Mateo Gil, Eduardo Noriega, Sam Shepard, Stephen Rea

The Human Centipede Part 2 (...

A sequel to The Human Centipede in which a surgeon attempts to graph humans together.

Tom Six

Dirty Girl

A high school tramp runs away with the school's gay, fat kid in his homophobic dad's stolen car.

Lisa Kudrow, Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, Christine Vachon, Sally Hawkins, Dwight Yoakam, Tim McGraw, Pam Koffler

Flying Monsters 3D

A 3D IMAX movie about the prehistoric world inhabited by pterosaurs -- flying vertebrates with a wingspan of up to 45 feet that lived alongside dinosaurs.

Anthony Geffen, David Attenborough

The Women on the 6th Floor

Set in Paris in 1960, story centers on a conservative couple's world being turned upside down when Spanish maids begin working and comingling the family.

Fabrice Luchini, Carmen Maura, Philippe Rousselet, Natalia Verbeke

Footloose

A remake of the 1984 movie in which a rebellious teenager moves into a town where dancing has been banned.

Miles Teller, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid, Craig Brewer, Craig Zadan, Dylan Sellers, Neil Meron, Brad Weston

The Big Year

Three rival bird-watchers brave hazardous weather, competitor tactics and unhappy spouses to win the North American Big Year, an annual bird-watching competition.

Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Jim Parsons, Owen Wilson, Dustin Hoffman, Rashida Jones, David Frankel, Richard Loncraine

The Thing

A remake and "a companion piece" to the 1982 original "John Carpenter's The Thing". The 1982 original dealt with a shape-shifting creature from outer space that terrorizes researchers at an Antarctic facility.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Newman, Marc Abraham, Eric Heisserer, Joel Edgerton, David Foster, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Matthijs van Heijningen

Trespass

Four brutal perpetrators, looking for easy money, take a wife and husband hostage, but they run into complications with betrayal and deception.

Ben Mendelsohn, Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Avi Lerner, Joel Schumacher, Danny Dimbort, Karl Gajdusek, Cam Gigandet

Texas Killing Fields

Story centers on two cops who realize that the latest murder in their jurisdiction connects their case to the notorious killing fields murders. The killing field murders concern four bodies that were found in the same place in Texas.

Chloë Grace Moretz, Bradley Cooper, Sam Worthington, Annabeth Gish, Jason Clarke, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Stephen Graham, Jessica Chastain

Fireflies in the Garden

The complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart by an unexpected tragedy.

Willem Dafoe, Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Carrie-Anne Moss, Marco Weber, Emily Watson, Ioan Gruffudd, Sukee Chew

Oka!

25 years ago, ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno traveled from New Jersey to the forests of Central Africa to record the music of the Bayaka Pygmies. Falling in love with a Bayaka girl and her forest lifestyle, he decided to stay.

Lavinia Currier

Chalet Girl

A working-class girl lands a job in a posh ski resort and discovers her natural snowboarding genius while dating the boss’ son.

Bill Nighy, Pippa Cross, Harriet Rees, Felicity Jones, Christine Baranski, Phil Traill, Tom Williams, Ed Westwick

The Skin I Live In

A plastic surgeon hunts down the man who raped his daughter.

Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Pedro Almodovar, Fernando Cayo, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Alamo

Labios Rojos

A happily married couple face sudden problems in the bedroom.

Rafa Lara, Silvia Navarro, Jorge Salinas

Father of Invention

A humble inventor-turned-egomaniacal billionaire loses it all when one of his inventions goes horribly awry. After eight years in federal prison, he returns bankrupt, homeless and determined to rebuild his reputation and fortune.

Heather Graham, Kevin Spacey, Camilla Belle, Dana Brunetti, Johnny Knoxville, Craig Robinson, Trent Cooper, Nichole Beattie

The Woman

A successful country lawyer captures and attempts to civilize the last remaining member of a violent clan that has roamed the Northeast coast for decades, thereby putting the lives of his family in extreme jeopardy.

Lucky McKee, Jack Ketchum, Angela Bettis

Paul Goodman Changed My Life

Paul Goodman was once so ubiquitous in the American zeitgeist that he merited a cameo in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Author of legendary bestseller Growing Up Absurd, Goodman was also a poet, 1940s out queer and family man, pacifist, visionary, co-founder of Gestalt therapy—and a moral compass for many in the burgeoning counterculture of the '60s.

