Movies Coming Soon
May 25
Men in Black III
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Alice Eve
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
The Scoop: It's been a full decade since the last "Men in Black" movie, but director Sonnenfeld is turning the clock back even further for this one, all the way back to 1969. See, when Agent K (Jones) is mysteriously erased from existence, Agent J (Smith) has to travel back in time to find out just what shenanigans caused it. That leads him to team up with the young Agent K (Brolin). Don't worry, your head will stop hurting before "Men in Black IV" comes out in 2025.
Rated PG-13, 103 min. | Watch the trailer
Chernobyl Diaries
Starring: Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Dudley
Director: Bradley Parker
The Scoop: Eco-tourism is all the rage these days, but in "Chernobyl Diaries," a group of tourists decides to start the less popular trend of eco-disaster-tourism when they hire a guide to bring them to the abandoned site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. If this sounds like a terrible idea, you're right, which is why this is a horror movie.
Rated R, 86 min. | Watch the trailer
Moonrise Kingdom
Starring: Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton
Director: Wes Anderson
The Scoop: "Moonrise Kingdom" is a Wes Anderson film. The End. Okay, you want more information? Well, we think that description pretty much sums it up, but here's a little more anyway: Gilman and Hayward play a couple of teenagers who decide to run off together. That decision causes everyone who knows them to go completely nutso, leading to many Wes Anderson moments.
Rated PG-13, 94 min., limited | Watch the trailer
June 1
Snow White and the Huntsman
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth
Director: Rupert Sanders
The Scoop: This live action adaptation of the classic "Snow White" fairly tale features "Twilight" star Stewart as Snow, the daughter of a king who has been deposed by an Evil Queen (Theron). When Snow escapes, the queen sends a hunky woodsman (Hemsworth) to kill her, but instead Snow White and the Hunstman team up to lead a bloody revolution, Joan of Arc style. Happily ever after? Eh… maybe not so much.
Rated PG-13, 127 min. | Watch the trailer
Piranha 3DD
Starring: Danielle Panabaker, Chris Zylka, Katrina Bowden
Director: John Gulager
The Scoop: "Piranha 3D" may have been a low budget schlock-fest, but it was also surprisingly profitable, which explains the fact that it now has a sequel. Ving Rhames, Gary Busey and Christopher Lloyd are just some of the big (-ish) names who have signed on to potentially have their junk savaged by man-eating fish. Good times.
Rated R, 83 min. | Watch the trailer
High School
Starring: Adrien Brody, Michael Chiklis, Colin Hanks
Director: John Stalberg, Jr.
The Scoop: This one has been on the shelf for awhile, so hopefully fine weed ages as well as fine wine. That's because the title "High School" has one of them there double meanings: The movie is about a couple of kids who, eager to cover up their own dope use on an upcoming drug test, get their entire high school wasted by slipping pot into everybody's food. The movie debuted at Sundance … in 2010. That's a long time to maintain a contact high, but fingers crossed, right?
Rated R, 99 min., limited | Watch the trailer
June 8
Prometheus
Starring: Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba, Michael Fassbender
Director: Ridley Scott
The Scoop: In space, nobody can hear you scream, but at the theater, everybody can. That's about to be abundantly clear thanks to Scott's new sci-fi epic which acts as a thematic pseudo-prequel to his classic film "Alien." Rapace (the original "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo") stars as a member of a space expedition that stumbles upon a deadly secret that may or may not have to do with chest-bursting monsters. Face it: Your lungs are about to get a workout.
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Safety Not Guaranteed
Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Jake Johnson, Kristen Bell
Director: Colin Trevorrow
The Scoop: "Safety Not Guaranteed" is a low budget indie with a deceptively simple sci-fi premise: Plaza ("Parks and Recreation") plays a journalist investigating a personal ad put up by a guy looking for a partner to go time traveling with him. What they think is a joke, however, may turn out to be far more real than they ever imagined.
Rated R, 84 min. | Watch the trailer
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
Starring: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith
Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon
The Scoop: If you enjoy animated animals acting like idiots, then you are in luck, because "Madagascar 3" offers up exactly that. Four years after Stiller, Rock and company turned in "Madagascar 2," our group of escaped zoo critters finds themselves for whatever reason in Europe, where they are hunted by a militant pest control agent. It is what it is.
