Movies This Week: Chloe Betrayed Red Riding, Mother

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There is life after SXSW, and it looks like a lot of movies waited until our attention wasn't drawn to the fest. Several films are opening this week, so you have plenty to choose from.

Chloe -- Take a stale marriage and an attractive escort, throw in Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, and Amanda Seyfried, who headline the cast of Atom Egoyan's latest. Remember Where the Truth Lies? (wide)

Formosa Betrayed -- Inspired by actual events, an FBI agent is entangled in a murder investigation that involves the U.S. State Department, the Chinese Mafia and the Nationalist Chinese Government. The cast includes James Van Der Beek, Wendy Crewson and John Heard. (Galaxy Highland)

Greenberg -- New Yorker housesitting for his LA brother "sparks with his brother's assistant."  That's what the plot outline says, folks.  Mumblecore Queen Greta Gerwig stars opposite Ben Stiller. Jette has more details in her review. (Alamo Lamar, Arbor)

Hot Tub Time Machine --  So this hot tub is a time-travel device taking four hapless and unhappy guys back to the 1980s. If you're going to go back to that time, I guess a hot tub makes sense. Heard it's pretty raunchy, and along the lines of The Hangover. Debbie can tell you more in her review. (wide)

How to Train Your Dragon -- Animated tale of a young Viking who adopts a dragon instead of killing one. The voice cast is chock full of recognizable names. (wide)

Mother -- The highly anticipated followup by The Host's director Joon-Ho Bong. This time he takes on the revenge thriller, with a grieving mother searching for the killers who framed her son. I suspect hell hath no fury like a mom protecting her kid. (Alamo Lamar, Arbor)

Red Riding Trilogy -- A crime drama trilogy with three different directors brings David Peace's Red Riding trilogy to life as adapted for the screen by Tony Grisoni. SXSWitis made me miss mentioning Red Riding: 1974 last week, but you can catch it On Demand (on TWC channel 1000).  Red Riding: 1980 (dir. James Marsh) and Red Riding: 1983 (dir. Anand Tucker) round out the 14-year story of child abductions and police corruption. If the directors don't grab your attention, how about the impressive cast including Peter Mullan, Paddy Considine, James Fox, Sean Bean and David Morrissey? (Dobie)

Check our event calendar for special film events, and our personal picks below. Don't forget you can always alert us to special screenings, new film series, etc.

Jenn -- Red Riding, definitely. 

Jette -- Alamo's Cinema Club is showing the classic 1935 Bride of Frankenstein at Ritz on Sunday night. Who could possibly resist?

Debbie -- I need something to get the bad taste in my mouth after seeing Hot Tub Time Machine. An old classic would be perfect -- ditto on Jette's suggestion.