A big week for DVD(s). Lots of good movies. Just click on the links below to purchase the movie posters:

• We Own the Night (Drama) – New York, 1988: A new breed of narcotics has swept the great city, bringing with it a ferocious crime wave more terrifying than any in recent memory. Outmanned and outgunned by the new criminal order, the police find themselves burying one of their own at the rate of two a month. An all-out war rages, threatening to engulf guilty and innocent alike.

  Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall, Eva Mendes; Directed by: James Gray

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• No Reservations (Comedy/Drama/Romance) – Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Patricia Clarkson, Jenny Wade, Lily Rabe, Zoe Kravitz; Directed by: Scott Hicks

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• The Martian Child (Drama) – John Cusack plays a science fiction writer who adopts a 6-year-old boy after the death of his fiance…except he’s a bit worried by the fact that this boy claims he’s from Mars.

  Cast: John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Sophie Okonedo, Bobby Coleman, David Kaye; Directed by: Menno Meyjes

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• In the Shadow of the Moon (Documentary) – In the Shadow of the Moon is an intimate epic, which vividly communicates the daring and the danger, the pride and the passion, of this extraordinary era in American history. Between 1968 and 1972, the world watched in awe each time an American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon. Only 12 American men walked upon its surface and they remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. Now for the first, and very possibly the last, time, In the Shadow of the Moon combines archival material from the original NASA film footage, much of it never before seen, with interviews with the surviving astronauts, including Jim Lovell (Apollo 8 and 13), Dave Scott (Apollo 9 and 15), John Young (Apollo 10 and 16), Gene Cernan (Apollo 10 and 17), Mike Collins (Apollo 11), Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11), Alan Bean (Apollo 12), Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14), Charlie Duke (Apollo 16) and Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17). The astronauts emerge as eloquent, witty, emotional and very human.

  Cast: Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Alan Bean, Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins, John F. Kennedy; Directed by: David Sington

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• Gone Baby Gone (Drama/Mystery) – “Gone, Baby, Gone,” Academy Award®-winner Ben Affleck’s directorial debut, stars Casey Affleck (“Ocean’s Eleven”), Michelle Monaghan (“Mission: Impossible III”), Academy Award®-winner Morgan Freeman and Academy Award®-nominee Ed Harris. Based on the novel by Dennis Lehane (“Mystic River”) and adapted for the screen by Affleck and Aaron Stockard, the film tells the story of two private investigators hunting for an abducted 4-year-old girl in the seamiest side of Boston’s underworld.

  Cast: Casey Affleck, John Ashton, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Michelle Monaghan; Directed by: Ben Affleck

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• Becoming Jane (Drama/Romance) – “Becoming Jane” centers on a love affair British novelist Jane Austen (Hathaway) began as a 20-year-old — with brilliant, roguish Irishman Tom Lefroy — that inspired her career as one of the world’s great romantic writers. The movie also looks at how the writer’s relationship with Lefroy helped create the male characters in “Pride & Prejudice.”

  Cast: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith; Directed by: Julian Jarrold

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• Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married? (Drama) – Based on Tyler Perry’s play about the joys and trials of matrimony.

  Cast: Janet Jackson, Tyler Perry, Michael Jai White, Malik Yoba; Directed by: Tyler Perry

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• The Amateurs (Comedy) – An independent comedy about a small town that bands together to make a porno film. Bridges plays a guy dealing with a midlife crisis who hatches the scheme.

  Cast: Jeff Bridges, Tim Blake Nelson, Joe Pantoliano, William Fichtner, Ted Danson, Patrick Fugit; Directed by: Michael Traeger

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This Friday is going to be tough for movie-goers. Three excellent movies are opening on October 12, 2007 – the decision is going to be tough. Just click on the corresponding links to purchase the movie posters:

• We Own the Night (Crime/Drama/Thriller) – Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall, Eva Mendes; Directed by: James Gray

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• Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married (Drama) – Cast: Janet Jackson, Tyler Perry, Michael Jai White, Malik Yoba; Directed by: Tyler Perry
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Historical Drama) – Cast: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush, Samantha Morton; Directed by: Shekhar Kapur

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Mark Wahlberg (left) as Joseph Grusinsky and Joaquin Phoenix (right) as Bobby Green

Joaquin Phoenix shines in We Own the Night.

We Own The Night reunites director James Gray with two of the stars of his crime drama The Yards, Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg. The film, penned by Gray, takes its title from the motto of the NYPD’s 1980s street crimes unit.

Set in 1988, the story follows Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix), the manager of El Caribe — a Russian-owned nightclub in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach. He lives a carefree life with his beloved girlfriend Amanda (Eva Mendes), spending every night in a drug-induced haze of music and partying. Bobby, however, is not who he seems; his real surname is Grusinsky and he’s the black sheep son in a family of NYPD officers.

Bobby’s brother, Joseph (Wahlberg), and dad, Burt (Robert Duvall), are veteran cops out to bring down the burgeoning Russian mob — a mission that leads them to raid El Caribe. This bust not only enrages Bobby, but also incurs the wrath of vicious gangster Vadim Nezhinski (Alex Veadov) who seeks to get even with the cops who crossed him.

After Vadim retaliates, Bobby and Amanda find themselves caught in a war between the cops and the mob. Bobby finally chooses which side he’s on and tries to make amends by helping the cops target Vadim, who doesn’t realize Bobby is actually a Grusinsky.

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Synopsis:
Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) has turned his back on the family business. The popular manager of El Caribe, the legendary Russian-owned nightclub in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach, he has changed his last name and concealed his connection to a long line of distinguished New York cops. For Bobby, every night is a party, as he greets friends and customers or dances with his beautiful Puerto Rican girlfriend, Amada (Eva Mendes), in a haze of cigarette smoke and disco music.

But it’s 1988, and New York City’s drug trade is escalating. Bobby tries to keep a friendly distance from the Russian gangster who is operating out of the nightclub – a gangster who is being targeted by his brother, Joseph (Mark Wahlberg), an up-and-coming NYPD officer, and his father, Burt (Robert Duvall), the legendary deputy chief of police.

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall, Eva Mendes; Directed by: James Gray

In Theaters: October 12, 2007

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