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OPENING THIS WEEK: Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun
For movies opening April 6, 2007
BIG BUDGET FILMS
Are We Done Yet? (PG for sexual innuendo and brief profanity) Ice Cube and Nia Long reprise their roles in this sequel to Are We There Yet? Now newlyweds, the couple gets grief, not from her kids (Aleisha Allen and Philip Bolden), but from a shady contractor (John C. McGinley) whose shady shenanigans threaten to ruin their plans for a dream home.
Firehouse Dog (PG for peril, crude humor and salty language) Heartwarming family comedy about the adventures of Hollywood's highest-grossing canine star, Rex, a pampered pooch who gets lost and ends up in a dilapidated, inner city firehouse where he befriends the 12 year-old son (Josh Hutcherson) of the Captain (Bruce Greenwood). Cast includes Bill Nunn, Bree Turner and Scotch Ellis Loring.
Grindhouse (Unrated) Double-feature of horror flicks directed by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, designed as an homage to the B-movies from the Fifties. Tarantino's Death Proof features a psycho stuntman (Kurt Russell) who runs down attractive women with his skull-emblazoned muscle car, while Rodriguez's Planet Terror revolves around the effort of a band of survivors, led by a gun-legged go-go dancer (Rose McGowan), to save the planet from an army of mutated zombies.
The Hoax (R for profanity) Fact-based drama about the exploits of Clifford Irving (Richard Gere) adapted from the screenplay of the same name by William Wheeler, chronicling the shameless author's attempt to publish a bogus biography of Howard Hughes (Milton Buras), forcing the eccentric, painfully-reclusive billionaire to emerge from his den of solitude to denounce the book as an absolute fraud.
The Reaping (Unrated) Faith-based flick features Hilary Swank as an ex-missionary who abandons Christianity after the death of her parents for a new career as an expert proving the scientific explanation of religious phenomena. But the heathen has to reconsider her embracing of atheism when she can't explain the Biblical plagues suddenly being visited upon Louisiana.
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS
Black Book (R for sexuality, profanity, gruesome violence, and graphic
nudity) Paul Verhoeven directs this WWII bio-pic based on the real-life exploits of Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten), a once-wealthy, Dutch Jewish singer who joined the Resistance to track down and exact revenge on the Nazis responsible for the slaughter of her family in the Holocaust. (In Dutch, German, Hebrew and English with subtitles)
Duck (PG-13 for brief profanity) Unlikely buddy drama, set in 2009, about the friendship forged between a duck named Joe and a grieving senior citizen (Philip Baker Hall) trying to make sense of his life while surviving on the mean streets of L.A. Ensemble cast includes Bill Cobbs, French Stewart and Nikki Crawford.
The TV Set (R for profanity) Wry comedy chronicles the plight of a screenwriter (David Duchovny) trying to stay true to his artistic vision after his script for a TV sitcom gets greenlighted by a studio that already wants him to tweak the storyline for the pilot. With Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd and Philip Baker Hall.
Whole New Thing (Unrated) Coming-of-age tale, set in Nova Scotia, chronicles an androgynous, sexually-adventurous, 13 year-old's (Aaron Webber) awkward adjust to the 9th grade after having been home-schooled by his hippie parents (Robert Joy and Rebecca Jenkins) all his life.
