Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)
Action/Adventure,
Comedy and Kids/Family
1 hr. 32 min.
Lindsay Lohan stars as Maggie Peyton, the new owner of Number 53 - the
free-wheelin' Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own - and puts the car
through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR® competitor. Herbie's
got some new tricks under his hood.
Release Date: June 22nd, 2005 (wide).
MPAA Rating: G for General Audiences.
Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead
(2005)
Action/Adventure and Suspense/Horror
In a modern-day world where the walking
dead roam an uninhabited wasteland, the living try to lead "normal" lives
behind the walls of a fortified city. A new society has been built by a
handful of enterprising, ruthless opportunists, who live in the towers of
a skyscraper, high above the hard-scrabble existence on the streets below.
But outside the city walls, an army of the dead is evolving. Inside,
anarchy is on the rise. With the very survival of the city at stake, a
group of hardened mercenaries is called into action to protect the living
from an army of the dead.
Release Date: June 24th, 2005 (wide).
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive strong violence and gore, language, brief
sexuality and some drug use.
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Bewitched (2005) Comedy,
Romance and Science Fiction/Fantasy
1 hr. 30 min..
Hot-shot actor Jack Wyatt, set to star
as Darrin in a film version of the '60s TV series "Bewitched," finds his
ideal Samantha in unknown actress Isabel, who just happens to be a witch
in real life.
Release Date: June 24th, 2005 (wide).
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some language, including sex and drug references,
and partial nudity.
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Batman Begins (2005)
Action/Adventure and
Crime/Gangster
2 hrs. 14 min.
Christopher Nolan's film explores the
origins of the Batman legend and the Dark Knight's emergence as a force
for good in Gotham. In the wake of his parents' murder, disillusioned
industrial heir Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) travels the world seeking the
means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the
fearful. He returns to Gotham and unveils his alter-ego: Batman, a masked
crusader who uses his strength, intellect and an array of high tech
deceptions to fight the sinister forces that threaten the city.
Release Date: June 15th, 2005 (wide).
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense action violence, disturbing images and some
thematic elements.
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
Action/Adventure,
Romance and Thriller
1 hr. 55 min.
A married couple (Pitt and Jolie) are getting bored with their quiet
domestic life. What they don't know, however, is that they're both
assassins, secretly hopping the world and killing for hire. But their
separate lives are about to collide when each finds out their next target
is their own spouse.
Release Date: June 10th, 2005 (wide).
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of violence, intense action, sexual
content and brief strong language.
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox
The Perfect Man (2005) Comedy
and Romance
Teenager Holly Hamilton (Hilary Duff) is tired of moving every time her
single mom Jean (Heather Locklear) has another personal meltdown involving
yet another second-rate guy. To distract her mother from her latest bad
choice, Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man--an imaginary
secret admirer who will romance Jean and boost her shaky self-esteem. When
the virtual relationship takes off, Holly finds herself having to produce
the suitor, borrowing her friend's charming and handsome Uncle Ben (Chris
Noth) as the face behind the e-mails, notes and gifts. Holly must resort
to increasingly desperate measures to keep the ruse alive and protect her
mom's newfound happiness,
Release Date: June 17th, 2005 (wide).
MPAA Rating: PG for some mildly suggestive content.
Distributor: Universal Pictures
The Interpreter (2005) Drama
and Thriller
2hrs. 08 min.
Kidman stars as African-born U.N. interpreter Silvia Broome, who
inadvertently overhears a death threat against an African head of state
scheduled to address the United Nation's General Assembly. Realizing she's
become a target of the assassins as well, Silvia's desperate to thwart the
plot...if only she can survive long enough to get someone to believe her.
Sean Penn is Tobin Keller, the federal agent charged with protecting the
interpreter, who nonetheless suspects she may not be telling the whole
truth. Silvia and Tobin, by nature, see life from different points of
view: one, a U.N. interpreter, believes in the power and sanctity of
words; the other, a Secret Service agent, believes in reading people based
on their behavior, no matter what is said.
Release Date: April 22nd, 2005 (wide).
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, some sexual content and brief strong
language.
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Cinderella Man (2005) Drama
2 hrs. 24 min.
Set in New York during the Depression, this is the story of James Braddock
(Crowe), who takes up boxing to make money to feed his family, and ends up
becoming quite famous in the process, eventually going up against champ
Max Baer.
Release Date: June 3rd, 2005 (wide).
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense boxing violence and some language.
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Madagascar (2005) Comedy,
Kids/Family and Animation
1 hr. 20 min.
This movie focuses on four residents and "stars" of the Central Park Zoo
in New York City who are also best friends: a lion (Stiller), a zebra
(Rock), a giraffe (Schwimmer) and a pregnant hippo (Smith). When one of
them goes missing, the other three break out of the zoo looking for him,
and eventually all four are captured and put in boxes to ship them back to
the continent their species are originally from: Africa. An accident at
sea, however, strands them on the shore of Madagascar. Having had humans
take care of them their entire life, the four know nothing of surviving in
the wild, or that one of them, the lion, is genetically predisposed to eat
his three best friends. Exploring their surroundings, the four friends
soon meet the Malagasy locals (a type of lemur given to having loud
"rave-like" dance parties) and their carnivorous enemies, the fousas. As
the two sides try to use these four new, strange (and large) friends to
their benefit, our heroes are also confronted with the reality of their
predestined roles in nature.
Release Date: May 27th, 2005 (wide).
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of
the Sith (2005)
Action/Adventure and Science Fiction/Fantasy
2 hrs. 26 min.
The third and final installment in the Star Wars prequel trilogy - the
sixth Star Wars movie overall. Anakin Skywalker's turn to the Dark Side of
the Force, the continuing Clone Wars and the final fate of the Old
Republic should be revealed.
Release Date: May 19th, 2005.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sci-fi violence and some intense images.
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox
MPAA Rating: PG for mild language, crude humor and some thematic elements.
Distributor: Dreamworks SKG
