Don’t you sort of hate when people call, “Oscar shoo-in!” months before they’ve seen the film? It strikes us as a little irrational. With that said, Angelina Jolie and Clint Eastwood in a dramatic period-piece (1920s Los Angeles) about a mother whose abducted son is seemingly returned to her by the LAPD which she suspects is not her own?
Gotta admit, it does smell like Oscar-bait all over. After being vilified as an unfit mother, [Jolie] confronts the city authorities and corruption in the L.A.P.D in order to find out the truth. Cinematical has the new poster. We’ll see it at the New York Film Festival shortly. We kinda find Eastwood’s staid and simple filmmaking a little tediuous after a while and films like “Million Dollar Baby” and “Mystic River” don’t really hold up for us on multiple viewings outside of being stock dramas, but Jolie can be hot fire on the acting tip as witnessed in “A Mighty Heart” last year. We’re tentatively looking forward to this one.
