Three soldiers return from Iraq (Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, Michael Pena) and travel together across the country on a road trip. Kelli Clevenger, Molly Hagan, Spencer Garrett, and Emily Swallow also star. The film opens in theaters on Friday.
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A rebellious teen rugby star (Sean Faris) finds himself sentenced to a boys’ home where he begins playing for their team and making a run at the national championship. Gary Cole, Neal McDonough, Sean Astin, Penn Badgley, and Arielle Kebbel also star Check out the official site. The film opens in limited release in select cities on Friday.
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Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) doesn’t like people. The dentist has a disdain for pretty much the entire human race, but his life is changed by an unforeseen side-effect of a routine surgery.
The dentist goes in for a routine colonoscopy, dies for seven minutes on the table, and walks out with an ability to see and hear dead people. And New York it seems has more than its share of ghosts.
Pincus is hounded by the spirits needing closure led by recently deceased Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) who wants Pincus to ruin his widow’s relationship with a lawyer. Pincus immediately falls for Gwen (Tea Leoni) and agrees, but most overcome his own personality and self-history to win her over.
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Melissa Leo stars as Ray, a struggling mother of two (Charlie McDermott, James Reilly) just trying to get by in a small town in upstate New York, just across the border from Quebec.
When her husband takes off for Atlantic City with the final payment for her family’s DoubleWide new home she’s left without options.
A chance encounter with a Native American woman named Lily (Misty Upham) provides Ray a dangerous business opportunity to smuggle illegal immigrants across the Mohawk reservation into the United States.
The film, written and directed by first-timer Courtney Hunt, is a bleak story about love, family, and how far someone will go to persue their dreams. Leo and Upham carry the film with a pair of strong performances, and when the story movies away from their characters the story suffers.
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By now you’ve probably heard the DC is looking to reboot the Superman movie franchise (again). We still don’t know what the new project will look like, but check out this interview by G4’s Blair Butler as she talks to Wanted creator Mark Millar about his new series War Heroes and his ideas for an epic Lord of the Rings-style Superman movie trilogy. Interesting Stuff! Plus check out what artist Tony Harris has to say about War Heroes later on in the vid.
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