Addiction Incorporated
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Evans Jr.
Actors: Danny Abel, Phil Barnett, Michael C. Moore, Henry Waxman, David Kessler, Cliff Douglas
The Big Year
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David Frankel
Actors: Jim Parsons, Owen Wilson, Rosamund Pike, Jack Black, Rashida Jones, Steve Martin
Plot: Three competitors face off in a prestigious annual event: birdwatching to catch site of the rarest specimens in North America.
Bombay Beach
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alma Har'el
Actors: Benny Parrish, CeeJay Thompson, Red
Plot: Director Alma Har'el focuses on three individual stories in the community of Bombay Beach - one of the poorest in Southern California: a young, bipolar boy and his family, a would-be football player looking to escape the gangs of L.A. and an old-timer who saw his community go from thriving vacation destination to its current status.
A Few Best Men
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stephan Elliott
Actors: Rebel Wilson, Xavier Samuel, Olivia Newton-John, Kevin Bishop, Kris Marshall, Laura Brent
Plot: David, while on holiday, falls in love with Mia and plans a wedding. He returns to England in order to collect his three best friends - and they all head to the Outback for the impromptu celebration.
Fireflies in the Garden
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dennis Lee
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Julia Roberts, Ioan Gruffudd
Plot: Explores the fractured relationship of one family over the course of three generations where a tragic accident has far-reaching consequences.
Footloose
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Craig Brewer
Actors: Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid, Kenny Wormald, Miles Teller, Andie MacDowell, Ray McKinnon
Plot: Remake of the 1984 in which a teen moves to a conservative town and shakes things up by breaking the rules against dancing.
Khodorkovsky
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cyril Tuschi
Actors: Pavel Khodorkovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Marina Khodorkovskaya, Lena Khodorkovskaya, Anton Drel, Joschka Fischer
Plot: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the richest man in Russia, dares to take on Vladimir Putin and winds up in prison. But what is the real story behind the man and his incarceration?
Miss Bala
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gerardo Naranjo
Actors: Stephanie Sigman, Irene Azuela, Miguel Couturier, Jose Yenque, Noe Hernandez, James Russo
Plot: Despite being surrounded by violence and dangerous drug cartels, a young woman in Mexico refuses to give up on her dream of becoming a beauty queen.
Oka!
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lavinia Currier
Actors: Will Yun Lee, Haviland Morris, Kris Marshall, Peter Riegert, Isaach De Bankolé, Ho-Kwan Tse
Plot: American ethno-musicologist Louis Sarno spent 25 years with the Bayaka Pygmies in Central Africa - this is his story.
The Pig Who Cried Werewolf
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gary Trousdale
Actors: Sean Bishop, Cody Cameron, Aron Warner
Plot: Three little pigs that live together are under constant stress due to the nosy nature of one of them.
Rosewood Lane
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Victor Salva
Actors: Rose McGowan, Lauren Vélez, Ray Wise, Bill Fagerbakke, Lesley-Anne Down, Lin Shaye
Plot: A radio talk show psychiatrist moves back home where she can't help but notice the neighborhood paper boy is acting quite unusual...
Skin I Live In, The ( piel que habito, La )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez, Marisa Paredes, Bárbara Lennie, Jan Cornet
Plot: Based on the book Mygale by Thierry Jonquet - a plastic surgeon plots his
revenge against the men responsible for raping his daughter.
Texas Killing Fields
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 2.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ami Canaan Mann
Actors: Chloe Moretz, Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jessica Chastain, Stephen Graham, Annabeth Gish
Plot: A local homicide detective and a New York cop join forces to catch the
killer behind a series of unsolved murders in the bayous and backwoods of
Texas.
The Thing
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Actors: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Kim Bubbs
Plot: A prequel to the 1982 films of the same name: A research team in the Antarctic comes across an alien spacecraft leading to a confrontation between the lead scientist and his graduate students on what to do about the discovery.
Trespass
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Cam Gigandet, Nicole Kidman, Liana Liberato, Nico Tortorella, Jordana Spiro
Plot: Things go from bad to worse for a husband and wife held for ransom when it turns out a simple home invasion holds divides the couple when deception and betrayal are revealed.
Zombie Dawn
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 1.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lucio A. Rojas, Cristian Toledo
Actors: Sebastian Accorsi, Jorge Magni, Guillermo Alfaro, Cristian Ramos, Pablo Tournelle, Felipe Lobos
58: The Film
Theatrical Release Date: 10/13/2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tim Neeves, Tony Neeves
The Cup
Theatrical Release Date: 10/13/2011
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Simon Wincer
Actors: Stephen Curry, Alice Parkinson, Brendan Gleeson, Tom Burlinson, Rodger Corser, Colleen Hewett
Plot: Two brothers are in competition to compete in the 2002 Melbourne Cup race when tragedy strikes.
Turin Horse, The ( Torinói ló, A )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/13/2011
Overall Rating: 2.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Hungarian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
Actors: János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos, Ricsi
Plot: While in Turin, Italy, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witness a horse being whipped by a carriage diver and throws his arms around it - soon after this scene he collapses and is diagnosed with a mental disorder that will leave him bedridden for the next 11 years until his death. But what of the horse? The film follows animal and owner - as he struggles with making a living while watching as his aged, sickly horse does all it can to sustain his livelihood.
1911 ( Xinhai geming )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jackie Chan, Li Zhang
Actors: Jackie Chan, Bingbing Li, Winston Chao, Joan Chen, Jaycee Chan, Wenli Jiang
Plot: A film based on the fall of the Qing Dynasty and subsequent founding of the Republic of China.
