New At The Movies: Film Clips & Fan Reviews
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- Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 06:17
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| Paul | Limitless | The Lincoln Lawyer |
Aliens won the war in the battle over the box office last weekend with Battle: Los Angeles taking the number one spot. New this week, another alien invades movie theaters but for laughs in the comedy PAUL, from the creators of Shaun of the Dead. Is there room for two alien films at the top of the box office?
Two dramas join the weekend slate of movies with Limitless starring Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro and Matthew McConaughey's The Lincoln Lawyer.
Which film will you be seeing this weekend?
PAUL
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America’s UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien (voiced by Seth Green) who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever. Saturday Night Live's Kristen Wiig joins the Brits for this out of this world comedy.
For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town—a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Gollings (Frost). Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.
LIMITLESS
Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro star in LIMITLESS, a paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret “smart drug” that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself.
PHOTO GALLERY: Robert DeNiro & Bradley Cooper Stills From LIMITLESS
Anna Friel and Abbie Cornish also star in LIMITLESS, directed by Neil Burger (The Illusionist, Interview with the Assassin).
THE LINCOLN LAWYER
In the gripping thriller THE LINCOLN LAWYER, Matthew McConaughey stars as Michael “Mick” Haller, a slick, charismatic Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Having spent most of his career defending petty, gutter-variety criminals, Mick unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime: defending a rich Beverly Hills playboy (Ryan Phillippe) who is accused of attempted murder. However, what initially appears to be a straightforward case with a big money pay-off swiftly develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation and a crisis of conscience for Haller.
