Now we get to the good stuff! Burn After Reading, Towelhead, and Flow: For Love of Water are all influential, smart and amazing films for you to go out and see this weekend.

Burn After Reading is s new film by the Coen Brothers with John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, and Richard Jenkins. How could you go wrong? Then there is Alan Ball’s new film, Towelhead, a dark comedy with Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello, Peter Macdissi and Summer Bishi’s. This film deals with with some dark issues but like American Beauty and “Six Feet Under” it does so with a twist of humor. Then you have one of the highest recommended documentaries of the year, Flow: For Love of Water, which talks about how companies are capitalizing and destroying our water supply which is running out!

If none of those get you going, there are also three completely different films, The Family That Preys, Righteous Kill, and The Women opening this week. Whether you’re into drama, action, or female bonding, there is something for you.

So here they are, this week’s film releases with cast and crew information, reviews, show times and tickets, and trailers! Enjoy…

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Well I guess Cage is still enough to get a film to number one I guess. Enough to knock Tropic Thunder from it’s 3 week run at the number one spot. Here is your weekend’s top ten…

1. Bangkok Dangerous | $7,800,000 | $7,800,000
2. Tropic Thunder | $7,500,000 | $96,811,000
3. The House Bunny | $5,900,000 | $36,999,000
4. The Dark Knight | $5,715,000 | $512,198,000
5. Traitor | $4,660,000 | $17,651,575
6. Babylon A.D. | $4,000,000 | $17,197,966
7. Death Race | $3,594,540 | $29,792,750
8. Disaster Movie | $3,300,000 | $10,870,000
9. Mamma Mia! | $2,713,200 | $136,297,305
10. The Pineapple Express | $2,400,000 | 84,158,000

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Nicolas Cage

“I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.” ~ Nicolas Cage

• Year Born:  1964
• Age:  44
• Times Married:  3
• # of Kids: 2
• Height in Meters:  1.83m
• Size of his personal island:  40 acres
• Year of first film:  1981
• Films Cage has appeared in to date:  61
• Acting Awards Won: over 20, yo.
• Year of Best Actor Oscar (For Leaving Las Vegas):  1995
• Worldwide Box Office Gross of National Treasure:  $347,512,149

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Apparently everyone has run out of films to releases. Big and small. We’ve got two films to pick from. One is about a hitman with Nicolas Cage, Bangkok Dangerous. The catch phrase for this movie is “Nothing is deadlier… than a hitman… that hits back.” I guess what my problem is, is that we’re not seeing anything new. You have the rules, then you break the rules, and the love interest that you shouldn’t have. At least Wanted tried to do something new with the genre, this just looks like I’ve seen it before. Then you have Everybody Wants to Be Italian, where the slogan is quite literally the title. I’ll let you be the judge.

Here are this week’s film releases with cast and crew information, reviews, show times and tickets, and trailers! Enjoy…

• Bangkok Dangerous | Reviews | Showtimes and Tickets
  
• Everybody Wants to Be Italian | Reviews | Showtimes and Tickets

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   Tropic Thunder | Weekend Gross $11,500,000 | Total Gross $83,834,000

2. Babylon A.D. (New) | Weekend Gross $9,700,000 | Total Gross $9,700,000
3. The Dark Knight | Weekend Gross $8,750,000 | Total Gross $502,421,000
4. The House Bunny | Weekend Gross $8,300,000 | Total Gross $27,851,000
5. Traitor (New) | Weekend Gross $7,900,000 | Total Gross $9,401,327
6. Death Race | Weekend Gross $6,228,335 | Total Gross $23,077,865
7. Disaster Movie (New) | Weekend Gross $6,170,000 | Total Gross $6,170,000
8. Mamma Mia! | Weekend Gross $4,418,160 | Total Gross $131,508,840
9. The Pineapple Express | Weekend Gross $3,500,000 | Total Gross $79,883,000
10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Weekend Gross $3,003,000 | Total Gross $12,786,911

The good thing is last week had so many great releases you could not have seen them all yet! (I’m working on my back-handed compliments, how is it going?) Although this week may look like slim pickings I have a feeling there are goodies that have yet to be exploited.

I would recommend Traitor, it definitely stands out among the rest as a solid film with two amazing actors leading it (featured right). Or maybe you prefer a western for those who love kung foo? Then check out Sukiyaki Western Django. There was no way Tarantino could resist that. Ballet Shoes has Emma Watson (Aka Hermione) and was released in 2007 as a TV film which makes me a bit nervous, but it definitely has potential! As for Babylon A.D., Disaster Movie, and College, I know they have built in audiences that will love them, they’re just not quite my thing.

