Blockbuster New Releases

Some ok looking releases this week including the Kevin Smith directed Cop Out…. What do you think?

The Yellow Handkerchief
A band of outsiders takes to the highways in this touching independent drama. Brett (William Hurt) is a petty criminal who is eager to turn his life around after spending six years in jail. Brett is…

Cop Out
Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan team up for the Warner Bros. police buddy movie Cop Out in this Kevin Smith-directed production. From a script by Robb and Mark Cullen, the story centers around police…

Dorian Gray

Mother
A woman devoted to her son struggles to keep him from spending his life in prison in this drama from director Bong Joon-ho. Do-jun (Weon Bin) is a man in his mid-twenties who isn’t especially bright…

The Bannen Way
A smooth-talking con man finds the mob turning up the heat on one side and the cops closing in from the other in this stylish action thriller featuring Robert Forster, Michael Ironside, and Michael…

The Losers
Director Sylvain White adapts the Vertigo comic about a team of mercenaries who wage war on the CIA after they’re double-crossed in the field and left to die. Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Jensen…

The Runaways
The story of the groundbreaking ’70s female rock group the Runaways is recounted in this River Road Entertainment production focusing on the duo of guitarist/vocalist Joan Jett (portrayed by…

The Wronged Man
A paralegal (Julia Ormond) fights a 22-year battle with the legal system to prove the innocence of an African-American family man (Mahershalalhashbaz Ali) convicted of assaulting a neighborhood girl…



Some ok looking releases this week, nothing sticks out….

Caught in the Crossfire
Chris Klein and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson star in director Brian A. Miller’s drama about two detectives who become the targets of both gangsters and crooked cops during an important investigation. ~…

Chloe
An untrusting wife attempts to prove that her husband is cheating by hiring an escort to seduce him, inadvertently endangering her entire family in the process. Catherine (Julianne Moore) is a…

Greenberg
A fortysomething New Yorker in the throes of a midlife crisis falls for his brother’s assistant while house-sitting for his sibling in Los Angeles. Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is single and…

Our Family Wedding
Forest Whitaker and Carlos Mencia headline this culture-clash comedy centered on the conflict between two headstrong fathers whose children are about to be married. With just two weeks to go before…

The Bounty Hunter
Hapless bounty hunter Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler) jumps for joy at the prospect of tracking down his bail-skipping ex-wife, Nicole Hurley (Jennifer Aniston), but gets a hard dose of reality when the…

A Single Man

George Falconer (Colin Firth) feels lost. Not only is he still grieving the death of his longtime companion, Jim (Matthew Goode), but he’s also a Brit teaching English at a California college. He’s…

Brooklyn’s Finest
Training Day director Antoine Fuqua takes viewers on a dark ride through the streets of Brooklyn, following three New York Police officers as they wrestle with temptation, loyalty, and duty while…

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
A discredited journalist and a mysterious computer hacker discover that even the wealthiest families have skeletons in their closets while working to solve the mystery of a 40-year-old murder….

Green Zone looks pretty good but overall nothing sticks out and shines for me this week.

Green Zone
United 93 director Paul Greengrass explores the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in this feature adaptation of author Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s literary exposé Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside…

Remember Me
His relationship with his father strained in the wake of a family tragedy, rebellious New Yorker Tyler (Robert Pattinson) finds love with the one girl who understands him. Tyler wasn’t looking for…

She’s Out of My League
An airport security guard gets involved with a girl who’s very obviously of a higher caliber than himself, and schemes to make the relationship last as his friends and family watch along in…

Absolute Power
In this thriller, an aging cat burglar becomes a crusader embroiled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game involving murder and a government cover-up. Adapted by distinguished scenarist William Goldman from…

The Last Station
The final year of Russian socialist writer Leo Tolstoy’s life comes to the screen with Christopher Plummer in the lead role and Helen Mirren portraying his wife, Sofya. Paul Giamatti, James McAvoy,..

This week Book of Eli looks interesting… not too sure about the others, what do you think?

Happy Tears
Teeth director Michael Lichtenstein takes a sharp turn from teen-oriented satire to mature family drama with this semi-autobiographical story concerning a pair of grown-up sisters who return to their…

The Book of Eli
In a post-apocalyptic America where the once-picturesque countryside has become a desolate and violent wasteland, one man (Denzel Washington) fights to protect that sacred tome that could hold the…

Unthinkable
Armed with the knowledge that their suspect has planted three nuclear bombs in three U.S. cities, black ops interrogator H (Samuel L. Jackson) and FBI Agent Helen Brody (Carrie-Anne Moss) resort to…

When in Rome
Disillusioned with romance during her whirlwind trip to Rome, an ambitious New Yorker defiantly swipes a few magic coins from a “foolish” wishing fountain, inadvertently igniting the passions of a…

Youth in Revolt
Superbad’s Michael Cera discovers a vacation romance in Youth in Revolt, a teen comedy from Charlie Bartlett’s screenwriter, Gustin Nash, and director Miguel Arteta (Chuck & Buck). The film is an…

I’m really looking forward to Shutter Island the rest are just Ok this week….

