FILM: New to the Box Office - 1/25/08

Untraceable

Diane Lane and Colin Hanks star in a thriller about a serial killer who kills his victims using the Internet--it was bound to happen. Basically, he gets web surfers to visit his site--the more people who visit the faster his victim dies. The government can't seem to dissuade people from going to the site or shut it down or find the killer. Thus, he's untraceable, which proves to be a problem when he starts to hunt down Lane.


Rambo

Sylvester Stallone needs money, so go watch a reboot of his late-80s film that he wrote and directed about: "In Thailand, John Rambo assembles a group of mercenaries and leads them up the Salween River to a Burmese village after hearing that a group of aid workers he assisted have gone missing."


How She Move

If you like urban dancing and urban plotlines, then you'll watch this movie no matter what it's about. But in the event you need to be persuaded. Think of it as Stomp the Yard with a little Save the Last Dance thrown in. A girl whose sister dies from a drug overdose has to enroll in public high school (as opposed to private) because her parents are bankrupt. To get the hell out of the ghetto, she decides to train in step-dancing so she can win $50,000 at a competition. But first she'll have to regain her street-cred and fend off the oreo-haters. Tre Armstrong (Save the Last Dance) is in the lead.


Meet the Spartans

Um *sighs* it's basically a spoof on 300 with cameos from several out-of-work actors brought to you by the boys behind the Scary Movie saga, Date Movie, and Epic Movie. And in case the cast will entice you to tune in, here's a rundown of a couple: Sean Maguire ("The Class") as Leonidas, Carmen Electra as the queen, Kevin Sorbo, Diedrich Bader ("The Drew Carey Show"), Method Man, Nicole Parker ("Mad TV") as Britney Spears/Paris Hilton/Paula Abdul/Ellen Degeneres, and Ike Barinholtz ("Mad TV") as Dane Cook. There will also be lookalikes and references to "Ugly Betty," Lindsay Lohan, Tom Cruise, Donald Trump, Tyra Banks, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, K-Fed, President Bush, Rocky, Ryan Seacrest, Sanjaya, Transformers, and Happy Feet.


The Air I Breathe

This dramatic indie is based on a Chinese proverb about the four emotional cornerstones of life: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. And the major characters' lives intertwine as each emotion is conveyed. Forest Whitaker plays a businessman who bets his life on a horse race to shake things up because he's tired of being happy. Brendan Fraser plays a gangster who sees his unfortunate future. He's dating Sarah Michelle Gellar, who plays a pop star who gets manipulated by a crime boss (Andy Garcia). And Kevin Bacon plays a doctor who is faced with the task of saving the love of his life. I'm not sure which emotion fits which scenario, but I think you'll discover that at the end of the movie...in an enlightening way.


4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days

This French drama is about a woman who tries to get an illegal abortion in Romania around the 80s. It was so very well reviewed by a majority of critics that I'm surprised it wasn't nominated for an Oscar in the category for Best Foreign Film.

And in case you missed seeing Michael Clayton in theaters, it's been re-released--probably because it was nominated for Best Picture.