Night of the Living Carrots
Theatrical Release Date: 10/12/2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Porter
Actors: Seth Rogen, Kiefer Sutherland, James Horan, David Kaye, Julie White, Jeffrey Tambor
Plot: Carrot zombies attempt to take over the world.
Amber Lake
Theatrical Release Date: 10/11/2011
Overall Rating: 1.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joe Robert Cole
Actors: Mekenna Melvin, Timothy V. Murphy, Carmen Argenziano, Natalie Smyka, Polly Cole, Melissa Kite
Arena
Theatrical Release Date: 10/11/2011
Overall Rating: 2.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jonah Loop
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Kellan Lutz, Johnny Messner, Katia Winter, Daniel Dae Kim, James Remar
Plot: A man finds himself thrown into the deadly world of modern gladiatorial combat, where people fight to the death to appease online masses.
Christmas Lodge
Theatrical Release Date: 10/11/2011
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Terry Ingram
Actors: Erin Karpluk, Michael Shanks, Rukiya Bernard, Rebecca Toolan, Michael Kopsa, Victoria Banks
Plot: During a weekend trip to the mountains, Mary (Erin Karpluk) finds herself at the now run-down lodge where she spent the holidays with her family growing up. She becomes determined to restore the building to its former glory. Inspired by her grandfather and guided by her grandmother in heaven, Mary throws herself into the project, and during the process finds herself drawn to Jack (Michael Shanks), a handsome man who loves the lodge as much as she does. Historically unlucky in love, this chance encounter allows Mary to renew her faith in life and discover her one true love.
Farm
Theatrical Release Date: 10/11/2011
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hank Bausch, Andrew M. Jackson
Actors: Michael Hotop, Ashley Salazar, Freddie Meyer
The Marshmallow Ghosts Present Corpse Reviver No. 2
Theatrical Release Date: 10/11/2011
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kevin Canavan, Ryan Graveface, Sara Odze, Rebecca Ulmo
Actors: Jeff Brochu, Louis Clausi, Scott Copeland, David Davis, Nicodemus Hammil, Grace Pena
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Theatrical Release Date: 10/11/2011
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Actors: Jason Baldwin, Damien Wayne Echols, Jessie Miskelly
Plot: The third documentary about the "West Memphis Three" following Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills and Paradise Lost 2: Revelations. Filmmakers Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky continue to fight for the releases of Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelly, and Jason Baldwin as new DNA evidence surfaces that could clear their names once and for all.
Pinching Penny
Theatrical Release Date: 10/11/2011
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dan Glaser
Actors: Steven Molony, Timothy J. Meyer, Ginny Glaser, Lauren J. Wertz, Chadwick Richard Anderson, Ryan Niebeling
Stand Strong
Theatrical Release Date: 10/11/2011
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Amy Kenney
Actors: Bryce Bishop, Nathan Dobbin, Ricky Egan, Alex Gilson, Stephanie Goodman, Aura Kenney
Wasteland
Theatrical Release Date: 10/11/2011
Overall Rating: 1.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kantz
Actors: Garret Sato, Derrel Maury, Janelle Velasquez, Jordan Lawson, Ira Katz, Jagger Chase
Collaborator
Theatrical Release Date: 10/09/2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Martin Donovan
Actors: Martin Donovan, David Morse, Olivia Williams, Melissa Auf der Maur, Eileen Ryan, Julian Richings
Plot: A New York playwright finds his personal life and professional career in shambles and decides a trip back to his L.A. home is in order. Planning on seeking out a secret girlfriend, instead he is taken hostage by brutish childhood neighbor Gus. The two engage in an impromptu session of improvised dialogue - where the material becomes more and more personal and neither man will escape unscathed.
The Killage
Theatrical Release Date: 10/08/2011
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joe Bauer
Actors: Rita Artmann, Michael Gerard Bauer, Meisha Lowe, Carmel Savage, Laura Jane Turner, Dryden Bingham
Land of Oblivion ( Terre outragée )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/08/2011
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michale Boganim
Actors: Olga Kurylenko, Andrzej Chyra, Nikita Emshanov, Ilya Iosifov, Vyacheslav Slanko, Nicolas Wanczycki
My San Joaquin
Theatrical Release Date: 10/08/2011
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elisa Olvera
Actors: Adriano Ages, Joey Fernandez, Omare Nare, Jeslen Mishelle Saenz
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia ( Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/08/2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Turkish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Actors: Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Firat Tanis, Ercan Kesal
Plot: A group of men head out to the Anatolian steppes to search for the body of a murder victim but as the search goes on for much longer than planned, it turns in to a much more complex mission.
Sleeping Sickness ( Schlafkrankheit )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/08/2011
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ulrich Köhler
Actors: Pierre Bokma, Jean-Christophe Folly, Jenny Schily, Hippolyte Girardot, Maria Elise Miller, Sava Lolov
Brawler
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chris Sivertson
Actors: Nathan Grubbs, Marc Senter, Bryan Batt, Michael Bowen, Pell James, Lance E. Nichols
Plot: Charlie Fontaine is an underground fighter who puts his fighting on hold when he injures himself protecting his younger brother, Bobby. Yet he's eager to get back in the ring when he finds out his brother is having an affair with his wife - he doesn't just want to fight him, but fight him to the death.
Vito
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
Actors: Vito Russo, Charles Russo, Lily Tomlin, Rob Epstein, Armistead Maupin, Jenni Olson
Plot: Vito Russo was one of the pioneering voices in the gay liberation movement and wrote "The Celluloid Closet" - the first book to openly criticize the portrayal of homosexuals iby Hollywood. When the AIDS crisis hit, he continued to sound his voice, becoming an advocate in ACT UP before his death in 1990.
