SWEET LAND (2007) Starring Elisabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Alan Cumming, Lois Smith, Ned Beatty, John Heard, Tom Gilroy, Alex Kingston, Robert Hogan, Karen Landry, Patrick Heusinger and Paul Sand. Screenplay by Ali Selim. Directed by Ali Selim. Distributed by 20th Century Fox. 110 minutes. Rated PG. Hollywood does not make enough films that can literally … Continue reading
LICENSE TO WED (2007) Starring John Krasinski, Mandy Moore, Robin Williams, Eric Christian Olsen, Christine Taylor, Josh Flitter, DeRay Davis, Peter Strauss, Grace Zabriskie, Roxanne Hart, Mindy Kaling, Angela Kinsey, Rachael Harris, Brian Baumgartner, Jess Rosenthal and Nicole Randall Johnson. Screenplay by Kim Barker, Tim Rasmussen and Vince Di Meglio. Directed by Ken Kwapis. Distributed … Continue reading
CASHBACK (2007) Starring Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox, Shaun Evans, Michelle Ryan, Stuart Goodwin, Michael Dixon, Michael Lambourne, Marc Pickering and Nick Hancock. Screenplay by Sean Ellis. Directed by Sean Ellis. Distributed by Magnolia Pictures. 102 minutes. Rated R. Unrequited love is never so interesting to anyone else as it is to the victim. We’ve all … Continue reading
BROKEN ENGLISH (2007) Starring Parker Posey, Drea DeMatteo, Melvil Poupaud, Gena Rowlands, Peter Bogdanovich, Roy Thinnes, Michael Panes, Philip Pavel, Justin Theroux, Tim Guinee and Dana Ivey. Written by Zoe Cassavettes. Directed by Zoe Cassavettes. Distributed by Magnolia Pictures. 96 minutes. Rated PG-13. Broken English writer/director Zoë Cassavettes is the latest to make a mark from … Continue reading
Natasha Richardson Late in the Evening by Jay S. Jacobs In Evening, Natasha Richardson plays a difficult role, that of an adult daughter watching her mother slowly losing the fight for life. The part is probably doubly heart-wrenching for the actress because her own mother – screen legend Vanessa Redgrave – plays the elderly woman coming … Continue reading
CATCH AND RELEASE (2007) Starring Jennifer Garner, Tim Olyphant, Kevin Smith, Sam Jaeger, Juliette Lewis, Fiona Shaw, Joshua Friesen, Tina Lifford, Georgia Craig, Christopher Redman, Joyce Krenz, Sonja Bennett, Yorgo Constantine, Nancy Hower and Jennifer Spence. Screenplay by Susannah Grant. Directed by Susannah Grant. Distributed by Columbia Pictures. 112 minutes. Rated PG-13. Catch and Release has … Continue reading
MISS POTTER (2007) Starring Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Barbara Flynn, Phil Paterson, Matyelock Gibbs, Lloyd Owen, Anton Lesser, David Bamber, Patricia Kerrigan, Judith Barker, Chris Middleton, Lucy Boynton, Oliver Jenkins, Richard Mulholland and Phyllida Law. Screenplay by Richard Maltby, Jr. Directed by Chris Noonan. Distributed by The Weinstein Company. 93 minutes. Rated PG. … Continue reading
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END (2007) Starring Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Bill Nighy, Jack Davenport, Stellan Skarsgard, Tom Hollander, Naomie Harris, Chow Yun-fat, Lee Arenberg, Mackenzie Crook, Kevin R. McNally, David Bailie, Jonathan Pryce and Keith Richards. Screenplay by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. Directed by Gore Verbinski. Distributed … Continue reading
SEVERANCE (2007) Starring Laura Harris, Danny Dyer, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens, Claudie Blakley, Andy Nyman, Babou Ceesay, Juli Drajkó, Judit Victor and David Gilliam. Screenplay by James Moran and Christopher Smith. Directed by Christopher Smith. Distributed by Magnolia Films. 91 minutes. Rated R. Severance asks the tongue-in-cheek question – if you take a cheesy horror movie … Continue reading
THE TREATMENT (2007) Starring Chris Eigeman, Famke Janssen, Ian Holm, Stephanie March, Peter Vack, Griffin Newman, Josh Barclay Caras, Matt Stadelmann, Lindsay Johnson, Stephen Lang, Maddie Corman and Roger Rees. Screenplay by Oren Rudavsky and Daniel Saul Housman. Directed by Oren Rudavsky. Distributed by New Yorker Films. 86 minutes. Rated R. In Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories, … Continue reading
