October 2014 Movies




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Men, Women & Children

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.
Emma Thompson, Jennifer Garner, Timothee Chalamet, Adam Sandler, Steven Rales, Judy Greer, Dean Norris, Ansel Elgort
Drama
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Annabelle R

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.
James Wan, Annabelle Wallis, Peter Safran, John Leonetti, Gary Dauberman, Ward Horton, Alfre Woodard
Thriller Horror Spin-off

Gone Girl R

A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary and all roads point to her husband as the killer.
Tyler Perry, Ben Affleck, Reese Witherspoon, David Fincher, Rosamund Pike, Missi Pyle, Casey Wilson, Emily Ratajkowski
Drama Thriller Adaptation

The Good Lie PG-13

A Sudanese refugee is taken in by a straight-talking American woman in their new home in the United States.
Reese Witherspoon, Ron Howard, Sharon Conley, Brian Grazer, Karen Kehela Sherwood, Sarah Baker, Philippe Falardeau, Trent Luckinbill
Drama

The Hero of Color City

The CG-animated feature is about a group of crayons fighting to save their multihued city.
Arsenio Hall, J.P. McCormick, David Kaye, Frank Gladstone, Jessica Kedward, Christina Ricci, Rosie Perez, Craig Ferguson
Adventure Kids Animation CG

Left Behind PG-13

The diaster movie focuses on a group of survivors during the first few hours after the Rapture.
Nicolas Cage, John Patus, Chad Michael Murray, Vic Armstrong, Paul Lalonde, Cassi Thomson, Nicky Whelan, J. David Williams
Action Thriller Reboot

A Good Marriage

A woman discovers her husband has been keeping an especially terrible secret for years when she stumbles upon a box in the garage.
Joan Allen, Kristen Connolly, Stephen Lang, Peter Askin, Stephen King, Anthony LaPaglia
Drama Thriller Adaptation

Drive Hard

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.
John Cusack, Chad Law, Thomas Jane, Zoe Ventoura, Christopher Morris, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Brigitte Jean Allen, Evan Law
Action Comedy Crime

Addicted R

A successful black art dealer's marriage, family and career are threatened by her overpowering addiction to sex.
Suzanne de Passe, Christina Welsh, Sharon Leal, Tasha Smith, Mike Paseornek, John Sacchi, Billie Woodruff, Lucy Thurber
Drama Thriller Provocative

The Judge

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.
David Krumholtz, Robert Downey Jr., Leighton Meester, Billy Bob Thornton, David Dobkin, Susan Downey, Nick Schenk, Robert Duvall
Drama Family

Dracula Untold

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.
Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Charlie Cox, Gary Shore, Zach McGowan, Samantha Barks, Art Parkinson, Donna Langley
Horror Remake Vampires

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day PG

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.
Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Lisa Cholodenko, Miguel Arteta, Jason Lust, Lisa Henson, Rob Lieber, Steve Carell
Comedy Adaptation Family

Whiplash

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.
Miles Teller, David Lancaster, Paul Reiser, Couper Samuelson, Jason Blum, J.K. Simmons, Damien Chazelle, Melissa Benoist
Drama

Automata

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.
Gabe Ibanez, Antonio Banderas, Sandra Hermida, Danny Lerner, Dylan McDermott, David Ryall, David Varod, Javier Donate
Sci-Fi

The Overnighters

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.
Jesse Moss, Amanda McBaine
Drama Documentary

One Chance PG-13

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.
James Corden, Julie Walters, Michael Menchel, Justin Zackham, Colm Meaney, David Frankel, Steve Whitney, Mackenzie Crook
Drama Comedy Biography Music

Kill the Messenger

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.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Nick Wechsler, Andy Garcia, Scott Stuber, Don Handfield, Lucas Hedges, Tim Blake Nelson, Robert Patrick
Drama Crime

Catch Hell

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.
Ryan Phillippe, Joe Gossett, Robert Ogden Barnum, Holly Wiersma, Joyful Drake, Tig Notaro, James DuMont, Mark Burg

I Am Ali

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.
Clare Lewins
Documentary
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The Town that Dreaded Sundown R

A Texas Ranger hunts for the Phantom Killer, a hooded serial killer, terrorizing the residents of a small town.
Ryan Murphy, Jason Blum, Joshua Leonard, Addison Timlin, Veronica Cartwright, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Travis Tope
Thriller Suspense Horror Remake
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Fury R

Follows a five-man American tank crew in Europe in the final days of the World War II .
Brad Pitt, Jon Bernthal, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, Scott Eastwood, Bill Block, Jason Isaacs
Drama Adventure War Historical

Men, Women & Children

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.
Emma Thompson, Jennifer Garner, Timothee Chalamet, Adam Sandler, Steven Rales, Judy Greer, Dean Norris, Ansel Elgort
Drama

The Best of Me PG-13

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.
James Marsden, Michael Hoffman, J. Mills Goodloe, Will Fetters, Jon Tenney, Denise DiNovi, Nicholas Sparks, Michelle Monaghan
Drama Romance Adaptation

The Book of Life PG

Described as a Romeo and Juliet set against a Mexican Day of the Dead.
Zoe Saldana, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Gabriel Iglesias, Jorge R. Gutierrez, Guillermo del Toro, Danny Trejo, Christina Applegate
Romance Animation Fairy Tale CG

