Up for a movie this weekend? Not anything absolutely huge opening this weekend, though there may be a couple worth watching. The big budget films opening this weekend are Amelia, the biopic of Amelia Earhart starring Hillary Swank as the famed aviator, Saw VI, which is another Saw movie, Astro Boy, which looks like it could be fun and Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, which has John C. Reilly as a vampire and Salma Hayek in a beard.

First is Amelia, which has Hillary Swank looking spot-on for Amelia Earhart. Doesn't look too bad for a heartwarming biopic, but probably will be worth waiting til it comes out on video and on demand.

Saw VI... what can you say? It's another Saw movie. While I like the Saw movies, after the third one, I got a little bored with the repetitiveness of the whole thing. Probably should have just stayed with the first one. The first one was fucking incredible.

Astro Boy will probably anger hardcore Astro Boy fans, but the movie looks fucking incredible and is my guess to be the weekend box office winner since it's a big budget kids movie that parents will be forced to take their kids to.

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant is a sort of a vampire movie spoof with John C. Reilly as a vampire that takes some kid under his batty wing to teach him the dark ways of vamprisim. Maybe a rental... maybe, but overall it looks pretty weak.

If you're lucky enough to have an indie and foreign film theater near you, there are some promising indie and foreign films coming out this weekend as well, including Ong Bak 2:

Antichrist (Unrated) Lars von Trier (Manderlay) directs this horror flick about a grieving couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) who retreat to a cabin in the woods to mourn the loss of their son and to work on their marriage only to have things go from bad to worse.
 
Eulogy for a Vampire (Unrated) Homo-erotic horror flick about a handsome young drifter (Angelo Tursi) who is enlisted by a vengeful, evil spirit (Ryan G. Metzger) to seduce monks at a nearby monastery over to the dark side. With Wilson Hand, Sal Bardo and David McWeeney.
 
Killing Kasztner (Unrated) Holocaust documentary recounts the case of Rezso Kasztner, a Jewish lawyer who secretly negotiated a deal with Adolf Eichmann to save a trainload of 1,700 prominent Jews while simultaneously condemning the rest of his Hungarian brethren to Auschwitz where the Nazis would exterminate 12,000 a day. Kasztner emigrated to Israel after the war where he was convicted of collaborating with the enemy but assassinated on the street while appealing the sentence. (In English and Hebrew with subtitles)
 
Motherhood (PG-13 for profanity, and sexual and drug references) Uma Thurman stars in this very eventful day-in-the-life comedy, set in Greenwich Village, about an overburdened, stay-at-home mom’s attempt to throw her 6 year-old daughter (Daisy Tahan) a birthday party while simultaneously writing a 500-word essay extolling the virtues of motherhood for a magazine contest. With Minnie Driver, Anthony Edwards and Jodie Foster.
 
Night and Day (Unrated) Intercontinental romance drama about a married, middle-aged, Korean artist (Yeong-ho Kim) wanted for drug possession who flees to France where he proceeds to pursue an illicit relationship with a beautiful, young expatriate (Min-jung Seo). (In Korean and French with subtitles)
 
Ong Bak 2 (R for graphic violence) Tony Jaa reprises his role as a martial arts master, in this prequel about a young nobleman, orphaned at 10, bent on avenging the murder of his parents. (In Thai with subtitles)
 
Rembrandt’s J’accuse (Unrated) Peter Greenaway (8½ Women) directed this forensic documentary endeavoring to unlock clues to an unsolved murder mystery rumored to be depicted in Rembrandt’s 1624 masterpiece, The Night Watch.
 
Stan Helsing (R for profanity, drug use, crude humor and sexuality) Horror comedy about a video store clerk (Steve Howey) called upon to save his hometown from a half-dozen movie monsters on Halloween night. Cast includes Kenan Thompson, Leslie Nielsen and Diora Baird.
 
Untitled (R for profanity and nude images) NYC sitcom revolving around the incestuous love triangle which evolves when a Chelsea art dealer (Marley Shelton) starts dating a couple of very competitive brothers, one (Eion Bailey), a commercially-successful painter, the other (Adam Goldberg), a struggling composer of eccentric, experimental music. With Vinnie Jones, Zak Orth and Lucy Punch.
 
The Wedding Song (Unrated) Character-driven, WWII drama about the lifelong friendship of a Muslim woman (Olympe Borval) and a Jewish woman (Lizzie Brochere) which becomes strained during the Nazi occupation. (In French and Arabic with subtitles)