Argo
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ben Affleck
Actors: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Kyle Chandler, Clea DuVall, Alan Arkin
Plot: Six Americans are hiding out at the Canadian Embassy as the Iranian revolution reaches critical mass. It's up to a CIA agent who specialized in "exfiltration" to get the Americans to safety with a risky escape plan.
Art of Conflict: The Murals of Northern Ireland
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Valeri Vaughn
Actors: Gerry Adams, Danny Devenny, David Ervine, Mark Ervine, Vince Vaughn, Jonathan McCormick
The Cottage
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Chris Jaymes
Actors: David Arquette, Kristen Dalton, Victor Browne, Morissa O'Mara, Alana O'Mara, Franny Hocking
Here Comes the Boom
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Frank Coraci
Actors: Salma Hayek, Kevin James, Joe Rogan, Henry Winkler, Bas Rutten, Greg Germann
Plot: A high school biology teacher turns to late-night MMA fights in order to earn money to save the school's ailing music program.
Last Time I Saw Macao, The ( Última Vez Que Vi Macau, A )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues
Actors: Lydie Barbara, João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues, Cindy Scrash
Once in a Lullaby: PS 22 Chorus Documentary
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jonathan Kalafer
Our Children ( À perdre la raison )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joachim Lafosse
Actors: Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim, Émilie Dequenne, Stéphane Bissot, Mounia Raoui, Redouane Behache
Seven Psychopaths
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin McDonagh
Actors: Woody Harrelson, Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Tom Waits
Plot: A down-on-his luck screenwriter gets some great inspiration when he finds himself in the cross-hairs of the criminal underworld after a couple of his friends kidnap the Shih Tzu of a gangster.
Sinister
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Scott Derrickson
Actors: Ethan Hawke, ViJuliet Rylance, Michael Hall D'Addario, Clare Foley, James Ransone, Victoria Leigh
Plot: A true-crime novelist seeks clues behind the murder of the family who inhabited the house he and his family just moved into. Using found footage he begins to unravel the truth, but what he discovers puts his family in danger.
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Tara Johns
Actors: Dolly Parton, Gil Bellows, Julia Sarah Stone, Macha Grenon, Emma Elle Paterson, Rebecca Croll
Company Man, A ( Hoi-sa-won )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/11/2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sang-yoon Lim
Actors: Ji-seob So, Mi-yeon Lee, Do Won Kwak, Dong-jun Kim, Gook-hwan Jeon, Kyeong-yeong Lee
Dead Before Dawn 3D
Theatrical Release Date: 10/11/2012
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: April Mullen
Actors: Devon Bostick, Martha MacIsaac, Christopher Lloyd, Brandon Jay McLaren, Brittany Allen, Kyle Schmid
Plot: Half Zombie. Half Demon. All Zemon! A group of college kids accidentally create, and then unleash, a curse that makes anyone they come into contact with kill themselves and then turn into zombie demons.
Machete Language ( lenguaje de los machetes, El )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/11/2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kyzza Terrazas
Actors: Jessy Bulbo, Andrés Almeida, Flor Eduarda Gurrola, Luisa Huertas, Julieta Egurrola, Luis Rábago
Shepard & Dark
Theatrical Release Date: 10/11/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Treva Wurmfeld
Actors: Sam Shepard, Johnny Dark
Plot: The lifelong friendship between Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark told in a series of letters the two wrote each other through good times and bad.
Putzel
Theatrical Release Date: 10/10/2012
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jason Chaet
Actors: Jack Carpenter, Melanie Lynskey, John Pankow, Susie Essman, Armando Riesco, Allegra Cohen
9.79*
Theatrical Release Date: 10/09/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Sport
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Daniel Gordon
Actors: David Harewood, Carl Lewis, Ben Johnson, Linford Christie, Robson da Silva, André Action Jackson
Plot: The Seoul 1988 Olympics - the 100 meter race had been billed as an epic matchup between American Carl Lewis and Canadian Ben Johnson. Johnson won the race but in a stunning development, just three days later, was stripped of his medal after a drug test revealed he was on steroids. Director Daniel Gordon looks back on this controversy and the widespread use of performance enhancing drugs in the sport.
Big Top Scooby-Doo!
Theatrical Release Date: 10/09/2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ben Jones
Actors: Frank Welker, Mindy Cohn, Grey Griffin, Matthew Lillard, Jonny Rees, Peter Stormare
Plot: After a series of thefts and werewolf sightings, the Mystery Gang goes undercover as
circus performers
Werewolf: The Beast Among Us
Theatrical Release Date: 10/09/2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Louis Morneau
Actors: Steven Bauer, Nia Peeples, Ed Quinn, Stephen Rea, Rachel DiPillo, Ana Ularu
Plot: A group of hunters seek out a village terrorised by a werewolf, Daniel the local doctors apprentice seeks to join the group to defend his village, but it turns out that this is not an ordinary werewolf.
