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Love And Other Drugs
Jake Gyllenhaal graduates to bona fide romantic lead in this audacious love story from director Edward Zwick. Such is the on-screen chemistry between the former indie darling, who plays a womanising salesman, and co-star Anne Hathaway, as a vibrant, but chronically ill artist, the Oscar buzz is building.
Blue Valentine
Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling duke it out in this lacerating drama from director Derek Cianfrance. The film charts the devolution of a romance, with poignant flashbacks to the salad days, when he was a knight in shining armour and she was an A-grade student with a medical career in her sights.The King's Speech
The oft-told story of Edward and his abdication is relegated to the back seat in this drama about his brother George's Herculean struggle with a stutter after he inherits the throne. Its appeal rests on the interplay between Colin Firth's tortured royal and Geoffrey Rush’s eccentric Antipodean therapist.
Hollywood might be willing to take a gamble year-round, but all bets are off in the awards-ready month of December. Spy thriller The Tourist, starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, has churned through three directors and five stars. Jolie replaced Charlize Theron to join Depp, who replaced Sam Worthington (who took over from Tom Cruise). The studio is banking on its bankable stars - Depp, whose films have chalked up $6 billion globally, and Jolie, who raked in $290 million with Salt - to thrust The Tourist into awards contention. The Tourist (Sony) is in cinemas December 26.
This month's best DVDs
- Father/daughter team Barry and Miranda Otto star in the drama South Solitary.
- See why women do it better in the action thriller Salt, starring Angelina Jolie.
- Get sucked in to the bloodiest love triangle in Eclipse, the third instalment of the Twilight saga.
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