Now it’s another month; let’s check out the new movies in Singapore in October 2009.
Shorts Intro & Trailer
From the director of Spy Kids. A young boy’s discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it.
IMDB Rating: 4.7/10
Release Date: 1st October 2009
Taking Woodstock Intro & Trailer
A man working at his parents’ motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
Release Date: Oct 1, 2009
Surrogates Intro & Trailer
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Willis) is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others’ surrogates.
IMDB Rating: 7/10
Release Date: Oct 1, 2009
Funny People Intro & Trailer
When seasoned comedian George Simmons learns of his terminal, inoperable health condition, his desire to form a genuine friendship cause him to take a relatively green performer under his wing as his opening act.
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
Release Date: Oct 1, 2009
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Intro & Trailer
The most delicious event since macaroni met cheese. Inspired by the beloved children’s book, the film focuses on a town where food falls from the sky like rain.
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
Release Date: Oct 1, 2009
Invitation Only Intro & Trailer
Taiwan’s first slasher horror involving gore, blood and sadism is about five friends who arrive at a party, fully unaware that the special night is just a cover for an evening of torture and murder.
Release Date: Oct 1, 2009
Paper Heart Intro & Trailer
Charlyne Yi embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one subject she doesn’t fully understand: Love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10
Release Date: Oct 1, 2009
Sorority Row Intro & Trailer
A group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong, only to be stalked by a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8/10
Release Date: Oct 8, 2009
500 Days Of Summer Intro & Trailer
An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman (Deschanel) who doesn’t believe true love exists, and the young man (Gordon-Levitt) who falls for her.
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10
Release Date: Oct 8, 2009
Faubourg 36 Intro & Trailer
If you are into French, you may consider watching this movie. A man is charged with murder. He is Pigoil, the aging stage manager at Chansonia, a music hall in a Paris faubourg…
IMDB Rating: 6.2/10
Release Date: Oct 8, 2009
City Of Life And Death
Set in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed. The film tells the story of several figures, both historical and fictional, including a Chinese soldier, a schoolteacher, a Japanese soldier, a foreign missionary, and John Rabe, a Nazi businessman who would ultimately save thousands of Chinese civilians.
Release Date: Oct 8, 2009
Merantau Intro & Trailer
In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his “Merantau” a century’s old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community’s young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta.
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
Release Date: Oct 8, 2009
Haeundae (a.k.a. Tsunami) Intro & Trailer
Man-sik and Yeon-hee, are unsure as to whether they can overcome past wounds and continue being a couple. Dr. Kim, who cautions against a possible mega-tsunami at Haeundae, collapses in agony springing from an unexpected turn-up of his daughter and divorced wife. Hyoung-sik, after rescuing a woman from Seoul, rides out a ferocious storm to gladden her heart. A tsunami which destroys Haeundae symbolizes the establishment of a typical axis called provocation of conflicts, and later the inner spaces of the couples without anything left behind after all conflicts have ended.
Release Date: Oct 8, 2009
April Bride (Japanese) Intro & Trailer
Japanese. On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live.
Release Date: Oct 8, 2009
Darah (Indonesian) Intro & Trailer
Release Date: Oct 8, 2009
Julie And Julia Intro & Trailer
Julia Child’s story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell’s 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child’s first book.
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
Release Date: Oct 15, 2009
Imagine That Intro & Trailer
A financial executive who can’t stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter’s imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await.
IMDB Rating: 4.6/10
Release Date: Oct 15, 2009
Pandorum Intro & Trailer
A pair of crew members aboard a spaceship wake up with no knowledge of their mission or their identities. From the producers of the Resident Evil.
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
Release Date: Oct 15, 2009
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