October 2014 Movies

With Adam Sandler • Timothee Chalamet • Jennifer Garner • Emma Thompson • J.K. Simmons • Jason Reitman • Ansel Elgort • Kaitlyn Dever • Judy Greer • Erin Cressida Wilson • Rosemarie DeWitt • Elena Kampouris • Dennis Haysbert • Michael Beugg • Steven Rales • Travis Tope • David Denman • Jason Douglas • Mason Novick • Olivia Crocicchia • Dean Norris • Katherine Hughes

The film follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the Internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives. The film attempts to stare down social issues such as video game culture, anorexia, infidelity, fame hunting, and the proliferation of illicit material on the internet. As each character and each relationship is tested, we are shown the variety of roads people choose - some tragic, some hopeful - as it becomes clear that no one is immune to this enormous social change that has come through our phones, our tablets, and our computers.

With Ben Affleck • Tyler Perry • Reese Witherspoon • Missi Pyle • David Fincher • Boyd Holbrook • Rosamund Pike • Neil Patrick Harris • Patrick Fugit • Kim Dickens • Emily Ratajkowski • Leslie Dixon • Casey Wilson • Bruna Papandrea • Gillian Flynn

On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

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

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.

With Reese Witherspoon • Ron Howard • Brian Grazer • Mike Pniewski • Corey Stoll • Thad Luckinbill • Sarah Baker • Joshua Mikel • Karen Kehela Sherwood • Philippe Falardeau • Trent Luckinbill • Sharon Conley • Margaret Nagle • Maria Howell

They were known simply as "The Lost Boys." Orphaned by the brutal Civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3600 lost boys and girls to America. In The Good Lie, Philippe Falardeau brings the story of their survival and triumph to life.

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

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.

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

Follows Rayford Steele (Nicolas Cage) who is piloting a commercial airliner just hours after the Rapture when millions of people around the globe simply vanish. Thirty thousand feet over the Atlantic, Rayford is faced with a damaged plane, terrified passengers, and a desperate desire to get back to his family. On the ground, his daughter, Chloe Steele (Cassi Thomson) is among those left behind, forced to navigate a world of madness as she searches for her lost mother and brother.

With Stephen Lang • Anthony LaPaglia • Stephen King • Kristen Connolly • Joan Allen • Peter Askin

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

With Christina Ricci • Frank Gladstone • Rosie Perez • Wayne Brady • Arsenio Hall • Craig Ferguson • Jessica Kedward • J.P. McCormick • David Kaye

An imaginative animated tale for the pre-school/kindergarten set, The Hero of Color City chronicles the adventures of a diverse band of crayons that come alive in a little boys room when he drifts off to sleep. Yellow (voiced by Christina Ricci), a timid and fearful crayon, inadvertently awakens two unfinished drawings that threaten to take over Color City, and must set off on an adventure that leads her to discover inner strength and courage she never knew she had.

With Robert Downey Jr. • Vera Farmiga • David Seidler • Dax Shepard • Billy Bob Thornton • Robert Duvall • Leighton Meester • David Krumholtz • Vincent D'Onofrio • Jeremy Strong • David Dobkin • Susan Downey • Bill Dubuque • Nick Schenk • Ken Howard

Robert Downey, Jr. stars as big city lawyer Hank Palmer, who returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town’s judge (Duvall), 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.

With Billie Woodruff • Emayatzy Corinealdi • Tasha Smith • William Levy • Sharon Leal • Boris Kodjoe • Mike Paseornek • John Sacchi • Suzanne de Passe • Christina Welsh • Charisee Nesbit • Lucy Thurber • Tyson Beckford

The story centers on Zoe, a woman in a perfectly quaint marriage. The couple are busy raising three children while devoted to their careers. However, it’s not enough to fulfill all of her desires as she soon finds herself satisfying her addiction to sex with other men, which puts her on a dangerous path that she may not survive.

With Charlie Cox • Luke Evans • Dominic Cooper • Jeff Kirschenbaum • Sarah Gadon • Samantha Barks • Zach McGowan • Michael De Luca • Donna Langley • Matt Sazama • Burk Sharpless • Alissa Philips • Gary Shore • Art Parkinson

Follows a young prince who, when the lives of his wife and child are put in danger by a bloodthirsty sultan, risks his soul to save them, and in the process becomes the first vampire.

