Movies Released October 16, 2015

Friday, October 16

Goosebumps PG

A primary protagonist(s) is often situated in a remote location or somehow isolated from typical societal conventions. These range from a comfortable suburban area to boarding schools, foreign villages, campsites, unfamiliar relatives' homes or even oversea areas. The books in the series usually feature semi-homogenous plot structures with normal kids being, frequently indirectly, involved in scary situations; chapters end in cliffhangers, and after the central conflict has either been or appears to have been resolved, there is often a twist ending.
Neal H. Moritz, Halston Sage, Jack Black, Carl Ellsworth, Dylan Minnette, Amy Ryan, Odeya Rush, Ryan Lee
Adventure Suspense Adaptation Family
135 mins

Bridge of Spies PG-13

Tom Hanks is attached to play James Donovan, a prominent American attorney enlisted by the CIA during the Cold War to slip behind the Iron Curtain and negotiate the release of Gary Powers, a pilot captured when his U-2 spy plane was shot down over Russia.
Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Scott Shepherd, Amy Ryan, Sebastian Koch, Marc Platt
Thriller Spy
119 mins

Crimson Peak R

Described as a classical but modern take on the ghost story.
Matthew Robbins, Lucinda Coxon, Mia Wasikowska, Jonathan Hyde, Guillermo del Toro, Charlie Hunnam, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston
Thriller Horror Supernatural
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Freeheld PG-13

A New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she is diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Stacey Sher, Michael Shannon, Josh Charles, Luke Grimes, Peter Sollett, Michael Shamberg
Drama

The Diabolical NR

Set in suburbia, a woman turns to her scientist boyfriend for help destroying the violent spirit that has an increasingly strange and intense presence in her home.
Alistair Legrand, Kevin Iwashina, Luke Harvis, Ali Larter, Arjun Gupta, Max Rose
Horror Supernatural
113 mins

Room R

Told through the eyes of five-year-old-Jack (Jacob Tremblay), Room is a thrilling and emotional tale that celebrates the resilience and power of the human spirit. To Jack, Room is the world.... It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma (Brie Larson) eat and sleep and play and learn. But while it’s home to Jack, to Ma it’s a prison. Through her fierce love for her son, Ma has managed to create a childhood for him in their ten-by-ten-foot space. But as Jack’s curiosity is building alongside Ma’s own desperation – she knows that Room cannot contain either indefinitely.
Joan Allen, Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, William H. Macy, Megan Park, Lenny Abrahamson, Ed Guiney, David Gross
Drama
New York / Los Angeles
3 / 5
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Beasts Of No Nation NR

Follows a child soldier torn from his family and pressed into fighting a civil war in an African country.
Cary Joji Fukunaga, Idris Elba, Abraham Attah
Drama War

All Things Must Pass

Established in 1960, Tower Records was once a retail powerhouse with close to two hundred stores, in more than a dozen countries, on four continents. From humble beginnings in a small-town drugstore, Tower Records eventually became the heart and soul of the music world, and a powerful force in the music industry. In 1999, Tower Records made $1 billion. In 2006, the company filed for bankruptcy. What went wrong? Everyone thinks they know what killed Tower Records: The Internet. But that's not the story. All Things Must Pass is a feature documentary film examining this iconic company's explosive trajectory, tragic demise, and legacy forged by its rebellious founder, Russ Solomon.
Colin Hanks, Sean Stuart
Documentary

Experimenter

Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger (Jim Gaffigan) strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha (Winona Ryder) stands by him through it all.
Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Michael Almereyda, Jim Gaffigan, Edoardo Ballerini, Kellan Lutz
Drama
125 mins

Truth R

The film will center on Rather’s 2004 report on CBS’ “60 Minutes Wednesday”about a series of memos critical of President George W. Bush’s Texas Air National Guard service record that had been discovered in the files of the president’s former commanding officer. The authenticity of those documents was called into question, which led to claims that the memos were forgeries.
Dennis Quaid, William Sherak, David Lyons, Cate Blanchett, Bruce Greenwood, John Benjamin Hickey, James Vanderbilt, Mikkel Bondesen
Drama Biography True Story
90 mins

Tab Hunter Confidential

In the 1950s, Tab Hunter is America’s Boy Next Door. Nothing, it seems, can damage his skyrocketing career. Nothing, that is, except for the fact that Tab Hunter is secretly gay. Now, Tab Hunter’s secret is out. In Tab Hunter Confidential we will meet, for the first time, the real Tab Hunter as he shares with us the whole story of a happy, healthy survivor of Hollywood’s roller coaster.
Jeffrey Schwarz
Documentary

Woodlawn PG

In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.
C. Thomas Howell, Jon Voight, Sherri Shepherd, Rhoda Griffis, Richard Kohnke, Jon Erwin, Andrew Erwin, Quinton Peeples
Drama Sports True Story

Meadowland R

The jolt of her son disappearing puts a woman on an unexpected and dangerous path toward acceptance as she seeks out a relationship with a neglected boy and watches it take an unexpected turn.
Giovanni Ribisi, Juno Temple, Matt Tauber, Chris Rossi, Kid Cudi, Kevin Corrigan, Luke Wilson, Elisabeth Moss
Psychological

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