Director: Thomas Dekker
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Studio: Yale Productions
Rated: R

After his father is killed in a car crash, Jack travels home to Colorado to help nurse his mother (who was injured in the crash) back to health. There, he uncovers long buried secrets and lies within his family history, his parents, his friends and his very identity.

Director: Bryan Singer
Studio: New Line Home Video
Rated: PG-13

The traditional fairy tale has been folded and spindled by Hollywood so often that it can be hard to remember what made the stories so beloved in the first place. (When writing the originals back in the 19th century, the Brothers Grimm tended to shy away from American Idol jokes.) Thankfully, the megabudgeted "Jack the Giant Slayer" chooses to find its wit and humor within the myth, rather than awkwardly shoehorning in pop culture references. While some of the action may be a bit too splattery for younger kids, the majority of viewers should find it as difficult to resist as… well, a good bedtime story. Director Bryan Singer ("X-Men", "The Usual Suspects") and his writers keep the basic beats of the tale intact: farm boy Jack (Nicholas Hoult) gets magic seeds, climbs resulting beanstalk (a truly special effect that looks exactly like you'd think it should), rescues princess (Eleanor Tomlinson) from angry big dudes. Meanwhile, the additions that are made to flesh out the narrative--most notably Ewan McGregor as a cocky Han Soloish knight--enhance rather than detract from the overall dreamy pull. As for the giants, they're a winningly gross bunch, with exaggerated characteristics that recall both ancient woodcuts and "Mad" magazine. (Props to Bill Nighy and John Kassir, whose vocal talents combine to make a fantastically weird head bad guy.) Singer and company can't entirely escape the modern blockbuster bloat, and "Jack"'s final act does admittedly teeter on the verge of too-muchness, with a battle sequence that calls down the ear-punishing thunder and threatens to dissolve into a CGI blur. The story's basic charm ultimately wins out, however, thanks to the filmmakers always keeping in mind the value of a good tale well told. Squareness can be a virtue, sometimes. "--Andrew Wright"

Director: Brett C. Leonard
Genre: Drama
Studio: Lightyear Video
Rated: R

Randy commits a victimless crime that would normally get him probation and a hefty fine, but in the "three-strikes" world of justice, he finds himself locked up for 25 years. His cellmate Jake is a congenial yet remorseless lifer who casually informs Randy that he slit his wife's throat because she slept with another man just three months after they exchanged vows. Jake recognizes Randy's fear and offers him advice on how to make it in prison. But it soon becomes clear that Jake has much more than mentoring in mind as he takes Randy under his wing. "Jailbait" sets a darkly cerebral tone, juxtaposing brutality with the unattainable ideal of intimacy in the harshest of psychological environments. For these two men so yearning to be anything but who they are and where they are, power is the goal, and it's never clear who truly holds it right up to the last unsettling moment.

Director: Carter Smith
Genre: Drama
Studio: Verisimilitude
Rated: See all certifications

In a wintry small town, the body of a teenager named Jamie Marks is found by the river. Adam, the star of his cross-country team, becomes fascinated with Jamie-a boy nobody really knew or interacted with, except occasionally to bully him. When Jamie's ghost begins to appear both to Adam and Gracie, the classmate who discovered the body, Adam is caught between two worlds. He has a budding romance with Gracie, but he also feels a deep connection to Jamie, who brings him closer to the world of the undead.

Director: Kevin Elders
Genre: Action & Adventure
Studio: Warner Home Video
Rated: NR

Once she was a computer security professional. Now she's on the run. Wanted by the police for a murder she didn't commit. Wanted by corporate and government agents for a data disc she doesn't have. Jane didn't start this game of cat-and-mouse and electronic deception, but just watch her finish it.

Director: Maria Solrun
Studio: Picture This, Breaking Glass Pictures
Rated: Unrated

With his birthday approaching, handsome, blond Jargo (Constantin von Jascheroff - star of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Official Selection Low Profile) wants only one thing for his birthday: to become a man. Accustomed to a rather priveleged life in Saudi

Director: Victor Salva
Genre: Horror
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Rated: R

