200709262145Fully 60% of all the open­ing films this week are at the Para­mount: first up indie thrill­er Unknown has a great ensemble cast includ­ing James Caviezel, Greg Kin­near and Barry Pep­per. It’s a riddle of a thrill­er as five guys wake up locked in a deser­ted ware­house unable to remem­ber what happened or which of them are the good guys and which are the bad­dies. A gas leak has caused mul­tiple amne­sia and the race is one to work out who is the kid­nap­per and who the kid­napped. By all accounts there are plenty of twists which make this a thrill­er to get the old brain box going.

The rest of this week’s new cinema releases after the jump.

Also at the Para­mount is the Aus­sie micro-budget video Five Moments of infi­del­ity, the story of five dif­fer­ent Mel­bourne rela­tion­ships con­nec­ted, or broken apart, by lies. Return­ing from the Fest­iv­al is anoth­er low-budget drama shot on video, Stephanie Daley star­ring Tilda Swin­ton. From the Fest­iv­al pro­gramme: “A shy 16-year-old Chris­ti­an girl, played with tent­at­ive grace by Amber Tamblyn, is accused of killing her new­born baby. But did she even know of her preg­nancy? Tilda Swin­ton, in a mem­or­able powered-down per­form­ance, is the preg­nant forensic psy­cho­lo­gist sent to inter­view her.”

For fans of explo­sions and inan­ity we have the not-much-awaited Rush Hour 3, reunit­ing Jack­ie Chan and Chris Tuck­er as “the broth­ers from anoth­er mother”, this time caus­ing may­hem in Par­is with Roman Polanski. Read­ings, Regent-on-Man­ners and Sky City Queens­gate

Finally get­ting a release (it was prom­ised and then delayed a few weeks ago) is the great doc­u­ment­ary Deep Water, ostens­ibly about the first solo round-the-world yacht race in 1969 but actu­ally about the extraordin­ary lengths human beings can go to to escape from them­selves. Highly recom­men­ded, screen­ing at the Pent­house only.

Deep Water and Five Moments are reviewed at Funer­als & Snakes; the oth­ers will appear next Wed­nes­day (and in print in the Cap­it­al Times).