TBA -- "Infernal Affairs," the only legit Hong Kong actioner of the season, watches as an undercover detective in a gang and a gang mole in the police department maneuver against each other.
TBA -- "Being Julia," based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel "Theatre," is set among actors and actresses in London in the '30s and boasts a terrific cast, among them Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons and Bruce Greenwood, and the superb Hungarian director Istvan Szabo.
"Mission: Impossible" meets "South Park" in "Team America: World Police," due out next month.
(Melinda Sue Gordon -- Paramount Pictures)
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TBA -- "Lightning in a Bottle," the story of the blues that Martin Scorsese didn't tell, hails from the brilliantly talented director Antoine Fuqua ("Training Day") and was shot at a concert of the great artists at Radio City Music Hall.
1 -- "The Motorcycle Diaries," communist version, follows the romantic revolutionary himself, Che Guevara, on a '50s motorcycle trip across South America, a few years before he became world famous in Cuba.
1 -- "The Yes Men," Canadian humor in a sarcastic vein, features humorist-activists in business suits who go to business conferences pretending to be members of the World Trade Organization, unleashing comic mischief whenever possible.
1 -- "Shark Tale," more dancing pixels, features Will Smith voicing a striving bottom-feeder in another blast of bog- budgeted, computer-generated fantasy. Other swimmers voiced by Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese and Renee Zellweger.
1 -- "Reconstruction," from Denmark, has Serious Art Film written all over it, as it follows lovers named Alex and Simone across haunted European landscapes; don't you hate it when they do that?
1 -- "Tying the Knot," a documentary by Jim de Seve, looks at the issue of same-sex marriage from the positive side.
1 -- "Woman Thou Art Loosed," adapted from the novel by T.D. Jakes and directed by Michael ("Car Wash") Schultz, examines the difficulties of a young woman (Kimberly Elise) as she struggles to overcome the legacy of addiction, poverty and abuse.
1 -- "Going Upriver," with no apologies to Joseph Conrad, is a documentary, apparently based on Douglas Brinkley's "Tour of Duty," that follows young Lt. j.g. Kerry in combat in Vietnam and farther up the river.
8 -- "Bright Leaves," cough-cough gack ughh!, is a whimsical documentary by Ross McElwee, who makes a game attempt to confront his own family's involvement in the tobacco industry, about which he doesn't feel quite as guilty as he thinks he should.
8 -- "Ladder 49" follows a ladder company to hell and back, under the leadership of John Travolta; the movie was filmed up the road in the part of Baltimore that never heard of John Waters.
8 -- "Head in the Clouds," traces beautiful people (Penelope Cruz, Stuart Townsend, Charlize Theron) in the war-torn times of 1930s Europe. From filmmaker John Duigan ("Sirens," Flirting").
8 -- "Taxi," stars Queen Latifah as a cabbie, Jimmy Fallon as a cop and Gisele Bundchen as a leggy, formidable bank robber. Hilarity ensues! Tim Story ("Barbershop") directs.
8 -- "Raise Your Voice," a new try by Hilary Duff, stars the appealing young star as a naive, rural singer-wannabe bequeathed a summer at a sophisticated Los Angeles performing arts camp by her late, beloved brother.
8 -- "Friday Night Lights," Texas-style, asks, "Are you ready for some football?" then follows the fortunes of a high school team, coached by Billy Bob Thornton, in the tough town of Odessa; the story is based on a Sports Illustrated story and later nonfiction book.
8 -- "I H Huckabees," self-proclaimed existential comedy, follows a coincidence- plagued Jason Schwartzman ("Rushmore"), and Jude Law, an executive at popular retail superstore Huckabees. Add two Existential Detectives (Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin), a firefighter and a French radical, and hope the laughs match director David O. Russell's earlier "Flirting With Disaster."
15 -- "Primer," a thriller written and directed by Shane Carruth, stars Carruth and David Sullivan as corporate employees who, while conducting experiments on their off-hours, discover a device that blocks gravitational pull, giving them superhuman powers. This year's Grand Jury award winner at Sundance.
15 -- "P.S." stars Laura Linney in a romantic fantasy about a divorcee whose late high school sweetheart is reincarnated as a hottie in his twenties. With Topher Grace, directed by Dylan Kidd ("Roger Dodger") from the Helen Schulman novel.
15 -- "Around the Bend" stars four men and, apparently, no car chases. Four generations of men, including Josh Lucas ("Sweet Home Alabama"), Christopher Walken and Michael Caine, are brought together to confront a family secret.
15 -- "Shall We Dance?" features Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez in a remake of the 1996 Japanese film about a mild-mannered businessman who finds love and passion through ballroom dancing.
