Movies playing in town this week

(500) Days of Summer (PG-13, 95 minutes) Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel are a starry-eyed odd couple who go through a narratively chopped break-up. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6

9 (PG-13, 79 minutes) Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6

Adam (PG-13, 99 minutes) The titular character (Hugh Dancy) tries to communicate his affections for a neighbor while struggling with Asperger’s Syndrome. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6

All About Steve
(PG-13, 98 minutes) After their one blind date together, a nutty crossword puzzle designer (Sandra Bullock) stalks a TV news cameraman (Bradley Cooper) who’s just not that into her. Thomas Haden Church, as the cameraman’s on-air reporter pal, intervenes. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
(PG, 81 minutes) An animated adaptation of the popular children’s book by Judi and Ron Barrett, in which all sorts of food falls from the sky. With the voices of James Caan, Anna Faris, Bill Hader, Neil Patrick Harris, Andy Samberg and Mr. T. Opening Friday

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. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4

Extract (R, 90 minutes) Jason Bateman plays a fellow who lets his shifty bartender (Ben Affleck) talk him into hiring a gigolo for his wife, to test her fidelity. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 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 Regal Downtown Mall 6

Gamer (R, 105 minutes) In the not-so-distant, not-so-pleasant future, mind-control technology has turned the world into a big MMORPG full of first-person shooters. Gerard Butler is one of them. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6

Halloween II (R, 101 minutes) Rob Zombie reimagines the classic horror film sequel—arguably the scariest/best in the series—in which Michael Meyers returns home to kill his sister. Malcolm MacDowell co-stars. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6

Inglourious Basterds
(R, 153 minutes) Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) and a band of Jewish military renegades (including Eli Roth, B.J. Novak and Samm Levine) put a pretty gruesome hurting on Nazis. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6

Jennifer’s Body (R, 102 minutes) In this teen fantasy thriller written by Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody, a hottie high-school cheerleader (Megan Fox) becomes possessed and goes on a killing spree. Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody and J.K. Simmons co-star. Opening Friday

Julie & Julia (PG-13, 123 minutes) A movie about a cookbook and a memoir. Like, totally metatextual! Amy Adams and Meryl Streep star, Nora Ephron directs…do they cook? Playing at Carmike Cinema 6

Love Happens (PG-13, 109 minutes) In this romantic comedy-drama, Aaron Eckhart plays a self-help author who needs some help of his own—from Jennifer Aniston. Opening Friday

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. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6

Sorority Row (R, 100 minutes) In this remake of the 1983 slasher cult classic, a sorority prank gone wrong leaves one girl dead and five others sworn to secrecy—at least until someone starts hunting them down. Starring the daughters of Bruce Willis and Greg Evigan, along with a few other girls, and Carrie Fisher. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6

Summer Hours (NR, 102 minutes) Three siblings must divide their mother’s worldly possessions after her death. Playing at Vinegar Hill Theatre

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. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6

Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself (PG-13, 113 minutes) The latest self-adapted screen version of Perry’s own play—about teenaged delinquents coming to terms with their family—stars Taraji P. Hensen, Mary J. Blige, Gladys Knight and, of course, Tyler Perry. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4

Whiteout (R, 101 minutes) Greg Rucka’s graphic novel comes to the big screen, with Kate Beckinsale as a U.S. marshal tracking a killer through the tundra of Antarctica. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6