With Shawn Levy • Ed Oxenbould • Steve Carell • Rob Lieber • Dan Levine • Lisa Cholodenko • Miguel Arteta • Jason Lust • Lisa Henson

Follows the exploits of 11-year-old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life - a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him. He soon learns he is not alone when his mom (Jennifer Garner), dad (Steve Carell), brother (Dylan Minnette), and sister (Kerris Dorsey) all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Anyone who says there is no such thing as a bad day just hasn't had one.

With Dylan McDermott • Antonio Banderas • Danny Lerner • Javier Donate • Andy Nyman • Robert Forster • Melanie Griffith • Gabe Ibanez • David Ryall • Sandra Hermida • David Varod

Fast forward fifty years into the future, planet earth is in the midst of gradual desertification. Mankind struggles to survive as the environment deteriorates and the slow regression of the human race begins in AUTÓMATA. On the brink of life and the reality of death, technology combats the prevailing uncertainty and fear with the creation of the first quantum android, the Automata Pilgrim 7000. Designed to bring support to society’s plight, man and robot reveal what it means to co-exist in a culture defined by human nature. The descent of civilization is juxtaposed by the rise of ROC, the corporation at the helm of robotic intelligence. Despite the demise of humanity, the company has set forth security protocols to ensure mankind always maintains control over the manufactured population. As ROC insurance agent, Jacq Vaucan (Antonio Banderas) routinely investigates cases and complaints surrounding defective androids, he begins to uncover the secrets behind who is really manipulating the Automata Pilgrim 7000. Jacq’s own suspicions propel the mystery— uncovering a truth that is far more complex than the make or model of any machine.

With Jesse Moss • Amanda McBaine

A modern-day Grapes of Wrath, award-winning documentary The Overnighters is an intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow of migrants, a local pastor starts the controversial “overnighters” program, allowing down-and-out workers a place to sleep at the church. His well-meaning project immediately runs into resistance with his community, forcing the clergyman to make a decision which leads to profound consequences that he never imagined.

With Miles Teller • J.K. Simmons • Jason Reitman • Jason Blum • Damien Chazelle • Paul Reiser • David Lancaster • Austin Stowell • Couper Samuelson • Melissa Benoist

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.

With James Corden • Michael Menchel • Colm Meaney • David Frankel • Steve Whitney • Jemima Rooper • Julie Walters • Mackenzie Crook • Justin Zackham • Alexandra Roach

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.

With Jeremy Renner • Robert Patrick • Andy Garcia • Michael Sheen • Tim Blake Nelson • Oliver Platt • Michael Cuesta • Michael K. Williams • Paz Vega • Barry Pepper • Peter Landesman • Rosemarie DeWitt • Ray Liotta • Mary Elizabeth Winstead • Scott Stuber • Lucas Hedges • Nick Wechsler • Naomi Despres • Don Handfield • Josh Close

Jeremy Renner stars as Gary Webb, the real-life dedicated reporter for The San Jose Mercury-News. In the 1990s, Webb uncovered the Central Intelligence Agency’s role in importing cocaine into California that was sold to raise money for the Nicaraguan Contras rebel army. Supported by his wife and children, Webb pursued the story and went public with his evidence. When targeted for a vicious smear campaign by the CIA and rival journalists, Webb found himself fighting for his reputation and his family.

With Ryan Phillippe • Joyful Drake • Mark Burg • Tig Notaro • James DuMont • Holly Wiersma • Cassian Elwes • Joe Gossett • Robert Ogden Barnum

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.

With Clare Lewins

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.

With Ryan Murphy • Jason Blum • Addison Timlin • Travis Tope • Gary Cole • Veronica Cartwright • Joshua Leonard • Alfonso Gomez-Rejon • Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

The story centers on a rural Texarkana town that was stalked by a serial killer in 1946. The maniac was never caught and in 2013, he comes back. Addison Timlin plays a young high schooler being raised by her grandmother who’s targeted by the mysterious killer. Travis Tope will play a classmate who befriends Timlin’s character and decides to make a documentary about the search for the killer. Veronica Cartwright will play Timlin’s grandmother who is raising her after her parents die in a car accident. Gary Cole is a deputy who is doggedly pursuing the killer, and Joshua Leonard will play the deputy assigned to protect Timlin and her grandmother.

