NICOLE Kidman's many Australian fans can expect two films in as many weeks from the Oz star: Margot at the Wedding this week and The Invasion next.
Then, as Nicole and family wait for the birth of her first child expected mid-year her fans will be waiting until November for the birth of her next film: Australia, directed by Baz Luhrmann and co-starring Hugh Jackman.
In Margot at the Wedding, Nicole has the title role. And, no, it's not Margot's wedding but that of her sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), with Jack Black as the impending bridegroom (most unsuitable, according to the acid-tongued Margot).
As the two ultra-competitive sisters virtually hate each other, there are plenty of verbal fireworks in this comedy/drama written and directed by Noah Baumbach.
More on Nicole's next film, The Invasion, co-starring James Bond (Daniel Craig) in your Leadernext week.
There are plenty of verbal fireworks in The Bucket List when billionaire Edward Cole (a wonderful Jack Nicholson) finds a black mechanic (Morgan Freeman) sharing his two-bed hospital room.
The two will become good friends, checking off items on their "bucket list" things to do before kicking the bucket. The film is warm and funny with an emotional kick.
Don't expect warmth and humour in Rambo, rated R, produced by, written by, directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone. Yes, folks, at 61 and a year after reprising his Rocky Balboa role for the seventh time,the Italian Stallion is back playing John Rambo for the fourth time rumbling in the jungle reprising the role he first played in 1982 in First Blood,
which of course was followed by First Blood Part II (1985) and Rambo III in 1988, now, the Vietnam vet is back for the fourth time.
In the new Rambo, Stallone is rumbling in the jungles of Myanmar (formally Burma), where the film is officially banned.
According to one internet site, there are more killings in this film than any of the previous three with an average 2.59 killings per minute!
For the second time in his career, Michael Caine is appearing in a movie version of Anthony Shaffer's clever stage thriller, Sleuth, but with one big difference.
In 1972, he played the young lover of the wife of an older man, a mystery writer played by Laurence Olivier. This time around Caine is playing the older role with Jude Law as the brash young lover.
After eight previous pairings, brother and sister actors John and Joan Cusack are back together in their ninth film, an appealing drama called Martian Child, rated PG.
The John half of the Cusacks plays a widowed science fiction writer who is considering adopting an orphan boy named Dennis (Bobby Coleman) who, at the tender age of six, fervantly believes he is from Mars.
Freddie Highmore, who was Charlie in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory turned sixteen just last week and stars this week a a teen musician in August Rush, a sentimental drama in which the boy hopes to use the magic of music to find and reunite the parents he has never known.
Give the name August Rush by a Fagin-style character (the film is full of links to Oliver Twist) the boy joins other kids as semi-professional buskers in New York where his parents. who knew each other only for the brief fling that resulted in his birth, might just all meet up together.
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