Post by BatFink on Aug 30, 2006 19:37:39 GMT
Some good movies out this Friday
Friday 1st September
The Wicker Man
Nicolas Cage is the uptight copper, Neil LaBute is in the director's (hopefully not wicker) chair and the match is lit for his remake of the masterful 1976 horror.
The Sentinel
Michael Douglas is a disgraced Special Agent who must foil a plot to assassinate the President of the United States. Kim Basinger, Kiefer Sutherland and Eva Longoria help out.
Little Man
The Wayans brothers (White Chicks, Scary Movie) are it again with a 'comedy' about a dad who mistakes a criminal dwarf for his newly adopted son. Oh lord.
Crank
Think Speed but in one man's body as Jason Statham plays a poisoned hitman who'll die if his heartrate drops. Who said high concept can't be fun?
Adrift
Six friends in the sea, a luxury yacht and one problem: their swanky boat hasn't got a ladder and they've left a baby on board. Rather comic plot aside, it's meant to be a horror.
Friday 8th September
Snow Cake
Sigourney Weaver is an autistic mother, Alan Rickman her new carer in Brit director Marc Evans surprisingly funny drama.
Beerfest
Lager-fuelled comedy from the director of ahem, The Dukes Of Hazzard about two Yanks who discover ancient drinking games at the Munich booze fest.
Pulse
This time it's a bit of sinister software that's infected in the latest Yank remake of a Japanese spoof.
Little Miss Sunshine
Steve Carell, Toni Collette and Greg Kinnear headline a darkly delicious comedy about the Hoover family and their efforts to ensure their daughter wins a surreal beauty pageant.
Right At Your Door
A dirty bomb goes off in LA in this disaster movie with a difference. Mary McCormack and Rory Cochrane are the ones trying to avoid the fallout.
Driving Lessons
Rupert Grint - aka Ron Weasley - takes time out from Hogwarts to play a kid whose life changes when he starts work for Julie Walters' retired actress.
Friday 15th September
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Will Ferrell is a rebel NASCAR driver with competition from new teammate Sacha Baron Cohen - aka Ali G - in the latest comedy from Anchorman helmer Adam McKay.
DOA: Dead Or Alive
The Transporter helmer Cory Yuen brings the videogame to the big screen with a cast that includes Corrie actor Matthew Marsden and er, Holly Valance. Expect lots of girls with swords.
The Black Dahlia
Brian De Palma directs James Ellroy's noir tale about two LA detectives (Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart) on the trail of the murderer of a wannabe actress. Scarlett Johansson tries out her femme fatale routine.
The Night Listener
Robin Williams is a radio show host who becomes embroiled in the life of one of his callers, whose identity is not what it seems. Toni Collette and Rory Culkin co-star.
The Queen
Helen Mirren is Elizabeth II and Michael Sheen Tony Blair in Stephen Frears' portrait of just what went on in Buckingham Palace following the death of Diana.
An Inconvenient Truth
Former US Vice President Al Gore's absorbing doc about the reality of global warming. Not George W's favourite film, then.
Friday 22nd September
Children Of Men
Prisoner Of Azkaban helmer Alfonso Cuarón goes sci-fi with a tale about a woman whose unborn child is the only hope left for the human race as it faces extinction. Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Clive Owen and Chiwetel Ejiofor lead the cast.
Clerks II
12 years after they hit the screen, Kevin Smith's convenience store bums are back and they're flipping burgers. Now that's what we call progress.
Dirty Sanchez
The Welsh version of the Jackass boys get their own big-screen treatment.
Trust The Man
A New York-set comedy drama about two couples: David Duchovy and Julianne Moore, and Billy Cudrup and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Friday 29th September
World Trade Center
Oliver Stone's 9/11 drama starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena as two policemen trapped in the rubble of the Two Towers.
Click
High concept comedy alert! Adam Sandler plays a workaholic who stumbles on to a mysterious remote control with which he can rewind and forward to different parts of his life. Christopher Walken and Kate Beckinsale co-star.
Life 'n' Lyrics
After his impressive big-sceen debut in Bullet Boy, So Solid's Ashley Walters returns as a rapper who falls for a girl in a rival firm.
Nina's Heavenly Delights
A young woman returns to Glasgow to take over her dead father's curry house in this British comedy.
Hoodwinked
Glenn Close and Anne Hathaway voice an animated tale that picks off where the story of Little Red Riding Hodd ended.
