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Step Up 2 the Streets

Director: Jon Chu
Stars: Robert Hoffman, Briana Evigan, Cassie (Full Cast)
Studio: Touchstone Pictures

The Plot: At the Maryland School of the Arts, students Andie (Evigan) and Chase (Hoffman) look to impress at an underground street-dance competition by forming a crew with the school’s best performers.

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THE BUZZ: As someone indicated on our message boards: "Briana Evigan is Wack, not a real BGirl." We totally agreed, until we were secretly captivated by her moves and brassiness in the movie’s first trailer, which shows the film is going for a boy-girl version of You Got Served. What’s interesting to us (and we’re trying real hard here) is whether Disney will luck out and find a male lead that will make young women swoon as much as Channing Tatum did—one that can brood and look great in a sleeveless undershirt—sort of like the "High School Musical" version of Ryan from "The O.C." And yes, Tyler, Tatum’s bad boy character from the original, does make an appearance here.

Doomsday

Director: Neil Marshall
Stars: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig (Full Cast)
Studio: Rogue Pictures

The Plot: Three decades after the lethal Reaper Virus decimated the population of Great Britain, a team of specialists led by Eden Sinclair (Mitra) is dispatched into a hot zone where a new breakout has occurred. Their effort to develop a cure within the confines of a walled-off area quickly devolves into a waking nightmare.

THE BUZZ: The beloved Neil Marshall blogs hard and long about the production of Doomsday, though his photos and updates can’t distract me from the notion that he has already told most of this story in 28 Weeks Later … and its hard-to-like sequel. Marshall indicates this is an action movie that is heavy on old-school stuntwork, and the footage we’ve seen conjures up images and themes we loved in Mad Max and Escape from New York. It also announces the arrival of Rhona Mitra as a major force to be reckoned with (just a warm-up for her appearance in the third Underworld installment). While it’s great to know that Marhsall is growing the cast and crew family that has been with him since Dog Soldiers, I just hope he isn’t recycling ideas already. London? Viruses? Haven’t we been scared by this before?