Starring: Jason Statham, Robert Knepper, Francois Berleand
Jason Statham returns as Frank Martin, professional driver and danger magnet who can't seem to keep from getting involved with his deliveries. This time around the plot's a thicker stew, involving the Ukraine EPA and a whole new barrage of people that want Frank dead. The eye candy is a character named Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of... ah, who cares. These films are as much about plot as porn is. We just want the action.
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert DuVall, Sissy Spacek, Jon Favreau
Kate (Reese) and Brad (Vince) had the perfect tropical getaway planned for their Christmas vacation, but on that magical yule-tide morning the weather had other ideas. Left with no means or excuses to escape their insane relatives, the couple makes their way to four different family/circus gatherings and gets sucked into the craziness.
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, David Wenham
This three-hour action-adventure romance flick is set in northern Australia just prior to World War II. Kidman plays an English aristocrat who inherits a ranch bigger than Maryland. Cattle barons try to take her land, and to protect her interests she's forced to recruit a Brawny Man cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of treacherous landscape. Once he gets where he's going, the Japanese bomb the ever-loving crap out of the place, complicating matters considerably.
Milk
Starring: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, James Franco
Activist and politician Harvey Milk was the first openly homosexual man to be elected to public office in the United States when he was voted to the city supervisors' board of San Francisco in 1977. Just a year later, Milk was dead, shot to death along with the city's mayor George Moscone by fellow city supervisor Dan White. Milk documents the last eight years of Harvey's life, as he moves from New York to San Francisco with his lover Scott Smith (James Franco), starts a successful business in what's called the Castro neighborhood and eventually finds himself immersed in politics.