With Brad Pitt • Shia LaBeouf • Jon Bernthal • Michael Peña • Scott Eastwood • Bill Block • Xavier Samuel • Logan Lerman • Jason Isaacs • David Ayer • John Lesher • Brad Henke • Ethan Smith • Jim Parrack • Kevin Vance

At the end of World War II, April 1945, the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and his five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their attempt to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

With James Marsden • Michelle Monaghan • Bailey Winston • Jon Tenney • Denise DiNovi • Will Fetters • Michael Hoffman • Liana Liberato • Nicholas Sparks • J. Mills Goodloe • Sebastian Arcelus

The Best of Me tells the story of Dawson and Amanda, two former high school sweethearts who find themselves reunited after 20 years apart, when they return to their small town for the funeral of a beloved friend. Their bittersweet reunion reignites the love they've never forgotten, but soon they discover the forces that drove them apart twenty years ago live on, posing even more serious threats today. Spanning decades, this epic love story captures the enduring power of our first true love, and the wrenching choices we face when confronted with elusive second chances.

With Adam Sandler • Timothee Chalamet • Jennifer Garner • Emma Thompson • J.K. Simmons • Jason Reitman • Ansel Elgort • Kaitlyn Dever • Judy Greer • Erin Cressida Wilson • Rosemarie DeWitt • Elena Kampouris • Dennis Haysbert • Michael Beugg • Steven Rales • Travis Tope • David Denman • Jason Douglas • Mason Novick • Olivia Crocicchia • Dean Norris • Katherine Hughes

The film follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the Internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives. The film attempts to stare down social issues such as video game culture, anorexia, infidelity, fame hunting, and the proliferation of illicit material on the internet. As each character and each relationship is tested, we are shown the variety of roads people choose - some tragic, some hopeful - as it becomes clear that no one is immune to this enormous social change that has come through our phones, our tablets, and our computers.

With Channing Tatum • Ice Cube • Zoe Saldana • Guillermo del Toro • Christina Applegate • Danny Trejo • Ron Perlman • Gabriel Iglesias • Kate Del Castillo • Jorge R. Gutierrez • Doug Langdale

Set in a fantastical, colorful world, The Book of Life is the story of a young man who must face his greatest fears and follow his heart in order to rewrite his destiny. Filled with love, laughter, music and suspense, this big adventure for the whole family will warm the hearts of audiences as it reminds everyone of the importance of honoring the past while embracing the future.

With James Marsden • Chloë Grace Moretz • Lucy Liu • Beau Bridges • Oliver Platt • Dean Cain • Mary Steenburgen • Darren Criss • Frank Marshall • Geoffrey Wexler

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.

With Edward Norton • Emma Stone • Zach Galifianakis • Naomi Watts • Michael Keaton • Molly Conners • Nicolas Giacobone • Alexander Dinelaris • Andrea Riseborough • Amy Ryan • Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu • John Lesher • Lindsay Duncan • Arnon Milchan • Christopher Woodrow • Armando Bo • Sarah E. Johnson • James W. Skotchdopole

Riggan Thompson was Birdman, a crime-stopping superhero with a beak and a three-film franchise. Now, he's a washed up actor trying to get his career and life back together by opening his own play on Broadway. On the eve of it's opening, the play is close to falling apart and Riggan is forced to sign a younger, egotistical lead actor, whom he despises. What results over the next three days is strange, dark and downright hilarious, nearly costing Riggan his career, family and sanity in the process.

With Elle Fanning • Nicholas Hoult • Michael Shannon • Andy McPhee • Noah Baumbach • Kodi Smit-McPhee • Jake Paltrow • Lars Knudsen • Jay Van Hoy • Aimee Mullins

Young Ones is set in a near future when water has become the most precious and dwindling resource on the planet, one that dictates everything from the macro of political policy to the detailed micro of interpersonal family and romantic relationships. The land has withered into something wretched. The dust has settled on a lonely, barren planet. The hardened survivors of the loss of Earth’s precious resources scrape and struggle. Ernest Holm (Michael Shannon) lives on this harsh frontier with his children, Jerome (Kodi Smit McPhee)and Mary (Elle Fanning). He defends his farm from bandits, works the supply routes, and hopes to rejuvenate the soil. But Mary's boyfriend, Flem Lever (Nicholas Hoult), has grander designs. He wants Ernest's land for himself, and will go to any length to get it.

