The Oath
The Oath is a 2010 documentary from Oscar-nominated director Laura Poitras. It tells the cross-cut tale of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose meeting launched them on juxtaposed paths with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, US military tribunals and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Flipped (2010)
When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows it's love. But Bryce isn't so sure. Girl-phobic and easily embarrassed, young Bryce does everything he can to keep his outspoken wannabe girlfriend at arm's length... for the next six years, which isn't easy since they go to the same school and live across the street from each other.
The Town
The film follows the action of four Charlestown, Massachusetts bank robbers as they are pursued by law enforcement. Affleck plays a professional thief who falls for a bank manager (Rebecca Hall) after a dangerous heist. He struggles with this newfound relationship whilst evading a tenacious FBI agent (Jon Hamm) looking to catch him and his crew before they rob another bank.
Winter's Bone
Ree Dolly (Lawrence), a 17-year-old girl, is the sole responsible "adult" in her impoverished Ozark family. She finds herself forced to track her fugitive father, a longtime crystal meth maker, through the most hardcore of the local criminal network after she learns that he has put their home up as his bail bond.
The Last Exorcism
The film, told from a Protestant priest, who turns his back on his religion and practices as part of a documentary on the last exorcism. He who believes in God, must also accept the existence of the devil. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort.
The Expendables
A team of highly-trained, dangerous mercenaries are sent on a mission to a South American country, with the objective to overthrow a cold-blooded dictator. As the mission begins, the mercenaries discover that the situation is not as it appears.
Takers
A notorious group of criminals continue to baffle police by pulling off perfectly executed bank robberies. They are in and out like clockwork, leaving no evidence behind and laying low in between heists. But when they attempt to pull off one last job with more money at stake than ever before, the crew may find their plans interrupted by a hardened detective who is hell-bent on solving the case.
The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2010)
The film opens with Danny and Vic hurriedly lining the inside of a transit van with plastic. We then see them shopping for a drill, a mattress and other supplies before entering a small flat and assembling a bed for the mattress, and stapling foam insulation and board to the walls and windows of a bedroom.
Jack Goes Boating
Jack Goes Boating is an unconventional romantic comedy set in the midst of working-class New York City life. Based on the acclaimed Off-Broadway play of the same name, Jack Goes Boating stars John Ortiz (Pride and Glory), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Broadway’s Rent), Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote); with Hoffman making his feature directorial debut on the film. Bob Glaudini adapted his own play for the screen.
Never Let Me Go
A story of a woman who, as she reflects on her private school years in the English countryside, reunites with her two friends to face the dark secrets buried in their communal past. With no contact or knowledge of the outside world during their years at the boarding school, they discover they are clones, born and raised for the sole purpose of providing organs for transplants.
Easy A
After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl, Olive Penderghast, sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in "The Scarlet Letter," which she is currently studying in school – until she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.
Legendary
Legendary is a film starring WWE superstar John Cena, Patricia Clarkson and Danny Glover. It opens in selected theaters September 10 for a limited time. It is currently scheduled for a straight to DVD release in the UK due this September.A book-smart teenager joins his school's wrestling team as a way to reunite his surviving family members, who split apart after the death of his father, a college wrestling legend, 10 years ago.
Alpha and Omega (2010)
Kate (Hayden Panettiere) and Humphrey (Justin Long) are two wolves. They're both members of the same pack, but from opposite ends of the scale. Kate is an Alpha and her father is the main alpha male. His daughter behaves exactly how she should; she takes her duty and commitment to the pack seriously. Humphrey, on the other hand, is an Omega wolf, the lowest of the pack and spends his days making jokes and playing about with his other Omega friends.
Centurion (2010)
Centurion Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, is rescued by the legion of Titus Flavius Virilus, which has been ordered into Caledonia to wipe out the Picts and to kill their king, Gorlacon. When the legion is wiped out in a surprise attack, Dias and six other survivors race to rescue their captured general before they can head back toward the safety of the Roman frontier.
Devil (2010)
Devil (also known as The Night Chronicles: Devil) is a 2010 supernatural-thriller film written by Brian Nelson and directed by Drew Dowdle and John Erick Dowdle. The film will be released on September 17, 2010, and will be the first of The Night Chronicles trilogy,[1] which involves the supernatural within the modern urban society.