Rated PG | Watch the trailer
Peace, Love and Misunderstanding
Starring: Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Olsen
Director: Bruce Beresford
The Scoop: Talk about your high powered indie. Multiple Oscar nominee Keener ("Capote," "Being John Malkovich') stars as a lady whose husband files for divorce. So she scoops up their kids (one of whom is last year's breakout Olsen) and heads off to visit her estranged mother, an aging hippie played by Oscar winner Fonda. Looks like you don't have to worry about the quality of the acting in this one.
Rated R, 96 min., limited | Watch the trailer
Bel Ami
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci
Director: Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod
The Scoop: R.Pattz kicks off the next stage of his post-'Twilight" career (okay, it's post "Twilight" for him even though we still haven't seen the last one yet) with this period piece about a charismatic social climber who uses his drop dead gorgeous hair to sleep his way to the top of Paris society. Along the way, he royally screws up his own life as well as the lives of every woman he comes in contact with.
Rated R, 102 min., limited | Watch the trailer
Lola Versus
Starring: Greta Gerwig, Zoe Lister Jones, Hamish Linklater
Director: Daryl Wein
The Scoop: Cult favorite Gerwig ("Greenberg") takes one more step to superstardom in this winning little slice of affirmation about a lady who, after being dumped by her boyfriend just days before their wedding, gathers her gal pals and embarks on a mission of personal exploration. You go, Gerwig!
Rated R, limited | Watch the trailer
June 15
That's My Boy
Starring: Andy Samberg, Adam Sandler, Leighton Meester, James Caan
Directors: Sean Anders, John Morris
The Scoop: If you thought winning 11 Razzies earlier this year for "Jack & Jill" would slow down Sandler, you are wrong, sir. This time around, he plays a guy who fathered a kid while he himself was just a teenager. Now his son (Samberg) is all grown up and getting married, but Sandler himself is still in retrograde, which gets really awkward for pretty much everyone except, hopefully, the viewers. Fingers crossed.
Rated R | Watch the trailer
Rock of Ages
Starring: Julianne Hough, Tom Cruise, Diego Boneta, Russell Brand
Director: Adam Shankman
The Scoop: Are you ready to rock?! Well, Shankman sure hopes so, because he's bringing the hit Broadway musical "Rock of Ages" to the big screen. And he's filled it with tons of A-list stars just to make sure you really get into the story of a couple of dreamers who try to make it big in the world of rock music during the high flying mid-'80s. Rock on, Tom Cruise!
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Your Sister's Sister
Starring: Mark Duplass, Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt
Director: Lynn Shelton
The Scoop: A surprise favorite on the festival circuit, "Your Sister's Sister" stars Duplass as a guy mourning the death of his brother. To get away from it all, he heads to a retreat owned by his best friend (Blunt), only to find that her sister (DeWitt) is already there. And then… well, things get really complicated for all three of them in the kind of way that makes for really good drama.
Rated R, 90 min., limited | Watch the trailer
June 22
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Starring: Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Patton Oswalt, Adam Brody
Director: Lorene Scafaria
The Scoop: Nobody should face the end of the world alone, which is why Carell is "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World" in this quirky dramedy. He plays a guy whose wife leaves him on the eve of a giant meteor smashing into Earth. Naturally, in response, he goes on a road trip and takes his neighbor (Knightley) with him. That's just what we would do too, actually.
Rated R | Watch the trailer
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Starring: Benjamin Walker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Dominic Cooper, Rufus Sewell
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
The Scoop: Straight from the "Snakes on a Plane" school of movie titles, it's "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter." Written by "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" scribe Seth Grahame-Smith, this movie answers the age-old question, what if our 16th president had been trained to track down and slay the nosferatu who secretly controlled the Confederacy during the Civil War? Shelby Foote would be so proud.
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Brave
Starring: Kelly MacDonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson
Director: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
The Scoop: Ever since "Toy Story," Pixar has pretty much taken up the torch from Disney as the leader of American animation. So it's only fitting that they have finally made their own "princess" movie in "Brave," which tells the story of a feisty Scottish lass who defies tradition – and her parents – to forge her own path.
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To Rome With Love
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Roberto Benigni, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page
Director: Woody Allen
The Scoop: Fresh off of the success of "Midnight in Paris," Allen sets his sights on another old European capital, Rome. This time around, though, he's also starring as part of an ensemble cast that includes long time Allen muse Cruz as well as everyone from Alec Baldwin to Roberto Benigni. What's it about? People talking. In Rome. Hey, it’s a Woody Allen movie. In Rome.
