New Movie Releases - Friday February 15

This is an interesting collection of movies that are coming out this weekend. There are a couple I may actually check out. Here are the new releases for this weekend...


Jumper (Feb. 14) - starring Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson. Once David Rice (Christensen) discovers he has the power to teleport from one place to another, he uses his ability to search for the man he believes is responsible for the death of his mother. Complicating his mission is the existence of a secret organization who want to exterminate people like David, which causes the young man to enter into a shaky alliance with a fellow "jumper".

The Spiderwick Chronicles (Feb. 14) - starring Freddie Highmore. Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.




Definitely, Maybe (Feb. 14) - starring Ryan Reynolds and Abigail Breslin. As Will Hayes (Reynolds) explains the complexities of his pending divorce to his daughter, Maya (Breslin), he opens up about the three other women with whom he has had relationships -- a process that gets him to reconsider some of his past decisions.



Step Up 2 the Streets - starring Briana Evigan and Robert Hoffman. At the Maryland School of the Arts, students Andie (Evigan) and Chase (Hoffman) look to impress at an underground street-dance competition by forming a crew with the school's best performers.

Diary of the Dead (Limited) - directed by George A. Romero. During production on their fictional zombie flick, a group of film students encounter the actual undead.





The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (LA/NY) - A drama set in 1970 in Bom Retiro, a Jewish-Italian neighborhood in Brazil where young Mauro is left by is parents, left-wing militants who are going underground for their safety. Thinking that his grandfather will be there to shelter and care for him, Mauro soon learns that his relative has passed away from Shlomo, his grandfather's next-door neighbor and Mauro's hesitant new guardian.


Enjoy the movies!!!

The Flick Guru