American Pie: The Wedding (MA): National. UIP. 96 mins. 310 screens. Comedy. Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, January Jones, Eugene Levy, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Seann William Scott, Eddie Kaye Thomas. D: Jessie Dylan (How High). With East Great Falls High now just a memory, the kids have grown into young adults ready to wreak havoc with a new rite of passage - Jim (Biggs) and Michelle (Hannigan) are getting married - in a hurry. Jim's grandmother is sick and wants to see Jim walk down the aisle, so they're going for it in two frantic weeks. Stifler plans to be there (bridesmaids!), and more importantly to throw the ultimate bachelor party (strippers!). Tag: "This time they are going all the way." Budget: US $55 million. Filming: January 03 - unknown.  Filmed in California. Full Australian title: American Pie: The Wedding The Thrilling Conclusion To The American Pie Saga. How is American Pie 3 "thrilling", or a "saga"? 

AUGUST 8

Cypher (M): Selected, Syd/ Bris/ Adel/ Melb/ Perth. Icon. 21 screens. 95 mins. Sci-fi.  Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp. D: Vincenzo Natali (Cube). Morgan Sullivan (Jeremy Northam) is an out of work accountant who is stuck in an unhappy life in the suburbs, a miserable marriage and dreams of one day sailing away to a life of freedom and excitement. Seeling an escape from his lacklustre existence, and his overbearing wife, he decides to join the multinational corporation Digicorp to become a company spy. While carrying out his assignments morgan meets an elusive and beautiful woman, Rita (Lucy Liu), who reveals to him that his activities have been a ruse to brainwash him and others like him. With some hesitation, Morgan accepts her offer of anti-brainwashing drugs and is ultimately forced to work for a seemingly friendly agent from a rival company, Sunways. As a double agent, Morgan's survival lies deep in his mind and actions, but he's having difficulties distinguishing reality from the visions that plague him. 

Down With Love (M): National. Fox. 172 screens. 101 mins. Comedy/ Romance. Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, David Hyde Pierce, Sarah Paulson, Melissa George, Ivana Milicevic. D: Peyton Reed (Bring It On).  Down With Love is an old-fashioned romantic comedy with a twist, starring "Chicago's" Oscar-nominated Renee Zellweger and "Moulin Rouge's" Ewan McGregor. Putting a hip spin on the golden age of the classic Rock Hudson-Doris Day comedies, the film is the story of a spark-filled collision between a woman who has sworn off love and a ladies' man who thinks he doesn't need love.   Set in the early 1960s, by way of the early 2000s, every frame pops with the super-saturated palette of sixties Technicolor. Process shots, stock shots, backlot New York City street scenes, snazzy apartments, and elegant supper clubs are the backdrop for Down With Love's characters, including Zellweger's best-selling advice author and McGregor's hotshot journalist/playboy.  

Morvern Caller (M): Selected, Syd/ Bris/ Melb. Dendy. 4 screens. 98 mins. UK. Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Raife Patrick Burchell, Dan Cadan, Carolyn Calder, Jim Wilson, Dolly Wells, Ruby Milton, Linda McGuire. D: Lynne Ramsey (Ratcatcher). Morvern Callar is a 21 year-old supermarket worker from a small port town in the west of Scotland. Morvern believes that life is something that you get on with as best you can with what you've got. One morning Morvern finds that what she's got is a dead boyfriend on the kitchen floor. But she doesn't tell anyone - an extraordinary choice that propels her on a journey to the south of Spain and transforms her life.

Tears of the Sun (MA): National. Columbia. 158 screens. 118 mins. Drama. Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser, Tom Skerritt, Paul Francis, Fionnula Flanagan, Eamonn Walker, Johnny Messner, Charles Ingram, Chad Smith, Malick Bowens, Akosua Busia, Nick Chinlund, Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy, Peter Menseh. D: Antoine Fuqua (Bait). Lt. A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) and his elite team of Navy SEALS have their work cut out for them when they are dispatched to war-torn Nigeria with orders to rescue an American citizen, Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci). The mission is pretty cut and dry except for one glitch: Dr. Kendricks will have to abandon the natives to whom she has been providing healthcare and those that work in the mission where her rudimentary hospital is located. Of course, Dr. Kendricks refuses to leave without her people, forcing Lt. Waters to choose between completing his orders as directed or putting the lives of his men on the line by helping the refugees cross the border to Cameroon on foot. To complicate matters, the group is being pursued by militant guerillas who destroy everything in their path. 

Buffalo Soldiers (MA): Selected, National. Roadshow. 46 screens. Drama. Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Anna Paquin, Gabriel Mann, Leon Robinson, Dean Stockwell, Elizabeth McGovern. D: Gregory Jordan (Ned Kelly). Joaquin Phoenix stars in this dark service comedy as Ray Elwood, an Army clerk stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Part of a company made up almost entirely of ex-convicts and high school dropouts, Elwood takes advantage of his daft commanding officer, Col. Berman (Harris), by selling heroin and stolen Army supplies wholesale. However, when a member of the company dies and an autopsy reveals a remarkable amount of drugs in his bloodstream, far more intense scrutiny is brought down on the base in the form of Sgt. Lee (Glenn), a tough and savvy Vietnam veteran who immediately surmises that Elwood is the brains behind the base's black market operations. Unfortunately, Elwood has just happened upon the biggest score of his tour and now must unload two trucks full of arms and 30 kilos of heroin just as Sgt. Lee has begun to orchestrate his downfall.

