my week at the movies: ‘2012,’ ‘Women in Trouble,’ ‘The Strip,’ ‘A Single Man,’ ‘The Missing Person,’ ‘Nine,’ ‘Everybody’s Fine,’ ‘Serious Moonlight’

I’m not a fan of Tom Ford the fashion designer -- or Tom Ford the magazine editor -- but I’m perfectly willing to reserve judgment on Tom Ford the filmmaker till after I see A Single Man (opens in the U.S. on December 11, and in the U.K. on February 12, 2010), cuz damned if it doesn’t look pretty amazing. Also: it stars my boyfriends Colin Firth and Lee Pace... and honestly, aren’t they everyone’s boyfriends?

What drew me to The Missing Person (opens in the U.S. on November 20; no U.K. release date has been announced)? In a name: Michael Shannon. He was so awesome in Revolutionary Road and Bug that I’ll see in anything now. Oh, and Amy Ryan, awesome in Gone Baby Gone stars in the modern noir, too. So it’s all good, hopefully.

Another nine movie for 2009: Nine (opens in the U.S. and the U.K. on December 18) is a musical from Chicago director Rob Marshall (though he did also direct the hilariously terrible Memoirs of a Geisha) Nice cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard. Could be yummy.

Oh, no, it’s a home-for-the-holidays thing in Everybody’s Fine (opens in the U.S. on December 4, and in the U.K. on February 19, 2010), except all the kids are blowing off dad. Dad is Robert DeNiro, the kids are Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, and Drew Barrymore, and it’s from Waking Ned Devine writer-director Kirk Jones, so with any luck it’ll be more than Meet the Parents in reverse, or something.

Serious Moonlight (opens in the U.S. on December 4; no U.K. release date has been announced; watch it on demand via Amazon right now) is the last film that Adrienne Shelly worked on before she died; actress Cheryl Hines took her script and ran with it as a first-time director. Meg Ryan stars as a woman getting revenge on her husband for something or other. Oh noes! The wominz is making a movie!