September 2008
(as seen in the Scottsdale Airpark News)
Movies in theaters are alive and well as Hollywood
continues to release some very exciting films. Why see these films
in a theater instead of at home on your great home theater system?
Some movies are best experienced on a massive screen with amazing
sound, with audience interaction, or maybe that guilty pleasure
-- with hot liquid butter poured all over that big bag of popcorn.
There could be one annoyance though -- deciding just what to see,
given there are often five or more new movies released every week.
So with your busy life, if you could see just one newly released
movie per week, which four (plus two ties) in September should
they be?
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For
the weekend of September 5, it is “Bangkok
Dangerous”, starring Nicolas Cage, Charlie
Yeung, and Shahkrit Yamnarm, directed by Oxide & Danny
Pang (The Messengers). Genre: action thriller, rated R.
The plot: A cold-blooded hit man (Cage) heads to Bangkok
to pull off four jobs, and winds up falling in love with
a local woman (Yamnarm) and bonds with his errand boy (Yeung).
The other movie opening this weekend is: Everybody
Wants to be Italian. |
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For the
weekend of September 12, and the Scottsdale Airpark Movie
of the Month, it is “Burn After Reading”,
starring George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, John
Malkovich, Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton), and Richard Jenkins
(The Visitor), directed by Joel & Ethan Coen (No Country
for Old Men). Genre: dark comedy, rated R. The plot: a recently
fired and disgraced CIA agent (Malkovich) decides to write
his memoir, in the process revealing top secret government
information. Then his wife (Swinton) decides to steal the
info to use against him in their divorce proceedings, but
her lawyer's secretary leaves the disk with the memoir at
the gym where it is found by two gym employees (McDormand
& Pitt). They decide to try to sell the memoir to the
highest bidder instead of returning it to the CIA. Since the
government did not have it returned to them, they dispatch
an agent (Clooney) to recover the memoir at whatever cost.
Also for the weekend of September 12, it is “Righteous
Kill”, starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro,
Carla Gugino (American Gangster), Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy,
John Leguizamo, and 50 Cent (Date Movie), directed by Jon
Avnet (88 Minutes). Genre: suspense drama, rated R. The plot:
two veteran New York City detectives (Pacino & De Niro)
question themselves as they search for details on a recent
murder. A case they thought they solved years earlier by locking
up a criminal, may have thrown the wrong person in jail, as
the real serial killer could still be free.
The other three movies opening this weekend are: Towelhead,
The Family That Preys, and The Women. |
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For the
weekend of September 19, it is “The Duchess”,
starring Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling
(Basic Instinct 2), Dominic Cooper (Mamma Mia!), and Hayley
Atwell (Cassandra’s Dream), directed by Saul Dibb (The
Line of Beauty). Genre: historical drama, rated PG-13. The
plot: a biography of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana (Knightley),
duchess of Devonshire. An ancestor of Princess Di, she lived
an extravagant, reckless and promiscuous life of political
and romantic intrigue, becoming an important powerbroker amid
Britain's ruling elite but also running up catastrophic gambling
debts. She was alternately celebrated and hated, and widely
caricatured by the popular press.
Also for the weekend of September 19, it is “Igor”,
starring the voices of John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese,
Christian Slater, Arsenio Hall, Eddie Izzard, Sean Hayes,
Jay Leno, Molly Shannon, Jennifer Coolidge, directed by Anthony
Leondis (Lilo & Stitch 2). Genre: animated comedy, rated
PG. The plot: in a world filled with mad scientists &
their evil inventions, a mad scientist's kind hunchbacked
& talented assistant (Cusack) intends to invent his own
monster. With sincere dedication, he yearns to become a mad
scientist himself with the hope of winning first place at
the annual Evil Science Fair.
The other five movies opening this weekend are: Appaloosa,
Blindness, Ghost Town, Lakeview
Terrace, and My Best Friend’s Girl. |
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For the
weekend of September 26, it is “Eagle Eye”,
starring Shia LaBeouf (Disturbia), Michelle Monaghan (Made
of Honor), Rosario Dawson (Death Proof), Billy Bob Thornton,
and Michael Chiklis (The Shield), directed by D.J. Caruso
(Disturbia). Genre: action suspense, not yet rated. The plot:
A young slacker (LaBeouf) and a single mom (Monaghan) that
have never met get tangled up in a terrorist cell plotting
a political assassination.
The other four movies opening this weekend are: Choke,
Miracle at St. Anna, Nights in Rodanthe,
and The Lucky Ones. |
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These are
expected to play at the multiplexes in the Scottsdale, AZ - Airpark
area including:
Harkins Scottsdale 101 at 7000 E. Mayo Blvd. 480-538-1707
AMC Desert Ridge 18 at 21000 N. Tatum Blvd. 480-606-0806
United Artists (Regal) Sonora Village 10 at 15512 N. Pima
Rd. 480-998-1300
Farrelli’s Cinema Supper Club at 14202 N. Scottsdale
Rd. 480-905-7200
Furthermore, gong to the movies still gives you the most entertainment
“bang for the buck” when compared to a similar two hour
venture at any professional sporting event, play or music performance.
See you at the movies!
Note: While the release dates & ratings for
these movies were correct at the time of printing, studios sometimes
make last-minute changes. If this happens, we apologize for any
inconvenience.
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