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This week's new spotlight DVDs:
Atonement (Universal)
Director Joe Wright's 2007 adaptation of Ian McEwan's bestselling novel is an epic English romantic drama that's one of your most moving and memorable viewing experiences, or else it hits you as an over-praised melodrama that's maudlin and manipulative. Either way, it is sumptuously executed and one of the best book-to-film transitions in
Between last year's Atonement to this week's Wanted, James McAvoy has gone from Oscar bait to action hero, from wooing Keira Knightley to wowing Angelina Jolie. So I had to ask him the...
Atonement wins best British film and best actor and actress at the Empire Awards in London.
Cate Blanchett has won the best actress award at the inaugural Richard Attenborough Film Awards for her role in Elizabeth: The Golden Age .
The period drama Atonement also picked up another host of awards. It received four...
IN THEATRES DECEMBER 7, 2007 (Limited)<br><br>On a sultry summer day in 1935, an upper-class British family prepares for a dinner party at their country estate. The players: Briony Tallis (newcomer Saoirse Ronan), a precocious preteen writer; her older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley), Cambridge graduate and femme fatale; Robbie Turner (James McEvoy), the housekeeper\'s mensch-y son, who carries a torch for Cecilia; and various visitors and family members. A series of misperceptions, fueled by the summer heat and Briony\'s childish hurts and fevered imagination, lead to a dramatic false accusation that lands Robbie in jail. read more »
On a sultry summer day in 1935, an upper-class British family prepares for a dinner party at their country estate. The players: Briony Tallis (newcomer Saoirse Ronan), a precocious preteen writer; her older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley), Cambridge graduate and femme fatale; Robbie Turner (James McEvoy), the housekeeper's mensch-y son, who carries a torch for Cecilia; and various visitors and family members. A series of misperceptions, fueled by the summer heat and Briony's childish hurts and fevered imagination, lead to a dramatic false accusation that lands Robbie in jail. We meet all three characters five years later in the thick of World War II, as foot soldier Robbie prepares for the Dunkirk evacuation and the two estranged sisters train as nurses in London. read more »
On a sultry summer day in 1935, an upper-class British family prepares for a dinner party at their country estate. The players: Briony Tallis (newcomer Saoirse Ronan), a precocious preteen writer; her older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley), Cambridge graduate and femme fatale; Robbie Turner (James McEvoy), the housekeeper's mensch-y son, who carries a torch for Cecilia; and various visitors and family members. A series of misperceptions, fueled by the summer heat and Briony's childish hurts and fevered imagination, lead to a dramatic false accusation that lands Robbie in jail. read more »