Movies This Week: March, 19, 2010

Movies premiering this week feature witches, bounty hunters, rock stars and time machines; so it goes without saying that there’s a little something for everyone. And maybe I’m speaking too soon, but it looks like there are more hits than misses for a change. So check out our reviews,  order up your extra-large bucket of popcorn, and get ready to wildly  entertained.

The Bounty Hunter

Gerard Butler (Law Abiding Citizen, Gamer) stars  as a bounty hunter (just like Dog!) whose next target is his ex-wife/reporter, Jennifer Aniston.  After he tracks her down, he finds that everything isn’t going to be as easy as he thought, and the couple end up running for their lives.  I don’t want to spoil the ending, but let me just take a wild guess that these two cooky ex’s end up getting back together.

Season Of The Witch

Nicolas Cage and his receding hairline return to the big screen in this medieval tale of witches and crusaders. Cage and his companion, Ron “Hellboy” Pearlman are tasked with transporting a witch, who is allegedly responsible for the black plague, to an abbey where her powers can be destroyed. Now if only we could figure out how to destroy Cage. He’s the aging action star that just keeps going and going and going…

The Runaways

Based on lead singer Cherie Currie’s book, Neon Angel, The Runaways is a film about the band of the same name and their 2 year journey from up and coming rock stars to burn-outs. It’s based on a true story and stars Dakota Fanning as Cherie and Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett. Rumor has it that this movie will have men across the country starting their countdown until Dakota’s 18th birthday.

Repo Men

This movie is set in the future where artificial organs are available as long as you sign a credit agreement. Here’s the catch (for all you alcoholics out there thinking it would be great to get a new liver),  if you don’t keep up with the payments, a repo man is sent to reclaim the organ. Everything changes for one of the repo men (Jude Law) when he gets an artificial heart and ends up on the run from his former co-workers.

Hot Tub Time Machine

Ridiculous plot line alert!  Four friends become disillusioned with their boring lives and while on a crazy, alcohol fueled night out, they get transported back to the year 1986 by, you guessed it, a hot tub. This is their chance to right the wrongs of their lives, and for one of the men, make sure he still exists! The star-studded comedy cast ( John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Lizzy Caplan and Crispin Glover) combined with the sheer idiocy of the plot means it will definitely break box office records and go on to become a cult classic.

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

Based on an online comic and a series of best selling books, Diary of a Wimpy Kid tells the story of a wise cracking middle school student as he struggles to avoid social land mines with a variety of  schemes. For a family movie, this actually looks pretty funny in a Napoleon Dynamite kind of way. And by Napoleon Dynamite kind of way, we mean that you should grab your 9-year-old nephew, get him high, and take him to see the best movie of his young life.

City Island

Set on the outskirts of New York, City Island is a comedy drama about a chain reaction of events stemming from various family member’s secrets. Andy Garcia plays the dad, who works as a corrections officer, but dreams of being an actor. It looks pretty bad and we would recommend staying in this weekend over paying money to see this one.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

A poorly regarded journalist and a strange computer hacker team up to solve a 40-year-old murder case –only to find that their investigation is putting their own lives in danger. The wealthy clan at the center of their investigation are a tightly knit community that will do anything to protect their secrets. Sounds intriguing. We might go just to see exactly where this dragon tattoo is located.