March Movies

Opening March 7

10,000 B.C.

Genre: Adventure

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of intense action and violence)

Cast: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Omar Sharif, Tim Barlow, Marco Khan, Reece Ritchie, Mo Zinal, Mona Hammond, Joel Virgel Vierset, Suri van Sornsen, Joel Fry, Nathanael Baring, Joe Vaz

Story: From director Roland Emmerich comes a sweeping odyssey into a mythical age of prophesies and gods, when spirits rule the land and mighty mammoths shake the earth. In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter, D’Leh, has found his heart’s passion – the beautiful Evolet. When a band of mysterious warlords raid his village and kidnap Evolet, D’Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-tooth tigers and prehistoric predators and, at their heroic journey’s end, they uncover a Lost Civilization. Their ultimate fate lies in an empire beyond imagination, where great pyramids reach into the skies. Here they will take their stand against a powerful god who has brutally enslaved their people.

Director: Roland Emmerich

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Web site: 10000BCmovie.com

The Bank Job

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner, Alki David, Michael Jibson, Richard Lintern, Don Gallagher, David Suchet

Story: A car dealer with a dodgy past and new family, Terry has always avoided major-league scams. But when Martine, a beautiful model from his old neighborhood, offers him a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London’s Baker Street, Terry recognizes the opportunity of a lifetime. Martine targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don’t realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets – secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal that spans London’s criminal underworld, the highest echelons of the British government, and the Royal Family itself…the true story of a heist gone wrong… in all the right ways.

Director: Roger Donaldson

Studio: Lionsgate

Web site: Lionsgate.com/TheBankJob

College Road Trip

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raven-Symoné, Raven-Symone, Donny Osmond, Will Sasso, Arnetia Walker

Story: Choosing which college to attend can be the most exciting and thrilling time of a young woman’s life… unless your overprotective father isn’t quite ready to let you go. In the Disney family comedy, “College Road Trip,” Melanie is eagerly looking forward to her first big step towards independence when she plans a “girls only” road trip to check out prospective universities. But when her overbearing police chief father insists on escorting her instead, she soon finds her dream trip has turned into a hilarious nightmare adventure full of comical misfortune and turmoil.

Director: Roger Kumble

Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Web site: Disney.com/CollegeRoadTrip

Girls Rock!

Genre: Documentary

Story: The primary subjects of “Girls Rock!” are Laura, an articulate adopted Korean girl from Oklahoma obsessed with death metal; Misty, who is emerging from a life of meth-addiction, homelessness and gang activity; Palace, a sweet-seeming 8-year-old with a heavy metal sneer and “rawk” heart, and Amelia, another 8-year-old, who’s writing a 14 song cycle about her Chihuahua Pippi and loves “crazy noise music.” Forming bands, writing songs and playing a gig in one week, these girls and the rest of the campers engage in an experiment meant to change their perception of themselves and each other.

Director: Shane King, Arne Johnson

Studio: Shadow Distribution

Web site: GirlsRockMovie.com

Opening March 14

Doomsday

Genre: Action, Thriller

MPAA Rating: R (for strong bloody violence, language and some sexual content/nudity)

Cast: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig, Malcolm McDowell

Story: In the action-packed new thriller from writer/director Neil Marshall (“The Descent”), authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades – until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, captained by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

Director: Neil Marshall

Studio: Universal Pictures

Web site: DoomsdayisComing.com

Dr. Seuss’ Horton

Hears a Who

Genre: Animation, Family

Cast: Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Isla Fisher, Dan Fogler, Amy Poehler, Dane Cook, Jaime Pressly, Jonah Hill

Story: The film is based on the beloved book, first published in 1954, by Ted Geisel, who wrote under the pen name Dr. Seuss. “Horton Hears a Who” is about an imaginative elephant who hears a cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Suspecting there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community which thinks he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to help.

Director: Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Web site: Hortonmovie.com

Never Back Down

Genre: Drama

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for mature thematic material involving intense sequences of fighting/violence, some sexuality, partying and language – all involving teens)

Cast: Sean Faris, Djimon Hounsou, Cam Gigandet, Amber Heard, Evan Peters, Wyatt Smith

Story: Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, “Never Back Down” is the story of Jake Tyler, a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler, played by Sean Faris, is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother’s shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler.

Director: Jeff Wadlow

Studio: Summit Entertainment

Web site: NeverBackDownthemovie.com

Opening March 21

Drillbit Taylor

Genre: Comedy

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for crude sexual references throughout, strong bullying, language, drug references and partial nudity)

Cast: Owen Wilson, Alex Frost, Casey Boersma, Dylan Boersma, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley

Story: After being harrased by a school bully, two teenagers hire a former soldier of fortune (Wilson) as a bodyguard, only to find out that he has his own agenda.

Director: Steve Brill

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Web site: DrillbitTaylor.com

Shutter

Genre: Horror, Thriller

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for terror, disturbing images, sexual content and language)

Cast: Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, David Denman, James Kyson Lee, John Hensley

Story: A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.

