What's Playing 03/28/08

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March is just about over so it is now time for the April showers to come on their way in and force everyone indoors to watch more films in theatres. This week though provides a few good choices to check out even if the spring weather is gorgeous outside. The masterful Simon Pegg tries to lose a little weight and run a long race for true love. Kevin Spacey teaches the way of card counting in Vegas. And in case you hadn’t had enough of them, there is another parody film and this time it is making fun of all superhero films. How original. There’s more fun to be had too folks so check out inside and get out there to the movies.

Wide Release

21 – Starring Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Aaron Yoo, and more. Based on true events, follow along with the story of six MIT students needing to make a little extra cash so they get into the game of counting cards in Las Vegas casinos. Together with one of their professors they get all the money they need and also get in way over their heads.

Run Fat Boy Run – Starring Simon Pegg, Hank Azaria, Thandie Newton, and more. Dennis is a clueless and slightly overweight guy that got cold feet and left his pregnant fiancé years ago on their wedding day. Five years after that day, he realizes she is the one true love for him and tries to get her back, but it won’t be so easy now that she has fallen for the suave and svelte American, Whit.

Stop Loss – Starring Ryan Philippe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rob Brown, and Channing Tatum. Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. He tries to resume the life he left behind. Then, against Brandon’s will, the Army orders him back to duty in Iraq, which upends his world. The conflict tests everything he believes in: the bond of family, the loyalty of friendship, the limits of love and the value of honor.

Superhero Movie – Starring Drake Bell, Leslie Nielsen, Keith David, Kevin Hart, and many more. You’ve seen it before in the way of teen love films, action films, and epic blockbusters. Now see all of your favorite superhero films parodied from Batman Begins to Spider-Man to The Fantastic Four.

Limited Release

My Brother Is An Only Child – Two brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the ’60s and ’70s

Snow Angels is expanding.