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The Name Says It All...
Based on a true story, The Bank Job stars Jason Statham (Crank, The Transporter) as a small time crook who is offered the chance of a lifetime by an old flame (Saffron Burrows: Reign Over Me, Wing Commander). The job: to steal from safe deposit boxes at a high profile bank. Since safe deposit boxes are private, Statham and his team can count on people not reporting stolen embarrassing material to the police... but who knows what sort of people they might be stealing from? And once they have the goods, can they trust each other's motives for going after safe deposit boxes in the first place?
For the Family
A modern fairytale, Penelope stars Christina Ricci (Prozac Nation, Black Snake Moan) as girl with a pig's snout for a nose. Born into a wealthy family, her nose is a curse that will only be broken if one of her own learns to love her... something she thinks might happen when she meets James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland, Atonement), but when a spoiled snob (Simon 
Woods: Elizabeth I, Pride & Prejudice) hires a paparazzo (Peter Dinklage: The Station Agent, Find Me Guilty) to take pictures of her unusual nose, they threaten to ruin her shot at love and happiness.
Disney's new G-rated comedy this week is College Road Trip, starring Martin Lawrence (Wild Hogs, Nothing to Lose) as an overprotective father who won't let his daughter (Raven-Symone: The Cheetah Girls, Doctor Dolittle) take a road trip to her new college unescorted. What could have been a normal trip to college turns into a disaster of awkward situations and clumsy moments as Lawrence always manages to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Blood & Guts
Our newest title from Tokyo Shock is (Aragami, Versus) The Machine Girl, the blood-splattered tale of a girl who loses her brother to a gang of thugs who chop off her arm... so she does the only thing she can: she replaces her arm with a machine gun, teams up with a chainsaw wielding mechanic, and sets out to seek vengeance.
Trapped Ashes is a horror film where a group of strangers are trapped inside an infamous house on a Hollywood studio tour, where they tell their scariest stories. The five tales are directed by famous genre directors Sean S. Cunningham (Friday the 13th), Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop), Ken Russell (Altered States), Joe Dante (The Howling), and award winning special effects man John Gaeta (Matrix Revolutions).
Aaron Eckhart (In the Company of Men, Thank You for Smoking) is Bill in the new comedy Meet Bill. Stuck in a dead end job with an unfaithful wife (Elizabeth Banks: Definitely Maybe, Spider Man), he doesn't see any way to reclaim his life and be happy, until he befriends a teenager (Logan Lerman: The Number 23, Hoot) who makes it his mission to break Bill out of his rut, and set him up with Jessica Alba (The Eye, Honey).
This week's sequel is Step Up 2 the Streets, starring Briana Evigan (Bottom's Up) as a dancer who tries for respectability when Channing Tatum (Stop-Loss, She's the Man) convinces her to try dancing at a school of the arts, but will an art school respect a street dancer's style?
The Mighty Celt stars Robert Carlyle (28 Weeks Later, Once upon a Time in the Midlands) and Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, The House of Mirth) in the story of a young boy who has an uncanny talent for dogs. The boy is taken on by a greyhound trainer because of his incredible skill, and a deal is struck: he must train the dog to win three consecutive races.
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation is a Brazilian film that was nominated for an Academy Award this year, about a boy who has to fend for himself in 1970 when his activist parents have to run from the Brazilian military government. He spends his time in the 
Jewish/Italian neighborhood, waiting for his parents to return, as promised, before the first Brazilian game of the World Cup.
James Purefoy (Resident Evil, Vanity Fair) stars in the title role in Beau Brummell: This Charming Man, the story of the famous dandy who chose simplicity and cleanliness over wigs, powder, and jewels in 1800's England, and forever changed the face of fashion.
Two documentaries are new this week. The first is The War Tapes, a first hand account of the Iraq War, from the perspective of soldiers, deployed to the middle east, who filmed their experiences themselves on portable digital cameras. We also have It Was a Wonderful Life, narrated by Jodie Foster (The Brave One, Anna and the King), an account of six women who had normal lives that unraveled and left them members of America's "hidden homeless" population.
This week's TV New Releases include the first season of the police procedural Saving Grace, season 5 of the cop comedy Reno 911, and the second season of the quirky sci-fi show Eureka.
