Actually, it’s not clear from the trailers whether a passenger or the skyscraper itself is possessed. Hayden Panettiere and Justin Long provide the voices, with Christina Ricci, Danny Glover, and the late Dennis Hopper chipping in a few howls.Devil – Five people get stuck on an elevator and one of them is Satan? Best high-concept schlock premise ever. For everyone else, there’s always “Jackass 3D.’’45365 – The title is the ZIP code of Sidney, Ohio, a typical small American town on which directors/brothers/local boys Bill and Turner Ross train their cameras and try to capture the breadth and depth of life itself.Alpha and Omega 3-D Indie powerhouse Lionsgate joins with India’s Crest Animation for this computer-animated family fare about two wolves — the snippy daughter of the pack’s alpha male and a goofball “omega’’ — who get “volunteered’’ to repopulate a national park. There are belated sequels: “Little Fockers’’ comes six years after “Meet the Fockers,’’ the new “Wall Street’’ is 23 years overdue, and “Tron: Legacy’’ had to wait almost three decades to see digital daylight.Remakes? We’ve got ’em, from “Let Me In,’’ a Hollywood redo of the Swedish vampire drama “Let the Right One In,’’ to the Coen brothers taking on 1969’s “True Grit.’’ And, as always, there are the dramas rooted in celebrities of the past, whether they’re poets (Allen Ginsberg as played by James Franco, in “Howl’’), rockers (Aaron Johnson’s young John Lennon, in “Nowhere Boy’’), or horses (the various equines playing “Secretariat’’).That was then, here’s now: the dramas and betrayals behind the founding of Facebook in “The Social Network,’’ the effect of downsizing on “The Company Men,’’ the neo-nudie underground of “Burlesque.’’ There are directors taking chances — Clint Eastwood with the supernatural drama of “Hereafter’’ and Darren Aronofsky with the psychological ballet wars of “Black Swan.’’ There are actors bringing in labors of love: Mark Wahlberg with his Greater Beantown boxing movie, “The Fighter.’’What there doesn’t seem to be is a sense of 2010 as a movie year, as there was in 2009 when the fantasy of “Avatar’’ went up against the harsh realities of “The Hurt Locker.’’ Maybe ambitious moviegoers will just have to content ourselves with movies that are good, or at least try to be. I.There are series summings-up: the first part of the last chapter of “Harry Potter’’ and the last chapter of the first film version of Stieg Larsson’s best-selling crime trilogy.They meet when he comes to class to talk about his job. The “A,’’ by the way, is a “Scarlet Letter ’’ reference.Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child – Director Tamra Davis (“Billy Madison,’’ “Crossroads’’) was close friends with Basquiat before the artist’s death, at 27, in 1988, and decided to use her archival footage of him as the basis of this documentary, a more realistic take on his life than Julian Schnabel’s 1996 “Basquiat.’’ It comes off the festival circuit with radiant reviews.Mademoiselle Chambon – A French drama about a discreet love affair between a happily married mason (Vincent Lindon) and his son’s schoolteacher (Sandrine Kiberlain). With Amanda Bynes and Penn Badgley. She plays a student done in by rumors of lost virginity. Night Shyamalan wrote the original story.Easy – A The very appealing Emma Stone finally gets a comedy to herself.So does his preoccupation with Boston as a criminal wonderland. Directed and co-written by Stéphane Brizé.The Town – Ben Affleck’s improbable career as a director continues. From a casting standpoint, this movie’s sexiness is off the charts.Too bad no one told the girlfriend. The accents could have minds of their own.The Virginity Hit – “Porky’s’’ for Generation YouTube: A teen nerd (Zack Pearlman) builds a Web documentary around the attempts of his fellow nerd (Matt Bennett) to become a man. Based on a Chuck Hogan novel (“Prince of Thieves’’). Jon Hamm plays the FBI agent in pursuit. Jeremy Renner plays his homie. He starts a relationship with the bank manager (Rebecca Hall) he just held hostage.
