No Country for Old Men

Rating: 15A
Running Time: 2h 15mins
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Woody Harrelson
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Genre: Crime/Drama/Western
Released in Eye: 18/01/08
Nominated for four Golden Globes.

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande.

'There Are No Clean Getaways'

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Rating: 15A
Running Time: 3hrs
Cast: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeremy Renner
Director: Andrew Dominik
Genre: Biography/Crime/ Drama/Western
Released in Eye: 18/01/08

Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck star in this character-driven account of the last days of the fabled former Confederate outlaw.

Highly regarded as a charismatic, spiritual, larger-than-life bad man, Jesse James' bloody exploits captured the fascination and admiration of a nation transfixed with its hunger for antiheroes.

Robert Ford was a young impressionable, torn between dedicated worship and murderous jealousy of his criminally rampaging idol. He was 'the coward' who coveted Jesse's legend and sought to subsume his notoriety.

Andrew Dominick directs the powerfully objective story of their interweaving paths told in a tapestry of Terrence Malick-esque cinematography amidst the backdrop of a country still convalescing from the wounds of a war that romanticized the train and bank-robbing rebel.

'Masterful. Casey Affleck is a revelation'.