Review: Ava DuVernay's 'Selma' starring David Oyelowo

There's a scene in Ava DuVernay's stirring, remarkably resonant Selma that reflects perfectly its relevance. Its 1965 and unarmed activist Jimmie Lee Jackson (Keith Stanfield of Short Term 12) is shot and killed at close range while peacefully protesting in support of voting rights. Those who know the story know the cop wasn't charged for more than forty years, denying Jacksons' family the justice it deserved. Sound familiar? Selma is already an amazing film, a vitally important film that never falls into standard biopic clichés. But coming out now as racial tension seems to be at a new high, Selma shows the true power of grassroots activism to affect real change when a cause is just.

There's a good reason why the film refers to the titular Alabama city and not Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) himself. Set in the months leading up to the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965, Selma is about the movement more so than the man. It shows the push for equality from the streets to the dining houses, from the church pew to the White House itself.  When the film begins King is just receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for his civil rights efforts, but that peace is contrasted by the deaths of four black girls in a 1963 bombing. The heinous attack brings startling focus to the reality of life for African-Americans, when their lives could be snuffed out at a moment's notice for no reason.

Violence is one thing, but King's real focus is the political and legal infrastructure that allows such actions to occur. Without the right to vote nothing else matters. Oprah Winfrey, in a small but pivotal role as Annie Lee Cooper, tries unsuccessfully to register to vote in Alabama only to face rejection by a racist putting her through an impossible impromptu quiz. But just because King and his supporters, which include Andre Holland as Andrew Young, Common as James Bevel, Tessa Thompson as Diane Nash, and Stephan James as a young John Lewis, can agree on the end result does not mean they agree on an approach. Help from President Lyndon B. Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) is slow going, despite their frequently combative conversations on the matter. King is shown to be a shrewd strategist, knowing when to step back and when to force the issue. A move to Alabama for a series of televised marches, which he knows will be met with violent resistance by racist governor George Wallace (Tim Roth), is the most effective way to bring global attention to the cause and force Johnson into action.

While the protest scenes are captured with urgency and energy by cinematographer Bradford Young, King's home life with wife Coretta (Carmen Ejogo) is depicted in subtle, tense strokes. There's a tenuous dynamic of loyalty, love, acceptance that plays out between the two. She loves her husband, supports the fight he champions, but endures death threats that put their kids in jeopardy. Through the machinations of the FBI she's also keenly aware of King's infidelities, and at times we can see her weighing whether all the fear and heartache is worth it.

It's that personal touch DuVernay brings that makes Selma so special. She's perfected her craft through a pair of well-regarded dramas, I will Follow and Middle of Nowhere, but you'd never know this was her first time working on such a large canvas. She digs into the details that make King great without idolizing the man, making him more human than we've ever seen him in a film like this. One can't help but wish we could have spent more time with others crucial to the movement. This is one film that could have used an extra hour. It would have meant more time spent watching Oyelowo's commanding performance, one that he's been working up to for years. Attached to the role since back when Lee Daniels was on board to direct (thank goodness how that turned out), we've seen Oyelowo's profile and confidence build until it seemed nobody else could be more perfect for the role. He lives up to the heavy burden, giving the rare performance that more than meets King's stature. The soaring, iconic speeches will leave you breathless and inspired.


Most important is that Selma is truly worthy of Dr. King's legacy. So many biopics this time of year have great performances with stories that feel diminished, inconsequential. Selma is a true triumph; a vitally important film with a legacy destined to endure. What can't be ignored is the sad truth that much of the work King and others fought for was undone recently when the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. The greatest message Selma sends is that it doesn't matter how many years have passed, there is still reason to get out there and march.

 Rating: 4.5 out of 5

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Vince Vaughn Goes On a Business Trip in First Trailer for 'Unfinished Business'

Good for Vince Vaughn that he'll get a chance to show what will presumably be a much darker side on HBO's True Detective next year, but he knows where his bread is buttered. That would be comedies just like Unfinished Business (formerly Business Trip), which put him back as the everyman in a film that looks like Planes, Traines, and Automobiles meets Old School.

