October 2010 Movies

"Case 39" is a horror film starring Renée Zellweger as family services social worker Emily Jenkins. Emily thinks she has seen it all until she meets her newest, most mysterious case, troubled 10-year old Lilith Sullivan (Jodelle Ferland). Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to kill Lilith, their only daughter. Emily saves her and decides to take her in herself until the right foster family comes along.

A 12-year-old boy, who is bullied in school, befriends a young female neighbor who moves to town and turns out to be a vampire.

Three bachelors set up a speed dating scheme to attract women and money. The plan runs into problems when they are denied a liquor license and an ex-girlfriend attempts to expose the scam.

Based on the bestseller Freakonomics, where economist Steven D. Levitt uses statistics and theory to analyze pop culture.

The story concerns a womanizer who wakes up sans his "family jewels" after an irate father attacks him with a trumpet. Things go from bad to worse for the title character when he learns that he's being sued for paternity by a woman he can't even remember having sex with.

After Marybeth escapes from the clutches of Victor Crowley, she learns the truth about his curse, and heads back into the haunted New Orleans swamp to seek revenge for her family.

Based on "Secretariat," the 1973 Triple Crown-winning racehorse and its owner, Penny Chenery. Chenery was a mother and housewife who knew little about horses when she was pressed to take over her ailing father's horse farm in Virginia. Though Secretariat came along and began to take shape as a potential champion, Chenery was pressured to sell the farm after her father died and she was hit with a multimillion-dollar inheritance tax. She saved both the farm and the horse, and watched as Secretariat became the first thoroughbred to win the Triple Crown in 25 years, taking the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in dominating fashion. Chenery became known as the "first lady of racing."

A clinically depressed 15-year-old checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward where he gains a new lease on life.

Ryan Reynolds will star in "Buried", playing a civilian contractor who's kidnapped in Iraq and awakens buried in a coffin in the desert, armed only with a cell phone, a candle and a knife.

Two single people suddenly become caregivers to an orphaned girl after the parents, their mutual best friends, are killed in an accident.

The story concerns a serial killer who shows up 15 years after he is believed dead to kill seven children born on his supposed death day.

Based on a play by "Junebug" screenwriter Angus MacLachlan. Robert De Niro will play a parole officer who develops a friendship with a teaching assistant.

The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, "Inside Job" traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.

Fundamentalists kidnap the man they believe murdered their religious leader, but they may have the wrong person.

As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory. And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed–even comforted–by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.

The story centers on a sexy flirtatious woman who returns to her small country village and stirs up dark passions among the locals.

A remake of the controversial 1979 horror movie, it retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer’s presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson.

The 12th-century Benedictine nun who was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist.

A former black-ops CIA agent's quiet life in retirement is disrupted when a high-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him. With his secret identity compromised and his love interest in danger, the man must reassemble his old team to figure out who is out to get them.

A smuggler trying to sell out cheap goods in Brazil is assaulted by two bandits, but is saved by a beautiful local girl.

When a white lion is miraculously born into a remote African valley, a young Shangaan named Gisani finds himself destined to protect this rare and magnificent creature at all costs.

About a single mother who worked her way through law school in order to free her brother, who was wrongfully convicted of murder. Hilary Swank will play the title role in the true story of a high school dropout who would not give up her belief that her brother, Kenneth, had been framed. In between raising kids and waiting tables, she worked her way through college and law school so she could represent her brother after he’d used up his attempts to appeal his conviction through public defenders.

The downfall of a successful man that leads to a series of troubled romantic relationships, betrayal and murder.

A political documentary that examines two philosophies for the roles of the federal government as examplified by Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.

Terkel is a miserable, unhappy sixth grader who is constantly picked on by two merciless bullies. One day Terkel finds a way to be cool, but it involves making fun of his best friends’ sister and his girlfriend.

Samson and Delilah live in an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival.

In 1930's Austria, Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp asks the convent for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, they give Maria the job.

Filmmakers Scott Glosserman and Nic Hill explore the history and cultural implications of one of the referenced sites on the Internet, Wikipedia.org.

Focused on Billy Joel's final concert at Shea Stadium before it was demolished, with the ballpark and the New York Mets' history intertwined into the storyline.

A sequel the low-budget camcorder-filmed horror movie, "Paranormal Activity 2" will look to repeat the original's surprise box office success. No plot details are available.

A documentary about Lord's Gym, an Austin Texas gym founded by a former professional boxer, and the training discipline to reach one's personal best.

A district attorney uncovers nefarious activities while on a desperate search for a doctor to save his young daughter.

The film centers on a fight promoter (Mark Feuerstein) deeply in debt to his crooked rival. Desperate for a new fighter that will help him win back everything he owes, the promoter catches a break when a 450-pound church handyman (Paul "Big Show" Wight) who has spent his entire life in an orphanage agrees to wrestle on behalf of his fellow orphans.

In 1930's Austria, Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp asks the convent for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, they give Maria the job.

Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli Police Officer, of his past as the architect of Hitler's plan for the final solution.

A US journalist agrees to escourt an American tourist through Mexico, which has been designated an "infected zone" after a NASA probe carrying an alien life sample crashed in the country.

Follows artist Vik Muniz to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" - or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials.

In the final part of the Millennium Trilogy, Lisbeth Salander is hospitalized after meeting with her father. Mikael Blomqvist continues to uncover the reasons why Lisbeth has been treated harshly by the Swedish authorities.

Four friends struggle to find their way through the meanders of Indian matrimony in an attempt to combine their deep-rooted tradition and modern New York life.