Ratatouille (2007)

Release Date: June 29, 2007
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
Director: Brad Bird
Screenwriter: Brad Bird
Starring: Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano, Brian Dennehy, Peter
Sohn, Peter O'Toole, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo, Will Arnett, Julius Callahan,
James Remar, John Ratzenberger, Teddy Newton, Tony Fucile, Jake Steinfeld, Brad
Bird, Laurent Spelvogel (narrator)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Official Website: Ratatouille.com

Plot Summary: Academy Award®-winning director Brad Bird ("The Incredibles") and the amazing storytellers at Pixar Animation Studios ("Cars," "Finding Nemo") take you into an entirely new and original world where the unthinkable combination of a rat and a 5-star gourmet restaurant come together for the ultimate fish-out-of-water tale.

In the hilarious new animated-adventure, "Ratatouille," a rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the city of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unwanted visitor in the kitchen at one of Paris' most exclusive restaurants, Remy forms an unlikely partnership with Linguini, the garbage boy, who inadvertently discovers Remy's amazing talents. They strike a deal, ultimately setting into motion a hilarious and exciting chain of extraordinary events that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down.

Remy finds himself torn between following his dreams or returning forever to his previous existence as a rat. He learns the truth about friendship, family and having no choice but to be who he really is, a rat who wants to be a chef. Directed by Academy Award®-winner Brad Bird. — More here

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Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

Release Date: June 27, 2007
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Len Wiseman
Screenwriter: Mark Bomback, David Marconi
Starring: Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Timothy Olyphant, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Cliff Curtis, Kevin Smith, Jonathan Sadowski
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence and action, language, and a brief sexual situation)
Official Website: LiveFreeorDieHard.com
Plot Summary: An attack on the vulnerable United States computer infrastructure begins to shut down the entire nation. The mysterious figure behind the shattering scheme has figured out every digital angle - but he never figured an old-fashioned, "analog" fly-in-the-ointment: John McClane.— More here

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A Mighty Heart (2007)

Release Date: June 22, 2007
Studio: Paramount Vantage
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Screenwriter: John Orloff
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi, Will Patton, Irfan Khan, Sajid Hasan, Aly Khan, Denis O'Hare
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for horror violence, some sexual content and language)
Official Website: AMightyHeart.com

Plot Summary: On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl's world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane he might be late for dinner. He never returned.

In the face of death, Danny's spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir "A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl." Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he would never meet. Transcending religion, race and nationality, Mariane's courageous desire to rise above the bitterness and hatred that continues to plague this post 9/11 world, serves as the purest expression of the joy of life she and Danny shared.— More here

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Evan Almighty (2007)

Release Date: June 22, 2007
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Tom Shadyac
Screenwriter: Steve Oedekerk
Starring: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Goodman, John Michael Higgins, Jimmy Bennett, Wanda Sykes, Jonah Hill
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG (for mild rude humor and some peril)
Official Website: EvanAlmighty.com

Plot Summary: Steve Carell reprises his role as Evan Baxter -- the polished, preening newscaster of the first film -- who finds himself the next one anointed by God (Morgan Freeman) to accomplish a holy mission.

Newly elected to Congress, Evan leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia. Once there, his life gets turned upside-down when God appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark. But his befuddled wife (Lauren Graham) and kids just can't decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of Biblical proportions...— More here

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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

Release Date: June 15, 2007
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Tim Story
Screenwriter: Don Payne
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington, Andre Braugher, Gonzalo Menendez, Laurence Fishburne
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG (for sequences of action violence, some mild language and innuendo)
Official Website: FantasticFourmovie.com | MySpace.com/RiseoftheSilverSurfer

Plot Summary: Marvel's first family of superheroes, The Fantastic Four, meets their greatest challenge yet in "Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer" as the enigmatic, intergalactic herald, The Silver Surfer, comes to Earth to prepare it for destruction. As the Silver Surfer races around the globe wreaking havoc, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben must unravel the mystery of the Silver Surfer and confront the surprising return of their mortal enemy, Dr. Doom, before all hope is lost.— More here

