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" Fanged phenomenon "New Moon" and the leggy Sandra Bullock drama "The Blind Side" -- which finished No.

When it comes to war movies, Hollywood is strangely dogged. It doesn't matter how many post-9/11 war movies tank at the box office: The Hurt Locker, Stop-Loss, In The Valley Of Elah.

Ritz at the Bourse Posted on Thu, Dec. 3, 2009 Aloof 'Brothers' Good cast can't overcome miscast characters Daily News Film Critic Jim Sheridan's "Brothers" opens with a shot of a trouble-plagued young man walking out of prison on the day of his release.

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Associated Press Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal star in "Brothers" as, well, brothers.

In Jim Sheridan's "Brothers," it feels like the film's three young stars are playing house.

Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan has long been known as one of the top dramatic directors thanks to his early movies My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father as well as his most personal movie, In America , the three of them having collectively garnered him six Academy Awards nominations.

THE director Jim Sheridan approached his new film, "Brothers," with a Hippocratic attitude: "Do no harm," he said with a laugh.

Midway through a conversation with director Jim Sheridan about his latest film, "Brothers," he abruptly asks, "Do you think anybody will go see this movie?" Images View Larger Images I say what I think he wants to hear - that a cast led by Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal is sure to draw people.

Here's our latest take on the recent twists and turns on the derby track. BEST PICTURE The best-picture hopes of "Up in the Air" and "The Hurt Locker" got a boost from being the only two films backed by all 20 experts forecasting the Oscar nominees at The Envelope's Buzzmeter .

Just a few weeks after the release of Oren Moverman's The Messenger and its look at the soldiers who have to inform the loved ones of soldiers when they're killed in the line of duty, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jim Sheridan returns with his own version of Susanne Bier's Danish drama Brothers , starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie ...

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Poster for Brothers to be released on December 4, 2009 . According to pop-culture pundit Pete Hammond, Jim Sheridan, the director of the movie Brothers which is due in theaters December 4, 2009: ...received a tremendous ovation Sunday afternoon when he was introduced for a Q&A after a very well-received Directors Guild of America screening.

With Lionsgate understandably basking in the glow of this weekend's $1.8-million, $100,000-per-screen, record-shattering opening of "Precious," the already stratospheric Oscar buzz is likely to soar even higher.

Lionsgate has released a new trailer for theA family drama Brothers , which is directed by six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan , from a screenplay by David Benioff , and starsA Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Sam Shepard, Clifton Collins, Jr., Carey Mulligan, and Ethan Suplee .

Carey Mulligan received rave reviews for her role in An Education. Next up is Wall Street 2 for Oliver Stone, and Jim Sheridan's Brothers.

Director Shane Meadows has explored the British condition in a series of funny, moving, gritty movies, culminating in This Is England.

Emily Blunt ends TIFF with a flourish as Young Victoria. Many of the A-list talents have abandoned the city, leaving behind messy hotel rooms and dozens of juicy sound bites, not to mention some gorgeous photos.

Three hard-edged movies about young women screening this week at the Toronto film festival depart from Hollywood formulas by avoiding sentimental or romantic cliches that often define movies about teenagers.

"The five crying men stand at the fence, crying. 'Look at the sad, large rage of the doomed men,' they think.