Unfortunately, this week is fairly devoid of any kind of big-name release, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few diamonds-in-the-rough. Read on for the releases I’m most looking forward to this week. Chocolate (2008) :: Chocolate is a Thai martial arts movie that centers around a small autistic girl named Zen. One of the […]

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist :: Well, this isn’t the top movie releasing this week, but it’s my favorite because I love Michael Cera.  I think he’s a very funny actor, and I’m a big fan of Arrested Development.  In this one, Cera stars with Kat Dennings as a couple of teens roaming the streets […]

   Bruce Lee: Dragon Immortal :: Each week I have been featuring one dvd release, and I have usually gone for the big movies, but this week I gotta go with my heart. My heart says that this week, the coolest thing out there is this 3-disc, 10-film dvd set of “Bruceploitation” flicks. It’s the […]

Max Payne :: Director John Moore (The Omen) and Mark Wahlberg, playing the title character, bring Rockstar Games’ premium action franchise to the silver screen. As Max Payne, a widowed cop, Wahlberg delivers the action as he investigates a series of murders in the city. One thing is sure: justice will be delivered tonight. Mila […]

Mirrors :: Kiefer Sutherland stars as an NYPD detective-turned-security guard who discovers something sinister lurking in the mirrors of a fire-damaged department store in Haute Tension writer/director Alexandre Aja’s menacing study in the origins of evil. It’s been just about a year since mercurial police detective Ben Carson (Sutherland) was suspended from the NYPD for […]

Pineapple Express :: Lazy stoner Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver (James Franco): to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city’s most dangerous […]

Towelhead :: TOWELHEAD follows the dark, bold and shockingly funny life of Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American girl, as she navigates the confusing and frightening path of adolescence and her own sexual awakening. When Jasira’s mother sends her to Houston to live with her strict Lebanese father, she quickly learns that her new neighbors find her […]

Eagle Eye :: Jerry Shaw is an amiable slacker with an over-achieving twin brother. After his twin dies in an accident, strange things happen to Jerry at a dizzying pace: a fortune shows up in his bank account, weapons are delivered to his flat, and a voice on his cell phone tells him the police […]

Traitor :: Samir Horn is a former soldier, a devout Moslem, and U.S. citizen in the Middle East selling bomb detonators to Islamic radicals. He joins their cause as both the FBI and a rogue CIA agent track him. Horn escapes a Yemeni prison, goes underground in France where he proves his abilities, and is […]

[imdb Dark Night]The Dark Knight :: The follow-up to the action hit “Batman Begins,” “The Dark Knight” reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in his continuing war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to destroy […]