Rueben's Ramblings

Based on information provided by the Dark Horizons site, IMDB and Entertainment Weekly, here are many of the movies you can expect to see in the movie theatres starting in October:

Case 39
Opens October 1, 2010

This movie centers on an idealistic social worker (Renee Zellweger) who save an abused 10-year-old girl from her abusive parents only to discover that the girl is not as innocent as she thinks. The movie also stars Bradley Cooper, Ian McShane, Cynthia Stevenson (Life Unexpected), Jodelle Ferland (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) and Callum Keith Rennie (Battlestar Galactica).

Let Me In
Opens October 1, 2010

This remake of the Swedish vampire move Let The Right One In, stars Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) as a bullied pubescent boy whose new neighbor turns out to be a deadly vampire in the body of a 12-year-old girl (Chloe Moretz from Kick Ass).

The Social Network
Opens October 1, 2010

The movie deals with the three men – Mark Zuckerberg, Sean Parker and Eduardo Saverin – who were key in the founding of the popular social networking site Facebook and the eventual fall out between the three. The film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rashida Jones and Max Minghella.

Your Highness
Opens: October 1, 2010

In a fantastical world of knights and dragons, the king sends the heroic prince Fabious and his slovenly brother Thadeous on a quest to rescue the prince’s fiancée from an evil wizard. Along with an elusive female warrior, Thadeous must find his inner hero. The cast includes Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel and Justin Theroux.

Life As We Know It
Opens October 8, 2010

This movie follows two unattached adults whose worlds are turned upside down when their mutual best friends die in an accident and name them as caregivers for their orphaned daughter. The film stars Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Christina Hendricks, Josh Lucas and Melissa McCarthy.

Nowhere Boy
Opens October 8, 2010

Kick Ass star Aaron Johnson plays young John Lennon in the 1950’s, following the young singer’s troubled relationships with the mother who abandoned him (Anne-Marie Duff) and the aunt who raised him (Kristin Scott Thomas). While the movie will show how the Beatles came to be (in essence) it is more about how Lennon brought the two women who meant the most to him together. The movie also stars Sam Wilmott, Sam Bell, Thomas Sangster and Frazer Bird.

Secretariat
Opens October 8, 2010

The film centers around Penny Chenery, who took over the financially troubled Meadow Stable from her ailing father and guided the thoroughbred race horse Secretariat through his Triple Crown winning season in 1973. The cast includes Diane Lane, James Cromwell, Scott Glenn and Dylan Walsh.

Stone
Opens October 8, 2010

A convicted arsonist (Edward North) attempts to manipulate a parole officer (Robert De Niro) into a plan to secure his parole by placing his beautiful wife in the lawman’s path. The film also stars Milla Jovovich, Francis Conroy and Enver Gjokaj (Dollhouse).

Tamara Drewe
Opens October 8, 2010

Drewe is a young newspaper writer and a sexy flirt who returns to her small English countryside village where her childhood home is being prepped for sale. She soon stirs up dark passions among the locals. The cast includes Gemma Atherton, Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam, Luke Evans and Bill Camp.

The Zookeeper
Opens: October 8, 2010

A kind-hearted zookeeper is convinced the only way to get a girl in his life is to quit his job. The zoo animals, in a panic, decide to break their time-honored rule of not talking to humans and teach Griffin the ways of the wild so he can stay at the zoo. The movie stars Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb, Adam Sandler, Cher and Jon Favreau.

NOTE: It would appear this movie has been moved to July of 2011.

Alpha and Omega 3D
Opens October 10, 2010

This animated feature is about a disciplined female wolf and a fun-loving male wolf who are relocated from Canada to Idaho by park rangers. In order to return home they must work together to battle the elements as well as one another as they journey across unfamiliar territory. Voices featured include Hayden Panettiere, Justin Long, Christina Ricci, Danny Glover and the late Dennis Hopper.

Conviction
Opens October 15, 2010

Hilary Swank stars as Anne Waters, a Massachusetts single mother who spent 10 years battling to free her brother (Sam Rockwell) after he was wrongfully convicted of murder. The film also stars Peter Gallagher (The O.C.).

Red
Opens October 15, 2010

Adapted from the graphic novel Retired and Extremely Dangerous, the movie stars Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich as the former top agents in the CIA, but the secrets they know have made them the agency’s top targets. They regroup to save their lives and end up uncovering one of the biggest conspiracies and cover-us in government history. The film also stars Brian Cox, Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds), Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck), Karl Urban (Lord of the Rings) and James Remar (Dexter). Richard Dreyfuss and Ernest Borgnine will also be seen in the film.

Hereafter
Opens, October 22, 2010

Directed by Clint Eastwood, this movie is actually a chick flick (that he claims will actually attract men to watch) follows three separate stories that grapple with mortality. Matt Damon is a reluctant psychic in San Francisco whose ability to talk with the dead is ruining his relationships; French actress Cecile de France plays a Paris anchorwoman who nearly died in a tsunami in 2004; and newcomer twins Frankie and George McLaren play English guys during the 2005 bombing in the London subway. The cast also includes Bryce Dallas Howard, Jay Mohr and Richard Kind.

The Company Men
Opens October 22, 2010

Ben Affleck stars as a salesman for a Boston conglomerate whose life unravels when he gets laid off. The movie also stars Chris Cooper and Tommy Lee Jones and is directed by John Wells (the man behind ER).

Movies coming out in November will be posted at the end of October.

Enjoy!