Star-studded Friday

First you need to decide who you’d love to spend this coming Friday with. You may join Brad Pitt and George Clooney, or make it a girl night with Eva Mendes and Jada Pinkett Smith, or hang out with Robert De Niro and 50 Cent. I know it takes time to make up your mind so you can read about all these three great flicks opening this Friday before making your final choice.

Burn After Reading by Academy Award winners brothers Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country For Old Men) was first presented on August 27 at 2008 Venice Film Festival and now hits theatres Friday. The film has an all-star cast of George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, and Brad Pitt, and tells a story of a CIA analyst (John Malkovich) who quits the agency because of his drinking problem and starts writing memoirs about his work.

His wife copies all files from his computer including the work-in-progress memoirs. Eventually, the disk finds itself in hands of an unscrupulous gym employee (Brad Pitt) who decides to blackmail the agent. Brad Pitt’s character, by the way, has an incredibly stupid haircut.

Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Debra Messing, Bette Midler, Carrie Fisher, and others star in The Women, a comedy that leads you into the world of women and their friendships. The film centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at beauty salons and haunting fashion shows. Meg Ryan’s character Mary is happily married and has her true friends, at least that’s what she thinks her life to be.

Everything is perfectly fine in her life till the day she finds out her husband cheating on her with a shop girl (Eva Mendes). Naturally, this situation becomes the hot talk among Mary’s bitchy friends, especially her best friend and main gossip girl Sylvia Fowler (Annette Bening). Will their friendship endure the trial?

Is judicial system always right accusing some people and acquitting others? That’s the question behind Righteous Kill, starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and 50 Cent. NYCP detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan (De Niro and Pacino) investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they investigated years before.

As the investigation later reveals, the killer targets criminals that have not been punished by the system though being apparently guilty. The detectives think back to their earlier case asking themselves if they put the wrong man behind bars.

Enjoy your star-studded Friday night!

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