May 2010 Movies - Movie Insider (original) (raw)
Best Movies Released May 2010
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Movies Released Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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.
Naomie Harris, Andy Serkis, Toby Jones, Ray Winstone, Mackenzie Crook, Olivia Williams, Noel Clarke, Mat Whitecross
Drama
Where to Watch:
New York Theaters
User Rated:
2 / 5
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Movies Released Friday, May 7, 2010
Iron Man 2 PG-13
In "Iron Man 2," the world is aware that billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is the armored Super Hero Iron Man. Under pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military, Tony is unwilling to divulge the secrets behind the Iron Man armor because he fears the information will slip into the wrong hands. With Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), and James "Rhodey" Rhodes (Don Cheadle) at his side, Tony forges new alliances and confronts powerful new forces.
Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Downey Jr., Alan Fine, Kevin Feige, Mickey Rourke, Justin Theroux
Action Adventure Sequel
Where to Watch:
In Theaters
User Rated:
4 / 5
Badmaash Company
A group of four friends living in Bombay in the 1990s decide to import the luxuries from the West.
Thriller Crime
Where to Watch:
Limited Theaters
User Rated:
3 / 5
Happiness Runs
A young man attempts to save himself and his mother from a polygamous cult.
Jesse Plemons, Hanna Hall, Adam Sherman, Stephen Israel, Mark L. Young
Drama
Babies PG
Everybody loves... "Babies." This visually stunning new movie simultaneously follows four babies around the world - from first breath to first steps. From Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo, "Babies" joyfully captures on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at once unique and universal to us all.
Thomas Balmes, Alain Chabat
Documentary
Where to Watch:
Limited Theaters
User Rated:
3 / 5
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.
Drama
Mother and Child R
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.
Guillermo del Toro, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Jimmy Smits, Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Alfonso Cuarón
Drama
Movies Released Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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.
Tilda Swinton, Katie Bailiff, Brian Hill, Simon Armitage
Documentary
Movies Released Friday, May 14, 2010
Robin Hood PG-13
Oscar® winner Russell Crowe stars as the legendary figure known by generations as “Robin Hood,” whose exploits have endured in popular mythology and ignited the imagination of those who share his spirit of adventure and righteousness. In 13th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power. And whether thief or hero, one man from humble beginnings will become an eternal symbol of freedom for his people.
The Robin Hood adventure chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously interested only in self-preservation, from his service in King Richard’s army against the French. Upon Richard’s death, Robin travels to Nottingham, a town suffering from the corruption of a despotic sheriff and crippling taxation, where he falls for the spirited widow Lady Marion (Oscar® winner Cate Blanchett), a woman skeptical of the identity and motivations of this crusader from the forest. Hoping to earn the hand of Maid Marion and salvage the village, Robin assembles a gang whose lethal mercenary skills are matched only by its appetite for life. Together, they begin preying on the indulgent upper class to correct injustices under the sheriff.
With their country weakened from decades of war, embattled from the ineffective rule of the new king and vulnerable to insurgencies from within and threats from afar, Robin and his men heed a call to ever greater adventure. This unlikeliest of heroes and his allies set off to protect their country from slipping into bloody civil war and return glory to England once more.
Cate Blanchett, Oscar Isaac, Russell Crowe, Ridley Scott, Mark Strong, Michael Costigan, Danny Huston, Mark Addy
Drama Action Adventure
Where to Watch:
In Theaters
User Rated:
3 / 5
Letters to Juliet PG
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, Gael García Bernal, Franco Nero, Caroline Kaplan, Vanessa Redgrave, Eric Feig, Ellen Barkin, Gary Winick
Drama Romance
Where to Watch:
In Theaters
User Rated:
4 / 5
Just Wright PG
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, Common, Pam Grier, Paula Patton, Michael Landes, Shakim Compere, Sanaa Hamri, Mike Elliot
Comedy Romance Sports
Where to Watch:
In Theaters
User Rated:
3 / 5
Princess Kaiulani
A Hawaiian princess attempts to maintain the independence of the island against the threat of American colonization.
Q'Orianka Kilcher, Marc Forby, Barry Pepper
Drama
Daddy Longlegs NR
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.
Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie
Drama Comedy
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.
Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Steve Evets, Eric Cantona
Drama Comedy Sports
TiMER R
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
Comedy Fantasy Romance
Movies Released Friday, May 21, 2010
Shrek Forever After PG
After challenging an evil dragon, rescuing a beautiful princess and saving your in-laws’ kingdom, what’s an ogre to do? Well, if you’re Shrek, you suddenly wind up a domesticated family man. Instead of scaring villagers away like he used to, a reluctant Shrek now agrees to autograph pitch forks. What’s happened to this ogre’s roar? Longing for the days when he felt like a “real ogre,” Shrek is duped 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, Rumpelstiltskin is king and Shrek and Fiona have never met. Now, it’s up to Shrek to undo all he’s done in the hopes of saving his friends, restoring his world and reclaiming his one True Love.
Andrew Adamson, Antonio Banderas, Eddie Murphy, Justin Timberlake, Mike Myers, Kristin Schaal, Jon Hamm, Gina Shay
Adventure Comedy Sequel
Where to Watch:
In Theaters
User Rated:
4 / 5
MacGruber R
Only one American hero has earned the rank of Green Beret, Navy SEAL and Army Ranger. Just one operative has been awarded 16 purple hearts, 3 Congressional Medals of Honor and 7 presidential medals of bravery. And only one guy is man enough to still sport a mullet. In 2010, Will Forte brings "Saturday Night Live's" clueless soldier of fortune to the big screen in the action comedy "MacGruber."
