New Movies and Box Office Predictions: Armored, Brothers, Everybody's Fine, Transylmania, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

This week brings an interesting selection of movies to theaters all over the country. With five new movies arriving you would think it would be easy to pick a couple. However, there is only one title I consider a must-see with three others as potentials, and the final one definitely avoidable. So, what is it going to be for the rest of you? Anything looking good?

Armored. (2009, 88 minutes, PG-13, action) Director Nimrod Antal follows up the effective horror of Vacancy with a crime/action film, which he is following up with a new Predator movie. This one looks like it could be fun. I hesitate to think it will be good, but I guess there is always hope, right? The movie centers on the drivers and security guards that work for an armored car service. The group has their eyes set on robbing their own truck of millions. The plan should go down without a hitch, but I guess they never do, do they? It looks to be fast paced and energetic. The cast includes Matt Dillon, Lawrence Fishburne, Amaury Nolasco, Fred Ward, Columbus Short, Skeet Ulrich, and Milo Ventimiglia.

Brothers. (2009, 110 minutes, R, comedy). This stars Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal as brothers. They actually look like they could be brothers, which is made funnier still by the fact that Gyllenhaal had been rumored to be replacing Maguire in Spider-Man prior to the third film. As for this one, from director Jim Sheridan, it tells the story of a drifter brother and a military brother. When military brother is believed killed in action, drifter brother moves in to help out his widow (Natalie Portman) and two young children. Things, as they are wont to do, never go according to plan. Military brother turns out to be not dead. Of course, this complicates matters...

Everybody's Fine. (2009, 95 minutes, PG-13, drama) This film is a remake of an Italian film I have never seen, Stanno Tutti Bene. Robert De Niro stars as a widower who sets out on a spur of the moment road trip to visit his children and finds their lives are not what he was expecting. His children are played by Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore, and Sam Rockwell. This looks pretty good.

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