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.

Kevin Durand, Steven Spielberg, Hugh Jackman, Les Bohem, John Gatins, Jeremy Leven, Dan Gilroy, Anthony Mackie

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, Marisa Tomei, George Clooney, Max Minghella, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti

Dirty Girl

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

Mary Steenburgen, Sally Hawkins, Milla Jovovich, Lisa Kudrow, Jana Edelbaum, Juno Temple, William H. Macy, Jeremy Dozier

The Human Centipede Part 2 (...

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

Tom Six

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 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.

Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Luchini, Carmen Maura, Natalia Verbeke

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

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.

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

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

Footloose

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

Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid, Miles Teller, Craig Brewer, Eben Davidson, Jon Hartmere, Anessa Ramsey, Dylan Sellers

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, Owen Wilson, Jack Black, Howard Franklin, Rashida Jones, Angelica Huston, Jim Parsons, David Frankel

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.

Eric Heisserer, Eric Newman, Marc Abraham, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Thomas Bliss, Matthijs van Heijningen, Jonathan Walker

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.

Sam Worthington, Chloë Grace Moretz, Bradley Cooper, Jason Clarke, Jessica Chastain, Bill Block, Michael Mann, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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, Nicole Kidman, Ben Mendelsohn, Liana Liberato, Jill Cutler, Joel Schumacher, Irwin Winkler, Avi Lerner

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

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.

Johnny Knoxville, Heather Graham, Virginia Madsen, Trent Cooper, Dana Brunetti, Jonathan Krane, Nichole Beattie, Kevin Spacey

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

Fireflies in the Garden

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

Willem Dafoe, Julia Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Ryan Reynolds, Emily Watson, Ioan Gruffudd, Dennis Lee, Marco Weber

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, Tom Williams, Bill Nighy, Phil Traill, Pippa Cross, Harriet Rees, Ed Westwick

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.

Jack Ketchum, Lucky McKee, 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.

Orlando Bloom, Milla Jovovich, Luke Evans, Christoph Waltz, James Corden, Paul W.S. Anderson, Robert Kulzer, Andrew Davies

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.

Christopher B. Landon, Jason Blum, Oren Peli, Sprague Grayden, Steven Schneider, Akiva Goldsman, Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman

Johnny English Reborn

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

Eric Fellner, Gillian Anderson, Rosamund Pike, Hamish McColl, Debra Hayward, Oliver Parker, Tim Bevan, Rowan Atkinson

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

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.

Demi Moore, Simon Baker, Carla Gugino, J.C. Chandor, Stanley Tucci, Michael Benaroya, Jeremy Irons, Cassian Elwes

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.

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

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, Jim Loach, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, 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, Philip Shane, Constance Marks

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.

Christopher Lloyd, Ray Liotta, Robert Kirbyson, Bobby Coleman, 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

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

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

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, Lucas Cruikshank, John Fortenberry, Brian Robbins, Sharla Summpter Bridgett, Gary Binkow, 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

Puss in Boots

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

Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Tom Wheeler, Guillermo del Toro, Aron Warner, Antonio Banderas, Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Lipman

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, Matt Bomer, Eric Newman, Bella Heathcote, Marc Abraham, Kristel Laiblin, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Martin Sheen, Topher Grace, Richard Gere, Stana Katic, Michael Brandt, Ashok Amritraj, Patrick Aiello, Andrew Deane

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

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, Scott Marshall, Scott Reed, Christina Ricci, Robert A. White, Jeff Wine, Owen Benjamin, Bill Engvall

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.

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

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

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