Movies to Check Out during Fall 2012
The fall offers a variety of different films…from action and comedy to dramatic films competing for the title or front running spot for the award season. Below is a list of some of the movies to check out during the semester.
We’ll have a new list of films detailing the ones coming out after finals in December. You’ll want to come back then to find out some films to see during the winter break. Until then, have a good time at the movies.

1. Premium Rush (August 24)
Description: Premium Rush centers on a New York City bicycle messenger who picks up an envelope from Columbia University. A dirty cop, desperate to get his hands on the envelope, chases the bicycle messenger around the city.
Genre: Action/Adventure
Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception, (500) Days of Summer, The Dark Night Rises, 50/50), Jamie Chung (The Hangover: Part II), Michael Shannon (“Boardwalk Empire”, Bad Boys II, Revolutionary Road)
Rating: PG-13 for some violence, intense action sequences, and language
Run Time: 91 minutes (1 hour 31 minutes)
Description: Three brothers find their bootlegging business threatened in Prohibition-era Franklin County, Virginia. The story is based on Matt Bondurant’s grandfather and great-uncles in the novel The Wettest County in the World.
Genre: Drama
Actors: Shia LaBeouf (Transformers, Eagle Eye, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps), Tom Hardy (Inception, This Means War), Jessica Chastain (The Help, The Tree of Life, The Debt), Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight Rises, Tinker Tailor Solider Spy), Guy Pearce (Lockout, The King’s Speech, The Hurt Locker), Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland, The Kids Are All Right, Jane Eyre)
Rating: R for strong bloody violence, language, and some sexuality/nudity
Run Time: 115 minutes (1 hour 55 minutes)
Description: Struggling writer Rory Johnson rockets to fame after passing off a brilliant found manuscript as his own, but experiences an acute crisis of conscience after his stint in the spotlight changes him in ways he never expected.
Genre: Drama
Actors: Bradley Cooper (The Hangover, Limitless, A-Team), Olivia Wilde (People Like Us, “House M.D.”, Tron: Legacy, In Time, Cowboys and Aliens), Zoe Saldana (Columbiana, Star Trek), Dennis Quaid (What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Footloose, The Day After Tomorrow)
Rating: PG-13 for brief strong language and smoking
Run Time: 96 minutes (1 hour 36 minutes)
4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (September 14)
Description: A funny story based on the best selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, the film captures the highs and lows of growing up. It’s a tale of love, loss, fear, and hope along with the unforgettable friends that help us through life.
Genre: Romance
Actors: Logan Lerman (The Number 23, 3:10 to Yuma), Emma Watson (Harry Potter Series), Mae Whitman (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, “Parenthood”), Kate Walsh (“Private Practice”), Nina Dobrev (“The Vampire Diaries”), Paul Rudd (Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I Love You, Man)
Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material, drug and alcohol use, sexual content including references, and a fight – all involving teens
Run Time: Not Yet Available
5. House at the End of the Street (September 21)
Description: Seeking a fresh start, newly divorced Sarah and her daughter Elissa find the house of their dreams in a small, upscale, rural town. But when startling and unexplainable events begin to happen, Sarah and Elissa learn the town is in the shadows of a chilling secret. Years earlier, in the house next door, a daughter killed her parents and disappeared – leaving only a brother, Ryan, as the sole survivor. Against Sarah’s wishes, Elissa begins a relationship with the reclusive Ryan – and the closer they get, the deeper they’re all pulled into a mystery more dangerous than they ever imagined.
Genre: Horror
Actors: Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games, Winter’s Bone, X-Men: First Class), Elisabeth Shue (Back to the Future Series, Adventures in Babysitting), Max Thieriot (Jumper, The Pacifier, The Astronaut Farmer)
Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and terror, thematic elements, language, some teen partying, and brief drug material
Run Time: 101 minutes (1 hour 41 minutes)
6. End of Watch (September 28)
Description: Two young police officers, Taylor and Zavala, patrol Los Angeles’ meanest streets in south central part of the town. They come upon a startling discovery, making them the targets of a drug cartel.