With confident style and low-budget ingenuity, "Jeepers Creepers" gets under your skin, provoking spine-tingling horror when college siblings Trish (Gina Philips) and Darry (Justin Long) encounter a flesh-eating demon along a barren rural highway. After a harrowing car chase that sets the movie's nerve-wracking tone, they investigate suspicious activity near an abandoned church, where a corrugated pipe leads to unimaginable horrors. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game against the regenerating demon, which feeds on fear--and selected body parts--according to a psychic (Patricia Belcher) who adds chilling portent to the routine climax in a besieged police station. Writer-director Victor Salva ("Powder") emphasizes primal fear over logic, but plot holes are easily forgiven when you're scared out of your socks. A surprise box-office hit in late summer 2001, "Jeepers Creepers" will please even jaded horror fans with its back-to-basics frights. "--Jeff Shannon"

Director: Victor Salva
Genre: Horror
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Rated: R

Despite the usual symptoms of sequelitis, "Jeepers Creepers 2" delivers the goods for those who enjoyed the 2001 original--a group large enough to propel this sequel to a record-setting opening in August 2003. While establishing the flesh-eating "Creeper" as a new horror icon with frantic action and more elaborate special effects, writer-director Victor Salva follows the traditional formula, dispensing with plot almost altogether and focusing entirely on threat, menace, mayhem, and gore. That's likely to disappoint horror fans hoping for a more revealing exploration of the Creeper's origins (room for another sequel, perhaps?), and by trapping nondescript teens in a school bus attacked by the Creeper, Salva severely limits the movie's overall potential. Still, there's something to be said for straightforward shocks, and "Jeepers Creepers 2" delivers enough of them to justify its profitable existence. "--Jeff Shannon"

Director: Norman Jewison
Studio: Universal Home Video
Rated: G

Ted Neeley makes for a wimpy looking Jesus in Norman Jewison's screen adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice "rock opera," which was a smash on stage in the early '70s. Jewison ("Other People's Money") adds some good exterior settings in the desert, but Lloyd Webber and Rice's dialogue-free story (everything is sung, as in a real opera), with its quasi-profundities about the inner demons of principal figures in the life of Christ, is the real hook. Yvonne Elliman sings the show's best-known song, "I Don't Know How to Love Him." "--Tom Keogh"

Director: Vadim Jean
Genre: Comedy
Rated: R

The world's most obnoxious celebrity alk-show host demonstrates how he rose to mediocrity in this pungent show business satire. Jiminy Glick (Martin Short) is a corpulent entertainment reporter who is looking to kick his career into high gear. Hoping to snag some celebrity interviews, Jiminy and his wife, Trixie (Jan Hooks), head north of the border to Canada, where Jiminy will attend the Toronto Film Festival. At first, Glick's attempts to ingratiate himself with stars and semi-stars are little short of disastrous, but after the easily star-struck reporter allows egocentric filmmaker Ben DiCarlo (Corey Pearson) to shamelessly self-promote his latest project on air, word gets around that Glick is an "easy interview," and his star begins to rise. However, Jiminy's good fortune is tempered by his unwitting involvement in a murder plot centered around booze-addled actress Miranda Coolidge (Elizabeth Perkins) and her wildly pretentious husband, Andre Devine (John Michael Higgins). Somewhere along the way, filmmaker David Lynch (played by Short) happens along, offering his theories on the controversial murder of Lana Turner's paramour Johnny Stompanato. A large number of Hollywood celebrities make cameo appearances in Jiminy Glick in La La Wood, including Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Forest Whitaker, Kiefer Sutherland, and Sharon Stone.

Director: Randall K. Rubin, Jon Schroder
Genre: Action & Adventure
Studio: ANCHOR BAY
Rated: R

Edward Furlong of TERMINATOR 2 and Rachael Bella of THE RING star as two teenage suburban outcasts who fall in love, spin out of control, and hit the road as fugitives, all captured through the unblinking lens of their video camera. In an American landscape scarred by violence, drugs, madness and murder, is their undying devotion the most extreme reality of all? William Sadler (THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION) co-stars in this shocking and shockingly real
independent sensation that Skratch Magazine calls a
distinctly disturbing piece of true cinematic genius. This is the story of JIMMY AND JUDY.

Director: Baldvin Z
Studio: TLA Releasing
Rated: Unrated

This energetic coming-of-age drama follows a closeted boy and his group of trouble-prone friends, providing a positive, fun look at young people today. If you like MTV's 'Skins', 'Degrassi High', ABC Family's 'The Secret Life Of The American Teenager' and ABC's & 'My So-Called Life'; - but GAY - you'll love 'Jitters'.

Studio: Lionsgate
Rated: R

An ex-con, who is the unlikeliest of role models, meets a 15-year-old boy and is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin.

