Theatrical Release Dates

Wed Sep 01, 2010

The American

NY and/or LA - Focus Features

Director(s): Anton Corbijn

Based on the Rowan Joffe-scripted adaptation of the Martin Booth novel A Very Private Gentleman, Jack (George Clooney) is an artful assassin with a lengthy track record, constantly on the move and always watching his back. When an assignment goes wrong and a lover ends up dead, he vows that the next job will be his last. This final obligation takes him to a picturesque town nestled amongst lush Italian hills, its h ...

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Wed Sep 01, 2010

My Dog Tulip

NY and/or LA - New Yorker Films

Director(s): Paul Fierlinger, Sandra Fierlinger

Based on the 1956 book by British author and distinguished man of letters J.R. Ackerley. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, in middle age, he came to adopt Tulip – a beautiful, yet intolerable 18-month-old German shepherd. To his surprise, she turned out to be the love of his life, the ideal companion he had been searching for in vain. Originally published in England in 1956, My Dog Tulip is n ...

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Fri Sep 03, 2010

A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop

NY and/or LA - Sony Pictures Classics

Director(s): Zhang Yimou

Scripted by Xu Zhengchao and Shi Jianquan, this is a remake of the Coen brothers' Blood Simple, Wang is a gloomy and cunning noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. Feeling neglected, Wang’s wife secretly goes out with his employee, Li. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun the landlady bought for ‘killing her husband later’. However, not a single move they make escapes the boss’s notice, and he dec ...

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Fri Sep 03, 2010

Going the Distance

Wide Release - Warner Bros. Pictures

Director(s): Nanette Burstein

Scripted by Geoff LaTulippe, this centers on a couple trying to maintain a long-distance relationship while one lives in Chicago and the other in Los Angeles. ...

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75OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 03, 2010

Last Train Home

NY and/or LA - Zeitgeist Films

Director(s): Lixin Fan

Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos, as all at once, a tidal wave of humanity attempts to return home by train. It is the Chinese New Year. The wave is made up of millions of migrant factory workers. The homes they seek are the rural villages and families they left behind to seek work in the booming coastal cities. It is an epic spectacle that tells us much about China, a country discarding traditio ...

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90OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 03, 2010

Machete

Wide Release - 20th Century Fox

Director(s): Robert Rodriguez, Ethan Maniquis

Machete is based on the "fake" trailer in Robert Rodriguez's 2007 Grindhouse. The feature version of the trailer finds Machete (Trejo) a renegade former Mexican Federale, roaming the streets of Texas after a shakedown from drug lord Torrez (Seagal). Reluctantly, Machete takes an offer from spin doctor Benz (Fahey) to assassinate McLaughlin (De Niro) a corrupt Senator. Double crossed and on the run Machete braves the ...

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90OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 03, 2010

Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1

NY and/or LA - Music Box Films

Director(s): Jean-François Richet

Based on the script by Abdel Raouf Dafri, now back in France, Mesrine is finally in police custody and facing justice for his crimes but he is soon on the run once again. After escaping a courtroom and kidnapping the judge at gunpoint, Mesrine is declared Public Enemy Number One and finds an adversary in his chief and most dogged pursuer, Commander Broussard. Broussard soon corners Mesrine who is condemned to a maxim ...

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50OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 03, 2010

Our Beloved Month of August

NY and/or LA -

Director(s): Miguel Gomes

Deep in the Portuguese mountains, the population and its activities swell during the month of August. The people come home, set off fireworks, fight fires, perform karaoke, jump off the bridge, hunt wild boar, drink beer, make children. If the director and his team had gone straight to the essential, resisting the festivities, the synopsis would be reduced to: “This Dear Month of August follows the romantic relatio ...

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Fri Sep 03, 2010

Prince of Broadway

NY and/or LA -

Director(s): Sean Baker

This is the story of Lucky, a charismatic hustler eking out a living in the underbelly of New York's wholesale fashion district. An illegal immigrant from Ghana, Lucky makes ends meet by soliciting shoppers on the street with knock-off brand merchandise. Life is good for Lucky, but his dreams of a bigger life are suddenly upended when a child is thrust into his world by a woman who insists the toddler is his son. Se ...

