The Story of Peter Rabbit
A pair of PG films are new this week, including the family fantasy epic Bridge to Terabithia, where artistically inclined fifth graders create a magical world to rule as king and queen, and the story of Beatrix Potter (Renee Zellweger: Bridget Jones's Diary, Cold Mountain), whose struggles lead her to create the beloved Peter Rabbit, in Miss Potter. The PG-13 romantic comedy this week is Gray Matters starring Heather Graham (Say It Isn't So, Boogie Nights) in the story of a brother and sister who both fall for the same woman.
The cast of Reno 911! join up for a feature film in Reno 911: Miami, which allows the TV show to stretch out in an R-rated fashion. Shaun of the Dead's Simon Pegg teams up with Friends' David Schimmer in the caper comedy The Big Nothing, and an unpopular girl is rescued from her unattended eighteenth birthday party by a rogue pizza delivery driver in Pizza. Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, and more commemorate an early-70's wildman in The Life & Hard Times of Guy Terrifico, the mocumentary about a legend told by the performers who were(n't) actually there. The newest entry in the AfterDark Horror series is The Abandoned, a classically atmospheric ghost story set in an abandoned Russian farmhouse, and was one of the 8 Films To Die For.
We have two new additions to the Television New Release section, both the complete Kitchen Confidential (by the creator of Sex & The City), and the first season of BBC's Lovejoy, staring Ian McShane (Deadwood's Al Swearengen).
