October 2014 Movies

A family with junior high school students must deal with the navigation of sexual awakenings in a digital age where the internet has made pornography, blogs and social networking just a few clicks away.

Adam Sandler, J.K. Simmons, Jennifer Garner, Timothee Chalamet, Mason Novick, Jason Reitman, Judy Greer, Kaitlyn Dever

Drama

42% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

Released Friday, October 3rd

62%

3.4 / 5

(58)

Annabelle

Centers on the doll seen in the 1970s Rhode Island-set Conjuring, which starred Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson and was directed by James Wan.

James Wan, Annabelle Wallis, Gary Dauberman, John Leonetti, Peter Safran, Ward Horton, Alfre Woodard

R Thriller Horror

62% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

33%

3.8 / 5

(62)

Gone Girl

A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary and all roads point to her husband as the killer.

Tyler Perry, Ben Affleck, David Fincher, Rosamund Pike, Bruna Papandrea, Neil Patrick Harris, Missi Pyle, Emily Ratajkowski

R Drama Thriller

33% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

12%

3.4 / 5

(14)

The Good Lie

A Sudanese refugee is taken in by a straight-talking American woman in their new home in the United States.

Thad Luckinbill, Ron Howard, Karen Kehela Sherwood, Margaret Nagle, Sharon Conley, Philippe Falardeau, Brian Grazer, Trent Luckinbill

PG-13 Drama

12% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

73%

3.4 / 5

(72)

Left Behind

The diaster movie focuses on a group of survivors during the first few hours after the Rapture.

Nicolas Cage, Chad Michael Murray, Nicky Whelan, J. David Williams, Vic Armstrong, John Patus, Paul Lalonde, Cassi Thomson

PG-13 Action Thriller

73% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

71%

3.4 / 5

(7)

Drive Hard

American thief, Simon Keller (Cusack), arrives in a foreign country in need of a getaway driver. Rather than recruit one from the underworld, he takes a driving lesson from ex F-1 champion, Peter Roberts (Jane), now working as a driving instructor. After Keller robs a bank during the lesson, Roberts has no choice, but to use his driving talent to get away from pursuing police and mobsters.

John Cusack, Thomas Jane, Zoe Ventoura, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Brigitte Jean Allen, Chad Law, Evan Law, Christopher Morris

Action Comedy

71% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

4.2 / 5

(5)

The Hero of Color City

The CG-animated feature is about a group of crayons fighting to save their multihued city.

Craig Ferguson, Frank Gladstone, Jessica Kedward, J.P. McCormick, David Kaye, Christina Ricci, Rosie Perez, Arsenio Hall

Adventure Kids

6% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

45%

3.8 / 5

(9)

A Good Marriage

A woman discovers her husband has been keeping an especially terrible secret for years when she stumbles upon a box in the garage.

Joan Allen, Anthony LaPaglia, Peter Askin, Stephen King, Kristen Connolly, Stephen Lang

Drama Thriller

45% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

Released Friday, October 10th

65%

3.8 / 5

(307)

Addicted

A successful black art dealer's marriage, family and career are threatened by her overpowering addiction to sex.

Mike Paseornek, Billie Woodruff, Suzanne de Passe, Christina Welsh, Lucy Thurber, Boris Kodjoe, Sharon Leal, Tasha Smith

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 45 mins

65% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

43%

4 / 5

(59)

Dracula Untold

Centers on the epic origin of Dracula, weaving vampire mythology with the true history of Prince Vlad the Impaler and showing him more as a vengeful hero than the monster seen in Bram Stoker's classic novel.

Luke Evans, Michael De Luca, Samantha Barks, Sarah Gadon, Art Parkinson, Gary Shore, Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless

Horror Remake

43% WILL SEE

4 / 5

22%

4.4 / 5

(63)

The Judge

A big city attorney returns home after his mother's death to learn his estranged father, a Judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way, reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.

Billy Bob Thornton, Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Robert Downey Jr., Leighton Meester, Jeremy Strong, David Dobkin, Susan Downey

Drama Family

22% WILL SEE

4.4 / 5

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Poster

37%

4.3 / 5

(54)

Alexander and the Terrible, ...