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100OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 03, 2010

White Wedding

NY and/or LA -

Director(s): Jann Turner

Set against South Africa’s beautifully varied landscapes, this high-spirited comedy is a feel-good movie about love, commitment, intimacy, friendship and all the maddening obstacles that can get in the way of a happy ending. The film is a forward looking farce set in the new South African cultural mixing pot, as the nation strives to be defined as more than their shared political history. It’s modern day South Af ...

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Fri Sep 03, 2010

The Winning Season

NY and/or LA - Lionsgate Films

Director(s): James C. Strouse

Set in suburban Indiana, the film stars Rockwell as Bill Greaves, an adult misfit recruited by the local high school principal (Corddry) to coach the school’s floundering girls’ basketball team. Initially retreating from what appears to be a hopeless situation, Bill perseveres and manages to help the team and its captain (Roberts) ratchet up its competitive spirit, while the girls offer Bill a renewed life focus ...

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Fri Sep 10, 2010

Ahead Of Time

NY and/or LA -

Director(s): Bob Richman

This tells the remarkable journey of American writer and journalist Ruth Gruber, who will turn 99 years old on September 30th. Gruber, a youthful Jewish woman in the late 1920s, was the youngest person to receive a PhD at the age of 20, a feminist before feminism. While at school in Berlin she witnessed the rise of Nazism and began documenting her observations. Eschewing tradition and rejecting the gender standard ...

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Fri Sep 10, 2010

Bran Nue Dae

NY and/or LA - Freestyle Releasing

Director(s): Rachel Perkins

mmer of 1969 and young WILLIE (Rocky Mckenzie) is filled with an idyllic life in his hometown port of Broome, in the North of Western Australia. He spends his day fishing, hanging out with his friends, and when he can, his girlfriend ROSIE (Jessica Mauboy). However his mother THERESA (Nincali Lawford-Wolf) has great hopes for him and she makes him return to the religious mission in Perth for further schooling. Afte ...

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70OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 10, 2010

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

NY and/or LA - Lorber Films

Director(s): Peter Raymont, Michèle Hozer

An enigmatic musical poet, Glenn Gould continues to captivate audiences twenty-six years after his early passing. His inimitable music and writings reveal an insightful worldview that we are still trying to unravel. Though there have been many documentaries about Gould, most are distracted by his eccentricities, focusing on the pills, gloves, and scarves while missing the man and message behind the music. Glenn G ...

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Fri Sep 10, 2010

Heartbreaker (L'Arnacoeur)

NY and/or LA - IFC Films

Director(s): Pascal Chaumeil

Written by Laurent Zeitoun, Jeremy Doner and Yohan Gromb, set against the backdrop of Monte Carlo, Alex (Romain Duris) is a professional Don Juan who makes a living breaking up couples with his sister Mélanie (Julie Ferrier of MICMACS). Because business is slow, they go against their principles to break up only unhappy couples and agree to work for M. Van Der Bercq. Alex has only one week to stop the wealthy man’s ...

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95OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 10, 2010

Hideway (Le Refuge)

NY and/or LA - Strand Releasing

Director(s): François Ozon

Mousse (Isabelle Carré) and Louis (Melvil Poupaud) are young, beautiful, rich and in love, but drugs have invaded their lives. After Louis’ fatal overdose, Mousse soon learns she is pregnant (actress Isabelle Carré was pregnant while shooting.) Feeling lost, Mousse escapes to a beautiful beach house far from Paris and is soon joined in her refuge by Louis’ gay brother, Paul (Louis-Ronan Choisy.) The two strang ...

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60OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 10, 2010

Honeymoons

NY and/or LA -

Director(s): Goran Paskaljevic

Two young married couples take off and travel abroad to the promised lands of better opportunities, but hope collapses when their expectations disappear into thin air and their dreams turn into nightmares. ...

