Ice Age: Continental Drift - The fourth in the hugely successful Ice Age franchise, Continental Drift follows our favourite Paleolithic mammals after their continent is set adrift and they attempt to get back home.
Easy Money - A Swedish movie that's getting a limited release, Easy Money follows a man who becomes a drug runner in order to maintain a double life, causing things to go to shit after he meets a man on the run from the mafia and the mafia enforcer who is looking for him. The thing that caught my attention about this was that they're already talking about doing a remake, which suggests that this movie is really good.
Red Lights - A paranormal horror and a cat-and-mouse thriller all in one, Red Lights stars Sigourney Weaver and Robert De Niro, which just sounds awesome. I haven't seen anything about this movie and it's only getting a limited release, but based on the names I'm thinking it might be good.
Being Flynn - Another De Niro film, this one is about a young man who encounters his father while working in a Boston homeless shelter. Directed by Paul Weitz, the same guy who did About A Boy and American Pie this movie could be really good, really bad, or a bit of both.
The Flowers of War - Staring Christian Bale, The Flowers of War brings him back to China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (a return from the 1987 film Empire of the Sun, his first major role). This time the focus is on the 1937 Rape of Nanking and follows Bale's attempts to safe the women of Nanking by posing as a priest.
American Reunion - The fourth feature film in the American Pie series, American Reunion follows the old group as they embark upon their high school reunion and try to figure out just where their lives diverged from the path that they had once dreamed of. I was pleasantly surprised by this movie, and suggest it for a night where you just want something easy and funny to watch.
Stonehenge - I recently re-read this Bernard Cornwell novel and it's definitely one of my favourite individual Cornwell novels - possibly even one of my favourite individual novels. Stonehenge is a "how it could have happened" type novel and tells a story about how Stonehenge came into being. Cornwell takes what we know about the structure and the surrounding land and weaves it together with this wonderfully imaginative world that he creates. In my opinion, Cornwell is at his best when he's writing his "how it could have happened" type stories, so you should totally read this book.
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