A Taekwondo instructor (Danny R. McBride) and his best bud (Jody Hill) go an a pilgrimage to a kung fu convention to find their hero, a martial arts legend (Ben Best). Check out the official site. The long-delayed film is currently scheduled to open in limited release in select cities on Friday.
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Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler star as a young couple on vacation terrorized by masked strangers. Glenn Howerton, Laura Margolis, and Gemma Ward also star. Check out the official site. The film begins terrorizing audiences on Friday.
Based on the murder of Barbara Daly Baekeland, Julianne Moore stars as an unstable socialite and former model who was brutally killed by her son Tony (Eddie Redmayne). Hugh Dancy, Stephen Dillane, Abel Folk, and Mapi Galan also star. The film opens exclusively in New York and Los Angeles on Friday.
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“What does God need with a starship?”
The film opens at the height of the Red Scare as Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) fights off Soviet agents, led by Cate Blanchett, who show up to steal a crystal skull from a secret government warehouse. Indy’s failure to stop the theft brings up questions of his loyalty and he finds himself on forced sabbatical from the university.
Indy quickly finds a new outlet when a kid named Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf) asks Indy for help in retrieving another crystal skull found by one of Indy’s colleagues (John Hurt) to save his mother Marion (Karen Allen) from the Nazis.
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Harrison Ford returns as Indiana Jones, though he’s not the first one we see in the role in this third installment of the franchise.
The movie starts with a young Indy (River Phoenix) taking on grave robbers near his home. This short glimpse into his past gives us clues to his fear of snakes, his love of archeology, and where he picked up that trademark hat and whip. This sequence would also be the catalyst for The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles television series.
Following this opening we jump to the present where Indy is told his father (Sean Connery) has disappeared while searching for the location of the Holy Grail. With the help of his father’s assistant (Alison Doddy), Indy travels to Venice to continue the search and find his father.
The search reunites the Jones famly for the first time in years and puts them up against Nazi’s, a secret cult desperate to keep the resting place of the Grail secret, and mysteries and clues which must be solved.
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