New Movie Releases – 18 October 2013

12 Years a Slave (2013)

Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt

Director: Steve McQueen

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Regency Enterprises, River Road Entertainment, Plan B Entertainment

Time: 133 min.

Rating: Restricted

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

All Is Lost (2013) - [Limited]

Stars: Robert Redford

Director: J.C. Chandor

Genre: Action, Drama

Before The Door Pictures, Washington Square Films, Black Bear Pictures

Time: 106 min.

Rating: PG-13

After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.

Carrie (2013)

Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde, Portia Doubleday

Director: Kimberly Peirce

Genre: Drama, Horror

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Screen Gems, Misher Films

Time: 100 min.

Rating: Restricted

A remake of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.

Escape Plan (2013)

Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 50 Cent, Vincent D'Onofrio

Director: Mikael Håfström

Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller

EFF, Emmett/Furla Films, Summit Entertainment

Time: 116 min.

Rating: Restricted

When a structural-security authority finds himself set up and incarcerated in the world's most secret and secure prison, he has to use his skills to escape with help from the inside.

The Fifth Estate (2013)

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Carice van Houten, Alicia Vikander

Director: Bill Condon

Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller

DreamWorks SKG, Reliance Entertainment, Participant Media

Time: 128 min.

Rating: Restricted

A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.

Kill Your Darlings (2013) - [Limited]

Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster

Director: John Krokidas

Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Killer Films, Benaroya Pictures, Outpost Studios

Time: 104 min.

Rating: Restricted

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.