Rejoining his Delivery Man director Ken Scott, with Dave Franco, Nick Frost, James Marsden, Sienna Miller, and Tom Wilkinson co-starring, Unfinished Business has Vaughn as a businessman who goes on a European trip to secure a major deal. Of course it goes sideways and soon he's going toe-to-toe with his old boss. This looks like standard course stuff for Vaughn, but the tone of this NSFW trailer shows there may be some dramatic edges. A few, but clearly not too many.

Unfinished Business opens March 6th 2015.

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New Trailer for 'Felony' Written by and Starring Joel Edgerton

Joel Edgerton is proving to be quite a force behind the camera as part of the production collective at Blue-Tongue Films, made up fellow Aussies David Michod (Animal Kingdom), Nash Edgerton, Spencer Susser (Hesher), and Kieran Darcy-Smith (Wish You Were Here). The latest film from the group sees Edgerton starring in Felony, a crime film which he penned the screenplay for Matthew Saville (Noise) to direct.

A new international trailer for the film has been released and it looks like a gritty, if somewhat familiar cop movie about loyalty and responsibility. Edgerton is joined by Tom Wilkinson, Melissa George, and Jai Courtney in a rare dramatic turn, with the story centering on three detectives dealing with the aftermath of a terrible accident that has left a child near death.  While Edgerton and Wilkinson seem to be as solid as ever, the real surprise may be Courtney who has rarely been given an opportunity outside of action franchises.

Felony has yet to gain a release date but should arrive later this year. Edgerton most recently co-wrote the script to David Michod's The Rover, in theaters now.


Felony Official International Trailer #1 (2014) - Jai Courtney, Tom Wilkinson Movie HD by MovieClips Trailers

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James Franco and Kate Hudson are 'Good People' in New Trailer

Has there ever been a movie where someone finds a bag of cash that turns out to be a happy story? Not too often. Even Danny Boyle's Christmas movie, Millions, went to some dark places for awhile there. And so you'd think Kate Hudson and James Franco would learn in the crime thriller, Good People, but that wouldn't make for a very entertaining movie, would it?

Directed by Henrik Genz (Terribly Happy) and based on Marcus Sakey's novel, the story centers on a debt-ridden American couple living in London, who think their lives have turned around when they find a bag of cash in their dead neighbor's apartment. Rather than turning it over to the police, they decide to keep quiet and use it for themselves, rationalizing that it's the people who decide whether money is good or bad. Of course, there are some who could care less about the ethics of the situation, including a nosy cop played by Tom Wilkinson and the typically jovial Omar Sy (The Intouchables) looking very pissed.

Good People opens in limited release (probably for a reason) on July 25th.


Good People Official Trailer #1 (2014) - James Franco, Kate Hudson Thriller HD by NovaCotton

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Review: 'Belle' Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Tom Wilkinson

The painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle and her cousin Elizabeth currently hanging in Scotland's Scone Palace is fascinating for a number of reasons. The first is the striking beauty of the two women, and the obvious closeness of the two women. Both are clearly aristocratic to some degree, judging by their clothing and the very regal nature of the portrait itself. And it's that last aspect which makes the image all the more interesting, because Dido is black, a fact which would normally have her removed from the ways and means of aristocrats in 18th century England, where slavery was still very much a part of life.

There are faint echoes of 12 Years a Slave in Belle, Amma Asante's first directorial effort since 2004's accomplished debut, A Way of Life. What's missing is the emotional backbone to support Dido's uncommon story that saw her stuck between a world of privilege and one of subservience. Breaking free of the formulaic, saggy screenplay is the title performance by Gugu Mbatha Raw, who shows Dido to be a woman of exceptional inner strength. The illegitimate daughter of Admiral John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) and a slave, Dido was sent to live on the palatial estate of his uncle, William Murray (Tom Wilkinson), the 1st Earl of Mansfield. There she was treated as one of the family, becoming good friends with her cousin Lady Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon), and enduring the initial discontent of Murray's wife (Emily Watson).

"I am too high to eat with the servants, too low to join you at dinner", Dido says at one point, and it's true that being a part of high society has as many restraints as privileges. While loved and cared for by her family when alone, Belle is spirited off to other corners of the home when guests arrive, lest her presence offend their delicate sensibilities. The convergence of race and gender issues are skillfully dealt with when Dido suddenly becomes wealthy, granted an annual inheritance by her father. Now Dido finds she is suddenly very desirable to men who would otherwise turn up their nose at her, while her less financially secure cousin struggles to find a man who will accept her unconditionally. For women, upward mobility is all about money and power, nothing more. Mention love and you're likely to get scoffed at. But Dido is fortunate as she is granted the wealth to make decisions for herself, something most women do not have the luxury of.

