Inglourious Basterds, Shorts, Post Grad, The Cove, Spread, Lorna's Silence

Six more big movies this week as Film Geek Central dissects everything from family fare to the first genuine war film from Quentin Tarantino.



Quentin Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, has been simmering for a while. It's a World War II actioner, detailing the exploits of a group of Jewish-American military toughs who go throughout occupied France, torturing and killing the Nazis. Along the way, they meet up with a woman who has her own score to settle.

A GRINDHOUSE reunion of sorts as Robert Rodriguez brings us his newest, SHORTS. In this family film, a group of kids find a magical rock that gives them the power to make their wishes come true. They have to band together when James Spader tries to use the rock for his own purposes.

In POST GRAD, Alexis Bledel (GILMORE GIRLS, SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS) comes face to face with the cruel reality following college. Finding a job and emotional happiness is not nearly as easy or guaranteed as everyone has made it out to be.

In SPREAD, Ashton Kutcher is a lothario who is thrown off his game when he meets a woman as good at emotional mind games as he is. Anne Heche, Margarita Levieva and Maria Conchita Alonso co-star.

THE COVE is a documentary that begins to delve into the wonders of the undersea kingdom. It quickly turns into a modern crime story however as a group of activists expose horrible instances of animal abuse in a Japanese cove.

The Dardenne Brothers (THE SON, L'ENFANT) return with LORNA'S SILENCE. In this film, a woman helps a junkie in exchange for citizenship, only to grow ever more dependent on him.

All this plus news and DVD releases such as HANNAH MONTANA THE MOVIE, LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT and SURVEILLANCE.