Jayne Mansfield's Car
Theatrical Release Date: 10/07/2012
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
Actors: Kevin Bacon, Ray Stevenson, Robert Patrick, John Hurt, Shawnee Smith, Robert Duvall
Plot: Alabama, 1969 - when an estranged wife and mother passes away, two very different families find themselves coming together - but will the scars of the past tear them apart or exposing the truth bring them together?
My Father and the Man in Black
Theatrical Release Date: 10/07/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jonathan Holiff
Actors: Johnny Cash, Saul Holiff, June Carter Cash, Jonathan Holiff, Gary Holiff, David Disher
Plot: Director Jonathan Holiff explores his relationship with Saul Holiff - who was also the talented, yet troubled, manager for "bad boy" Johnny Cash.
Night Across the Street ( noche de enfrente, La )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/07/2012
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Actors: Christian Vadim, Sergio Hernández, Valentina Vargas, Chamila Rodríguez, Pedro Villagra, Pedro Vicuña
Sexual Tension: Volatile ( Tensión sexual, Volumen 1: Volátil )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/07/2012
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marco Berger, Marcelo Mónaco
Actors: Lucas Lagré, Mario Verón, Javier De Pietro, Lautaro Machaca, Jair Toledo, Santiago Caamaño
Plot: In six different short stories, men find themselves experiencing extremely homoerotic
feelings.
Children of Sorrow
Theatrical Release Date: 10/06/2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jourdan McClure
Actors: Bill Oberst Jr., Hannah Levien, Whitney Nielsen, Nich Kauffman, Galen Howard, Daniel Mentz
The Discoverers
Theatrical Release Date: 10/06/2012
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Justin Schwarz
Actors: John C. McGinley, Madeleine Martin, Dreama Walker, Cara Buono, Becky Ann Baker, Griffin Dunne
Found in Time
Theatrical Release Date: 10/06/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Arthur Vincie
Actors: MacLeod Andrews, Mina Vesper Gokal, Kelly Sullivan, Derek Morgan, Eric Martin Brown, Stephen C. Bradbury
Nor'easter
Theatrical Release Date: 10/06/2012
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrew Brotzman
Actors: David Call, Richard Bekins, Liam Aiken, Haviland Morris, Rachel Brosnahan, Danny Burstein
Venus and Serena
Theatrical Release Date: 10/06/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Maiken Baird, Michelle Major
Actors: Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Billie Jean King, John McEnroe, Anna Wintour, Richard Williams
Plot: When Venus and Serena Williams burst on the tennis scene - they provoked an immediate reaction from respect to resentment. But through it all, the sisters proved time and time again they were a force to be reckoned with. In a sport where youth trumps experience, the two sisters have had a long and impressive career. The documentary looks back at their lives but also explores the 2011 season where one sister battled against an autoimmune disease, while the other fought a pulmonary embolism.
Atlas Shrugged: Part II
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Putch
Actors: Samantha Mathis, Jason Beghe, Esai Morales, Patrick Fabian, D.B. Sweeney, Kim Rhodes
Plot: With the entire economy of the world on the brink of collapse, Dagny Taggart had discovered a solution that could reverse financial disaster and usher in a new era of prosperity: a motor that runs on static electricity. But there are other powers at work, and the creator of the design has gone missing. Taggart is being watched, but he must succeed or the world may never recover.
Cousin Jules ( cousin Jules, Le )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Dominique Benicheti
Excuse Me for Living
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ric Klass
Actors: Tom Pelphrey, Christopher Lloyd, Robert Vaughn, Melissa Archer, Jerry Stiller, Dick Cavett
Plot: A charming druggie with a penchant for suicide is given an ultimatum: lead a senior men's group at his rehab clinic or face prison - and thus love the love of his life.
The Frozen
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Andrew Hyatt
Actors: Seth David Mitchell, Brit Morgan, Noah Segan
Plot: After a snowmobile leaves a couple stranded in the woods, they must figure out how to survive until help arrived. But Emma soon has a much more immediate problem to deal with: her husband disappears and mysterious, dangerous hunter begins to track her.
Grave Encounters 2
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Poliquin
Actors: Stephanie Bennett, Sean Rogerson, Howie Lai, Richard Harmon, Leanne Lapp, Dylan Playfair
Hotel Noir
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez
Actors: Malin Akerman, Aaron Behr, Kevin Connolly, Rosario Dawson, Danny DeVito, Robert Forster
Plot: In 1958 L.A. a detective slips into a downtown hotel knowing that killers will soon arrive on his tail. While awaiting his fate, he meets the various occupants of the hotel as his story is revealed.
