You just filed your taxes and there’s a good chance that you don’t have the money to head out to the theatre this weekend, but there’s a few things out there just in case you do. Jason Statham does everything possible to keep his heart pumping and Amy Smart is willing to help. Russell Crowe is dealing with yet another conspiracy and is my choice to see this weekend. Finally Zac Efron is starring in Vice Versa? No. He’s in 13 Going On 30? Hell, he’s in some movie that has been done many times before.
Wide Release
17 Again – Starring Zac Efron, Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann, and more. About a guy whose life didn’t quite turn out how he wanted it to and wishes he could go back to high school and change it. He wakes up one day and is seventeen again and gets the chance to rewrite his life.
Crank 2: High Voltage – Starring Jason Statham, Amy Smart, and more. Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
State Of Play – Starring Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Robin Wright Penn, and more. A petty thief is gunned down in an alley and a Congressman’s assistant falls in front of a subway – two seemingly unrelated deaths. But not to wisecracking, brash newspaper reporter Cal McAffrey who spies a conspiracy waiting to be uncovered. With a turbulent past connected to the Congressman and the aid of ambitious young rookie writer Della Frye, Cal begins uprooting clues that lead him to a corporate cover-up full of insiders, informants, and assassins. But as he draws closer to the truth, the relentless journalist must decide if it’s worth risking his life and selling his soul to get the ultimate story.
Limited Release
Is Anybody There? – “Set in 1980s seaside England, this is the story of Edward, an unusual ten year old boy growing up in an old people’s home run by his parents. Whilst his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat, and his father copes with the onset of mid-life crisis, Edward is busy tape-recording the elderly residents to try and discover what happens when they die. Increasingly obsessed with ghosts and the afterlife, Edward’s is a rather lonely existence until he meets Clarence, the latest recruit to the home, a retired magician with a liberating streak of anarchy.
Lemon Tree – A drama based on the true story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemon tree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.
Sleep Dealer – Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
