Movies

Kyle Moss

Another season of promising new flicks comes this way as we look ahead to a new semester packed full of entertainment, and once again, High Note has the scoop.

The films mentioned aren’t guaranteed to be great and release dates are subject to change. Stay tuned to the Daily for Friday film reviews as the semester progresses.

Jan. 14 — “Play It To The Bone”

The latest from Woody Harrelson and international heartthrob Antonio Banderas finds the two as boxers and best friends.

When a fight opportunity in Las Vegas opens up, they must quickly hop in a car with a friend, played by Lolita Davidovich, and head straight to the ring.

On the way, they pick up “Ally McBeal” star Lucy Liu, who ends up adding flames to an already burning fire of emotions and tempers.

The four of them fight against time and each other as they hurry to Vegas so the two boxers can earn big money in the biggest fight of their mediocre careers.

Jan. 21 — “Down To You”

Three past stars from last year’s teen flick craze have teamed up to do a fresh, new teenie-bopper movie of their own.

“Down To You” stars Freddie Prinze Jr. (“She’s All That”), Selma Blair (“Cruel Intentions”) and Julia Stiles (“Ten Things I Hate About You”).

Poor Freddie is torn between his true love and a new girlfriend who is having trouble telling him that she is doing pornography to help pay her way through MIT.

This movie is rumored to have a striking resemblance to “She’s All That.”

Jan. 28 — “Eye Of The Beholder”

Starring Ashley Judd and Ewan McGregor, “Eye Of The Beholder” tells the story of an agent from the British Secret Service and his assistant, played by k.d. lang, who are supposed to find out what a well known politician’s son is doing with large amounts of money.

After they find the thief (Judd), things get much more difficult when she pulls a knife and kills the politician’s son.

Instead of putting her behind bars, the agent becomes infatuated with her and obsessively follows her, making it to difficult to bring her to justice.

Jan. 28 — “Isn’t She Great”

Jacqueline Susann has spent a long career on the edge of stardom as an actress and a model. Susann finally meets fame when she writes her first novel, tagged sleazy by critics. Her subsequent novels experience the same success.

But a world of drinking and drugs overtakes her life and sends what already was a roller coaster career into more loops and turns.

Starring Bette Midler, David Hyde Pierce and Sarah Jessica Parker, “Isn’t She Great” tells the story of Susann and her turbulent life.

Feb. 4 — “Gun Shy”

Liam Neeson plays a DEA agent who is nearly killed when a sting operation goes terribly bad. He is put in therapy to deal with his experience. Shortly after, he is given another assignment — to deal with a Colombian drug Kingpin, played by Oliver Platt.

Meanwhile, a nurse he meets in therapy (Sandra Bullock) causes him to focus more on loving her than stopping the drug lord, which in turn keeps him out of an increasingly dangerous situation.

Feb. 4 — “Scream 3”

The final edition to the “Scream” trilogy once again stars Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courtney Cox Arquette. Newcomers to the cast include Parker Posey, Jenny McCarthy and Patrick Dempsey.

After a life experiencing nothing but horror, Sydney (Campbell) heads to Los Angeles to begin a career as an actress and lands her first role in a low-budget horror flick.

The film finds her back in her home town of Woodsboro, where a masked killer begins repeating history, killing cast and crew members of her movie.

Feb. 11 — “The Beach”

Guess what, girls … he’s back. Leonardo DiCaprio is backpacking in Asia with a handful of friends when he meets a mad Scotsman who, right before killing himself, gives them a map to a place in Thailand that he claims is paradise on earth.

When they get to the beach, they find that a group of travelers have already settled themselves in and created a community. DiCaprio’s character is depressed to find out the community has already adopted the same social evils he was hoping to escape.

The situation worsens when an army of natives, who grow marijuana on the island, begin creating more problems for the group.

Feb. 18 — “The Skulls”

This suspense drama stars “Dawson’s Creek” teen Joshua Jackson as an Ivy League college student who is aspiring to be accepted to Harvard law school, but knows that his good grades alone won’t cut it.

When an opportunity arises for him to join a secret club called The Skulls, he eagerly joins hoping the connections will help him to gain acceptance into law school.

But when his roommate, a journalism student, dies from an apparent suicide, he is convinced that something is wrong. As he dives deeper into the situation, he finds himself in a world of danger.

Feb. 18 — “The Whole Nine Yards”

Bruce Willis stars as a mobster who is captured by the police and now wants to stay out of trouble. He agrees to cooperate with the FBI and moves to a suburban neighborhood as part of the Witness Protection Program.

But his new neighbors, played by Rosanna Arquette and Matthew Perry, discover his identity and ask if he would be interested in rubbing out a spouse. He finds himself torn between his love of crime and doing the right thing.