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This month gave a beam of hope to those desperate for gender equality on screen. The two top films for the April 5-7 weekend were thrillers starring women: David Fincher's Panic Room, with Jodie Foster besieged by three burglars, and Carl Franklin's High Crimes, in which lawyer Ashley Judd defends her enigmatic husband in a high-stakes court-martial. This week in Murder by Numbers, Sandra Bullock plays a cop on a homicide investigation that points to two brilliant teenagers. And on Memorial Day weekend, Jennifer Lopez provides a Star Wars alternative with the spousal revenge drama...
...chosen for the National Film Registry of great movies; as Enough director Michael Apted says, "This ain't Chekhov." They may not always pass the plausibility test. But these films do let audiences see top actresses playing strong characters. "People want to root for their favorite female stars," Foster says. "Audiences don't want a woman just to be the sister-of, daughter-of, wife-of. This proves they're not only open to, but absolutely behind, the idea of a woman going through some terrible danger and finding the gumption and the brawn to fight against...
...characters in the current thriller trio get where they're going by tapping into who they've been. Foster's Meg Altman is a mom; her mission is to defend her diabetic child. Judd's Claire Kubik in High Crimes is a lawyer; she needs all her skills of persuasion and stubbornness to fight what looks like a military conspiracy...
...SURVEILLANCE In the movie, Jodie Foster monitors the bad guys on a bank of closed-circuit TVs. In real life, the video feeds would likely be channeled to one screen. In the film, the surveillance cameras are easily spotted; usually they are camouflaged...
...reach their paintball holy land. The CI and HSS members were able to put their philosophical discussions to the side for a few hours once little balls of liquid began whizzing past their heads and the adrenaline started flowing. “Nothing like ducking crossfire to foster male bonding,” said Gowda...