What New Movies Start Friday, May 21st, 2010?
There are eight movies opening this week. Two are opening everywhere and six more open on a limited basis.
Opening Nationwide on Friday, May 21st:
Movie: MacGruber (R)
Starring: Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe, Val Kilmer, Powers Boothe & Maya Rudolph
Genre: Action Spoof Comedy
Synopsis: There is one American hero that has become a Green Beret, Navy SEAL, and Army Ranger and has 16 purple hearts, three Congressional Medals of Honor and seven presidential medals of bravery to show for it. And, he’s still sporting a mullet. It has been 10 years since the man lost his fiancée and decided to give up his life of fighting crime. Yet, when he finds out his sworn enemy has stolen a nuclear warhead, he believes he is the only one that can stop him. He puts together a team and sets out to bring his enemy to justice. He may not do things clean and pretty, but when you need the job done right, you give MacGruber a call.
First Thoughts: Since there is basically nothing to the MacGruber character on Saturday Night Live, they could create any kind of story they wanted. I want it to be good, but it looks dumb.
Movie: Shrek Forever After (PG)
Starring: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews & John Cleese
Genre: Fantasy Family Comedy
Synopsis: Shrek gets tricked into signing a deal that puts him in the middle of an alternate Far Far Away where ogres like him are hunted and he has never even met Fiona. Shrek must figure out how to get things back to the way they were before it’s too late, so he can reclaim his one true love.
First Thoughts: This movie seems to have multiple titles, but whatever it’s called, it doesn’t really interest me. I’ve never found any of the previous to be nearly as good as they are touted to be. The movie is also available in 3D and IMAX 3D.
Movies in Limited Release:
- 180° South - Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia in this adventure travel documentary.
- After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin United - Sports biography about a soccer team from an Arab town in Israel that won the Israeli cup.
- Holy Rollers - Crime drama about a young Hasid from Brooklyn that is following the path his parents have laid out for him until he meets a charming neighbor that shows him a path to quick money.
- Kites - Bollywood romantic drama.
- Racing Dreams - Documentary about three youths pursuing the World Karting Association’s national championship.
- Solitary Man - Michael Douglas, Mary-Louise Parker, and Jenna Fischer star in this comedy drama about a 50-something man that has lost everything, but is making a comeback. But, the same things that brought him down before threaten to do it again if he makes the same wrong choices.
For New Movie Friday there are three new movies to choose from this week. They are 180° South , MacGruber, and Shrek Forever After. Do any of this week’s new movies look good to you?
What New Movies Start Friday, June 12th, 2009?
There are six movies opening this week. Two are opening everywhere and four more open on a limited basis.
Opening Nationwide on Friday, June 12th:
Movie: Imagine That (PG)
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Yara Shahidi, Thomas Haden Church, Nicole Ari Parker, Ronny Cox & Martin Sheen
Genre: Family Comedy
Synopsis: A man that is so focused on his career that time with his daughter has become small. While trying for a promotion and keeping the competition at bay, he starts to lose it. But, his daughter invites him into her imaginary land and introduces him to those that live there. In doing so, he finds being a kid again can be fun and maybe the answer to all his problems.
First Thoughts: Could be fun to take your young ones, but doesn’t interest me.
Movie: The Taking of Pelham 123 (R)
Starring: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, James Gandolfini, John Turturro, Luis Guzman & Michael Rispoli
Genre: Thriller
Synopsis: A subway train full of passengers is taken hostage by a group of hijackers. They are threatening to kill all of them if their do not get the million dollar ransom they are demanding.
First Thoughts: The cast is great and the movie looks good. It’s the one I will be seeing this weekend.
Movies in Limited Release:
- Call of the Wild 3D - A young girl nurses an injured wild dog back to health and trains him for a sled-dog race.
- Food, Inc. - A look at the nations food supply.
- Moon - A source of energy has been found on the moon and it is mined by one man under a three year contract living alone on the far side of the moon.
- Sex Positive - The story of AIDS activist Richard Berkowitz and Michael Callan advocating for the practice of safe sex in the early 1980s.
For New Movie Friday there are two new movies to choose from this week. They are Imagine That and The Taking of Pelham 123. What new movie looks good to you this week?
What New Movies Start Friday, July 11th?
This Friday we get three new movies arriving at a theater near you. Three of them are opening everywhere and one is in limited release.
Opening Nationwide on Friday, July 11th:
Movie: Hellboy II: The Golden Army (PG-13)
Starring: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Luke Goss & John Alexander
Genre: Comic Fantasy Action
Synopsis: The truce behind humankind and the realm of the invisible is broken and it threatens to unleash hell on Earth. The ruthless leader of the other world is defying his bloodline and attempts to awaken the unstoppable creature army. It is up to Hellboy and the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense to stop this from happening. But, Hellboy must choose between this world that he has known and the other and an unknown destiny that may be calling.
First Thoughts: Never saw the first one, but this one just looks better than Journey to the Center of the Earth or Meet Dave.
Movie: Journey to the Center of the Earth (PG)
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Anita Briem & Josh Hutcherson
Genre: Fantasy Adventure
Synopsis: A scientist on an expedition to Iceland with his nephew and a local guide get trapped in a cave. There only chance to get out is to journey deeper and deeper into the Earth. They travel through never before seen worlds and have to deal with unimaginable creatures. With volcanic activity getting greater, they must figure out how to return to the surface before time runs out.
First Thoughts: I will wait for the next Mummy film to see Brendan Fraser on the big screen.
Movie: Meet Dave (PG)
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Ed Helms & Scott Caan
Genre: Sci-Fi Comedy
Synopsis: What looks like an ordinary man emerging from a ball of fire from space is actually a spaceship that is operated by lots of human looking aliens that are just over an inch tall. They are trying to find a way to save their home planet, but things get complicated when the captain of their mission falls for an Earth woman.
First Thoughts: Just doesn’t look good at all, but it couldn’t be worse than Norbit.
Movie in Limited Release:
- Garden Party - A disillusioned female youth falls in with a confused group of teens in Los Angeles that are trying to make their dreams come true in this ensemble comedy.
For New Movie Friday there are four new movies to choose from this week, as everything mentioned above is actually playing in my area. What new movie looks good to you this week?
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