Matthew McConaughey in “Two for the Money”
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ELIZABETHTOWN (PG-13): After causing his company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars during a disastrous product launch, hapless Oregonian Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) gets canned from his job. Two more blows follow: His girlfriend leaves him, and back home in Kentucky, his father dies. Only after these trials does Drew finally start to find some luck in the form of witty and pretty flight attendant Claire (Kirsten Dunst). Susan Sarandon, Jessica Biel, Alec Baldwin and Food Network chef Paula Deen co-star.
THE FOG (NR): A hundred years ago, a ship of lepers was deliberately wrecked in a fog off the shore of an isolated Northern California town. Now, the ghosts of the dead are back for revenge against the descendants of those who founded the town. Tom Welling (Smallville), Maggie Grace (Lost) and Selma Blair star in the remake of director John Carpenter's horror classic.
DOMINO (R): Domino Harvey (played by Keira Knightley), daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, leaves her lucrative career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter. The film is based on her real-life story, which had a tragic outcome in June when she was found dead in her home at the age of 35 (a tragedy not covered dramatically in the film, which had been completed by then). Director Tony Scott's cast also includes Christopher Walken, Mickey Rourke, Mo'Nique and Mena Suvari (American Beauty).
WAITING (R): Restaurant employees while away their work hours by flirting with regulars and flubbing up kitchen orders while taking comfort in the "two-second rule." They have dreams of bigger things teaching, for example, or otherwise making a mark on the world but they also fear those dreams may never come true. The ensemble cast includes Ryan Reynolds (The Amityville Horror), Justin Long (Herbie: Fully Loaded), Anna Faris (Scary Movie) and Emmanuelle Chriqui (Entourage).
IN HER SHOES (R): Irresponsible and sometimes-employed party girl Maggie (Cameron Diaz) and her older sister, ambitious attorney Rose (Toni Collette), clash when they move in together. In fact the pairing doesn't last long, what with Maggie waltzing around her dumpy sister's apartment in her skivvies and upsetting the general order of things. Maggie also doesn't feel like looking for work or doing much else except turning men's heads. Eventually, she gets booted and seeks out a grandmother she never knew she had. Maggie settles in to her grandmother's retirement home, but neither Maggie nor her sister can escape the legacy of their mysterious mother. Shirley MacLaine also stars.
WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT (G): In this vegetarian horror movie, Wallace and his dog, Gromit, are recruited to investigate a case in which a mysterious creature is attacking a village's vegetable gardens while the locals are getting ready for a giant vegetable contest. Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter are among those who supply the voices for director Nick Park's feature-length spinoff of his award-winning, stop-motion-animated Wallace & Gromit short subjects.
TWO FOR THE MONEY (R): A career-killing injury forces an athlete (Matthew McConaughey) to change course in his life. His new path, however, proves more dangerous after he hooks up with a notorious bookie. Al Pacino and Rene Russo also star.
TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE (PG): Victor, a young man living in a 19th-century European village, is stolen away to the underworld and forced to marry the Corpse Bride. (Well, actually, it's his own darn fault, having put a wedding band on a skeleton as a joke.) Victor is astounded by the colorful Land of the Dead, but this will not stop him from reuniting with his true love, Victoria, who awaits him in the land of the living. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Albert Finney and Christopher Lee are among those who supply the animated characters' voices.
INTO THE BLUE (R): In this pseudo-remake of The Deep, several divers find themselves in deep trouble with a drug lord after they come upon the illicit cargo from a sunken airplane. Paul Walker (The Fast and the Furious), Jessica Alba (Fantastic Four), Scott Caan (Ocean's Twelve), Ashley Scott and Josh Brolin star in the drama directed by John Stockwell (Blue Crush).
SERENITY (PG-13): Joss Whedon's short-lived television series Firefly finds new life on the big screen, as the transport ship Serenity and its captain, Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), find adventure 500 years in the future. The lovely hooker; the crazy mystery girl who boarded the ship in a packing crate; the muscle guy; the dreamy engineer girl ... they're all back, still fighting the evil empire that booted them from their homes and tried to steal their freedom. One of the travellers carries a secret that the evil empire, called the Alliance, doesn't want anyone to know; the whole Serenity team must keep her safe and decipher her mysteries. Gina Torres, Adam Baldwin, Sean Maher, Summer Glau and Jewel Staite also reprise their home-screen roles.
