This is 40

 

This is 40 is writer/director/producer Judd Apatow’s  “sort-of sequel” to the 2007 film Knocked Up, featuring married couple Pete (Paul Rund) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) who were seen in (but were not the main focus of) the 2007 film. This is 40 asks the question: How are Pete and Debbie coping with marriage, family life and turning 40?

 

The answer is not very well. The couple appears to have gotten bogged down in the day-to-day drudgery of work, kids and a so-so relationship. Then Debbie has one of those “aha” moments when she realizes that if they want to experience more happiness, they need to “make a choice to make things different.” After all, they’re not getting any younger. So Debbie draws up a list of all of things they need to “do better” – exercise more, get more involved with the kids’ school, change some of their parenting habits, and put some fun back into their marriage. Will Debbie’s “do better” campaign work out? See the movie and find out!

 

This is 40 is scheduled for a December 21, 2012 release by Universal Pictures. Rated R for sexual content, crude humor, pervasive language and some drug material, the comedy also stars Megan Fox, John Lithgow, Iris Apatow, Maude Apatow, Melissa McCarthy, Robert Smigel, Charlene Yi, and Albert Brooks.

Jack Reacher

A sniper opens fire in a heartland city, killing five people with six shots and throwing the city into a state of chaos. Within hours the cops announce that they have the killer in custody. It appears to be a slam-dunk case – until the accused man, James Barr (Joseph Sikora), a former Army sniper, claims innocence. “You got the wrong guy,” he says, “Get Reacher for me.”

Reacher is Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise), an ex-military investigator who knows Barr and Barr’s skills as a sniper. In fact, after Barr murdered four people during the Gulf War and walked free on a technicality, Reacher swore he would track Barr down if he ever did it again. Given this background, why would Barr have asked for Reacher? Because in addition to his highly developed military and investigative skills and extreme intelligence, Reacher is known for his absolute moral clarity in defending victims.

Once he arrives and starts to investigate, Reacher sees that something isn’t right. Barr never should have missed a shot. Reacher’s quest to prove Barr’s guilt or innocence gets complicated when he gets entangled with a ruthless Russian gang. The gang’s leader, a man known only as The Zec (Werner Herzog), spent most of his life in the infamous Soviet Gulag. Now it looks like The Zec might be the one that’s pulling the strings in this entire case.

Written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, Jack Reacher is an adaptation of the 2005 novel, “One Shot,” by Lee Child. The thriller also stars Rosamund Pike as Helen Rodin, Richard Jenkins as Alex Rodin, Robert Duvall as Cash, David Oyelowo as Emerson, Michael Raymond-James as Linsky, James Martin Kelly as Rob Farrior, Nicole Forester as Nancy Holt, and Alexia Fast as Sandy. The thriller is set for release on December 21, 2012 by Paramount Pictures.