With Kristen Stewart • John Carroll Lynch • Julia Duffy • Lane Garrison • Peter Sattler • Yousuf Azami • Tara Holt • Cory Michael Smith • Peyman Moaadi

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.

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

Billy Crudup plays Sam, a former high-profile advertising executive whose life is torn apart by the sudden death of his son. Living off the grid on a docked sailboat, he wastes away his days while drowning his pain in alcohol. When Sam discovers a box filled with his son's demo tapes and lyrics, his own child’s musical talent is a revelation for him, a grieving father who felt he’d been absent from his son’s life. Communing with his deceased son’s dashed dreams, Sam learns each song and eventually musters the will to perform one at a local bar. When Quentin, a young musician in the audience, is captivated by the song, the unlikely duo forms a rock band that becomes surprisingly popular and revitalizes both of their lives.

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

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.

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

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

With Brett Harvey

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.

With Jeremy Renner • Robert Patrick • Andy Garcia • Michael Sheen • Tim Blake Nelson • Oliver Platt • Michael Cuesta • Michael K. Williams • Paz Vega • Barry Pepper • Peter Landesman • Rosemarie DeWitt • Ray Liotta • Mary Elizabeth Winstead • Scott Stuber • Lucas Hedges • Nick Wechsler • Naomi Despres • Don Handfield • Josh Close

Jeremy Renner stars as Gary Webb, the real-life dedicated reporter for The San Jose Mercury-News. In the 1990s, Webb uncovered the Central Intelligence Agency’s role in importing cocaine into California that was sold to raise money for the Nicaraguan Contras rebel army. Supported by his wife and children, Webb pursued the story and went public with his evidence. When targeted for a vicious smear campaign by the CIA and rival journalists, Webb found himself fighting for his reputation and his family.

With Chad Stahelski • Keanu Reeves • Willem Dafoe • Basil Iwanyk • Eva Longoria • Bridget Regan • Jason Isaacs • Ian McShane • Lance Reddick • Adrianne Palicki • Bridget Moynahan • Derek Kolstad

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".

With Michael Bay • Simon Kinberg • Jason Blum • Olivia Cooke • Andrew Form • Erin Moriarty • Brian Goldner • David Berenbaum • Edward Kitsis • Bianca A. Santos • Douglas Smith • Brad Fuller • Stiles White • Juliet Snowden • Evan Spiliotopoulos • Bennett Schneir • Adam Horowitz • Daren Kagasoff • Vivis Colombetti • Ana Coto

Follows a group of friends attempting to make contact with a recently deceased classmate through a Ouija board who awaken a dark and terrifying presence.

With Mel Gibson • Kate Beckinsale • Michael Caine • Jim Sturgess • Ben Kingsley • Brendan Gleeson • David Thewlis • Bruce Davey • Joe Gangemi • Fiona Shaw • Mark Amin • Cami Winikoff • David W. Higgins • Brad Anderson • Christopher Fulford

Jim Sturgess will star as a Harvard Medical School grad who takes a job a mental institution which the inmates have taken over and are posing as doctors. He becomes obsessed with the title character (Kate Beckinsale), one of the patients.

With Sylvester Stallone • Kelsey Grammer • Cary Elwes • Omari Hardwick • Tom Berenger • John Herzfeld • Nelly • Thomas Jane • Kevin Connolly • Kyra Sedgwick • Danny Aiello • Elizabeth Henstridge • Rebekah Chaney

The movie explores the results of a self-published motivational book by a reclusive author (Berenger) on a tabloid journalist (Connolly), his editor (Stallone), an arsonist ex-con (Sedgwick), a gunfighter cop (Jane), an alcoholic priest (Aiello) and a dimwitted gangster.

