Spring New Releases

Want to know what movies are coming out between now and May? I came across this nicely compiled list from the good fols over at Canoe-Jam that should help you out.

Personally, the ones on this list I’m most looking forward to are A Lot Like Love, THE HITCHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, SIN CITY and THE INTERPRETER.

The ones that I think are sure to suck are REBOUND, XXX: STATE OF THE UNION and FEVER PITCH. So here’s you’re list of what is coming out and when:

MARCH 11:

HOSTAGE: Bruce Willis in full Die Hard mode plays a hostage negotiator who suddenly finds himself negotiating for the lives of two families, including his own.

ROBOTS: The creators of Ice Age zoom into the future in a robot society in danger of becoming the pawns of an evil megalomaniac.

THE UPSIDE OF ANGER: This Sundance favourite stars Joan Allen as a widow with four emotionally rebellious daughters who is suddenly wooed by an alcoholic former baseball star played by Kevin Costner.

MILLIONS: Danny Boyle has left the zombies of 28 Days Later to tell this sweet story of two young brothers who find a suitcase full of money and then must decide what to do with it.

BORN INTO BROTHELS: This year’s winner of the best feature documentary Oscar looks at the child sex trade in India through the eyes of the young victims.

MARCH 18:

ICE PRINCESS: In this Disney drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Michelle Trachtenberg turns to skating coach Kim Cattrall so she can pursue her dream of becoming a competitive skater.

THE RING TWO: Naomi Watts and young David Dorfman return as the mother and son who put one video ghost to rest only to discover there is another video with its own unquiet, vengeful spirit.

MELINDA & MELINDA: Woody Allen with help from Will Ferrell, Radha Mitchell and Amanda Peet attempts to tell the same story both as a comedy and as a tragedy.

PHIL THE ALIEN: Toronto’s Rob Stefaniuk wrote, directed and stars in this subversive little farce about an alien who lands in Northern Ontario only to be befriended by a talking beaver and hard-drinking locals.

MARCH 25:

GUESS WHO: When Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher discovered they both had a passion to do a contemporary version of the classic racial drama Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? they teamed up making Mac the unsuspecting father who discovers his daughter’s boyfriend is white.

MISS CONGENIALITY 2: ARMED AND FABULOUS: Sandra Bullock insisted this sequel be a female version of the male buddy-cop flicks — Regina King co-stars.

D.E.B.S.: This youth comedy satirizes such teen comedies as Agent Cody Banks and mainstream action movies as Charlies’ Angels making the super-spies well-dressed, but not well-behaved young women.

MARCH 30:

BEAUTY SHOP: Queen Latifah teases hair and rival salon manager Kevin Bacon in this slapstick spin-off of Barbershop.

APRIL 1:

SIN CITY: Robert Rodriguez is determined to make a real comic book movie meaning this story of crime and corruption uses a blend of computer-generated images and live action with Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson, Jessica Alba and Clive Owen starring.

DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN: This wild blend of farce and pathos, stunned viewers, critics and studio heads when it topped the box-office last week. Tyler Perry, who wrote the play and screenplay, also stars in drag, as a pot-smoking, gun-totting grannie.

DEAR FRANKIE: Before he starred in The Phantom of the Opera, Gerard Butler made this beautiful little movie about a stranger who poses as the long-lost father of a deaf boy.

DOWNFALL: Bruno Ganz plays Adolf Hitler in this powerful German drama about Hitler’s final days as he contemplates murder and suicide in his private bunker.

APRIL 8:

SAHARA: Adventurers Matthew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz and their sidekick Steve Zahn will stop their quest of a sunken treasure on the Nile just long enough to save mankind from a mysterious plague.

FEVER PITCH: Bobby and Peter Farrelly join Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon to take us out to a ball game, or two, in this story of a die-hard Red Sox fan who finds a girl to love as much as he does his favourite team.

KUNG FU HUSTLE: This manic martial arts comedy from Stephen Chow, who created Shaolin Soccer, out-grossed every other movie to open in Asia last year.

ST. RALPH: In this gentle Canadian comedy a ninth grader vows to run the Boston Marathon in hopes his sacrifice will deliver his mother from her coma.

REBOUND: When Martin Lawrence is fired as a major coach of the NCAA he tries to rebuild his tarnished reputation by coaching a junior high school basketball team.

APRIL 15:

THE AMITYVILLE HORROR: Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George foolishly move into the haunted house that caused so much havoc back in 1979. Some people will never learn that old movie ghosts refuse to stay dead.

VALIANT: In Robots Ewan McGregor is a robot with a major mission. In Valiant he’s a little carrier pigeon with a big responsibility.

HOUSE OF D: David Duchovny (of X-Files fame) wrote, directed and stars in this semi-autobiographical story of a man who must come to terms with his past in order to connect with the most important people in his life.

APRIL 22:

A LOT LIKE LOVE: Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet play star-crossed lovers who can’t commit even though their paths keep crossing over a seven-year period.

THE INTERPRETER: Nicole Kidman is a UN interpreter who overhears an assassination plot, but no one will believe her except a Secret Service agent played by Sean Penn.

KING’S RANSOM: Anthony Anderson plays a man who tries to thwart his wife’s plans to leave with all his money by orchestrating his own kidnapping. You can just bet is goes horribly wrong a la Ruthless People.

THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES: Wes Bentley and a host of real-life soccer greats star in this story of the 1950 soccer finals, which saw the underdog United States team beat the champion British team.

MADISON: Jim Caviezel takes the controls of the Miss Madison hydroplane in hopes of winning the national championships.

APRIL 29:

THE HITCHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: In this sci-fi adventure based on the international best-seller, Martin Freeman and Mos Def try to thwart plans by alien forces to demolish Earth.

XXX: STATE OF THE UNION: Ice Cube stepped in for this super spy sequel when Vin Diesel opted to do The Pacifier. Samuel L. Jackson returns for the forces of good with Willem Dafoe leading the bad guys.