{"id":994,"date":"2007-09-21T05:19:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T04:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/09\/21\/the-cinema-review-death-proof-a-mighty-heart-michael-clayton-and-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T06:12:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T05:12:41","slug":"the-cinema-review-death-proof-a-mighty-heart-michael-clayton-and-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/09\/21\/the-cinema-review-death-proof-a-mighty-heart-michael-clayton-and-rocket-science\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cinema Review: Death Proof, A Mighty Heart, Michael Clayton and Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CR<\/a>This week we squeeze two week’s worth of reviews into one as we’ll be taking a break next week.<\/p>\n

But in the meantime we examine the following releases:<\/p>\n

OUT TODAY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Death Proof<\/a> <\/strong>– The latest film from Quentin Tarantino<\/a> starring Kurt Russell<\/a> as a stunt driver who stalks and kills women in his death-proof car. Originally part of ‘Grindhouse’<\/a> – as a double bill with Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror<\/a> – it has been released as a single film in Europe due to that project flopping in the US. About 20 mins extra footage has been added for this release.<\/p>\n

A Mighty Heart<\/a> <\/strong>– A film based on the book by Marianne Pearl<\/a> documenting the kidnap and murder of her reporter husband Daniel Pearl<\/a> in Pakistan by Islamic radicals in 2002. Angelina Jolie<\/a> plays Marianne Pearl, Dan Futterman<\/a> plays Danny and the Indian actor Irfan Khan<\/a> stars as ‘Captain’ the head of the Pakistan police force who try to find him. Michael Winterbottom<\/a> directs.<\/p>\n


\nOUT NEXT FRIDAY <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Brave One<\/a> <\/strong>– A vigilante drama starring Jodie Foster<\/a> as a New Yorker who takes the law into her own hands after being attacked one night. Terrence Howard<\/a> stars as the cop who has to investigate the case and Neil Jordan<\/a> directs.<\/p>\n

Halloween<\/a> <\/strong>– Rob Zombie<\/a> directs this remake of John Carpenter’s classic 1978 horror film<\/a> about a murderous escaped mental patient named Michael Myers<\/a>. This modern update delves more into Myers’ background and adds a lot of gore.<\/p>\n

Michael Clayton<\/a> <\/strong>– George Clooney<\/a> stars as a New York attorney who gets embroiled in a web of intrigue invloving his bosses and various shady characters. An impressive supporting cast includes Tilda Swinton<\/a>, Tom Wilkinson<\/a> and Sidney Pollack whilst the film is written and directed by Tony Gilroy<\/a> (best know for writing the Bourne movies).<\/p>\n

Rocket Science<\/a> <\/strong>– A quirky drama from director Jeffrey Blitz<\/a> who scored an unlikely hit on 2002 with the documentary Spellbound<\/a>. This is his feature film debut but it also deals with high school education as it follows a young student (Reece Thompson<\/a>) who joins his high school debating team desoite having a stutter.<\/p>\n

Listen to the review podcast here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/get.php?fla=podcast-2007-09-21-31450.MP3]\n

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\n> Check out other reviews of these films at Metacritic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week we squeeze two week’s worth of reviews into one as we’ll be taking a break next week. But in the meantime we examine the following releases: OUT TODAY Death Proof – The latest film from Quentin Tarantino starring Kurt Russell as a stunt driver who stalks and kills women in his death-proof car. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}