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That's it for this week, so take a look at what's new in theaters and what's coming up in the next couple of weeks. Have a good weekend!
Scott Jentsch
Publisher, The BigScreen Cinema Guide
The following are new releases opening in theaters in the next week.
| Babies 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. Starring Ponijao, Bayarjargal, Mari, Hattie Genre - Documentary View trailers and video clips |   cultural and maternal nudity throughout |
| Badmaash Company Life in the 1990’s was remarkably different for the average Indian. Consumerism had not set in. It was devoid of most of the luxuries of the West. In fact everything “imported” was good, and everything Indian, passé. BADMAASH COMPANY is a story set in the 1990’s in middle class Bombay (as it was known then), of four ordinary youngsters – Karan (Shahid Kapoor), Bulbul (Anushka Sharma), Zing (Meiyang Chang) and Chandu (Vir Das) – who came together to start an import business of things longed for by yuppie Indians. Starring Shahid Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Meiyang Chang, Vir Das Genre - Romance View trailers and video clips |  |
| Happiness Runs A young man realizes the shortcomings of the utopian ideals on the hippie commune where he was raised. Victor's mother is funding the commune where the guru Insley hypnotizes and seduces women with a technique he calls "running." Insley manipulates the minds of these women so that they give him their bodies and all their worldly possessions. His childhood love returns to take care of her deathly ill father. Haunted by visions of her death, is desperate to save her and himself by escaping from the polygamous cult. Finally, he is torn between getting money from his mother who is entirely under Insley's influence, dealing with the violent drama of his drug-addled friends, and staying to save Becky as she spins out of control. Starring Mark L. Young, Hanna Hall, Jesse Plemons, Rutger Hauer, Rich Sickler Genre - Drama View trailers and video clips |
| Iron Man 2 The continuing adventures of billionaire industrialist Tony Stark and his alter-ego, Iron Man. The world is now 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. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Bettany Genre - Action/Adventure View trailers and video clips |   sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence, and some language |
| Iron Man 2: The IMAX Experience The continuing adventures of billionaire industrialist Tony Stark and his alter-ego, Iron Man. The world is now 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. Digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience(R) with IMAX DMR(R) technology. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Bettany Genre - Action/Adventure View trailers and video clips |  sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence, and some language |
| Mother and Child Three women's lives share a common core: they have all been profoundly affected by adoption. KAREN (Annette Bening) had a baby at 14, gave her up at birth, and has been haunted ever since by the daughter she never knew. ELIZABETH (Naomi Watts) grew up as an adopted child; she's a bright and ambitious lawyer, but a flinty loner in her personal life. LUCY (Kerry Washington) is just embarking with her husband on the adoption odyssey, looking for a baby to become their own. Starring Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, Jimmy Smits, Samuel L. Jackson, David Morse Genre - Drama View trailers and video clips |   sexuality, brief nudity, and language |
| Multiple Sarcasms Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, Elizabeth. But slowly it 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. Starring Timothy Hutton, Mira Sorvino, Dana Delany, Mario Van Peebles, India Ennenga Genre - Drama View trailers and video clips |  sexual references and language |
| The Oath The story of two brothers-in-law once close to Osama bin Laden. Abu Jandal was his bodyguard, an Al Qaeda insider, who in 1996 recruited Salim Hamdan to work as bin Laden’s driver. As the film opens their fates have diverged: Abu Jandal drives a taxi through the dusty streets of Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, while Hamdan faces war crime charges from Guantánamo Prison. Starring Abu Jandal, Salim Hamdam Genre - Documentary View trailers and video clips |  |
| Trash Humpers A confrontational experience that includes creepy masks, low-grade torture, frequent public urination, senseless vandalism and trash humpers. Starring Paul Booker, Dave Cloud, Chris Crofton, Charles Ezell, Chris Gantry Genre - Drama View trailers and video clips |
| DCI 2010: The Countdown Genre - Program View trailers and video clips |
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