So here they are, this week’s film releases with cast and crew information, reviews, show times and tickets, and trailers! Enjoy…

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Bring on the comedies! Big, small, bring them all! This weekend you have a TON of new comedies to choose from. From Hamlet 2 with Hamlet and… Jesus? The House Bunny with plenty slightly inappropriate and funny jokes. The Rocker, has Rainn Wilson as a washed up old drummer playing high school gigs. Done, sold. The Longshots, a story about a GIRL playing football, oh come now. For some educated/food humor I Served the King of England is getting great reviews. I.O.U.S.A., well the joke is kind of on us. I think this is a film everyone HAS to see. Sadly, only the people who already understand these problems will go see it, but one can still hope. Then out “serious” film of the week, Death Race, I’m sure you got some SERIOUS explosions in this.

So here they are, this week’s film releases with cast and crew information, reviews, showtimes and tickets, and trailers! Enjoy…

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Everyone has them. You know, those movies that you secretly love. The ones you would never own (or admit to owning) but you know every word to. When they come on cable on a lazy Sunday afternoon, you can’t help but let out a squeal of delight because you know you’re going to watch the whole darn thing. These films never make the cut for the “Movies I Like” section of your Facebook page. Too embarrassing. But, love them you do. Scandalously! They are your Guilty Cinematic Pleasures!

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Dark Knight finally falls to number two! Who was the taker? Tropic Thunder! Oh yeah baby. It’s also nice to see a Star Wars film come out and NOT take the #1 spot. Here it is your weekend at the box office!

1. Tropic Thunder (New) | Paramount Pictures | Weekend Gross $26,000,000 | Total Gross $37,033,000
2. The Dark Knight | Warner Bros. | Weekend Gross $16,790,000 | Total Gross $471,493,000
3. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (New) | Warner Bros. | Weekend Gross $15,505,000 | Total Gross $15,505,000
4. Mirrors (New) | 20th Century Fox | Weekend Gross $11,125,000 | Total Gross $11,125,000
5. The Pineapple Express | Sony Pictures | Weekend Gross $10,000,000 | Total Gross $62,932,000
6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | Universal | Weekend Gross $8,609,280 | Total Gross $86,649,335
7. Mamma Mia! | Universal | Weekend Gross $6,497,995 | Total Gross $116,415,460
8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 | Warner Bros. | Weekend Gross $5,930,000 | Total Gross $32,147,000
9. Step Brothers | Sony Pictures | Weekend Gross $5,000,000 | Total Gross $90,888,000
10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Weinstein Co. | Weekend Gross $3,710,000 | Total Gross $3,710,000

Arclight Hollywood:

• Wed 20 at 8.00: Annie Hall (1977)

Perhaps the primary reason why Woody Allen is actually a significant film-maker, before he started marrying his children and making shit movies. So good you can watch it twice in a row. Brilliant, neurotic, truthful comedy from start to finish, adorned with kooky Diane Keaton (when she too was actually funny), more one-liners (Jeff Goldblum: “I forgot my mantra”) and perfect comedy vignettes than one could imagine possible, sprinkled with awesome cameos (was Christopher Walken ever actually creepier?) and all totally personal. If by any chance you’ve not seen it you must do so immediately.

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There are a LOT of potentially really good films to pick from this week and then are a few others that I know I’ll be passing on. I personally recommend Tropic Thunder. Unlike, PIneapple Express it’s not a requirment to be stoned, merely a suggestion. If you want a sexy, interesting, indie flick, you’ve got Vicky Cristina Barcelona or The Girl Cut in Two. Both have pretty ladies, weird sex and insane love. Henry Poole Is Here looks like it may be great as long as it doesn’t get too preachy. All the teens on summer break who might FINALLY be starting to get over Dark Knight will enjoy Mirrors, a good creepy horror film. As for, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, I couldn’t even make it through the trailer. I just never caught that bug. I think is you’re going for animation, go for Fly Me to the Moon 3. It is a bit off they’re both opening the same weekend, no?

So there they are! This week’s movie releases with showtimes and tickets, reviews, cast and crew info, and of course, TRAILERS! Also, check out our Tropic Thunder red carpet coverage.

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“These are great days we’re living, bros. We are jolly green giants, walking the Earth with guns. These people we wasted here today are the finest human beings we will ever know. After we rotate back to the world, we’re gonna miss not having anyone around that’s worth shooting.”

Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 “Full Metal Jacket” is definitely worth checking out this summer because this masterpiece has got it all. You want violence, racism, wit, sexism, politics, suspense, hope, and more? As always, Kubrick never fails to deliver.

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