Alexander begins a very bad day when he wakes up with a wad of gum in his hair, trips on a skateboard and drops his sweater into a sink with the water running.

Steve Carell, Ed Oxenbould, Rob Lieber, Lisa Cholodenko, Jason Lust, Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Lisa Henson

PG Comedy Adaptation

37% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

35%

4.2 / 5

(25)

Whiplash

Under the direction of a prestigious but borderline abusive instructor, a young college student begins to lose his humanity in his quest to become the core drummer of the top jazz orchestra in the country.

J.K. Simmons, Jason Blum, Miles Teller, Damien Chazelle, Austin Stowell, Jason Reitman, Couper Samuelson, David Lancaster

Drama

35% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

35%

4.1 / 5

(10)

One Chance

True story of amateur opera singer and mobile-phone salesman Paul Potts, who was riddled by a streak of bad luck when, on a lark, he auditioned for "Britain's Got Talent" in 2007. His on-air performances ended up bowling over audiences and judges, including Cowell. He went on to win the show and become a media and YouTube sensation, eventually going on a global music tour and releasing an album.

Julie Walters, Mackenzie Crook, David Frankel, Steve Whitney, James Corden, Michael Menchel, Justin Zackham, Colm Meaney

PG-13 Drama Comedy 1 hr, 40 mins

35% WILL SEE

4.1 / 5

74%

4 / 5

(11)

Automata

Set in the future, the story centers on Earth’s ecosystem, which is on the verge of collapse, as an insurance agent for a robotics company investigates a case of artificial intelligence manipulation.

Antonio Banderas, Gabe Ibanez, Sandra Hermida, Danny Lerner, Javier Donate, David Ryall, David Varod, Melanie Griffith

Sci-Fi

74% WILL SEE

4 / 5

18%

3.5 / 5

(14)

Kill the Messenger

Journalist Gary Webb, a San Jose Mercury News reporter, commits suicide after being the target of a smear campaign when he links the CIA to a scheme to arm Contra rebels in Nicaragua and import cocaine into California.

Oliver Platt, Tim Blake Nelson, Michael Sheen, Nick Wechsler, Andy Garcia, Robert Patrick, Barry Pepper, Scott Stuber

Drama Crime

18% WILL SEE

3.5 / 5

30%

5 / 5

(1)

The Overnighters

Broken, desperate men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor risks everything to help them.

Jesse Moss, Amanda McBaine

Drama Documentary

30% WILL SEE

5 / 5

69%

3.2 / 5

(11)

Catch Hell

Ryan Phillippe plays a former Hollywood star, who, on location in Louisiana, is kidnapped by two men connected to his past. He awakens, chained in a rundown shack, and discovers the real motives of his captors and finds himself in the middle of a twisted scheme with little chance to make it out. Survival and revenge become the actor’s motivations.

Holly Wiersma, Ryan Phillippe, Mark Burg, James DuMont, Joe Gossett, Tig Notaro, Cassian Elwes, Robert Ogden Barnum

69% WILL SEE

3.2 / 5

81%

3.9 / 5

(7)

I Am Ali

I Am Ali is told through exclusive, unprecedented access to Ali’s personal archive of ‘audio journals’ combined with touching interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends, including his daughters, son, ex-wife and brother, plus legends of the boxing community including Mike Tyson, George Foreman and Gene Kilroy.

Clare Lewins

Documentary

81% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

Released Thursday, October 16th

66%

1 / 5

(2)

The Town that Dreaded Sundow...

A Texas Ranger hunts for the Phantom Killer, a hooded serial killer, terrorizing the residents of a small town.

Ryan Murphy, Jason Blum, Gary Cole, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Travis Tope, Addison Timlin, Veronica Cartwright

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 26 mins

66% WILL SEE

1 / 5

Released Friday, October 17th

87%

4.1 / 5

(145)

Fury

Follows a five-man American tank crew in Europe in the final days of the World War II .