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Fri Sep 10, 2010

I'm Still Here

NY and/or LA - Magnolia Pictures

Director(s): Casey Affleck

Formerly titled I'm Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix, this is a documentary on Joaquin Phoenix's transition from the acting world to a career as an aspiring rapper. With remarkable access, I’M STILL HERE follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip hop musician. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, an ...

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63OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 10, 2010

Legendary

Limited Release - Samuel Goldwyn Films

Director(s): Mel Damski

LEGENDARY explores a teenage boy’s drive to reunite his family ten years after the death of their beloved father, a state collegiate wrestling legend. Cal Chetley (Devon Graye), a bright, undersized fifteen year-old is an outsider in the blue collar town of Sallisaw, Oklahoma known for its high school wrestling program. His older brother Mike (John Cena), a one-time high school champion with whom Cal is estranged, ...

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Fri Sep 10, 2010

Lovely, Still

NY and/or LA - Monterey Media

Director(s): Nik Fackler

Written by Fackler, this is about Robert Malone (Martin Landau) is an elderly perennial bachelor who leads a tidy, uneventful and some might even say empty life. This Christmas, for whatever reason, Robert is feeling the lack of family more keenly than usual. Then one day, like a single man's dream, Robert comes home from his job at a grocery store to find a beautiful woman in his house. Her name is Mary (Ellen Burst ...

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Fri Sep 10, 2010

Race to Nowhere

NY and/or LA -

Director(s): Vicki Abeles

Featuring the stories of young people who have been pushed to the brink, educators who are burned out and worried that students aren’t developing the skills they need, and parents who are trying to do what’s best for their kids, Race to Nowhere points to the silent epidemic in our schools: cheating has become commonplace; students are disengaged; stress-related illness and depression are rampant; and many young p ...

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90OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 10, 2010

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Wide Release - Screen Gems (Sony)

Director(s): Paul W.S. Anderson

Jovovich returns as the zombie-fighting heroine Alice. Ali Larter reprises her role as Claire Redfield from “Resident Evil: Extinction”. Spencer Locke, who played K-Mart in “Extinction,” is also set to return. Wentworth Miller plays Chris Redfield – Claire’s brother and a popular character from the game series. Shawn Roberts will take over the role of Alice’s nemesis Wesker. ...

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100OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 10, 2010

The Romantics

NY and/or LA - Paramount Famous Productions

Director(s): Galt Niederhoffer

Based on Galt Niederhoffer's own novel, over the course of one raucous night at a seaside wedding seven close friends, all members of a tight, eclectic college clique, reconvene to watch two of their own tie the knot. Laura (Katie Holmes) is maid of honor to Lila (Anna Paquin), her golden girl best friend. The two have long rivaled over the groom, Tom (Josh Duhamel). Friendships and alliances are tested and the love ...

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93.5OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 10, 2010

Sequestro (Kidnapping)

NY and/or LA -

Director(s): Jorge W. Atalla

This is a documentary chronicling the heroic efforts of the Anti Kidnapping Division of the São Paulo police department (Divisão Anti-Sequestro aka DAS) from 2005 until 2009 – a time when kidnapping was booming business in Latin America’s largest city. SEQUESTRO travels deep into the seedy world of organized abductions for the purposes of extortion, exploring the lives of those victimized while tagging along w ...

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Fri Sep 10, 2010

The Virginity Hit

Limited Release - Columbia Pictures

Director(s): Huck Botko, Andrew Gurland

This movie is down and dirty filmmaking at its finest in just about every way one can imagine. It’s four guys, one camera, and their hilarious experience chronicling the exhilarating and terrifying rite of passage: losing your virginity. As these guys help their buddy get laid, they'll have to survive friends with benefits, internet hookups, even porn stars during an adventure that proves why you will always rememb ...

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Fri Sep 10, 2010

Who is Harry Nilsson (and Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?

