| By KC Ifeanyi Moving Pictures magazine is pleased to offer February 2008's DVD release dates. The first week this month brings a broad selection from the big screen. Check back with us as we bring you the next weeks. Also, check out the links on select films for exclusive MPM extras. February 5
2 Days in Paris
A New York couple (Julie Delpy and Adam Goldberg) travels to Europe in an attempt to put the passion back into their relationship. When their week in Venice doesn't go over so well, the turbulent twosome hope their last two days in Paris will reignite their romance. Across the Universe
Director Julie Taymor's visionary film uses popular Beatles songs to tell a moving story set in the ‘60s. Jude (Jim Sturguss) crosses the pond from England to America and falls for the conservative Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood). From then on, Jude and Lucy's romantic endeavors are indelibly challenge by the Vietnam War and the changing times. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Andrew Dominik's film delves into the true story behind a legend's downfall. Robert Ford was once Jesse James's greatest admirer, until, that is, his attempts to join Jesse's band of outlaws does not go as expected. Indirectly, Jesse has created an enemy, an enemy who will eventually become his assassin. (see MPM's movie review) The Brave One
Jodie Foster gives a powerhouse performance in Neil Jordan's film about a woman who seeks revenge against the gang of thugs who killed her fiancé. Descent
Rosario Dawson stars as Maya, a college student who is brutally raped and must try and put the pieces of her life back together. (see MPM's video interview with Rosario Dawson) Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Cate Blanchett slips back into her timeless character, Queen Elizabeth I, and reunites with Geoffrey Rush for the sequel to Shekhar Kapur's 1998 Oscar-winning film Elizabeth. The Golden Age focuses on the controversial relationship between Elizabeth and the adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen), and also the assassination conspiracy against her. Feast of Love
An ensemble cast, including Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear and Selma Blair, stars in writer/director Robert Benson's film that explores the dynamics of love. In a small Oregon town, local professor Harry Stevenson (Freeman) notices intricate love connections forming among his friends and neighbors.
Fierce People
In order to get off drugs and get her life back on track, struggling masseuse Liz (Diane Lane) and her 16-year-old son Finn move into the guesthouse on the massive estate of one of her ex-clients (Donald Sutherland). Both Liz and her son become swept up in the savage world of the opulent and must band together after a shocking act of violence puts them on the outs with their hosts. The Jane Austen Book Club
Six Californians unite to form a Jane Austen book club and slowly realize their relationships resemble new-age versions of the acclaimed author's most famous characters. When a Man Falls in the Forest
Housewife Karen (Sharon Stone) has realized her marriage is failing and indulges in forbidden acts of passion. When her husband Gary (Timothy Hutton) learns of her illicit activities, he hits the bottle hard as the world as he knows it is systematically ripped to shreds. February 12, 2008
Becoming Jane
Anne Hathaway stars as the acclaimed author Jane Austen in Julian Jarrold's romantic film. Twenty-year-old Austen is striving to become an author as her parents try to push the eligible bachelor Mr. Wisley (Laurence Fox) on her. Uninterested in his charms, Jane begins to notice the young Irish law student Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy).
Blue State
Staunch liberal John Logue (Breckin Meyer) follows through on his drunken promise to move to Canada if John Kerry loses the 2004 presidential election. He's not traveling alone, however, when he meets up with the sexy stranger Chole (Anna Paquin).
Gone Baby Gone
When four-year-old Amanda McCready goes missing, Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan), two Boston area detectives, risk their business and relationship once they accept the case and hit the dirty streets to find the girl. (see MPM's movie review and interviews with the director Ben Affleck and his leads Casey Affleck and Amy Ryan) I Could Never Be Your Woman
Amy Heckerling directs this romantic comedy starring Michelle Pfeiffer as Rosie, a single mother who, against her better judgment, falls for the much younger Adam (Paul Rudd). Rosie not only has to deal with the complications of her love life, but her daughter Izzie's (Saoirse Ronan) as well. Not to mention the meddling inclinations of Mother Nature (Tracey Ullman). In the Shadow of the Moon
David Sington's documentary features the surviving astronauts of NASA's Apollo missions 11-17 recounting their outer-space adventures. Introducing the Dwights
Introverted Tim (Khan Chittenden) has found the perfect girlfriend. However, love couldn't have come at more inopportune time now that his very extroverted ex-comedienne of a mother (Brenda Blethyn) is planning a comeback, making for quite an interesting home life.
Martian Child
Recently widowed science-fiction author David Gordon (John Cusak) forms a fatherly relationship with an extremely eccentric boy who claims to be from Mars. No Reservations
Master chef Kate Armstrong's (Catherine Zeta-Jones) ultra-organized life is thrown a curveball when her sister is suddenly killed in a car accident, leaving her daughter, Zoe (Abigail Breslin), in the care of her aunt. Adding to the disruption of her sacrosanct life, Kate must also deal with Nick Palmer (Aaron Eckhart), the new, free-spirited, sous chef. Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?
Director/actor/playwright Tyler Perry takes his comedic creation about four couples on vacation in Colorado from the stage to the big screen. When one couple's infidelities are unearthed, everyone else begins to question their relationships, asking the question, "Why did I get married?" We Own the Night
It's 1988 in Brooklyn and two brothers stand on opposite sides of the law: Bobby (Joaquin Phoenix) is a well-known drug dealer and Joe (Mark Wahlberg) is following in their father's footsteps as a police officer. After a devastating incident, Bobby has to decide where his loyalties truly lie - with his blood family or his drug clan. (Phoenix fans, for a revealing interview with Joaquin Phoenix, click HERE.) | 