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Nancy Drew (2007)

Release Date: June 15, 2007
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Andrew Fleming
Screenwriter: Andrew Fleming, Tiffany Paulsen
Starring: Emma Roberts, Josh Flitter, Max Thieriot, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tate Donovan
Genre: Adventure, Family, Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG (for mild violence, thematic elements and brief language)
Official Website: NancyDrewmovie.com

Plot Summary: Based on characters created by Carolyn Keene, "Nancy Drew" follows Nancy (Emma Roberts) as she accompanies her father, Carson Drew (Tate Donovan), to Los Angeles on one of his business trips and stumbles across evidence about a long-unsolved crime involving the mysterious death of a beautiful movie star. Nancy's resourcefulness and personal responsibility are put to the test when she finds herself in the middle of the fast-living, self-indulgent world of Hollywood.— More here

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Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

Release Date: June 8, 2007
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Screenwriter: Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Ellen Barkin, Al Pacino, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Eddie Jemison, Shaobo Qin, Carl Reiner, Elliot Gould
Genre: Action, Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for brief sensuality)
Official Website: Oceans13.com | MySpace.com/Oceans13movie

Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and the gang would have only one reason to pull off their most ambitious and risky casino heist—to defend one of their own. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank (Al Pacino) double-crosses one of the original Ocean's eleven—Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould)—Danny and the gang team up one more time to see if they can break "the Bank."— More here

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Surf's Up (2007)

Release Date: June 8, 2007
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Ash Brannon, Chris Buck
Screenwriter: Lisa Addario, Joe Syracuse
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Shia LaBeouf, Zooey Deschanel, James Woods, Jane Krakowski, Jon Heder, Mario Cantone, Brian Benben, Michael McKean
Genre: Action, Animation, Family
MPAA Rating: PG (for mild language and some rude humor)
Official Website: SonyPictures.com

A stylistically daring CGI feature, 'Surf's Up' is based on the groundbreaking revelation that surfing was actually invented by penguins. In the film, a documentary crew will take audiences behind the scenes and onto the waves during the most competitive, heartbreaking and dangerous display of surfing known to man, the Penguin World Surfing Championship.— More here

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Gracie (2007)

Release Date: June 1, 2007
Studio: Picturehouse
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Screenwriter: Karen Janszen, Lisa Marie Peterson
Starring: Elisabeth Shue, Dermot Mulroney, Carly Schroeder, Andrew Shue
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for brief sexual content)
Official Website: FindingGracie.com | MySpace.com/Graciethemovie

Set in 1978, "Gracie" is an inspirational film about a teenage girl who overcomes the loss of her brother and fights the odds to achieve her dream of playing competitive soccer at a time when girls' soccer did not exist. Based on true events from the lives of the Shue family (producer and co-star Andrew Shue, Academy Award®-nominated actress Elisabeth Shue), the film is directed by Academy Award®-winning director Davis Guggenheim ("An Inconvenient Truth"), who happens to be part of the family as well, being married to Elisabeth Shue. The film also features a terrific 1970's soundtrack including classic songs from Boston, Blondie, Aretha Franklin, and the Boss, Bruce Springsteen.

Living in South Orange New Jersey, 15 year old Gracie Bowen (Carly Schroeder) is the only girl in a family of three brothers. Their family life revolves almost entirely around soccer: her father (Dermot Mulroney) and brothers are obsessed with the sport, practicing in the backyard's makeshift field every day from morning 'til night. Tragedy unexpectedly strikes when Gracie's older brother Johnny (Jesse Lee Soffer), star of the high school varsity soccer team and Gracie's only protector, is killed in a car accident.

Struggling with grief over her family's loss, Gracie decides to fill the void left on her brother's team by petitioning the school board to allow her to play on the boy's high school varsity soccer team in his place. Her father, a former soccer star himself, tries to prove to Gracie that she is not tough enough or talented enough to play with boys. Her mother, Lindsey Bowen (Elisabeth Shue) already an outsider in the sports-obsessed family, is no help either.

