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September 6, 2010

Killer Inside Me, The


Synopsis
Oscar® nominated actor Casey Affleck (Gone Baby Gone) gives his most chilling performance yet in the controversial crime drama The Killer Inside Me. Co-starring Jessica Alba (Good Luck Chuck), Oscar® nominee Kate Hudson (Almost Famous), Emmy® nominee Simon Baker (TV's The Mentalist) and Bill Pullman (Independence Day), this modern-day film noir shows a small town sheriff up to his neck in murders: his own. When Affleck's sheriff is asked to railroad a talkative prostitute out of town before she makes trouble, he realizes it's easier to just get rid of her for good. Unfortunately, covering up that murder means eliminating more and more people as his problems and complications spiral out of control. Even worse, he's starting to enjoy committing the crimes a lot more than he ever enjoyed dishing out the punishment. Based on the pulp fiction classic by Jim Thompson (The Grifters), The Killer Inside Me is "an assured, stylish film" [Guardian UK] that reveals the danger when a lawman's badge is hiding a cold, cold heart.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Bill Pullman
• Elias Koteas
• Jessica Alba
• Kate Hudson
• Casey Affleck
• Ned Beatty
• Tom Bower

Directors:
• Michael Winterbottom

Just Say Love


Synopsis
When Guy (Matthew Jaeger) becomes involved with Doug (Robert Mammana), a construction worker and his opposite, he believes he has found "the one." But with a girlfriend and a baby on the way, Doug can't give Guy the commitment he desires. As the two explore their physical and emotional relationship, they experience something more powerful than they've ever known before.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Matthew Jaeger
• Robert Mammana

Writers:
• David Maurietto

Producers:
• Bill Humphreys

Directors:
• Bill Humphreys

Girl By The Lake, The


Note: Movie is in Italian with English subtitles

Synopsis
It swept Italy's Academy Awards®, won the Venice Film Festival's top acting prize for star Toni Servillo (Il Divo, Gomorrah) and remains one of the most acclaimed mystery thrillers in years: When a beautiful young girl is found murdered in an idyllic Northern Italy village, Inspector Giovanni Sanzio (Servillo) is called in from the capital to investigate. But in a small town where nobody is what they seem, anyone could be capable of homicide and everyone may be hiding a dark secret...including Inspector Sanzio. Valeria Golina (Frida), Fabrizio Gifuni (The Best of Youth) and Omero Antonutti (Padre Padrone) co-star in this startling drama.

Cast & Crew

Actors:
• Toni Servillo
• Valeria Golino
• Anna Bonaiuto
• Omero Antonutti
• Fabrizio Gifuni

Writers:
• Sandro Petraglia

Producers:
• Nicola Giuliano
• Francesca Cima

Directors:
• Andrea Molaioli

City of Your Final Destination, The


28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi has won a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund - his brother, widow, and younger mistress - so he can get authorization to write the biography.

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Omar Metwally, Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Hiroyuki Sanada
Directors: James Ivory

City Island


Synopsis
Laugh out loud with the Rizzo Family as Andy Garcia and Julianna Margulies delight audiences in this hilarious and touching comedy about a loud but lovable family that everyone can relate to!
Vince Rizzi (Andy Garcia) is an upstanding family man who works as a corrections officer, but secretly longs to be an actor. Ashamed to admit his aspirations, he would rather let his fiery wife, Joyce (Julianna Margulies), believe he's having an affair, than admit he's secretly taking acting classes. When Vince is asked to reveal his biggest secret in class, he inadvertently sets off chaotic chain of events that turns his suburban life upside-down. It soon becomes clear that everyone has something to hide. A perfect storm of deception and confusion makes Vince and his family realize that the truth may set him free, but first it will drive them nuts!


Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Andy Garcia
• Julianna Margulies
• Emily Mortimer
• Alan Arkin
• Steven Strait
• Dominik Garcia-Lorido
• Ezra Miller

Writers:
• Raymond De Felitta

Producers:
• Andy Garcia
• Lauren Versel
• Raymond De Felitta
• Zachary Matz

Directors:
• Raymond De Felitta

Bad Mother's Handbook, The


Synopsis
Daniel (Robert Pattinson) has been spending a lot of time with his crush, Charlotte, who has just learned she is pregnant. Daniel helps Charlotte with her pregnancy struggles and finds himself on a memorable 9-month journey with three independent, outspoken women. Through the tears, laughter and love, this dysfunctional family finds a way to stick it out together.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Catherine Tate
• Anne Reid
• Holly Grainger
• Robert Pattinson
• Steve Pemberton

Directors:
• Robin Sheppard

September 4, 2010

Robin Hood


Cast aside all notions of men in tights: Ridley Scott's Robin Hood is decidedly earthier and more grown-up than most romps through Sherwood Forest. The presence of the over-40 Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett cinches the deal, lending a dose of worldliness to a project that means to be about the origins of the famous character, who in this incarnation was evidently a late bloomer. Robin Longstride (that's his name before he started wearing a hood) is just returned from a 10-year jaunt in the Crusades when he loses his king (Danny Huston as Richard the Lionheart) and his job. Back in England, Robin folds himself neatly into a Nottingham family, where a grieving widow named Marion (Blanchett) and her father-in-law (Max von Sydow) hardly care that he doesn't much resemble their own departed warrior. But the merry men and their famous sideline will have to wait: except for one bit of robbing from the rich (i.e., the greedy government of King John) and giving to the poor, this movie is more concerned with creating a portrait of the royal intrigue that went into creating Robin Hood than in detailing the high jinks of the Nottingham outlaws. And that's not a bad thing, because although Robin Hood lacks the mechanical action beats that distinguish most films of its scale, it creates an engrossing story line around its political chess playing (outlined by screenwriter Brian Helgeland and apparently a few others). Crowe is in reliable crusty-tender form and Blanchett summons up more than her sketchy character probably deserves, but the film has a large cast of chewy, fun performers: Mark Strong (Kick-Ass) does baddie duty as the treacherous pal of King John (preening Oscar Isaacs), William Hurt is stalwart and wise as a royal power broker, Eileen Atkins is a carefully considered royal mum, and Matthew Macfadyen is a Sheriff of Nottingham who's no longer central to the villainy--though no less hissable for his ineptitude (and a prime candidate at film's end for No. 1 bad guy in the sequel). In short, not a Gladiator re-do for Scott and Crowe, but a civilized tale of tyrants and rebels, staged in a pleasingly old-fashioned way.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• William Hurt
• Max Von Sydow
• Russell Crowe
• Scott Grimes
• Cate Blanchett
• Eileen Atkins
• Danny Huston
• Mark Strong
• Mark Addy
• Matthew Macfadyen
• Kevin Durand
• Oscar Isaac

Writers:
• Brian Helgeland

Directors:
• Ridley Scott

Letters To Juliet


Synopsis
In Verona, Italy - the beautiful city where Romeo first met Juliet - there is a place where the heartbroken leave notes asking Juliet for her help. It's there that aspiring writer Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) finds a 50-year-old letter that will change her life forever. As she sets off on a romantic journey of the heart with the letter's author, Claire (Vanessa Redgrave), now a grandmother, and her handsome grandson (Christopher Egan), all three will discover that sometimes the greatest love story ever told is your own.