Director: Frank Whaley
Genre: Crime
Rated: R

Director: John Carpenter
Genre: Action & Adventure
Studio: Sony Pictures
Rated: R

"Ghosts of Mars" may not be one of John Carpenter's finer efforts, but you can't knock the veteran director for staying true to his roots--it's clearly a Carpenter film, reveling in its B-movie blood lust, and fueled by the director's rock & roll rebellion as well as the sex appeal of star Natasha Henstridge. This rickety sci-fi/horror hybrid recalls Carpenter's "Assault on Precinct 13", with various connections from throughout the director's career--for better and worse. It's the year 2176, and human colonists on Mars are controlled by a political "matronage," with women (for reasons unexplained) holding court in the capitol city of Chryse. Mars Police Force Lt. Ballard (Henstridge) has been sent to retrieve James "Desolation" Williams (Ice Cube), the planet's most notorious criminal, from a remote mining-colony prison. With her ill-fated crew, Ballard discovers that the colonists have nearly all been possessed by ancient Martian spirits bent on reclaiming the planet, turning them into an army of self-mutilating freaks suggesting an unholy union of Marilyn Manson and the sadomasochistic Cenobites from the "Hellraiser" films. None of this makes much sense, and the shaky alliance between cops and criminals is a predictable excuse for rampant battle scenes between surviving humans and the ghost-possessed maniacs. Exotic weaponry abounds (along with cheap special effects and some laughable dialogue), resulting in the gruesome dispatch of expendable costars Pam Grier, Joanna Cassidy, Robert Carradine, and Clea Duvall. Driven by Carpenter's synth-metal score, this violent free-for-all has a few brief highlights, but it's suspenseless and ultimately absurd. It's not much, but for loyal fans it's probably enough. "--Jeff Shannon"

Director: John Waters
Genre: Comedy
Studio: New Line Home Video
Rated: R

Director John Waters broke new boundaries of bad taste with his hilariously trashy tale of suburban misadventure "Polyester". His favorite leading lady, transvestite Divine, plays Francine Fishpaw, a dissatisfied suburban housefrau who longs for a little romance in her life because her husband and children drive her crazy. Salvation arrives in the form of Tod Tomorrow (Tab Hunter), a drive-in owner who sweeps Francine off her feet (a mean task, given Divine's girth). But he's not all he's cracked up to be.
Everyone in "Desperate Living"'s Mortville has some horrible secret to hide. The mentally unstable Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole, in a superb display of overacting) and her 300-pound-plus maid Grizelda must take it on the lam after Grizelda smothers Peggy's husband under her elephantine buttocks. They find themselves in Mortville, a shanty fiefdom ruled by the grotesque Queen Carlotta (the incomparable Edith Massey). The evil queen delights in tormenting her subjects, but Peggy and Grizelda soon team up with a pair of lesbian outcasts, and a rebellion is in the air. Notable for the absence of Waters regular Divine, this movie pushes the rest of the cast to their over-the-top best. Nasty, shabby, gross, and hilarious, this is John Waters at his best.

Genre: Comedy
Studio: New Line Home Video
Rated: X (Mature Audiences Only)

"Pink Flamingos" This is the movie that made John Waters famous, and quite possibly the film that made bad taste cool. Yes, Virginia, a large transvestite actually eats dog feces as a kind of dizzying denouement to this frequently illogical and intentionally disgusting movie, but by the time that happens, you're already numb... and you've possibly laughed to the point of losing bladder control. The plot revolves around two vile families laying claim to the title "The Filthiest People Alive." You've got pregnant women in pits, you've got grown men getting sexual satisfaction from chickens, you've got people licking furniture to perform trailer-park voodoo, and you've got classic lines like: "Oh my God! The couch... it... it rejected you!"
Waters, who went on to direct genuine pop-culture classics such as "Hairspray" and "Serial Mom", made this celluloid sideshow with one aim--to make a name for himself. It worked. He does have a genuine eye for filmmaking (when the trailer burns down, you feel the white heat of Divine's pain and anger). On the other hand, you won't notice any disclaimers about stunt doubles and animals not being mistreated. There weren't, and they were. Welcome to the filthiest film in the world. "--Grant Balfour"
"Female Trouble" John Waters expands the definition of "female trouble" in this mutant tribute to good-girl-gone-bad drive-in melodramas. The girl is, of course, cross-dressing cult icon Divine, Waters's plus-sized muse. Divine is at her most gleefully outrageous as teenage brat Dawn Davenport, who runs away from home and into a life of wanton hedonism all because she didn't get cha-cha heels for Christmas. Almost immediately she's molested by a sleazy motorcycle thug (also played by Divine--is this Waters's idea of "love thyself"?), but she doesn't let motherhood interfere with her plans of stardom and turns herself into an unlikely fashion statement in an apocalyptic fashion show. Waters's fourth feature, a follow-up to the midnight movie hit "Pink Flamingos", is just as cinematically primitive and even more gleefully vulgar, right down to the electric climax of Dawn's road to everlasting fame.
The DVD also features a commentary track by the always-entertaining John Waters. "--Sean Axmaker"

