As I was scouting through the interwebs looking for something to post on here, I came across the trailer for “The Next Three Days“. The film will star Russell Crowe as John Brennan, Elizabeth Banks as Laura, Brian Dennehy as George Brennan, Olivia Wilde as Nicole, and Liam Nesson as Damon. There isn’t much information on the film but currently the plot is this according to IMDB: “A married couple’s life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder.” For me personally, it’s been three years since I’ve seen a Russell Crowe movie and that was American Gangster. This movie looks like a film worth seeing. “The Next Three Days” is directed by Paul Haggis (“In The Valley Of Elah”, “Crash”) and produced by Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier, Michael Nozik, and Paul Haggis. The film will be released November 19, 2010 by Lionsgate. Check out the trailer below and feel free to give us your thoughts on the upcoming film:
Now that I’ve had time to recover from the 2008 World Fantasy Convention, I find I’ve needed to get a bit caught up on the movie front. Both Zack & Miri and Rachel Gets Married are faring poorly at the box office and that’s a shame.
Zack & Miri Make a Porno
Zack & Miri Make a Porno is Kevin Smith’s latest film and is about best friends who are a hair’s breadth from being out on the street. Zack [Seth Rogen] seizes an idea from something Miri [Elizabeth Banks] says – even though she was saying it was something they shouldn’t do – and decides they should go for it. The pair decide that they shouldn’t let their moment of sex on camera change things between them, but of course it does.
Kevin Smith’s script is sharp, concise and combines the sweet and the gross in ways that remind us that he was doing films like this long before Judd Apatow became famous doing similarly themed material. Besides coming up with what seems like it just might be the ultimate poop joke, Smith mines real emotion and, yes, a sweetness that contrasts nicely with balances the film’s over the top material. It’s a good movie. Go see it [stay through the credits – you’ll be glad you did].
Final Grade: B+
Rachel Gets Married
Jonathan Demme returns with a film that returns Kim [Anne Hathaway] to the bosom of her family on the eve of her sister, Rachel’s [Rosemarie DeWitt] wedding. Kim is just out of rehab and her presence is unsettling for everyone, as there layers of pain and dysfunction to be revealed over the next few days. Those levels are so deep that the marriage of Caucasian Rachel to African-American Sidney isn’t even an issue.
Jenny Lumet’s script is solid, but – outside of Kim, at least – pretty low-key. One of the reasons that the film works is that the casting is excellent, especially Debra Winger as the sisters’ mother. Another is that the film often veers in unexpected, but real ways – as with the dishwasher competition between Sidney and his soon-to-be father-in-law [Bill Irwin]. Despite having the deepest emotional reaches to plumb, Hathaway’s [who really does deserve an Oscar® nomination] Kim is the glue that holds the film together, rather than the big scene stealer.
How cool is this movie? Robyn Hitchcock plays at the reception! ‘Nuff said.
Definitely, Maybe is a smart, witty, genuinely funny romantic comedy with intelligent plotting, real conversations and not one, but two happy endings – though not necessarily the kind of happy endings that you find in the usual Hollywood romcom.
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