Tweek Recommends for the Week of April 3-9

So, I'm going to start a new weekly feature here. Welcome to "Tweek Recommends." I'm going to pick at least one movie a week to recommend to those movie-goers for the upcomming week. I'll usually try to do this on Mondays, but I just got the idea so this time it starts on a Tuesday.

Here's the rundown: I take a gander at the upcoming releases for the week, and select one wide and one limited release film. I'll give you a short synopysis of the film and its cast, and why I think it's a winner. Even if the list of options really blows, I'll give you at least one for those of you who just HAVE to see something THIS weekend. Don't worry, if I think even my top choice is going to suck, I'll tell you.

Whad' ya say we dive right in to our first installment.

Wide-Release Film
Lucky Number Slevin- Josh Harnett, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Sir Ben Kingsley, Lucy Liu. What seperates this movie from the competators is class. Now, I know some of you may jump right down my throat thinking that Take the Lead has lots of class. How can it not, it's about dancing. Different kind of class. I'm talking a classy film like Ocean's 11, or it's (disappointing) sequel. Take the classy dialogue and feel of that film and stamp that on a mobster film. Slevin (Harnett) finds himself mistakenly pulled into a mob war between The Boss (Freeman) and The Rabbi (Kingsley). The infamous assassin Goodkat (Willis) makes Slevin his new target. Slevin has to outsmart all sides to get himself outta all this mess, along side some random girl (Liu). You can check out the trailer for yourself here.

Limited-Release Film
Free Zone- Natalie Portman. Unlike some weeks, I really don't know a whole lot about this film. So, I'm gonna put up a plot summary I found here.

A Jewish-American woman still reeling from her breakup with her Spanish fiancée hits the road with a middle-aged Israeli woman, who is looking to collect the 30,000-dollar debt owed to her by her husband's former business partner, and a Palestinian woman, who claims to know the elusive moneyman's whereabouts, in this road-trip drama from Kippur director Amos Gitai. In her efforts to escape the painful memory of her breakup with former fiancée Julio (Aki Avni), Rebecca (Natalie Portman) agrees to accompany Hanna (Hanna Laslo) on her arduous journey through Israel to the Free Zone -- a tax- and customs-free region where those from countries at war with one another amiably buy and sell cars -- in hopes of collecting a large debt owed to her by her ailing husband's business partner known only as "The American." When Hanna and Rebecca finally arrive in the Free Zone only to discover that Hanna's contact and money have mysteriously gone missing, a Palestinian woman named Leila (Hiam Abbass) agrees to lead the skeptical Hanna to both "The American" and Hanna's rightly due cash.

Enjoy your week at the movies.