Rambo posterLooks like the week­end is going to be beau­ti­ful, again. Per­fect weath­er for, ahem, sit­ting in a dark­ened air-con­di­tioned room watch­ing a flick­er­ing light on a screen. And Hol­ly­wood has come to the par­ty with a cou­ple of films that are going to make sit­ting in the sun­shine seem like the most nat­ur­al thing in the world.

Sly Stal­lone brings John Ram­bo out of retire­ment for his first film since 1988 at Read­ings and Regent-on-Man­ners. Liv­ing in qui­et retire­ment in Thai­land, Ram­bo is forced back into action to res­cue Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies in Bur­ma. In Ram­bo tra­di­tion it’s rat­ed R18 for vio­lence and offen­sive lan­guage.

The sec­ond asia-hor­ror-remake to come out in two weeks (Shut­ter was last week) is The Eye. Jes­si­ca Alba plays a blind woman who gets a haunt­ed cornea trans­plant and can see more than she bar­gained for. Read­ings and Regent-on-Man­ners.

[The rest of this week’s new releas­es after the jump]

I’m more hope­ful about Gone Baby Gone, a thriller from a nov­el by Den­nis “Mys­tic Riv­er” Lehane. Direct­ed by first-timer Ben Affleck and star­ring his lit­tle broth­er Casey (bril­liant in The Assas­si­na­tion of Jesse James). Casey plays a pri­vate eye on a per­son­al quest to find out has who abduct­ed a young child while the author­i­ties con­tin­ue to draw a blank. Read­ings exclu­sive.

Bon­neville is a road movie with a great cast (Jes­si­ca Lange, Joan Allen, Kathy Bates) about three women tak­ing the ash­es of one of their dead hus­bands to San­ta Bar­bara to his resent­ful daugh­ter. A Bon­neville is the con­vert­ible they use for the jour­ney. Pent­house and Rial­to.

All these films will be reviewed at Funer­als & Snakes next Wednes­day (along with the strag­glers Shut­ter and Drill­bit Tay­lor).