Wednesday, March 16, 2011

My movie picks this week are 'The Lincoln Lawyer' and 'The Fighter'

It’s Wednesday, so today I give you my weekly list of movies that will open in theatres this week as well as a list of movies that will be released this week on DVD.

I hope this will serve as a useful guide as to what’s going on this week if you happen to be near a movie theatre or if you’re looking for something to drop into your NetFlix queue.

Movies that are scheduled to hit theatres this Friday include:

Alabama Moon (Family, PG): Starring John Goodman, Jimmy Bennett, Clint Howard, Colin Ford and Gabriel Basso.

Cracks (Drama, Not Yet Rated): Directed by Jordan Scott and starring Eva Green, Juno Temple, Maria Valverde, Imogen Poots and Zoe Carroll.

Desert Flower (Drama, R): Directed by Sherry Horman and starring Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins, Craig Parkinson, Anthony Mackie and Juliet Stevenson.

Limitless (Suspense, Drama, Thriller, PG-13): Directed by Neil Burger and starring Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel and Tomas Arana.

The Lincoln Lawyer (Drama, Crime, R): Directed by Brad Furman and starring Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, Marisa Tomei, John Leguizamo and William H. Macy.

The Music Never Stopped (Drama, PG): Directed by Jim Kohlberg and starring Julia Ormond, J.K. Simmons, Lou Taylor Pucci, Tammy Blanchard and Mia Maestro.

Paul (Comedy, Science Fiction, R): Directed by Greg Mottola and starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman and Kristen Wiig.

Winter in Wartime (Action, Drama, War, R): Directed by Martin Koolhoven and starring Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen and Jamie Campbell Bower.

New DVD releases for the week of March 15 include:

The Fighter (Drama, R): Directed by David O. Russell and starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo and Dendrie Taylor.

Hemingway’s Garden of Eden (Drama, Romance, R): Directed by John Irvin and starring Mena Suvari, Jack Huston, Caterina Murino, Matthew Modine and Richard E. Grant.

Hereafter (Suspense, Drama, Thriller, PG-13): Directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Matt Damon, Bryce Dallas Howard, Cecile de France, Jay Mohr and Dereck Jacobi.

Hidden Love (Drama, Not Yet Rated): Directed by Alessandro Capone and starring Isabelle Huppert, Melanie Laurent, Greta Scacchi and Olivier Gourmet.

The Parking Lot Movie (Documentary, Special Interest, Not Rated): Directed by Meghan Eckman.

The Switch (Comedy, Romance, PG-13): Directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon and starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Patrick Wilson, Jeff Goldblum and Juliette Lewis.

Spooner (Comedy, Drama, R): Directed by Drake Doremus and starring Matthew Lillard, Nora Zehetner, Shea Whigham, Pat Healy and Joe Nunez.

If I could only watch one movie at the theatre this week, it would be “The Lincoln Lawyer,” and if I had to pick just one DVD to rent this week, it would be “The Fighter.”

In the end, let me know if you get a chance to watch any of the new movies in theatres this week or if you’ve already seen any of the movies that have just been released on DVD. What did you think about them? Which would you recommend? Let us know in the comments section below.

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