Into the Wild, Eastern Promises, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. The latter of the three is the weakest, which itself gives you an idea of how strong the other two are.

Into the Wild I had to see for TheCinemaSource. I saw the other two on my own time over the weekend, but since we didn't have anybody go to an advance screening of those, I wrote the review for them, too. They're all direct-linked above.

I won't ramble here about what makes them great. Jesse James has a running time of nearly three hours going against it, so for an average night out you might want to go to one of the other two. But seriously. Check these out.

...I'm back to help you sort out the crap from the good stuff. I haven't posted in a while, so here's what you've been missing out on:

• My 3:10 to Yuma review, which is extremely positive because the movie is awesome.
• My Richard Gere interview for The Hunting Party, and yes, I actually did meet him this time. Very polished sort of guy, although we got a little off track when he started talking about Buddhism.
  
• My December Boys review, which is mediocre but very pretty. Er, the movie, not my review. Oddly enough that's also a description many people use for me.
• My Mr. Woodcock review, which is extremely negative. If you don't think I write enough pans, then read this.
• My The Brave One review. This one's complicated. But long story short, the movie's atrocious.
  

I mentioned DVD reviews in one of my earlier posts, and sure enough, the Bones: Season 2 and 30 Rock: Season 1 reviews should be coming up very soon. Neither shows are totally perfect, but both impressed me enough to check when their new season premieres are scheduled for. Bones in particular is way more entertaining than I thought it would be.

As for theatrical reviews, the next one up will be Into the Wild. I'm also really curious about Eastern Promises, the new Viggo Mortensen-David Cronenberg collaboration that also stars Naomi Watts. It got a great reaction at the Toronto Film Festival and it's doing freakishly good business in limited release now; it opens in over 1,000 theaters next week.

I got some random stuff for y'all this week: a Rob Zombie interview (for directing Halloween, of course, which broke the Labor Day Weekend box office record) and a DVD review of 300, which I had never seen until tonight.

Yeah, it's about a month late in going up, but we've been slacking on DVD releases as of late in order to keep up with all the theatrical summer movies. The good news is that I watched it, wrote the review, uploaded it up on TheCinemaSource.com, and am now telling you about it all in a span of about three and a half hours. Yeah, pretty awesome, I know. Definitely worthy of bragging about.

We should be a well-oiled machine soon, by the way, over at TheCinemaSource. We recently got the trailer page, which had been laying dormant for a few months, back up to speed, and I've got more DVD reviews coming soon as well. (What's more, it's September, which means we should soon have a small pool of college interns to do our dirty work for us.)

The next thing you'll probably see is my 3:10 to Yuma review, on Friday, and let me tell you right now: go see that movie. Seriously. It's great.