Rueben's Ramblings

Based on information provided by the Dark Horizons site and internet research, here are just some of the movies you can expect to see in the movie theatres in April:

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope
Opens: April 6

Director Morgan Spurlock takes a look at Comic Con, showing the one place where Vulcans and vampires can get along; where wizards and wookies can be themselves. That place is Comic-Con San Diego. What started as a fringe comic book convention for 500 fans has grown into the pop culture event of the year that influences every form of entertainment, now attended by over 140,000 strong. This film explores the amazing cultural phenomenon by following the lives of five attendees as they descend upon the ultimate geek mecca at San Diego Comic-Con 2010.

Lockout
Opens: April 13

Guy Pearce stars as the cynical badass offered freedom in exchange for rescuing the President’s daughter (Maggie Grace) from a space prison which has been over-run by the inmates. The cast also includes Peter Stormare and Lennie James.

The Cabin in the Woods
Opens: April 13

This horror-slasher flick is from Joss Whedon and is about a group of young people stranded in a forest cabin and terrorized, starring Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Jesse Williams, Chris Hemsworth and Fran Kranz.

The Lucky One
Opens: April 20

Zac Efron plays a Marine who returns to North Carolina after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman (Taylor Schilling) he believes was his good luck charm during the war. He discovers that she’s a divorced mother with a son and soon the pair begin an all-consuming love affair. However, he hasn’t told her about the photo and the secret ultimately threatens their lives. Blythe Danner co-stars.

Think Like a Man
Opens: April 20

This film is based on Steve Harvey’s best-selling book of the same name that follows four interconnected and diverse men whose love lives are shaken up after the ladies they are pursuing buy Harvey’s book and start taking his advice to heart. When the band of brothers realizes they have been betrayed by one of their own, they conspire using the book’s insider information to turn the tables and teach the women a lesson of their own. The film stars Michael Ealy, Meagan Good, Regina Hall, Taraji P. Henson, Romany Malco and Gabrielle Union [among others].

Safe
Opens: April 27

A second-rate cage fighter on the mixed martial arts circuit, Luke Wright, lives a numbing life of routine beatings and chump change until the day he blows a rigged fight. Wanting to make an example of him, the Russian Mafia murders his family and banishes him from his life forever, leaving Luke to wander the streets of New York destitute, haunted by guilt, and tormented by the knowledge that he will always be watched, and anyone he develops a relationship with will also be killed. But when he witnesses a frightened twelve-year-old Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same gangsters who killed his wife, Luke impulsively jumps to action and straight into the heart of a deadly high-stakes war. Mei is no ordinary girl, but an orphaned math prodigy forced to work for the Triads as a “counter.” He discovers she holds in her memory a priceless numerical code that the Triads, the Russian mob and a corrupt faction of the NYPD will kill for. The film stars Jason Statham, Chris Sarandon, Anson Mount and Catherine Chan,

The Five-Year Engagement
Opens: April 27

Jason Segel and Emily Blunt star in a story about the ups and downs of an engaged couple whose marriage keeps being continually delayed due to various mishaps. The cast includes Alison Brie, Rhys Ifans, Chris Pratt, Jacki Weaver, Chris Parnell, Mindy Kaling and Mimi Kennedy.

The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Opens: April 27

Hugh Grant voices the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain, a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas in this animated film. With a rag-tag crew at his side, and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate of the Year Award. It is a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they battle a diabolical queen (Imelda Staunton) and team up with a haplessly smitten young scientist (David Tennant), but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!

The Raven
Opens: April 27

The macabre and lurid tales of Edgar Allan Poe are vividly brought to life in this gothic thriller that stars John Cusack as the infamous author. When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Poe’s darkest works, a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) joins forces with Poe in a quest to get inside the killer’s mind in order to stop him from making every one of Poe’s brutal stories a blood chilling reality. The film also stars Alice Eve and Brendan Gleeson.

Movies coming out in May will be posted at the end of April.

Enjoy!