This weekend a comedy with a daddy theme, just in time for Father’s Day, competes against an astronaut on a moon base and a terrorist holding a subway train hostage for box office bragging rights.

Imagine That. What if your daughter’s imagination was the secret to your success? Is the tagline to this new Eddie Murphy comedy. Murphy plays a financial executive whose career has taken a turn for the worse. He soon learns the imaginary world created by his daughter (Yari Shalhadi) holds the key to turning his career around. The film hopes to tug at your heart strings by combining comedy with the father/daughter relationship. This is a great marketing technique with Father’s Day approaching next weekend.

Moon is a Sci-fi, thriller starring Sam Rockwell (2005’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) as astronaut Sam Bell who is about to finish a three-year job on the moon where he has been mining Helium 3, the natural gas that will help reverse the Earth’s energy crisis. His only companion is a robot named Gerty (voiced by Kevin Spacey). But two weeks before completing his assignment, he begins to feel out of place. Sam suspects the company, aptly called Lunar, of trying to replace him as he realizes someone else is on the Moon. The film is directed by David Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones.  It definitely has potential with such a unique story line — we’ll see if they can pull it off.

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is the new crime drama by Tony Scott (Top Gun, True Romance) starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta. As armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding passengers for ransom, it turns an ordinary day’s work for a dispatcher and chief detective into a nightmare. And Walter Gabe (Washington) must face-off against criminal mastermind (Travolta) in order to save the city from disaster. The film is based on the novel by John Godey (Morton Freedgood) and is a remake of the 1974 and 1998 films The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. With two heavy-hitters like Travota and Washington, this film is sure to be full of action that you won't want to miss.

 —Jessica Delli Santi