Archive for the ‘October 2010’ Category

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: 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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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.

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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.

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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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I Spit on Your Grave

A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject Jennifer to a nightmare of degradation, rape and violence. Left for dead, she returns for vengeance. Trapping her male attackers one-by-one, she inflicts acts of physical torment upon them with a ferocity that surpasses her own ordeal. When the carnage clears, victim has become victor.

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Buried

Paul Conroy 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.

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The Social Network

Writer / producer Aaron Sorkin announced on his Facebook page that he is going to be writing a movie about the popular social networking site. Mark Zuckenberg created the site in 2004 at Harvard during his sophomore year. It now has over 60 million members and is valued at $16 billion.

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Barry Murray

Barry Munday, a suburban wanna-be ladies man, wakes up in the hospital after being attacked in a movie theater, only to realize that he is missing one of his most prized possessions… his testicles. To make matters worse, Barry learns he’s facing a paternity lawsuit filed by a woman he can’t remember having sex with.

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Let Me In

An alienated 12-year-old boy befriends a mysterious young newcomer in his small New Mexico town, and discovers an unconventional path to adulthood in Let Me In, a haunting and provocative thriller written and directed by filmmaker Matt Reeves (Cloverfield).

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