Rated R, 112 min., limited | Watch the trailer
June 29
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Starring: Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Adrianne Palicki, Bruce Willis
Director: Jon M. Chu
The Scoop: Okay, so the first "G.I. Joe" movie didn't exactly set the world on fire three years ago. But it still showed just enough promise to warrant a sequel, one new director Chu hopes will be improved by the addition of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as heavyweight Joe badass Roadblock. Tatum's Duke and Park's Snake Eyes are also back from the original, but everyone else is on the scrap heap. Here's hoping it's a "yo, Joe," instead of an "oh no, Joe."
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Magic Mike
Starring: Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer
Director: Steven Soderbergh
The Scoop: Tatum is one busy dude these days. As if the success of "21 Jump Street" and "The Vow" earlier this year wasn't enough, now he's got two big releases coming out on the same day: "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" and this one, "Magic Mike," which is loosely based on his own pre-stardom life as a male stripper. Soderbergh directs, so you know it won't be all cheesecake. Whether that's good or bad is up to you to decide.
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Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection
Starring: Tyler Perry, Eugene Levy, Denise Richards
Director: Tyler Perry
The Scoop: "Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection," the seventh installment of Perry's apparently beloved series of Madea comedies, co-stars Levy as a Wall Street CEO wanted by the mob. He hides by moving in with Madea. Frankly, that sounds like a pretty good plan; after all, when it comes to witness protection programs, dressing up like a fat old woman is likely to fool just about anybody.
Rated PG-13 | Watch the trailer
People Like Us
Starring: Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, Elizabeth Banks, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Alex Kurtzman
The Scoop: "Transformers" and "Star Trek" writer Kurtzman steps behind the camera for a decidedly less sci-fi story about a guy (Pine) who inherits a small fortune when his estranged father dies. One thing: He also discovers he has to share the money with an alcoholic sister (Banks) he never knew existed. Captain Kirk and Effie Trinket together? Guess this is a bit sci-fi after all.
Rated PG-13 | Watch the trailer
Take This Waltz
Starring: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman, Luke Kirby
Director: Sarah Polley
The Scoop: Rogen takes another big step down the serious actor path with "Take This Waltz," which earned rave reviews on the festival circuit last fall. Directed by Polley (who previously helmed the acclaimed film "Away from Her"), it stars Rogen and Williams as a couple whose marriage hits the skids when a handsome neighbor (Kirby) interferes. This one could be an early awards favorite.
Rated R, 116 min., limited | Watch the trailer
July 3
The Amazing Spider-Man
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans
Director: Marc Webb
The Scoop: If it seems like just a few short years ago that Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire were smashing box office records with their "Spider-Man" films it's because, well, it was. But that isn't stopping Sony from rebooting the franchise anyway, with Garfield stepping into Peter Parker's geeky, webbed shoes and Stone taking over as love interest Gwen Stacy. Spidey hasn't been gone long enough to miss him -- and now, thanks to "The Amazing Spider-Man," he never will be.
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July 5
Katy Perry: Part of Me
Starring: Katy Perry
Director: Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz
The Scoop: Katy Perry: Movie star? That's what we're about to get as the pop sensation tries her hand at the feature length 3-D concert video. Like Justin Bieber before her, Perry is serving up a film that gives fans both a look at her onstage persona as well as her behind-the-scenes life and background. If you ever wanted to get a part of Perry, now's your chance.
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July 6
Savages
Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Salma Hayek, John Travolta
Director: Oliver Stone
The Scoop: Controversial director Stone is back but this time it seems political messages are taking a back seat to hard core thrills, as up-and-comers Johnson ("Kick-Ass") and Kitsch ("Battleship") play a couple of low level drug dealers who get involved in a turf war with a Mexican cartel after the baddies kidnap their mutual girlfriend (Lively). Yep, Stone still has it after all.
Rated R | Watch the trailer
The Magic of Belle Isle
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Virginia Madsen, Madeline Carroll
Director: Rob Reiner
The Scoop: In the heartwarming "The Magic of Belle Isle," Freeman plays a wheelchair bound author stuck in one of those life ruts. So he moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mom (Madsen) and the unexpected friendship helps renew his passion for writing. That's what we call a win-win situation for everybody.
Rated PG, limited | Watch the trailer
