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Alex Cross
Rob Cohen
Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Edward Burns, Rachel Nichols, Cicely Tyson, Carmen Ejogo, Giancarlo Esposito, John C. McGinley, Stephanie Jacobsen, Werner Daehn, Jean Reno
Alex Cross
Tyler Perry, sans a skirt and his typical urban comedy veneer, is trying to broaden his horizons here, playing the seminal James Patterson detective. Originally, Idris Elba was going to take the role (Morgan Freeman played the character in two previous films—Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls) but had to drop out. Director Rob Cohen hired Perry, and thus the experiment begins. If he can prove his mantle outside Madea, the filmmaking phenom will have a bright future in Tinseltown. If not… well, there’s always the dress.
Killing Them Softly
Andrew Dominik
Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, Richard Jenkins, James Gandolfini , Ray Liotta, Sam Shepard
Killing Them Softly
Brad Pitt as a hitman, trying to uncover the truth about a heist during a high level mob poker game. Sounds like a winner. Yeah, and so did Pitt as a warrior in the now troubled zombie ‘epic’ World War Z. With last year’s one-two punch of Tree of Life and Moneyball, the superstar has his work cut out for him. Luckily, he is reteaming with The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford‘s Andrew Dominik. Still, the subgenre seems saturated, and Pitt has a hard time pulling off truly evil characters. Fingers crossed.
Paranormal Activity 4
Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost
Katie Featherston, Kathryn Newton, Bradley Allen, Matt Shively
Paranormal Activity 4
When last we left this unfathomably popular franchise, we learned that Katie and her sister Kristi were actually the targets of a familial witch’s coven, resulting in the hauntings that they would experience in their adult lives. Now, this fourth installment, picks up where part two left off, jumping ahead five years and dealing directly with the abduction of baby (now a boy) Hunter. Huh? Well, you have to see the three previous efforts to keep up—that is, if you can stay awake. Still, this promises to be the final film where “all is revealed.” Yeah.