"I have been blessed with freedom twice over."

Less effectively portrayed is growing debate over slavery taking place in England at the time, with Murray presiding over the real-life case of the Zong massacre, in which over 140 slaves were dumped off a ship in order to collect the insurance money on them. Dido is seen as forceful voice of reason in William's ear, and she finds support in the fiery rhetoric of upstart lawyer, John Davinier (Sam Reid), a suitor unlike any she has met before. Fitting with the film's generally shallow approach, little is seen of the harsh realities of slavery, preferring to tackle it through mechanical speeches on justice and equality. The lack of passion detracts from a handsomely photographed film and Mbatha-Raw's stirring attempt to do Dido's story proper justice.

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Peter Dinklage Joins 'Pixels'; Tom Wilkinson Heads to 'Selma'; 'Paul Blart 2' Adds Neil McDonough

* Peter Dinklage's movie career may have started off small (no pun intended), but the Game of Thrones star is being sought for bigger things. He'll play the villain Bolivar Trask in this summer's X-men: Days of Future Past, and now he's joining Adam Sandler, Kevin Hart, and Josh Gad in Pixels. Directed by Chris Columbus and based on the cool short film, the film takes place in a New York City under attack from 1980s video game characters. [TheWrap]

* Ava Duvernay is beginning to cast up her Martin Luther King biopic, Selma, and she's looking to add Tom Wilkinson as President Lyndon B. Johnson. The Oscar-winner is in talks to join David Oyelowo in the film centered on MLK's landmark 1965 voting rights campaign, one of the high points in the civil rights movement. Johnson had been there in Selma, Alabama to give a speech on voting rights just a week after racially-charged violence had erupted. [TheWrap]

* Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is still happening, and Kevin James now has a villain for his bumbling security officer to contend with. Neil McDonough (Captain America: The First Avenger) will play the mastermind of a heist taking place at a security guard expo in Las Vegas, which Blart happens to be attending. Andy Fickman is directing with Molly Shannon and Nick Turturro co-starring.

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First Trailer for Historical Drama 'Belle' Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Steve McQueen's unrelenting 12 Years A Slave (review here) is in theaters now, and while the film has been greatly buzzed about and is all but a lock for the Oscars, it's going to be too tough for many to sit through. But for those who, for whatever reason, are looking for a film that follows similar thematic territory, there has been a great deal of positive talk surrounding Belle, a period drama directed by Amma Asante. The film premiered at Toronto last month and while it's still a ways off from hitting theaters, Fox Searchlight is riding 12 Years A Slave's coattails to start getting the word out.

Starring the extremely talented Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Larry Crowne) in her first feature film lead, the true story centers on Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate biracial daughter of Royal Navy Admiral Sir John Lindsay, who is raised as an aristocrat by her great uncle (Tom Wilkinson) and aunt (Emily Watson). Despite her priviledged status, Belle's mixed race heritage continues to be an issue in an England where slavery is still a way of life.

Co-starring Tom Felton, Sarah Gadon, Miranda Richardson, and Matthew Goode, Belle opens on May 2nd 2014.


BELLE Movie Trailer by GaMeFORGaMeRz

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Garrett Hedlund Joins 'Unbroken'; Tom Wilkinson Goes On 'The Business Trip'

* For her follow-up directorial effort Unbroken, Angelina Jolie is aiming for bigger stars than the completely unknown cast for her debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey. The adaptation of Lauren Hillenbrand's novel already has Jack O'Connell and Domhnall Gleeson aboard, and now the latest to join is Tron: Legacy star Garrett Hedlund. He'll play POW Commander John Fitzgerald in the film which recounts the incredible true story of Olympian and WWII pilot Louis Zamperini (O'Connell), whose plane crashed into the sea in 1943. Adrift with his crewmates for more than a month, he was eventually captured by the Japanese and tortured for two years. The Coen Brothers wrote the most script, and the great Roger Deakins (Skyfall) is handling cinematography. Unbroken opens next year on Christmas Day.[Variety]

* Filming is now underway on the Vince Vaughn-led comedy, The Business Trip, and he's just now finding his co-pilot. Tom Wilkinson has stepped into the passenger seat, joining a cast that includes Nick Frost and James Marsden. Vaughn plays an American businessman on a disastrous trip to Europe, with Wilkinson as his associate and traveling companion. Odd pairing, but Wilkinson can be quite funny when called upon. Vaughn's Delivery Man director Ken Scott is at the helm.

