MONEYBALL (2011)

 

Directed By: Bennett Miller Written By: Aaron Sorkin And Steve Zaillian  Story By: Stan Chervin Based on the book “MONEYBALL: The Art Of Winning An Unfair Game” by: Michael Lewis  Cinematography: Wally Pfister Editor: Christopher Tellefsen 

Cast: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Chris Pratt, Stephen Bishop, Reed Diamond, Brent Jennings, Tammy Blanchard, Nick Searcy, Arliss Howard

Oakland A's GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series, Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the team.

THE INNKEEPERS (2011)

 

Written, Directed & Edited By: Ti West  Cinematography: Eliot Rockett

Cast: Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis, Brenda Cooney, Lena Dunham

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

WRONG TURN 4: BLOODY BEGINNINGS (2011)

 

Written & Directed By: Declan O’Brien  Based on characters created by: Alan McElroy Cinematography: Michael Marshall  Editor: Stein Myhrstad 

Cast: Jenny Pudavick, Tenika Davis, Kaitlyn Wong, Terra Vnesa, Sean Skene, Blane Cypurda, Dan Skene 

A group of college students gets lost in a storm during their snowmobiling trip and takes shelter in an abandoned sanitarium which, unbeknown to them, is home to three deformed cannibals.

LUCKY (2011)

 

Directed By: Gil Cates Jr. Written By: Kent Sublette Cinematography: Darren Genet Editor: Gregory Plotkin 

Cast: Colin Hanks, Ari Graynor, Ann-Margaret, Jeffrey Tambor, Mimi Rogers, Allison Mackie, Tom Amendes, Adam J. Harrington 

A wannabe serial killer wins the lottery and pursues his lifelong crush.

JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER (2011)

 

Directed By: John Schultz  Written By: Kathy Waugh & Megan McDonald Based on the JUDY MOODY Series of book by: Megan McDonald  Cinematography: Shawn Maurer  Editor: John Pace 

Cast: Jordana Beatty, Heather Graham, Paris Mosteller, Janet Varney, Kristofer Winters, Jaleel White, Cameron Boyce, Garrett Ryan, Preston Bailey, Dean Cameron 

Young Judy Moody is very excited to have the most thrilling summer of her life with her brother Stink who is a huge believer in Bigfoot. Her goal is to get as many thrill points as possible for every dare she does on her list of summer dares.

THE GUARD (2011)

 

Written & Directed By: John Michael Mcdonagh Cinematography: Larry Smith  Editor: Chris Gill

Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong, Rory Keenan, Liam Cunningham, Fionnula Flanagan 

Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.

OUR IDIOT BROTHER (2011)

 Directed By: Jesse Peretz Story By: Jesse Peretz, Evgenia Peretz & David Schisgall Written By: Evgenia Peretz & David Schisgall Cinematography: Yaron Orbach Editor: Jacob Craycroft & Andrew Mondshein

Cast: Paul Rudd, Zooey Deschanel, Adam Scott, Elizabeth Banks, Rashida Jones, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan, Kathryn Hahn, T.J. Miller, Shirley Knight, Sterling K. Brown, Hugh Dancy, Polly Draper 

A comedy centered on an idealist who barges into the lives of his three sisters.

HAYWIRE (2011)

Editing, Cinematography & Directed By: Steven Soderbergh
Written By: Lem Dobbs

Cast: Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum, Bill Paxton, Michael Angarano, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas

Freelance covert operative Mallory Kane is hired out by her handler to various global entities to perform jobs which governments can't authorize and heads of state would rather not know about. After a mission to rescue a hostage in Barcelona, Mallory is quickly dispatched on another mission to Dublin. When the operation goes awry and Mallory finds she has been double-crossed, she needs to use all of her skills, tricks, and abilities to escape an international manhunt, make it back to the United States, protect her family, and exact revenge on those that have betrayed her.

CARNAGE (2011)

Directed By: Roman Polanski 
Written By: Yasmina Reza & Roman Polanski 
Based on The Play By: Yasmina Reza 
Translation By: Michael Katmis 
Cinematography: Pawel Edelman 
Editor: Herve De Luze 

Cast: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz 

In New York's Brooklyn Bridge park, eleven year old Zachary strikes his eleven year old classmate Ethan. The boy's parents learn of the fight and meet to deal with the incident. Although the meeting starts civilized, it quickly degenerates after an unfortunate incident, and soon, their meeting is not only about their boys' fight, but also the couple's fitness as parents.

