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July 2009 

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In Theatres

Your monthly guide to new releases


By Ingrid Randoja

JULY 1

 

ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS (3D)

In this third Ice Age flick, Manny (Ray Romano) and Ellie (Queen Latifah) are expecting a baby mammoth, Diego the sabre-toothed tiger (Dennis Leary) fears he’s losing his edge, Scrat falls for female squirrel Scratte, and Sid the Sloth (John Leguizamo) creates problems for everyone when he steals a nest of dinosaur eggs hoping to raise them as his own.

 

PUBLIC ENEMIES

Rat-a-tat-tat! The machine guns are locked, loaded and in the hands of gangsters John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), Pretty Boy Floyd (Channing Tatum) and Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham), and it’s up to FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) to capture the notorious bank robbers in director Michael Mann’s homage to Depression-era bad boys.

 

I LOVE YOU, BETH COOPER

Nerdy Denis Cooverman (Paul Rust) delivers a valedictory speech in which he divulges his love for high school hottie Beth Cooper (Hayden Panettiere) and hatred of her boyfriend, Kevin (Shawn Roberts). By doing so he earns Beth’s attention, unleashes Kevin’s fury and experiences the best weekend of his life.

 

Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker

BRÜNO

If you thought there was no way Sacha Baron Cohen could once again fool people into believing he was an outlandish and shockingly offensive character, and in the process create all kinds of mayhem, well think again. The Borat star shaves his body hair and adopts a ridiculous hairstyle to become Brüno, a flamboyantly gay and rather stupid Austrian fashion reporter. Watch Brüno crash fashion shows, get cozy with swingers and adopt an African baby.

 

THE HURT LOCKER

Director Kathryn Bigelow and her crew flew to Jordan to shoot this critically acclaimed, set-in-Iraq wartime pic focusing on a bomb disposal squad and their hotshot star, Staff Sergeant William James (Jeremy Renner), whose once steady nerves are beginning to betray him.

   

JULY 15

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE

Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) returns to Hogwarts for his sixth year, where he not only joins Professor Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) in the search to find the various pieces of Voldemort’s (Ralph Fiennes) dark soul, but also looks for clues concerning the identity of the mysterious Half-Blood Prince. Oh, and he has to deal with the various romantic mash-ups taking place at Hogwarts.

 

Zooey Deschanel in
(500) Days of Summer

JULY 17

(500) DAYS OF SUMMER

The romantic Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) falls for the cynical Summer (Zooey Deschanel), but how long can the relationship withstand their wildly different views on the nature of love? (Umm, perhaps 500 days?)

 

JULY 24

HUMPDAY

A crowd-pleasing hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, this indie comedy focuses on reunited college buddies Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew (Joshua Leonard) who decide to enter an amateur porn competition, and figure their best chance of winning is to film themselves having sex with one another, although they’re both straight. Why does this sound like a bad idea?

   

G-FORCE

Alvin and the Chipmunks are probably on the phone right now with their agent demanding better parts after seeing that a bunch of guinea pigs — guinea pigs, no less — landed the roles of secret government agents who save the world from a power-mad industrialist (Bill Nighy). Listen for the voice talents of Penélope Cruz, Nicolas Cage, Tracy Morgan and Sam Rockwell as the furry feds.

 

Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler in
The Ugly Truth

THE UGLY TRUTH

Ultra-chauvinistic TV personality Mike (Gerard Butler) is making life hell for his producer Abby (Katherine Heigl). However, she sees a way to get rid of him when he bets his job that he can help her win the man of her dreams using his crass, “guy-friendly” rules. But it’s a steep price to pay — losing Mr. Right to get rid of Mr. Wrong.


IN THE LOOP

In this British comedy, Simon Foster (Tom Hollander), a lowly British government minister who doesn’t know when to stop talking, refers to the possibility of war in an unnamed Middle Eastern country as “unforeseeable,” which means nothing but is treated as an endorsement of their opposing positions by both American liberals and conservatives. Foster flies to the States to try and appease both sides, who gleefully take advantage of the verbally challenged Brit.

    

ORPHAN

After having lost their unborn child, Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John (Peter Sarsgaard) decide to adopt a nine-year-old girl named Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman). But the angelic child with the Victorian fashion sense turns out to have a freaky-deaky dark side that proves deadly.


THREE BLIND MICE

Three Royal Australian Naval officers — Ewen Leslie, Toby Schmitz and the film’s director, Matthew Newton — spend a last bawdy night in Sydney before shipping out to war the next day.


SOUL POWER

A documentary about the 1974 music fest promoter Don King organized to coincide with Muhammad Ali and George Foreman’s famed Rumble in the Jungle in Zaire. Participants included African and African-American stars, including James Brown, B.B. King and Miriam Makeba.

 

Aliens In The Attic

JULY 31

 

ALIENS IN THE ATTIC

The Pearson family rents a nice summer home in Maine only to discover aliens from the planet Zirkon are living in their attic. It’s up to the intrepid Pearson kids — played by Ashley Tisdale, Carter Jenkins and Ashley Boettcher — to thwart the space invaders.

 

FUNNY PEOPLE

When legendary comic George Simmons (Adam Sandler) learns he’s dying he asks young comedian Ira Wright (Seth Rogen) to help care for him. But when his illness disappears, George realizes he’s got a second chance to find happiness and sets out to win the woman he’s always loved (Leslie Mann) even though she’s married to a successful Australian (Eric Bana) and has two daughters (played by the real-life children of Mann and her husband, Funny People’s director Judd Apatow).
  

FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING

Inspired by real events, this thriller stars Jim Sturgess as Irishman Martin McGartland, who joins the IRA and becomes an informant for the Brits. (The title refers to the number of men McGartland believes he saved.)



SPECIAL EVENTS ON THE BIG SCREEN


FOREVER PLAID

Thurs., July 9

8 p.m. EST

7 p.m. CST

8 p.m. MST (tape delay)

7 p.m. PST (tape delay)

The Off-Broadway musical celebrates its 20th anniversary with this one-night-only performance that includes red-carpet appearances from original cast members, celebrity guests and a live musical performance by The Plaids.


WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW

Night Of Champions

Sun., July 26, 8 p.m. EST





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