September 3rd

Pick of the Week: The Winning Season

The Winning Season
Sam Rockwell, Emma Roberts & Rob Corddry
Bill (Rockwell) is a has-been basketball coach and a divorced dad who is estranged from his teen daughter Molly (Shana Dowdeswell). When Bill’s friend Terry (Corddry) gives him another shot by getting him a job as the coach of a girls’ varsity basketball team. Under his coaching, the team begins to improve and the girls on the team help him with his relationship with his daughter. However, the teams winning season will not hide the girls from the difficulties of the real world.

September 10th

Pick of the Week: Legendary

Patricia Clarkson, John Cena & Danny Glover An extremely smart 16-year-old, Cal (Devon Graye), has been picked on most of his life for being different. His older brother Mike (Cena), a world-class wrestler, left Cal and his mother (Clarkson) behind after a car accident killed his father. Determined to bring his family back together, Cal joins his high school wrestling team, in the hope that his older brother will train him.

September 17th

Pick of the Week: Alpha and Omega

Alpha and Omega
Hayden Panettiere, Justin Long, Christina Ricci & Dennis Hopper
Two young wolves, Kate (Panettiere) and Humphrey (Long), are members of rival wolf packs. After being taken by park rangers and shipped across the country, the two have to make their way back to their packs. Humphrey is an Omega wolf, fun-loving and witty, while Kate is an Alpha wolf, dutiful and disciplined. Although complete opposites, the two have to survive each other as well as trying to restore the peace between the two wolf packs.

Easy A
Emma Stone, Cam Gigandet, Amanda Bynes & Lisa Kudrow
Olive Penderghast (Stone) was a clean-cut high-schooler until she agreed to pretend that she lost her virginity to her gay best friend, Brandon (Dan Bryde). Once the truth begins to get out and Olive becomes more popular with the opposite sex, the white lie becomes a business that not only makes her more popular, but also uplifts her financial status. This gets the attention of rival Marianne (Bynes), however, who does not like the attention she is getting and starts rumours to ruin her reputation and force her to leave the school. Soon, Olive realises that her life is becoming very like that of Hester Prynne’s in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Scarlett Letter’, which she is studying in school.

September 24th

Pick of the Week: Legend of the Guardians

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten, Helen Mirren & Jim Sturgess
Based on the first three instalments of the book series ‘Guardians of Ga’Hoole’ by Kathryn Lasky, the film tells the story of Soren (Sturgess), a young owl who is fascinated by his father’s stories of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole. The guardians are mythical winged warriors who once fought a great battle to protect the owls from the evil Pure Ones. Soren dreams of one day joining his heroes, however his brother Kludd (Kwanten) only wants to hunt, fly and steal his father’s favour from Soren. Kludd’s jealousy has terrible consequences for the two owls as it causes them to fall from their treetop home into the talons of St. Aggies. With the help of some other brave young owls, Soren has to escape and find the Great Tree where he will find the Guardians, his only hope of defeating the Pure Ones and St. Aggies and saving the owl kingdoms.