Be Careful What You Wish For [New Movie Releases]

Normally, we would have seen at least one of the many films that come out every week by the time they hit the big screens, but this week we are completely flying blind into that wide abyss of movie release fog. Hopefully we can guide you along your way as you scan the showtimes, and would love to hear what you think of any of the following films, but don't shoot the messenger if you want to punch a glasses wearing koala on your way out of the theater. This week, at least, we take no responsibility for your decision making process.

Coraline
Author Neil Gaiman just won the Newberry for The Graveyard Book, and if you haven't read his source material for this new flick, let us assure you that Coraline is the bomb: secret passages, dull and disinterested parents, then, oh, what? That's right, an alternate family with buttons for eyes. A perfectly creepy, but heartening story gets the claymation treatment, along with a whole bunch more colors than you'd imagine. Should be good for you and les brats. (But not sausages/bangers.) --Luke Quinton
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Fanboys
Watching the trailer for this film about a bunch of fanatically hardcore Star Wars nerds on a road trip to “storm Skywalker Ranch…or die trying” might start with an eye roll at the precious premise but will end with high fives and plans being made to see it. Starring Jay Burachel (of Tropic Thunder, Knocked Up, and “Undeclared” fame) with a bunch of well-cast lovable loser types, and featuring more juicy cameos than a “Will and Grace” episode, this flick looks to be chock full of loving references to every aspect of hardcore fandom. As fanboys ourselves, we can’t imagine missing it. --Matthew Frederick
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He's Just Not That Into You
Based on the best-selling book (which itself was related to Sex and the City), He's Just Not That Into You features a star-studded cast dealing with lust, stale relationships, and love lost. With Jennifer Aniston and Ben Affleck as an unmarried long co-habitating couple, Jennifer Connelly playing wife to Bradley Cooper (aka Will from Alias), Scarlet Johannson as Cooper's temptress, Drew Barrymore in there somewhere, as well as Ginnifer Goodwin and Justin Long (Ed cast represent!) in the mix, there's likely to be at least one character you can relate to. Maybe. It is a romantic comedy, but it's a dark one; a happy ending may only come to some and not all of the characters. So we can't promise that you will be that into this film, but surely it is better than anything Kate Hudson has been in recently. --Elizabeth S.
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Pink Panther
Having recently delved into the weird and wonderful world of Peter Sellers' original Pink Panther, we're intrigued, but not hopeful that Steve Martin's second attempt at the famous Inspector Clouseau is gonna work out. Martin plays a mean banjo, but wethinks he needs to get Ari working as his agent.

It may be worth the ticket price, but we're betting it's another dud in the once-proud, but fantastically freaky history of the series. If you haven't seen them, your time's probably better spent watching les originales, which we hear are on Netflix's "watch now." --Luke Quinton
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Push
Don’t let the fact that the award-winning Djimon Hounsou and the professionally adorable Dakota Fanning are in this movie make you think it’s any good. Cause it ain’t. We don’t need to see it to know that.

Stocked with a bunch of WB wannabes waving their hands around while dudes on wires flail about (they’re supposed to be telekinetic, we suppose), this is just another FX-heavy “I hear the kids like super heroes these days” bandwagon flick. We’re bored just WRITING about it. --Matthew Frederick
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