In the 10 years since his fiancée was killed, special op MacGruber has sworn off a life of fighting crime with his bare hands. But when he learns that his country needs him to find a nuclear warhead that's been stolen by his sworn enemy, Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer), MacGruber figures he's the only one tough enough for the job.
Assembling an elite team of experts--Lt. Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe) and Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig)--MacGruber will navigate an army of assassins to hunt down Cunth and bring him to justice. His methods may be unorthodox. His crime scenes may get messy. But if you want the world saved right, you call in MacGruber.
Ryan Phillippe, Will Forte, Maya Rudolph, Tucker Tooley, Jorma Taccone, Ryan Kavanaugh, Kristen Wiig, Lorne Michaels
Comedy
Where to Watch:
In Theaters
User Rated:
3 / 5
Solitary Man R
Michael Douglas stars as a car magnate with a runaway libido, a former owner of a car dealership chain whose career and marriage were destroyed by his business and romantic indiscretions.
Mary-Louise Parker, Jesse Eisenberg, Michael Douglas, Jenna Fischer, Heidi Jo Markel, Paul Schiff, David Levien, Steven Soderbergh
Drama
Racing Dreams PG
"Racing Dreams" is the award winning coming-of-age story about three kids who dream of one day racing in NASCAR. Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker, Marshall Curry, takes us into the lives of Annabeth (11 years old), Josh (12), and Brandon (13) as they compete for the championship in the World Karting Association's National Series—widely considered the Little League for professional racing.
Clocking speeds of up to 70 mph, these young drivers race their way through the year-long National Series that spawned many of NASCAR's top drivers. And at the same time, they navigate the treacherous road between childhood and young adulthood.
Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Marshall Curry
Sports Documentary
Kites NR
Jay, a streetsmart, carefree young guy, now on the wanted list is mortally wounded and left to die in the harsh Mexican desert. The only thing that keeps him alive is his quest to find Natasha, a woman engaged to another man, but destined to be his. While Natasha speaks only Spanish, J does not understand a word of Spanish but the two are able to communicate through the language of love and passion.
Hrithik Roshan, Anurag Basu, Rakesh Roshan, Barbara Mori
Action Thriller Romance
Where to Watch:
Limited Theaters
User Rated:
3 / 5
180° South
Jeff Johnson recounts the journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia in 1968.
Documentary
Perrier's Bounty R
A petty crook (Cillian Murphy), his ailing father (Jim Broadbent) and a pretty neighbor go on the run from an Irish mobster's (Brendan Gleeson) goons.
Brendan Gleeson, Cillian Murphy, Jim Broadbent, Mark O'Rowe, Ian Fitzgibbon
Comedy Thriller Gangster
Holy Rollers R
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, Justin Bartha, Kevin Asch, Cary Jones, Ryan Silbert, Julio Caro, Rob Profusek, Danny Abeckaser
Comedy Crime
The Father of My Children
A french language film in which a movie producer suffers from crippling depression.
Mia Hansen-Løve, Michael Abiteboul, Chiara Caselli
Drama
John Rabe NR
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.
Steve Buscemi, Akira Emoto, Ulrich Tukur, Florian Gallenberger, Daniel Bruehl, Anne Consigny, Lu Huang, Zhang Jingchu
Drama
After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin United
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
Documentary
Movies Released Thursday, May 27, 2010
Sex and the City 2 R
Married for two years, a lot has changed for Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her three best friends, and they decide to bond by going on vacation together as a foursome to Abu Dhabi where Carrie reunites with a lost love.
Chris Noth, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, David Eigenberg, Mario Cantone, Michael Patrick King, John Melfi, Darren Star
Drama Comedy Sequel
Where to Watch:
In Theaters
User Rated:
3 / 5
Movies Released Friday, May 28, 2010
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time PG-13
From the team that brought the "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy to the big screen, Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films present "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," an epic action-adventure set in the mystical lands of Persia. A rogue prince (Jake Gyllenhaal) reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess (Gemma Arterton) and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time—a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.
Jake Gyllenhaal, Toby Kebbell, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, Jerry Bruckheimer, Gemma Arterton, Reece Ritchie, Mike Newell
Drama Action Adventure
Where to Watch:
In Theaters
User Rated:
4 / 5
Agora R
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, Max Minghella, Alejandro Amenábar, Rupert Evans, Mateo Gil, Rachel Weisz
Drama Romance
Where to Watch:
Limited Theaters
User Rated:
4 / 5
Survival of the Dead R
Like its predecessors, "George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead" takes place in a desperate, nightmarish world where the dead walk the earth, relentlessly attacking the living. It is the story of Plum Island – a beautiful refuge whose isolation allows two powerful families to maintain a semblance of order in the wake of the zombie holocaust. But as the inhabitants slowly die off, the two clans become sharply divided: the O’Flynns believe that the undead must be destroyed without exception, while the Muldoons insist that afflicted loved ones be kept “alive” until a cure is found. The result is an escalating showdown with echoes of a classic Western stand-off that erupts in brutality and violence.
George A. Romero, Julian Richings, Paula Devonshire, Joris Jarsky
Sequel Thriller Horror
Where to Watch:
Limited Theaters
User Rated:
3 / 5
Micmacs R
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.
Dany Boon, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant, Nicolas Marie, Andre Dussollier
Comedy Crime
Kites: The Remix
A shorter version of Kites, edited by Brett Ratner into a faster-paced romantic action movie.
Brett Ratner, Anurag Basu
Drama Action Romance
Breathless NR
A French car thief kills a policeman and then travels to Italy with his American girlfriend.
Drama Thriller Romance
After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin United
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
Documentary