Things are really slowing down as the summer comes to a close. Well, slowing down in way of big blockbusters, but there’s a big time amount of flicks opening this weekend. Its “pedal to the metal” time as the Death Race gets underway. Ice Cube has put down the gun and is now a mentor. Anna Faris finds out what it is like to be the least favorite Playmate. And aspirations of being a rock star dance in the heads of a degenerate crew.
Wide Release
Death Race – Starring Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, and more. An ex-con named Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world’s most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory.
The House Bunny – Starring Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone, Hugh Hefner, and more. When Shelly, a Playboy bunny, is tossed out of the mansion, she has nowhere to go until she falls in with the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. The members of the sorority – who also have got to be the seven most socially clueless women on the planet – are about to lose their house. They need a dose of what only the eternally bubbly Shelley can provide… but they will each learn on their own to stop pretending to be what others want them to be and start being themselves.
The Longshots – Starring Ice Cube, Keke Palmer, Tasha Smith, and more. The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.
The Rocker – Starring Rainn Wilson, Emma Stone, Christina Applegate, and more. Robert “Fish” Fishman is the extremely dedicated and astoundingly passionate drummer for the eighties hair band Vesuvius, who is living the rock n’ roll dream until he is unceremoniously kicked out of the band. Twenty years after his rock star fantasies are destroyed; he hears that his nephew’s high school rock band A.D.D. is looking for a new drummer. They reluctantly make him the newest member of the band, giving him a chance to reclaim the rock God throne he’s always thought he deserved, and taking the young band along for the ride of their livesOpened on Wednesday, August 20.
Limited Release
Hamlet 2 – Starring Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Elisabeth Shue, and many more. In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
I.O.U.S.A. – A documentary that outlines and examines the U.S.’s rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for America, its citizens, and its international alliances.
Elegy is expanding.
