Tuesday, February 19
Multiple Oscar-nominated legal drama Michael Clayton, starring George Clooney and Tilda Swinton, leads this week's impressive crop of new releases. Also arriving on DVD are Noah Baumbach's dysfunctional dramedy Margot at the Wedding, Ang Lee's saucy Lust, Caution, Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron's somber Iraq drama In the Valley of Elah and Reese Witherspoon's political drama Rendition.
Our pick for the week is American Gangster, which inexplicably managed to score only two Academy Award nominations, for Best Art Direction and Best Supporting Actress (Ruby Dee). Go figure.
Posted 2/19/2008 by reelz
Related: Michael Clayton | Lust, Caution | In the Valley of Elah | American Gangster | Rendition | Margot at the Wedding
Friday, October 12
It's a crowded weekend at the Cineplex for new movies, with four major releases, We Own the Night, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? and The Final Season, opening. Oscar candidate Michael Clayton also expands nationwide.
A rundown of our reviews of this weekend's new releases:
We Own the Night 
"A solid, angst-ridden thriller with strong performances from Phoenix, Wahlberg and Duvall." [Full Review]
Elizabeth: The Golden Age 
"Takes dull pages of a history book and turns them into powerful, enveloping, stirring, and gorgeous drama." [Full Review]
Why Did I Get Married? 
"Why does Tyler Perry have a job?" [Full Review]
Lust, Caution
"If one submits to its rhythms rather than rage against them, its acting and just-so overall design prove a more than inviting combination for the arthouse set." [Full Review]
Sleuth 
"An occasionally entertaining, mostly tedious exercise in actor self-indulgence." [Full Review]
Lars and the Real Girl
"A lovely little indie dramedy...Gosling is pitch perfect, oozing painful vulnerability down to his twitching eyes and innocently hopeful gazes" [Full Review]
Also opening: Control, Terror's Advocate
Posted 10/12/2007 by reelz
Related: Lust, Caution | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | We Own the Night | Sleuth | Lars and the Real Girl | Why Did I Get Married?
Friday, August 24
Looks like Ang Lee's latest movie is even racier than the Gyllenhaal-Ledger love scenes from Brokeback Mountain.
The Oscar-winning director's upcoming feature, a Mandarin-language espionage thriller called Lust, Caution has just received an NC-17 rating from the MPAA. His studio (Focus Features), however, is standing by the picture, which they hope might be of award caliber.
Lust, Caution will screen at the upcoming Toronto film festival.
Source: Variety.
Posted 8/24/2007 by reelz
Related: Ang Lee | Lust, Caution