Studio: Lionsgate
Rated: R

Director: Chad Stahelski
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Rated: R

After returning to the criminal underworld to repay a debt, John Wick discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life.

Director: Scott Silver
Genre: Drama
Studio: Fox Lorber
Rated: R

A gritty and poignant look at the world of male prostitutes through the course of a single day on the streets - hustling for money and love while hoping for a little decency. A veteran male prostitute, John, befriends the new guy who looks to John for advice and friendship.

Director: George Ratliff
Genre: Horror
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Rated: R

Director George Ratliff, who also made "Hell House", a fascinating documentary about Christian haunted houses constructed to scare kids straight, offers his version of the possessed child horror movie with "Joshua". In the establishing scenes, nine year-old piano prodigy, Joshua (Jacob Kogan), is a vision of perfection, even as his new baby sister, Lily, takes up their parents' time a little too often. As time unfolds, indicated cinematically by text describing the baby's days alive on screen, Joshua's jealousy serves as the springboard for his mental and physical manifestations of violence and detached emotion. Somewhere mid-film, parents Brad and Abby Cairn (Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga) begin to piece together Joshua's disturbing behavior, but as they seek him help Joshua finds ways to sabotage their plans. Like many of the great films about evil-doing children, such as "The Omen", "The Exorcist", and "The Bad Seed", the star's ability to play a maladjusted youth is all, and Jacob Kogan does a wonderful job. Additionally, Rockwell and Farmiga excel at portraying parents fraught with fear and exhaustion. "Joshua" is not a gory movie as is some of its predecessors, but there is enough psychological tension to make this drama worthy of honor amongst other films in its genre. —"Trinie Dalton"

Director: Dustin Lance Black
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Alluvial Filmworks
Rated: Unrated

19-year old Jared Price leaves the stability of his home in Georgia to start a new life in Southern California. With only a bag on his back and a few hundred dollars in his pockets, he sets out on an emotional journey of self-realization and sexual discovery. With little privacy and a prostitute for a roommate, Jared stumbles through the tight quarters of a Hollywood youth hostel. He befriends his young neighbor, Robert, whom Jared quickly discovers is eager to pursue more than merely a platonic friendship. Jared gains employment as a personal caretaker for Mrs. Haines, a wealthy, older blind woman. He suddenly falls into a deceptive relationship with her affluent older son, Matthew. When the relationship becomes personally destructive, Jared is faced once again with the difficult decision to abandon his stability and risk his heart.

Director: Rusty Lemorande, Albert Pyun (uncredited)
Genre: TV Movie
Studio: Golan-Globus Productions
Rated: PG

Young people exploring a cave in Hawaii fall into a hole, wind up in the lost city of Atlantis.

Studio: New Line Home Video
Rated: PG

Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 01/17/2012 Run time: 93 minutes Rating: Pg

Director: Robert Parrish
Genre: Horror
Studio: Universal Studios
Rated: G

There's a sense of awe to the special effects work of animation specialists Gerry and Sylvia Anderson ("Thunderbirds Are Go")--the slow, lovingly detailed introduction of a massive spaceship creeping out of dock and struggling against its bulk while trapped on the ground, and the almost balletic spectacle of the ship elegantly floating against an impressive star field or dramatically flying against the rugged landscape. These moments are the highlights of this sober science fiction thriller about the discovery of a planet on the far side of the sun in Earth's orbit. A mission is hastily put together, with British astrophysicist Ian Hendry teamed with hotshot American astronaut Roy Thinnes for the three-week trip, but when they suddenly crash-land the strange creatures that surround them are revealed to be human. Against all rational explanations they're back on Earth, but Thinnes suddenly discovers that everything is a mirror image of his existence: "Through the Looking Glass" by way of "The Twilight Zone". Though it begins as a paranoid spy thriller set in the near future (the opening details an ingenious espionage caper featuring a very special eyepiece), it quickly turns into a serious and oddly unsettling space-race drama with a heady twist. Robert Parrish's direction is unusually aloof, but the film is always intriguing and well acted with gorgeous special effects that may rank second only to Stanley Kubrick's "2001" as the most elegant vision of outer space flight on film. "--Sean Axmaker"

