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September 2009 

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In Theatres

Your monthly guide to new releases


By Ingrid Randoja

SEPTEMBER 4

 

GAMER (pictured above)

In the near future (spoken in your best trailer voice), videogame designer Ken Castle’s (Michael C. Hall) most popular game is the multi-player sensation Slayers, which uses prisoners as real-life avatars controlled by skilled game players. The teenage Simon (Logan Lerman) controls the superviolent Kable (Gerard Butler), and together the duo is unbeatable, which is bad business for Castle who sets out to eliminate the winning team.

 

ALL ABOUT STEVE

Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper bring their suddenly scorching hot box-office appeal to this rom-com about a kooky crossword-puzzle creator named Mary (Bullock) who goes on a blind date with Steve (Cooper), a TV news cameraman. He thinks she’s weird, but she thinks he’s perfect, so Mary decides to follow Steve wherever he goes on assignment to convince him they should be together.

 

EXTRACT

Office Space writer/director Mike Judge returns to the workplace with this comedy starring Jason Bateman as the owner of a flavour extract plant who must deal with a troublesome staff, a cheating wife (Kristen Wiig) and the assembly line’s hottest temp (Mila Kunis).

 

9's eponymous hero

SEPTEMBER 9

 

9

Shane Acker spent four-and-a-half years creating his animated short 9, which he’s now adapted into a feature film. Set in a post-apocalyptical world in which machines have destroyed humanity, the only living beings are a set of sentient rag dolls led by the plucky 9 (Elijah Wood), who convinces the other dolls the only way to survive the machines is to fight them head on, using their intellect.

 

SEPTEMBER 11

 

WHITEOUT

The provinces of Quebec and Manitoba stood in for the inhospitable Antarctica in this frosty thriller starring Kate Beckinsale as a U.S. Marshal tracking a killer who’s plying his trade in the coldest place on Earth.
  

I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF

One-man show Tyler Perry churns out another chick flick, this one starring Taraji P. Henson (Queenie from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) as a hard-drinking nightclub singer who’s given custody of her delinquent niece and two nephews after they’re caught breaking into Madea’s (Perry) home.

 

SORORITY ROW

This remake of the 1983 horror The House on Sorority Row stars Leah Pipes, Briana Evigan, Rumer Willis, Jamie Chung, Margo Harshman and Audrina Patridge as sorority sisters who cover up the accidental murder of one of their own. A year later, just as they are graduating, the guilty girls are sent a video of the murder, and one by one they start to kick the bucket in the most horrible ways.

 

Ben Foster in Pandorum

SEPTEMBER 18

 

PANDORUM

Helmed by German director Christian Alvart this sci-fi thriller stars Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster as astronauts who awaken from hypersleep to find their starship — which was carrying 60,000 passengers — empty. They travel deep into the bowels of the ship and discover survivors, who are hiding from a very scary alien thingy.

 

THE REBOUND

Recently divorced Sandy (Catherine Zeta-Jones) moves to New York City and hires 25-year-old Aram (Justin Bartha) to be the nanny to her two kids. Sparks fly, and the sexy Sandy and adorable Aram can’t keep their hands off each other. However, what was meant to be a wham-bam rebound affair for the older Sandy develops into an unlikely romance.

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS

In this animated family film, inventor Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader) ends world hunger by building a machine that turns water into food, which is then delivered via the weather. Giant hamburgers and pancakes rain down on people, but is an all-you-can-eat world such a good thing?

 

JENNIFER’S BODY

Supersultry Megan Fox plays a cheerleader-turned-man-destroying demon in a horror pic directed by Karyn Kusama (Aeon Flux) and written by Diablo Cody (Juno). So is this a male fantasy flick, or a feminist diatribe against the sexist nature of horror films? That depends if you are titillated by seeing Fox strip down to her undies to flirt with co-star Amanda Seyfried, or you enjoy watching macho jerks get eviscerated.

 

LOVE HAPPENS

Aaron Eckhart plays a grieving widow who writes a best-selling self-help book then falls for a florist (Jennifer Aniston), but is still too scared to fall in love.

 

THE INFORMANT!

Director Steven Soderbergh made sure there wasn’t a smidgen of the “Sexiest Man Alive” in Matt Damon’s portrayal of stodgy Mark Whitacre, the real-life corn executive-turned-whistleblower who exposed the corn industry’s rampant price-fixing schemes.

 

Audrey Tautou in Coco Avant Chanel

SEPTEMBER 25

 

COCO AVANT CHANEL

Before Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (Audrey Tautou) became a renowned fashion designer, she was an orphan who learned to sew under the watchful eyes of nuns who ran the orphanage. This bio-pic follows Chanel’s rise from lonely girl to seamstress to courtesan and finally to the designer whose belief that “simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance” forever changed women’s fashion.

 

THE INVENTION OF LYING

British funnyman Ricky Gervais co-wrote, co-directed and stars in this comedy set in a parallel universe where no one lies. But suddenly, Mark (Gervais) finds the key to lying and uses the not-so-noble trait to bed women and become a huge success. Gervais fills out his cast with A-list comedians, including Christopher Guest, Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, Jonah Hill and John Hodgman.

 

    

SURROGATES

Bruce Willis has hair, or at least his surrogate does. In the near future (spoken in your best trailer voice) humans use their minds to control robotic versions of themselves that they send out to interact in the real world. When a surrogate is murdered, FBI agent Willis is sent to investigate.

 

TRAILER PARK BOYS: COUNTDOWN TO LIQUOR DAY

Ricky (Robb Wells), Julian (John Paul Tremblay) and Bubbles (Mike Smith) are released from prison and decide robbing a liquor store, and also a bank, will solve their cash flow problems.

 

FAME

Living in a think-you-can-dance-got-talent-idol culture means that it was just a matter of time before someone decided a remake of the 1980 teen classic Fame was in order. The acting/singing/dancing wannabes enrolled in the New York City High School for the Performing Arts include Naturi Naughton, Kay Panabaker, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, Walter Perez and Kherington Payne.

 

BRIGHT STAR

Director Jane Campion (The Piano) hasn’t made a feature film since 2003’s In the Cut, but she returns to centre stage with this critically acclaimed (it screened at Cannes) romance recounting the love affair between 19th-century English poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and the fiery Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), who inspires him to pen his most romantic verse.

 

THE DAMNED UNITED

Michael Sheen (The Queen, Frost/Nixon) continues his trend of portraying real-life figures by starring as outspoken and charismatic English soccer manager Brian Clough, who leads Leeds United for a rollercoaster 44 days in 1974.

 

 

SPECIAL EVENTS ON THE BIG SCREEN

METROPOLITAN OPERA

Summer Series

Encore performance of the most popular operas from the 2008/2009 season.

La Bohème (Puccini)

Sat., Sept. 5

12 p.m. ET & CT, 11 a.m. MT, 10 a.m. PT

 

Last Night of the Proms

Sat., Sept. 12, 2:30 p.m. ET, 1:30 p.m. CT, 12:30 p.m. MT, 11:30 a.m. PT

Live coverage from London, England, of the final night of the musical extravaganza The Proms 2009.

 

WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW

Breaking Point

Sun., Sept. 13, 8 p.m. ET



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