Genre: Drama
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal (Source Code, Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain, Zodiac), Anna Kendrick (What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Twilight Series, Up in the Air), America Ferrera (“Ugly Betty”), Cody Horn (Magic Mike)
Rating: Not Yet Available
Run Time: Not Yet Available
Description: In a futuristic gangland, a 25-year-old killer named Joseph Simmons works for a Mafia company in Kansas City in the year 2042 as a “Looper”, where he kills and disposes of people who are sent by their employers known as “Gat Men” from their corporate headquarters in Shanghai from the year 2072. Loopers, like himself, are used as foot soldiers and are well paid on the terms that all hostages must never escape, including Loopers themselves. Gat Men are New York City Dialect-sounding men who are hired by a Southern Dialected Godfather named, Jack Mitchell, in which people called him, the Rainmaker, who are being used as sentries, and each Gat Man has been given complete authority and responsibility in controlling their own group of Loopers. When one target arrives however he recognizes the 55-year-old victim as himself and hesitates, allowing his older self to escape. The resulting failure of his job causes the Gat Men to come after him, forcing him to fight for his life as he hunts his older self.
Genre: Action/Adventure
Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception, (500) Days of Summer, The Dark Night Rises, 50/50), Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada, The Young Victoria), Bruce Willis (Die Hard, Armageddon), Piper Perabo (Cheaper by the Dozen, “Covert Affairs”)
Rating: Not Yet Available
Run Time: 118 minutes (1 hour 58 minutes)
8. Won’t Back Down (September 28)
Description: Two determined mothers, a bartender and a teacher, look to transform their children’s failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy and corruption the teacher’s union president and the school’s principal, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children.
Genre: Drama
Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight, Sherrybaby), Viola Davis (The Help, Doubt), Holly Hunter (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, “Saving Grace”)
Rating: PG for thematic elements and language
Run Time: Not Yet Available
Description: The story follows an all-girls a cappella group who rebuilds so they can make their way to the championship and take on the boys. The film is based on Mickey Rapkin’s non-fiction novel Pitch Perfect. Rapkin, a senior editor at GQ magazine, spent a season covering competitive collegiate a cappella. He followed the groups from Tufts University, the University of Oregon, and the University of Virginia, writing about the singing, groupies,, partying, and rivalries.
Beca is that girl who’d rather listen to what’s coming out of her headphones than what’s coming out of you. Arriving at her new college, she finds herself not right for any clique but somehow is muscled into one that she never would have picked on her own: alongside mean girls, sweet girls and weird girls whose only thing in common is how good they sound when they sing together, in the new out-loud comedy ‘Pitch Perfect.
When Beca takes this acoustic singing group out of their world of traditional arrangements and perfect harmonies into all-new mash-ups, they fight to climb their way to the top of the cutthroat world of college a cappella. This could wind up either the coolest thing they’ll ever do or the most insane, and it will probably be a little of both.
Genre: Comedy
Actors: Anna Kendrick (What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Twilight Series, Up in the Air), Brittany Snow (Hairspray, John Tucker Must Die, “American Dreams”), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad, Kick-Ass), Rebel Wilson (Bridesmaids, What to Expect When You’re Expecting), Anna Camp (The Help, “True Blood”), Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games, People Like Us, What to Expect When You’re Expecting)
Rating: PG-13 for sexual material, language, and drug references
Run Time: Not Yet Available
Description: A year after the events that transpired in Paris, retired CIA agent Bryan Mills is once again forced to take action when an Albanian, whose son was one of the men killed in Paris, abducts his ex-wife Lenore during a vacation in Istanbul.
Genre: Action/Adventure
Actors: Liam Neeson (Taken, Battleship, The Dark Knight Rises), Maggie Grace (Taken, Lockout, Knight and Day, “Lost”), Famke Janssen (X-Men)
Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and some sensuality
Run Time: Not Yet Available
Description: During the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, the governments of the United States and Canada partnered to rescue six U.S. Foreign Service members who had evaded the hostage taking at the takeover of the American embassy in Iran. The governments were able to convince Iran that the six hostages were members of a film crew who were scouting the area for a movie titled Argo. The hostages were able to escape the country under their fake identities.
