Wednesday, May 23, 2012

This week's movie picks are 'Men in Black 3' and 'The Woman in Black'

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 week include:

Chernobyl Diaries (Horror, Suspense, R): Directed by Bradley Parker and starring Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Nathan Phillips and Ingrid Bolson Berdal.

Cowgirls n’ Angels (Family, PG): Directed by Timothy Armstrong and starring Bailee Madison, James Cromwell, Jackson Rathbone, Alicia Witt and Kathleen Rose Perkins.

The Intouchables (Comedy, Drama): Directed by Eric Toledano and starring Omar Sy, Francois Cluzet, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot and Clotilde Mollet.

Men in Black 3 (Comedy, Science Fiction, PG-13): Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Emma Thompson and Alice Eve.

Mighty Fine (Comedy, Drama, R): Directed by Debbie Goodstein and starring Chazz Palminteri, Andie MacDowell, Jodelle Ferland, Rainey Qualley and Paul Ben-Victor.

Moonrise Kingdom (Romance, Comedy, PG-13): Directed by Wes Anderson and starring Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray and Frances McDormand.

OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger’s Movie (Documentary, Not Rated): Directed by Glenn Holsten, Bud Clayman and Scott Johnston and starring Bud Clayman.

New DVD releases for the week of May 22 include:

Beyond (Suspense, Action, PG-13): Directed by Josef Rusnak and starring Jon Voight, Teri Polo, Dermot Mulroney, Brett Baker and Julian Morris.

Black Cobra (Action, R): Directed by Scott Donovan and Lilly Melgar and starring Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, T.J. Storm, Jeff Wolfe and Michael Chiny Amurandi.

Certified Copy (Drama, Note Rated): Directed by Abbas Kiarostami and starring Juliette Binoche, Jean-Claude Carrier, Agathe Natanson and William Shimell.

Newlyweds (Comedy, Drama, Not Rated): Directed by Edward Burns and starring Edward Burns, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Kerry Bishe, Marsha Dietlein Bennett and Max Baker.

Perfect Sense (Romance, Drama, R): Directed by David Mackenzie and starring Ewan McGregor, Evan Green, Connie Nielsen, Stephen Dillane and Ewen Bremner.

Red Tails (Action, War, PG-13): Directed by Anthony Hemingway and starring Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bryan Cranston, Tristan Wilds and Lee Tergesen.

The Secret World of Arrietty (Family, Fantasy, G): Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and starring the voices of Bridgit Mendler, David Henrie, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett and Carol Burnett.

This Means War (Action, Comedy, PG-13): Directed by McG and starring Tom Hardy, Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, Til Schweiger and Chelsea Handler.

United (Drama, Sports, PG-13): Directed by James Strong and starring Jack O’Connell, David Tennant and Dougray Scott.

The Woman in Black (Horror, Suspense, PG-13): Directed by James Watkins and starring Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Janet McTeer, Shaun Dooley and Alisa Khazanova.

If I could only watch one movie at the theatre this week, it would be “Men in Black 3,” and if I had to pick just one DVD to rent this week, it would be “The Woman in Black.”

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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