So much for the dregs of summer: with no less then seven films opening this weekend, the fall movie season looks to be in full swing.- Eastern Promises: Viggo Mortensen was so great in A History of Violence, it's no wonder he's back with David Cronenberg for another look at the darker sides of human nature. Bonuses include Naomi Watts and, oh yeah ... Mortensen goes full frontal in an extended fight scene.
- The Brave One: Jodie Foster is getting some unlikely early Oscar buzz as yet another woman-in-peril in Neil Jordan's vigilante thriller. Terrence Howard co-stars, as he does in ...
- The Hunting Party: ... where he and Richard Gere play journalists on the trail of a Bosnian war criminal.
- December Boys: Or: Harry Potter Comes of Age. Daniel Radcliffe stars in this orphan drama, rumored to include D-Rad's first onscreen sex scenes.
- Across the Universe: Julie Taymor's psychedelic musical romance mines The Beatles catalog in what is hopefully not another Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. That notorious bomb had a character named "Strawberry Fields", while this one's leads are named "Jude" and "Lucy"; clever, or contrived? Who knows, the film is already infamous for some behind-the-scenes shake-ups between Taymor and studio head Joe Roth. (In related news, be sure to check out Film Babble Blog's excellent rundown of how The Beatles' music has been used in movies over the years.)
- In the Valley of Elah: Paul Haggis' follow-up to Crash has received mixed reactions at the recent festivals, but you can't deny its Oscar pedigree: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron and Susan Sarandon, who also stars in ...
- Mr. Woodcock: ... this less prestigious outing with Billy Bob Thornton and Seann William Scott, who's getting too old for these kind of things.
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