Cast & Crew

Actors:
• Vanessa Redgrave
• Amanda Seyfried
• Gael Garcia Bernal
• Christopher Egan

Directors:
• Gary Winick

Strawberry Shortcake: Berrywood Here We Come


It’s lights, camera, action! Strawberry Shortcake and friends head off to Berrywood to visit Strawberry’s movie-star friend, Limelight. When they arrive, they’re shocked to see not everything is glitz and glamour. Strawberry must get her friends to come together and help Limelight realize that everyone can shine--because everyone is a star. Soon, Limelight’s movie is a berry big success. Next, it’s hooray for Berrywood! Strawberry and friends bring their Berrywood experience home and help re-open a local theater by pitching in and making a movie. But, trouble arises when Pie Man wants the theater for himself. After confronting Pie Man, Strawberry and the girls learn a valuable lesson--if there’s a problem, it’s best to talk about it. And, if they all work together as a team, they’re sure to make a berry good movie.

September 3, 2010

Sweetgrass


An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

Actors: Pat Connelly
Directors: Ilisa Barbash;Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Sorority Wars


Synopsis
The rush is on, and choosing the right Greek house should be easy for pretty, smart freshman Katie Parker (Lucy Hale, Pretty Little Liars) - after all, her mom (Courtney Thorne-Smith) co-founded the popular Deltas with her college BFF (Faith Ford). But when Katie shocks everyone by pledging to their rivals, the Kappas, a full-fledged sorority war breaks out on campus where it's every girl for herself. Check out the sneers and cheers, the catfights and cute guys in this spunky comedy where only one Greek house can come out on top.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Courtney Thorne-Smith
• Faith Ford
• Lucy Hale
• Amanda Schull
• Phoebe Strole
• Rob Mayes

Writers:
• Michelle Lovretta

Producers:
• Ted Bauman

Directors:
• James Hayman

King of Fighters, The


A stylish, high-octane, live action feature based on the highly successful video game franchise, in which the last surviving descendants of three legendary clans are continuously transported to other dimensions to test their martial arts skills against an evil force that seeks to invade and infect the real world.

Sean Faris as Kyo Kusanagi[3]
Maggie Q as Mai Shiranui
Will Yun Lee as Iori Yagami
Ray Park as Rugal Bernstein
Françoise Yip as Chizuru Kagura
Hiro Kanagawa as Saisyu Kusanagi
David Leitch as Terry Bogard
Sam Hargrave as Ryo Sakazaki
Monique Ganderton as Mature[4]
Bernice Liu as Vice

Growth


Synopsis
In 1989, a breakthrough in 'Advanced Parasitic Development' at the Kuttyhunk Island Research Facility led to a mysterious outbreak that killed most of the center's staff and the island's residence. Twenty years later, a young women who fled the original epidemic has returned with a group of friends to sell her family's property. But a new breed of parasite may have evolved and survived. They are fast moving. They can slither into - or out of - any orifice in the human body.
They trigger aggressively violent behavior. And thousands of them escaped to feed again. Mircea Monroe (Tekken), Christopher Shand (Hit and Run), Brian Krause ("Charmed"), Nora Kirkpatrick ("Greek") and Richard Riehle (Hachet) star in this grisly shocker that gets under your skin, begins to grow, and tears a new hole in modern horror.


Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Alexi Wasser
• Mircea Monroe
• Nora Kirkpatrick
• Richard Riehle
• Brian Krause
• Ian Patrick Williams
• Christopher Shand

Writers:
• Gabriel Cowan

Producers:
• Amiee Clark

Directors:
• Gabriel Cowan

Beatdown


Synopsis
Brandon, a respected street fighter, is forced to flee the city after his brother is murdered and the money that was supposed to be paid back to a local gangster is stolen. While lying low at his father's house in a small Southern town, Brandon soon gets involved in the local underground cage-fighting circuit. With the help of Drake Colby, a former MMA champion, Brandon devises a scheme to bring a massive payday, if they are able to survive.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Jeff Gibbs
• Susie Abromeit
• Danny Trejo
• Eric Balfour
• Bobby Lashley
• Heath Herring
• Rudy Youngblood
• Michael Bisping
• Bryan Massey
• Mike Swick

