See this year's Oscar nominees

See this year's Oscar nominees Image Baton Rougeans can catch four Oscar-nominated movies in town: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (13 nominations), Slumdog Millionaire (10 nominations), Revolutionary Road (4 nominations), and Frost/Nixon (4 nominations). If you’re up for the drive, Canal Place Cinema in New Orleans is screening Milk (7 nominations), and The Wrestler (2 nominations), and the Audubon Institute’s Entergy IMAX Theatre has re-released The Dark Knight (8 nominations).
Oscar nominees available now on DVD and Blu-ray include: The Dark Knight, Iron Man (2 nominations), In Bruges (1 nomination) and Man on Wire (1 nomination). (Photo by Ishika Mohan for Fox)

Invite trouble this Friday

Comedic actress Elizabeth Banks may have turned in a stellar performance as Laura Bush in W., but this week she continues to branch out as the baddie in this domestic horror flick, The Uninvited. Playing another in a long-line of evil stepmothers, Banks dupes David Straithairn and terrorizes her troubled teen stepchildren. Emily Browning and Ariel Kebbel co-star. Rated PG-13.
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Neeson gets Taken

What is it about Paris? According to the movies, Americans tend to lose their loved ones there. Much like Harrison Ford’s quest through the Parisian underworld to rescue his missing wife in Frantic, Taken finds Liam Neeson hunting for his kidnapped daughter in an equally unwelcoming City of Love. But as written by the great Luc Besson, Neeson’s character is not simply a doting dad. He is a former spy ready to kick some serious can to save his 17-year-old—played by Maggie Grace of Lost—before she is sold into the slave trade or worse. Famke Janssen, Xander Berkeley and Katie Cassidy co-star. Rated PG-13.

Viva Barcelona!

Woody does Spain, and he does it well. In Vicky Christina Barcelona, writer/director Woody Allen spins an unconventional love triangle between two eurotripping Americans—flighty Scarlett Johansson and mature Rebecca Hall—and the charismatic Bohemian artist—Javier Bardem—that woos them both. The artist intrigues each in different ways, but only one can have a meaningful relationship with him. The “winner,” though, will have to face the blunt force firecracker that his Bardem’s unstable ex-wife, Penelope Cruz. In a remarkable, Oscar-nominated performance, Cruz steals every scene she is in and elevates a decent film into a must-see picture. Rated R.

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