Willard (M): Selected, Syd/ Darwin/ Bris/ Gold/ Cairns/ Adel/ Melb/ Perth. Roadshow. 40 screens. 100 mins. Crispin Glover, Jackie Burroughs, R. Lee Ermey, Laura Elena Harring, Kim McKamy. D: Glen Morgan (debut). Life has become one big trap for 30-year-old Willard Stiles (Crispin Glover). Haunted by the ghost of his dead father and suffocated by the psychological cord that keeps him tied to his mother in their once stately home, Willard floats through life, unable to connect with those around him. An office clerk at Martin-Stiles Manufacturing, Willard only has a job because his late father made it a condition of his partnership with Frank Martin (R Lee Ermey), who reminds Willard of this burden on a daily basis. But Willard has made an eerie discovery: he shares a powerful bond with the rats that dwell in his basement. Suddenly, Willard has friends - hundreds of them. 

Darkness Falls (M): National. Columbia. 110 screens. Thriller. USA. Chaney Kley, Emma Caulfield, Joshua Anderson, Andrew Bayly, Emily Browning, Lee Cormie, Peter Curtin, Daniel Daperis, Rebecca McCauley, Kestie Morassi, Steve Mouzakis. D: Jonathan Liebesman (Immortals). Kyle Walsh (Kley) must return home to confront his troubled past and save his childhood sweetheart Caitlin (Caulfield) and her younger brother Michael (Cormie) from an unrelenting evil that has plagued the town of Darkness Falls for over one hundred and fifty years. Memorable quotes: "Officer Matt Henry: You're Crazy, Walsh.  Kyle: Crazy isn't what it used to be."  Aka "The Tooth Fairy", "Don't Peek", "Fear of the Dark", "The Tooth Fairy: The Ghost of Matilda Dixon" and "The Tooth Fairy: Every Legend Has Its Dark Side". 

Finding Nemo (G): National. Buena Vista. 399 screens.  Animated. 104 mins. USA. Albert Brooks, William H. Macy, Ellen DeGeneres, Willem Dafoe, Geoffrey Rush, Barry Humphries. D: Andrew Stanton (A Bugs Life) & Lee Unkrich (Monsters Inc). A tale which follows the comedic and eventful journeys of two fish, the fretful Malin and his young son Nemo, who are separated from each another in the Great Barrier Reef when Nemo is unexpectedly taken from his home, and thrust into a fish tank in a dentist's office overlooking Sydney Harbor. Buoyed by the companionship of a friendly but forgetful fish named Dory, the overly cautious Malin embarks on in a dangerous trek and finds himself the unlikely hero of an epic journey to rescue his son. Meanwhile the young Nemo hatches a few daring plans of his own to return home safely.  Quote: " [Dory and Marlin are in pitch darkness looking for the goggles] Dory: Ahh! Something's got me!   Marlin: That's just me!  Dory: Who are you?  Marlin: [exasperated] Who am I? Who do you think?!  Dory: Are... are you my conscience?   Marlin: [sighs] Yes, I'm your conscience. We haven't spoken for a while. How have you been?   Dory: Eh, can't complain.  Marlin: Good. Now, do you see anything?  Dory: [angler fish's light approaches] Yes, I see... a light. Hey, conscience, am I dead?

The Good The Bad And The Ugly (MA, 1966): Selected, Melb. (Syd Jan 04). Astor St Kilda. Chapel Films. 171 mins. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Mario Brega, Aldo Giuffre, Chelo Alonso, Luigi Pistilli. D: Sergio Leone (Once Upon A Time In America). Re-release. Restored and extended edition. Blondie (Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) are gunmen who admire each other professionally but dislike each other personally. Encountering a group of dying soldiers, Tuco learns the location of the graveyard where a Confederate treasure is buried, while Blondie learns the identity of the exact grave. Joined by mercenary drifter Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), they cross the desert, each of the desperadoes knowing half the secret and each focusing his squinty eyes on the $200,000 bounty. "Man With No Name: You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."

The Man On The Train (M): Selected, Can/ Syd/ Bris/ Adel/ Melb/ Perth. UIP. 11 screens. 90 mins. Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Charlie Nelson, Jean-François Stévenin, Pascal Parmentier, Isabelle Petit-Jacques, Alain Guellaff, Nelly Borgeaud. D: Patrice Leconte (The Girl On The Bridge). In a sleepy French backwater, a train pulls into a deserted station, depositing a lone passenger: a grizzled man in a fringed leather jacket. He looks like a criminal, albeit an ageing criminal, a man who has never before asked questions of life or made deep connections with anybody, arriving for a final showdown, and he is. But within minutes he bumps into a local retired poetry teacher in dapper clothes, a man who looks like someone waiting for something exciting to happen, who appears perfectly settled in his life, and he was. Until now.

Welcome to Collinwood (M): Selected, Syd/ Bris/ Melb. Becker. 8 screens. Comedy. 86 mins. USA. Sam Rockwell, Luis Guzmán, William H Macy, Isaiah Washington, Patricia Clarkson, Jennifer Esposito, Gabrielle Union, George Clooney, Michael Jeter, Andrew Davoli, Ann Zupa.  D: Anthony & Jay Russo (The Kiss). Five hapless misfits from the hard-luck streets of Cleveland band together and try to pull off the greatest job they've ever heard of--attempting to burgle a pawnbroker's safe. However, even when their plans go awry, this army of eccentrics find themselves gaining more than they lose. US $12 million budget. Filmed in Cleveland OHIO, USA. Music composed by Mark Mothersbaugh. Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney produced through their Section Eight company.