In Movie Theaters the Week of
May 8th, 200611 films are being released this week
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Rated: NONE
Xavier, the hero of "L'Auberge Espagnole," is off on yet another adventure. This time he's hopping back and forth between Paris, London and Saint Petersburg, jumping in and out of bed again with lots and lots of women. |
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Rated: NONE
Summer 1991. Glasnost. Perestroika. The Soviet Union opens its doors to the West. In New York, a troupe of young actors from the La Mama theater in New York gather to participate in the first American/Ukrainian cultural exchange theater project in history. As an actress in the theater group, American filmmaker Amy Grappell brought along a cinematographer to document this historic cultural exchange. |
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Rated: PG-13
When a rogue wave capsizes a luxury cruise ship in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, a small group of survivors find themselves unlikely allies in a battle for their lives. Preferring to test the odds alone, career gambler John Dylan (Josh Lucas) ignores captain’s orders (Andre Braugher) to wait below for possible rescue and sets out to find his own way to safety. What begins as a solo mission soon draws others as Dylan is followed by a desperate father (Kurt Russell) searching for his daughter (Emmy Rossum) and her fiancé (Mike Vogel), a young couple who hours before couldn’t summon the courage to tell him they were engaged and now face much graver challenges. Along the way they are joined by a single mother (Jacinda Barrett) and her wise-beyond-his-years son (Jimmy Bennett), an anxious stowaway (Mia Maestro) and a despondent fellow passenger (Richard Dreyfuss) who boarded the ship not sure he wanted to live but now knows he doesn’t want to die. Determined to fight their way to the surface, the group sets off through the disorienting maze of twisted steel in the upside-down wreckage. As the unstable vessel rapidly fills with water each must draw on skills and strengths they didn’t even know they possessed, fighting against time for their own survival and for each other. |
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Rated: PG-13
Lindsay Lohan ("Mean Girls") stars in this comedy about a lucky woman who accidentally swaps her good fortune for a stranger's (Chris Pine) chronic misfortune. She plots against the guy to reverse her newly jinxed existence – until she finds herself falling for him. |
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Rated: PG
Mexican actor Becker stars in the rags to riches story of a young Latino player who journies from the Barrios of East LA to the glamour of the English Premier league to try and win a contract with Newcastle United. |
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Rated: PG-13
A 13-year-old boy uses his upcoming bar mitzvah to reconcile the strained relationship between his father and grandfather. |
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Rated: PG-13
A look at the life and work of the renown architect. |
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Rated: NONE
A disaffected soldier (Considine) returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother (Kebbell) years ago. |
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Rated: R
"Wah-Wah" is a semi-autobiographical 'coming of age at the end of an Age' story, told through the eyes of young Ralph Compton. Set during the last gasp of the British Empire in Swaziland, South East Africa, in 1969, the plot focuses on the dysfunctional Compton family whose gradual disintegration mirrors the end of British rule. |
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Rated: PG
Sixth-grader Marty and his family attempt to help Shiloh's previous owner, Judd Travers, redeem himself after a near-fatal truck accident depicted in "Shiloh Season" (the second book and movie). Marty and his family give Judd the benefit of the doubt, believing that he can change his evil ways, but the rest of the community is convinced that Judd can never change. Hoping to save Judd's other dogs the way he saved Shiloh, Marty begins helping Judd care for the animals. However, when Judd is suspected of murdering a man who has disappeared, Marty fears he has put himself, and Shiloh, in a dangerous situation. |
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Rated: NONE
On September 10, 2001, Rudy Giuliani was a lame-duck mayor, stung by the public dissolution of his marriage, accusations of playing racial politics, and a growing resistance to his combative style. The next day, his reassuring demeanor during one of the city's worst tragedies catapulted him to the status of international hero, "America's Mayor." But what was it like to live in New York during Giuliani time? Was Giuliani truly responsible for the decline in crime in the '90s? Here is a meticulously researched, trenchant portrait of the pre-9/11 politician, based partly upon dramatic revelations from Wayne Barrett's Rudy! An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani: his deportation of Haitian boat people, his fight against organized crime in the '80s; and as mayor, his zero tolerance for petty crimes; his handling of the Diallo and Louima cases; his attacks on "welfare cheats" (while dressed as the Lion King); his dubious attempts at art criticism. Giuliani's defenders have their say as well, championing the "broken windows" policy popularized by the Mayor. |
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