NY and/or LA - Lorber Films

Director(s): John Scheinfeld

This celebrates the life and music of Harry Nilsson. The Beatles said that Nilsson was their favorite American musician. In his career, Nilsson won 2 Grammys and sold 17 gold records, and yet he is relatively unknown today. Who Is Harry Nilsson?, a wildly entertaining, star-studded documentary, sets out to prove that he was one of the most talented singer-songwriters in pop music history. Through a hall-of-fame roll ...

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Wed Sep 15, 2010

Kings of Pastry

NY and/or LA - First Run Features

Director(s): D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus

Sixteen contenders seek the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France (“MOF”), France’s highest honor in the sublime art of patisserie, employing vast amounts of sugar, butter and eggs – not to mention adrenaline – to create gorgeous, fantastical, delicious creations. Some of the world’s most accomplished chefs gather in Lyon for three intense days of mixing, piping and sculpting everything from delicate chocolates an ...

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90OVERALL RATING

Wed Sep 15, 2010

Never Let Me Go

NY and/or LA - Fox Searchlight Pictures

Director(s): Mark Romanek

Scripted by Alex Garland and adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel; this is a poignant love story that begins with Ruth (Keira Knightley), Kathy (Carey Mulligan) and Tommy (Andrew Garfield), who spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselv ...

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Fri Sep 17, 2010

Alpha and Omega

Wide Release - Lions Gate Family Entertainment

Director(s): Ben Gluck, Anthony Bell

Based on a screenplay by Chris Denk and based on a story by Steve Moore, this gives puppy love a new meaning in this animated film featuring a slew of celebrity voices. Kate (Hayden Panettiere) is a dominant and driven female wolf, while hairy Humphrey (Justin Long) lives for the moment. But when the two young wolves are captured by park rangers and taken far away, they bond despite their differences. ...

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90OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 17, 2010

Catfish

NY and/or LA - Rogue Pictures

Director(s): Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman

Nev, a 24-year-old New York–based photographer, has no idea what he’s in for when Abby, an eight-year-old girl from rural Michigan, contacts him on MySpace, seeking permission to paint one of his photographs. When he receives her remarkable painting, Nev begins a friendship and correspondence with Abby’s family. But things really get interesting when he develops a cyber-romance with Abby’s attractive older si ...

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Fri Sep 17, 2010

Devil

Wide Release - Universal Pictures

Director(s): John Erick Dowdle

This is based on an original story by M. Night Shyamalan and written by Brian Nelson and sees Chris Messina play the lead role of Bowden, a sobered-up homicide detective. ...

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60OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 17, 2010

Easy A

Wide Release - Screen Gems (Sony)

Director(s): Will Gluck

Written by playwright Bert V. Royal, this tells the story of a good-natured high school student (Emma Stone) who uses the school rumor mill to financial and personal advantage by pretending to be the school slut. ...

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96.5OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 17, 2010

Enter The Void

NY and/or LA - IFC Films

Director(s): Gaspar Noé

Oscar and his sister Linda (18), are recent arrivals in Tokyo. Oscar sells drugs for a living, and Linda works as a nightclub stripper. One night, Oscar goes to a bar to make a deal. But the cops are waiting, and in the panic that ensues he is accidentally shot. As Oscar lies dying, his perception grows distorted. Swept along a limitless tunnel of memories, he witnesses again the death of his parents in a car crash w ...

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80OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 17, 2010

The Freebie

NY and/or LA - Phase 4 Films

Director(s): Kathryn Aselton

This centers on Darren (Shepard) and Annie (Aselton), a young married couple with an enviable relationship built on love trust and communication. Darren and Annie still enjoy each other’s company and laugh at each other’s jokes, but, unfortunately, they can’t remember the last time they had sex. When a dinner party conversation leads to an honest discussion about the state of their love life, and when a sexy bi ...

