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PrintSummer time ... and the megaplex will be crawling with mutants, the Man of Steel and snakes on a plane.
 "Superman Returns" stars Brandon Routh as the Man of Steel |
FRIDAY
"The Da Vinci Code"-- Director Ron Howard, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman and actor Tom Hanks tackle an adaptation of the Dan Brown page-turner about a murder at the Louvre that unravels a chain of sensational secrets.
"Over the Hedge" -- Wildlife critters are tempted by the world beyond the hedge. Voice talent includes Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling and Steve Carell.
"Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School" -- Based on a short film created 15 years ago, it's about a widower (Robert Carlyle) who makes a promise to a dying man and ends up at a dance school where he meets a woman (Marisa Tomei) who helps him to live again.
"Kinky Boots" -- When a young man inherits his father's failing shoe factory in northern England, he hits upon a cockeyed plan to save it by making women's footwear ... for men.
"See No Evil" -- World Wrestling Entertainment star Kane stars as reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight.
SUNDAY
"Black Orpheus" -- The winner of the 1959 Academy Award for foreign language film takes the ancient Greek myth of a youth who travels to the land of the dead to bring back the woman he loves and transports it to the slums of modern Rio de Janeiro. Notable for its color photography and bossa nova music.
MONDAY
"The Sword of Doom" and "Kill" -- New prints of 1960s Kihachi Okamoto movies.
MAY 26
"X-Men the Last Stand" -- Mutants weigh retaining their powers or forfeiting them and becoming human. The stars from the first two films are back, and Kelsey Grammer turns up as Dr. Henry McCoy, aka Beast, a geneticist who has sprouted blue bestial fur.
"The Proposition" -- The Australian Outback in the 1880s provides the backdrop for this anti-western starring Ray Winstone as a lawman, Emily Watson as his delicate wife and Guy Pearce and Richard Wilson as Irish outlaws. Cast also includes Danny Huston and John Hurt.
"Take My Eyes" -- Winner of seven Spanish Academy Awards, including best picture, this film examines a complicated marriage rocked by abuse and bound by love, eroticism and submissiveness.
"Water" -- This film will close the Silk Screen festival and then get a regular run. Deepa Mehta completes the trilogy that started with "Fire" and "Earth" with the story of an 8-year-old child bride in 1930s India whose husband suddenly dies and what custom dictates for her.
"Classe Tous Risques" -- Newly released full-length restoration of the 1960 French film about a wizened old mobster sneaking back to France after an exile in Milan and the young honorable hood (Jean-Paul Belmondo) who helps him out.
JUNE 2
"The Break-Up" -- See Hot Picks.
"Three Times" -- Hou Hsiao Hsien ("Flowers of Shanghai") uses a single couple and three time periods to tell the story of unfinished love.
JUNE 6
"The Omen" -- 6/6/06, get it? The 1976 film gets a new anti-Christ in Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick as Damien, the son of an American diplomat and his wife. Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles and Mia Farrow also star.
JUNE 9
"Cars" -- Pixar and Disney reteam with this animated movie about a hotshot rookie car driven to succeed but detoured in a sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. Voice talent includes Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Larry the Cable Guy and Bonnie Hunt.
"Prairie Home Companion" -- Robert Altman directs this backstage fable about a fictitious radio variety show. Ensemble is led by Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Kline (as Guy Noir, a private eye working as a backstage doorkeeper) and Garrison Keillor. He plays the hang-dog emcee, of course.
JUNE 16
"The Lake House" -- "Speed" stars Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves are reunited in a romance with Korean roots. A doctor (Bullock) who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging letters with its new resident, a frustrated architect (Reeves), and realizes they're living two years apart.
"Nacho Libre" -- Jack Black is a cook in a Mexican orphanage who moonlights as a lucha libre wrestler to raise money for the children.
"The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" -- An outsider who goes to live with his father in Tokyo to avoid jail time discovers underground racing. Lucas Black and Bow Wow star.
"Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties" -- When Garfield trails his owner to England, he is mistaken for a regal cat who has inherited a castle in this sequel.
"L'Enfant" -- A 20-year-old panhandler and petty thief, living with his 18-year-old girlfriend in an eastern Belgian steel town, sells their newborn son to a black-market connection who promises to find the child a home. But the contender for Worst Father of the Year title changes his mind and tries to undo the deed.
"An Inconvenient Truth" -- Former vice president Al Gore's call to arms over the timely issue of global warming.
JUNE 23
"Click" -- Adam Sandler plays a married architect and father of two who goes shopping for a universal remote and is given one with magical powers, allowing him to control his career and personal life.
"Waist Deep" -- Vondie Curtis Hall directs this urban thriller about an ex-convict (Tyrese Gibson) who abandons his vow to go straight when his young son is taken in a carjacking.
"The Devil and Daniel Johnston" -- New footage, vintage performances, home movies and audiotapes from Johnston's life are blended in this look at the manic-depressive singer/songwriter/artist.