The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya

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.
Chloë Grace Moretz, Lucy Liu, James Marsden, Mary Steenburgen, Beau Bridges, Dean Cain, Frank Marshall, Geoffrey Wexler
Fantasy Animation

Birdman R

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.
Emma Stone, Alexander Dinelaris, Zach Galifianakis, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Edward Norton, Christopher Woodrow
Comedy

Young Ones R

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.
Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Jay Van Hoy, Michael Shannon, Jake Paltrow, Noah Baumbach, Lars Knudsen, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Drama Sci-Fi

Felony

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.
Myles Nestel, Jai Courtney, Matthew Saville, Rosemary Blight, Joel Edgerton, Tom Wilkinson, Melissa George, Lisa Wilson
Thriller

Kill the Messenger

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.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Nick Wechsler, Andy Garcia, Scott Stuber, Don Handfield, Lucas Hedges, Tim Blake Nelson, Robert Patrick
Drama Crime

Camp X-Ray R

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.
John Carroll Lynch, Kristen Stewart, Cory Michael Smith, Julia Duffy, Lane Garrison, Yousuf Azami, Peter Sattler, Tara Holt
Drama

Rudderless

Hoping to find catharsis after the death of his son, a grieving father forms a band from his son’s demo tapes and lyrics.
Laurence Fishburne, Selena Gomez, William H. Macy, Casey Twenter, Jeff Robison, Felicity Huffman, Billy Crudup, Anton Yelchin
Drama

The Culture High

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.
Brett Harvey
Documentary

Dear White People R

The film follows a group of African American students as they navigate campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white college.
Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson, Dennis Haysbert, Justin Simien, Effie Brown, Brandon P. Bell, Kyle Gallner, Teyonah Parris
Comedy

Ouija PG-13

The story centers on the supernatural effects of the Ouija board game.
Michael Bay, Simon Kinberg, Jason Blum, Erin Moriarty, Brad Fuller, Brian Goldner, Stiles White, Olivia Cooke
Adventure Suspense Horror Supernatural

John Wick R

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".
Bridget Regan, Keanu Reeves, Basil Iwanyk, Derek Kolstad, Willem Dafoe, Jason Isaacs, Chad Stahelski, Eva Longoria
Action Thriller

Reach Me

Story follows a group of people who all have a connection to a self-help book authored by a reclusive former football coach.
Cary Elwes, Sylvester Stallone, Kyra Sedgwick, Thomas Jane, Tom Berenger, Nelly, Omari Hardwick, Kelsey Grammer
Drama Comedy

White Bird In A Blizzard R

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.
Angela Bassett, Eva Green, Thomas Jane, Gabourey Sidibe, Gregg Araki, Julie Peyr, Shailene Woodley, Shiloh Fernandez
Drama Thriller

Stonehearst Asylum

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.
Kate Beckinsale, Mel Gibson, Brendan Gleeson, Brad Anderson, Jim Sturgess, Michael Caine, Mark Amin, David W. Higgins
Thriller Suspense Psychological

23 Blast PG-13

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.
Alexa Vega, Dylan Baker, Bram Hoover, Stephen Lang, Breanna Dean, Toni Hoover, Max Adler, Mark Hapka
Drama Sports Family

Exists R

A group of twentysomethings take a trip to a cabin deep in the wooded wilderness and are methodically hunted by a Bigfoot-like beast.
Eduardo Sanchez, Andy Jenkins, Jane Fleming, Mark Ordesky, Brian Steele, Samuel Davis, Robin Cowie, Jamie Nash
Thriller Horror

St. Vincent PG-13

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.
Peter Chernin, Terrence Howard, Chris O'Dowd, Ted Melfi, Bill Murray, Nate Corddry, Kimberly Quinn, Fred Roos
Drama Comedy

Low Down

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.
Peter Dinklage, Elle Fanning, Topper Lilien, Taryn Manning, Glenn Close, Jeff Preiss, Amy Jo Albany, John Hawkes
Drama Biography Music

Saw R

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...
Cary Elwes, James Wan, Danny Glover, Leigh Whannell, Gregg Hoffman, Oren Koules, Mark Burg, Tobin Bell
Thriller Suspense Horror

Nightcrawler

A driven young man discovers the nocturnal world of L.A. freelance crime journalism.
Jake Gyllenhaal, David Lancaster, Tony Gilroy, Dan Gilroy, Jennifer Fox, Michel Litvak, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton
Thriller Crime

Hit By Lightning

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?
Chantal Chamandy, Mike Ades, Ricky Blitt, Stephanie Szostak, Jon Cryer, Will Sasso, Jed Rees, Alexis Maitland
Comedy Romance Crime

ABC's of Death 2

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.
Julian Barratt, Ian Virgo, Rodney Ascher, Robert Boocheck, Martina Garcia, Andy Nyman, Alan McKenna
Thriller Horror

Before I Go to Sleep R

After a night of partying, a young woman wakes up to discover that she has aged beyond recognition.
Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Ridley Scott, Rowan Joffe, Liza Marshall, Mark Strong, Jenny Borgars
Thriller Suspense

Horns

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.
Juno Temple, Adam Stone, Daniel Radcliffe, Max Minghella, Cathy Schulman, Riza Aziz, Joey McFarland, Joe Hill
Thriller Romance Adaptation Supernatural