Jonathan Lee

The Catechism Cataclysm

Father Billy (Steve Little), an eccentric young priest, is forced to take a sabbatical by his superiors when he is discovered telling inappropriate parables to his flock. Billy tracks down his high-school idol Robbie (Robert Longstreet), who begrudgingly agrees to a canoe trip. When night approaches, they realize they have lost their way -- and that's when things get weird.

Todd Rohal

The Three Musketeers

A modernized reimagining of the classic novels written by Alexandre Dumas that follow the story of a young d’Artagnan, who longs to become a great musketeer — one of the personal guards of the French crown. He encounters and befriends the contentious Athos, Porthos, and Aramis — three musketeers of legend and folly.

Luke Evans, Juno Temple, Christoph Waltz, James Corden, Logan Lerman, Paul W.S. Anderson, Milla Jovovich, Gabriella Wilde

Johnny English Reborn

Universal Pictures is bringing back bumbling British spy Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) for a follow-up assignment.

Rosamund Pike, Daniel Kaluuya, Oliver Parker, Hamish McColl, Rowan Atkinson, Gillian Anderson, Dominic West, Chris Clark

The Mighty Macs

Set against the backdrop of the 1972 feminist movement, "Victory" tells the true story of sassy newlywed Cathy Rush (Gugino), who becomes the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college, a team with no gym and no uniforms. She eventually leads the team to the first national championship in women's basketball, while the school's nuns fight to keep the owners from selling the institution and its land to developers.

Ellen Burstyn, Carla Gugino, Marley Shelton, Tim Chambers, Phyllis Somerville, Whitney Springer, David Boreanaz, James Rebhorn

Paranormal Activity 3

With the sequel opening with over $40 million on a mere $3 million production budget, a third movie in the Paranormal Activity series would appear inevitable.

Steven Schneider, Jason Blum, Oren Peli, Ariel Schulman, Christopher B. Landon, Sprague Grayden, Brian Boland, Mark Fredrichs

Margin Call

In the early stages of the financial crisis, eight people at large investment banks attempt to position themselves in anticipation of the coming collapse.

Kevin Spacey, Stanley Tucci, Demi Moore, Penn Badgley, Zachary Quinto, Carla Gugino, Paul Bettany, Cassian Elwes

Snowmen

Convinced that he only has weeks to live, 10-year-old Billy Kirkfield enlists his misfit friends in a scheme to ensure that he will be remembered in the record books forever.

Bobby Coleman, Christopher Lloyd, Ray Liotta, Robert Kirbyson, Talon G. Ackerman, Beverley Mitchell

Balls to the Wall

Wanting to give his girlfriend the wedding of her dreams, Ben secretly takes on a second job moonlighting as an exotic dancer at a club called "The Male Room," only to discover that he has a talent he never expected.

Brett Forbes, Penelope Spheeris, Patrick Rizzotti, Jason Nutt, Christopher McDonald, Jenna Dewan, Marie Fyhrie, Eric Gores

Martha Marcy May Marlene

The story centers on a young woman (Elizabeth Olsen) who is living with her older sister (Sarah Paulson) after escaping a cult.

Elizabeth Olsen, Antonio Campos, Hugh Dancy, Ted Hope, Sean Durkin, Josh Mond, Sarah Paulson

Elevate

From a basketball academy in West Africa to the high-pressure world of American prep schools, the documentary follows four particularly tall West African teenagers with big hearts, open minds, and NBA dreams.

Anne Buford

The Last Ride

Henry Thomas stars as country crooner Hank Williams, revolves around Williams' final days and the young man (Jesse James) hired to drive him from Alabama to a New Year's Eve concert in Canton, Ohio. Kaley Cuoco will play a gas-station owner the duo meet during their travels who has a brief, innocent romance with the driver.

Kaley Cuoco, Henry Thomas, Stephen Tobolowsky, Harry Thomason, Ray McKinnon, Dub Cornett, Howard Klausner, Jesse James

Cargo

A young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, and a notorious Egyptian transporter, hired to drive her from the Mexican border to New York City, form an unlikely bond that threatens to derail the traffickers’ plans.

