17 Reasons We Can't Wait for Spring
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I AM NUMBER FOUR (2/18)
After wizards, vampires, and werewolves, the latest YA adaptation is all about refugee teenage aliens. Alex Pettyfer and Timothy Olyphant star in the sci-fi film about an alien on the run, based on the novel by Jobie Hughes and James Frey.
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HALL PASS (2/25)
Jason Sudeikis and Owen Wilson star as two sweet but randy husbands whose wives give them one week and a license to cheat in this Farrelly brothers comedy.
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RANGO (3/4)
The chameleonic Johnny Depp voices an actual chameleon in this spaghetti-Western-inspired cartoon.
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THE BEAVER (3/25)
Mel Gibson portrays a broken man who finds his voice via a beaver hand puppet in this film directed by Jodie Foster, who also plays his wife.
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HANNA (4/8)
A 16-year-old girl (Saoirse Ronan) is trained to be a coldhearted killing machine by her dad (Eric Bana) in this thriller.
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RED RIDING HOOD (3/11)
Amanda Seyfried's heroine, Valerie, may wear the titular cape, but this isn't the story you remember. A werewolf terrorizes the village, paranoia runs rampant, fueled by a hunter (Gary Oldman), and Valerie is torn between the man her parents want her to marry (Max Irons) and the one she really loves (Shiloh Fernandez).
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YOUR HIGHNESS (4/8)
Danny McBride and James Franco team up again, as two princes in medieval times and with Natalie Portman joining them on a quest to rescue a princess (Zooey Deschanel).
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ARTHUR (4/8)
Russell Brand gives his take on Dudley Moore's drunken playboy in this remake of the 1981 hit. Even the butler Hobson gets a new look with Helen Mirren playing Arthur's quippy nanny.
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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (4/22)
Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon as a couple of beautiful circus folk bringing Sara Gruen's best-seller to life. Adding some weight to the cast is Tai, a 9,000-pound Asian elephant.
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GOODBYE LULLABY, Avril Lavigne (3/8)
The Canadian pop star drops her fourth studio album, and the first single, ''What the Hell,'' is a raucous anthem produced by Max Martin.
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BORN THIS WAY, Lady Gaga (5/23)
Lady Gaga's little monsters finally get a new album, which she says will be the ''greatest album of this decade.''
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THE ROYAL WEDDING (4/29)
Enjoy the wedding of HRH Prince William of Wales and Miss Catherine Middleton...or at least the spectacle surrounding it.
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GAME OF THRONES (4/17)
Peter Dinklage and Sean Bean star in HBO's adaptation of George R.R. Martin's best-selling series, which is a sprawling tale of families warring for control of the fictional land of Westeros.
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BOSSYPANTS, by Tina Fey (4/5)
Funnywoman Tina Fey delivers an essay collection that covers her suburban upbringing, her rise to Queen of Smart Comedy, and everything in between.
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LEGO STAR WARS III: THE CLONE WARS (March, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, PC)
The toy-brick version of the popular Clone Wars cartoon will click with kids.
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BULLETSTORM (Feb. 22, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
You are a space pirate marooned on a planet with mutants, man-eating plants, and exploding ice cream carts in this intense, outrageous — and funny — shooter game.
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PORTAL 2 (April 18, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, Mac)
The sequel to the surprise 2007 hit puzzler mixes mind-warping puzzles with a wry, Douglas Adams-ian sense of humor as you try to escape a sprawling research facility overseen by a batty artificial intelligence convinced that you tried to murder it...which is kind of true.
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