There's quite a range of movies that are new in theaters this week. For the period piece lovers, we've got the literary adaptation The Other Boleyn Girl with Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, and Eric Bana that looks pretty hot and heavy, and filled with scandal. Ever since "Tudors" swept the nation with its ability to make history interesting--and by interesting I mean sexy--period pieces have been getting a tad more raunchy, i.e. Atonement. Watch the trailer.
For the manboy comedy fanatic, Will Ferrell presents you with Semi-Pro, a 70s basketball movie starring none other than Wood Harrelson (I don't know why either) and Andre Benjamin. This trio of idiots want to get their team qualified for the NBA so they can be taken seriously. I'm sure you can imagine why that would be impossible. Watch the trailer.
My pick for the weekend is the much-delayed Reese Witherspoon-produced indie Penelope. I'm sure the mere fact that James McAvoy is playing the male lead (with an American accent) is reason enough for ladies to rush the theaters. But I was more interested in the plot. Christina Ricci plays a girl who is cursed with a pig snout for a nose because of her family's scandalous legacy. In order to break the curse, her mother has to find a rich guy of nobility to fall in love with her in spite of her pig face. Hidden behind a wall in a secret room, she talks to each eligible bachelor before the big reveal, only to have them eventually run screaming from the house. McAvoy just might be the one guy who can see past the snout. (That sentence will never ever again be written in the history of mankind.) He convinces her to break out from her cage and see the world, and when she does she becomes the poster child for inner beauty and a media magnet. Alas, by the trailer it seems that McAvoy might've been hired to "see past the snout" (oy!), but will that stop her from continuing her one-woman revolution?
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