October 2011 Movies

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

Giorgio Moroder Presents Metropo...

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

Real Steel

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

Shawn Levy, Robert Zemeckis, Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Les Bohem, Anthony Mackie, Hope Davis, Steven Spielberg

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, Max Minghella, Beau Willimon, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Grant Heslov, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood

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.

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

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, Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea

Dirty Girl

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

Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, Christine Vachon, Lisa Kudrow, Abe Sylvia, Jana Edelbaum, Mary Steenburgen, Robert Bevan

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

The Human Centipede Part 2 (Full...

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

Tom Six

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.

Dennis Quaid, Julianne Hough, Miles Teller, Peter Sollett, Craig Brewer, Jon Hartmere, Dylan Sellers, Craig Zadan

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, Joel Edgerton, David Foster, Jonathan Walker, Thomas Bliss, Matthijs van Heijningen, Eric Newman, Marc Abraham

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.

Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Rashida Jones, Owen Wilson, David Frankel, Stuart Cornfeld, Curtis Hanson, Carol Fenelon

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, Michael Mann, Sam Worthington, Bradley Cooper, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jessica Chastain, Ami Mann, Michael Jaffe

The Skin I Live In

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

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

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

Trespass

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

Nicolas Cage, Ben Mendelsohn, Dash Mihok, Nicole Kidman, Avi Lerner, Liana Liberato, Irwin Winkler, Eli Richbourg

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.

Felicity Jones, Tamsin Egerton, Bill Nighy, Phil Traill, Pippa Cross, Harriet Rees, Tom Williams, Ed Westwick

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.

Virginia Madsen, Johnny Knoxville, Kevin Spacey, Craig Robinson, Trent Cooper, Nichole Beattie, Dana Brunetti, Jonathan Krane

Fireflies in the Garden

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

Julia Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Philip Rose, Ryan Reynolds, Dennis Lee

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

Labios Rojos

A happily married couple face sudden problems in the bedroom.

Rafa Lara, Silvia Navarro, Jorge Salinas

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

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 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.

Logan Lerman, Luke Evans, Milla Jovovich, Juno Temple, Matthew Macfadyen, Christoph Waltz, Paul W.S. Anderson, Robert Kulzer

Johnny English Reborn

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

Rosamund Pike, Rowan Atkinson, Eric Fellner, Oliver Parker, Tim Bevan, Hamish McColl, Ben Miller, Daniel Kaluuya

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.

Akiva Goldsman, Christopher B. Landon, Henry Joost, Chloe Csengery, Jason Blum, Katie Featherston, Ariel Schulman, Oren Peli

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.

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

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, Sarah Paulson, Sean Durkin, Josh Mond, Ted Hope

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, Harry Thomason, Dub Cornett, Howard Klausner, Jesse James, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ray McKinnon

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.

Jenna Dewan, Penelope Spheeris, Patrick Rizzotti, Brett Forbes, Marie Fyhrie, Eric Gores, Jason Nutt, Joe Hursley

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.

Stanley Tucci, J.C. Chandor, Kevin Spacey, Carla Gugino, Simon Baker, Mary McDonnell, Neal Dodson, Corey Moosa

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

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.

Sayed Badreya, Yan Vizinberg, Natasha Rinis, Philip Willingham

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.

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

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

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journe...

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.

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

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

Puss in Boots

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

Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Antonio Banderas, Chris Miller, David Lipman, Latifa Ouaou, Aron Warner, John H. Williams

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.

Amber Heard, Anthony Rhulen, Giovanni Ribisi, Johnny Depp, A.J. Dix, William Shively, Robert S. Kravis, Greg Shapiro

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, Cillian Murphy, Andrew David, Justin Timberlake, Bella Heathcote, Andrew Niccol, Marc Abraham, Eric Newman

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, Topher Grace, Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Stana Katic, Martin Sheen, Ashok Amritraj, Patrick Aiello

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Inni

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

Vincent Morisset