American Teen (PG-13, 101 minutes) What it is, folks: A filmmaker follows a few high school seniors through their final year and various social groups. Take a break from “The Hills.” Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Babylon A.D. (PG-13, 90 minutes) It’s the dystopian future. Michelle Yeoh is a nun looking after a young woman who might have a deadly virus, and Vin Diesel is a mercenary looking after himself. Many explosions may change that. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
Bangkok Dangerous (R, 110 minutes) Danny and Oxide Pang remake their own 1999 thriller, with a new script by Jason Richman (Swing Vote). A hitman (Nicolas Cage) on a business trip in Thailand—which is to say he’s there to do some serious killin’—somehow starts letting his heart get in the way of his work. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
Brideshead Revisited (PG-13, 133 minutes) All hail the heart-conquering power of the historical novel! Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Burn After Reading (R, 95 minutes) In the latest Coen Brothers romp, a CIA agent’s tell-all falls into the hands of folks who want to sell it, but aren’t publishers. Starring George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton and Brad Pitt. Opening Friday
College (R, 94 minutes) High school kids visit a college campus and learn the merits of a solid educa…pffft…Ha! O.K., seriously, a bunch of kids visit a college and drink themselves into oblivion and hijinks. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
The Dark Knight (PG-13, 140 minutes) Just as Batman (Christian Bale) makes real headway cleaning up Gotham’s streets, with help from a top cop (Gary Oldman) and an aggressive D.A. (Aaron Eckhart), some joker calling himself the Joker (Heath Ledger) decides to mastermind a terrifying criminal rampage. Out comes the heavy artillery—and the moviegoers who don’t usually bother with this superhero silliness but are morbidly curious about the late Ledger’s final full performance. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4
Death Race (R, 105 minutes) It’s the year 2020 and the over-crowded New York prisons serve as central casting for the world’s most brutal reality-TV sport. Jason Statham, Joan Allen and Ian MacShane star in a remake of the 1975 Sly Stallone vehicle about hard-time convicts duking it out in souped-up vehicles. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4
Disaster Movie (PG-13, 90 minutes) From the paper that brought you clever capsule reviews for Epic Movie and Scary Movie 3. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Elegy (R, 113 minutes) A pretty excellent cast (Dennis Hopper, Peter Sarsgaard) rounds out this tale of a college professor (Ben Kingsley) caught in a Lolita-esque relationship with a student (Penelope Cruz). Based on a story by Philip Roth. Playing at Vinegar Hill Theatre
Fly Me to the Moon 3-D (G, 85 minutes) In special 3-D animation, a group of teenaged houseflies (or houseflies the equivalent age of human teenagers, whatever that is) stows away on Apollo 11. Voice talents include Ed Begley Jr., Tim Curry, Kelly Ripa and Christopher Lloyd. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
Henry Poole is Here Luke Wilson gives those lovesick puppy dog eyes in this film about a man that goes from misanthrope to hopeful dope. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
The House Bunny (PG-13, 98 minutes) Kicked out of the Playboy Mansion, an aging blonde hottie (Anna Faris) finds work, of sorts, as a sorority house mother—and maybe finds happiness? Well, wondering about this movie’s plot is like reading Playboy for the articles. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
The Longshots (PG, 94 minutes) Jasmine Plummer, an 11-year-old quarterback, was the first female player in Pop Warner football history. This is her true but probably cliché-laden story. Ice Cube plays her uncle and coach. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4
Mamma Mia! (PG-13, 108 minutes) On a cute Greek island where she runs a little hotel, a single mom (Meryl Streep) prepares to give her daughter (Amanda Seyfried) away to marriage. Wedding guests include mom’s former bandmates (Julie Walters and Christine Baranski) and the three men who might be her daughter’s dad (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgaard). Romantic mayhem and many ABBA songs ensue. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Pineapple Express (R, 105 minutes) A stoner (Seth Rogen, shocker) and his dealer (James Franco) run afoul of crooked cops and drug lords and run for their lives. No surprise that Rogen co-scripted and Judd Apatow produced; what makes this action comedy especially intriguing, though, is the director, David Gordon Green, who last gave us Snow Angels—not at all an action-com. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4
Righteous Kill (R, 101 minutes) Just ask yourself: How often do these two movie titans appear together on the screen? That’s Donnie Wahlberg and 50 Cent, of course. Also Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, as veteran New York cops tracking a serial killer. Opening Friday
Traitor (PG-13, 110 minutes) Steve “Wild and Crazy Guy” Martin penned this film about a former U.S. Special Ops agent (Don Cheadle) suspected of treacherous acts. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
Tropic Thunder (R, 107 minutes) Ben Stiller (co-scripting and directing), Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. portray a group of pampered, quirkily egotistical actors making a megabudget movie about the Vietnam war. Nick Nolte plays the screenwriter who decides to put them in a real war. Boo-yah! Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys (PG-13, 111 minutes) Kathy Bates, Alfrie Woodard, and, go figure, Tyler Perry, star in this tale of scandalous entanglement between two families from different social strata. Opening Friday
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (PG-13, 96 minutes) Ah, Woody Allen, how you love to direct Scarlett Johannson! But she’s not to be yours this time around; instead, Javier Bardem makes an offer that ScarJo and another gal can’t refuse. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
The Women (PG-13, 114 minutes) Reviewed here. Opening Friday