Scott Eastwood, David Ayer, Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Jason Isaacs, Bill Block, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal

R Drama Adventure 2 hrs, 14 mins

87% WILL SEE

4.1 / 5

40%

4.2 / 5

(69)

The Best of Me

Small-town high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks share a love affair, but they drift apart and take different paths as adults. They meet again when they return to their hometown for a funeral.

Nicholas Sparks, J. Mills Goodloe, James Marsden, Liana Liberato, Michael Hoffman, Denise DiNovi, Will Fetters, Michelle Monaghan

PG-13 Drama Romance 1 hr, 57 mins

40% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

21%

4.1 / 5

(51)

The Book of Life

Described as a Romeo and Juliet set against a Mexican Day of the Dead.

Ice Cube, Zoe Saldana, Danny Trejo, Jorge R. Gutierrez, Christina Applegate, Channing Tatum, Ron Perlman, Gabriel Iglesias

PG Romance Animation

21% WILL SEE

4.1 / 5

55%

5 / 5

(1)

The Tale Of The Princess Kag...

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo, a tiny girl grows into an exquisite young lady, raised by an old bamboo cutter and his wife. From the countryside to the grand capital city, even unseen she enthralls all who encounter her, including five noble suitors. Ultimately however she must face her secret fate.

Chloë Grace Moretz, Oliver Platt, Lucy Liu, James Marsden, Dean Cain, Geoffrey Wexler, Mary Steenburgen, Darren Criss

Fantasy Animation

55% WILL SEE

5 / 5

42%

3.9 / 5

(14)

Men, Women & Children

Adam Sandler, J.K. Simmons, Jennifer Garner, Timothee Chalamet, Mason Novick, Jason Reitman, Judy Greer, Kaitlyn Dever

Drama

42% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

81%

4.4 / 5

(8)

Rudderless

Hoping to find catharsis after the death of his son, a grieving father forms a band from his son’s demo tapes and lyrics.

Laurence Fishburne, Selena Gomez, William H. Macy, Billy Crudup, Anton Yelchin, Casey Twenter, Jeff Robison, Felicity Huffman

Drama

81% WILL SEE

4.4 / 5

4 / 5

(8)

Felony

Driving home after a celebration drink with his team after the long waited bust of a major gang, a decorated police officer (Joel Edgerton) runs a young cyclist off the road. As he gives CPR to the child, fellow officers arrive to take his statement. In a split second decision he tells them a lie about the accident which will change all their lives in this edge of your seat thriller.

Joel Edgerton, Rosemary Blight, Lisa Wilson, Matthew Saville, Tom Wilkinson, Melissa George, Jai Courtney, Myles Nestel

Thriller

6% WILL SEE

4 / 5

18%

3.5 / 5

(14)

Kill the Messenger

Expansion

Oliver Platt, Tim Blake Nelson, Michael Sheen, Nick Wechsler, Andy Garcia, Robert Patrick, Barry Pepper, Scott Stuber

Drama Crime

18% WILL SEE

3.5 / 5

65%

2.7 / 5

(7)

Camp X-Ray

Follows a young woman who signs up for the Army to get away from her small town. Instead of being shipped off to Iraq, the soldier is assigned to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where she becomes friends with a prisoner who has spent eight years in lock-up.

John Carroll Lynch, Kristen Stewart, Julia Duffy, Cory Michael Smith, Yousuf Azami, Peter Sattler, Lane Garrison, Tara Holt

R Drama 1 hr, 57 mins

65% WILL SEE

2.7 / 5

68%

5 / 5

(3)

Young Ones

In the near future, where water is a scarce commodity, a teenage cowboy is mourning his father’s murder while the the killer moves in with his sister, and the introduction of futuristic technology threatens to claim more lives.

Elle Fanning, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Noah Baumbach, Andy McPhee, Jake Paltrow, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy

R Drama Sci-Fi 1 hr, 40 mins

68% WILL SEE

5 / 5

25%

3.8 / 5

(33)

Birdman

An actor in crisis, who once played an iconic superhero, battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself in the days leading up to the opening of a Broadway play.

Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Emma Stone, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, John Lesher, Naomi Watts, Arnon Milchan

R Comedy 1 hr, 59 mins

25% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

50%

5 / 5

(1)

The Culture High

The Culture High is the riveting story that tears into the very fiber of modern day marijuana prohibition to reveal the truth behind the arguments and motives governing both those who support and those who oppose the existing pot laws.

Brett Harvey

Documentary

50% WILL SEE

5 / 5

57%

2.9 / 5

(9)

Dear White People

The film follows a group of African American students as they navigate campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white college.

Kyle Gallner, Tessa Thompson, Tyler James Williams, Brandon P. Bell, Teyonah Parris, Justin Simien, Effie Brown, Dennis Haysbert

R Comedy

57% WILL SEE

2.9 / 5

Released Friday, October 24th

59%

3.9 / 5

(97)

Ouija

The story centers on the supernatural effects of the Ouija board game.

Michael Bay, Simon Kinberg, Jason Blum, Douglas Smith, Brad Fuller, Brian Goldner, Stiles White, Bennett Schneir

PG-13 Adventure Suspense

59% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

58%

4.4 / 5

(51)

John Wick

An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a fresh and stylized take on the "assassin genre".

Eva Longoria, Willem Dafoe, Jason Isaacs, Chad Stahelski, Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Basil Iwanyk, Derek Kolstad

R Action Thriller

58% WILL SEE

4.4 / 5

50%

2.3 / 5

(3)

White Bird In A Blizzard

Typical, overweight, 16-year-old Katrina Connor is preoccupied with sex and dating and eager to separate from parents she sees as terminally boring. Then, on a frigid January day, her mother vanishes, and Kat begins to wonder if her mother simply took off, or if there is a more horrifying reason for her disappearance.

Angela Bassett, Eva Green, Shailene Woodley, Christopher Meloni, Thomas Jane, Gabourey Sidibe, Gregg Araki, Andrea Sperling

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 31 mins

50% WILL SEE

2.3 / 5

13%

3.7 / 5

(3)

Reach Me

Story follows a group of people who all have a connection to a self-help book authored by a reclusive former football coach.

Sylvester Stallone, Kelsey Grammer, Omari Hardwick, Cary Elwes, Tom Berenger, Thomas Jane, John Herzfeld, Nelly

Drama Comedy

13% WILL SEE

3.7 / 5

21%

4.1 / 5

(45)

St. Vincent

In the wake of his parents' divorce, a 12-year old boy forms an unlikely friendship with the misanthropic retiree living next door. A war veteran whose life mainly consists of drinking, gambling and prostitutes, the elder soon becomes an unlikely mentor.

Peter Chernin, Terrence Howard, Bill Murray, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle, Fred Roos, Ted Melfi, Melissa McCarthy

PG-13 Drama Comedy

21% WILL SEE

4.1 / 5

91%

3.9 / 5

(14)

23 Blast

Follows a high school football star (Mark Hapka ) who's suddenly stricken with irreversible blindness and the choice he's forced to make regarding whether he should return to the sport.

Dylan Baker, Toni Hoover, Bram Hoover, Mark Hapka, Kimberly Jo Zimmer, Stephen Lang, Max Adler, Breanna Dean

PG-13 Drama Sports 1 hr, 38 mins

91% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

12%

3.7 / 5

(18)

Stonehearst Asylum

A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a job at an insane asylum, unaware of the fact that it has been taken over by its occupants.

Mel Gibson, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Caine, David Thewlis, Jim Sturgess, Brendan Gleeson, Joe Gangemi, Brad Anderson

Thriller Suspense

12% WILL SEE

3.7 / 5

70%

2.5 / 5

(6)

Exists

A group of twentysomethings take a trip to a cabin deep in the wooded wilderness and are methodically hunted by a Bigfoot-like beast.

Andy Jenkins, Jane Fleming, Mark Ordesky, Eduardo Sanchez, Robin Cowie, Jamie Nash, Brian Steele, Dora Madison Burge

R Thriller Horror 1 hr, 26 mins

70% WILL SEE

2.5 / 5

1 / 5

(1)

Low Down

Story follows the relationship between famed American Jazz pianist Joe Albany and his daughter in a music career marked with heroin addiction, unsuccessful marriages, and thwarted potential.

