You can divide this week's six new releases evenly into two camps: a few fantasies and a trio of dramas firmly rooted in reality. I'll let you decide which is which:- Margot at the Wedding: From Noah Baumbach, the man who gave us the brilliant The Squid and the Whale, comes this dramedy about estranged sisters (Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh) brought together by the latter's pending nuptials to a less-then-impressive chap (played by Jack Black, natch).
- Southland Tales: What more could you expect from Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly then what is being described as a "dystopian comedy/thriller/mystery/ musical "? Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Seann William Scott star as, respectively, an amnesiac action movie star, an aspiring actress/porn star and a cop with a split personality. Naturally, their lives become intertwined, as all such things set in Los Angeles are. This one has been sitting on the shelf for a year and a half after a disastrous reception at last year's Cannes Film Festival, so who knows how it will all turn out, but I admit, it does sound intriguing (too bad Johnson and Gellar couldn't switch roles, though).
- Love in the Time of Cholera: Based on the decades-spanning novel by Gabriel García Márquez, Javier Bardem (who is all over the place these days; no complaints) is a man, rejected by his one true love, who spends his life trying to get over it by diving into one affair after another. Also stars Benjamin Bratt, John Leguizamo, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Liev Schreiber.
- Beowulf: Robert Zemeckis' latest foray into motion capture animation features Ray Winstone as the computerized hero of the epic poem of old, facing the demonic Grendel (Crispin Glover) and his bodacious mom (Angelina Jolie). Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich and Robin Wright Penn round out the cast.
- Redacted: Brian De Palma's controversial war pic takes on -- surprise! -- the Iraq war. Something tells me the critics will love it to the same degree audiences -- weary from the real war as well as all these movies about it -- will stay away from it.
- And finally: Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium may look like a charming children's fantasy romp, but there's something about Dustin Hoffman's oh-so affected toy store owner in the trailers that make me want to gag on all that whimsy. Natalie Portman and Jason Bateman co-star.
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