"Sketches of Frank Gehry" -- Sydney Pollack spent five years making this documentary about his friend, acclaimed architect Frank O. Gehry.
JUNE 30
"Superman Returns" -- See Hot Picks.
"The Devil Wears Prada" -- See Hot Picks.
ALSO IN JUNE
"Sir! No Sir" -- Troy Garity, son of Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, narrates this documentary about resistance to the Vietnam War within the military.
"A Touch of Spice" -- A bittersweet story about a Greek boy growing up in Constantinople whose grandfather teaches him that food and life require a touch of spice.
"Keeping up With the Steins" -- Comedy about a bar mitzvah in Brentwood, Calif., where bigger is always better until the celebrant's grandparents -- a hippie and his spacey younger girlfriend -- come to town.
JULY 5
"Little Man" -- Shawn Wayans plays a man so anxious to become a father that he mistakes a short, baby-faced criminal on the run for his newly adopted son. Marlon Wayans also stars.
JULY 7
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" -- See Hot Picks.
"The Oh in Ohio" -- Sex comedy starring Parker Posey and Paul Rudd as Clevelanders who separate after a decade-long marriage and start looking for lust in all the wrong or right places.
JULY 14
"You, Me and Dupree" -- Matt Dillon and Kate Hudson are newlyweds who invite an unemployed, homeless pal named Dupree (Owen Wilson) to stay with them. As the husband buries himself at work, Dupree starts charming the bride, her father (Michael Douglas) and neighbors, creating comic complications.
"Pulse" -- If you always thought of cell phones and e-mail as evil, now you have a good reason. They're allowing dead people to reach out and suck the life out of users.
"A Scanner Darkly"-- A Philip K. Dick novel inspired this Richard Linklater movie set in Orange County, Calif., in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. With Keanu Reeves.
"Pathfinder" -- Karl Urban stars in this action adventure about a grown-up version of a Norse boy, left behind by Vikings and raised by the very Indians his kinsmen set out to destroy. When the Vikings return for another barbaric raid, he must confront his identity and destiny.
JULY 21
"Lady in the Water" -- M. Night Shyamalan turned a story he invented for his children into a movie starring Paul Giamatti as a man who discovers a narf (Bryce Dallas Howard) living in the passageways beneath his building's swimming pool. She's a nymph-like character being stalked by vicious creatures.
"Monster House" -- It's alive, as they used to say in the old-time scary movies. This time, it's a house and the performance-capture style from "Polar Express."
"My Super Ex-Girlfriend" -- How do you break up with a woman who is a superhero? That's Luke Wilson's dilemma in this movie starring Uma Thurman as G-Girl and Anna Faris as his co-worker and potential new love interest.
"Clerks II" -- How long ago was the first movie? Let's just say it opened at the Oakland Beehive ... in 1994. Kevin Smith rounds up the usual slackers, now facing their 30s and consequences of adulthood. Rosario Dawson joins Smith, Jason Mewes, Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson.
JULY 28
"Miami Vice" -- No pastels, just Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell as Tubbs and Crockett in this big-screen version of the TV show. Gong Li turns up as the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drug trafficker.
"Barnyard" -- Farm animals are the focus of this CGI film with the voices of Kevin James, Sam Elliott, Danny Glover and others.
"John Tucker Must Die" -- When three popular girls from different cliques discover they've all been dating the school stud, they band together to exact revenge.
ALSO IN JULY
"Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man" -- Documentary about the Canadian singer-songwriter, told through footage shot at a tribute at the Sydney Opera House, interviews and the subject's artwork, poetry and personal photos.
"Strangers With Candy" -- A prequel to the Comedy Central series, starring Amy Sedaris as a 47-year-old ex-con junkie who returns home after 32 years as a runaway. She decides to start her life over and re-enrolls in high school.
"Mongolian Ping-Pong" -- Coming-of-age comedy about three young boys in the remote grasslands of Mongolia and what happens after one finds a Ping-Pong ball floating in the river.
"The Heart of the Game" -- Documentary about a college tax professor who moonlights as a Seattle girls' basketball coach. Among his players is a tough, inner-city player whose off-court struggles threaten to stop her from becoming the first person in her family to get a college education.
"Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos" -- Pop and soul music of the '70s, never-seen footage, newsreels and interviews with people ranging from Marv Albert to Henry Kissinger and Mia Hamm are used to tell how the soccer team became such a hot ticket.
"The Ant Bully" -- When a 10-year-old boy, new in town and tormented by a neighborhood bully, takes out his frustration on the anthill in his yard, the residents retaliate. The ants shrink him down to their size and sentence him to live in their colony, where he learns about friendship and courage.
"Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" -- Will Ferrell does NASCAR.
"The Night Listener" -- Psychological thriller, based on the Armistead Maupin novel, about a writer and popular late-night radio show host who develops an intense relationship with a young listener and his adopted mother. Robin Williams, Rory Culkin and Toni Collette star.
