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Movies I'm Looking Forward To: Early November Edition

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I’ve updated the Movies I’m Looking Forward To page to add trailers and descriptions of some key November releases.

November 5 brings us Fair Game and Welcome to the Rileys. Ripped from the headlines, Fair Game is the Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson story with Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. Welcome to the Rileys was a hit at Sundance hit featuring James Gandolfini as a Midwestern plumbing contractor who visits New Orleans for a conference, meets teen runaway Kristin Stewart, and decides to stay.

On November 26, we’ll see some major Oscar bait with Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter in The King’s Speech.

I’ve also listed the big December movies, including The Black Swan with Natalie Portman, The Fighter with Mark Wahlberg, Julie Taymor’s The Tempest, the Coen Brothers’ True Grit and Mike Leigh’s Another Year.

Here’s the trailer for The King’s Speech.

Movies I'm Looking Forward To – Late October Edition

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I’ve updated the Movies I’m Looking Forward To page to add trailers and descriptions of some key late October releases.  First, we have two romps, the sex comedy Tamara Drewe and the tongue-in-cheek actioner RED this weekend.  Then we step up in class on October 22 with the Wall Street documentary Inside Job and Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter.  And October 29 brings us the eagerly awaited (at least by me)  The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.

The early buzz is that Inside Job may be this year’s best documentary and one of the year’s best films.  Here’s the trailer.