CAST: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall, Ben Chaplin, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Fiona Shaw, Maryam d’Abo, Douglas Henshall, Caroline Goodall
DIRECTOR: Oliver Parker
Based on “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” the story centers on Gray (Barnes), a young man who becomes the subject of a painting. As the man descends into a hedonistic lifestyle, the portrait begins to age and morph, but he doesn’t.
CAST: Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing, Harry Treadaway
DIRECTOR: Andrea Arnold
Andrea Arnold’s assured follow-up to Red Road is a taboo-breaking love story about a violent teenaged girl transformed by desire for her mother’s new boyfriend.
DIRECTOR: Joe Dante
“The Hole,” filmed in 3-D, centers on Susan (Polo), a mother who moves with her teen sons to a rural house where the three are forced to face their fears after discovering a bottomless hole in the basement.
CAST: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, Andrew Garfield, Verne J. Troyer, Lily Cole, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell
DIRECTOR: Terry Gilliam
Dr. Parnassus (Plummer) has the extra-ordinary gift of guiding the imaginations of others. With his traveling theatre troupe, Parnassus offers audience members the chance to transcend mundane reality by passing through a magical mirror into a fantastic universe of limitless imagination. However, Parnassus’ magic comes at a price. For centuries he’s been gambling with the devil, Mr. Nick (Waits) who is coming to collect his prize – Parnassus’ precious daughter, Valentina (Cole) on her upcoming 16th birthday. Oblivious to her rapidly approaching fate, Valentina falls for Tony (Ledger), a charming outsider with motives of his own. In order to save his daughter and redeem himself, Parnassus makes one final bet with Mr. Nick which sends Tony, Valentina and the entire theatre troupe on a ride of twists and turns, in and out of London and the Imaginarium’s spectacular landscape.
CAST: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody, J.K. Simmons, Kyle Gallner
DIRECTOR: Karyn Kusama
When a gorgeous cheerleader is possessed by a demon and starts feeding off the boys in a small Minnesota farming town, her “plain Jane” best friend must kill her, then escape from a correctional facility to go after the Satan-worshipping rock band responsible for the horrible transformation.