Director: John Dahl
Genre: Action & Adventure
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Rated: R

"Joy Ride" follows the familiar conventions of road-movie thrillers with enough vitality to make everything old seem new again. A confirmed master of neo-noir suspense, director John Dahl ("Red Rock West", "The Last Seduction") sets a consistent tone of humor and horror as Lewis (Paul Walker) and his black-sheep brother Fuller (Steve Zahn) drive from Salt Lake City to pick up Lewis's friend Venna (Leelee Sobieski) in Boulder, Colorado. En route, they play a practical joke via CB radio, inviting vengeful terror as an unseen trucker (voiced with exquisite menace by "Silence of the Lambs" villain Ted Levine) pursues them with relentless, homicidal aggression. Inevitable comparisons to Steven Spielberg's "Duel" fail to appreciate Dahl's unique talent for energizing B-movie formulas while injecting his own brand of rib-tickling excitement. While Zahn deserves extra credit in his first top-billed role, "Joy Ride" wins a badge of honor for everyone involved. "--Jeff Shannon"

Director: Takashi Shimizu
Genre: Horror
Studio: Lions Gate
Rated: R

The reason for the title is not that "The Grudge" is bad by any means, in fact, it is a very coherent and effective Hollywood "Remake" (I use the words very carefully, because the Grudge has a fairly linear plot, while Ju-On uses several temporal devices and switches of Points of view in a completely different, but not unrelated story.) The reason why I recommend this first is that Ju-On seems to be a Prequel of sorts, and overall, the story makes a little more sense.
Ju-On centres on one actress, a horror film actress who is asked to take part in a documentary surrounding a haunted house. It is also apparent that she is pregnant. Right at the beginning of the film, she is involved in a car crash and I assume the baby dies...It's very difficult to say any more than this.
The film itself is separated into chapters, each focusing on one or two particular characters of the film, and their experiences of the manifestations of the spirits of the house. It's a little like a book of short stories, each contributing to a larger story overall, some stories overlapping, some happen a little earlier and some happen a little later.
The scare factor of this film is high indeed. Comparisons will be drawn to "The Ring", particularly with the atmosphere, and the protagonist being a long haired female with her hair covering her face. However, the scares in Ju-on are far more effective in my opinion, and I loved "The Ring"!
I'm also pleased to see that the same house, same ghosts, and the same props throughout were used in both films. It meant that watching one film, then the other swiftly immersed the viewer into the atmosphere from the word 'go'!
Yes, I was confused, yes there were moments where I was wondering what had happened, who this character or that character was and what they were doing there, but when the film ended, it stayed with me for a few days - Always a sign of an effective and thoroughly well-done movie!!

Director: David Van Taylor
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Sony
Rated: NR

UMD for PSP
1. The Hellion/Electric Eye; The Hellion\ Electric Eye
2. Riding On The Wind
3. Heading Out To The Highway
4. Metal Gods
5. Bloodstone
6. Breaking The Law
7. The Sinner
8. Desert Plains
9. The Ripper
10. Diamonds And Rust
11. Devil's Child
12. Screaming For Vengeance
13. You've Got Another Thing Comin'
14. Victim Of Changes
15. Living After Midnight
16. The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown)
17. Hell Bent For Leather

Director: Nora Ephron
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Studio: Sony Pictures
Rated: PG-13

Julia Child and Julie Powell - both of whom wrote memoirs - find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

Director: Harmony Korine
Genre: Action & Adventure
Studio: New Line Home Video
Rated: R

Ewen Bremner and Chloe Sevigny (Boys Don't Cry) star in this portrait of the effects of schizophrenia on family life.

Director: Doug Liman
Genre: Action
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Rated: PG-13

David Rice is a high school student in Ann Arbor, abandoned by his mother at five, enamored with Millie, a fellow student, and picked on by at least one classmate. On a winter's day, while about to drown, he discovers he can transport himself instantaneously to anyplace on earth. He leaves town, goes to New York City, robs a bank vault, and comes to the attention of a shadowy group of government hunters. Eight years later, the hunters, led by the murderous Roland, get a fix on David. He heads home, searches out Millie, invites her to travel with him, and only later realizes that Roland and his crew are seriously deadly. Is everyone close to David in danger?

