This Weekend: Max Payne, W., Sex Drive, The Secret Lives of Bees

W. [watch the trailer]
How did an alcoholic ne’er-do-well with a long history of failure and a stunning lack of direction manage to find himself behind the wheel of the large automobile that is the United States of America? “You may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife, and you may ask yourself ‘well, how did I get here?’” Josh Brolin, who has compared this film to ‘a W. version of Pulp Fiction,’ disappears into the body of a man who has become one of the worst presidents in the history of the nation, and Oliver Stone relays his version of the man’s unlikely rise from frat-boy hijinks to the harbinger of complete and total national disaster of every imaginable kind. “You may ask yourself ‘am I right? Am I wrong?’ And you may say to yourself ‘My God, what have I done?’” Let’s cross our fingers and hope it’s only once in a lifetime.
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Max Payne [watch the trailer]
Max Payne is a video game full of John Woo-styled action and pulp noir flavor. Max Payne is a hard-boiled cop on the edge whose family is brutally murdered, setting him out on a revenge quest with no regard to the rules. Mark Wahlberg is Max Payne. Max Payne also stars Mila Kunis as an assassin named Mona Sax. Max Payne was directed by John Moore, who also directed Behind Enemy Lines, a movie you can watch in its entirety right here on Fancast. Max Payne looks really cool, even though the dark tale just got a PG-13 instead of the R its fans were probably hoping for.
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The Secret Lives of Bees [watch the trailer]
Dakota Fanning leaves the mess that was Hounddog behind her for this Oscar-buzzing film, playing a troubled girl named Lily Owens, on the run from her abusive father (Paul Bettany) along with her only friend Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson) in 1964 South Carolina. A trio of beekeeping sisters (Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okenedo) take them in and show them the kindness they’ve been starving for all their lives - but there’s only so long an idyllic life can last.
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Sex Drive [watch the trailer]
A Chicago dweeb named Ian (Josh Zuckerman) masquerades as a buff hardbody online and manages to convince someone calling herself ‘Ms. Tasty’ down in Knoxville to offer him coitus. So he gets his friends, swipes his crazy brother Rex’s (a whacked-out James Marsden) GTO and goes on the long drive in the hopes of reaching nookyville.
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