Can't wait to watch the DVR'd second episode of The Americans tonight. The FX show had a snazzy, crackling pilot last week, with Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys both excellent as the KGB agents posing as Beltway suburbanites in 1980. Kudos too for the casting of the reliable excellent, deceptively chummy character actor Noah Emmerich (The Truman Show, Little Children, Super 8, Frequency) as the government agent who becomes their new - and understandably suspiscious - neighbor. There is a lot of fertile material here for a good show. Creator Joseph Weisberg's show also made the best TV or cinematic use - at least, in memory - of any song off the critically divisive, bloated Fleetwood Mac double-disc album Tusk from 1979.
New Movies Opening This Weekend:
Identity Thief This should be a slam-dunk: Director Seth Gordon - who made the great doc The King of Kong before segueing into comedies like Four Christmases and Horrible Bosses - re-teams with Jason Bateman (playing a straight man who has his identity nabbed), but this is a showcase for Melissa McCarthy, as the big, loud thief who goes on a cross-country odyssey with Bateman. It doesn't seem like anyone actually likes this film, though. Too bad!
Side Effects If this does prove to be Steven Soderbergh's last film - and the whirlwind, genre-hopping director said that it is - it seems like it's going to be a good swan song. Critics are wild about it. It's an expose of the medical industry and antidepressants, a thriller with plenty of twists, and a moving drama about a woman (played by Rooney Mara) lost in the world. Mara is a wealthy NYC wife whose husband (Channing Tatum) has just gotten out of prison for insider trading. Soon enough, the ever-depressed Mara starts seeing a shrink (Jude Law) and... well, I guess, we have to see the film. Co-starring Catherine-Zeta Jones, Mamie Gummer (yay!), and Vinessa Shaw. Written by Scott Z. Burns, who also penned the script for Soderbergh's just-okay Contagion.
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