Aliens in the Attic (PG, 86 minutes) At a summer vacation house in Maine, a group of kids finds a group of aliens in the attic, bent on invasion and planet domination. High School Musical’s Ashley Tisdale stars. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4
Bandslam (PG, 111 minutes) High School Musical’s Vanessa Hudgens stars in a teen comedy-drama about musical high schoolers—who, in this case, have dueling rock bands. Opening Friday
Brüno (R, 88 minutes) Sacha Baron Cohen brings his flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion correspondent to the American masses. Larry Charles, who also made Cohen’s Borat, directs. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Chéri (R, 100 minutes) Stephen Frears directs this tale of a young man’s tryst with an older woman. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Vinegar Hill Theatre
The Collector (R, 85 minutes) Torture-porn specialist screenwriter Marcus Dunstan makes his directorial debut with this tale of a masked psycho who traps people inside a house, and, well, tortures them. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
District 9 (R, 113 minutes) Peter Jackson produces South African native director Neill Blomkamp’s science-fiction parable of extra-terrestrial refugees quarantined in Apartheid-era Johannesburg. Opening Friday
Food Inc. (PG, 94 minutes) Let’s just say that this documentary is good motivation for buying local and organic. Playing at Vinegar Hill Theatre
Funny People (R, 140 minutes) Less funny than you might expect but—for a movie about a stand-up comedian (Adam Sandler) and his Nick Carroway-esque protégé, Seth Rogen—pretty darned funny. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
G-Force (PG, 90 minutes) In this Disney adventure, a special-ops team of guinea pigs saves the world. Yes, that’s right: rodent commandoes. Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Kelli Garner and Bill Nighy, among others, supply their voices. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (PG-13, 118 minutes) Director Stephen Sommers of the Mummy movies tackles this summer’s second Hasbro-toy-based action film, this one about the benevolent paramilitary “Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity” and its sinister serpentine enemies. Dennis Quaid, Christopher Eccleston, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sienna Miller and others star. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
The Hangover (R, 105 minutes) From the director of Old School, a comedy about some dudes (Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha) who go to Vegas for a bachelor party and get into all kinds of trouble but don’t remember any of it. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (PG, 153 minutes) Apparently there is series of books about a schoolboy who is also a young wizard. This film is said to be adapted from the sixth of those books. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson star, along with other, less famous but more established actors, and David Yates directs. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
The Hurt Locker (R, 131 minutes) A bomb disposal unit in Iraq goes a bit haywire and members start squabbling. With explosives. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (PG, 94 minutes) Same frosty critters, served with a dinosaur twist! Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4
Julie & Julia (PG-13, 123 minutes) A movie about a cookbook and a memoir. Like, totally metatextual! Opening Friday
Moon (R, 97 minutes) Sam Rockwell stars as an astronaut tasked with harvesting energy from the moon who, at the end of a three-year project, begins to doubt his sanity thanks to an accident and a creepy robot (voiced by Kevin Spacey). To read C-VILLE’s full review, click here. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Orphan (R, 123 minutes) After losing their unborn child, a nice young man and his nice young wife (Peter Sarsgaard, Vera Farmiga) decide to adopt a nice little girl from their local orphanage. A not-nice situation develops. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
A Perfect Getaway (R, 98 minutes) Newlyweds Milla Jovovich and Steve Zahn go for a hike in an amazing tropical paradise—where newlyweds apparently tend to get horrifically murdered. No, not so perfect after all. Another couple, played by Timothy Olyphant and Kiele Sanchez, doesn’t help. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Ponyo (G, 101 minutes) Disney presents Japanese animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki’s take on the Hans Christian Andersen tale of The Little Mermaid, in which a goldfish wants to be human. Voice talent includes Cate Blanchett, Noah Cyrus, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Cloris Leachman and Liam Neeson. Opening Friday
The Proposal (PG-13, 118 minutes) An urbane book editor (Sandra Bullock) pretends to be engaged to her long-suffering assistant (Ryan Reynolds) in order to avoid deportation to her native Canada. Then they’re off to meet his family, in the wilds of Alaska. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Public Enemies (R, 140 minutes) Michael Mann follows John Dillinger through robberies and car chases with a handheld digital camera and a tenacious Christian Bale. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
The Time Traveler’s Wife (PG-13, 108 minutes) Eric Bana is a time traveler and Rachel McAdams is his wife, trying to make their marriage work even as he uncontrollably flits back and forth through his own lifespan. Adapted from the Audrey Niffenegger bestseller by Bruce Joel Rubin, who wrote Ghost and therefore probably has a handle on the whole romance/sci-fi hybrid thing. Opening Friday
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13, 144 minutes) Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons—who, in the previous film, fell, and in this one want revenge. Michael Bay directs Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf and more enormous, shape-shifting robots. ’Nuff said. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4
The Ugly Truth (R, 95 minutes) Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler play a pair of feuding morning TV show producers with opposing viewpoints about romance. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4
Up (PG, 89 minutes) Disney-Pixar’s latest is the 3D animated tale of an old geezer (voiced by Ed Asner) who decides to leave city living behind by tying many balloons to his house and floating away from it all. Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger, Delroy Lindo and Jordan Nagai co-star. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
