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.

Judy Greer, J.K. Simmons, Jennifer Garner, Kaitlyn Dever, Dennis Haysbert, Adam Sandler, Emma Thompson, Timothee Chalamet

Drama

42% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

Released Friday, October 3rd

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, Reese Witherspoon, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Casey Wilson, Leslie Dixon

R Drama Thriller

33% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

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, Ward Horton, Peter Safran, Alfre Woodard, Gary Dauberman, John Leonetti

R Thriller Horror

62% WILL SEE

3.4 / 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.

Reese Witherspoon, Ron Howard, Corey Stoll, Brian Grazer, Philippe Falardeau, Karen Kehela Sherwood, Trent Luckinbill, Thad Luckinbill

PG-13 Drama

12% 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, Chad Law, Christopher Morris, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Brigitte Jean Allen, Evan Law, Zoe Ventoura

Action Comedy

71% WILL SEE

3.4 / 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, Stephen Lang, Anthony LaPaglia, Peter Askin, Stephen King, Kristen Connolly

Drama Thriller

45% WILL SEE

3.8 / 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, Paul Lalonde, Nicky Whelan, Cassi Thomson, Vic Armstrong, John Patus, J. David Williams

PG-13 Action Thriller

73% 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, Christina Ricci, Rosie Perez, Wayne Brady, Frank Gladstone, David Kaye, Arsenio Hall, Jessica Kedward

Adventure Kids

6% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

Released Friday, October 10th

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.

Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Robert Downey Jr., Leighton Meester, Nick Schenk, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jeremy Strong, David Seidler

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.

Shawn Levy, Lisa Henson, Jason Lust, Dan Levine, Lisa Cholodenko, Steve Carell, Rob Lieber, Miguel Arteta

PG Comedy Adaptation

37% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

65%

3.8 / 5

(307)

Addicted

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

Boris Kodjoe, Sharon Leal, Tasha Smith, William Levy, John Sacchi, Billie Woodruff, Suzanne de Passe, Christina Welsh

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, Sarah Gadon, Matt Sazama, Michael De Luca, Dominic Cooper, Charlie Cox, Samantha Barks, Burk Sharpless

Horror Remake

43% WILL SEE

4 / 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.

Miles Teller, Damien Chazelle, J.K. Simmons, Jason Blum, David Lancaster, Melissa Benoist, Jason Reitman, Paul Reiser

Drama

35% WILL SEE

4.2 / 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.

Jeremy Renner, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ray Liotta, Barry Pepper, Michael K. Williams, Paz Vega, Michael Cuesta, Scott Stuber

Drama Crime

18% WILL SEE

3.5 / 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, David Frankel, Mackenzie Crook, Michael Menchel, Justin Zackham, James Corden, Colm Meaney, Steve Whitney

PG-13 Drama Comedy 1 hr, 40 mins

35% WILL SEE

4.1 / 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

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

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, Robert Forster, Andy Nyman, Dylan McDermott, Melanie Griffith, Sandra Hermida, Javier Donate, David Ryall

Sci-Fi

74% WILL SEE

4 / 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.

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

69% WILL SEE

3.2 / 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, Joshua Leonard, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Gary Cole, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, 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 .

Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Scott Eastwood, David Ayer, Logan Lerman, Jason Isaacs, Xavier Samuel, Bill Block

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.

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

PG-13 Drama Romance 1 hr, 57 mins

40% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

42%

3.9 / 5

(14)

Men, Women & Children

Judy Greer, J.K. Simmons, Jennifer Garner, Kaitlyn Dever, Dennis Haysbert, Adam Sandler, Emma Thompson, Timothee Chalamet

Drama

42% WILL SEE

3.9 / 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, Channing Tatum, Zoe Saldana, Ron Perlman, Danny Trejo, Guillermo del Toro, Christina Applegate, 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, Frank Marshall, James Marsden, Beau Bridges, Dean Cain, Lucy Liu, Oliver Platt, Mary Steenburgen

Fantasy Animation

55% WILL SEE

5 / 5

18%

3.5 / 5

(14)

Kill the Messenger

Expansion

Jeremy Renner, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ray Liotta, Barry Pepper, Michael K. Williams, Paz Vega, Michael Cuesta, Scott Stuber

Drama Crime

18% WILL SEE

3.5 / 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.

Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Ryan, Michael Keaton, Andrea Riseborough, Molly Conners, Christopher Woodrow

R Comedy 1 hr, 59 mins

25% WILL SEE

3.8 / 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.

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

Drama

81% WILL SEE

4.4 / 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, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Shannon, Jake Paltrow, Noah Baumbach, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Kodi Smit-McPhee

R Drama Sci-Fi 1 hr, 40 mins

68% WILL SEE

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.

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

R Drama 1 hr, 57 mins

65% WILL SEE

2.7 / 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.

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

Thriller

6% WILL SEE

4 / 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.

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

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, Jason Blum, Simon Kinberg, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Smith, David Berenbaum, Brad Fuller, Brian Goldner

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".

Willem Dafoe, Keanu Reeves, Jason Isaacs, Chad Stahelski, Eva Longoria, Ian McShane, Bridget Moynahan, Basil Iwanyk

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.

Eva Green, Angela Bassett, Shailene Woodley, Andrea Sperling, Thomas Jane, Christopher Meloni, Gabourey Sidibe, Shiloh Fernandez

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 31 mins

50% WILL SEE

2.3 / 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.

Ben Kingsley, Kate Beckinsale, Mel Gibson, Brad Anderson, Fiona Shaw, Brendan Gleeson, David Thewlis, Mark Amin

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.

Mark Ordesky, Jane Fleming, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sanchez, Jamie Nash, Reed Frerichs, Denise Williamson, Robin Cowie

R Thriller Horror 1 hr, 26 mins

70% WILL SEE

2.5 / 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, Kevin Connolly, Thomas Jane, Omari Hardwick, Kelsey Grammer, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Berenger, John Herzfeld

Drama Comedy

13% WILL SEE

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

Drama Biography

5% WILL SEE

1 / 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.

Naomi Watts, Terrence Howard, Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Don Cheadle, Nate Corddry, Peter Chernin, Ted Melfi

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, Alexa Vega, Stephen Lang, Max Adler, Kimberly Jo Zimmer, Toni Hoover, Bram Hoover, Mark Hapka

PG-13 Drama Sports 1 hr, 38 mins

91% WILL SEE

3.9 / 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...

James Wan, Danny Glover, Mark Burg, Leigh Whannell, Oren Koules, Gregg Hoffman, Tobin Bell, Ken Leung

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 40 mins

29% WILL SEE

3.6 / 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, Stephanie Szostak, Ricky Blitt, Jon Cryer, Robert Menzies, Chantal Chamandy, Jed Rees, Alexis Maitland

Comedy Romance

54% WILL SEE

2 / 5

39%

4 / 5

(29)

Nightcrawler

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

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

Thriller Crime

39% WILL SEE

4 / 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.

Heather Graham, Peter Guber, Juno Temple, Daniel Radcliffe, Max Minghella, Joe Gatta, Kelli Garner, Alexandre Aja

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.

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

Thriller Horror

80% WILL SEE

3 / 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.

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

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 32 mins

17% WILL SEE

3.5 / 5