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NORTH COUNTRY (R): This fictionalised version of the first successful sexual-harassment prosecution Š Jensen v. Eveleth Mines Š centres on single mother Josie (Charlize Theron), who toils in an iron mine with a fellow miner. He thinks women shouldnÕt work in the harsh profession; continued clashes with him lead Josie to file a classaction lawsuit. The cast also includes Sean Bean, Woody Harrelson, Sissy Spacek, Frances McDormand (Fargo) and Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under).
SHOPGIRL (R): Mirabelle (Claire Danes) is a disenchanted salesgirl who pushes gloves and accessories on customers in a department store. What she really wants to do is to pursue her art but she has other distractions as well, including two very different boyfriends (Steve Martin, also the story's author, and Jason Schwartzman). Frances Conroy (Six Feet Under) also is featured.
THE WEATHER MAN (R): A TV weatherman (Nicolas Cage) serving as head of his Chicago household Š the Spritz family, get it? Š gets a yen to move to New York after a promising audition, but the idea proves more complicated than it seems. Michael Caine, Hope Davis and Gil Bellows (Ally McBeal) co-star.
STAY (R): A young man (Ryan Gosling, The Notebook) announces to his therapist (Ewan McGregor) that he will commit suicide in exactly three days. The good doctor tries to help his patient from doing the unthinkable, only to find himself dragged into a scary world that hovers between life and death. Naomi Watts, Bob Hoskins and B.D. Wong also star in the drama from Finding Neverland director Marc Forster.
DREAMER (PG): A Kentucky horse trainer (Kurt Russell) and his daughter (Dakota Fanning, War of the Worlds) rehabilitate an injured horse and plan to race it in the esteemed Breeders' Cup competition. Elisabeth Shue and Kris Kristofferson also appear in the drama.
DOOM (R): John Grimm (Karl Urban, The Lord of the Rings), the leader of a special ops team, is called to find out what is going on on Mars. A colony on the planet has stopped communicating with the rest of the universe, and now itÕs up to an ˇlite force called the Rapid Response Tactical Squad to clear Mars of a new evil. Grimm heads over to the Red Planet, and more specifically to the research station of Olduvai, to fight some hellish ghouls. The Rock and Rosamund Pike (Die Another Day) co-star in the science-fiction tale from cinematographer turned director Andrzej Bartkowiak.
SAW 2 (R): Jigsaw is back in this sequel to last year's gory, sleeper-hit horror flick in which two men woke up from a daze to discover themselves chained down on opposite sides of a room. In this edition, the sinister Jigsaw has found a fresh batch of victims to torture, forcing them to kill each other in order for some of them to survive. A cop is on the case, unaware of just how close he is to Jigsaw's new game. The cast includes Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith (formerly of television's Becker) and Donnie Wahlberg. Leigh Whannell, the writer and star of the original movie, contributed to the script for this one.
THE LEGEND OF ZORRO (NR): In this sequel to 1998's The Mask of Zorro, the title character (Antonio Banderas) has left behind his swashbuckling ways to live a domestic life with his wife, Elena (Catherine Zeta-Jones), and son, Joaquin (Adrian Alonso) ... but a new nemesis, Armand (Rufus Sewell), pulls him back into a life of danger and swordplay. Returning director Martin Campbell (GoldenEye) guides the adventure.
PRIME (PG-13): In this romantic drama set in New York, a driven career woman (Uma Thurman) seeks therapy ... only to fall for the good doctor's son (Bryan Greenberg of television's One Tree Hill), a dreamy painter. No matter that the guy is 23 and the gal is a 37-year-old divorcee; love is love. Meryl Streep also stars.
CHICKEN LITTLE (G): Because of his infamous past, Chicken Little (voice of Zach Braff, "Garden State") sets out to restore his reputation, especially when a real piece of the sky actually lands on his head. With the help of his creature cronies, our plucky hero tries to come up to scratch and save the world. A cast of familiar names supplies additional voices for the computer-animated Disney feature; among the performers included are Joan Cusack, Don Knotts, Garry Marshall, Steve Zahn, Patrick Stewart, Catherine 'Hara, Amy Sedaris (Strangers With Candy), Adam West, Fred Willard and Katie Finneran (The Inside).
