DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.

Indie: Sunshine
A group of astronauts are on a suicide mission to save a dying Sun, lest the earth perish as well. While it may sound like a plot suitable for Michael Bay’s Armageddon 2: Bigger and Hotter, in the hands of director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) and his 28 Days Later screenwriter, Alex Garland, it may just do for contemplative science-fiction what 28 Days did for zombie flicks. Boyle’s film looks to be a visual stunner, and is garnering comparisons to such sci-fi touchstones 2001, Blade Runner and Tarkovsky’s Solaris. The excellent Cillian Murphy, working with Boyle and Garland for the second time, leads the ensemble cast.

View the trailer.
Opens this Friday at E Street Cinema.

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Major Release: I Know Who Killed Me
OK, so we’re not seriously recommending you go see the new Lindsay Lohan flick this weekend. But:
1) In the continued wake of box office juggernauts like Harry Potter, Transformers, and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (believe us, we’re just as surprised as you), it’s a thin week for new releases.
and 2) Lindsay Lohan has worked very hard to drum up publicity for this movie. She could have been doing the same boring stints on Letterman, Leno, and Larry, but who the hell even watches those shows anymore? No, she went the extra mile and got caught for DUI and cocaine possession, and did it just a block away from the police station. That’s commitment to publicity. You don’t want to let her down after all her hard work do you? The movie is some claptrap about a stripper who never actually takes her clothes off who is the creation of a girl who goes missing and who happens to be her döppelganger, but that’s really beside the point.

View the trailer.
Opening Friday at a number of theatres around town.