Eastern Promises posterViggo Mortensen reunites with dir­ect­or Dav­id Cronen­berg (A His­tory of Viol­ence) for the acclaimed new drama East­ern Prom­ises, set deep in the under­belly of present day Lon­don among the vicious Rus­si­an mafia. Naomi Watts plays a mid­wife invest­ig­at­ing the death of a young pros­ti­tute whose diary leads to king­pin Armin Mueller-Stahl. Viggo plays his mys­ter­i­ous driver. Read­ings and Queens­gate.

Frac­ture is a twisty courtroom thrill­er star­ring Ryan Gos­ling (just pulled/pushed out of The Lovely Bones) and Anthony Hop­kins. Hop­kins plays Ted Craw­ford, accused of mur­der­ing his wife; Gos­ling is the ambi­tious Deputy DA who sees this case as his tick­et out to the big money cor­por­ate world but the case proves more com­plic­ated than it first appears. Read­ings, Empire and Queens­gate.

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

Finally get­ting a the­at­ric­al release after fea­tur­ing prom­in­ently at the Show­case back in March is Aus­sie drama Sub­urb­an May­hem. Star­ring Emily Barclay from In My father­’s Den it was described by this review­er as “mean-spirited”: Para­mount and Rialto. Also return­ing, but from the main Fest­iv­al this time, is Sarah Pol­ley’s Away From Her, adap­ted from a story by the won­der­ful Alice Mun­ro: Pent­house only.

Sequel of the week is Res­id­ent Evil: Extinc­tion star­ring Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter from “Heroes” and sing­er Ashanti. Play­ing from today at Read­ings, Regent-on-Man­ners and Queens­gate.

Sub­urb­an May­hem was briefly reviewed at Funer­als & Snakes back in March, the oth­ers will appear next week.