This weekend Julia Child shows us why the more butter the better, while honeymooners run for their lives, G.I. Joe saves the world, souls are frozen and lost, and a stone grants wishes.

Julie & Julia is written and directed by Nora Ephron. The film depicts events in the life of famed chef Julia Child, contrasting her life with Julie Powell, a woman who aspires to cook all 524 recipes from Child's autobiography. Ephron's screenplay is adapted from two books: My Life in France, Child's autobiography, written with Alex Prud'homme, and a memoir by Julie Powell. In August 2002, Powell started documenting online her daily experiences cooking each of the 524 recipes in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she later turned the blog into a book, Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously. Meryl Streep portrays Julia Child and Amy Adams stars as Julie Powell. The films has some big mouths to fill, but if Streep and Adams can’t make this film delicious than no one can. This film is definitely geared for the ladies, so maybe make this one a girl’s night. But the film is sure to be good-old-wholesome yummy fun.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is the live action film adaptation of the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy franchise. Remember those little plastic toy soldiers? In the near future, weapons expert James McCullen has created a nano-technology capable of destroying an entire city. He had sold four war-heads to NATO, and the US Army is tasked with delivering the war-heads. Duke (Channing Tatum) and Ripcord (Marlon Wayans) are delivering the war-heads when they are ambushed by The Baroness (Sienna Miller) and Storm Shadow (Lee Byung-hun). Duke and Ripcord are rescued by Scarlett (Rachel Nichols), Snake Eyes (Ray Park) and Heavy Duty (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje). They must protect the warheads from the corrrupt arms dealer Destro and the Cobra organization from plunging the world into chaos. Since every show and cartoon has become a movie these days, it is only natural G.I. Joe would be victim as well. Can’t say this one will be a winner, but Channing Tatum should make a decent G.I. Joe.

A Perfect Getaway follows newlyeds Cliff (Zahn) and Cydney (Jovovich) and Nick (Olyphant) and Gina (Sanchez), who are on a Hawaiian vacation but discover psychopaths are stalking and murdering tourists on the islands. Cliff and Cydney are an adventurous young couple celebrating their honeymoon by through the remote beaches in Hawaii. They believe they have found paradise, but when the pair comes across a group of frightened hikers discussing the horrifying murder of another newlywed couple on the island, they begin to question whether they should turn back. This sounds creepy: going to a tropical paradise only to run in fear for your life. The goose bumps are already there.

Cold Souls stars Paul Giamatti as a fictionalized version of himself. He is an anxious, overwhelmed actor who decides to enlist the service of a company to deep freeze his soul. Complications ensue when his soul gets lost in a soul trafficking scheme which has taken his soul to St. Petersburg. The film then follows Giamatti desperately trying to get his soul back. The comedy was written and directed by Sophie Barthes and won an award for Best Actor as the Karlovy International Film Festival. This idea is just crazy enough to work and sounds like a very intriguing film.

Shorts is a family film for everyone as chaos hits a uniformly "perfect" family neighborhood when an 11-year-old boy (Jimmy Bennett) finds a rainbow-colored rock that grants wishes to anyone who holds it. The film was written and directed by Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Til Dawn, Spy Kids). Although not a terribly original idea, it is sure to be a fun summer hit for the kids.

—Jessica Delli Santi