It won’t be long now before Oscar season picks up momentum and film critics across the country set about surveying the ambitions and aspirations behind the year’s most “serious” and “substantial” films. For many writers, the autumn rush is the light at the end of a long, dark tunnel — the promised sunrise after a [...]

MADE OF HONOR
 
Director: Paul Weiland
Stars: Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)
The Plot: Tom (Dempsey) is a consummate ladies’ man. Hannah (Monaghan) is his best friend and the one constant in his life. But when Hannah leaves town for a six-week business trip, allowing Tom to realize his love for her runs deeper than [...]

STREET KINGS
 
Director: David Ayer
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
The Plot: Tom Ludlow (Reeves) is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture [...]

THE EYE 
 
Director: David Moreau, Xavier Palud
Stars: Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Parker Posey
Studio: Lionsgate
The Plot: A young woman (Alba) receives an eye transplant that — like it or not — allows her to see into the supernatural world.
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STRANGE WILDERNESS
 
Director: Fred Wolf
Stars: Steve Zahn, Allen Covert, Justin Long
Studio: Paramount Pictures
The Plot: The two [...]

FIRST SUNDAY 

Director: David E. Talbert
Stars: Ice Cube, Katt Williams, Tracy Morgan
Studio: Screen Gems
The Plot: Two petty criminals bungle their plot to rip-off a local church, only to learn the error of their ways from the parishioners they’re holding hostage.
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IN THE NAME OF THE KING: A DUNGEON SIEGE TALE 

Director: Uwe Boll
Stars: Jason [...]

ONE MISSED CALL

Director: Eric Valette
Stars: Edward Burns, Shannyn Sossamon
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
The Plot: A detective (Burns) investigating the mysterious calls received by a college student (Sossamon) learns she’s one of many people who have received such communications — ones that reveal the date, time, and details of their deaths
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THE KILLING [...]

 
A film with no name, no famous Hollywood stars and no million dollar marketing campaign has captivated bloggers, online forums and film fans in the latest triumph for viral advertising.
Known only as the Cloverfield project, the low-budget 2008 release is shrouded in secrecy. Its plot has been closely guarded, only one trailer has been screened [...]

THE BUCKET LIST
 
Director: Rob Reiner
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
The Plot: Two terminally ill men (Nicholson and Freeman) escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.
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THE ORPHANAGE

Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Stars: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger [...]

NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS 
 
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
The Plot: Tracking down the missing pages of John Wilkes Booth’s diary is the first step in treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates’s plan to uncover a worldwide conspiracy.
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WALK HARD: THE DEWEY [...]

 
Sacha Baron Cohen has a thing for showing off his privates. Well, what appear to be his privates, that is.
We’ve already been subjected to Borat dressed in that barely there fluorescent-green banana-hammock bathing suit. Now comes his hilarious turn as Signor Adolfo Pirelli opposite Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd.
There’s no missing Pirelli’s package. [...]