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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Texas Ranger hunts for the Phantom Killer, a hooded serial killer, terrorizing the residents of a small town.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hoping to find catharsis after the death of his son, a grieving father forms a band from his son’s demo tapes and lyrics.

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.

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

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.

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".

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.

A group of twentysomethings take a trip to a cabin deep in the wooded wilderness and are methodically hunted by a Bigfoot-like beast.

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.

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.

Story follows a group of people who all have a connection to a self-help book authored by a reclusive former football coach.

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.

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.

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?

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...

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.

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.