October 2008

• Title: W.
• IMDB: link

No stranger to controversial topics Oliver Stone‘s latest turns the camera on the controversial 2000 Presidential Election and the resulting Geroge W. Bush (Josh Brolin) presidency.  Elizabeth Banks, Thandie Newton, Ioan Gruffudd, Richard Dreyfuss, James Cromwell, Scott Glenn, Ellen Burstyn, and Jeffrey Wright also star.  Check out the official site.  The film opens in limited release in select cities on Friday. 

• Title: Sex Drive
• IMDB: link

Josh Zuckerman stars as a nerdy high school senior who borrows his brother’s car for a road trip with his two best friends (Clark Duke, Amanda Crew) and the chance at loosing his virginity to a girl he met online (Katrina Bowden).  James Marsden, Seth Green, Alice Greczyn, and Charlie McDermott also star.  Check out the official site.  We’ve seen it and we’ll have the review when the film drives up to theaters on Friday.

• Title: The Secret Life of Bees
• IMDB: link

Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, about an incident in 1964 which causes Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning) and Rosaleen Daise (Jennifer Hudson) to flee their home and end up with three beekeeping sisters (Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo) in the town of Tiburon, comes to the big screen.  Paul Bettany, Hilarie Burton, and Tristan Wilds also star.  Check out the official site.  The film opens in theaters everywhere on Friday. 

• Title: Max Payne
• IMDB: link

This video game adaptation stars Mark Wahlberg as a DEA agent out for revenge after the murder of his family and Mila Kunis as an assassin after the same people for the murder of her sister.  Beau Bridges, Ludacris, Donal Logue, Ted Atherton, and Kate Burton also star.  The film got some positive hype at Comic-Con, but video game flicks like this usually don’t translate too well on film (Shitman, Duum).  Check out the official site.  The bloodbath begins everywhere on Friday.  Larger trailer available in the Full Diagnosis.