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Fri Sep 17, 2010

The Girl (Flickan)

NY and/or LA - Olive Films

Director(s): Fredrik Edfeldt

In a lonely house on the countryside a ten year old girl takes her first steps from childhood into the world of grown-ups. The girl has to spend her summer with her bohemian aunt when her parents go to Africa to work with an aid project. But the aunt isn’t reliable and when she goes off sailing with a man she has met, the girl decides to take care of herself. A tragic and humorous journey starts, a journey that wi ...

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20OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 17, 2010

Jack Goes Boating

NY and/or LA - Relativity Media

Director(s): Philip Seymour Hoffman

Based on the off-Broadway play written by Bob Glaudini and produced by Hoffman's LAByrinth Theater Company, Jack Goes Boating is the story of four New Yorkers. Jack (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Connie (Amy Ryan) are two single people who on their own might continue to recede into the anonymous background of the city, but in each other begin to find the courage and desire to pursue their budding relationship. In cont ...

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Fri Sep 17, 2010

Leaves of Grass

NY and/or LA -

Director(s): Tim Blake Nelson

Norton is portraying twin brothers, one an Ivy League philosophy professor, the other a small-time and brilliant marijuana grower. The professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown for a doomed scheme against a local drug lord (Dreyfuss) that unravels his life. Sarandon plays the brothers' eccentric mother, while Russell will play a love interest. Nelson is playing a best friend to one of the brothers. ...

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55OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 17, 2010

The Other City

NY and/or LA -

Director(s): Susan Koch

This introduces us to the Washington D.C. that tourists rarely see and to residents who are both infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. It chronicles the epic struggles they face confronting social, cultural and political boundaries. Surprisingly, the very city that is home to the U.S. federal government not only has the highest HIV/AIDS rate in the U.S. but rates that rival some African nations. ...

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Fri Sep 17, 2010

Picture Me

NY and/or LA - Strand Releasing

Director(s): Ole Schell, Sara Ziff

Filmmaker Ole Schell follows model Sara Ziff for several years documenting her rise from a fresh face to one that adorns billboards and magazines around the world. In the process, Ole and Sara go behind the scenes and chronicle the glitzy world of high fashion modeling, from photo shoots with celebrated photographers to runway shows in New York, Milan, and Paris. This intimate account features in-depth interviews wit ...

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Fri Sep 17, 2010

The Temptation of St. Tony

NY and/or LA - Olive Films

Director(s): Veiko Ounpuu

To appreciate Veiko Õunpuu’s artful tale of moral confusion, let’s begin where he does—with Dante’s Inferno: "Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark." Tony, a middle-aged, midlevel manager, leads a quiet life. But one day, he starts to question the value of being good. In a series of bizarre encounters in which he fires his employees, witnesses his wife’s infidelity, and m ...

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Fri Sep 17, 2010

The Town

Wide Release - Warner Bros. Pictures

Director(s): Ben Affleck

Based on Chuck Hogan's novel Prince of Thieves, this is scripted by Peter Craig and Hogan with a rewrite from Affleck and tells the tale of four men -- thieves, rivals and friends -- being hunted through the streets of Boston by a tenacious FBI agent and a woman who might destroy them all. Affleck would play a career thief who becomes smitten by the manager of a bank. ...

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42OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 17, 2010

The Wild Hunt

NY and/or LA - Hannover House

Director(s): Alexandre Franchi

A modern medieval saga, THE WILD HUNT tells the story of Erik Magnusson, a young man who decides to follow his estranged girlfriend into a medieval re-enactment game when he discovers that she has been seduced by one of the players. As the down-to-earth Erik treks deeper into the game in search of his love, he inadvertently disrupts the delicate balance of the make-believe fantasyland. Passions are unleashed, rules a ...

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Wed Sep 22, 2010

You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger

NY and/or LA - Sony Pictures Classics

Director(s): Woody Allen

Written by Woody Allen, a little romance, some sex, some treachery, and apart from that, a few laughs. The lives of a group of people, whose passions, ambitions and anxieties force them all into assorted troubles that run the gamut from ludicrous to dangerous. ...

