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In Theatres

Your monthly guide to new releases


By Ingrid Randoja

July 2 

KIT KITTREDGE: AN AMERICAN GIRL (pictured above)

While other 12-year-old girls are playing Lucy in Grade Eight productions of You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Abigail Breslin is appearing in her third film of the year (she already has Definitely, Maybe and Nim’s Island under her belt). Set during the Great Depression, and based on the line of American Girls dolls and books, this family drama finds Kit Kittredge (Breslin) trying to become a newspaper reporter to help her financially strapped family. This is Canadian director Patricia Rozema’s first feature film since 1999’s Mansfield Park.

 

HANCOCK

Will Smith is Hancock, a bitter, alcoholic superhero who leaves a trail of destruction every time he gets off his lazy butt to save the day. Enter a PR guy (Jason Bateman) who sets out to retool Hancock’s image. See Will Smith interview.

 

July 3

BRICK LANE

Based on Monica Ali’s acclaimed novel, this British drama focuses on Nazneen (Tannishtha Chatterjee), who leaves her family in Bangladesh to move to East London and marry an older man. For 20 years she’s raised a family and put her own desires and dreams aside, but that all changes when she meets the charismatic Karim (Christopher Simpson).

 

July 11

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH 3D

Don’t be embarrassed if you find yourself swatting away prehistoric bugs or ducking falling boulders while watching this digital 3D re-imagining of Jules Verne’s classic tale. Brendan Fraser, Anita Briem and Josh Hutcherson are the three travellers who journey deep inside the Earth’s core and stumble upon a strange world. Director Eric Brevig shot the film using both 3D and regular cameras, so audiences can see the movie in either format.

 

MEET DAVE

A crew of tiny aliens arrives on Earth in a ship disguised to look like a human, in fact it looks exactly like the ship’s captain, Dave (Eddie Murphy). Learning to make sense of human behaviour becomes Dave the ship’s biggest priority, especially when a single mom (Elizabeth Banks) falls for him/it.

 

HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY

He loves cats, Baby Ruth candy bars and just happens to be the spawn of Satan. Hellboy (Ron Perlman) returns in this sequel that pits the big red monster and his team from the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense against Nuada, the nasty Prince of Elves, who raises the robotic Golden Army in order to attack mankind. See Ron Perlman interview.

 

THE WACKNESS

A drug-dealing teenager named Luke (Josh Peck) becomes buddies with his erratic, pot-smoking therapist (Ben Kingsley), and falls in love with the good doctor’s stepdaughter (Juno’s Olivia Thirlby).

 

July 18

SPACE CHIMPS

HAM III (voiced by Andy Samberg) is the grandson of HAM, the first chimp launched into space by NASA, back in 1961. Although HAM III is happy performing in a circus, when NASA (and an opportunistic senator) call on him and two other simians — LUNA (Cheryl Hines) and TITAN (Patrick Warburton) — to blast off into space and track down a wayward probe that’s disappeared inside a wormhole, he responds to the challenge.

 

MAMMA MIA!

The hit Broadway show built around chart-topping ABBA tunes is finally transformed into a big-screen musical. Amanda Seyfried stars as Sophie, a young woman who is about to get married on her Greek island home. She doesn’t know who her father is, but she does know  the three possible candidates — Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgård — and secretly invites them to her wedding, to the chagrin of her mother (Meryl Streep). See Amanda Seyfried interview. 

 

LOU REED’S BERLIN

In 2006, rocker Lou Reed performed Berlin — his heralded 1973 concept album — live over five nights at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York. Artist/filmmaker Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) was there to document the singular event.

 

THE DARK KNIGHT

Is it morbid to want to see Heath Ledger’s tortured turn as Batman’s (Christian Bale) arch-enemy, The Joker, in this sequel to Batman Begins? There are, of course, other reasons to see the flick, beginning with Bale’s brooding, despondent portrayal of Batman, and the chance to see newcomers Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent/Two-Face and Maggie Gyllenhaal as a more sophisticated Rachel Dawes (she replaces Katie Holmes). See Christian Bale and Heath Ledger interviews.

 

July 25

X FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE

FBI agents Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Mulder (David Duchovny) are back — and looking pretty much the way they did when we last saw them — searching for the elusive “truth” that is “out there” somewhere. The plot is a heavily guarded secret, but unless we’ve really been thrown off by director Chris Carter’s subterfuge, expect it to involve the disappearance of young women in rural Virginia, secret medical experiments and a shady priest.

 

STEP BROTHERS

When Brennan’s (Will Ferrell) mom and Dale’s (John C. Reilly) dad get hitched, the two adult losers become step brothers. At first they hate each other, but soon realize their shared adolescent personalities make them BFFs. Director Adam McKay gets behind the camera for the boys-will-be-boys comedy, his third with Ferrell after Anchorman and Talladega Nights.

 

THE LONGSHOTS

Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst directs this based-on-a-true-story sports flick about 11-year-old Jasmine Plummer (Keke Palmer), the first girl to play in a Pop Warner football league tournament. And not only does she play, she’s her team’s quarterback, who gets some extra coaching from her Uncle Curtis (Ice Cube), a former high school football star. 

 

SPECIAL EVENTS ON THE BIG SCREEN

WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW

Great American Bash
July 20: Stars from Raw, SmackDown and ECW gather for their annual rumble inside the ropes.

Go to Cineplex.com for participating theatres and to buy tickets.


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