Friday 1st September
The Wicker Man
Nicolas Cage is the uptight copper, Neil LaBute is in the director's (hopefully not wicker) chair and the match is lit for his remake of the masterful 1976 horror.
The Sentinel
Michael Douglas is a disgraced Special Agent who must foil a plot to assassinate the President of the United States. Kim Basinger, Kiefer Sutherland and Eva Longoria help out.
Little Man
The Wayans brothers (White Chicks, Scary Movie) are it again with a 'comedy' about a dad who mistakes a criminal dwarf for his newly adopted son. Oh lord.
Crank
Think Speed but in one man's body as Jason Statham plays a poisoned hitman who'll die if his heartrate drops. Who said high concept can't be fun?
Adrift
Six friends in the sea, a luxury yacht and one problem: their swanky boat hasn't got a ladder and they've left a baby on board. Rather comic plot aside, it's meant to be a horror.
Friday 8th September
Snow Cake
Sigourney Weaver is an autistic mother, Alan Rickman her new carer in Brit director Marc Evans surprisingly funny drama.
Beerfest
Lager-fuelled comedy from the director of ahem, The Dukes Of Hazzard about two Yanks who discover ancient drinking games at the Munich booze fest.
Pulse
This time it's a bit of sinister software that's infected in the latest Yank remake of a Japanese spoof.
Little Miss Sunshine
Steve Carell, Toni Collette and Greg Kinnear headline a darkly delicious comedy about the Hoover family and their efforts to ensure their daughter wins a surreal beauty pageant.
Right At Your Door
A dirty bomb goes off in LA in this disaster movie with a difference. Mary McCormack and Rory Cochrane are the ones trying to avoid the fallout.
Driving Lessons
Rupert Grint - aka Ron Weasley - takes time out from Hogwarts to play a kid whose life changes when he starts work for Julie Walters' retired actress.
Friday 15th September
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Will Ferrell is a rebel NASCAR driver with competition from new teammate Sacha Baron Cohen - aka Ali G - in the latest comedy from Anchorman helmer Adam McKay.
DOA: Dead Or Alive
The Transporter helmer Cory Yuen brings the videogame to the big screen with a cast that includes Corrie actor Matthew Marsden and er, Holly Valance. Expect lots of girls with swords.
The Black Dahlia
Brian De Palma directs James Ellroy's noir tale about two LA detectives (Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart) on the trail of the murderer of a wannabe actress. Scarlett Johansson tries out her femme fatale routine.
The Night Listener
Robin Williams is a radio show host who becomes embroiled in the life of one of his callers, whose identity is not what it seems. Toni Collette and Rory Culkin co-star.
The Queen
Helen Mirren is Elizabeth II and Michael Sheen Tony Blair in Stephen Frears' portrait of just what went on in Buckingham Palace following the death of Diana.
An Inconvenient Truth
Former US Vice President Al Gore's absorbing doc about the reality of global warming. Not George W's favourite film, then.
Friday 22nd September
Children Of Men
Prisoner Of Azkaban helmer Alfonso Cuarón goes sci-fi with a tale about a woman whose unborn child is the only hope left for the human race as it faces extinction. Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Clive Owen and Chiwetel Ejiofor lead the cast.
Clerks II
12 years after they hit the screen, Kevin Smith's convenience store bums are back and they're flipping burgers. Now that's what we call progress.
Dirty Sanchez
The Welsh version of the Jackass boys get their own big-screen treatment.
Trust The Man
A New York-set comedy drama about two couples: David Duchovy and Julianne Moore, and Billy Cudrup and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Friday 29th September
World Trade Center
Oliver Stone's 9/11 drama starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena as two policemen trapped in the rubble of the Two Towers.
Click
High concept comedy alert! Adam Sandler plays a workaholic who stumbles on to a mysterious remote control with which he can rewind and forward to different parts of his life. Christopher Walken and Kate Beckinsale co-star.
Life 'n' Lyrics
After his impressive big-sceen debut in Bullet Boy, So Solid's Ashley Walters returns as a rapper who falls for a girl in a rival firm.
Nina's Heavenly Delights
A young woman returns to Glasgow to take over her dead father's curry house in this British comedy.
Hoodwinked
Glenn Close and Anne Hathaway voice an animated tale that picks off where the story of Little Red Riding Hodd ended.
. Hoodwinked sounds different.
