New movies out in the UK cinema this week

31/07/2009

A selection of new movies that open up this week in the UK.

The Vintners Luck

Starring: Vera Farmiga, Gaspard Ulliel, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Jérémie Renier, Eric Godon
Director: Niki Caro
Written by: Niki Caro, Elizabeth Knox

Rumba

Starring: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Philippe Martz, Bruno Romy, Clément Morel
Director: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Written by: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Type: Comedy
Length: 1:17
Fiona and Dom are teachers at a rural school. They share a passion for Latin dance and they’re deeply in love. On weekends, they enter dance competitions around the country. Their house is crammed with trophies. One night, as they are coming back from a competition, they encounter a man on a clumsy suicide mission, standing in the middle of the road. They swerve to avoid him, crash into a wall and their life is thrown into turmoil.

Land Of The Lost

Starring: Will Ferrell, Danny R. McBride, Anna Friel, Jorma Taccone, Raymond Ochoa
Director: Brad Silberling
Written by: Chris Henchy, Dennis McNicholas
Type: Comedy
Length: 1:33
Space-time vortexes suck. Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into one and spat back through time. Way back. Now, Marshall has no weapons, few skills and questionable smarts to survive in an alternate universe full of marauding dinosaurs and fantastic creatures from beyond our world–a place of spectacular sights and super-scaled comedy known as the “Land of the Lost.” Sucked alongside him for the adventure are crack-smart research assistant Holly and a redneck survivalist named Will. Chased by T. rex and stalked by painfully slow reptiles known as Sleestaks, Marshall, Will and Holly must rely on their only ally–a primate called Chaka–to navigate out of the hybrid dimension. Escape from this routine expedition gone awry and they’re heroes. Get stuck, and they’ll be permanent refugees in the “Land of the Lost.”

G-Force

Starring: Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell
Director: Hoyt Yeatman Jr.
Written by: John Lee Hancock, Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Sellek Wibberley
Type: Animation
Length: 1:30
“G-FORCE” is a comedy adventure about the latest evolution of a covert government program to train animals to work in espionage. Armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment, these highly trained guinea pigs discover that the fate of the world is in their paws. Tapped for the G-FORCE are guinea pigs Darwin, the squad leader determined to succeed at all costs; Blaster, an outrageous weapons expert with tons of attitude and a love for all things extreme; and Juarez, a sexy martial arts pro; plus the literal fly-on-the-wall reconnaissance expert, Mooch, and a star-nosed mole, Speckles, the computer and information specialist. Along the way, the G-FORCE encounters myriad other members of the animal kingdom, including pet shop layabout Hurley and the rabidly territorial hamster Bucky.

District 13 Ultimatum (Banlieue 13 – Ultimatum)

Starring: David Belle, Frans Boyer, Daniel Duval, Moussa Maaskri, Milan Ojdanic
Director: Patrick Alessandrin
Written by: Luc Besson
Type: Action/Adventure
Length: 1:35

Coco Before Chanel

Starring: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain, Emmanuelle Devos
Director: Anne Fontaine
Written by: Anne Fontaine, Camille Fontaine, Edmonde Charles-Roux
Type: Drama
Length: 1:50
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, who began her life as headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary journey, she became the legendary couturier who embodied the modern woman and became a timeless symbol of success, freedom and style. The film portrays the formative years of Chanel’s life, the years of Chanel spent discovering and inventing herself.

Crossing Over

Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Penn, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Summer Bishil
Director: Wayne Kramer
Written by: Wayne Kramer
Type: Drama
Length: 1:53
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. “In Crossing Over,” writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find–and create–in 21st century L.A.

BirdWatchers (La terra degli uomini rossi)

Starring: Taiane Arce, Alicélia Batista Cabreira, Chiara Caselli, César Chedid, Temily Comar
Director: Marco Bechis
Written by: Marco Bechis, Luiz Bolognesi
Type: Drama
Length: 1:48