2012 Fall Movie Preview: September

September 3rd, 2012 | Posted by James K in Film | News

Bachelorette Poster 570x379 2012 Fall Movie Preview: September

What we want to see:

  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a time-traveling Mob assassin.
  • Clint Eastwood and Justin Timberlake as baseball scouts.
  • Emma Watson in her first major post-Harry Potter role.
  • If “Bacherlotte” is as funny as “Bridesmaids.

We link to each movie’s IMDb page for posters, trailers and much more information.

SEPT. 7

The Words

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, Zoe Saldana

Director: Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal

A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man’s work.

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[REC] 3: Genesis

Cast: Leticia Dolera, Diego Martín, Javier Botet

Director: Paco Plaza

A couple’s wedding day turns into a horrific events as some of the guests start showing signs of a strange illness.

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Bachelorette

Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Scott

Director: Leslye Headland

Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school. Available On Demand.

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Keep the Lights On

Cast: Zachary Booth, Thure Lindhardt, Julianne Nicholson

Director: Ira Sachs

In Manhattan, filmmaker Erik bonds with closeted lawyer Paul after a fling. As their relationship becomes one fueled by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries while being true to himself.

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The Cold Light of Day

Cast: Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver

Director: Mabrouck El Mechri

After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase.

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Hello I Must Be Going

Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Blythe Danner, John Rubinstein

Director: Todd Louis

Circumstances force a young divorcée to move back in with her parents in suburban Connecticut, where an affair with a younger guy rejuvenates her passion for life.

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SEPT. 14

Resident Evil: Retribution

Cast: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Johann Urb

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson

Alice fights alongside a resistance movement in the continuing battle against the Umbrella Corporation and the undead.

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The Master

Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Laura Dern

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

A 1950s-set drama centered on the relationship between a charismatic intellectual known as “the Master” whose faith-based organization begins to catch on in America, and a young drifter who becomes his right-hand man.

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Stolen

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Malin Akerman, Danny Huston

Director: Simon West

A former thief frantically searches for his missing daughter, who has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi.

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Arbitrage

Cast: Eva Green, Susan Sarandon, Drake

Director: Nicholas Jarecki

A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.

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Liberal Arts

Cast: Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins

Director: Josh Radnor

When thirty-something Jesse returns home for his father’s retirement party, he falls for Zibby, a college student, and is faced with the powerful attraction that springs up between them.

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10 Years

Cast: Channing Tatum, Rosario Dawson, Chris Pratt, Jenna Dewan, Anna Faris

Director: Jamie Linden

The night before their high school reunion, a group of friends realize they still haven’t quite grown up in some ways.

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SEPT. 21

Dredd 3D

Cast: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey, Rachel Wood

Director: Pete Travis

In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.

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House at the End of the Street

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Elisabeth Shue, Max Thieriot

Director: Mark Tonderai

A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.

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Trouble With the Curve

Cast: Clint EastwoodAmy AdamsJustin Timberlake

Director: Robert Lorenz

An ailing baseball scout in his twilight years takes his daughter along for one last recruiting trip.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Cast: Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Mae Whitman, Paul Ruud

Director: Stephen Chbosky

An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world.

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War of Buttons

Cast: Guillaume Canet, Laetitia Casta, Jean Texier

Director: Christophe Barratier

In occupied France, Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but his feelings for Violette, a Jewish girl in danger of being discovered by the Nazis, encourage Lebrac to face the reality of what’s happening around him.

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SEPT. 28

Hotel Transylvania

Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Fran Drescher

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky

Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count’s teen-aged daughter.

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Won’t Back Down

Cast: Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Holly hunter, Ving Rhames

Director: Daniel Barnz

Two determined mothers , one a teacher, look to transform their children’s failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children.

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Looper

Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano

Director: Rian Johnson

In 2072, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent 30 years into the past, where a hired gun awaits. Someone like Joe, who one day learns the mob wants to ‘close the loop’ by transporting back Joe’s future self.

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End of Watch

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena, Anna Kendrick

Director: David Ayer

Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel, during a routine traffic stop.

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