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Review: 'The Lone Ranger', Starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer

Disney doesn't put the Pirates of the Caribbean think tank on just any ol' thing. When the combination of Johnny Depp, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Gore Verbinski get together it’s with the intention of crafting another $1B franchise, and that's exactly what the hopes for The Lone Ranger are. And hey, maybe Disney will get what they want, because there's very little difference to be found between either. Depp does good quirk, Verbinski does big action, the jokes are plentiful but not necessarily funny, the running time is 40 minutes too long, and despite being an origin story on the iconic Western hero you'll still be asking "Who was that masked man?" when all is said and done.

The chief problem makes itself known immediately, as the film opens in 1933 San Francisco, a precocious young boy dressed as the titular ranger makes his way through a traveling circus, coming upon an old Native American exhibit. The Indian mannequin turns out to be very much alive, an aged Tonto (Depp) as it turns out, and who takes the opportunity to recount his very first meetings with The Lone Ranger and their earliest adventures. Bouncing back and forth to this older Tonto does to the film's pacing what a broken hoof would do to the Ranger's horse, Silver. Already saddling us with a bloated 2 1/2 runtime, the non-linear approach makes it feel like 3 1/2, without adding anything of worth.

Not that it would have mattered much because the meat of the story...well, there isn't much meat to it and what little is there is painfully dull. Justin Haythe is credited with the script but it's really 'Pirates' scribes Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott whose fingerprints are all over it, and storytelling really isn't their bag. Depp was able to cover up the emptiness of their writing when Jack Sparrow was still a totally unique character, but his Tonto is so familiar that it's not going to hide anything. In his leading man bid, Armie Hammer is naive lawman John Reid, who returns to his southwest hometown where his brother Dan (a ruggedly charismatic James Badge Dale) is the baddest Texas Ranger in town. After he's killed by the heart-munching Butch Cavendish (a filthy and gross William Fichtner), John teams up with the eccentric and clearly insane Tonto to get justice. But what does justice mean for someone like John? His brother had a "shoot first" approach to the legal process, and Tonto certainly has his own ideas, but John's journey will have him changing his thoughts on due process in a major way.

You can feel the strains of franchise building in the relationship between The Lone Ranger and Tonto. It's the latter who we learn the most about, delving into his past in a way that has never been done before. It's mildly interesting to discover why he wears a dead bird on his head, which he constantly is feeding for some goofy reason, and why he's such a proponent for vigilante justice. But the further they go back, the more Tonto looks like a psycho rather than a guy with an off brand sense of humor. The distinction matters, and there are far too many moments where Tonto is more disturbing than funny. He still gets better treatment than the Ranger, who we learn almost nothing about other than that he once had a thing for his dead brother's widow (Ruth Wilson), and she still has one for him.  Wait, isn't this movie called The Lone Ranger? Shouldn't it maybe be about him? Just a little? Mostly we get the Ranger and Tonto jumping from one sticky situation to another, with lots of stuff happening but little of it engaging. There's some good comedic mileage out of Tonto's utter lack of respect for the Ranger, who he feels should have died and his brother Dan resurrected.

Hammer plays the straight man beautifully opposite Depp, most of the film walking a line between professorial pantywaist and the dashing hero we know he'll turn out to be. Depp's deadpan interpretation of Tonto sounds like it was ripped from old episodes of Daniel Boone, and those who openly complained about his being cast in the role (Depp claims Native American heritage that hasn't been proven) will probably find reason to take issue. Fortunately there are better portrayals that emerge later in the film, at least for a few minutes before white man greed interferes with their simple way of life. Women are basically a non-factor in this masculine Old West world, with Wilson having little to do but be a potential target for the Ranger's enemies. Most egregiously, Helena Bonham Carter is completely wasted as a brothel owner who gives new meaning to the phrase "killer legs".