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Fri Sep 24, 2010

A Mother's Courage: Talking Back To Autism

NY and/or LA - First Run Features

Director(s): Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Formerly titled The Sunshine Boy, this tells the story of the autistic boy Keli and his mother, Margret, who travels to the United States looking for an effective treatment for her son. Even if Margrét holds no unrealistic aspirations on behalf of Keli, she has the quenchless thirst for knowledge about the mysterious and complex condition that autism undeniably is. The film received a 4 star review in yesterday’s ...

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81OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 24, 2010

Buried

Limited Release - Lionsgate Films

Director(s): Rodrigo Cortes

Scripted by Chris Sparling, Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) is not ready to die. But when he wakes up 6 feet underground with no idea of who put him there or why, life for the truck driver and family man instantly becomes a hellish struggle for survival. Buried with only a cell phone and a lighter, his contact with the outside world and ability to piece together clues that could help him discover his location are madden ...

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96.5OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 24, 2010

Howl

Limited Release - Oscilloscope Laboratories

Director(s): Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein

Based on Allen Ginsberg's beatnik book of poetry Howl, this focuses on the obscenity trial launched to censor Ginsberg's groundbreaking book-length poem. Among the real-life characters featured in the film are prosecuting attorney Ralph McIntosh (Strathairn), Judge Clayton Horn (Alda), prosecution witness Professor David Kirk (Daniels), radio personality and prosecution witness Gail Potter (Parker) and literary criti ...

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Fri Sep 24, 2010

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Wide Release - Warner Bros. Pictures

Director(s): Zack Snyder

Written by John Orloff and John Collee, this is based on Kathryn Lasky's children's fantasy which revolves around a parallel universe featuring a cast of owls and magic transformations. The first book begins with a young barn owl being pushed out of his family's nest by his older brother and then being rescued by agents from a mysterious school for orphaned owls. ...

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90OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 24, 2010

Tibet in Song

NY and/or LA -

Director(s): Ngawang Choephel

The film first shows the beauty of traditional Tibetan folk music, and showcases an array of folk songs from Tibet including working songs, songs about family, and the beauty of the land. After startling visual evidence of the early days of the Chinese invasion, and a concise explanation of the factors leading to the Dalai Lama's flight into exile in 1959, Ngawang Choephel sets the stage for an intimate portrait of h ...

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Fri Sep 24, 2010

Waiting for Superman

NY and/or LA - Paramount Vantage

Director(s): Davis Guggenheim

Every morning, in big cities, suburbs and small towns across America, parents send their children off to school with the highest of hopes. But a shocking number of students in the United States attend schools where they have virtually no chance of learning—failure factories likelier to produce drop-outs than college graduates. And despite decades of well-intended reforms and huge sums of money spent on the problem, ...

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51.5OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 24, 2010

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Wide Release - 20th Century Fox

Director(s): Oliver Stone

Written by Allan Loeb, this is the modern-day story will again center on Gordon Gekko, who has recently been sprung from prison and re-emerges into a much more tumultuous financial world than the one he once lorded over. Langella will play Lewis Zabel, an old-time broker who mentors LaBeouf's character, a young Wall Street broker named Jake Moore, who is the fiancé of Gekko's daughter, played by Carey Mulligan; Josh ...

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50OVERALL RATING

Fri Sep 24, 2010

You Again

Wide Release - Walt Disney Pictures

Director(s): Andy Fickman

Scripted by Moe Jelline, the story line centers on a woman (Bell) who finds out that her brother is planning to marry the girl who made her high school years a living hell and tries to convince him that his fiancee is not the nice girl she pretends to be. Weaver will play the bride’s filthy-rich aunt. ...

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95OVERALL RATING

Wed Sep 29, 2010

Nine Nation Animation

NY and/or LA -

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Nine Nation Animation presents a selection of recent award-winning animated short films from the world’s most renowned festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand and others. The program spans the globe and a wide variety of animation styles. A cat and a mouse carry on a dysfunctional relationship in a futuristic landscape. A Chinese monk sets out on foot with a tiger during the Tang dynasty and h ...

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85OVERALL RATING