Movies I'm Looking Forward to in 2010: H-M

Here is the second part of the list.

Again, I've provided a brief description of the film, a list of it's stars and a release date, if one has been provided. That said, just remember that release dates are subject to change.

Hot Tub Time Machine (March 19)
Cast: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Crispin Glover
Director: Steve Pink
Summary: After a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, four best friends who've become bored with their adult lives wake up in the year 1986. This is their chance to change their futures for the better, and in one case to ensure his existence.


Howl
Cast: James Franco, David Strathairn, Alan Alda, Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Summary: San Francisco, 1957. This interweaves the life of a young Allen Ginsberg finding his true voice, the obscenity trial that ensued when his poem 'Howl' was published, and animated segments that adapt the poem itself. Of course I find this movie interesting, I WAS an English major in college.

Inception (July 16)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard
Director: Christopher Nolan
Summary: The Prestige and The Dark Knight director Nolan returns with the story of a CEO-type executive who finds himself becoming involved in a blackmailing scandal. The story is said to explore the architecture of the human mind.


Iron Man 2
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Mickey Rourke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sam Rockwell, Don Cheadle
Director: Jon Favreau
Summary: Having revealed his Iron Man identity to the public, billionaire inventor Tony Stark is unwilling to share his technology with the military, but forces outside his control plot against him.

Jonah Hex (June 18)
Cast: Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Michael Shannon, Michael Fassbender
Director: Jimmy Hayward
Summary: Based on the titular DC Comics character. In the Wild West, a scarred bounty hunter tracks down a dangerous ex-Confederate soldier trying to reignite the civil war and ensure the South will win this time.


Kick-Ass (April 16)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Aaron Johnson, Mark Strong, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Summary: The comic book adaptation centers on a high school dweeb named Dave Lizewski who decides to become a superhero even though he has no athletic ability or coordination. Things change when he eventually runs into real bad guys with real weapons. If you seen the trailer, you know that one of the heroes, Hit-Girl, uses some very "colorful" language, to say the least.

Knight and Day (July 2)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Viola Davis, Olivier Martinez
Director: James Mangold
Summary: A lonely woman's seemingly harmless blind date suddenly turns her life upside-down when a super spy takes her on a violent worldwide journey to protect a powerful battery that holds the key to an infinite power source.


The Last Airbender (July 2)
Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Summary: A live-action film based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series. In a fantastic world where civilisation exists as four great empires, a reluctant young child sets out on a perilous journey to restore balance to a world torn apart by war.

London Boulevard (July 30)
Cast: Keira Knightley, Colin Farrell, Ray Winstone, David Thewlis, Anna Friel
Director: William Monahan
Summary: A freshly released ex-con from South London attempts to stay out of the way of a ruthless loan shark by finding honest work at the Holland Park mansion of faded movie actress. As his violent past catches up with him and his disturbed sister is threatened, he is forced to act. Monahan, who won an Oscar for his writing work on The Departed makes his directorial debut with this film.

Machete
Cast: Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba, Robert De Niro, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Ethan Maniquis
Summary: A renegade former Mexican Federale takes an offer to assassinate a corrupt Senator. Double crossed and on the run, Machete braves the odds with the help of a saucy taco slinger, his "holy" brother, and a socialite with a penchant for guns. If you saw Grindhouse, the trailer for this then fake movie ran before the "Planet Terror" portion of the film.


The Mechanic
Cast: Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland, Christa Campbell
Director: Simon West
Summary: A highly-skilled but emotionally detached hitman is planning to retire when a young man asks to be trained up in the profession. Only problem is that this new apprentice is the son of one of the Mechanic's handlers and may have ulterior motives. Wonder if Statham's character drives in this film? Just a thought.