New Movie Releases - Friday October 12

A whole lot of new films coming out this weekend and it seems like a pretty good bunch. The following are the new releases for this weekend of October 12-14...

Elizabeth: The Golden Age - starring Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen and Goeffrey Rush. In this sequel to awesome Elizabeth, England's Queen Elizabeth (Blanchett) struggles to maintain her powerful reign in the face of conspiracies to overthrow her and a budding relationship with explorer Sir Walter Raleigh (Owen).

Michael Clayton - starring George Clooney, Tilda Swinton and Tom Wilkinson. An in-house "fixer" (Clooney) at a top New York law firm risks his career, and his life, on a sabotaged class action suit that pits him against a rival litigator (Swinton).

We Own the Night - starring Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix and Eva Mendes. Though nightclub owner Bobby (Phoenix) and his police officer brother Joseph (Wahlberg) haven taken decidedly different paths in life, a near-fatal incident causes them to unite in a deadly confrontation with the mobsters who run Bobby's club.

Lars and the Real Girl - starring Ryan Gosling as a delusional young man who strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.

Why Did I Get Married? - starring Tyler Perry and Janet Jackson. An adulterous incident causes four couples to take a hard look at their respective marriages during their annual week-long vacation in the Colorado mountains.

Control - starring Sam Riley and Samantha Morley. A profile of Ian Curtis (Riley), the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.

The Final Season - starring Sean Astin and Powers Boothe. The residents of Norway, Iowa rally behind their championship high school baseball team -- the Varsity Norway Tigers, coached by the legendary Jim Van Scoyoc (Boothe) -- during their last season before their school is merged into another.

Sleuth ( Limited) - starring Michael Caine and Jude Law. A wealthy mystery writer (Caine) engages in a twisted game of cat and mouse with his wife's lover (Law).

Terror's Advocate (LA/NY)- A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defended figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy.


Enjoy the movies!!!

The Flick Guru