THE SOCIAL NETWORK
(Columbia) Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara, Joseph Mazzello, Max Minghella, Armie Hammer. Directed by David Fincher
Facebook has become the social outlet of the 21st century for most young people, but someone had to invent it. That someone was Mark Zuckerberg, a young Harvard student who came up with the brilliant idea to take the college experience and replicate it online. This would lead him to become the youngest billionaire in history, as well as personal and legal problems that would plague him once Facebook became the massive hit it is. The movie debuted at the New York Film Festival a few weeks ago and is already being considered a frontrunner in the Oscar race.
See the trailer and promos here.
For more on the movie this is the website.
Release formats: Standard
Genre: Biographical Drama
Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content, drug and alcohol use and language)
Case 39
(Paramount Vantage) Renee Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper. A family services worker takes on an unusual case where cruel and dangerous parents try to murder their only daughter. The social worker takes the young girl in while she tries to find a good home for her. She also enlists the help of a detective to help protect the girl, and a psychiatrist to help her get over the trauma. Unfortunately, this leads to the discovery of dark forces at work in the girl’s life. This has been sitting on the studio shelf for over a year until they decided to release it suddenly and almost without any publicity.
See the trailer here.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Supernatural Horror
Rating: R (for violence and terror, including disturbing images)
Chain Letter
(New Films International) Nikki Reed, Noah Segan, Keith David, Betsy Russell. A group of high school seniors receive an electronic chain letter. When they break the chain, one by one they begin to get picked off by a maniacal serial killer. Freddie Kreuger and Jason Voorhees, move over.
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For more on the movie this is the website.
Release formats: Standard
Genre: Slasher Horror
Rating: R (for strong, bloody, sadistic violence throughout, language and brief nudity)
Enthiran
(Fusion Edge) Rajnikanth, Aishwarya Rai, Danny Denzongpa, Santhanam. A brilliant scientist builds a robot that looks human, has human strength and intelligence but is completely a machine. The results are unexpected to say the least.
See the trailer, clips and interviews here.
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Release formats: Standard
Genre: Sci-Fi Action
Rating: NR
Exit through the Gift Shop
(Producer’s Distribution Agency) Rhys Ifans, Thierry Guetta, Banksy, Shepard Fairey. One of the world’s most notorious graffiti artists makes his film debut about a documentarian who is ostensibly making a documentary about the underground street art movement who becomes the subject of the documentary himself. I saw this at the Florida Film Festival earlier this year; the complete review can be found here.
See the trailer here.
For more on the movie this is the website.
Release formats: Standard
Genre: Documentary
Rating: R (for some language)
Jack Goes Boating
(Overture/Relativity) Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, John Ortiz, Daphne Rubin-Vega. Two shy people find each other in the mean streets of New York City and through each other, find the strength they never knew they had even as those around them begin to fall apart. This marks Hoffman’s directorial debut.
See the trailer, interviews and clips here.
For more on the movie this is the website.
Release formats: Standard
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Rating: R (for language, drug use and some sexual content)
Hatchet II
(Dark Sky) Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Tony Todd, A.J. Bowen. The sequel to the surprise 2007 indie slasher hit finds one of the survivors heading back into the New Orleans swamp that she escaped from to put an end to the curse of Victor Crowley once and for all.
See the trailer here.
For more on the movie this is the website.
Release formats: Standard
Genre: Slasher Horror
Rating: PG (for brief mild language and rude behavior)
Let Me In
(Overture/Relativity) Chloe Moretz, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Richard Jenkins, Elias Koteas. A lonely young boy who is viciously bullied at school makes a strange new friend who comes out only at night and is seemingly always barefoot despite the bitter winter elements. Soon, her true nature emerges and the violence really begins. This is based on the acclaimed Swedish film Let the Right One In and is directed by Matt Reeves, who also did Cloverfield.
See the trailer and clips here.
For more on the movie this is the website.
Release formats: Standard
Genre: Vampire Horror
Rating: R (for strong bloody horror violence, language and a brief sexual situation)
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