Your new offerings showed up on Wednesday this week because, well, that’s the way the studios do it, bowing to Thanksgiving. And there are a lot of them. You might want to parcel them out some instead of taking them all in with a movie-o-rama. The next few weeks are quiet, as far as openings go because, well, that’s the way studios do it, bowing to the Christmas run-up.
In any case, there are five newbies vying for the attention of Syracusans.
Judy Dench stars as “Philomena,” the story of a mother who’s determined to go anywhere the clues take her to find the son she was forced to give up decades ago, back in the days when young, unwed pregnant women were forced to live in a convent and then give up their babies. She travels from the United Kingdom to the United States, followed reluctantly by recently laid-off political journalist Martin Sixsmith, played by Steve Coogan. Coogan also gets top writing credit, and Steven Frears directs the drama, which is sprinkled with humorous cross-cultural observations.
