The Juice summer movie spectacular
April 25, 2005
Lucinda Albers
Opening April 29
XXX: State of the Union
This drama, starring Ice Cube, Samuel L. Jackson and Scott Speedman, is the sequel to the previous Triple X with Vin Diesel. Agent Gibbons (Jackson) hires Darius Stone (Ice Cube) to help track down a rioting group planning to overthrow the U.S. Government.
Opening May 6
House of Wax
House of Wax is a thriller full of Hollywood stars. Elisha Cuthbert (Girl Next Door), Chad Michael Murray (A Cinderella Story, One Tree Hill) and Paris Hilton (The Simple Life) star in this movie about a group of friends on their way to a college football game that become trapped by two murderous brothers in a ghost town. The brothers have enlarged the town’s major attraction: the House of Wax, which is filled with wax-covered bodies of unsuspecting victims who had visited the abandoned town before. The friends must find their way out before they become part of the exhibit as well.
Kingdom of Heaven
Kingdom of Heaven is an adventure about a simple man (Orlando Bloom) who finds himself in a decades-long war. Sent to a strange land, he fights under an ill-fated king, falls in love with a foreign and prohibited queen, and ascents to knighthood. In the end, he tries to protect Jerusalem and it’s people while keeping peace.
Opening May 13
Monster-in-Law
In this romantic comedy, Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Cantilini (Jennifer Lopez) has finally met the man of her dreams, Dr. Kevin Fields (Michael Vartan). But as every movie there is a twist in his mother. Viola Fields (Jane Fonda) portrays an overbearing mother who has just been fired from her star news anchor position at a local television network. Afraid she will lose her son as well, Viola tries to break up the two by pretending to be the world’s worst mother-in-law. Helping her is her assistant, Ruby (Wanda Sykes). It twists again when Viola meets her match: Charlie.
Kicking & Screaming
Phil Weston (Will Ferrell) decides to go head on against his father (Robert Duvall) in a little league soccer competition where they both coach their 10-year old sons. Phil is put up against his overly competitive father and will stop at nothing to win the championship trophy.
Opening May 19
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
The sixth Star Wars movie overall but only the third and final in the Star Warstrilogy. Anakin Skywalker’s (Hayden Christensen) turns to the Dark Side of the Force. The continuing Clone Wars and the final fate of the Old Republic should be revealed. The movie also stars Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman and Samuel L. Jackson.
Opening June
Bewitched
Nicole Kidman stars as Samantha Stephens in this remake of the classic 60s TV show about a witch who feels urged to use her powers to remedy problems she meets with her husband, Darrin (Will Ferrell).