Director: Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
Studio: Warner Home Video
Rated: PG-13

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Director: Steven Spielberg
Studio: Universal Studios
Rated: PG-13

Jurassic Park (3D Blu-Ray + Blu-Ray + Dvd + Digital Copy + Ultraviolet)PLEASE NOTE: This title includes a Blu-ray 3D disc which is only compatible with 3D Blu-ray players and Playstation 3. A standard Blu-ray is also included which will play on all standard Blu-ray players.Experience one of the biggest films in motion picture history with director Steven Spielberg's ultimate thrill ride Jurassic Park. Featuring Academy Award winning visual effects and groundbreaking filmmaking that has been hailed as 'a triumph of special effects artistry' (Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times) this epic film is sheer movie-making magic that was 65 million years in the making. Jurassic Park takes you to an amazing theme park on a remote island where dinosaurs once again roam the earth and five people must battle to survive among the prehistoric predators. Starring Sam Neill Laura Dern Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough discover the breathtaking adventure you will want to experience again and again.<

Director: Joe Johnston
Genre: Action & Adventure
Studio: Universal Studios
Rated: PG-13

Surpassing expectations to qualify as an above-average sequel, "Jurassic Park III" is nothing more or less than a satisfying popcorn adventure. A little cheesier than the first two "Jurassic" blockbusters, it's a big B movie with big B-list stars (including Laura Dern, briefly reprising her "Jurassic Park" role), and eight years of advancing computer-generated-image technology give it a sharp edge over its predecessors. While adopting the jungle spirit of "King Kong", the movie refines Michael Crichton's original premise, and its dinosaurs are even more realistic, their behavior more detailed, and their variety--including flying pteranodons and a new villain, the spinosaurus--more dazzling and threatening than ever. These advancements justify the sequel, and its contrived plot is just clever enough to span 90 minutes without wearing out its welcome.
Posing as wealthy tourists, an adventurous couple (William H. Macy, Téa Leoni) convince paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and his protégé (Allesandro Nivola) to act as tour guides on a flyover trip to Isla Sorna, the ill-fated "Site B" where all hell broke loose in "The Lost World: Jurassic Park". In truth, they're on a search-and-rescue mission to find their missing son (Trevor Morgan), and their plane crash is just the first of several enjoyably suspenseful sequences. Director Joe Johnston ("October Sky") embraces the formulaic plot as a series of atmospheric set pieces, placing new and familiar dinosaurs in misty rainforests, fiery lakes, and mysterious valleys, turning "JP3" into a thrill ride with impressive highlights (including a "T. rex" versus spinosaurus smack-down), adequate doses of wry humor (from the cowriters of "Election"), and an upbeat ending that's corny but appropriate, proving that the symptoms of sequelitis needn't be fatal. "--Jeff Shannon"

Director: Colin Trevorrow
Studio: Universal Pictures
Rated: PG-13

Twenty-two years after the original Jurassic Park failed, the new park, also known as Jurassic World, is open for business. After years of studying genetics, the scientists on the park genetically engineer a new breed of dinosaur, the Indominus Rex. When everything goes horribly wrong, will our heroes make it off the island?

Director: J.A. Bayona
Studio: Universal Pictures
Rated: PG-13

Three years after the Jurassic World theme park was closed down, Owen and Claire return to Isla Nublar to save the dinosaurs when they learn that a once dormant volcano on the island is active and is threatening to extinguish all life there. Along the way, Owen sets out to find Blue, his lead raptor, and discovers a conspiracy that could disrupt the natural order of the entire planet. Life has found a way, again.

Director: Craig Roberts
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Studio: Vox Pictures
Rated: See all certifications

A Welsh teenager will become the cool kid of the town if a deal is made with his new American neighbour.

Director: Michael A. Nickles
Genre: Comedy, Family
Studio: Jerry Leider Productions

Nervous little 104-pound sophomore Michael Peck would like to join the wrestling team, but when he breeches the subject to his intellectual-snob parents after getting booted from band, they're unable to hear him and prepare a contract for him to join the Science Club instead (a parent-child agreement documented in legal terms which he is forced to sign and obligated to maintain). Skipping school with his best bud Geiger, they run across two senior girls, Emily and Becca, also skipping. Peck and Emily begin a tenuous relationship, mostly due to Peck's interest in her. They are worlds apart in savvy (she with much, he with none), but it's interactions with her and experiences in his classes that shape Peck's forced-upon science fair project, which, when presented, rocks the genuinely indifferent and platitude-numbed school system from its slumbering core.