BRIGHT STAR
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneide,r Kerry Fox, Thomas Sangster
Director: Jane Campion
Length: 119 mins
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG - Mild Themes
    
London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year-old English poet, John Keats (Ben Whishaw), and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), an out-spoken student of high fashion. This unlikely pair begin at odds, he thinking her a stylish minx, while she was unimpressed not only by his poetry but also by literature in general. However, when Fanny heard that Keats was nursing his seriously ill younger brother, her efforts to help touched Keats and when she asked him to teach her about poetry he agreed. The poetry soon became a romantic remedy that worked not only to sort their differences, but also to fuel an impassioned love affair. When Fanny's alarmed mother and Keats' best friend finally awoke to their attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum. Intensely and helplessly absorbed in each other, the young lovers were swept deeply into powerful new sensations, "I have the feeling as if we're dissolving," Keats wrote to her. Together they rode a wave of romantic obsession that only deepened as their troubles mounted. When Keats fell ill a year later, the two young lovers faced no marriage but separation. In Keats' own poignant words, "forever panting and forever young."

PRECIOUS
Starring: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, Sherri Shepherd
Director: Lee Daniels
Length: 110 mins
Genre: Drama
Rating: MA - Strong Language and Coarse Language
    
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for best drama at the Sundance Film Festival as well as the Audience Awards of Sundance, Toronto and San Sebastian, Lee Daniels' PRECIOUS is an honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome unimaginable hardships. Set in Harlem, Claireece Precious Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) is a sixteen-year-old girl who has endured indescribable hardships during her young life. Poor, angry, illiterate and unloved, a transfer to an alternative school allows Precious to begin a journey that will lead her from darkness.

THE LAST STATION
Starring: Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, James McAvo,y Paul Giamatt,i Anne-Marie Duff, Kerry Condon
Director: Michael Hoffman
Length: 112 mins
Genre: Biographical
Rating: M - Sex Scene
    
Winner of Best Actress for Helen Mirren at the Rome Film Festival, this is Michael Hoffman’s account of novelist Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. Young idealist Valentin (James McAvoy) is sent to assist the aging Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) on his grand estate where he lives with his wife Sofya (Mirren), his family and a band of Tolstoyan followers. Witnessing a battle over Tolstoy’s legacy between Sofya and follower Vladimir Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), Valentin cannot help but question the true meaning of his leader’s teachings.

INVICTUS
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon
Director: Clint Eastwood
Length: 134mins
Genre: Drama
Rating: TBC
    
From two-time Best Directing Oscar winner Clint Eastwood comes the inspiring true story of how newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman, in the role he was born to play) joined forces with the white captain of his country’s rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), to help unite their country. Knowing his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid, Mandela believes he can bring his people together through a shared passion for sport. Together with Pienaar, they rally the team to make an unlikely run for the 1995 World Cup Championship.

MY NAME IS KHAN
Starring: Shahrukh Khan, Kajol
Director: Karan Johar
Length: 161mins
Genre: Drama
Rating: M - mature themes and violence
    
The film begins with the child, Rizwan Khan (Tanay Chheda), a Muslim who has Asperger syndrome, growing up with his mother (Zarina Wahab) in the Borivali section of Mumbai. Later as an adult (Shahrukh Khan), Rizwan moves to San Francisco and lives with his brother and sister-in-law. While there, he falls in love with Mandira (Kajol). They eventually marry and begin a business. After the events of 9/11, Rizwan and Mandira begin to face a number of difficulties. Following a tragedy, they separate. In order to win her back, Rizwan embarks on a long journey across the United States.

CRAZY HEART
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrel ,Robert Duvall
Director: Scott Cooper
Length: 112mins
Genre: Drama
Rating: M - coarse language
    
Four-time Academy Award® nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film Crazy Heart from writer-director Scott Cooper. Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who’s had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man’s crazy heart.

FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN
Starring: Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt Anamaria, Marinca
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Length: 90mins
Genre: Drama
Rating: M - Violence, mature themes and coarse language
    
The first part reconstructs the historical killing of 19-year-old Jim Griffin by 17-year-old Alistair Little in 1975, and the second part depicts a fictional meeting between Little and Jim's brother Joe 33 years later.

MY ONE & ONLY
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Eric McCormack, Chris Noth, Nick Stahl, Steven Weber, Kevin Bacon
Director: Richard Loncraine
Length: 108mins
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Rating: M - Infrequent coarse language
    
An unusual road trip movie about a mother driving her two sons from New York to Pittsburgh to St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Length: 152mins
Genre: Crime Mystery Thriller
Rating: M - Infrequent coarse language
    
Based on the critically acclaimed best-selling novel of the same name and one third of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling ‘Millennium’ trilogy - THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is the anticipated epic tale of serial murder and corporate trickery spanning several continents. 16-year old Harriet Vanger disappeared without a trace on September 29th 1966. Nearly 40 years later, a journalist (Michael Nyqvist) is contacted by the industrial leader Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube), who wants him to write the history of the Vanger family. The family chronicle is just a cover for the real assignment: to find out about what really happened to Harriet. The most successful local film of all time at the Nordic box office.

THE HURT LOCKER
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Evangeline Lilly, with Ralph Fiennes, David Morse and Guy Pearce
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Length: 131mins
Genre: Action War Drama
Rating: MA15+ - Strong themes, violence and coarse language
    
An intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge, by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat. James behaves as if he's indifferent to death. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos, and James' true character reveals itself in a way that will change each man forever.

IO, DON GIOVANNI
Starring: Lorenzo Balducci, Francesca Inaudi
Director: Carlos Saura
Length: 127 mins
Lanuage: German, Italian
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Rating: M - Sexual References, Violence, Nudity
    
A drama based on the life of 18th century Italian lyricist Lorenzo da Ponte, who collaborated with Mozart on his "Don Giovanni" opera.

ACCIDENTS HAPPEN
Starring: Geena Davis, Harrison Gilbertson, Sebastian Gregory, Harry Cook, Joel Tobeck
Director: Andrew Lancaster
Length: -
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Rating: M
    
There are dysfunctional families... and then there are the Conways. After a family tragedy, 15-year-old Billy Conway has become the de facto glue between his bitter mom, distant brother, and stoic dad. But when Billy starts to act out, everything changes for him and his family

LE CONCERT
Starring: Mélanie Laurent
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Length: -
Genre: Comedy, Music
Rating: TBC
    
Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. As a solo violin player to accompany his old Jewish or Gypsy musicians he wants Anne-Marie Jacquet, a young virtuoso. If they all overcome the hardships ahead this very special concert will be a triumph.

MICMACS
Starring: Dany Boon, Dominique Pinon, François Berléand, Albert Dupontel
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Length: 105mins
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Rating:M - Violence & Sexual References
    
From the director of AMELIE comes an imaginative story of a man living life on the very edge. Comic superstar Dany Boon (Welcome to The Sticks, The Valet) stars as ex-video store clerk Bazil: a man left with a bullet lodged in his brain following a bungled robbery. Taken in by a tight-knit bunch of eccentrics (including Junet regular Dominique Pinon & Seraphine’s Yolande Moreau) who quickly become family, Bazil devises an intricate and original plan to destroy the very weapons manufacturers who were responsible for creating the bullet that wound up in his head. A hilarious revenge fantasy that keeps you guessing, amidst the mad-cap planning is a budding romance, a human cannonball, double-crossing corporate espionage as well as the answers to such questions as: Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes?

THE ROAD
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron
Director: John Hillcoat
Length: 111mins
Genre: Drama
Rating: MA15+ Strong themes and violence
    
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless cannibalistic bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a rusting shopping cart of scavenged food--and each other.