In New York City during the summer of 1994 a drug dealer (Josh Peck) develops feelings for the daughter (Olivia Thirlby) of his psychiatrist (Ben Kingsley) with whom he trades drugs for therapy. Famke Janssen, Aaron Yoo, Mary-Kate Olsen, and Method Man also star. Check out the official site. The film opens in limited release in select cities on Thursday.
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Will Smith stars as an apathetic and despised super-hero who is approached by an agent (Jason Bateman) with a plan to turn his public perception around. Charlize Theron, Daeg Faerch, and Hayley Marie Norman also star. Check out the official site. We’ve seen it and we’ll give you the review when the film flies into theaters everywhere tomorrow.
Abigail Breslin stars in this film based of the popular line of Mattel dolls, books, and magazines involving young historical heroines. The film centers around Kit Kittredge and takes place during the Great Depression. Stanley Tucci, Max Thieriot, Chris O’Donnell, Julia Ormand, Wallace Shawn, Gleanne Headly, and Joan Cusack also star. Check out the official site. After a couple of weeks in limited release (read the review) the film finally opens wide on Friday.
“Your father died yesterday on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Building. He was one of the greatest assassins who ever lived, and the other one is behind you.”
Stuck in a dead-end job with a girlfriend (Kristen Hager) who’s cheating on him with his best friend (Chris Pratt), a ball-busting boss (Lorna Scott), and a general sense of utter futility, Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is not just having a bad year, but a bad life.
All this changes when he’s approached by a beautiful woman called the Fox (Angelina Jolie) who informs him his father, the greatest assassin to ever live, has just been killed and the man responsible (Thomas Kretschmann) is now gunning for him. Wesley finds himself thrown into a world he never imagined.
The Fraternity of Assassins led by Sloan (Morgan Freeman) shows Wesley he has the special talent and abilities of his father which make him a perfect candidate for the Fraternity.
Choosing to give-up his old life Wesley jumps into the training which basically entails him getting the ever-living-snot beat out of him over and over again. He trains to become the world’s best assassin able to bend bullets fired from his gun and kill from even miles away.
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Wesley Gibson is a loser. Every day Wesley goes to his dead-end job, taking shit from his boss and hiding out in his cubicle. His best friend is sleeping with his girlfriend, he’s a hyproconriac, and views himself as the most insignifigant man on the face of the planet. However, all that is about to change.
Wesley’s father, a man he has never met, is killed and Wesley is tapped by his father’s friends to continue in his stead. You see Wesley’s father was a super villain known as The Killer, and Wesley, unbeknownst to him, has inherited his father’s gifts for killing. Wesley is recruited by the Fraternity, a group of super villains who now rule the world from behind the scenes after eliminating the last of the super-heroes back in 1986. Through magic, science, and mind control they have remade the world to forget about heroes and give themselves ultimate power.
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