A-LISTS film by tim parks DRAMA QUEENS
Natalie Portman is following up her successful Black Swan leading lady turn (and pirouettes) as The Other Woman for her next dramatic cinematic venture, following last month’s romcom No Strings Attached. Writer/Director Don Roos (The Opposite of Sex) chronicles how Portman’s Emilia Greenleaf character finds herself dealing with the label of “homewrecker,” after she begins an office romance with her married boss, Jack Wolf (Scott Cohen). She is also coping with the sadness surrounding the loss of an infant child conceived with her onetime employer and now husband. As she attempts to right her upside down world, with the help of her friend Mindy (Six Feet Under’s Lauren Ambrose), Emilia tries to bond with her precocious stepson William (Charlie Tahan) and finds herself under constant attack by her spouse’s bitter ex-wife Carolyn (Lisa Kudrow). Opens February 4 in limited release.
Biutiful stars Julia Roberts’ Eat Pray Love leading man, Javier
Bardem, as he brings the latter portion of his previous film’s title to life. The Academy Award-winning actor headlines the Spanish-language relationship-based tale as Uxbal in this dif- ferent kind of love story that focuses on the dynamics between a father and his children. The theme of conflict is at the literal heart of the film, written and directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel), as the underworld employee grapples with how he is to go about merging his polar opposite worlds together into one. Along the way, Uxbal’s journey takes him in the direction
of what it means to be a father with his given profession. He unearths the ways that he can reconcile love, guilt, spirituality and mortality while he travels down his road to redemption that has more than its fair share of potholes. Opens February 4.
HUMOR ME
The premise of the Touchstone Pictures animated
comedy, Gnomeo & Juliet, may be singing the familiar tune of star-crossed lovers being kept apart by forces beyond their control. In this case, they are not spout- ing Shakespearean dialogue, and the feuding is split between red and blue garden gnomes. However, there are also familiar refrains from classic
Elton John songs, such as a reworking of “Crocodile Rock” as a duet with Nelly Furtado, and two new ones “Hello Hello” and “Love Builds A Garden” from Sir Elton. Lending their voices to the titular characters are
James McAvoy and Emily Blunt, while Dolly Parton, Ozzy Osbourne, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine and Pat- rick Stewart vocally flesh out their computer generated roles. Opens February 11.
In 1980, Airplane’s Captain Oveur (Peter Graves) asked a young traveler, DO YOU LIKE MOVIES ABOUT GLADIATORS?
“Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?” Well, even if the youngster had answered with a resounding, “No,” you can
rest assured that the powers-that-be in Tinsel Town would have ignored his answer, since sword-and-sandal flicks have proved to be a popular box- office genre, especially for “our kind.” So, it should come as no surprise that Channing Tatum will embody a new
sword-wielding character for the silver screen, when The Eagle opens this month. This, ahem, master-and-slave tale is set in 140 A.D., which centers on Marcus Aquila (Tatum) and his man-servant Esca (Jamie Bell) on a quest, naturally. The duo is out to discover why Aquila’s father, and the other 4,999 Roman men of the Ninth Legion, never returned from a 20-years-ago journey to Northern Britain. After Aquila hears talk of something else that never returned two decades
ago—a treasured golden Eagle emblem—he and Esca make a trek to a tribal temple where the insignia is rumored to be. The boys come face-to-face with savage tribes on their mission to uncover the mysterious disappearances, while Aquila also uses the expedition as a means to restore his father’s tar- nished reputation. Opens February 11.
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RAGE monthly | FEBRUARY 2011
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