New in Theatres This Week
Box-office debuts are spearheaded by three major releases this week. Opening in theatres across North America are Domino, Elizabethtown, and The Fog.
Just when you finally think you have Orlando Bloom out of the theatres, he sneaks back in as the male lead in Elizabethtown. A shoe-designer’s (Bloom) last creation flopped, costing the company close to $1 billion dollars. Dejected, he decides to commit suicide, only to be saved at the last moment by a phone call from his sister, bearing news of his own father’s death. On the flight to the funeral he meets Kirsten Dunst and begins to feel that maybe life is worth living. Critics have has mixed opinions on Cameron Crowe’s return to writing and directing, and I’m not terribly interested in seeing it myself. Avoid this one if you’re theatrically diabetic, it looks about as sickeningly sweet as corn syrup on apple pie.
Domino, based on the true life story of model turned bounty hunter Domino Harvey, is a big change from petticoats and ringlets for Keira Knightley. She looked pretty darn surly in the trailer and seems to have taken to the part rather well. I’m concerned that the stylistic liberties taken by director Tony Scott may be too rampant and too overwhelming. Roger Ebert felt it necessary to point out that the entire movie had “the attention span of a ferret on crystal meth”. Domino seems a bit of a stinker, but I like Knightley and girls with guns movies are pretty much A-OK in my books, so I’ll give this one a look.
Little town on the water, ghostly vengeance, terrorized citizens…and some fog. That pretty much sums up Rupert Wainwright’s The Fog. Boy does it look awful. But if you’re looking for a new thriller this week, this is all you’re going to get.
Aside from the big movie troika, you might want to sneak a peek at The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, starring Julianne Moore as a mother of ten in the 1950’s who keeps up a brave, cheerful front despite her anger-prone husband and supports the family by entering contests to write product jingles. It came out on September 30th, but I neglected to mention it.
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