Tales from Earthsea (2010)
A war galley is caught in a storm at sea. The ship's weatherworker is distressed to realize that he has lost the power to control the wind and waves, but is even more disturbed when he observes two dragons fighting above the clouds, one of which is eventually killed.Shortly thereafter the King, already troubled by tales of drought and pestilence in the land, receives news both of the strange omen at sea and of the disappearance of his son, Prince Arren.
Nanny McPhee Returns
On a farm in Britain during World War II, Mrs. Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is driven to her wits end by her hectic life. Between trying to keep the family farm up and running and her job in the village shop, aided by the elderly and slightly mad Mrs. Doherty (Maggie Smith), she also has three boisterous children to look after, Norman (Asa Butterfield), Megsie (Lil Woods) and Vincent (Oscar Steer). All of this she has to do while her husband is away at war.
Enemies of the People
In 1974, Thet Sambath's father became one of the nearly two million people who were murdered by the Khmer Rouge when he refused to give them his buffalo. Sambath's mother was forced to marry a Khmer Rouge militiaman and died in childbirth in 1976, while his eldest brother disappeared in 1977.
The Dry Land
The Dry Land or American Tragic is an upcoming drama film directed and written by Ryan Piers Williams. It is set for worldwide release on July 30 2010.The film is about a United States soldier struggling as he returns home to his friends and family back in his home of Texas.
Middle Men (2010)
In 1995, a straight-and-narrow businessman (Luke Wilson) who builds the first online billing company dealing exclusively with adult entertainment, finds himself in the middle of a whirlwind filled with starlets, conmen, Russian mobsters, federal agents and international terrorists, all while trying to hold on to his marriage and family.
Machete (2010)
Machete is an upcoming action film, directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis. The film will star Danny Trejo in his first lead role as the title character. The film also stars Michelle Rodriguez, Cheech Marin, Lindsay Lohan, Don Johnson, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Robert De Niro, Jeff Fahey, Cheryl Chin and Rose McGowan.
Flipped
Bryce Loski has a very different first impression of Juli. She's an annoying, know-it-all kid with muddy shoes and a bad habit of not taking 'no' for an answer. From the very first moment he sees her climbing over the boxes in the moving van, “helping” and leaving muddy footprints all over, he knows this girl is bad news.
The Last Airbender
One hundred years ago, a twelve-year-old Airbender named Aang learns he is the new Avatar, the only person in his generation capable of controlling and manipulating all four elements to his will and the one tasked with maintaining peace between the Four Nations of the world
Inception
Inception is a 2010 sci-fi action thriller film written, produced and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, with a supporting cast that includes Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Tom Berenger, Dileep Rao and Michael Caine. Inception is scheduled to be released in both conventional and IMAX theaters on July 16, 2010.
Twelve (2010)
A high school dropout-turned-drug dealer's life sours when his cousin is brutally murdered and his best friend is arrested for the crime.
Twelve is the story of 17-year-old White Mike, the privileged son of a restaurant tycoon. His mother succumbed to breast cancer several years before the film begins. White Mike is a drug dealer who has taken his senior year in high school off to sell drugs to his wealthy peers. When he is not selling drugs he is reminiscing of his childhood and philosophizing about a world he feels he is not a part of. The title of the film refers to a new designer drug which the protagonist of the novel, White Mike, sells. The drug is referred to as a cross between cocaine and ecstasy.
Salt
Salt is an upcoming American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Kurt Wimmer and Brian Helgeland, and starring Angelina Jolie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Liev Schreiber. Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, accused of being a KGB sleeper agent, on the run to try to clear her name. While Tom Cruise was initially secured for the lead, he was unable to commit to the role because of commitments to other projects, and the script was ultimately rewritten for Jolie.
Ramona and Beezus (2010)
Young third grader Ramona (Joey King) has a vivid imagination, boundless energy, and accident-prone antics that keeps everyone she meets on their toes. But her irrepressible sense of fun, adventure and mischief come in handy when she puts her mind to helping save her family's home before it's way too late.
Lebanon
The First Lebanon War - June, 1982. A lone tank is dispatched to search a hostile town that has already been bombarded by the Israeli Air Force. What seems to be a simple mission gradually spins out of control.
Going the Distance (2010)
Going the Distance is an upcoming romantic comedy film directed by Nanette Burstein to be released on August 27, 2010. The movie began filming in New York City in July 2009.