AUG. 9
"World Trade Center" -- Oliver Stone tells the true story of the survival and rescue of two Port Authority policemen -- John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno -- who became trapped in the rubble on 9/11. Cast includes Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena, Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
AUG. 11
"The Reaping" -- Hilary Swank plays a former Christian missionary who lost her faith when her family was killed. When she investigates a small Louisiana town that appears to be suffering from biblical plagues, she realizes that science cannot explain what's happening, and she must regain her faith to fight the dark forces threatening the community.
"Zoom" -- Tim Allen is an out-of-shape former superhero who is called back into action to turn a ragtag group of kids into the next generation of superheroes. Cast includes Courteney Cox Arquette, Chevy Chase, Spencer Breslin and Rip Torn.
"Step Up" -- A rebel foster teen, doing community service at an arts school, trades his janitorial duty for dancing to partner to a classically trained performer. Channing Tatum, Rachel Griffiths and Mario star.
"Accepted" -- Rejected by eight legitimate colleges, Bartleby "B" Gaines (Justin Long) and his pals create a fake school, which soon attracts other misfits.
"The Science of Sleep" -- A playful romantic fantasy set inside the topsy-turvy brain of Stephane Miroux (Gael Garcia Bernal), an eccentric young man whose dreams constantly invade his waking life.
AUG. 18
"Snakes on a Plane" -- See Hot Picks.
AUG. 25
"Invincible" -- Mark Wahlberg plays Vince Papale, a bartender and substitute teacher who made the Philadelphia Eagles in 1976 as a special teams player at age 30 after answering an ad for an open tryout. Greg Kinnear plays coach Dick Vermeil.
"Idlewild" -- OutKast members Andre Benjamin and Antwan Andre Patton, better known as Andre 3000 and Big Boi, appear in this musical set against the backdrop of a 1930s Southern speakeasy.
"Beerfest" -- From Broken Lizard, the troupe that brought us "Super Troopers" and "Club Dread," this comedy is about the secret Olympics of beer drinking.
"How to Eat Fried Worms" -- On his first day at a new school, an 11-year-old boy inadvertently challenges the school bully and agrees to a bet that he can eat 10 worms in one day. Based on Thomas Rockwell's book.
"DOA: Dead or Alive" -- Videogame adaptation with an ensemble that includes Jaime Pressly (Joy on "My Name Is Earl") and Eric Roberts, along with Aussie pop star Holly Valance.
"Crossover" -- Story of two basketball players, one who wants to study pre-med at UCLA and the other looking at earning a GED and winning an underground game.
ALSO IN AUGUST
"Little Miss Sunshine" -- Quirky comedy and festival favorite about a dysfunctional family with a 7-year-old who wants to win the Little Miss Sunshine crown.
"The Descent" -- One year after a tragic accident, six girlfriends meet in a remote part of the Appalachians for their annual caving trip. A rock falls and blocks their route back to the surface, and, if that weren't enough, they run into monstrous humanoids in the dark.
"The U.S. vs John Lennon" -- A look at Lennon's transformation from musician to anti-war activist to iconic inspiration for peace that also reveals why and how the U.S. government tried to silence him.
"Look Both Ways" -- The misadventures of a woman (Justine Clarke) who sees disaster everywhere are told with a mix of animation and live action in this Sarah Watt film.
"Boynton Beach Bereavement Club" -- Dyan Cannon, Sally Kellerman, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Bologna and Len Cariou star in this Susan Seidelman comedy ("Desperately Seeking Susan") about life, death and dating again.
SEPT. 1
"The Return" -- Not to be confused with the sequel to "The Grudge," although both star Sarah Michelle Gellar. Here, she's a tough Midwesterner trying to learn the truth about her increasingly terrifying supernatural visions.
"Crank" -- Who needs a double shot of espresso when you get this kind of wake-up call? A hit man (Jason Statham) hears he's been poisoned in his sleep and has only an hour to live. Amy Smart plays his girlfriend.
HOT PICKS
"THE BREAK-UP" -- It's like "The War of the Roses," but with a condo and Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn instead of Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. And this time, they may really love each other instead of hating each other to death (June 2).
"SUPERMAN RETURNS" -- And boy, could we (and the box office) use him. Brandon Routh plays the man in tights, and Kate Bosworth is Lois Lane, the woman he loves but one who may have moved on with her life. In the meantime, he must save the world from cataclysmic destruction (June 30).
"THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA" -- Anne Hathaway is a small-town girl in her first job out of college who finds herself working for an imperious, impossible magazine editor, played by Meryl Streep. Based on the best seller (June 30).
"PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST" -- Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom. We can hear the squeals already from tweens, teens and, in some cases, their moms. Oh, and Keira Knightley shows up, too, in this sequel to the 2003 blockbuster (July 7).
"SNAKES ON A PLANE" -- Samuel L. Jackson is an FBI agent escorting a witness on a flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles when an assassin releases hundreds of deadly snakes. An entire Internet community has sprung up around this movie, and like a rattler in the desert, it's ready to strike the box office (Aug. 18).
