28 WEEKS LATER
Fans of 28 Days Later, the sci fi horror flick that grossed $45 mil and launched Cillian Murphy's career in 2003, has returned with a sequel. In the first film, an incurable disease that turns people into ravenous murderers spreads throughout the UK, while Murphy and few other survivors try to find sanctuary. So, basically it's an artsy, low budget ($8 mil), British version of Resident Evil without all the theatrics. The sequel takes place 6 months after the first outbreak. The U.S. Army takes over to help repopulate the area and sift out the diseased, but unfortunately it spreads again. It follows a family as they try to survive. I won't be watching it...cause I don't need nightmares. But it should be interesting, because it's directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and it's his first English film.
GEORGIA RULE
Don't believe the hype? Or should I say...don't listen to it. Try for two whole hours to forget that Lindsay Lohan does coke, flashes her cooch, shows up on set whenever she wants to, and allegedly runs over paparazzi. Try as hard as you can, because if you can't then Jane Fonda's attempt to get back into the game full swing and Felicity Huffman's attempt to balance a TV and film career will be wasted. Lohan plays a girl who accuses her step father of molesting her...and maybe her mom would believe her if she weren't a pathological liar. Huffman plays a mother who has no idea how to control her teenage daughter, so she thinks the only one who can is the person who used to control her (Fonda). Hence, you must follow Georgia's rules if you don't want to be punished, humiliated, and tortured by good old Georgia. This film follows three generations of women trying their hardest not to let men define their existence. It's meant to be inspirational and touching and perfect for Mother's Day weekend. Then of course there are the token hotties, Dermot Mulroney (The Family Stone) and Garrett Hedlund (Four Brothers), that add a little romance to this dramedy. So don't cross it off your list just yet.
THE EX
Zach Braff has done a good job of steering clear of comedies, since he stars in one on NBC ("Scrubs"). But of course it was inevitable. In this flick, Braff plays a husband forced to work for his father-in-law after his bread-winner wife, Amanda Peet, has to take care of their baby. If that isn't pressure enough, he seems to have the worst competition for her heart, a handicap guy, Jason Bateman, who knows exactly how to abuse other people's kindness. The best part of the film is trying to decide who you'll be rooting for--that and seeing great comedians in action from the "Arrested Development" alum to Paul Rudd to SNLers Amy Poelher and Fred Armisen.
HOME OF THE BRAVE
This is one of those tear jerkers that gets the cogs rolling in the old noggin. Samuel L. Jackson, Curtis Jackson (that's 50 Cent to you), Jessica Biel, and Chad Michael Murray play soliders who have to figure out how to get on with their lives, and how to live with who they've become and what they've done after they return from war. It probably won't get any Oscar play and Rotten Tomatoes gave it a pretty low score, but maybe you'll connect with it on a level those critics didn't.
BLIND DATING
Chris Pine is, needless to say, dreamy, whether he's playing a misogynistic wannabe royal (Princess Diaries 2) or an unlucky clutz (Just My Luck) or a disgusting, murderous spawn of trailer trash (Smokin' Aces). This time he woos you with his ability to make you pity his romantic troubles as he is unable to find the perfect girl since he's blind as a bat and *gasp* a 22 yr old virgin. Eddie Kaye Thomas (American Pie), his encouraging brother, tries to help him. But Thomas always plays the perv card--sort of the geeky version of Stifler--and he is no help. The one innovative idea in this film is that the love that Pine finds isn't in some picture perfect, blonde-haired, blue-eyed hottie or your stereotypical secretly hot geek who just *sigh* understands him, but an Indian girl (Anjali Jay) who treats him like she'd treat any stranger hitting on her: like shit. Open your mind (and your wallet) and give it a shot.
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