Some excellent DVD releases for February 19th.

• Michael Clayton (Thriller/Drama) – Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is an in-house “fixer” at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen’s dirtiest work at the behest of the firm’s co-founder Marty Bach (Sydney Pollack). Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton) rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton’s firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach’s brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.

  Cast: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Ehle, Michael O’Keefe, Ken Howard; Directed by: Tony Gilroy

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• Margot at the Wedding (Drama) – The film will be a multigenerational story that takes place over a weekend and follows a mom and her son who visit the mom’s sister. Kidman and Leigh will play the sisters.

  Cast: Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black, John Turturro; Directed by: Noah Baumbach

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• Lust Caution (Drama/Thriller) – The film, based on a 26-page short story by famed Chinese writer Eileen Chang, is about a group of patriotic students who plot to assassinate the intelligence chief in the Japanese-backed Chinese government during the World War II era.

  Cast: Joan Chen, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Wei Tang; Directed by: Ang Lee

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• In the Valley Elah (Drama) – Tommy Lee Jones plays a career soldier whose son mysteriously goes AWOL, shortly after returning to the U.S. from the front lines in Iraq. Charlize Theron will play a local police detective who helps him get to the bottom of the soldier’s disappearance.

  Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Barry Corbin, Frances Fisher, James Franco; Directed by: Paul Haggis

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• American Gangster (Crime/Drama) – “American Gangster” concerns Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas (Washington), who smuggled heroin in the body bags of U.S. soldiers slain in Vietnam. Brolin plays Det. Trupo, a crooked NYPD cop who piggybacks on the Lucas investigation conducted by Det. Ritchie Roberts (Crowe).

  Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Cuba Gooding Jr., Josh Brolin, RZA, John Ortiz, John Hawkes, Ted Levine, Yul Vazquez; Directed by: Ridley Scott

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American Gangster, Bee Movie, The Martian Child, and Kite Runner arrive in theaters today, Friday November 2, 2007. Just click on the corresponding links below to purchase the movie posters:

• American Gangster (Crime/Drama) – Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Cuba Gooding Jr., Josh Brolin, RZA, John Ortiz, John Hawkes, Ted Levine, Yul Vazquez; Directed by: Ridley Scott

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• Bee Movie (Animation) – Cast: Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Megan Mullally, Kathy Bates, Alan Arkin, Patrick Warburton; Directed by: Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith
• The Martian Child (Drama) – Cast: John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Sophie Okonedo, Bobby Coleman, David Kaye; Directed by: Menno Meyjes

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• The Kite Runner (Drama) – Cast: Shaun Toub, Khalid Abdalla, Big Spence; Directed by: Marc Forster

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American Gangster is going to be awesome. Nuff said. Read the review:

After a long development process marked by fits and starts, American Gangster has finally shot its way onto the big screen courtesy of director Ridley Scott and screenwriter Steve Zaillian. The great ensemble cast is led by Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, last seen together on screen in the abysmal Virtuosity. Fortunately, the second time’s the charm for these two hugely talented Oscar winners. Based on Mark Jacobson’s New York Magazine article “The Return of Superfly,” American Gangster chronicles the true story of Frank Lucas (Washington), an African-American entrepreneur who rose to prominence in the 1960′s and ’70s in a field that was dominated by whites: heroin trafficking.

Employing the lessons he’d learned by working for legendary gangster Bumpy Johnson (Clarence Williams III) and his Mafia overlords, Frank uses his astute business acumen and propensity for guilt-free violence to rise to the top of his industry. The war in Vietnam provides Frank, who had a relative stationed in Bangkok, with the opportunity to beat his competition. Frank imports heroin directly from its point of origin (often smuggling it in the remains of dead U.S. soldiers), cutting out his competitors and offering his customers a product that hasn’t been degraded. It’s a business strategy that ultimately makes Frank more powerful and richer than La Cosa Nostra. Frank isn’t just the king of Harlem; he becomes the biggest heroin dealer in the country.

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In Theaters: Friday November 2, 2007

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Academy Award winners DENZEL WASHINGTON as gangster Frank Lucas
and RUSSELL CROWE as outcast cop Richie Roberts team to tell the true juggernaut
success story of a cult hero from the streets of 1970s Harlem

American Gangster arrive in theaters this Friday November, 2nd. But if you’re like us and simply can’t wait, we have this great interview with the principle actors (Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe) and director, Ridley Scott.

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Synopsis:
Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), the quiet driver to one of the inner city’s leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and create his own version of the American Dream. Through ingenuity and a strict business ethic, he comes to rule the inner-city drug trade, flooding the streets with a purer product at a better price. Lucas outplays all of the leading crime syndicates and becomes not only one of the city’s mainline corrupters, but part of its circle of legit civic superstars.

Richie Roberts (Ruseell Crowe) is an outcast cop close enough to the streets to feel a shift of control in the drug underworld. Roberts believes someone is climbing the rungs above the known Mafia families and starts to suspect that a black power player has come from nowhere to dominate the scene. Both Lucas and Roberts share a rigorous ethical code that sets them apart from their own colleagues, making them lone figures on opposite sides of the law. The destinies of these two men will become intertwined as they approach a confrontation where only one of them can come out on top.

Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Cuba Gooding Jr., Josh Brolin, RZA, John Ortiz, John Hawkes, Ted Levine, Yul Vazquez; Directed by: Ridley Scott

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