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April 2010 

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In Theatres

Your monthly guide to new releases


By Ingrid Randoja

APRIL 2

Clash Of The Titans

This remake of the cheesy 1981 flick stars Avatar’s Sam Worthington as legendary Greek hero Perseus, the son of a human mother and Zeus (Liam Neeson), king of the gods. When Hades (Ralph Fiennes), god of the underworld, separates Perseus from his mortal family, the boy volunteers to lead a band of warriors against Hades and his army of creepy CGI creatures.

Why Did I Get Married Too?

Filmmaking machine Tyler Perry’s sequel to 2007’s Why Did I Get Married? sends the four couples from the first movie to the Caribbean for a relaxing vacation. But since this is a Tyler Perry movie you know women will cry over their men, men will cry over their women, and everyone will eventually count their blessings.

Women Without Men

Set against the coup orchestrated by the Shah of Iran in the summer of 1953, this Iranian film follows four women who escape their confining lives and retreat to a magical garden where they are free to be themselves.

Connie Nielsen and John Bell in
A Shine of Rainbows

APRIL 9

A Shine Of Rainbows

Little orphan Tomas (John Bell) is adopted by an Irish couple (Connie Nielsen and Aidan Quinn) who bring him to the remote island of Corrie. The frail child has difficulty fitting into his strange surroundings, until his new mother regales him with magical, inspirational stories.

Date Night

Phil and Clara Foster’s (Steve Carell and Tina Fey) predictable date night takes an unexpected turn when they assume the identity of another couple to score a restaurant reservation. Problem is, they’re masquerading as a couple that a bad guy (Ray Liotta) wants dead.

The Square

Ray (David Roberts) is having an affair with the unpredictable Carla (Claire van der Boom). Carla tells Ray about a bag of money her criminal husband brought home. Carla says, “Let’s steal it and run away together,” Ray says, “Okay,” and then their plan goes tragically — and violently — awry.

The Eclipse

A widower (Ciarán Hinds) living in a coastal Irish town falls in love with a visiting novelist (Iben Hjejle) who writes ghost stories. Her profession could prove useful as the ghost of the widower’s dead wife begins to haunt the new couple.

 

APRIL 16

Death At A Funeral

Just three years after the original British comedy Death at a Funeral was released, comes this American remake. At their father’s funeral, Aaron (Chris Rock) and Ryan (Martin Lawrence) learn daddy dearest was actually gay, and his lover (Peter Dinklage) is asking for $30,000 or he’ll spill the beans to the whole world.

Kick-Ass

Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) is a milquetoast high school student who loves comic books. Fed up with society’s blasé attitude toward injustice, Dave works out, buys a costume and takes to the street as a superhero — despite the fact he doesn’t possess any powers. Dubbed Kick-Ass by the YouTube nation, Dave meets others who’ve become superheroes, like the 11-year-old, foul-mouthed Hit-Girl (Chloe Moretz), her father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage), and the nerdy Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse).

Oceans

APRIL 22

Oceans

Disneynature follows its critically acclaimed Earth documentary with this dazzling look at the world’s oceans. Oceans cover nearly three-quarters of our planet’s surface, and humankind has been exploring them for thousands of years, but much of what occurs within these large bodies of water remains a mystery, which filmmakers Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud set out to unravel.


APRIL 23

The Losers

Based on Andy Diggle’s graphic novel, this shoot ’em up finds a band of special forces soldiers — Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short and Óscar Jaenada — teaming up with a beautiful killer (Zoe Saldana) to take revenge against the CIA agent (Jason Patric) who betrayed them.

The Back-Up Plan

After giving birth to her twins, Emme and Max, in 2008, Jennifer Lopez took more than a year off, but now she’s back on the big screen in this rom-com about a single woman who discovers she’s pregnant the day she meets Mr. Right (Alex O’Loughlin).

 

APRIL 30

Please Give

Director Nicole Holofcener (Friends With Money, Lovely & Amazing) makes intimate movies about people questioning their own morals and ethics. Her newest stars Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt as a New York couple who buy the apartment next door to an old woman (Ann Morgan Guilbert) in the hopes they’ll be able to expand into her unit when she dies. But their relationship with their elderly neighbour grows complicated as they get to know her granddaughters (Amanda Peet, Rebecca Hall) and start to feel bad about waiting for her demise.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare On Elm Street

This re-imagining of the original 1984 horror stars Jackie Earle Haley as Freddie Krueger, the burned and disfigured serial killer who slices and dices his victims using his four-bladed glove.

Gunless

The polite, decent folks living in the small Canadian town of Barclay’s Brush get a dose of Wild West bravado when the Montana Kid (Paul Gross) rides into their midst. The Kid, who’s been shot and is on the run from a nasty varmint (Callum Keith Rennie), hides out in town and tries to make nice with the non-violent Canucks.

Furry Vengeance

Real estate developer Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser) has the bright idea to wipe out a nature reserve in Oregon and build a residential community there. Even his wife (Brooke Shields) and son (Matt Prokop) think it’s a bad idea, but it’s the forest animals who express their anger most convincingly by sabotaging Dan’s plans.

SPECIAL EVENTS ON THE BIG SCREEN

The Wiggles

Sat., Apr. 10 & Sun., Apr. 11

Kenny Chesney 3D

Wed., Apr. 21 & Thurs., Apr. 22
Sat., Apr. 24 & Sun., Apr. 25

National Theatre

The Habit of Art
Thurs., Apr. 22

Metropolitan Opera

Hamlet (Thomas)
Encore: Sat., Apr. 24

WWE-Pay-Per-View

Extreme Rules
Sun., Apr. 25

Times Talks

Masterminds behind Lost

Thurs., May 20
Producer Carlton Cuse and co-creator Damon Lindelof on crafting the TV series’ finale

 


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