What's Playing 10/10/08

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Lots of things going on this month as we head towards the holiday season. Experience another feel-good football story that you won’t believe. Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe go back and forth to find out the truth. And what truly happened in a Los Angeles hotel on one night that the government doesn’t want us to know about. All these films and more are coming your way so enjoy yourself and have fun at the movies.

Wide Release

Quarantine – Starring Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Steve Harris, and more. Television reporter Angela Vidal and her cameraman are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crews’ videotape.

The Express – Starring Dennis Quaid, Rob Brown, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Charles S. Dutton, and more. Raised in poverty in the Southern Tier of New York State, Eddie Davis overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to become an unstoppable running back for the Syracuse Orangemen. Under the guidance of Coach Ben Schwartzwalder, a hard-nosed surrogate father with an obsession for winning a national Davis overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to become an unstoppable running back for the Syracuse Orangemen. Davis would develop from an impressive high school athlete into a legend.

Scott “Kubryk” Sawitz got into an early screening of The Express. Check out his review here.

City Of Ember – For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember’s once powerful generator is failing … and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now two teenagers in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city’s existence, and help the citizens escape before the lights go out forever.

Scott also got into an early showing of this as well.

Body Of Lies – Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Mark Strong, and more. Based on Washington Post columnist David Ignatius’s 2007 novel about a CIA operative, Roger Ferris, who uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of Jordan.

Limited Release

RocknRolla – When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London’s criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr. One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice…

Happy Go Lucky – Poppy is a life-loving, irrepressibly cheerful, Pollyanna-type primary school teacher who is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and tests him in turn. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, a row with her pregnant sister, and a love-affair with the social worker guiding one of her students.

Nights And Weekends – A man and woman must face the tension that builds between them during a long-distance relationship.