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• Insert Caption: Burn After Reading
  

  Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Fandom, Brad Pitt, Movie Marketing, Contests, Insert Caption, George Clooney

  Welcome back to another edition of Insert Caption -- the game you won't want to burn after reading ... because, well, how could you win any prizes then? Last week we asked you to give us your best college-esque caption for a photo from the new comedy College. In return for your brilliance, we were shelling out a one-of-a-kind beer pong table. Sweeet! Only one winner this week, so congrats to John R. for his inspiring take on a classic tale ...
  
  



• Review: Mister Foe
  

  Filed under: Drama, Independent, New Releases, Theatrical Reviews

  
  
  Jamie Bell makes the best of a bad situation as Hallam, the titular teenage protagonist of Mister Foe, whose anger, resentment and paranoia drive him from his father's remote Scottish Highlands estate to the streets of Edinburgh in search of solace. Hallam's mother recently drowned in the loch behind the house, the apparent victim of a freak boating accident, and his dad (Ciarán Hinds) has moved on and married his former secretary Verity (Claire Forlani), whom he was seeing before his wife's untimely passing and whom Hallam believes is a gold-digging hooker responsible for mom's death....
  



• Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany Debate 'Creation'
  

  Filed under: Drama, Independent, Casting, Deals, Celebrities and Controversy, Scripts, Newsstand, Religious

  Acting couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly must have decided that life would be too calm after November 2008 -- so they have signed to play Charles and Emma Darwin in Creation. Yes, the Darwins. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will be directed by Jon Amiel, from a script penned by John Collee, and based on Randal Keynes' book Annie's Box. (Keynes is Darwin's great-great grandson.) The film will portray Charles Darwin as a man torn between his love for his deeply...
  



• EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Swanberg and Gerwig's 'Nights and Weekends'
  

  Filed under: Drama, Independent, Romance, Movie Marketing, Trailers and Clips

  
  
  Cinematical has just received the first trailer for Nights and Weekends, written, starring and directed by Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig. The film, which first premiered during this year's South by Southwest Film Festival (or SXSW), follows one couple struggling to maintain a long distance relationship, and all the ups and downs that go along with that. Not only does it rank among Swanberg and Gerwig's best to date, but, as I said in my review, both "do a tremendous job tapping into everything we love about our relationships,...
  



• Denzel to Star in 'Book of Eli'
  

  Filed under: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Casting, Deals, Warner Brothers

  A double Academy Award winner is going back to the future. Denzel Washington will star in the post-apocalyptic drama Book of Eli, to be directed by Albert and Allen Hughes, according to Variety. He will play "a lone hero in a not-too-distant apocalyptic future who must fight across America to bring society the knowledge that could be the key to its redemption." Sounds like the best of all possible worlds, doesn't it? Denzel as an intellectual action hero of the future.

  Denzel has been resolutely dealing with modern-day problems for the last decade,...
  




• Indie Spotlight: New Releases for Sept. 5
  

  Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Gay & Lesbian, New Releases, Family Films, Columns, Indie Spotlight

  Look, I don't want to make it sound like an either/or thing. You can see wide-release films AND art-house indies. I'm just saying that on this particular weekend, the only wide release is something starring Nicolas Cage in a mullet, and it wasn't screened for critics. So if it were an either/or thing, this would be a good time to become an art-house fanatic, and the Indie Spotlight is here to let you know what your options are.
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• TIFF Review: Rachel Getting Married
  

  Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Theatrical Reviews, Festival Reports, Toronto International Film Festival

  
  
  Rachel Getting Married is a terse, smart, funny and tough family drama about forgiveness and failure written by Jenny Lumet; it's also a loose, smart, broad and bright film about family and love directed by Jonathan Demme. When these two things are in sync, the end result is something truly impressive - a moving story that appeals to your heart and soul without insulting your intelligence, a film full of big scenes that never stoops to the most obvious possible iteration of those big scenes, a movie loaded with great and sincere performances from...
  



• The Russo Brothers Travel to 'Ciudad'
  

  Filed under: Action, Drama, Thrillers, Deals, Paramount, Scripts, Newsstand

  After the unpleasantness that was You, Me and Dupree, Anthony and Joe Russo are looking to explore a different kind of darkness -- the gritty and corrupt city of Ciudad del Este. According to Variety, they're set to direct Ciudad, which will be based on a graphic novel they're writing for Oni Press.
  
  The story will follow a battered hostage negotiator, who travels to Paraguay and the above mentioned city to rescue a kidnap victim. They've been researching the story for years, traveling to crime-infested cities across the world to flesh it...
  



• Exclusive Clip: 'JCVD'
  

  Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Fandom, Movie Marketing, Fantastic Fest, Toronto International Film Festival, Trailers and Clips

  
  
  Cinematical is very excited to bring you this exclusive clip from the new flick JCVD, which, surprisingly, has watched a tremendous amount of buzz build around it since it first screened at this past Cannes Film Festival. Now, as part of the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival midnight slate (it premieres tonight!), JCVD will receive a more proper introduction (or should I say, re-introduction) to the world. JCVD, of course, stands for our good friend Jean-Claude Van Damme, star of such...
  



• Telluride Review: Adam Resurrected
  

  Filed under: Drama, Independent, Telluride, Theatrical Reviews, Festival Reports, Oscar Watch, Toronto International Film Festival, Cinematical Indie

  

  Adam Resurrected, adapted by Noah Stollum Stollman from the book of the same name by Yoram Kaniuk and directed by Paul Schrader, is a darkly abstract and haunting film featuring Jeff Goldblum in his finest, most layered performance ever. Goldblum portrays Adam Steiner, a tragic clown shattered by the horrors of the Holocaust. A clown and ringleader of his own highly successful circus act in pre-War Berlin, Adam finds himself, his wife, and their two young daughters caught in the roundup of Jews. Ironically,...