Tonally a nightmare, broad comedy clashes with a subplot involving the white man's slaughter of the Native American population. There's a great deal of violence, more gruesome than one would expect from a Disney film, and sometimes it's played up for laughs when other times we're expected to find it sobering. A lot of this can be forgiven because everything looks so damn good, easily the best work Verbinski has done, and it's clear he took his experience directing the brilliant animated western Rango and put it to good use. Everything looks authentic and gorgeous, from the saddlebags to the tumbleweeds, captured beautifully with an incredible level of attention. Verbinski pushed the budget well past its limit, and it shows in two amazing bookend train sequences. The opening scene promises adventure on a massive scale that we never truly get. The final one, a dizzying dual-track battle set to The Lone Ranger's iconic William Tell Overture, ends the film on an exquisitely energetic note.

What it boils down to is that this is meant to be the first chapter in a bigger story, and unfortunately it was written like one. Overlong and needlessly convoluted, The Lone Ranger lacks the adventure needed to make the 1930s radio and TV hero a modern day action star.

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The first trailer for 'The Lone Ranger' is here!

With a calamitous shoot finally completed, Disney has spent this week building up the hype for next summer's The Lone Ranger with two sets of images released and yesterday's poster reveal. The film reunites the entirety of the Pirates of the Caribbean team, with Johnny Depp slipping into the showy role of Tonto, Gore Verbinski directing, Jerry Bruckheimer producing, and a script by Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot. Can they recapture the same magic as before and launch another $1B franchise?

The first trailer for The Lone Ranger has been released, although for those who attended Comic-Con they will recognize it as the same footage from the Disney panel. It's actually a pretty impressive clip, and Verbinski, who is a devoted fan of the Western genre, has given the film a much harder edge than I think many will be expecting. That said, when Depp goes into his "There will come a time, Kemosabe" routine, it sounds a little bit silly, and the door seems wide open for the same sort of bouncy and easily digestible action that the 'Pirates' flicks were famous for. There's a lot less of Depp, and plenty of Hammer as the titular masked hero, which should appease those who felt the latter would be shuffled into the background.

There's still the potential for this to be the disaster all of the production troubles hint at it being, but this trailer is pretty good. Expect a higher quality version to be released later today. The Lone Ranger opens on July 3rd 2013.....[CBM]

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Review: 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel', starring Judi Dench and Tom Wilkinson

This may sound like sacrilege to some, but the combination of Brit thespians Tom Wilkinson, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, and Bill Nighy doesn't always produce excellence. They remain as great and in touch emotionally as ever, yet in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a film about people expanding their horizons during their twilight years, they are ironically hamstrung by a story that is all too safe and contrived to be memorable.

A group of older Brits venture, for a myriad of different reasons, to a rundown therapeutic resort in India, each full of their own hopes and expectations for the journey. Graham(Tom Wilkinson), fell in love with India as a youngster, but ran away to America in shame, spending the next 40 years of his life regretting the decision. There's Muriel(Maggie Smith), a cranky old racist who hates everything about the "brown people" and doesn't even trust their doctors to perform the hip replacement she sorely needs. Some flee for the hotel out of economic desperation, such as distant married couple, Douglas(Bill Nighy) and Jean(Penelope Wilton). Having lost all of their money in a failed business venture, he sees India as a chance to start again and experience new things, while she envisions it as a prison. She then proceeds to make her experience as confining and miserable as ever. There are other, poorly crafted characters best left forgotten, like the older vixen looking for a rich husband and the old horndog who just wants to feel young. Don't bother counting the minutes until the first Viagra joke. It'll come, just you wait. So do the softball jokes about the spicy food and hot weather. The sitcom nature of the humor has its charms, if only because it's being delivered by such high class actors, but it wears thin extremely fast.