Natasha Rinis, Sayed Badreya, Philip Willingham, Yan Vizinberg

Oranges and Sunshine

Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia.

Hugo Weaving, Emily Watson, David Wenham, Jim Loach, Tara Morice

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Jo...

Kevin Clash, the man behind Elmo of Sesame Street, as he chases and ultimately achieves his childhood dream of working with master puppeteer Jim Henson.

Whoopi Goldberg, Constance Marks, Philip Shane

Night of the Living Fred

Based on the web video series, the sequel follows story of the high-pitched, socially awkward Fred Figglehorn.

Ariel Winter, Jake Weary, Brian Robbins, Gary Binkow, David A. Goodman, John Fortenberry, Sharla Summpter Bridgett, Evan Weiss

Sidewalls

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a a long relationship. Her head is a mess, just like the apartment where she takes refuge. Martin and Mariana are perfect for each other-- they live in the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?

Gustavo Taretto

In Time

Set in the not-too-distant future where the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. The protagonist is a poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as "time keepers."

Amanda Seyfried, Justin Timberlake, Cillian Murphy, Andrew Niccol, Alex Pettyfer, Marc Abraham, Eric Newman, Vincent Kartheiser

The Rum Diary

Paul Kemp, is a young New Yorker starting out as a newspaperman in Puerto Rico in the late '50s. Soon after arriving in San Juan, he manages to land a job at the 'Daily News', an English-language rag whose staff, an assortment of has-beens, mad geniuses, drunks, and spongers, would seem more at home in the Foreign Legion.

A.J. Dix, Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard, Richard Jenkins, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Rhulen, Greg Shapiro

Puss in Boots

An adventure with the sword fighting cat, Puss 'n Boots, from "Shrek 2".

Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Antonio Banderas, Guillermo del Toro, John H. Williams, Chris Miller, Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Lipman

The Double

A young FBI agent teams up with a CIA agent to find a Russian hitman. The FBI agent discovers that the CIA agent is the hitman.

Richard Gere, Martin Sheen, Ashok Amritraj, Patrick Aiello, Stephen Moyer, Stana Katic, Michael Brandt, Derek Haas

Like Crazy

The story centers on a long-distance relationship between a young American man and a young British woman who meet while in college.

Jennifer Lawrence, Drake Doremus, Ben York Jones, Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Charlie Bewley, Jonathan Schwartz, Andrea Sperling

Anonymous

Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was an accomplished poet and dramatist for Queen Elizabeth I in the 16th Century. In the 20th Century theories arose crediting Edward as the true author of Shakespeare's works.

Roland Emmerich, Vanessa Redgrave, John Orloff, David Thewlis, Rhys Ifans, Edward Hogg

Restitution

Set in a Michigan city where a series of mysterious murders all have an unlikely but common thread - a hired insurance fraud investigator who gets more than a paycheck when he is inexplicably killed and then framed for the crimes.

Tom Arnold, Mena Suvari, William Sadler, Lance Kawas, C. Thomas Howell, Mark Bierlein

Inni

Sigur Ros' November 2008 performances at London's Alexandra Palace, captured on rough, high-contrast monochrome HD.

Vincent Morisset

My Reincarnation

Yeshi, who was recognized at birth as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual master, considers departing from tradition to embrace the modern world.

Jennifer Fox

All's Faire in Love

Owen Benjamin will play an eager drama school grad whose new Renaissance Faire theater troupe makes him their fetch boy. His hopes and libido rise when he spots a Faire virgin (Ricci), but swashbuckling colleagues threaten to thwart their budding romance.

Matthew Lillard, Ann Margret, Scott Marshall, Robert A. White, Christina Ricci, Bill Engvall, Scott Reed, Jeff Wine

Janie Jones

The story centers on a young girl who is abandoned by her drug-addicted, former-groupie mother at a concert and surprises the fading rock singer who’s performing with news that she is his daughter.

Alessandro Nivola, Abigail Breslin, Elisabeth Shue, Brittany Snow, David M. Rosenthal, Keith Kjarval, Frank Whaley, Eric Bassett