Dan's Papers - July 18, 2008 - Tiffany Razzano's Quick Takes

In this Czech comedy, a young mother is torn between her attraction to Jarda, a criminal with few redeeming qualities, and a wealthy, sophisticated older man that she meets as she questions her love for Jarda.

Set during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, an Israeli soldier, who had been planning a trip to the World Cup finals, is captured by a small PLO squad. Despite much hardship, he eventually forges a relationship with his captors over their mutual love of soccer.

As Batman (Christian Bale) begins to wonder whether or not he's still needed by Gotham City, as local law enforcement seems to have things under control, a new and terrifying villain is unleashed on the city - a psychotic bank robber known as The Joker (Heath Ledger).

In this documentary, filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station on Ross Island, home to 1,000 people, most of whom work for the National Science Foundation.

A remake of the classic '60s TV show Get Smart, starring Steve Carrell as the bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway as his partner and love interest.

Will Smith portrays Hancock, an alcoholic superhero who's hated by the public. When he saves the life of a PR executive, Ray Embry (Jason Bateman), Ray starts a PR campaign to improve the public image of Hancock, who winds up having an affair with his wife (Charlize Theron).

Hellboy and his team must save humanity when the mythical world rebels against the human race in an attempt to rule Earth. Starring Ron Perlman and Selma Blair.

Based on the classic Jules Verne novel. On a quest to find his missing brother, a science professor Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser), his teenage nephew and their local guide discover the lost world in the center of the earth.

Moving from the stage to film, the plot moves forward utilizing the songs of ABBA, the popular, 70s Swedish group. Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), a bride-to-be, tries to find out who her real father is as her wedding approaches by inviting three of her mother's past boyfriends to the festivities. Meryl Streep stars as her mother, Donna. Also starring Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth.

A crew of miniature aliens operates a spaceship that has a human form. The crew encounters problems when the ship, or Dave Ming Chang (Eddie Murphy), as he's called, becomes smitten with an earth woman (Elizabeth Banks).

The story of the early life of Genghis Khan, a warrior who went on to conquer half the world.

Ham III (Andy Samberg), the grandson of the first chimp in space, is recruited when a NASA probe disappears. He's sent in to space as part of a team to retrieve it, but it more interested in having fun. He learns to take his job seriously, though, when he and his crew, Lt. Luna (Cheryl Hines) and his commander, Titan (Patrick Warburton), try to save a distant plant from an evil dictator (Jeff Daniels).

Pixar is back with the story of Wall-E, the lonely, last robot on Earth, left on the planet after it was evacuated because it was covered in trash. When he's discovered by EVE, a search robot, she realizes Wall-E might have accidentally found the key to making Earth liveable again. When she rushes back to tell the humans, WALL-E follows her across the galaxy.

A twenty-something slacker, Wesley Gibson discovers that his long-lost father was an assassin and has been murdered. Wesley is then recruited by the secret organization his father worked for to follow in his footsteps. And with the help of a fellow assassin, Fox (Angelina Jolie), and the group's leader, Sloan (Morgan Freeman), he's able to transform his life.

In this 1964 Japanese film, an amateur entomologist searching for insects by the sea, misses the last bus home and is trapped by local villagers. They force him to live with and help a mysterious woman, who has also been trapped and lives in a home at the bottom of a sandpit, spending all of her time digging sand, protecting the village from sand build-up. Though he initially attempts to escape, he eventually resigns himself to his fate.