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Opening February 14: Gunday

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with shootouts and coal-thievery. Gunday (a plural form of “goon,” not the name of the most violent day of the week) hits Chicago area theaters on February 14, 2014.

Gunday opens on Friday in seven local theaters: AMC River East 21 in Chicago, Regal Gardens Stadium 1-6 in Skokie, Big Cinemas Golf Glen 5 in Niles, AMC South Barrington 30 in South Barrington, Marcus Addison in Addison, Regal Cantera Stadium 17 in Warrenville, and AMC Loews Woodridge 18 in Woodridge.

After a solid performance in its opening weekend, the romantic comedy Hasee Toh Phasee gets a second week at the River East 21, Golf Glen 5, South Barrington 30, and Cantera 17.

Other Indian movies showing at the Golf Glen 5 this weekend include Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal (Tamil) and Ohm Shaanthi Ohshaana (Malayalam).

New Trailers: December 16, 2013

With the new year just around the corner, there are a ton of new trailers out promoting movies scheduled for release in 2014. Let’s start with the biggest flick first: Salman Khan’s Jai Ho, opening January 24.

The trailer — like most of the trailers below — doesn’t have English subtitles, so I’m obviously missing out on the dialogue. Based on the visuals, I can’t see what differentiates this from any other recent Salman Khan film. I find Salman charming, but I’m tired of watching him play the same part: a morally perfect, invincible hero whose only character flaw is that he doesn’t have a girlfriend at the start of the movie. I want to see Salman play a character with room for growth: a washed up boxer who takes to the ring for one last fight, even though it might kill him; an upright family man who risks his reputation to save his wife and kids; an undercover cop whose constant lion-roaring threatens to blow his cover.

Next up is the romantic comedy Hasee Toh Phasee, releasing on February 7. Parineeti Chopra is terrific, so I’m looking forward to this.

The excellent costumes look like reason enough to see Gunday when it comes out on February 14.

Check out the gorgeous scenery in director Imtiaz Ali’s Highway, opening February 21.

New Trailers: December 4, 2013

A bunch of movie trailers have been released lately, so I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. First up is What the Fish, which opens on December 13. Due to a lack of star-power and tons of big-time Hollywood fare taking up screens, I’ll be stunned if this opens in the U.S.

I love the full-length trailer for Dhoom 3 — opening December 20 — because it features so much great footage of Chicago.

The comedy Mr. Joe B. Carvalho is set for release on January 3, 2014. That means the filmmakers still have time to edit out the racist scene in which a character sports blackface makeup and an afro wig (1:44 in the video below).

I have my doubts that the star-less college flick Yaariyan will make much of a splash in the U.S. when it releases on January 10.

The romcom Total Siyapaa — starring Ali Zafar and Yami Gautam — looks like it could be pretty cute. It opens on January 31.

Is it just me, or does Gunday seem like an odd movie to release on Valentine’s Day?