Director: Masayuki Ochiai

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Web site: Not Available

Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Cast: Tyler Perry, David Mann, Tamela Mann, Angela Bassett, Lance Gross, Chloe Bailey, Mariana Tolbert, Rick Fox, Sofia Vergara, Irma P. Hall

Story: A funny, moving romantic drama about the power of love and family, Lionsgate’s “Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns” marks another winning portrayal of life by writer/director/actor Tyler Perry (“Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” “Madea’s Family Reunion”) and features a return to the big screen by Madea, the indomitable, law-breaking, fun-loving grandma.

Director: Tyler Perry

Studio: Lionsgate

Web site: Lionsgate.com/MeettheBrowns

Opening March 28

21

Genre: Action, Adventure

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some violence, and sexual content including partial nudity)

Cast: Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Spacey, Liza Lapira, Josh Gad, Aaron Yoo, Sam Golzari

Story: Columbia Pictures’ high stakes action adventure “21” is inspired by the true story of the very brightest young minds in the country – and how they took Vegas for millions.

Ben Campbell is a shy, brilliant M.I.T. student who – needing to pay school tuition – finds the answers in the cards. He is recruited to join a group of the school’s most gifted students that heads to Vegas every weekend armed with fake identities and the know-how to turn the odds at blackjack in their favor. With unorthodox math professor and stats genius Micky Rosa leading the way, they’ve cracked the code. By counting cards and employing an intricate system of signals, the team can beat the casinos big time. Seduced by the money, the Vegas lifestyle, and by his smart and sexy teammate, Jill Taylor, Ben begins to push the limits. Though counting cards isn’t illegal, the stakes are high, and the challenge becomes not only keeping the numbers straight, but staying one step ahead of the casinos’ menacing enforcer: Cole Williams.

Director: Robert Luketic

Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)

Web site: 21-movie.com

My Mom’s New Boyfriend

Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Thriller

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content, language, some violence and drug material)

Cast: Antonio Banderas, Meg Ryan, Colin Hanks, Selma Blair, Norm MacDonald, Thomas Joseph Adams

Story: A young federal agent (Hanks) is assigned to a new case: spy on his mother (Ryan) and her new lover (Banderas), both suspects in an art theft ring.

AKA: “Homeland Security”

Director: George Gallo

Studio: Sony Pictures

Web site: Not Available

Possession

Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for violence, disturbing images, some sexuality and language)

Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lee Pace, Michael Landes, Chelah Horsdal, William B. Davis

Story: Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as Jess, a woman whose life is torn apart when her husband, Ryan (Michael Landes), and brother-in-law, Roman (Lee Pace), crash in a horrific car accident. Both brothers end up in comas, with little hope of recovery. But Roman wakes up and, when he does, insists he is her husband. As time goes on, Jess struggles with the possibility that the spirit of her beloved husband has returned to her in the body of her brother-in-law, or that something much more sinister is at work.

Director: Joel Bergvall, Simon Sandquist

Studio: Yari Film Group Releasing

Web site: Possesionmovie.com

Run, Fat Boy, Run

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Cast: Simon Pegg, Hank Azaria, Ameet Chana, Dylan Moran, Thandie Newton, Harish Patel

Story: Five years ago Dennis was at the altar about to marry Libby, his pregnant fiancée. He got cold feet and ran for the hills and he’s been going in circles ever since. When Dennis discovers Libby’s hooked up with high-flying-go-getter Whit, he realizes it’s now or never. He enters a marathon to show he’s more than a quitter but then finds out just how much sweat, strain and tears it takes to run for 26 miles. Nobody gives him a chance but Dennis knows this is his only hope to more than a running joke.

Director: David Schwimmer

Studio: Picturehouse

Web site: Not Available

Stop-Loss

Genre: Drama

MPAA Rating: R (for graphic violence and pervasive language)

Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ciarán Hinds, Timothy Olyphant, Victor Rasuk, Rob Brown

Story: Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. Brandon tries to resume the life he left behind with the help and support of his family and his best friend, Steve Shriver, who served with him in Iraq. Alongside their war-time buddies, Brandon and Steve try to make peace with civilian life. Then, against Brandon’s will, the Army orders him back to duty in Iraq. This upends Brandon’s entire world. The conflict into which he is thrown tests everything he believes in: the bond of family, the loyalty of friendship, the limits of love, and the value of honor.

Director: Kimberly Peirce

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Web site: StopLossmovie.com

Superhero Movie

Genre: Action, Comedy

Cast: Sara Paxton, Leslie Nielsen, Drake Bell, Christopher McDonald, Kevin Hart, Marion Ross, Ryan Hansen, Jeffrey Tambor, Brent Spiner

Story: Super is as super does: Finally, the guys behind the outrageously silly “Scary Movie” franchise have used their own ‘special powers’ to spoof superhero movies. After being bitten by a genetically altered dragonfly, high school loser Rick Riker develop superhuman abilities like incredible strength and armored skin. Rick decides to use his new powers for good and becomes a costumed crime fighter known as “The Dragonfly.” However, standing in the way of his destiny is the villainous Lou Landers. After an experiment gone wrong, Lou develops the power to steal a person’s life force and in a dastardly quest for immortality becomes the supervillain, “The Hourglass.” With unimaginable strength, unbelievable speed and deeply uncomfortable tights, will the Dragonfly be able to stop the sands of The Hourglass and save the world? More importantly, will we stop laughing long enough to notice?

Director: Craig Mazin

Studio: Dimension Films (The Weinstein Company), MGM

Web site: Superhero-movie.net