With Mark Ordesky • Robin Cowie • Gregg Hale • Brian Steele • Eduardo Sanchez • Jamie Nash • Jane Fleming • Andy Jenkins • Dora Madison Burge • Samuel Davis • Roger Edwards • Chris Osborn • Denise Williamson • Reed Frerichs

For five friends, it was a chance for a summer getaway— a weekend of camping in the Texas Big Thicket. But visions of a carefree vacation are shattered with an accident on a dark and desolate country road. In the wake of the accident, a bloodcurdling force of nature is unleashed—something not exactly human, but not completely animal— an urban legend come to terrifying life…and seeking murderous revenge.

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

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.

With Stephen Lang • Alexa Vega • Kimberly Jo Zimmer • Dylan Baker • Toni Hoover • Bram Hoover • Max Adler • Mark Hapka • Breanna Dean

A typical teenager growing up in a small town in Kentucky, Travis is a local hero on and off the field. In the fall of 1997, in the prime of his youth, he is unexpectedly stricken with an infection that destroys his optic nerve. He becomes blind overnight. Under the influence of parents who love him, a physical therapist who challenges him, a coach who inspires him, and a best friend who he cannot bear to leave behind, Travis shows us what true bravery is by competing on the gridiron, helping his team advance to the State playoffs. We follow Travis and Jerry Baker, his closest friend, from the time they meet on the football field as kids through high school. Jerry’s attraction to the dark side of teenage temptations, beer and drugs, threatens to pull the friends apart. It is only on the football field where they truly connect.

With Melissa McCarthy • Don Cheadle • Naomi Watts • Bill Murray • Terrence Howard • Peter Chernin • Chris O'Dowd • Fred Roos • Nate Corddry • Scott Adsit • Ted Melfi • Kay Liberman • Kimberly Quinn

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.

With Eva Green • Shailene Woodley • Angela Bassett • Christopher Meloni • Shiloh Fernandez • Thomas Jane • Gregg Araki • Andrea Sperling • Emmanuel Finkiel • Julie Peyr • Gabourey Sidibe • Sheryl Lee

Kat Connors (Shailene Woodley) is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve (Eva Green), a beautiful, enigmatic, and haunted woman, disappears - just as Kat is discovering and relishing her newfound sexuality. Having lived for so long in a stifled, emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, Brock, (Christopher Meloni) for the loss. In fact, it's almost a relief. But as time passes, Kat begins to come to grips with how deeply Eve's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, she finds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it...

With Jake Gyllenhaal • Kevin Rahm • Tony Gilroy • Bill Paxton • Rene Russo • Jennifer Fox • David Lancaster • Dan Gilroy • Ann Cusack • Michel Litvak

Nightcrawler stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling -- where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.

With James Wan • Danny Glover • Cary Elwes • Tobin Bell • Shawnee Smith • Dina Meyer • Mark Burg • Monica Potter • Leigh Whannell • Ken Leung • Oren Koules • Gregg Hoffman

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...

With Stephanie Szostak • Alexis Maitland • Jon Cryer • Will Sasso • Jed Rees • Ricky Blitt • Chantal Chamandy • Robert Menzies • Mike Ades

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?

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

Before I Go To Sleep is the story of a woman (Nicole Kidman) who wakes up every day with no memory as the result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, terrifying new truths begin to emerge that make her question everything she thinks she knows about her life - as well as everyone in it, including her doctor (Mark Strong) and even her husband (Colin Firth).

With Max Minghella • Daniel Radcliffe • Heather Graham • Peter Guber • Riza Aziz • Joey McFarland • Juno Temple • David Morse • Cathy Schulman • Kelli Garner • Joe Gatta • Keith Bunin • Alexandre Aja • Joe Hill • Adam Stone

The film follows Ig Perrish (Daniel Radcliffe, "Harry Potter" films), the number one suspect for the violent rape and murder of his girlfriend, Merrin (Juno Temple). Hungover from a night of hard drinking, Ig awakens one morning to find horns starting to grow from his own head and soon realizes their power drives people to confess their sins and give in to their most selfish and unspeakable impulses – an effective tool in his quest to discover the true circumstances of his late girlfriend's tragedy and for exacting revenge on her killer.

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

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.