December is here and that means we can look forward to plenty of new releases timed specifically for awards consideration. The coming weeks will be chock full of Oscar bait from Brokeback Mountain and Memoirs of a Geisha to Munich and The New World. And that doesn’t even take into account wanna be blockbusters like The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Producers, Fun With Dick and Jane and, of course, some little movie about a big ape. And those are just the major studio releases.
But that’s got nothing to do with this weekend. The only major studio release is the apparently not-good-enough-for-critics Aeon Flux. Hopefully that will leave some space for a smaller new release like TransAmerica. It definitely leaves time and room for the rest of the great programming around NYC.
And isn’t that just a perfect lead-in for my “Weekend Movies” post at Gothamist?
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