Labor Day has come and gone and we are officially into normal time. Kids are back in school and we are not quite ready to head into Oscar season. This time will see lower box office totals each weekend, smaller crowds to fight, and films with lower expectations than you will find during the summer. That is not to say you will not find good movies, it will just be easier to see them without the usual throng of kids choking the cineplex aisles.

9. (2009, 79 minutes, PG-13, animated/science fiction)Co-writer and director Shawn Acker brings his vision of the future to the big screen in animated form, with the help of Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Night Watch) acting as producers. The film is set in the future after a great war wiped out the human race. Left behind are a group of nine creations that were given life by their creator. The newest member of the group, 9, wakes up to a world where people are gone and nasty machines seek to eliminate them. I is is up to 9 to find out why the monsters are after them and what they can do to save the future. It looks like a blast. The voice cast includes Elijah Wood, Crispin Glover, Jennifer Connolly, John C. Reilley, Christopher Plummer, and Martin Landau.

Sorority Row. (2009, 100 minutes, R, horror) I see the trailer for this remake and cannot help but assume it will be terrible. It brings to mind the I Know What You Did Last Summer series, which likely took its inspiration from the original Sorority Row. This is the story of a sorority prank gone bad. One of the sister's finds her boyfriend is a cheat. They play a gag pretending she's dead, she ends up dead, and the girls have secret they have to live with. Then, upon graduation their past comes back to haunt them. The cast includes Briana Evigan (Step Up 2 the Streets), Rumer Willis (daughter of Bruce and Demi who appeared in The House Bunny), and Carrie Fisher (if you don't know....). As bad as it looks, I still feel strangely drawn to it, perhaps it won't be that bad.

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