The film revolves around a couple who try to maintain a long-distance relationship, one in New York and the other in San Francisco. The film will also include a cameo by British band
Despicable Me
In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences and flowering rose bushes sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden deep beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by an army of mischievous little minions, we discover Gru (Steve Carell) planning the biggest heist in the history of the world: he is going to steal the moon.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Balthazar Blake (Nicolas Cage) is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath (Alfred Molina). Balthazar can't do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler (Jay Baruchel), a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as his reluctant protégé. The sorcerer gives his unwilling accomplice a crash course in the art and science of magic, and these unlikely partners will work together to stop the forces of darkness.
Mao's Last Dancer
When 11, Chinese boy Li, living in a mountain village, is selected for a ballet education. On a visit to China ballet director Ben Stevenson is impressed by Li's talent and offers him a three-month stay in the US as an exchange student of his ballet school. Li and the Chinese authorities accept.
The Tillman Story
Patrick Daniel "Pat" Tillman (November 6, 1976 – April 22, 2004) was an American football player who left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in June 2002, in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. He joined the United States Army Rangers and served multiple tours in combat before he was killed by friendly fire in the mountains of Afghanistan. Foreign correspondent Dexter Filkins for the New York Times noted, "After Tillman’s death, Army commanders, aided and abetted by members of the Bush administration, violated many of their own rules, not to mention elementary standards of decency, to turn the killing into a propaganda coup for the American side."
The Town
The production began filming late August 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts. The former MASSBank branch located in Melrose, Massachusetts was used as one of the banks in the film, taking on the name Cambridge Merchants Bank. They also filmed at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut to shoot in the casino and MCI-Cedar Junction in Walpole, Massachusetts to shoot in their visiting room.
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Resident Evil: Afterlife is an upcoming 3D science fiction action horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, and starring Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller, Kim Coates, Spencer Locke, Boris Kodjoe and Shawn Roberts. It is the fourth installment in a series of film adaptations based on Capcom's survival horror video game series Resident Evil. It is also the first film in the series to be released in 3D. In the film Alice search and rescue remaining survivors in Los Angeles of the T-virus outbreak, who team up against Albert Wesker, the head of the Umbrella Corporation.
The Last Exorcism (2010)
The priest Cotton Marcus, who has performed exorcism for years on behalf of the Church for money, does not believe in exorcism. He wants to put this fraud story to the truth. As he performs his last exorcism; where Cotton is to cure the daughter of a farmer, his faith is put to the test.
The Switch (2010)
Kassie (Jennifer Aniston) is planning on having a child through artificial insemination by donor. Her best friend Wally (Jason Bateman) loses the sperm donor's semen in a drunken accident and is prompted to replace it with his own. Seven years later- having forgotten about the original incident due to his heightened intoxication at the time-, Kassie returns to his life and he meets her son, who exhibits many of his own personal traits, causing him to realize he may be her son's real father.
Lottery Ticket (2010)
The story follows Kevin Carson who has to endure a weekend in the projects battling opportunistic neighbors, all while holding a winning lottery ticket. Kevin Carson (Bow Wow), a young man living in the projects, wins $370 million in a nationwide lottery. When his opportunistic neighbors discover he has the winning ticket in his possession, Kevin must survive their greedy and sometimes even threatening actions over the 4th of July weekend before he can claim his prize.
Piranha 3D (2010)
Every year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 for Spring Break, a riot of sun and drunken fun. But this year, there's something more to worry about than hangovers and complaints from local old timers; a new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria. After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the areas new razor-toothed residents.
Animal Kingdom (2010)
Animal Kingdom is a 2010 Australian crime thriller written and directed by David Michôd, and stars Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Sullivan Stapleton, Jacki Weaver and James Frecheville. A crime drama that revolves around a criminal family set in Melbourne's vicious underworld and is loosely inspired by the real events of the Walsh Street police shootings that occurred in Melbourne in 1988.
Valhalla Rising
Scotland, 1000 AD. A world torn between the brutality of the past and the civility of the future. A mute Scandinavian savage known only as "One Eye" is kept as a animal and only bought out of his cage by his owner to fight for money.
Predators
Thirteen years later after the events in the second film The film follows a mercenary named Royce (Adrien Brody), who is abducted by alien creatures known as the Predators. He is released onto an alien planet—which acts as a game preserve—along with seven other humans who, with the exception of a disgraced physician, are all cold-blooded killers, with the group consisting of soldiers, mercenaries and convicts. Royce reluctantly leads the group of elite warriors as they come to realize they have been brought together on this planet as prey for a new breed of Predators.
