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Brad Pitt stars in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Beyonce Knowles as Etta James in the new drama Cadillac Records. Meryl Streep portrays Sister Aloysius in the new film Doubt.
Your Cinema Guide
for December
Getting things started this month on the 5th is Frost/Nixon, the latest his first film role since his Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby. Eastwood plays an
movie from Oscar-winning director Ron Howard. This drama focuses on the iron-willed veteran living in a changing world, who is forced by his immigrant
post-Watergate television interviews with British talk-show host, David Frost neighbors to confront his own long-held prejudices. Critics everywhere have
and former president, Richard Nixon. Also this week comes Cadillac Records been praising Mickey Rourke’s performance as Randy “The Ram” Robinson in The
starring Beyonce. Set in 1950s Chicago, this movie musical follows the rise of new film The Wrestler, about a beaten-down ring warrior 20 years past his prime.
Chess Records and its recording artists, which included Muddy Waters, Etta James Treat yourself to a special gift this holiday season by taking in one of the highly
and Chuck Berry. Films opening the following week on the 12th include Doubt anticipated motion pictures premièring on Christmas day. The Curious Case of
with the legendary Meryl Streep. Will this performance earn her Academy Award Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells the
nomination number 15? It’s a pretty safe bet it will. A remake of a 1951 classic, The touching and sentimental tale of a man who is born in his eighties and ages back-
Day the Earth Stood Still also premiers this week and will star Keanu Reeves as wards. The film, starring heartthrob Brad Pitt, is being touted as an early frontrun-
an alien whose arrival on our planet triggers a global upheaval. Tradition, art and ner for picture of the year. Speaking of Brad, Marley & Me is the heartwarming
the epic battle between life and death are at the heart of the new picture, The new movie surrounding a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog
Matador. The film premiered recently in Manhattan and won the New York Times’ that taught them what really matters in life and stars the former Mrs. Pitt, Jennifer
coveted “Critic’s Pick.” Furthermore, the film’s Executive Producer, Scott Dunklee, Aniston. Another film receiving a lot of attention is Revolutionary Road, starring
is a San Diego native and resident. Titanic shipmates, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and Kathy Bates. This film is
This exciting month for cinema continues on the 19th as several intriguing adapted from the celebrated Richard Yates’ novel, and is about a young couple,
feature films make their debut. One, titled Seven Pounds, has Will Smith as an IRS whose once-healthy relationship steadily deteriorates into a ceaseless cycle of
agent with a fateful secret, who embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemp- petty jealousy and bickering eventually building to explosive consequences.
tion by forever changing the lives of seven strangers. Considering the incredible Finally, Tom Cruise is in a new picture called Valkyrie. Inspired by true events, the
roll that Smith has been on the last few years, there’s no reason to doubt that this film takes place during World War I, as a group of German generals hatch a plan to
will continue it. Clint Eastwood directs and stars in Gran Torino, which marks assassinate Adolf Hitler and render the German war machine impotent.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road. Will Smith headlines in the motion picture Seven Pounds. Tom Cruise star as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg in Valkyrie.
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