As an environmental catastrophe threatens the world Phillip Katz (JOE CROSS, Milk), a stressed-out, lowly copywriter, experiences an episode of stigmata in church and is positioned as the next MESSIAH by an ambitious reporter, Josephine Tuttle (HEATHER GRAHAM). Phillip is whisked away to a lavish hotel suite as politicians, reporters, and devout fans descend upon him, each hoping to exploit Phillip for their own purposes. After becoming the most famous man on the planet in less than a day, Phillip must decide how to use his newfound celebrity...

Aspiring cartoonist Tim Avery is feeling inadequate about being a father when he finds that his newborn son has some amazing abilities - the baby has the powers of the Mask of Loki, a mythological object that transforms its user into a manic shape-shifter alter-ego. As bad as a baby with godlike powers might seem, the really bad news is that Loki wants his mask back...

Fight coordinator-turned-film director Jimmy Nickerson (Raging Bull, Rocky) helms this tale of a self-destructive amateur boxer seeking to follow in his father's footsteps by making a name for himself in the ring.

Once upon a time Martin Lawrence was funny. A scary thought but the evidence is all there online. His stand-up was genuinely entertaining and he showed promise in translating that for the big screen with the mid 90′s hit Bad Boys but since then, his career has descended deeper and deeper into a hole from which I doubt he will ever emerge.

With a bleached-blond mane, a glittering blue-eyed stare and a ferocious smile, Smurf Cody (Jacki Weaver) is the mama lion to a criminal brood of armed robbers and drug dealers in the mostly terrific Australian gangster film “Animal Kingdom.” The opening images of the movie, the directorial and screenwriting debut of David Michôd, are statues and drawings of lions. Although the Codys live in bland-looking suburban Melbourne, it might as well be the jungle, for all they care about law and order.

With Werner Herzog’s quickie neo-noir My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done coming along so soon after his flipped-out rendition of Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant, longtime Herzog fans may well wonder whether the grizzled German director is hiding some odd ulterior motive. Produced by David Lynch and written by Herbert Golder, My Son stars Michael Shannon as an unhinged free spirit and part-time actor who kills his mother (Grace Zabriskie) and takes hostages to keep homicide detective Willem Dafoe at bay. The movie follows Dafoe as he interviews witnesses (such as Shannon’s girlfriend, Chloë Sevigny) in order to figure out when and why Shannon went off his nut. My Son and Bad Lieutenant are both pretty far removed from the wilderness adventures and focused character sketches Herzog is known for. Has he developed this sudden interest in potboiler urban crime dramas in order to bank some cash? Or is this, as James Franco would put it, “performance art?”

Clint Eastwood's Changeling (which may or may not be now known as The Exchange), is a riveting drama about a missing boy and the undying constancy of a mother's love. Angelina Jolie excels in a powerful performance as Christine Collins, whose nine-year-old son, Walter, disappeared in 1928. Five months later, police returned to her a boy they said was Walter; Christine alleged that the boy was not her son.

At the time, the Los Angeles police department was under considerable pressure due to the efforts of a Presbyterian minister, Reverend Gustav Briegleb (John Malcovich), to expose corruption within the police force. Captain Jones (Jeffrey Donovan), who heads up the investigation, doesn't particularly care whether the boy is or isn't Walter Collins; he has a publicity campaign to manage that's all about making himself look good, so he tries to convince Christine to accept the found boy as her son. When she fights back by going to the press, Jones has her committed to the psycho ward.

Years after being shot by his eldest son Darius and taking the fall for his crimes, former gangster James Animal Allen serves a life sentence at Folsom Prison. When a riot breaks out between the Blacks and Mexicans, Animal is transferred to Susanville Prison. While serving his time, Animal learns that his son, James Jr., is framed for murder and the one responsible for calling the shots is on the inside. He is blackmailed and forced to return to his dark past as a fighter in order to save his son. On the outside, Darius, now a reformed man, maintains his relationship with his father and does everything in his power with the help of his lawyer to gather enough evidence to clear James Jrs name.

