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Attractions: Zombies Crave Brains! (And George Romero Has a New Film, Too)

Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or apocalyptically horrid at the movies. This week offers a holiday tentpole duel it seems most people can do without, while a clutch of indies scrap it out for supremacy in limited release. So put down the barbecue tongs and get friggin’ dressed already! There are reasons to leave the house this weekend.

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Attractions: Zombies Crave Brains! (And George Romero Has a New Film, Too)

Rachel Weisz on Agora, Her Job Description and the Cinema of Ideas

This week’s sweeping epic Agora is a bit of a headscratcher — not necessarily for its concentration on the bloody collision of religion, science, romance and politics in 4th-century Alexandria, but instead for the fact that a film so serious and substantial wasn’t itself made extinct somewhere along the development pipeline. Credit Rachel Weisz, the Oscar-winner whose commitment to writer-director Alejandro Amenabar has resulted in one of 2010’s unlikeliest biopics.

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Rachel Weisz on Agora, Her Job Description and the Cinema of Ideas