New Movie Releases May 2007
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Week of May 4
The webslinger's back, and he's ready to kick some butt. In Spider-Man 3, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire must contend with two new villains (Thomas Haden Church and Topher Grace) as well as an unhappy girlfriend (Kirsten Dunst), a former pal bent on revenge (James Franco), and an alien parasite. Which raises a big question for director Sam Raimi: what on earth will he do for #4?
Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore hope that good audiences are in the cards for Lucky You, about a gambler trying to overcome the odds. The Flying Scotsman (limited) promises another uplifting sports story, this one about a cyclist (Jonny Lee Miller) who built his bike out of scrap, and breaks a world record with it.
Also in limited release: Waitress (LA/NY), a romantic comedy with Keri Russell; Away From Her (LA/NY), the directorial debut from indie regular Sarah Polley; Paris, je t'aime (LA/NY), a collection of 20 pieces about the City of Light; Civic Duty, a thriller with Peter Krause as a man suspicious of his Muslim neighbor; and The Treatment (NY), with Ian Holm as a psychiatrist counseling a heartbroken English teacher.
Week of May 11
In 28 Days Later, England fell prey to a deadly virus. In the sequel, 28 Weeks Later, Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne, and Robert Carlyle are among those resettling a supposedly safe area of London, only to find a second outbreak. Lindsay Lohan doesn't have any zombies to deal with, but she has to submit to a summer with Felicity Huffman and Jane Fonda in Georgia Rule, and Zach Braff must spend more time than he'd like with his wife's former boyfriend in The Ex.
Action comedy Delta Farce takes three hunting buddies (Larry The Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, and DJ Qualls), sticks them on a plane to Iraq, and then drops them somewhere in Mexico — without telling them. The more serious Home of the Brave (limited) stars Samuel Jackson, 50 Cent, and Jessica Biel in a drama about soldiers trying to readjust to civilian life.
Also in limited release: The Salon, a female version of Barbershop; sex comedy Blind Dating; The Hip Hop Project (LA/NY), a documentary about a once-homeless man who became a mentor to New York City youth; and indie drama Day Night Day Night (LY/NY).
Week of May 18
The Land of Far, Far Away needs a new king, which means trouble for a certain lovable ogre. Justin Timberlake joins his former significant other Cameron Diaz, Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, and a whole slew of celebrity cameos in Shrek the Third.
Parker Posey reunites with director Hal Hartley for Fay Grim (limited), a sequel to Henry Fool. In this film, Jeff Goldblum's CIA agent forces Posey's character to go to Europe in pursuit of some very valuable notebooks. Luke Wilson does a little sneaking around of his own in The Wendell Baker Story, which he co-directed with his brother Andrew. Luke's character, a recent parolee, takes a job at a hotel and tries to figure out how to get back his girlfriend while dealing with the hotel's evil nurse, played by Luke's other brother, Owen.
Also out in limited release: Once, a musical that won an Audience Award at Sundance; Even Money, a gambling addiction drama with Kim Basinger, Forest Whitaker and Nick Cannon; and Severance, about an office retreat gone very, very wrong.
Week of May 25
The third of this month's big sequels truly brings out the big guns. In Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, and Geoffrey Rush must rescue Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from Davy Jones' locker before fighting one last battle; the cast also includes Bill Nighy, Chow Yun-Fat and Keith Richards as (who else?) Sparrow's father.
Bug, an adaptation of Tracy Letts' play, is considerably smaller in scale. This psychological drama stars Michael Shannon, as a veteran turned drifter, and Ashley Judd, as a troubled woman whose hotel room Shannon turns up in. A little more uplifting is Angel-A (LA/NY), a Luc Besson picture about a scam artist who saves a woman from drowning in the Seine.
Also out in limited release: Paprika (NY), by anime director Satoshi Kon; The Boss of It All, an office comedy from Lars Von Trier; and The Golden Door, which follows an Italian farmer, his family, and a mysterious Englishwoman as they emigrate from Sicily to the United States.
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Note: A "limited" release generally means that the movie will play in Los Angeles and/or New York City, but not always. Please check your local papers or theaters for these selected films.
