| <--prev |
Basketball Jones
Will Ferrel's (Stranger Than Fiction, Elf) newest comedy sets him up as a soul singer who used the profits from his only hit to become the owner, coach, and and power forward for the Flint Tropics in Semi-Pro. When the league gets sold and only the four best teams becoming part of the NBS, the Tropics have to do something new: start winning games. Needing a little help, they trade the Tropics' washing machine for an over-the-hill Boston Celtics veteran (Woody Harrelson: White Men Can't Jump, No Country for Old Men)... The film, set in 1976, gives Ferrel the chance to stretch out in the 70's vibe that made him such a hit in Anchorman.
Comedy Week
Meet the Spartans is the newest movie by Jason Friedberg, who directed Epic Movie and Date Movie. Like those movies, Meet the Spartans references a wide variety of popular films and television shows, but mostly sends up 300, while taking 
pot-shots at Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Lindsay Lohan, as well as parodying Transformers, Ghost Rider, and Heroes, and features an ensemble cast including Carmen Electra, Kevin Sorbo, and Method Man.
Fresh from the pages of the popular parody newspaper The Onion (America's Finest News Source) comes The Onion Movie, which combines on-the-scene reporting of some of The Onion's most notorious articles as The Onion News airs... but when the network picks up a new corporate sponsor, The Onion news team has to decide whether to compromise their journalistic integrity or fight back.
Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite, Mr. Woodcock) stars in Mama's Boy as a 29-year-old living with his mother. When a motivational speaker Jeff Daniels (The Squid and the Whale, Dumb & Dumber) forms a relationship with his mother Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, Because I Said So), his arrested development is threatened, so he declares war on the new man of the house. With the help of an anti-establishment songwriter (Anna Faris: Scary Movie, Brokeback Mountain) he may reclaim his house, or maybe win a greater victory.
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show is a stand-up comedy film as well as a road movie and documentary, as Vince Vaughn (Wedding Crashers, The Cell) takes a group of comics out on tour, serving as emcee to a show in the style of old west variety shows. With guest appearances by many Vince Vaughn cohorts, the comedy is up to the four touring stand-ups: Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, and Sebastian Maniscalco.
Getting Darker
In the 1960's, Demi Moore (Mr. Brooks, Ghost) plays an executive consistently passed over for promotion at the London Diamond Corporation in Flawless. Sensing her frustrations, the janitor (Michael Caine: Children of Men, Funeral in Berlin) offers her a way to even the score: he's planned an ingenious diamond heist, but needs the help of someone on the inside. But the problem with intricate plans is that it's difficult to tell where they turn.
Asia Argento (Marie Antoinette, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things) plays an icy femme fatale in Boarding Gate. A former prostitute, she flees London after things go wrong with Michael Madsen (BloodRayne, Kill Bill) and finds herself with a new identity, living a dangerous life of power struggles and manipulation. Boarding Gate is an erotic thriller, globe trotting between London, Hong Kong, and Paris.
The Eye is the newest remake of a Hong Kong supernatural thriller, originally by Pang Brothers (Bangkok Dangerous, The Eye). The remake stars Jessica Alba (The Fantastic Four, Good Luck Chuck) as a blind classical cellist who is given sight by a transplant. Her new eyes can see both the real world and a supernatural one, where she can see death taking people away. To keep her sanity, she must find out whose eyes she's inherited, and why they see what they see.
The new documentaries this week include King Corn, detailing the rise of corn, and how it affects the American food supply, as well as its rise and overtaking the farming industry, and its impact on the national health in regards to high fructose corn sucrose. Also new is Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams: Randy Pausch's Last Lecture, providing the cancer-suffering professor his final talk at Carnegie Mellon University.
New to the TV New Release Section are Season 3 of the popular Showtime series Weeds, the 4th season of Dennis Leary's firefighter drama Rescue Me, and the miniseries version of Michael Crichton's popular The Andromeda Strain.
