Four couples reexamine their relationships in the Colorado Mountains in Tyler Perry‘s adaptation of his stage play. Perry, Sharon Leal, Janet Jackson, Denise Boutte, Richard T. Jones, Malik Yoba, Jill Scott, Keesha Sharp, Michael Jai White, and Tasha Smith star. Check out the official site. The film opens in theaters everywhere on Friday. Larger trailer available in the Full Diagnosis.
Why Did I Get Married
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A British dock worker (Jim Sturgess) comes to America to search for his father and falls for a girl named Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) in this 1960’s Beattles themed film from writer/director Julie Traymor. Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, T.V. Carpio, Bono, Eddie Izzard, and Salma Hayek also star. Check out the official site. After weeks in limited release, the film opens wide on Friday. The film is polarizing critics and audiences read my review, and for a different perspective check out Eric’s review on Scene Stealers. Larger trailer available in the Full Diagnosis.
Across the Universe
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Ben Stiller plays his usual self – a normal guy who gets into an unlikely situation that gets worse and worse until finally everything is resolved at the last minute. Sound familiar? If you’ve seen There’s Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, Along Came Polly, and the like, then you’ve seen Stiller’s trademark character who he trots out every couple years for another film.
This remake of the 1972 film finds a 40 year-old single man pressured into marrying a relative stranger (Malin Akerman – doing a scary, awkward, and charmless Cameron Diaz impersonation) only to find out on his honeymoon that’s she’s not the woman he thought she was. Shocker!
Things get complicated further when Eddie (Stiller) falls for a young woman (Michelle Monaghan) vacationing with her family at the resort and tells a small lie about a former wife and an ice pick that leads to all types of implausible misunderstandings. You know those films where you don’t see things coming? This isn’t one of those.
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Based on the second book of a five book series by Susan Cooper comes a tale of a normal young American boy, Will Stanton (Alexander Ludwig), living in London with his five older brothers and young sister (Emma Lockhart). On his 14th birthday Will starts noticing odd events and becomes the focus of several strange adults who call themselves Old Ones (Ian McShane, James Cosmo, Jim Piddock, Frances Conroy).
It seems Will is the seventh son of a seventh son (and if you’ve read Orson Scott Card’s books you know that makes him special). He is also the last of the Old Ones and “the Seeker” of the six signs of power which have been hidden throughout time and only he can find. And find them he must, for unless all signs are united in five days the Rider (Christopher Eccleston) will usher in a new age of shadow and darkness. Will must unite the hidden signs and return the power of the Light before it is lost forever to the Dark. (And if you made your way through that without giggling or scratching your head you did better than me).
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