May 2010 Movies

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Biopic of Ian Dury who was crippled by polio at age 10 and told he would amount to nothing, but went on to become one of the founders of the British punk movement in the 1970s.

Andy Serkis, Naomie Harris, Olivia Williams, Toby Jones, Mat Whitecross, Paul Viragh, Ray Winstone, Mackenzie Crook

Iron Man 2

More adventures from billionaire Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) who leads a double life as an iron-plated crime fighter. Mickey Rourke will play Whiplash, a character that includes elements from that comic book villain and Crimson Dynamo, another Russian baddie. Sam Rockwell will play Justin Hammer, a multibillionaire businessman and a rival of industrialist Stark.

Scarlett Johansson, Kate Mara, Mickey Rourke, Robert Downey Jr., Clark Gregg, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Feige, Justin Theroux

Mother and Child

The ensemble drama, follows the intersecting lives of a 50-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption 35 years ago and a black woman looking to adopt a baby.

Kerry Washington, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Naomi Watts, Guillermo del Toro, Samuel L. Jackson, Shareeka Epps, Rodrigo Garcia, Julie Lynn

Casino Jack and the United State...

A probing investigation into the lies, greed and corruption surrounding D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his cronies.

Alex Gibney

Badmaash Company

A group of four friends living in Bombay in the 1990s decide to import the luxuries from the West.

Parmeet Sethi

Multiple Sarcasms

Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all: successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, and a devoted young daughter. Yet, it slowly dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to write a play about the sorry state of his life. He quits his job, gets a pushy literary agent friend to represent him and starts writing.

Happiness Runs

A young man attempts to save himself and his mother from a polygamous cult.

Mark L. Young, Jesse Plemons, Adam Sherman, Stephen Israel, Hanna Hall

Babies

A look at one year in the life of five babies living in five different continents.

Alain Chabat, Thomas Balmes

Climate of Change

Tilda Swinton narrates this documentary focusing on the efforts of everyday people all over the world who are making a difference in the fight against global warming.

Brian Hill, Katie Bailiff, Simon Armitage, Tilda Swinton

Robin Hood

A less virtuous Robin Hood and a nobler Sheriff of Nottingham clash as a love triangle develops between Robin Hood, the sheriff and Maid Marian.

Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Brian Helgeland, Oscar Isaac, Ridley Scott, Cyrus Voris, James 'Jim' Whitaker, Brian Grazer

Just Wright

The story follows Janice Wright, a physical therapist (Queen Latifah) who is hired by an NBA basketball player to help him rehab from an injury. As time goes on, the player begins falling in love with her.

Queen Latifah, Paula Patton, Common, Sanaa Hamri, Shakim Compere, Mike Elliot, Michael Landes, Pam Grier

Letters to Juliet

When a young American (Amanda Seyfried) travels to the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. After answering one letter dated 1951, she inspires its author (Vanessa Redgrave) to travel to Italy in search of her long-lost love and sets off a chain of events that will bring a love into both their lives unlike anything they ever imagined.

Amanda Seyfried, Caroline Kaplan, Gary Winick, Patrick Wachsberger, Eric Feig, Ellen Barkin, Gael García Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave

Looking for Eric

Eric a football fanatic postman whose life is descending in to crisis receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Eric Cantona.

Steve Evets, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Eric Cantona

Princess Kaiulani

A Hawaiian princess attempts to maintain the independence of the island against the threat of American colonization.

Barry Pepper, Marc Forby, Q'Orianka Kilcher

TiMER

TiMER implanted on a person's wrist countdown the time until he or she finds true love. Oona becomes a rare exception when she discovers her TiMER is blank.

Jac Schaeffer, Emma Caulfield

Daddy Longlegs

Lenny juggles his kids and everything else all within a midtown studio apartment in New York City. He must choose between being their father or their friend all with the idea that their two weeks together must last 6 months.

Joshua Safdie, Ben Safdie

Shrek Forever After

Shrek (Mike Myers) has become a domesticated family man. Instead of scaring villagers away like he used to, a reluctant Shrek now agrees to autograph pitch forks. Longing for the days when he felt like a “real ogre,” Shrek is tricked into signing a pact with the smooth-talking dealmaker, Rumpelstiltskin. Shrek suddenly finds himself in a twisted, alternate version of Far Far Away, where ogres are hunted, Rumplestiltskin is king and Shrek and Fiona (Cameron Diaz) have never met. Now, it’s up to Shrek to undo all of Rumpelstiltskin’s mischief in the hopes of saving his friends, restoring his world and reclaiming his one "True Love" and family.

Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Jon Hamm, Maya Rudolph, Justin Timberlake, Mike Mitchell, Julie Andrews

MacGruber

MacGruber, a laid back secret agent who prefers non-violent conflict resolution, always becomes consumed with some sort of personal issue, to the detriment of himself and his assistants. MacGruber is pulled out of retirement as a monk in Ecuador by a colonel, who needs him once more to fight on behalf of his country. His mission involves going up against the evil Cunth, who has a nuclear warhead; the mission is personal because Cunth killed MacGruber's bride.

Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jorma Taccone, Ryan Kavanaugh, Lorne Michaels, Erin David, John Solomon, Will Forte

The Father of My Children

A french language film in which a movie producer suffers from crippling depression.

Mia Hansen-Løve, Chiara Caselli, Michael Abiteboul

Solitary Man

A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.

Jesse Eisenberg, Brian Koppelman, Mary-Louise Parker, Heidi Jo Markel, Paul Schiff, Steven Soderbergh, David Levien, Jenna Fischer

After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin U...

In Israel, soccer is king, and Bnei Sakhnin has become the first team from an Arab town to win the prestigious Israeli Cup and represent Israel in European competition. Fielding Arab, Jewish and foreign-born players, owned by an Arab, and coached by a Jew, Bnei Sakhnins success has begun to represent a symbol of coexistence, a potential bridge between Arabs and Jews in Israel.

Alexander H. Browne, Christopher Browne

Racing Dreams

A documentary on three young racers who compete in the World Karting Association's National Pavement Series.

Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Marshall Curry

Kites

A love story between an Indian hustler and a Mexican immigrant.

Hrithik Roshan, Anurag Basu, Rakesh Roshan, Barbara Mori

Holy Rollers

An impressionable youth from an Orthodox Brooklyn community is lured into becoming an Ecstasy dealer by a friend with ties to an Israeli drug cartel.

Jesse Eisenberg, Cary Jones, Kevin Asch, Rob Profusek, Ryan Silbert, Justin Bartha, Danny Abeckaser, Julio Caro

John Rabe

The movie is based on the true story about a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

Florian Gallenberger, Steve Buscemi, Daniel Bruehl, Anne Consigny, Lu Huang, Zhang Jingchu, Teruyuki Kagawa, Akira Emoto

Perrier's Bounty

The project, billed as a comedy thriller set in contemporary Dublin, revolves around three unlikely fugitives on the run from a gangster kingpin.

Cillian Murphy, Jim Broadbent, Ian Fitzgibbon, Mark O'Rowe, Brendan Gleeson

180° South

Jeff Johnson recounts the journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia in 1968.

Chris Malloy

Sex and the City 2

Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda take another bite out of the Big Apple in the sequel to the 2008 summer blockbuster.

Darren Star, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall, Evan Handler, Max Ryan, Michael Patrick King, Sarah Jessica Parker, John Melfi

Prince of Persia: The Sands of T...

Set in medieval Persia, the original presents a story about the prince who is tricked by a dying Vizier to unleash the Sands of Time that turns out to destroy a kingdom and transforms its populace into ferocious demons. In his effort to save his own kingdom and redeem his fatal mistake, the prince then teams up with a rival princess to return the sands to the hourglass by using the Dagger of Time, which also gives him a limited control over the flow of time

Ben Kingsley, Jerry Bruckheimer, Gemma Arterton, Toby Kebbell, Mike Newell, Jordan Mechner, Jake Gyllenhaal, Alfred Molina

After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin U...

In Israel, soccer is king, and Bnei Sakhnin has become the first team from an Arab town to win the prestigious Israeli Cup and represent Israel in European competition. Fielding Arab, Jewish and foreign-born players, owned by an Arab, and coached by a Jew, Bnei Sakhnins success has begun to represent a symbol of coexistence, a potential bridge between Arabs and Jews in Israel.

Alexander H. Browne, Christopher Browne

Breathless

A French car thief kills a policeman and then travels to Italy with his American girlfriend.

Jean-Luc Godard

Micmacs

A videostore clerk with a bullet lodged in his brain and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers.

Nicolas Marie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant, Dany Boon, Andre Dussollier

Agora

A slave in Roman Egypt turns to the rising tide of Christianity while also falling in love with the famous teacher, mathematician and philosopher Hypatia.

Oscar Isaac, Rachel Weisz, Rupert Evans, Alejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil, Max Minghella

Survival of the Dead

On a small island off North America’s coast, the dead rise to menace the living. Yet…the islanders can’t bring themselves to exterminate their loved ones, despite the growing danger from those the once held dear.

George A. Romero, Paula Devonshire, Julian Richings, Joris Jarsky

Kites: The Remix

A shorter version of Kites, edited by Brett Ratner into a faster-paced romantic action movie.

Brett Ratner, Anurag Basu