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Trailer #2: Brothers

The second trailer for Brothers, Jim Sheridan’s remake of Susanne Bier’s Brødre, is a modest improvement over the first, but it still kind of looks like unbearable melodrama.
Natalie Portman plays a woman who believes her husband was killed in war. She takes up with brother-in-law Jake Gyllenhaal only to find out her husband Tobey Maguire [...]

Trailer: Police, Adjective

Apple has the trailer for Romanian director Corneliu Poromboiu’s drly comic and thoughtful Police, Adjective, a film that explores the grey area between what is right and what is law. Dragos Bucur plays a conscientious young policeman being pressured by his superiors to arrest a teenaged hash smoker when he’s convinced the arrest won’t lead [...]

Clip: Tony Leung in ‘Red Cliff’

Please enjoy a few minutes of Tony Leung kicking ass in John Woo’s supremely entertaining historical action epic RED CLIFF

Weekend Forecast: Out of the wide release loop

I have to concede I’m just not the target audience for any of the wide releases this weekend. Nevertheless, I can’t wait to see Werner Herzog’s batshit crazy looking Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans opening in New York and LA. Also, if you live in Los Angeles, Hal Holbrook, Dixie Carter, Carrie Preston [...]