“The Walker”
The middle-aged, impeccably coiffed and tailored son of the South, played by Woody Harrelson, may pick up occasional commissions as a real estate agent in Washington, D.C., but — as a police detective explains when Carter becomes a person of great interest in a murder — his true vocation is that of a “walker.” Such is the name for handsome men who squire the well-connected ladies of the Beltway hither (fundraiser) and yon (yawn-inducing soiree) while their husbands broker power. Lynn, the wife of a senator (Willem Dafoe) and the socialite closest to Carter, drags him into her drama when her lover is found brutally murdered. R. 1 hour, 48 minutes. Lisa Kennedy
“Cassandra’s Dream”
“Cassandra’s Dream” is an old-fashioned essay on crime and guilt, in an old-fashioned as in fuddy-duddy kind of way. Blue-collar brothers Ian and Terry are determined to buy their way to the good life, or at least live beyond their means. Ian works in the family’s failing restaurant and schemes at being a global hotel investor. Terry is a mechanic who gambles and figures he’ll ride a winning streak to Easy Street. We meet them as they’re overextending themselves, closing the deal on an old, used sailboat. They have dinghy budgets, but they’re dreaming of yachts. But like the prophetic Cassandra, we sense their ruin early on. PG-13. 1 hour, 45 minutes Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel
“Darfur Now”
“Darfur Now” charts the efforts of six very different individuals to fight the genocide and aid the victimized people of one of Africa’s worst contemporary tragedies. And while their efforts are clearly passionate, the dry and diffuse way that they’re presented in this well-meaning documentary tends to dampen, rather than spread, the fervor. The film shows how the Sudanese government encourages Arab militias to rape, kill and pillage across the desert nation’s western provinces, driving its black inhabitants into squalid refugee camps where they’re barely any safer. PG. 1 hour, 39 minutes Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Daily News