The Greatest
Tragedy opens the wounds a family has long struggled to ignore in this powerful emotional drama. Bennett Brewer (Aaron Johnson) was a bright, handsome, and talented young man who was suddenly killed…

From Paris With Love
This action film, directed by Pierre Morel (Taken), concerns young CIA agent James Reece (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) who has a cushy day job but dreams of an exciting life in the field. When the agency…

Shutter Island
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up for a fourth time for this adaptation of Shutter Island, a novel by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River). The film opens in 1954 as World War II veteran and…

The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It
A zany spoof of Judd Apatow comedies, The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It tells the tale of Andy, an aging virgin who attempts to score with a little help…

The Shinjuku Incident
A simple Chinese immigrant wages a perilous war against one of the most powerful criminal organizations on the planet in this sprawling action drama directed by Derek Yee (One Night in Mongkok) and…

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is the only stand out release for me this week! I did at one point want to see Wolfman but have since read some awful reviews.

Alice in Wonderland
Director Tim Burton and screenwriter Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King) team up to deliver this visually dazzling take on the classic Lewis Carroll tale. Nineteen-year-old Alice…

The Pacific Sampler
View the first Part of The Pacific a 10-part television World War II miniseries aired on HBO. Similar to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, The Pacific focuses on the United States Marine Corps’…

The Stranger
His family killed and his memory erased, a former member of an elite FBI task force wages a one-man war to reclaim his past in this explosive action thriller starring Steve Austin. With the Russian…

The Wolfman
Universal Studios resurrects the classic lycanthrope with this tale of a man who experiences an unsettling transformation after he returns to his ancestral home in Victorian-era Great Britain and…

Undisputed III: Redemption
Eight incarcerated brawlers compete for their freedom in an underground fight to the death funded by a powerful underground gambling ring. The further Boyka (Scott Adkins) works his way up through…

Wild Things: Foursome
The son of a wealthy hotel tycoon becomes embroiled in a murder conspiracy after his powerful father is killed in a tragic boating accident. A child of privilege, Carson Wheetley (Ashley Parker…

Here are the new releases from Blockbuster for June 1st, enjoy….

Stolen
Mad Men star Jon Hamm headlines this unusual low-budget mystery-thriller, as Detective Tom Adkins, a man haunted relentlessly by the disappearance of his ten-year-old son, Tommy, Jr. No leads…

Dear John
Director Lasse Hallström and screenwriter Jamie Linden collaborate to adapt author Nicholas Sparks’ novel about a young soldier who falls for an idealistic college girl. Savannah Curtis (Amanda…

The Road
A father (Viggo Mortensen) and son make their way across a post-apocalyptic United States in hopes of finding civilization amongst the nomadic cannibal tribes in 2929 Productions’ adaptation of…

Extraordinary Measures
Inspired by an incredible true story, the CBS Films docudrama portrays one father’s desperate quest to save his children from succumbing to a rare life-threatening genetic disorder. Working-class…

Invictus
Actor Morgan Freeman portrays anti-apartheid activist and former South African president Nelson Mandela in this Clint Eastwood-helmed political drama adapted from author John Carlin’s book The Human…

The Messenger
An Iraq War veteran who just narrowly escaped death in combat struggles with his new post at the Casualty Notification Office while anticipating his upcoming discharge in this military drama starring…

The New Daughter
Kevin Costner stars as a father who moves his pair of kids to an isolated farm only to find his daughter’s changed behavior might have something to do with a burial ground near his property in Luis…

The Spy Next Door
Reminiscent of Kindergarten Cop, with a dash of Spy Kids, The Spy Next Door blends together an entertaining mixture of family fun and martial-arts comedy styling to form a familiar story that once…

Valentine’s Day
Gary Marshall’s ensemble romantic comedy Valentine’s Day follows nearly two dozen people as they find and lose love in all its many forms over the course of the title holiday. The numerous characters…

Toy Story
Toy Story was the first feature-length film animated entirely by computer. If this seems to be a sterile, mechanical means of moviemaking, be assured that the film is as chock-full of heart and…

I think Pirate Radio has been released about 4 times under different names by now!!! It wasn’t a great film but had it’s moments.

Pirate Radio

In mid- to late-’60s Britain, an unusual yet colorful subculture sprang up and thrived as a product of the upswing in British pop music, only to meet its doom within a few short years. Though the BBC…

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire

Monster’s Ball producer Lee Daniels follows up his 2005 directorial debut, Shadowboxer, with this adaptation of author Sapphire’s best-selling novel about an overweight, illiterate African-American…

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