October 2011 Movies

From his embed with US Marines Echo Company in Afghanistan, photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis reveals the devastating impact a Taliban machine-gun bullet has on the life of 25-year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris. The film seamlessly transitions from st

Giorgio Moroder's 1984 version of Metropolis, which added a new score from '80s pop acts including Pat Benatar, Freddie Mercury and Bonnie Tyler.

A young communications director works for a fast-rising presidential candidate. During the course of the campaign, the idealistic young man falls prey to the backstabbing and other dirty trickery of seasoned rival politicos.

In the future, 2,000-pound robots resembling humans battle in a boxing ring. A promoter takes his fighter to the championships.

A 3D IMAX movie about the prehistoric world inhabited by pterosaurs -- flying vertebrates with a wingspan of up to 45 feet that lived alongside dinosaurs.

An old American named cowboy in Bolivia who dreams of returning to the US. crosses paths with a young Spanish mining engineer accused of robbing a mine, and the two slowly strike up a friendship.

Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking The Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of St. James. Driven by his profound sadness and desire to understand his son better, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage, leaving his "California bubble life" behind.

Set in Paris in 1960, story centers on a conservative couple's world being turned upside down when Spanish maids begin working and comingling the family.

An epic war film that details the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the violent rebellion that brought it down. With China split into warring factions and the starving citizens beginning to revolt, the ruling Qings are building a powerful army to quash any rebellion. But revolutionary leader Huang Xing (Chan) decides he must act before the Qing army becomes too powerful and leads an increasingly desperate series of violent uprisings against the power Qings.

Three rival bird-watchers brave hazardous weather, competitor tactics and unhappy spouses to win the North American Big Year, an annual bird-watching competition.

A remake and "a companion piece" to the 1982 original "John Carpenter's The Thing". The 1982 original dealt with a shape-shifting creature from outer space that terrorizes researchers at an Antarctic facility.

Story centers on two cops who realize that the latest murder in their jurisdiction connects their case to the notorious killing fields murders. The killing field murders concern four bodies that were found in the same place in Texas.

Four brutal perpetrators, looking for easy money, take a wife and husband hostage, but they run into complications with betrayal and deception.

25 years ago, ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno traveled from New Jersey to the forests of Central Africa to record the music of the Bayaka Pygmies. Falling in love with a Bayaka girl and her forest lifestyle, he decided to stay.

A humble inventor-turned-egomaniacal billionaire loses it all when one of his inventions goes horribly awry. After eight years in federal prison, he returns bankrupt, homeless and determined to rebuild his reputation and fortune.

A working-class girl lands a job in a posh ski resort and discovers her natural snowboarding genius while dating the boss’ son.

A successful country lawyer captures and attempts to civilize the last remaining member of a violent clan that has roamed the Northeast coast for decades, thereby putting the lives of his family in extreme jeopardy.

Father Billy (Steve Little), an eccentric young priest, is forced to take a sabbatical by his superiors when he is discovered telling inappropriate parables to his flock. Billy tracks down his high-school idol Robbie (Robert Longstreet), who begrudgingly agrees to a canoe trip. When night approaches, they realize they have lost their way -- and that's when things get weird.

Paul Goodman was once so ubiquitous in the American zeitgeist that he merited a cameo in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Author of legendary bestseller Growing Up Absurd, Goodman was also a poet, 1940s out queer and family man, pacifist, visionary, co-founder of Gestalt therapy—and a moral compass for many in the burgeoning counterculture of the '60s.

With the sequel opening with over $40 million on a mere $3 million production budget, a third movie in the Paranormal Activity series would appear inevitable.

A modernized reimagining of the classic novels written by Alexandre Dumas that follow the story of a young d’Artagnan, who longs to become a great musketeer — one of the personal guards of the French crown. He encounters and befriends the contentious Athos, Porthos, and Aramis — three musketeers of legend and folly.

Set against the backdrop of the 1972 feminist movement, "Victory" tells the true story of sassy newlywed Cathy Rush (Gugino), who becomes the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college, a team with no gym and no uniforms. She eventually leads the team to the first national championship in women's basketball, while the school's nuns fight to keep the owners from selling the institution and its land to developers.

Universal Pictures is bringing back bumbling British spy Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) for a follow-up assignment.

In the early stages of the financial crisis, eight people at large investment banks attempt to position themselves in anticipation of the coming collapse.

Henry Thomas stars as country crooner Hank Williams, revolves around Williams' final days and the young man (Jesse James) hired to drive him from Alabama to a New Year's Eve concert in Canton, Ohio. Kaley Cuoco will play a gas-station owner the duo meet during their travels who has a brief, innocent romance with the driver.

The story centers on a young woman (Elizabeth Olsen) who is living with her older sister (Sarah Paulson) after escaping a cult.

Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia.

From a basketball academy in West Africa to the high-pressure world of American prep schools, the documentary follows four particularly tall West African teenagers with big hearts, open minds, and NBA dreams.

Wanting to give his girlfriend the wedding of her dreams, Ben secretly takes on a second job moonlighting as an exotic dancer at a club called "The Male Room," only to discover that he has a talent he never expected.

A young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, and a notorious Egyptian transporter, hired to drive her from the Mexican border to New York City, form an unlikely bond that threatens to derail the traffickers’ plans.

Kevin Clash, the man behind Elmo of Sesame Street, as he chases and ultimately achieves his childhood dream of working with master puppeteer Jim Henson.

Convinced that he only has weeks to live, 10-year-old Billy Kirkfield enlists his misfit friends in a scheme to ensure that he will be remembered in the record books forever.

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a a long relationship. Her head is a mess, just like the apartment where she takes refuge. Martin and Mariana are perfect for each other-- they live in the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?

Set in the not-too-distant future where the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. The protagonist is a poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as "time keepers."

Paul Kemp, is a young New Yorker starting out as a newspaperman in Puerto Rico in the late '50s. Soon after arriving in San Juan, he manages to land a job at the 'Daily News', an English-language rag whose staff, an assortment of has-beens, mad geniuses, drunks, and spongers, would seem more at home in the Foreign Legion.

Set in a Michigan city where a series of mysterious murders all have an unlikely but common thread - a hired insurance fraud investigator who gets more than a paycheck when he is inexplicably killed and then framed for the crimes.

A young FBI agent teams up with a CIA agent to find a Russian hitman. The FBI agent discovers that the CIA agent is the hitman.

The story centers on a long-distance relationship between a young American man and a young British woman who meet while in college.

Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was an accomplished poet and dramatist for Queen Elizabeth I in the 16th Century. In the 20th Century theories arose crediting Edward as the true author of Shakespeare's works.

Owen Benjamin will play an eager drama school grad whose new Renaissance Faire theater troupe makes him their fetch boy. His hopes and libido rise when he spots a Faire virgin (Ricci), but swashbuckling colleagues threaten to thwart their budding romance.

Yeshi, who was recognized at birth as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual master, considers departing from tradition to embrace the modern world.

The story centers on a young girl who is abandoned by her drug-addicted, former-groupie mother at a concert and surprises the fading rock singer who’s performing with news that she is his daughter.

Sigur Ros' November 2008 performances at London's Alexandra Palace, captured on rough, high-contrast monochrome HD.