![]() Prince Paul A Prince Among Thieves Zip Code Of SidneyJohn Ortiz and Daphne Rubin-Vega play Jack’s friends.Kings of Pastry – Fans of “Top Chef’’ and “Cake Boss,’’ start your whisks: The new film from documentary legends D.A. You could watch this in French or wait for the inevitable Hollywood remake with Dane Cook.Jack Goes Boating – Philip Seymour Hoffman directed and stars in this adaptation of Bob Glaudini’s stage comedy about a New York City limo driver who starts seeing a woman (Amy Ryan) who works at a funeral home. It’s over-the-top Asian fusion with a heaping side dish of Sergio Leone spaghetti.Catfish – Before “The Social Network’’ in October makes you want to destroy your Facebook page, this documentary about a virtual relationship that goes sour will make you wonder whether Facebook can destroy you.A Film Unfinished – This documentary revises the meaning of a Nazi documentary about the Warsaw ghetto after a discovered reel of footage suggests that portions of the film were staged.Heartbreaker – A charming Paris hustler (Romain Duris of “The Beat That My Heart Skipped’’) runs a profitable business breaking up couples but finds a challenge when he’s hired by the father of a woman (Vanessa Paradis) engaged to be married in a week. Legendary director Zhang Yimou (“Raise the Red Lantern,’’ “Hero’’) aims to please in this slapstick fable set among epic landscapes. Let’s hope the film doesn’t live up to its promo tag: “An Epic Fail.’’A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop – Admit it: You’ve been waiting all these years for a Chinese western remake of “Blood Simple,’’ the Coen brothers’ 1984 debut film. Outlook for mac empty trashHe’s gone a little soft, trying to fix things with his daughter (Carey Mulligan), who’s engaged to a younger version (Shia LaBeouf) of her father’s old protégé from the first movie. Now it’s a flashy art-house thriller by Marco Amenta and starring Veronica D’Agostino.Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – In a time of financial strife, isn’t Oliver Stone just the man we need to hear from? This sequel to his 1987 film brings back the oily Gordon Gecko (Michael Douglas), who’s released from prison and more or less resumes his old ways. Producer Galt Niederhoffer adapts her own novel for her directorial debut Josh Duhamel, Adam Brody, Anna Paquin, and Elijah Wood fill out the roster for this uneasy comedy-drama reunion.The Sicilian Girl – The true story of a young woman who spilled the beans on her Mafia family was already the subject of a documentary in 2002. Mark Romanek (“One Hour Photo’’) directs.The Romantics – It’s a decade after college, two of the gang are getting married, and it’s up to the rest to take stock, especially passive-aggressive writer Katie Holmes, who’s still pining for the groom. It’s from the makers of the penguin-themed “Happy Feet,’’ who clearly intend to work their way through the entire biological class of Aves — perhaps a romantic comedy about the Eastern wood-pewee will be next.Never Let Me Go – What’s the mystery of Hailsham, an elegant British boarding school that keeps its students on an oddly short leash? Readers of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed 2005 novel know, and now moviegoers get to watch Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, and Carey Mulligan (“An Education’’) wrestle with their feelings and their destinies. Chloe Sevigny costars in this oddball comedy.Breath Made Visible – A documentary about the modern dance pioneer and cancer survivor Anna Halprin, still performing at 88. Nice to see the redoubtable Judy Greer (“13 Going on 30’’) as the mother of Barry’s child, and any planet that envisions Cybill Shepherd and Malcolm MacDowell as her parents is a planet we want to visit. Sigourney Weaver and Jamie Lee Curtis also star in the frantic comedy, but, really, it’s Betty’s world and they just get to live in it.Barry Munday – Patrick Wilson (“Watchmen’’) goes for the character role as Barry, an office-park Lothario who loses his testicles and gains an unborn child in the same week. All right, White only plays the grandma of lead Kristen Bell, who’s busy trying to sabotage the marriage of her brother to her high school rival (Odette Yustman).
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