While Casey Affleck’s terrible faux documentary flounders about in cinemas on lonely screens with nobody going to see it, brother Ben is going to be in with the big hitters in this slow September period with his follow up to directorial debut Gone Baby Gone, The Town. Similarly set in Boston although shifted to the Charlestown area which is proudly announced at the opening as producing the most bank robbers in the world.

So it’s already October, Oscar season is upon us. At least three of the five films listed below have some serious Oscar potential and last month we saw The Town and Wall Street 2, another two potential Oscar contenders. This month we get a ton of interesting movies. Our top five picks include films about accidental billionaires, another comic book adaptation, some outrageous stunts, vampires and an emotional true story. Check out our five films to see in October.

On September 24, 2010 Mark Zuckerberg announced that he would be donating 100 million dollars to the Neward Public School system. Also this week, The Social Network, a David Fincher film originally based on the novel, The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich, will be released in theatres. Could this be a coincidence? I think not.

The world’s most ridiculous human being, aka Snooki from Jersey Shore, is planning to publish a novel. According to Ace Showbiz, even though Snook has only read two books in her life (Twilight and Dear John), Simon and Schuster’s Gallery Books has confirmed and announced that Snooki is writing her first novel.

Somewhat creepy and all too conventional, Case 39 finally makes its way into theatres. The movie was filmed a couple years ago (2006) and for some reason it is only now seeing the light of day, in US theatres at least. Starring Renee Zellweger and Bradley Cooper (before he was a huge star), Case 39 really doesn’t do a whole lot.

Invoking 2006’s The Departed as part of The Town’s promotional campaign was, at best, a dicey proposition for this Ben Affleck directed pic. The Departed won four academy awards, including best picture, best adapted screenplay and best-director. Why put that kind of pressure on your movie?

The new Julia Roberts star vehicle, Eat Pray Love, is based on an apparently bestselling memoir by Liz Gilbert (played by Roberts) who in order to ‘discover’ herself takes a year long trip to Italy, India and Bali to gorge on pasta, then find her inner spirituality and then have physical relations with Javier Bardem.

The episode picks up where last season’s finale left off. Dexter (Michael C. Hall) has just discovered Rita’s (Julie Benz) body in a bathtub of bloody water—Trinity’s grisly parting gift, discovered as Dexter returns from dispatching season 4’s adversary.

In what is easily the funniest movie of the year, Russell Brand brings his Aldous Snow character back to the silver screen for a second time. If the name Aldous Snow sounds familiar it’s probably because you’ve seen Forgetting Sarah Marshall, a film where Brand played the same character. Turns out Mr. Snow was popular enough to get his own film and it comes in the form of Get Him To The Greek.

For me, the name George Clooney brings to mind a few certain types of film: respectable romantic comedies, off-color comedies, and the occasional Oscar favorite. But I’m hard pressed to think of a Clooney film that really stayed with me, or even one I enjoyed watching more than once.