Planning a trip to movies this weekend? Well, here’s what you’ll find new at the local multiplex…

Forest Whitaker pays penance for some hellish past life by playing opposite Keanu Reeves as a rogue LAPD officer trying to take down the corruption around him in STREET KINGS. Seriously? One look at the trailer will show K-Nu is way out of his league on this one. And who did Hugh Laurie piss off to be condemned to this project? If you’re the least bit interested, catch it quick because it’ll be making its way to DVD real soon.

Studio: Fox Searchlight
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The ’80s horror “re-imagining” craze continues as television director Nelson McCormick channels television director Paul Lynch for PROM NIGHT. The storyline has been changed, but the sadistic killer’s carnage remains the same. Brittany Snow, Ming-Na, and the former Mr. Christina Applegate star. If you’re looking for recreational blood and guts this weekend, this is the film for you.

Studio: Screen Gems
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Ellen Page’s follow-up to Juno finds her side by side with Dennis Quaid (who’s starting to look and sound a lot like Harrison Ford) and Thomas Hayden Church in SMART PEOPLE. Oh yeah, and Carrie Bradshaw shows up as a doctor… like she had time to attend med school in between breaks from sex and shopping? Come on. If you haven’t guessed, this is the weekend’s counter programming.

Studio: Miramax
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Our “under the radar” film of the week is KILLSHOT, which stars Diane Lane, Rosario Dawson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Thomas Jane, and Mickey Rourke (who someone must have dragged away from a Santa Monica bar for filming). It’s a lovely little Elmore Leonard tale about the ineffectiveness of the Witness Protection Program when there’s a price on your head and an assassin looking to collect. From John Madden, the director of Ethan Frome and Shakespeare in Love. Think he’s trying to extend his range? BTW, the film was shot in 2006 and has been floating around in Weinstein Bros. limbo ever since.

Studio: MGM
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