Happy Thanksgiving all! We’ll be back two more weekends concluding our series this semester. You’ll have Vicky Cristina Barcelona, (500) Days of Summer, Reservoir Dogs, Inglorious Bastards to look forward to.

How about some Thanksgiving movie recommendations then:

  1. Scent Of A Woman a classic with Al Pacino (who won an Oscar for his role in this movie), Chris O’Donnell and Gabrielle Anwar (from Burn Notice). Directed by Martin Brest (also nominated for an Oscar).
  2. Hannah and her Sisters with Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, Michael Caine, Diane Wiest, Carrie Fisher. Directed by Woody Allen. This 1986 drama about three sisters is considered to be one of Allen’s very best.
  3. The Ice Storm with “Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, and Joan Allen excelling in their roles, but its the younger actors,  Christina Ricci, Tobey Maguire, Elijah Wood, Adam Hann-Byrd who steal the show.” Directed by Ang Lee.
  4. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Animated. Awww!
  5. Home for the Holidays with Holly Hunter, Robert Downey, Jr., Dylan McDermott and Claire Danes in Jodie Foster’s directorial debut.

Feel like going to the movies, instead of a tryptophan-induced sofa-lounging DVD? Opening Big this Thanksgiving Weekend:

  1. The Road based on Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce and Charlize Theron.
  2. Ninja Assassin starring RAIN. What more do you need to know? RAIN.
  3. Planet 51 cute animated movie, voiced by Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Gary Oldman, Seann William Scott and John Cleese. Directed by Jorge Blanco.
  4. The Princes and the Frog is Walt Disney’s highly-anticipated animated twist on the “Prince & The Frog” fairty tale. Directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, who also created The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.
  5. Fantastic Mr. Fox The Roald Dahl story with multi-generational appeal. Voiced by George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray. Directed by Wes Anderson.
  6. The Blind Side is the remarkable true story of Michael Oher, pro-footballer for the Baltimore Ravens. Starring Sandra Bullock and directed by John Lee Hancock.
  7. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans “A singular masterpiece of filmmaking: equally sad and manically humorous”. Said to be a powerful performance by Nicholas Cage. Also starring Eva Mendes. Directed by Werner Herzog. (Apparently not a remake of  Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant starring Harvey Keitel).
  8. Red Cliff “Featuring some impressively grand battlefield action, Director John Woo returns to Asia and returns to form in the process for this lavish and slick historical epic.” Starring Tony Leung.

As for us, we’ll be tucking into some All About Eve. It was showing on the plane on the way back home, and wowzer was it good. Taught us not to pass it over just because its black & white.

Enjoy the Turkey Jumbos!