Moneyball is a sports drama starring Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the real-life Oakland A‘s general manager, who successfully put together a baseball club on a limited budget by using computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
His newfound way of picking his players results in criticism from his peers, who think he’s obliterating the heart and soul of the game.
The family film Dolphin Tale is based on a true story and follows the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap. Without a tail the dolphin may not make it. So, it’ll have to rely on the smarts of a marine biologist, a prosthetic doctor and the young kid who has bonded with the dolphin.
The pic is heartfelt, with a stellar cast that includes Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd and Harry Connick, Jr.
Taking a step away from his role as Jacob Black in the Twilight movies, Taylor Lautner stars in Abduction. He portrays Nathan, a young man who sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.
Nathan soon realizes that he’s being tracked by a team of trained killers, which means he’ll need to solve the mystery of his life in order to survive.
Hollywood continues to cannibalize itself with another remake of one of Sam Peckinpah’s action-thrillers, Killer Elite.
What’s up with all these filmmakers remaking Sam Peckinpah pics? First Straw Dogs just a week ago and now Killer Elite, a film that originally starred James Caan and Robert DuVall – and now stars Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert DeNiro.
The story is changed a bit and now revolves around a retired member of Britain’s Elite Special Air Service, who is pressed into action again when his mentor is grabbed and held captive. His plan is to kill the three assassins sent out by their leader.