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Enduring Friendship
The Kite Runner is the newest film by Oscar-winning director Mark Forster (Monster's Ball, Stranger than Fiction), centered on the friendship of two boys in Afghanistan. Seperated by the Soviet invasion, one moves to America as the other stays in Afghanistan, The Kite Runner focuses on friendship and family as the expatriate travels from America, back home, to see what his homeland has become under the rule of the Taliban.
King-Sized Horror 
Stephen King's (The Shining, Dreamcatcher) The Mist unleashes a deadly fog on a small New England town. As members of the community are trapped inside a store, not knowing what dangers lie within the mist, a seige mentality begins to take hold, and the group, including Thomas Jane (The Punisher, The Last Time I Committed Suicide) and Marcia Gay Harden (Into the Wild, Pollock), must choose to fight or flee.
Just Like Real Life
Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous, White Oleander) commits suicide only to find himself in a limbo that is just like the life he just left... only slightly worse. The world of Wristcutters: a love story is populated by a cast of oddball characters wandering through their afterlife with little direction, except for Shannyn Sossamon (The Rules of Attraction, The Order), who is looking for the 
"people in charge," in hope of finding a way out. Tom Waits (Mystery Men, Down by Law) also appears in this unconverntional road movie.
Thrillers...
Them is an atmospheric French horror film where a couple in the country are terrorized by unknown attackers; trapped in their own home and fleeing into the woods, their stalkers hunt and play with the couple until their identities and agendas come to light. Two people with no memories of who they are meet in Experiment, staying together because they feel a a strange and powerful connection, they have no idea their actions are being watched and controlled by an experiment. 
A Little Quieter
The Sasquatch Gang has a fantasy/sci-fi obsessed boy (Jeremy Sumpter: Peter Pan, Frailty) finding giant footprints in the woods, and recruiting oddball locals (police, neighbors, Sasquatch enthusiasts) to help him solve the mystery, including Justin Long (Dodgeball, Live Free or Die Hard) and Carl Weathers (Predator, Arrested Development).
A documentary covering a tour of his recent book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains follows the former president as he attempts to increase the debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Also new this week is a new BBC version of Jane Austen's Persuasion, as well as the feature film version of the Canadian space-comedy Tripping the Rift: The Movie.