Land of Hope, The ( Kibô no kuni )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shion Sono
Actors: Isao Natsuyagi, Naoko Ohtani, Jun Murakami, Megumi Kagurazaka, Hikari Kajiwara, Yutaka Shimizu
Least Among Saints
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Papazian
Actors: Martin Papazian, Tristan Lake Leabu, Laura San Giacomo, Azura Skye, Audrey Marie Anderson, Charles S. Dutton
Plot: A soldier back home still battling demons, a young man coming from a shattered home life - two souls in need of salvation find each other and the journey they take, and friendship they form, may be the redemption they both need.
Madrid, 1987
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Trueba
Actors: José Sacristán, María Valverde, Ramon Fontserè, Bárbara Lemus, Isabelle Stoffel, Eduardo Antuña
Middle of Nowhere
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ava DuVernay
Actors: David Oyelowo, Sharon Lawrence, Omari Hardwick, Dondre Whitfield, Maya Gilbert, Lorraine Toussaint
Plot: After her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of med school in order to focus on his well-being and finds her own life put into perspective in the process.
Photographic Memory
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ross McElwee
Actors: Ross McElwee, Adrian McElwee
Plot: Director Ross McElwee has lived life behind the camera for a long time - including filming his son Adrian as he grew up. Yet as Adrian reaches his 20s, the father and son have a definite disconnect and Ross decides in order to better understand his son, he will return to the place he was at in his 20s and retrace his steps.
Smashed
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Ponsoldt
Actors: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Mary Kay Place
Plot: A couple have found their bond in the mutual addiction to alcohol. This relationship will be put to the test when the wife finally decides to get sober.
Thieves, The ( Dodookdeul )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Dong-Hoon Choi
Actors: Gianna Jun, Hae-suk Kim, Yun-seok Kim, Angelica Lee, Jung-Jae Lee, Hye-su Kim
Plot: The thief Popeye is hired by his former partner Macau Park (who still has a cache of gold from their last job) to steal a priceless diamond known as the 'Tear of the Sun' but Popeye has an ace up his sleeve: master safe cracker Pepsi - former flame of Park. Everyone has their own agenda - but only one can come out on top.
War of the Buttons ( nouvelle guerre des boutons, La )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Adventure/Family
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christophe Barratier
Actors: Jean Texier, Clément Godefroy, Théophile Baquet, Louis Dussol, Laetitia Casta, Harold Werner
Plot: A pair of rival gangs made up of children from two different French villages engage in a very serious "play" war.
A Whisper to a Roar
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2012
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ben Moses
Actors: Alfred Molina
Plot: Five activists looking for democracy in their five countries: Egypt, Malaysia, Ukraine, Venezuela and Zimbabwe - will risk everything in the name of freedom.
Blancanieves
Theatrical Release Date: 10/11/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Pablo Berger
Actors: Maribel Verdú, Ángela Molina, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Inma Cuesta, Macarena García, Pere Ponce
Plot: A unique take on the Snow White fable set in 1920s era Seville and centered around a female bullfighter.
Dead Man and Being Happy, The ( muerto y ser feliz, El )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/11/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Javier Rebollo
Actors: Valeria Alonso, Roxana Blanco, Lisa Caligaris, Jorge Jellinek, Carlos Lecuona, Vicky Peña
Smiley
Theatrical Release Date: 10/11/2012
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael J. Gallagher
Actors: Caitlin Gerard, Melanie Papalia, Shane Dawson, Andrew James Allen, Roger Bart, Keith David
Plot: Ashley learns of an Internet urban legend - a serial killer you can
summon. Already suffering from mental unbalance, she must decide if she's
sinking deeper into insanity or is Smiley's next target.
Tabu
Theatrical Release Date: 10/10/2012
Overall Rating: 1.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Miguel Gomes
Actors: Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, Henrique Espírito Santo, Carloto Cotta, Isabel Muñoz Cardoso
Plot: A retired woman and her deceased neighbor's maid journey to Mount Tabu in Africa in order to meet a man with a mysterious connection to her past.
Trip, A ( Izlet )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/10/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nejc Gazvoda
Actors: Luka Cimpric, Jure Henigman, Nina Rakovec
First Cousin Once Removed
Theatrical Release Date: 10/09/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alan Berliner
Actors: Edwin Honig, Alan Berliner
After Winter, Spring
Theatrical Release Date: 10/08/2012
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Judith Lit
Koch
Theatrical Release Date: 10/08/2012
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Neil Barsky
Actors: Ed Koch, Michael Bloomberg
Plot: Although Ed Koch was a three-time mayor of New York (1978-1989), his life remained quite private. But this documentary finally gives us an intimate look into the life and view of the combative, funny, and blunt man who helped run one of the world's most wondrous cities.
Bwakaw
Theatrical Release Date: 10/07/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jun Lana
Actors: Eddie Garcia, Rez Cortez, Soliman Cruz, Bibeth Orteza, Joey Paras, Princess
Rice Paddy, The ( rizière, La )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/07/2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Xiaoling Zhu
Actors: Xiang Chuifen, Shi Guangjin, Wu Shenming, Yang Xiaoyuan, O. Xuexin, Yang Yingqiu
