If you aren’t too busy tailgating now that football is back, you might want to check out one of the new movies opening up this weekend.
It may sound like sacrilege to the many Twihards out there, but lots of people out there (ahem, like us) simply don’t get the devotion the ‘Twilight’ books and movies have inspired.
To us, they’re just weird — comprising nothing more than one giant homage to a love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name until after marriage, and then insisting on having the baby when you get knocked up even though, oh yeah, it could kill you. And besides, why did Bella pick the pasty vampire anyway when Taylor Lautner is obviously so much hotter?
‘Point Break,’ Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 caper flick boasted Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves and Gary Busey, all at the heights of their ass-kicking powers, plus surfing, skydiving, bank-robbing and other assorted dare-deviling. In other words, it was one extreme flick.
Nevertheless, Warner Brothers is planning to remake the film and try to make it even more exciting, by setting the tale of FBI infiltration of a criminal gang in the world of extreme sports.
Moviegoers this weekend will have a choice of three new films in wide release.
In ‘Contagion,’ Matt Damon fights a viral epidemic that could endanger the entire planet, while the title character in ‘Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star‘ learns his parents were once porn-stars and abandons his small town life to follow in their footsteps. Finally, ‘Warrior‘ sees two
Three very different films will bow this weekend in theaters nationwide.
The sci-fi/fantasy thriller ‘Apollo 18‘ uses a faux-documentary style to explore a covert trip to the moon that reveals disturbing new life forms, while Helen Mirren’s ‘The Debt‘ sees three former Mossad agents haunted by a dangerous secret mission from 30 years prior, and horror-flick ‘Shark Night 3D‘ features seven vacationers — most of whom will presumably become food — encountering shark-infested waters.
Who says you can’t go home? Not Stifler, his mom, Jim, Finch, Oz, Jim’s dad and the rest of the ‘American Pie’ crew, who are back for ‘American Reunion,’ supposedly the final film in the ‘Pie’ franchise after three theatrical releases and four direct-to-DVD spinoffs.
The film’s first teaser trailer dropped today and it doesn’t reveal much — just a collection of photobooth shots of the gang reunited at their high school reunion. How come the people at our reunions didn’t age this well?
Looks like everyone’s favorite singleton, Bridget Jones, is returning to the silver screen for a third time.
Novelist Helen Fielding, whose popular protagonist from the best-selling books ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ and ‘Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason’ and the successful films of the same name, reportedly began writing the third installment earlier this year, but said, “I will be working on both the book and the film but I don’t know if they are the same thing yet. It’s not been decided.”
Aside from voiceover work in the ‘Shrek’ franchise, the last time Mike Myers headlined on the big screen was in 2008′s disastrous box-office and critical flop, ‘The Love Guru.’
Now, the ‘Saturday Night Live’ alum is going back to the tried and true. He’s signed on to reprise the randy, dental-hygienically-challenged British spy Austin Powers in a fourth installment of the movie series.
In what has ironically turned out to be the franchise that just won’t die, ‘Final Destination 5′ opens in theaters Friday, promising more gore, more violence and, yes, more death.
If you’re sick of the franchise, or if you just prefer something lighter, there are two comedies brand-new to choose from this weekend. One is the R-Rated ’30 Minutes or Less,’ which re-teams Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg (‘The Social Network’) with his ‘Zombieland’ director, Ruben Fleischer, in this flick about a bank robbery gone horribly wrong.
Or, if you’re feeling a bit more musically inclined, there’s always ‘Glee Live! 3-D!’, the latest incarnation from Fox’s uber-successful TV series.
Disney is planning to remake the 1937 classic animated feature, ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarves’ with a serious twist: the gentle dwarves will be reimagined as 19th-century ninjas.
Lately, it seems Hollywood is happier living in the past than in the future, what with remakes of films like ‘Footloose’ and squeezing every last drop of nostalgia out of comic book superheroes.
Now you can add another to the list — it’s been confirmed that ‘Dirty Dancing,’ the 1987 film that made household names of its stars Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, is getting a reboot, as well.
Though it's hard to believe it, summer is just about over. Which means it's time to get the kids ready to go back to school.
And what better way to do that than by showing them a couple of movies?
We've compiled a list of our five favorite movies about high school, movies that explore the good, the bad and the ugly of what may or may not have been the best years of our lives.
Check them out below.