Undeterred, Gracie finds reserves of strength she never knew existed, and persists in changing everyone's beliefs in what she is capable of, including her own. Gracie not only forces her father to wake up from his grief and see her as the beautiful and strong person that she has always been but she also brings her family together in the face of their tragedy.— More here

Mr. Brooks (2007)

Mr. Brooks
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Studio: MGM
Director: Bruce A. Evans
Screenwriter: Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon
Starring: Kevin Costner, William Hurt, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, Marg Helgenberger
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for strong bloody violence, some graphic sexual content, nudity and language)
Official Website: TheresSomethingAboutMrBrooks.com | MySpace.com/MrBrooksmovie




All human beings...are commingled out of good and evil."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Consider Mr. Brooks. A successful businessman, a generous philanthropist, a loving father and devoted husband. Seemingly, he's perfect. But Mr. Brooks has a secret -- he is an insatiable serial killer, so lethally clever that no one has ever suspected him -- until now.

Academy Award winner Kevin Costner stars as Earl Brooks, a man who has managed to keep his two incompatible worlds from intersecting by controlling his cunning, wicked alter ego Marshall (Academy Award winner William Hurt) whom he blames for his wrongdoings. But now, as Mr. Brooks succumbs to one last murderous urge, an amateur photographer (Dane Cook) witnesses the crime. Suddenly Brooks finds himself entangled in the dark agenda of an opportunistic bystander, as well as hunted by the unorthodox and tenacious detective Tracy Atwood (Demi Moore). Can Mr. Brooks outsmart his adversaries and conceal his shocking double life from his wife (Marg Helgenberger) and daughter (Danielle Panabaker) or will someone expose his crimes and his identity once and for all in this unpredictable and electrifying new thriller. — More here

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Knocked Up (2007)

Release Date: June 1, 2007
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Judd Apatow
Screenwriter: Judd Apatow
Starring: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Jason Segel, Martin Starr
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R (for sexual content, drug use and language)
Official Website: KnockedUpmovie.com


On the heels of 2005's blockbuster "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," writer/director Judd Apatow again mines hilarity from the relatably human in a comedy about a one-night stand with unexpected consequences: "Knocked Up." Katherine Heigl ("Grey's Anatomy," "Roswell") joins Virgin alums Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann for a comic look about the best thing that will ever ruin your best-laid plans: parenthood.

Allison Scott (Heigl) is an up-and-coming entertainment journalist whose 24-year-old life is on the fast track. But it gets seriously derailed when a drunken one-nighter with slacker Ben Stone (Rogen) results in an unwanted pregnancy. Faced with the prospect of going it alone or getting to know the baby's father, Allison decides to give the lovable doof a chance.

An overgrown kid who has no desire to settle down, Ben learns that he has a big decision to make with his kid's mom-to-be: will he hit the road or stay in the picture? Courting a woman you've just "Knocked Up," however, proves to be a little difficult when the two try their hands at dating. As they discover more about one another, it becomes painfully obvious that they're not the soul mates they'd hoped they might be.

With Allison's harried sister Debbie (Mann) and hen-pecked brother-in-law Pete (Rudd) the only parenting role models the young lovers have, things get even more confusing. Should they raise the baby together? What makes a happy lifetime partnership after all? A couple of drinks and one wild night later, they've got nine confusing months to figure it out...— More here

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Rise: Blood Hunter (2007)

Release Date: June 1, 2007 (limited)
Studio: Destination Films, Samuel Goldwyn Films
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez
Screenwriter: Sebastian Gutierrez
Starring: Lucy Liu, Michael Chiklis, Carla Gugino, James D'Arcy, Mako
Genre: Horror, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for strong horror violence and gore, sexuality, nudity, language, and brief drug use)
Official Website: SonyPictures.com

"Rise" is a supernatural thriller in which a reporter (Liu) wakes up in a morgue to discover she is no longer among the living. She vows revenge against the cult responsible for putting her there and hunts them down one by one. Chiklis plays 'Rawlins,' a haunted police detective whose daughter is killed by the same cult and seeks answers for her gruesome death.— More here

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