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ON SCREEN<br />
INTHEATRES<br />
YOUR MONTHLY GUIDE TO NEW RELEASES ✒ BY INGRID RANDOJA<br />
1<br />
september<br />
George Clooney kills people for a living in The American<br />
The American<br />
His graying hair and deepening<br />
wrinkles instill George Clooney<br />
with a certain world-weariness,<br />
appropriate for his role in this<br />
contemplative thriller. He plays<br />
Jack, a disillusioned assassin<br />
looking to finish his career with<br />
one final job. Waiting in the<br />
Italian countryside to fulfill<br />
the task, he falls in love with<br />
Clara (Violante Placido),<br />
a local woman who brings out<br />
his humanity, not a good thing<br />
when you’re a stone cold killer.<br />
14 FAMOUS SEPTEMBER 2010<br />
3<br />
september<br />
Machete<br />
Director Robert Rodriguez<br />
so loved the fake trailer he<br />
created for Grindhouse that<br />
he decided to turn it into a<br />
real feature. Danny Trejo<br />
stars as Machete, a killer<br />
who’s hired to slay a corrupt<br />
senator (Robert De Niro),<br />
but ends up on the run from<br />
a comely government agent<br />
(Jessica Alba). See Jessica<br />
Alba interview, page 20.<br />
10<br />
september<br />
Resident Evil: Afterlife’s Ali Larter (left) and Milla Jovovich<br />
Resident Evil: Afterlife<br />
The most successful<br />
videogame-to-movie<br />
franchise rolls out its fourth<br />
flick — this time in 3D —<br />
starring series stalwart<br />
Milla Jovovich as ruthless<br />
Never Let Me Go<br />
Three of Britain’s hottest<br />
20-something actors —<br />
Carey Mulligan, Keira<br />
Knightley and the newly cast<br />
Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield<br />
— bring Kazuo Ishiguro’s<br />
best-selling book to life. Three<br />
friends look back on their<br />
childhood when they attended<br />
the idyllic English private<br />
school Hailsham. However,<br />
their bucolic existence was<br />
full of secrets and lies that<br />
haunt them still.<br />
continued <br />
zombie killer Alice. Along with<br />
human survivor siblings Claire<br />
(Ali Larter) and Chris Redfield<br />
(Wentworth Miller), Alice fights<br />
all manner of undead when the<br />
trio infiltrates the underground<br />
lair of the Umbrella Corporation<br />
15<br />
september<br />
searching for its evil head<br />
honcho, Albert Wesker<br />
(Shawn Roberts). See Milla<br />
Jovovich interview, page 30.<br />
Altitude<br />
A teen pilot (Jessica Lowndes)<br />
takes four of her friends for a<br />
ride in her plane. When the<br />
weather turns nasty, they climb<br />
above the clouds and encounter<br />
a tentacled, supernatural<br />
creature who loves the taste of<br />
airplane food.<br />
Never Let Me Go’s school chums, from left: Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan<br />
SEPTEMBER 2010 FAMOUS 15
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