Movies to look forward to for the cold months

>> Movies to look forward to for the cold months

Montreal Mirror

January 11,2007



by MARK SLUTSKY

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Let’s be honest here: the winter’s never really been considered the choicest season for moviegoers. Sandwiched between the Oscar-friendly fall and holiday rush and the money-mad summer season, poor old winter’s got the reputation of being the studios’ dumping ground for duds. But maybe that rep is undeserved. After all, when films open towards the end of the year to qualify for the Oscars, they usually do so in limited release, expanding to other markets, like our own, in January. And studios often dump the weirder movies they don’t know what to do with in this comparatively less crowded period in the hopes they might just luck into an audience.

War stories

Another war drama, albeit one set a couple millennia before, is director Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel 300. Set in the fifth century B.C., the movie tells of the 300 soldiers chosen to defend Greece against the invading Persian army. Gerard Butler plays King Leonidas and The Wire’s Dominic West shows up too (Feb.).




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