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Fall Movies: Resident Evil Afterlife

September 10 Milla Jovovich returns as Alice in the fourth installment of the unexplainably popular series based on the video game. This time out, Alice searches for survivors of the T-virus in Los Angeles, with zombies running rampant everywhere and the Umbrella Corporation on her trail. And did we mention it’s the first “RE” to [...]

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Fall Movies: Devil

September 17 Five people are trapped in an elevator in an office high-rise, with all attempts to rescue them failing and inexplicable events occurring. Soon the five begin to turn on one another amid suspicions that one of them is the Devil himself. First in a proposed trilogy of “urban horror” films produced by M. [...]

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Fall Movies: Let Me In

October 1 A lonely 12-year-old boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) in a small New Mexico town befriends the strange little girl (Chloe Moretz) who moves in next door, unaware that she is a much older vampire. Director Matt Reeves (“Cloverfield”) has dared to make an English-language adaptation of Sweden’s “Let the Right One In,” the brilliant 2008 [...]

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Fall Movies: Red

October 15 Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is a retired CIA agent who is living a peaceful, quiet life when someone tries to assassinate him. He reassembles his old team — including Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich — in order to find out who wants him dead and why. Based loosely on writer Warren [...]

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Fall Movies: Paranormal Activity 2

October 22 The plot has been kept under wraps, but it’s presumably about more hauntings in a suburban setting, captured on videotape, just like its out-of-nowhere hit predecessor. Can lightning strike twice? A sequel was fast-tracked to last fall’s surprise smash chiller almost immediately, with original director Oren Peli on board as producer and Tod [...]

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Fall Movies: Saw 3D

October 29 Does anyone really care? Well, all right, if we must: The increasingly convoluted series comes to a conclusion as more secrets about Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) are revealed, more traps are sprung, and more human beings are reduced to dark spots on the floor. The 3-D aspect (it was filmed in the process, not [...]

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Fall Movies: Skyline

November 12 Four friends wake up after a night of partying in Los Angeles to see brilliant white beams of light flashing across the sky. Anyone who looks into the lights vanishes. The rest have to contend with the alien ships descending on the city and destroying everything in their path. The first of two [...]

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Fall Movies: Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows

November 19 With Dumbledore dead and an ascendant Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) in control of Hogwarts, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) go on the run to find and destroy the Horcruxes, the secret to Voldemort’s immortality, before Voldemort can capture and kill Harry. If there is a sure thing at the [...]

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Lost Boys: The Thirst

When veteran vampire hunter Edgar Frog finds himself destitute and almost friendless, he thinks his life has hit bottom – but wealthy vampire-romance novelist Gwen Liebling offers him a small fortune to go on the vampire hunt of a lifetime and rescue her son Peter from the Alpha Vampire D.J.Dusk. With the help of his friends Zoe, Lars and Blake, Edgar heads into a bloody battle to exterminate evil.

August 13, 2010   Posted in: Action and Adventure, Horror Movies, October 2010  No Comments

Conviction

The story is about a single mother who worked her way through law school in order to free her brother, who was wrongfully convicted of murder.

August 13, 2010   Posted in: Drama Movies, October 2010, Suspense and Thrillers  No Comments

Red

“Red” is the story of Frank Moses (Willis), a former black-ops CIA agent, who is now living a quiet life. That is, until the day a hi-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him. With his identity compromised and the life of the woman he cares for, Sarah (Parker), endangered, Frank reassembles his old team (Freeman, Malkovich and Mirren) in a last ditch effort to survive. “Red” is based on the DC Comics graphic novel of the same name by Warren Ellis.

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Nowhere Boy

“Nowhere Boy” tells the never before seen story of John Lennon’s (Johnson) childhood. John Lennon is an ordinary fifteen year old boy on the streets of Liverpool. Funny, smart, naughty, a real edge to him. But life is not simple for John – he grew up in a family of secrets and was raised by his Aunt Mimi from the age of five.

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Stone

As parole officer Jack Mabry (De Niro) counts the days toward a quiet retirement, he is asked to review the case of Gerald “Stone” Creeson (Norton), in prison for covering up the murder of his grandparents with a fire. Now eligible for early release, Stone needs to convince Jack he has reformed, but his attempts to influence the older man’s decision have profound and unexpected effects on them both.

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Life As We Know It

Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) is an up-and-coming caterer and Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel) is a promising network sports director. After a disastrous first date, the only thing they have in common is their dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter, Sophie.

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Secretariat

Chenery was a mother and housewife who knew little about horses when she was pressed to take over her ailing father’s horse farm in Virginia. Though Secretariat came along and began to take shape as a potential champion, Chenery was pressured to sell the farm after her father died and she was hit with a multimillion-dollar inheritance tax.

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