August 14
Bandslam
Vanessa Hudgens stars in a Battle of the Bands as a rocker chick who joins a band looking to take their sound and career opportunities to
new levels. Although the character is in high school and sings, don’t count on Hudgens to sing and dance. Bandslam is all wailing guitars, teenage angst and passion.
The Goods
The Goods is one funny movie that shows the more hilarious side of one of our favorite classic actors, James Brolin. Brolin stars as salesman — a little reported on
suffering microcosm of our current economy. Nothing helps in times of economic hardship as do comedies. The comedy film did blockbuster business in the ’30s and look for films such as
The Goods with another funny guy – Jeremy Piven – to fill that void in August 2009.
Ponyo
An animated film that features the voices of Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Liam Neeson and Tina Fey from the director of Spirited Away – sounds amazing! Disney is
ushering in the Japanese filmmaker’s American big-time debut.
Being from Disney — never far from being the best at promoting themselves — Miley’s sister Noah stars as Ponyo with the Jonas Brothers’ littlest brother Frankie as
the fish’s best friend.
Spread
Decades after Richard Gere turned being a Gigolo into a star-making turn in American Gigolo, Ashton Kutcher returns to film as
more Gere Gigolo and less Deuce Bigalow.
Anne Heche also stars as an older woman who becomes enamored by Kutcher’s character. Witnessing Kutcher as a hustler should be a career high for the actor if he can hit it out of the park.
Trailer for Spread
August 21
Shorts
Robert Rodriguez invites SheKnows to talk about his latest family film that follows in the footsteps of Spy Kids while taking the imagination factor to the umpteenth level. Don’t miss our exclusive video interview from Shorts on August 17.
Rodriguez has impeccable ability at casting terrific kids, but his scoring James Spader, William H. Macy and Jon Cryer as the adults in Shorts is a stroke of genius.
The film’s title reflects the series of short films that comprises Shorts. The various shorts are narrated by Jimmy Bennett and follows a mysterious rock as it changes hands through
several circles of children.
Inglourious Basterds
Brad Pitt plays a Jewish-American soldier charged with creating a team of Jewish-American guerilla fighters who drop into Nazi occupied France and literally start taking
heads. Inglourious Basterds is directed by Quentin Tarantino, would you expect anything less?
If you have seen any of the terrific teasers crossing the internet, you’ll note that incredible characterization by Pitt. Tarantino
reported that Pitt was so into his Lieutenant Aldo Raine character that he never stopped being Aldo throughout the entire shoot. Sign us up.
Post Grad
Alexis Bledel is one of Hollywood’s most talented up-and-coming actresses and she gets to shine in Post Grad. Post Grad follows a college
graduate looking for her path in life after moving back home with her less than joyous family.
August 26
Taking Woodstock
Ang Lee takes us back to an event that literally happened 40 years ago this weekend. A nation of young people took Woodstock and for several days, turned into the most harmonious place on earth.Lee’s Taking Woodstock stars Liev Schreiber, Emile Hirsch,
Demetri Martin and Imelda Staunton fulfill Lee’s dream of making a Woodstock movie after his ’70s-set Ice Storm. Centered around Woodstock’s unofficial host Elliot
Tiber’s book of the same name, Taking Woodstock promises to be another chapter in the Ang Lee lineage of films that surprise, enlighten and challenge our morays.
August 28
The Boat that Rocked
The Boat That Rocked is a true story of a British radio DJ who had to take to the river on a boat to broadcast rock n’ roll.
Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the DJ, Emma Thompson, Gemma Arterton, Kenneth Branagh and Bill Nighy fill out the impressive cast.
The year is 1966 and the British invasion is ramping up with the radio littered with Beatles, Stones and The Who. Only problem, BBC is slow to accept the new musical genre. So a pirate DJ takes to
the “high” seas of ’60s London and brings swinging ’60s Britain its soundtrack.
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