This Week On Sky Box Office
This week on Sky Box Office we've got movies galore as many a fine title makes it's debut onto the schedule including Ridley Scott's true-life crime epic American Gangster, plus you could win a trip to New York! Feeling lucky?!... We've teamed up with The Sun Online and Universal Pictures to give one lucky movie fan the chance to win a trip to New York, the back drop to the epic film American Gangster now showing on Sky Box Office.
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And now to the movie itself! Director Ridley Scott puts the Oscar-weight tag team of Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe through their paces in riveting, true-life crime epic, American Gangster. Washington plays Frank Lucas, the Harlem druglord whose rise to power in the 1970s hit two major snags: the end of the war in Vietnam and the dogged work of incorruptible New Jersey cop Richie Roberts (Crowe). Dramatically and technically, Scott's excellent production means business.
Next up is The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising After moving to a quiet English village, young American Will Stanton learns that he is 'The Seeker', a key player in the battle between good and evil. With new powers and older friends, Will must travel through time to gather six signs before the diabolical Rider (Christopher Eccleston) can unleash the powers of darkness.
Ian McShane plays the wise old head guiding Will's young shoulders as Trainspotting writer John Hodge takes Susan Cooper's fantasy adventure novel for a Quantum Leap.
Monica Ali's vivid novel of the immigrant experience in London's East End is exquisitely brought to the big screen in Brick Lane . Tannishtha Chatterjee plays the demure Indian mother-of-two who finds her passion inflamed by Christopher Simpson's young British Moslem. Indian star Satish Kaushik delivers a delicious turn as the pompous, cuckolded husband. Newcomer Sarah Gavron directs with a sure hand.
The Pledge and Crossing Guard director, Sean Penn, steps behind the camera again to tell the far more heart-warming, if not slightly haunting true story of Christopher McCandless in Into The Wild , a young man who ups and leaves his safe, middle-class life in order to live in the wild, free from the shackles of man and the rat race he was supposed to excel in. Emile Hirsch surpasses expectations as the wandering McCandless, supported by a stellar cast and Penn's wonderful use of Uncle Sam's windblown back yard.
See below for the full listings from 12th - 18th May:
American Gangster
Into The Wild
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
Brick Lane
Black Sheep
3.10 To Yuma
Saw IV
Rendition
Brothers Solomon
Stardust
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Eastern Promises
The Invasion
Run Fat Boy Run
Resident Evil Extinction
Michael Clayton
Mr Brooks
The Heartbreak Kid
Beowulf
The Kingdom
Captivity
Mr Brooks
Atonement
