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Aug 31, 2006 
There is nothing coming out this week. The only thing that looks even remotely entertaining is Crank and that is if you liked the first two Transporter movies. Otherwise, go see something that came our previously. Go see Idlewild, The Illusionist, Little Miss Sunshine, or something else that came out in August. Crossover and Wicker Man look horrid. Don’t waste your time.
Crank - Chev
Chelios is about to begin his morning with an unexpected wake-up call.
Groggy, practically unable to move and with a heart that’s barely
beating, he hears the voice of thug Ricky Verona, who reveals Chev has
been poisoned in his sleep and only has an hour to live.
As it turns out, Chev is a hit man who freelances for a major West
Coast syndicate. A run of the mill job the night before instead went
awry: he let his target slip away in an effort to quit professional
killing and start a new life with his girlfriend Eve.
Now, Chev must keep moving to stay alive: the only way to prolong the
poison from stopping his heart is to keep his adrenaline flowing. As
the clock ticks, Chelios cuts a swath through the streets of Los
Angeles, wreaking havoc on those who dare stand in his way. He must
rescue Eve from danger, stay two steps ahead of his nemeses and search
for an antidote to save his own life.
Crossover - The
clock strikes midnight, the ball hits the floor, the word has spread
and the converted rail station is alive with basketball. They don’t
play for a school and they don’t cheer for a pro team. They play for
the street and it’s underground… way underground.
"Crossover" is a gripping urban drama set against the thrilling world
of streetball. The story follows two young hopefuls, Tech (Anthony
Mackie) and Cruise (Wesley Jonathan), who must bring every move they
have to the floor to unseat the reigning champions from the throne they
have held for far too long.
There are no rules. Only the respect that comes with winning.
The Wicker Man - Out
patrolling a California highway, police officer Edward Malus (Nicolas
Cage) stops a station wagon to return a little girl’s lost doll.
Moments later, a runaway truck slams into the station wagon, igniting
it into a fiery wreck with the mother and child trapped inside. Edward
fails to save them before the car explodes…and then spends months of
his life choking down pills to get the image of their faces out of his
head.
But Edward is about to get a second chance.
A desperate letter from his former girlfriend, Willow (Kate Beahan),
arrives at his home with no postmark. Willow came into his life and
left just as unexpectedly years before. But now, her daughter Rowan has
gone missing, and Edward is the only person she trusts to help locate
her. She asks him to come to her home on a private island - Summersisle
- a place with its own traditions where people observe a forgotten way
of life. Edward seizes the opportunity to make his life right again,
and soon finds himself on a seaplane bound for the islands of the
Pacific Northwest.
But nothing is what it seems on isolated Summersisle, where a culture,
dominated by its matriarch Sister Summersisle (Ellen Burstyn), is bound
together by arcane traditions and a pagan festival called "the Day of
Death and Rebirth." The secretive people of Summersisle only ridicule
his investigation, insisting that a child named Rowan never existed
there… or if she ever did was no longer alive.
But what Edward doesn’t know is that Willow’s plea for help has invited
more into his life than a chance for redemption. In unraveling
Summersisle’s closely held secrets, Edward is drawn into a web of
ancient traditions and murderous deceit, and each step he takes closer
to the lost child brings him one step closer to the unspeakable. And
one step closer to the Wicker Man.
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