November-december showing in theaters

Did You Hear About the Morgans? Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker aim for some holiday giggles. The duo play an estranged city couple who witness a murder and are shipped off to rural Wyoming through a witness protection plan. Download NOW



Brothers Things get tense when marine Tobey Maguire, missing and presumed dead, resurfaces and returns home. He finds that his wife (Natalie Portman) has become this close with his younger brother, played by Jake Gyllenhaal. Download NOW




The Twilight Saga: New Moon In this installment of the teen vampire soap, Kristen Stewart survives a near-fatal attack that prompts her fanged boyfriend, Robert Pattinson, to skip town. On the rebound she rediscovers pal Taylor Lautner. Download NOW




Nine Rob Marshall’s movie is an adaptation of the musical inspired by Federico Fellini’s 8½. Daniel Day-Lewis stars as a womanizing director juggling his relationships with Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman and Sophia Loren. Download NOW



Invictus Clint Eastwood’s latest has Morgan Freeman playing Nelson Mandela. After the 1995 fall of apartheid, he joins with the country’s underdog rugby team captain (Matt Damon) to try to bring together the racially divided country. Download NOW




The Lovely Bones From her own private afterlife, a slain teenager (Saoirse Ronan) watches over her survivors, including her parents (Rachel Weisz and Mark Wahlberg), her grandmother and the criminal who raped and murdered her. Download NOW

Avatar

An army of human invaders in avatar form is up against 10-foot-tall residents of a bizarre faraway planet in director James Cameron’s Avatar. The immersive, photorealistic 3-D and CGI innovations in this new sci-fi movie have been hyped as Hollywood’s most colossal quantum leap since…wel l , Hollywood’s last most colossal quantum leap. Sigourney Weaver, one of the stars, has called Avatar “a serious film about serious issues—but it’s in 3-D,” which means Cameron had to resist shots of cool stuff coming straight at the audience, right? Well, not exactly. The director likes being behind the lens for 3-D work and personally shot a sequence in which a stuntman fired a machine gun right at the camera. “I knew where to stand safely, but I have to admit there’s a bit of a twitch in the camera move,” says Cameron. “I wanted to put the audience right there.” Download NOW

2012

In 2012, cataclysmic earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tidal waves send John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Woody Harrelson and Thandie Newton racing across the globe toward a modern-day Noah’s ark. Director Roland Emmerich says he was inspired by the ancient Mayan doomsday prophecy and other jittery theories as he prepared to go back to the future. “I’m glad every two years visual effects take a leap forward,” says the disaster master. “But it all starts with a concept, not effects.” And that concept is? “The characters have to get aboard a ship or they’re dead. The government people all know what’s happening and have moral discussions about whether they’re doing the right thing. John Cusack plays one of the people who don’t know, and he views the disasters as a way to reconcile his life. Then there’s Woody Harrelson, the crazy guy in the middle who thinks it’s all about spaceships. There’s a balance between intimate scenes, action and laughs, and people who’ve seen it told me they cried. That balance doesn’t work every time; this time it really does.” Download NOW