Upcoming movies

January 14, 2005
CSA: Confederate States of America (Limited)
A pseudo-documentary that looks at the history of an alternate world where the South won the Civil War.

In Good Company
An executive (Dennis Quaid) learns his young new boss (Topher Grace) has fallen for his daughter (Scarlett Johansson).

January 28, 2005
Hide and Seek
Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue
In their new home in a small town, De Niro tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide. Though he's trying to be a full-time dad, his daughter, Emily (Fanning), turns to her new imaginary friend for solace. - This looks very good from the trailers, but too scary for me.

February 11, 2005
Hitch
Will Smith and Kevin James
A professional matchmaker's program is threatened by a female journalist who enrolls as a student and plans on publishing an exposé on his fradulent methods. - Has some funny stuff in the trailer, but could become trite very quickly

March 25, 2005
Sahara
Matthew McConaughey - Penélope Cruz - Steve Zahn - Delroy Lindo - William H. Macy
As he searches the Sahara desert for an elusive toxin that's killing off marine life, adventurer Dirk Pitt (McConaughey) is sidetracked by a U.N. scientist (Cruz) targeted by assassins. Teaming up, the pair learn that their respective causes both lead to a West African tyrant whose water disposal plant might be one of the biggest threats to the planet's ecosystem. - I will never buy Cruz as a doctor/scientist, but this attempt at starting a franchise looks promising.

May 6th, 2005
Kingdom of Heaven
Orlando Bloom - Eva Green - Liam Neeson - Jeremy Irons - Edward Norton - David Thewlis
During the Crusades of the 12th Century, Balian of Ibelin (Bloom), a young blacksmith
in Jerusalem, rises to protect his people from foreign invaders. - Watch the trailer, then mark your calendar.

May 27th
Madagascar
Chris Rock - Ben Stiller - David Schwimmer - Jada Pinkett Smith
At New York's Central Park Zoo, a lion (Stiller), a zebra (Rock), a giraffe (Schwimmer), and a hippo (Smith) are best friends and stars of the show. But when one of the animals goes missing from their cage, the other three break free to look for him, only to find themselves reunited ... on a ship en route to the island of Madagascar. When their vessel capsizes off the coast, however, the friends, who have all been raised in captivity, learn first-hand what life can be like in the wild.

June 3rd
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Amber Tamblyn - Jenna Boyd - America Ferrera
Four best girlfriends hatch a plan to stay connected with one another as their lives start off in different directions: they pass around a pair of secondhand jeans that fits each of their bodies perfectly.

July 1
War of the Worlds
Steven Spielberg - Tom Cruise - Dakota Fanning - Tim Robbins
As Earth is invaded by Martian war machines, one family fights for survival. - See the trailer on the big screen - all effects, but very powerful.

July 15
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Tim Burton - Johnny Depp - Freddie Highmore - David Kelly
Young Charlie Bucket (Highmore) wins the chance to tour the most magnificant chocolate factory in the world and meet the man behind it all, the eccentric Willy Wonka (Depp). - I don't think I can see this one, the trailer gave me a stomach ache.

July 22
The Island
Scarlett Johansson - Ewan McGregor - Djimon Hounsou - Steve Buscemi
A man (Ewan McGregor) who discovers that he is actually a "harvested being" looks to escape from the utopian facility where he and others are kept. His only ally is a woman (Johansson) who's pregnant with her "sponsor's" child.