Genre: Drama
Actors: Ben Affleck (The Town, Good Will Hunting, Pearl Harbor), Kyle Chandler (Super 8, “Friday Night Lights”), Bryan Cranston (Rock of Ages, Drive, “Breaking Bad”), John Goodman (Monsters, Inc., The Artist, The Big Lebowski), Taylor Schilling (The Lucky One, Atlas Shrugged: Part I, “Mercy”)
Rating: R for language and some violent images
Run Time: Not Yet Available
Description: James Bond’s loyalty to M is challenged over secrets from her past. When MI6 is attacked, it falls to Bond to seek out and eliminate the threat regardless of the cost to himself.
Genre: Action/Adventure
Actors: Daniel Craig (Casino Royale, Cowboys and Aliens), Judi Dench (Casino Royale, Notes on a Scandal, My Week with Marilyn), Ralph Fiennes (Harry Potter Series, Schindler’s List), Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
Rating: Not Yet Available
Run Time: Not Yet Available
13. Anna Karenina (November 09)
Description: Anna Karenina is adapted from Leo Tolstoy’s 1877 novel of the same name. The story follows Anna who is trapped in a loveless marriage and looks for a better life, but finds only a more complicated
Genre: Drama
Actors: Kiera Knightley (Pirates of the Caribbean, Pride & Prejudice), Jude Law (Sherlock Holmes, Cold Mountain), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass, The Illusionist, Nowhere Boy), Kelly Macdonald (Brave, No Country for Old Men, “Boardwalk Empire”), Matthew Macfadyen (Frost/Nixon, Pride & Prejudice)
Rating: Not Yet Available
Run Time: 120 minutes (2 hours)
14. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (November 16)
Description: After the birth of Renesmee Cullen, Bella, now a vampire, finds herself enjoying her new life and abilities. However, the vampire Irina misidentifies Renesmee as an “immortal child”, a child who has been turned into a vampire, and because immortal children are uncontrollable, creating them has been outlawed by the Volturi. After Irina presents her allegation to the Volturi, they plan to destroy Renesmee and the Cullens’. In an attempt to survive, the Cullens gather other vampire clans from around the world to stand as witnesses and prove to the Volturi that Renesmee is not an immortal child.
Genre: Drama
Actors: Kristen Stewart (Twilight Series, Snow White and the Huntsman), Robert Pattinson (Twilight Series, Bel Ami, Remember Me, Water for Elephants), Taylor Lautner (Twilight Series, Valentine’s Day), Dakota Fanning (War of the Worlds, Man on Fire), Ashley Greene (Twilight Series, Butter), Kellen Lutz (Twilight Series), Elizabeth Reaser (Twilight Series, The Art of Getting By, “Grey’s Anatomy”), Peter Facinelli (Twilight Series, “Nurse Jackie”)
Rating: Not Yet Available
Run Time: Not Yet Available
15. Silver Linings Playbook (November 21)
Description: Life doesn’t always go according to plan…Pat Solitano has lost everything – his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his mother and father after spending eight months in a state institution on a plea bargain. Pat is determined to rebuild his life, remain positive and reunite with his wife, despite the challenging circumstances of their separation. All Pat’s parents want is for him to get back on his feet – and to share their family’s obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles football team. When Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own, things get complicated. Tiffany offers to help Pat reconnect with his wife, but only if he’ll do something very important for her in return. As their deal plays out, an unexpected bond begins to form between them, and silver linings appear in both of their lives.
Genre: Comedy
Actors: Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games, Winter’s Bone, X-Men: First Class), Robert De Niro (Meet the Parents, New Year’s Eve, Goodfellas), Bradley Cooper (The Hangover, Limitless, A-Team), Julia Stiles (The Bourne Trilogy), Chris Tucker (Rush Hour)
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