Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Justin Bartha again encore as the eponymous “Wolfpack.” Having survived their two previous bachelor-party excursions excuse to round up the regulars. Also returning to the fold, some only briefly, are Heather Cooper is extremely laid back here, ceding the limelight to Galifianakis and Helms.

delving too deeply into how a magic trick is done dampens its effect. Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco comprise the act known as the “Four Horseman.” Alone, each has some varying degree of success (or not) as a magician. Teamed up, they’re the toast of the Las Vegas Strip and beyond.

Set in the heartland of America (and filmed in Illinois), the film follows the parallel storylines of Henry Whipple (Dennis Quaid), who sells seed to the local farmers, and his younger son Dean ( an earnestly surly Zac Efron), who is determined to make his own mark as a racing driver.

Josephine de la Baume portrays Djuna, an alluring vampire who catches the eye of struggling screenwriter Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia). There’s just one problem: Djuna is a vampire. Actually, that’s fine with lonely Paolo, who willingly consents to join her as one of the undead.

A well-cast Riz Ahmad stars in the title role as Changez, a Pakistani Muslim who has achieved his ambitions — and his own version of the American dream — by graduating from an Ivy League school and finding success as a financial analyst at a prestigious Wall Street firm.

With characterization is a secondary consideration, the film is primarily concerned — and consumed — with its opulent (and admittedly eye-catching) production design and a flashy, hip-hop attitude that feels someone anachronistic amidst the Roaring Twenties’ surroundings but is right up Luhrmann’s alley.

Malick is clearly aiming for Deep Meaning here, but the film’s attempts at profundity and insight aren’t nearly as compelling as Lubezki’s cinematography. If you’ve seen Kurylenko dancing for joy once, you’ve seen it a dozen times — and, indeed, it almost seems as if there are.

The film’s title refers to the most lethal room in the haunted Overlook Hotel, while also recognizing one of the many changes Kubrick made in adapting Stephen King’s bestseller (in which the specific room was 217). In interviews over the years, King has acknowledged that the film version of The Shining.

There is, of course, a plot here — something about world domination (what else?) — and a couple of new archvillains in the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), who’s something of a distaff Osama bin Laden, and Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), a quintessential mad scientist whose perfect hair and gleaming smile are a dead giveaway that he’s up to no good.

To this end, they hatch a scheme to abduct smarmy businessman Victor Kershaw (Tony Shalhoub) and milk his bank accounts while they torment and torture him.

The year is 2077 and Earth’s landscape has been decimated by an interplanetary war. With the surviving population now residing (unseen) offplanet, Cruise’s Jack Harper patrols the Earth (or what’s left of it) looking for signs of life and waiting for the day that he and wife/patrol partner Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) can join the rest of humanity.

Set in a not-too-distant future where celebrity worship has been taken to perhaps the ultimate extreme, one of the most popular pastimes is to purchase and be infected with viruses suffered by celebrities. (Antiviral is the sort of film you either go with or you don’t — and it begins with the concept.

Newcomers Tye Sheridan (his second film) and Jacob Lofland (his first) plays Ellis and Neckbone, a pair of pals drinking from the cup of adolescence. On a remote patch of island in the Mississippi River, they encounter the title character (Matthew McConaughey), a mysterious but charismatic figure in whom they confide, and he in them.

If nothing else, however, these remakes and spin-offs have added additional luster to their predecessors. Suddenly, the bad movies of yesteryear don’t seem so bad when compared to the bad movies of today..

The year is 1962, and Ginger is obsessed with the Cold War and the threat of nuclear annihilation (rest assured, the Cuban Missile Crisis does come into play).

The prelude to the film’s principal action is provided when Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler, also a producer) saves President Asher (Aaron Eckhart) but is unable to save the First Lady (Ashley Judd) in a calamitous car accident near Camp David.

The team of Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) has been a staple of the Las Vegas strip for years, doing their magic show for audiences of all ages. But when hotshot magician Steve Gray (a customarily manic Jim Carrey) comes on the scene and steals their thunder, Burt is hard-pressed to top him.

Hard-bitten hit-man Victor (Colin Farrell) is blackmailed by neighbor Beatrice (Rapace) to kill the drunken driver who disfigured her in a car accident. Beatrice photographed Victor committing murder, and threatens him with the evidence. Why Victor doesn’t dispatch her right then and there is one of Dead Man Down’s.

James Franco, whose top hat and facial hair make him resemble Young Mr. Lincoln, plays Oscar (“Oz”), a circus magician in 1905 Kansas. More con-man than conjurer, Oz is whisked away to a magical land when he makes a quick getaway in a hot-air balloon that is immediately sucked into the eye of a tornado.

Keri Russell and Josh Hamilton play Lacey and Robert Barrett, an all-American couple living in an all-American suburb which their all- American kids Jesse (Dakota Goyo) and Sam (Kadan Rockett). Robert’s been out of work awhile, so there are rustlings of domestic discord within the household.