After weeks (maybe even months) of disappointing movies it looks like we’re nearing enough to the end of the year to start getting the really good movies. This weekend there are five full wide releases and even a few limited ones if you’re lucky (Lars and the Real Girl) with a range of genres: historical, courtroom drama, cops & robbers, romantic-dramedy, and even a true sports story. With all these choices which one will you choose? Share your picks. I’m sorry there won’t be enough time to see all of ‘em.

Here are all your movie details & trailers for this weekend, October 12 - 14, 2007.

We Own The Night
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall, Eva Mendes
Director: James Gray
Genre: Drama and Crime/Gangster
Rated: R for strong violence, drug material, language, sexual content, and brief nudity.
Duration: 1hr 57mins
Plot: 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.
My Take: James Gray put out another movie a few years back with the same male leads (Phoenix & Wahlberg) with a very similar story, but just their roles reversed. Never heard of it? Yeah, no one else did either. Will this do better? Well, it at least looks good, and by “it” I mean Mendes.
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Genre: Drama, Biopic and Sequel
Rated: PG-13 for violence, some sexuality and nudity.
Duration:
Plot: 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).
My Take: I missed the ‘98 prequel to this and now I’m sorry I did that as this looks pretty good, but I’d like to watch them in order.
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Michael Clayton
Starring: George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson
Director: Tony Gilroy
Genre: Drama and Thriller
Rated: R for language including some sexual dialogue.
Plot: 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).
Duration: 2hrs
My Take: I love me a courtroom drama so this one is definitely on my list. Throw in a couple of ringers like Clooney and Wilkinson and you’ve got my full attention.
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Why Did I Get Married?
Starring: Tyler Perry, Janet Jackson, Sharon Leal
Director: Tyler Perry
Genre: Comedy, Drama and Adaptation
Rated: PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual references and language.
Plot: 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.
Duration: 1 hr. 58 min.
My Take: I’ve never seen a Tyler Perry film, but they tend to do all right in the box office and with critics.
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The Final Season
Starring: Sean Astin, Powers Boothe, Rachael Leigh Cook
Director: David M. Evans
Genre: Sports
Rated: Rated PG for language, thematic elements and some teen smoking.
Plot: 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.
Duration: 1 hr. 54 min.
My Take: Another true story sports movie? Ehh. It’s got the director from The Sandlot, so at least you know it’ll be true to the subject.
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Have a great weekend and enjoy some great movies! See you next week at WildBluffMedia.com.




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