Tabloid. The latest film from documentarian Errol Morris (The Fog of War) is centered on an extended interview with Joyce McKinney, a beauty pageant queen who became a sensation in 1970s England after she was accused of kidnapping a young Mormon man. He claimed that she raped him. Then things got strange.
Winnie the Pooh. There are serious questions to be answered in Hundred Acre Wood: Can an Eeyore become a Tigger? How big a hero can a Piglet be? And most importantly, does no one have a fresh pot of Honey for a Pooh who missed breakfast? John Cleese narrates. Directed by Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall.
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JULY 22
Captain America: The First Avenger. Chris Evans stars as Steve Rogers, a runty little guy who volunteers for a World War II Army experiment that turns him into a muscle-ripped superhero ready to take on a Nazi weapons genius named Red Skull (Hugo Weaving). Tommy Lee Jones co-stars for director Joe Johnston (The Wolfman).
Friends with Benefits. "No emotion. Just sex," is the mantra agreed upon by friends Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake)who've decided that they're both too damaged for love, and just need good, regular, no-strings sex. Good luck with that. Woody Harrelson and Patricia Clarkson co-star. Directed by Will Gluck (Easy A).
Life, Above All. In this adaptation of Allan Stratton's bestselling novel Chandra's War, Khomotso Manyaka stars as a 12-year-old girl struggling to protect her AIDS-stricken mother from the superstition and fear that rule their South African village. Directed by Oliver Schmitz.
JULY 29
Another Earth. In this sci-fi tinged love story from first-time writer-director Mike Cahill, the discovery of a 10th planet—a duplicate Earth—helps to unite a music professor (William Mapother) and the woman (Brit Marling) who killed his wife and child in a car accident.
Cowboys & Aliens. In the Wild West of old, Lonergan (Daniel Craig) and Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford) are enemy gunslingers but their shootout will have to wait until they kill off the space aliens that have just landed in their dusty desert town. Directed by Jon Favreau (Iron Man).
Crazy, Stupid, Love. Night after night, sad sack Cal (Steve Carell), whose wife (Julianne Moore) has left him, sits in a bar and watches a young guy named Jacob (Ryan Gosling) effortlessly pick up women. Desperate, Cal asks him for a ladykiller make-over. Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (I Love You Phillip Morris).
The Names of Love. In this satirical French comedy, a young woman named Bahia (Sara Forestier), who is half Algerian, falls in love with a middle-aged, half Jewish scientist (Jacques Gamblin). "This is so cool," Bahia exclaims. "The two of us embody France!" Directed by Michel Leclerc.
Sarah's Key. Kristin Scott Thomas stars as a journalist who discovers that her husband's family benefited from the 1942 roundup and deportation of Paris Jews. Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner.
The Smurfs. They're back and bluer than ever. Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays star. Directed by Raja Gosnell (Beverly Hills Chihuahua).
AUGUST 5
The Change-Up. Two buddies—a hunky single guy (Ryan Reynolds) and a bored married guy (Justin Bateman)— experience a magical body switch and discover the pros and cons of living the other's life. Directed by David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers).
The Future. "I've been gearing up to do something incredible for the past ... fifteen years," declares Sophie (Miranda July) as she and her boyfriend Jason (Hamish Linklater) embark on a 30-day life experiment they hope will open them up to new ways of living. Written and directed by July, whose first film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, was a 2005 hit.
The Guard. Brendan Gleeson is Boyle, an unkempt, vulgar Irish policeman who teams with a straight-laced FBI agent (Don Cheadle) to solve a series of Galway murders. Written and directed by John Michael McDonagh.
Magic Trip. The infamous 1964 cross-country trip novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters took across America — while happily blitzed-out on a new drug called LSD — is recalled in this new documentary by Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) and Alison Ellwood (American High). Narrated by Stanley Tucci.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes. After altering the genetics of a chimpanzee, a young scientist (James Franco) is astonished when his test subject escapes and then launches a primate war against humans. Directed by Rupert Wyatt.
AUGUST 12
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. Once upon a time — 1973, to be exact — a TV movie about a woman being terrorized by whispering, invisible goblins living below her chimney scared the heck out of many a viewer. Katie Holmes stars in this long-in-the-works remake, with Guy Pearce as her clueless husband. Coproduced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by newcomer Troy Nixey.
The Help. In 1962, a budding journalist (Emma Stone) returns to her JMississippi hometown and stirs up trouble when she begins interviewing and writing about the black women who work as maids for the town's rich whites. Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Sissy Spacek, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Cicely Tyson co-star. Written and directed by Tate Taylor, adapting Kathryn Stockett's bestseller.
