Hollywood Waking Up -Three Big Openings

Hollywood is quietly revving its engine this weekend, sending some high profile movies out to theaters. All the press has been about Julia Roberts so called “comeback” in Duplicity, a double crossing corporate caper movie where Clive Owen (The International) plays her partner in crime and love interest. This film looks silly but it has been surprisingly well received by critics, and it was made by the guy who wrote Michael Clayton, so, pretty good pedigree. Also features Paul Giamatti (John Adams) and Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton and also John Adams, only he played Ben Franklin). Also hitting theaters is I Love You Man, a bromance movie about a guy (Paul Rudd) who is getting married and doesn’t have any best man candidates. So he sets out to find a new best friend. Depending on who you talk to, this is very funny, a romantic comedy turned inside out, or a routine buddy flick with lots of poop jokes. In fairness, most of the reviews have leaned towards funny. Finally, we have the latest Nicholas Cage outing, Knowing, where he plays a teacher who discovers that an elementary school time capsule may be predicting the future. Spooky. Actually, this one seems really silly (and critics have pretty much panned it; Roger Ebert being the notable exception, he thought it was great), but like a lot of Nicholas Cage pictures, it is scoring big at the box office, so, looks like a hit. All three of these pictures are playing in a whole lot of theaters so you should be able to find one near you.