Being a huge fan of Charles Kaufman's classic film Mother's Day, the prospect of a remake had me a little on the worried side. Simply put, the flick is so lovably "out there" that trying to duplicate its special brand of insanity could just never work. Director Darren Lynn Bousman realized this as well, and as a result his re-imagining of the 1980 shocker is an altogether different beast, but rest assured its fangs are still razor sharp!

Daniel and Beth (Grillo and King) are a bit of a struggling Kansas couple in the midst of hanging with their friends in the basement of their new home, celebrating Daniel's birthday and biding their time as a strong tornado heads dangerously their way. The house came into their lives thanks to Beth, a real estate agent, who landed her family the new digs via foreclosure. Little does our group know a different kind of violent storm is about to reach them first.

Cardiff-based Justin Kerrigan scored a home-grown hit with the ramshackle rave comedy Human Traffic in 1999 and then went awol – a casualty, it was rumoured, of the very lifestyle he celebrated on screen. A decade later, he has blown back from the wilderness with I Know You Know, a rites-of-passage drama that amounts to a tender, twisted valentine to his late father, Frankie. Robert Carlyle plays Charlie, a self-styled special operative who darts agitatedly between the pebbledashed estates of South Wales. His adolescent son Jamie (Arron Fuller) regards Charlie as a hero and this may well be the case. But Charlie is also jittery and unstable, a kind of Welsh cousin to Big Vern, the paranoid gangster from Viz magazine. His head buzzes with conspiracy theories; his finger itches on the trigger of his gun. When danger is looming, he instructs Jamie to recite an emergency phone number into a kettle. The kettle, he explains, is wired straight through to Special Branch.

Their father has died from eating a sick whore, so the sons kidnap another one to honor him. "Please don't hurt me. You both can fuck me," she pleads, tied to a table. The boys forget their meal for a second and begin feeling her up. Then Mom storms in, angered, and whacks her with a pole. Few things are more irritating than movies that get their jollies off of abusing women, a preference We Are What We Are then emphasizes by showing the dead prostitute's battered face.

A Mayan forest village lives happily and harmoniously, except the mean teasing of Blunteds inability to sire. When terrified refugees pass, the chief forbids the hunting party to spead fear, but the real cause soon follows. Their own community is pillaged, the survivors cruelly enslaved and dragged away. The chiefs proud son Jaguar Paw manages to hide his pregnant wife and toddler son, but in an unsafe place. The men are destined for bloody sacrifice to the gods in the raider kingdoms pestilence-stricken capital. An auspicious solar eclipse renders their number superfluous, but the raiders captain orders them killed as target practice. Jaguar Paw survives, killing the captains son, and may now incarnate an apocalyptic prophecy or still perish without saving his family, while another danger looms unseen.

Disheveled musician and college student Adam (Cameron Douglas, son of Michael Douglas) goes out of his way to meet the beautiful Eve (Emmanuelle Chriqui) on campus. In no time, the two are in love. Everything goes swimmingly except in the bedroom, where Eve asserts her right to remain a virgin until shes ready. Adammdashthough deferentialmdashtakes her requirement personally and demands to know what ready means. The pair go on like this for months, with Adam remaining true to his passion for Eve, despite howls of protest from his degenerate housemates (among them Jake Hoffman, son of Dustin Hoffman)...

Big Nothing is the second film of the year that tries to resurrect the magic formula that made Fargo such a success. Unfortunately, the other film, the slight and dippy The Big White, made a better job of it. The fact is that neither film is likely to be remembered for long, and sadly Big Nothing is the more aptly-titled of the two.

Set in the kingdom of Ehb, the story follows a man called Farmer (Jason Statham), who was adopted by his village. When Farmer's wife, Solana (Claire Forlani), and his son leave to sell vegetables at the town of Stonebridge, Farmer's farm is attacked by creatures called Krug. With the help of his friend and mentor, Norrick (Ron Perlman), he travels to Stonebridge; however, the Krug kill his son and capture his wife. With the help of Norrick and Bastian (Will Sanderson), Farmer's brother-in-law, he intends to find and rescue his wife.

The Krug are being controlled by the wizard Gallian (Ray Liotta) who is amassing an army to overthrow King Konreid (Burt Reynolds), with the assistance of the King's nephew, Fallow (Matthew Lillard).