LIMITLESS (2011)

Directed By: Neil Burger 
Written By: Leslie Dixon 
Based on the Novel By: Alan Glynn 
Cinematography: Jo Willems 
Editor: Tracy Adams & Naomi Geraghty 

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel, Johnny Whitworth, Ned Eisenberg, Robert John Burke, T.V. Capiro 


With the help of a mysterious pill that enables the user to access one hundred percent of his brain abilities, a struggling writer becomes a financial wizard, but it also puts him in a new world with lots of dangers.

THOR (2011)

Directed By: Kenneth Branagh 
Written By: Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, & Don Payne 
Story By: J. Michael Strazynski & Mark Protosevich 
Based on the Comic Book By: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby 
Cinematography: Haris Zambarloukos 
Editor: Paul Pubell 

Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Rene Russo, Idris Elba, Kat Dennings, Stellan Skarsgard, Clark Gregg, Colm Feore, Ray Stevenson, Jaime Alexander, Adriana Barraza 

The reckless Thor, son of Odin, challenges his brother Loki's claim to the throne of Asgard. To teach him humility, Odin casts the young warrior down to Earth to live amongst humans. Robbed of his powers, Thor falls in love with scientist Jane Foster. While Loki usurps the throne of Asgard for evil gain and plans revenge, Thor's love for Jane and his lessons of humility turn him into the true hero and legendary and immortal warrior-defender of the people of the Earth, saving them from destruction.

HORRIBLE BOSSES (2011)

Directed By: Seth Gordon 
Written By: Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein 
Story By: Michael Markowitz 
Cinematography: David Hennings 
Editor: Peter Teschner 


Cast: Charlie Day, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudekis, Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Lindsay Sloane, Meghan Markle, Donald Sutherland, Julie Bowen, John Francis Daley, Wendell Pierce, Ron White, Bob Newhart 

Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness.

THE CHANGE-UP (2011)

Directed By: David Dobkin 
Written By: Jon Lucas & Scott Moore 
Cinematography: Eric Edwards 
Editor: Lee Haxall & Greg Hayden 


Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde, Craig Bierko, Alan Arkin, Gregory Itzen, Mircea Monroe, Fred Stoller 


Dave is a married man with three kids and a loving wife, and Mitch is a single man who is at the prime of his sexual life. One fateful night while Mitch and Dave are peeing in a fountain, lightning strikes and they switch bodies.

RESTLESS (2011)

Directed By: Gus Van Sant 
Written By: Jason Lew 
Cinematography By: Harris Savides 
Editor: Elliot Graham 

Cast: Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Ryo Case, Jane Adams, Schuyler Fisk 


Annabel is a terminally ill cancer patient and is quietly awaiting her death spending her time studying nature. Enoch is struggling to recover from the death of his parents and spends his time attending funerals with his only friend - a ghost named Hiroshi who was a WWII Japanese kamikaze pilot. Just as Annabel's sister is trying to cope with Annabel's impending death, Annabel and Enoch fall in love. They both finally have a reason to live, but is it too late to have a life together?

THE COMPANY MEN (2011)

Written & Directed By: John Wells 
Cinematography By: Roger Deakins 
Editor: Robert Frazen 

Cast: Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, Maria Bello, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kevin Costner, Craig T. Nelson, Eammon Walker, Cady Huffman 

The story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company - and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.

NUIT #1 (2011)

Written & Directed By: Anne Emond 
Cinematography: Mathieu Laverdiere 
Editor: Mathieu Bouchard-Malo 

Cast: Catherine De Lean, Dimitri Storoge 


It starts as a one night stand that evolves in a long discussion with infinite subjects between a québécoise and an immigrant.

PERFECT SENSE (2011)

Directed By: David Mackenzie 
Written By: Kim Fupz Aakeson 
Cinematography By: Giles Nuttgens 
Editor: Jake Roberts 


Cast: Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Stephen Dillane, Connie Nielsen, Ewan Bremmer, Denis Lawson

BULLHEAD (2011)

Written & Directed By: Michael R. Roskam 
Cinematography By: Nicolas Karakatsanis 
Editor: Alain Dessauvage 


Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Jeanne Dandoy, Barbara Sarafin, Tibo Vandenborre, Frank Lamers


*Please note that some trivia and facts have been republished from imdb among other sources In this review

A SEPARATION (2011)

Written & Directed By: Asghar Farhadi 
Cinematography By: Mahmoud Kalari 
Editor: Hayedah Safiyari 


Cast: Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi

AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT (2011)

Directed By: Alex De La Iglesia 
Written By: Randy Feldman 
Cinematography By: Kiko De La Rica 
Editor: Pablo Blanco 


Cast: Jose Mota, Salma Hayek, Blanca Portillo, Carolina Bang, Santiago Segura, Nacho Vigalando