New Movies in Theaters April 30, 2010
April 30, 2010
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Studio: New Line Cinema (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Director: Samuel Bayer
Screenwriter: Wesley Strick
Movie Website: NightmareonElmStreet.com
Actors/Actresses: Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, Katie Cassidy, Connie Britton Read more
Blu-Ray and DVD Releases for April 27, 2010
April 27, 2010
It’s Complicated
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Nancy Meyers
Screenwriter: Nancy Meyers
Movie Website: ItsComplicatedmovie.com
Actors/Actresses: Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski, Lake Bell Read more
Movie Trailer: Just Wright
April 26, 2010
Just Wright
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Director: Sanaa Hamri
Screenwriter: Michael Elliot
Movie Website: JustWright-themovie.com
Actors/Actresses: Queen Latifah, Common, Paula Patton, Phylicia Rashad, Pam Grier, James Pickens Jr, Mehcad Brooks, Michael Landes, Dwyane Wade, Dwight Howard, Rashard Lewis, Bobby Simmons Read more
How To Train Your Dragon reclaims No. 1 spot
April 26, 2010
DreamWorks Animation’s 3D adventure “How to Train Your Dragon” has yet to flame out in movie theaters, offering an upbeat storyline to an otherwise ho-hum boxoffice session. The Paramount-distributed pic topped domestic rankings with an estimated $15 million in its fifth weekend for $178 million in cumulative coin. Read more
New Movies in Theaters April 23, 2010
April 23, 2010
The Back-Up Plan
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Studio: CBS Films
Director: Alan Poul
Screenwriter: Kate Angelo
Movie Website: TheBack-upPlan.com
Actors/Actresses: Jennifer Lopez, Alex O’Loughlin, Eric Christian Olsen, Michaela Watkins, Noureen DeWulf, Melissa McCarthy, Danneel Harris Read more
Sex and the City 2 Presale Numbers Are Strong
April 21, 2010
“Sex and the City 2” is already exceeding expectations for ticket sales and it doesn’t even come out for six weeks!
Talk about hot to trot: Tickets to presumed summer sizzler “Sex and the City 2″ began selling just over six weeks before the sequel opens May 27. Read more
Blu-Ray and DVD Releases for April 20, 2010
April 20, 2010
Crazy Heart
Genre: Drama, Music
MPAA Rating: R
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Director: Scott Cooper
Screenwriter: Scott Cooper
Movie Website: CrazyHeartmovie.com
Actors/Actresses: Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, Sarah Jane Morris Read more
‘Dragon,’ ‘Kick-Ass’ dueling for No. 1
April 19, 2010
DreamWorks Animation’s leggy “How to Train Your Dragon” fetched an estimated $20 million to top preliminary domestic rankings. The Paramount-distributed 3D adventure piled cumulative coin to $158.6 million through four sessions. Just a hair off the leader’s pace, “Kick-Ass” — a relatively inexpensive pickup for Lionsgate — posted a weekend opening less potent than its name yet hardly a kick in the pants for the minimajor. The well-reviewed romp about a band of not-very-super superheroes rung up $19.8 million, landing on the lower end of pre-release expectations. Read more
Movie Review: Kick-Ass
April 16, 2010
Yearning to be a superhero isn’t the same thing as actually being one, but the two states aren’t nearly as far apart as they appear. When kids who read comic books imagine that they can leap tall buildings, spider-surf the air, or lay waste to bad guys with iron-chested daring, simply by dreaming of doing those things they already share something with the pop vigilantes on the page. They’ve become the equivalent of a superhero’s alter ego: the Bruce Wayne/Clark Kent ”ordinary guy” side — the side that covets and lives vicariously, that has to wear a costume and an attitude to fulfill his ”real” self. So when Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), the 17-year-old hero of Kick-Ass, decides to put on a green jumpsuit with yellow piping and become a phantom crime-fighter, even though he has no special abilities or physical flair, we can see that he hasn’t taken leave of his senses. Read more
Movie Review: Death At A Funeral
April 16, 2010
In Death at a Funeral, a memorial service for a family patriarch goes terribly awry, beginning with the delivery of the wrong stiff and ending with the ravings of a naked guy on a roof. This may sound awfully familiar, especially to anyone who saw Death at a Funeral three years ago. But that was then, when the comedy was a tumbling (and strained) British farce set in a proper English country house and populated by proper British people coming undone. This is now, when the comedy has been remade, at the urging of stellar comedian Chris Rock, into a loosey-goosey American romp. Read more