There are some high points, and they mainly revolve around Judi Dench's affecting performance as Evelyn, a woman who was married to the same man for 40 years and now finds herself alone. She relishes the opportunity to reinvent herself, to find some meaning for her life, and Dench portrays her sense of wonder exquisitely. With notions of Rudyard Kipling-like adventures in her head, Evelyn doesn't let the dilapidated state of the Marigold Hotel slow her down for a moment, finding a job for herself and keeping a close eye on the fast talking, ambitious hotel manager, Sonny(Dev Patel). Dench and Nighy share some of the film's strongest moments as their characters evolve and adapt to their surroundings, which causes a rift in his failing marriage. Wilkinson's performance is utterly heartbreaking, with Graham's story featuring one of the few unexpected twists. Just as the film seems to be hitting a stride, you'll be snapped back by another telegraphed subplot, such as all the hotel residents banding together like the geriatric Avengers to save the hotel from being sold.

Directed by John Madden, who took Judi Dench to a Best Supporting Actress win for Shakespeare in Love, the film is well-shot and maintains a mostly cheery tone, and for some it'll be enough to see these seasoned actors, usually seen as British royalty or the upper class cream of the crop, in such unfamiliar surroundings. We learn very little about the Indian culture, however, and neither do any of the characters. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel could have been something special, but it aims to only be a comfortable, easygoing crowd pleaser, and in that it just barely hits the mark.

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Tom Wilkinson rejoins The Lone Ranger

One of the side effects of the delays that struck The Lone Ranger as Disney squashed the bloated production before putting it back on the schedule, is that a number of the in demand supporting cast had to find other stuff to do.  One of those was Tom Wilkinson, who had agreed to be part of the film back in June, but left when it looked like it would never get off the ground. Well now that all sides are happy and the ball is rolling again, Deadline reports that Wilkinson is back, and he may not be alone.


The film reunites the Pirates of the Caribbean team of star Johnny Depp, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and director Gore Verbinski in a reimagining of the famous gunslinger's adventures. Armie Hammer will play the masked hero, while Depp is his Native American sidekick, Tonto. Wilkinson will play Latham Cole, an evil railroad tycoon.

There are still other cast members who have yet to be brought back but are expected to return. Barry Pepper, James Badge Dale, and Dwight Yoakem are part of that list. Helena Bonham Carter is probably the most important one, and it remains unclear if she'll come back or not. In recent weeks she's been circling a role in Warner Brothers' live-action Akira, just the other day stating that she hadn't made up her mind on what she'll do next.

The Lone Ranger is set to open on May 31st 2013.

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Joseph-Gordon-Levitt's The Dark Knight Rises role revealed!

I think the most fun aspect of the all the Batman rumors hasn't so much been casting, but watching everybody try to nail down who everyone in The Dark Knight Rises would be portraying. For instance, Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been the subject of the most talk long before he had ever become a part of the Christopher Nolan's superhero production.  Now that he's finally signed on, Variety is reporting that Gordon-Levitt will be Alberto Falcone, the son of former mob leader Carmine Falcone. Falcone was one of the many villains Gordon-Levitt was rumored to be taking on.


Tom Wilkinson portrayed Carmine in Batman Begins, ultimately winding up imprisoned and rendered insane by The Scarecrow's fear toxin.  Looks like the son is coming to town to exact a little revenge against the Caped Crusader.  I expect The Scarecrow will make some sort of minor appearance as well, probably to be killed by Alberto.

In the comics, Alberto is sometimes referred to as the Holiday Killer, a serial killer who murders his victims according to specific dates on the calandar. He is featured in one of the best Batman stories you'll ever read, Batman: The Long Halloween.

So in terms of new additions to the series, that gives us...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Alberto Falcone
Tom Hardy as Bane
Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle(Catwoman)
Still rumored are Marion Cotillard in an unspecified role, and Juno Temple as a Gotham street girl.

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Trailer Time: The Debt, starring Sam Worthington and Helen Mirren

I had completely forgotten that they were remaking The Debt, which is based off the 2007 Israeli film about a team of Mossad agents who kill a notorious Nazi criminal, only to have him resurface 30 years later. The original I had a lot of problems with, but I didn't expect to see it remade so soon. Especially not by John Madden, the director behind Shakespeare in Love and 2005's Proof(one of my faves of that year).

The Debt stars Sam Worthington(Avatar), Helen Mirren(Calandar Girls), Ciaran Hinds(Munich), and Tom Wilkinson(Duplicity). It's set for release on December 29th, 2010. Check out the trailer, and as always hit us up with your thoughts!

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