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).