Elle Fanning, Peter Dinklage, Topper Lilien, Jeff Preiss, Glenn Close, Amy Jo Albany, John Hawkes, Taryn Manning

Drama Biography

5% WILL SEE

1 / 5

Released Friday, October 31st

29%

3.6 / 5

(54)

Saw

A young man named Adam (Leigh Whannell) wakes to find himself chained to a rusty pipe inside a decrepit subterranean chamber. Chained to the opposite side of the room is another bewildered captive, Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes). Between them is a dead man lying in a pool of blood, holding a .38 in his hand. Neither man knows why he has been abducted; but instructions left on a microcassette, order Dr. Gordon to kill Adam within eight hours. If he fails to do so, then both men will die, and Dr. Gordon's wife, Alison (Monica Potter), and his daughter will be killed. Recalling a recent murder investigation by a police detective named Tapp (Danny Glover), Dr. Gordon realizes he and Adam are the next victims of a psychopathic genius known only as "Jigsaw." With only a few hours left to spare, they must unravel the elaborate puzzle of their fate in the midst of mounting terror. The killer has provided them with only a few clues and two handsaws—too weak to break their steel shackles, but strong enough to cut through flesh and bone...

Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Mark Burg, Shawnee Smith, Gregg Hoffman, Oren Koules

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 40 mins

29% WILL SEE

3.6 / 5

39%

4 / 5

(29)

Nightcrawler

A driven young man discovers the nocturnal world of L.A. freelance crime journalism.

Tony Gilroy, Dan Gilroy, Jennifer Fox, Michel Litvak, David Lancaster, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton

Thriller Crime

39% WILL SEE

4 / 5

54%

2 / 5

(3)

Hit By Lightning

When Ricky Miller, a single, quiet 40-year old aspiring writer and manager of Debbie's (think Denny's) and probably the last person you'd notice in a crowd is 'hit by lightning' and meets the love of his life, the beautiful Danita on E-Happily.com, he is catapulted into a relationship online but it's a lot more than what he bargained for - this includes being asked to kill! Hounded by his best friend Seth who thinks no "10" would even go out with a guy like Ricky unless she had ulterior motives (or needed glasses), Ricky starts to get skeptical himself. Turns out, Danita confesses she's actually married to a handsome affable crime novelist and former Rabbi, Ben Jacobs. Is Danita telling Ricky the truth when she says wants to leave her husband but fears for her life if she does? Will Ricky go through with the plan to kill him so he and Danita can live happily ever after?

Will Sasso, Chantal Chamandy, Robert Menzies, Mike Ades, Ricky Blitt, Stephanie Szostak, Jon Cryer, Jed Rees

Comedy Romance

54% WILL SEE

2 / 5

17%

3.5 / 5

(13)

Before I Go to Sleep

After a night of partying, a young woman wakes up to discover that she has aged beyond recognition.

Ridley Scott, Nicole Kidman, Jenny Borgars, Rowan Joffe, Liza Marshall, Colin Firth, Mark Strong

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 32 mins

17% WILL SEE

3.5 / 5

25%

3.3 / 5

(19)

Horns

A 26-year-old man wakes up one morning from a blackout hangover and finds horns sprouting out of his head. As the horns grow bigger by the day, the reason why seems to lie in the unsolved murder of his girlfriend.

Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Heather Graham, Cathy Schulman, Riza Aziz, Joey McFarland, Keith Bunin, Joe Hill

Thriller Romance 2 hrs, 3 mins

25% WILL SEE

3.3 / 5

80%

3 / 5

(1)

ABC's of Death 2

The follow-up to the most ambitious anthology film ever conceived with productions spanning from Nigeria to UK to Brazil and everywhere in between. It features segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. The film is comprised of twenty-six individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free rein in choosing a word to create a story involving death.

Julian Barratt, Robert Boocheck, Martina Garcia, Alan McKenna, Rodney Ascher, Andy Nyman, Ian Virgo

Thriller Horror

80% WILL SEE

3 / 5