It’s Wednesday, so today I give you my weekly list of movies that will open in theatres this week as well as a list of movies that will be released this week on DVD.I hope this will serve as a useful guide as to what’s going on this week if you happen to be near a movie theatre or if you’re looking for something to drop into your NetFlix queue.
Movies that are scheduled to hit theatres this Friday include:
Biutiful (R, Drama): Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and starring Javier Bardem, Maricel Alvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib and Guillermo Estrella.
From Prada to Nada (PG-13, Romance): Directed by Angel Gracia and starring Camilla Belle, Alexa Vega, Wilmer Valderrama, Nicholas D’Agosto and April Bowlby.
Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster (R, Action): Directed by Wilson Yip and starring Donnie Yen, Lynn Hung, Simon Yam, Sammo Hung and Darren Shahlavi.
Kaboom (Not Rated, Comedy, Horror, Thriller): Directed by Gregg Araki and starring Thomas Dekkler, Haley Bennett, Chris Zylka, Roxane Mesquida and Juno Temple.
The Mechanic (R, Action): Directed by Simon West and starring Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland, Christa Campbell, Jeff Chase and Liam Ferguson.
The Rite (PG-13, Drama, Thriller): Directed by Mikael Hafstrom and starring Anthony Hopkins, Ciaran Hinds, Alice Braga, Toby Jones and Colin O’Donoghue.
New DVD releases for the week of Jan. 25 include:
Adventures of Power (PG-13, Comedy): Directed by Ari Gold and starring Gold, Michael McKean, Adrian Grenier, Richard Fancy, Jane Lynch, Shoshannah Stern, Nick Kroll, Annie Golden and Steven Williams.
Client 9: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer (R, Documentary, Special Interest): Directed by Alex Gibney and starring Eliot Spitzer.
Enter the Void (Not Rated, Suspense, Drama): Directed by Gaspar Noe and starring Paz de la Huerta, Nathaniel Brown, Cyril Roy, Emily Alyn Lind and Jesse Kuhn.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (R, Action, Mystery): Directed by Daniel Alfredson and starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Annika Hallin, Jacob Erickson, Sofia Ledarp and Georgi Staykov.
Like Dandelion Dust (PG-13, Drama): Directed by Jon Gunn and starring Mira Sorvino, Barry Pepper, Cole Hauser, Kate Levering, Maxwell Perry Cotton, L. Scott Caldwell, Abby Brammell, Kirk B.R. Woller, Brett Rice, Brooke Bryan, Blake Michael Bryan and Rus Blackwell.
Nowhere Boy (R, Drama): Directed by Sam Taylor Wood and starring Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff, Thomas Sangster, David Morrissey and Sam Bell.
Open Season 3 (PG, Family, Comedy): Directed by Cody Cameron and starring voices by Crispin Glover, Fred Stoller, Georgia Engel, Steve Schirripa, Cody Cameron, Dana Snyder, Matt Munn, Matt Taylor, Melissa Sturm, Andre Sugliozzo and Sean Mullen.
Red (PG-13, Action, Comedy): Directed by Robert Schwentke and starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, John Malkovich, Julian McMahon, Richard Dreyfuss, Michelle Nolden, James Remar, Brian Cox and Ernest Borgnine.
Red Hill (R, Drama): Directed by Patrick Hughes and starring Steve Bisley, Kevin Harrington, Jennifer Jarman-Walker, Ryan Kwanten, Tommy Lewis and Claire van der Boom.
Saw: The Final Chapter (R, Horror): Directed by David Hackl and starring Tobin Bell, Cary Elwes, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Sean Patrick Flanery, Gina Holden, Rebecca Marshall, Chad Donella, Anne Greene, Jon Cor, James Van Patten and Laurence Anthony.
Secretariat (PG, Family, Drama): Directed by Randall Wallace and starring Diane Lane, Scott Glenn, Dylan Walsh, Fred Dalton Thompson, James Cromwell, Kevin Connolly, Amanda Michalka, Sean Michael Cunningham, Eric Lang and John Malkovich.
If I could only watch one movie at the theatre this week, it would be “The Rite,” and if I had to pick just one DVD to rent this week, it would be “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.”
In the end, let me know if you get a chance to watch any of the new movies in theatres this week or if you’ve already seen any of the movies that have just been released on DVD. What did you think about them? Which would you recommend? Let us know in the comments section below.
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