Writers:
• Bobby Mort

Producers:
• Deboragh B. Gabler

Directors:
• Mike Gunther

Abandoned


Cast & Crew
Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished. An administrator can find no record of him, and a police search turns up nothing. Increasingly frantic, Mary's taken to staff psychiatrist Dr. Bensley, who pronounces her unstable. Now she must not only find her missing boyfriend, but prove her own sanity as well. When a stranger informs her he knows Kevin's whereabouts and demands a $10 billion ransom, she has one hour to comply and her boyfriend's life hangs in the balance. Forced to embezzle the money from the bank where she works, Mary soon discovers the shocking truth behind the disappearance. Now time is running out and she must take matters into her own hands to save herself.


Actors:
• Mimi Rogers
• Brittany Murphy
• Dean Cain
• Peter Bogdanovich

Directors:
• Michael Feifer

2001 Maniacs: Field Of Screams


Synopsis
From director Tim Sullivan and starring Bill Moseley (The Devil's Rejects), comes the eagerly anticipated second installment of the gore-soaked horror-comedy franchise, 2001 Maniacs: Field Of Screams! The Southern residents of Pleasant Valley take their cannibalistic Guts N' Glory Jamboree on the road to Iowa where they encounter spoiled Northern heiresses Rome and Tina Sheraton and the cast and crew on their "Road Rascals" reality show. Performing "The Bloodiest Show on Earth," our Southern Maniacs prove to be more than ratings killers in what John Landis has called "one of the rare sequels that surpasses the original."

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Lin Shaye
• Christa Campbell
• Andrea Leon
• Bill Moseley
• Ahmed Best
• Kevin Ogilvie

Writers:
• Tim Sullivan
• Christopher Tuffin
• Chris Kobin

Producers:
• Mike Greene
• Christopher Tuffin
• Martin Shore

Directors:
• Tim Sullivan

August 30, 2010

Titanic 2


Synopsis
On the 100th Anniversary of the original voyage, a modern new luxury liner, "Titanic 2," follows the same path of its namesake. What could possibly go wrong?

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Brooke Burns
• Shane Van Dyke
• Bruce Davidson

Just Another Day


Synopsis
Jamie Hector (The Wire, Heroes) is Young Eastie, a struggling rapper who dreams of getting a record deal through the legendary A-Maze (Wood Harris, The Wire, Remember the Titans). But connecting with his hero is going to be tougher than he thinks. Even though A-Maze is at the top of the ladder, his star is falling - and he's getting desperate to hang on. Featuring top rap artists Trick Daddy, Lil Scrappy, Ja Rule and Petey Pablo, Just Another Day takes a compelling, true-to-life look at the brutal ups and downs of the cutthroat hip-hop business.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Ja Rule
• Big Daddy Kane
• Lil Scrappy
• Petey Pablo
• Young Dre
• Inny Clemons
• Clifton Powell
• Wood Harris
• Trick Daddy
• Jamie Hector

Writers:
• Iain Kennedy

Producers:
• Peter Spirer
• Eric Tomosunas

Directors:
• Peter Spirer

Infidel, The


A devoted Muslim family man experiences a hilarious identity crisis after discovering that he was adopted at birth, and his real name is Solly Shimshillewitz. Mahmud Nasir (Omid Djalili) is still grieving the recent death of his mother when he finds his birth certificate, and learns he was born to a Jewish mother. In order to embrace his heritage, Mahmud seeks the advice of drunken cab-driver Lenny (Richard Schiff), whose crash course in Judaism is more quirky than kosher.

Actors: Omid Djalili, Matt Lucas, Miranda Hart, Richard Schiff
Directors: Josh Appignanesi

Fangoria FrightFest Presents: Hunger


Synopsis
Five strangers awaken to find themselves trapped in an underground dungeon. They soon realize they are the subjects of one man's sadistic experiment to test the depths of a human being's will to survive. As the days go by with no means of escape, their hunger increases as their humanity fades away.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Linden Ashby
• Lori Heuring