TRAILERS: Street Kings, The Cleaner, The Visitor

Keanu Reeves stars in a career-changing thriller not unlike Training Day. In the film Street Kings he plays a newly widowed cop who is implicated in the death of a fellow officer and must go up against not only his own people but the killers in the streets in order to clear his name. This might actually go down in history as the first star-studded movie that has rappers (Game, Common, 50 Cent) and doesn't suck. It's like Training Day in the sense that the lead character is corrupt--in this case driven to evil for self-preservation--and his protege, played by Chris Evans (Fantastic Four), is naive and impressionable. Also starring are Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie ("House"), and Cedric the Entertainer. Cop movies + angry rap music always make for great action films.

Release Date: April 11

Samuel L. Jackson and Eva Mendes star in the thriller The Cleaner. Apparently, when someone dies in your house, you have to clean it up after the cops collect all of their evidence. That makes sense. So Jackson is what you would call "The Cleaner," the guy who cleans up the incident so you don't have to. Slight problem. Anybody can call him, so he can technically clean up a crime that hasn't even been investigated yet. The cover-up leads to a huge cop conspiracy and then the shooting starts...


I don't usually promote indies-with-a-heart-of-gold, but The Visitor is a very interesting look at America's illegal immigrant situation. It's about a professor who finds a young couple living in his apartment. Instead of kicking them out, he befriends them, learning new things about their culture and about their philosophy on life. When the guy gets arrested and put in a detention center, the professor must reevaluate his own philosophy on life. Check it out: