Films – New Releases

Movies, Films, call ‘em what you will, we all watch a lot of them, and talk about them afterward. See what The New Current’s team of writers thinks of the movies they just saw below.

Slumdog Millionaire

What I feel for this movie isn’t just admiration, it’s mad love. And I couldn’t be more surprised. The plot reeks of uplift: An illiterate slum kid from Mumbai goes on the local TV version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and comes off like a brainiac. Who wants to see that? Final answer: You do

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It’s the Age of a Child Who Grows From a Man

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” which occupies around 25 pages in the collected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a slender piece of whimsy, a charming fantasy about a man who ages in reverse, descending through the years from newborn senescence to terminal infancy.

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The Wrestler: Mickey Rourke’s Comeback

Of all of the films that have appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival, no film has been more anticipated by critics then Darren Aronofsky’s film, “The Wrestler”. After winning the Golden Lion at Venice, curiosity was peaked about whether it really was this year’s “Million Dollar Baby”.

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‘Milk’ is amazing!

Sean Penn and Gus Van Sant have a proposition for us: a biopic dedicated to the memory of San Francisco activist and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, who was murdered by a fellow supervisor in 1978.

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