Welcome to Now Playing, your weekly preview of new movies opening this weekend. This week Ryan Phillippe and Paul Walker are raising the Flags Of Our Fathers. Kirsten Dunst portrays Marie Antoinette while Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale play competing magicians in the Prestige. And finally Disney is bringing Jack Skelington back in 3-D with the rerelease of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas in Disney Digital 3D.
Flags of Our Fathers (R)
February 1945. Even as victory in Europe was finally within reach, the war in the Pacific raged on. One of the most crucial and bloodiest battles of the war was the struggle for the island of Iwo Jima, which culminated with what would become one of the most iconic images in history: five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi. The inspiring photo capturing that moment became a symbol of victory to a nation that had grown weary of war, and made instant heroes of the six American soldiers at the base of the flag–some of whom would die soon after, never knowing that they had been immortalized. But the surviving flag raisers had no interest in being held up as symbols and did not consider themselves heroes; they wanted only to stay on the front with their brothers in arms who were fighting and dying without fanfare or glory.
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Adam Beach, Jesse Bradford, Paul Walker, Neal McDonough
Continue reading Now Playing 10.20.06
Welcome to Now Playing, your weekly preview of new movies opening this weekend. This week Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon lead an all-star cast in Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. Dane Cook and Dax Shepard fight for the heart of Jessica Simpson and R. Lee Ermey reprises his role in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.
The Departed (R)
In South Boston the state police force is waging war on organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate that is run by gangland chief Costello. While Billy is quickly gaining Costello’s confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate, is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by his double life, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations he has penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the gangsters and the police that there’s a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy - and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save himself.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen
Continue reading Now Playing 10.06.06
Welcome to Now Playing, your weekly preview of new movies opening this weekend. This week Johnny Knoxville and his wacky group of stunt junkies with Jackass Part Two, Sean Penn and Jude Law are All The Kings Men and Jet Li is Fearless and James Franco is a Flyboy.
All the King’s Men (PG-13); Wide release
An idealistic southern politician, Boss Willie Stark, who appeals to the common man whilst effectively playing dirty politics, slowly becomes corrupted by the system.
Starring: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Patricia Clarkson, James Gandolfini
Continue reading Now Playing 09.22.06