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Summer Movie Preview
It’s finally here! After months of waiting, we can finally get our fill of mutants, heroes, killer robots and ancient puzzles. We can boldly go to the deepest reaches of the galaxy on a starship or float to South America in the comfort of our homes, tethered to millions of balloons. Here presented is what’s on the menu for the coming movie season.
Friday May 1
X-Men Origins: Wolverine – In case you’re one of the odd ones that didn’t download this when the pirating was good, or even if you are, Summer kicks off with this Mutant Tales approach to the fan favourite X-Man. Look for lots of Easter Eggs featuring numerous Marvel characters.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past – Charles Dickens gets massacred again in the interest of teaching lothario Matthew McConaughey that sometimes having a woman that looks like Jennifer Garner is enough for any man.
Friday May 8
Star Trek – If this is anything less than the awesomest Star Trek adventure ever, it’ll be a profound disappointment. But seriously, thanks to J.J. Abrams and his team, the excitement level for Trek hasn’t been this big since the launch of The Next Generation on TV over 20 years ago.
Adoration (limited) – Atom Egoyen’s latest deals with perceptions of the past and how those lies can hurt the people living in the present. It opens after a year of making the festival rounds starting at Cannes last May.
Tyson (limited) – James Toback takes an unflinching look at the life of the famous boxer and films Iron Mike in some revealing conversations.
Friday May 15
Angels & Demons – Tom Hanks returns as symbologist Robert Langdon, whose latest affront to the Church involves the selection of a new Pope and the Illuminati. This time Ayeet Zurer plays Langdon’s beautiful scientist sidekick.
The Brothers Bloom (limited) – Since last September I’ve been raving about this film. It finished Number 1 on my Best Of list for 2008 and now you’ll be able to see why. The film will open wider in the weeks to follow. Thursday May 21
Terminator Salvation – I still hold to my belief that Terminator 3 was a mistake, but having said that I’m excited to see what’s up the sleeve of filmmakers who are showing us our first real look at the post-Judgment Day world and an adult John Conner played by Christian Bale.
Friday May 22
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – Ben Stiller goes upscale with a move to D.C. and the Smithsonian. Most of the rest of the gang from the first film is back, joined by Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart, Eugene Levy as Einstein, Bill Hader as Gen Custer, and many more.
Dance Flick – The Wayans show us all how to do send-up right by spoofing hits like Step Up and Save the Last Dance. Written, produced, directed and starring numerous members of the very large Wayans family.
Saturday May 23
The Great Buck Howard (limited) – Colin Hanks ends up the unwitting manager of a down and out magician played by John Malkovich.
Friday May 29
Drag Me to Hell – Sam Raimi takes a break from Spider-Man and returns home to the horror genre. A young woman becomes subject to a gypsy curse after she refuses to grant the old woman a reprieve on her mortgage payments. Raimi also scripted with his brother Ivan; the first time he’s directed one of his own scripts since Army of Darkness.
Up – Carl Fredricksen fulfills the dream of his late wife when he ties about a million balloons to his house and takes off for South America. After seeing footage at New York Comic Con, I have to say that this may be Pixar’s boldest, and most unusual, endeavour yet.
De père en flic (limited) – This Quebec film is a father/son drama where in both men are cops in the same unit, forced to really communicate with each other when the life of a colleague is at stake.
Friday June 5
The Hangover – Uh, four guys wake up with a hangover. Wackiness ensues. From the director of Old School.
Land of the Lost – Will Ferrell plays scientist Rick Marshall who leads a team to a dangerously comedic alternate dimension filled with cavemen (the Pakuni), lizard people (the Sleestak) and dinosaurs. Based on the TV show from the 70s created by Irwin Allen.
Away We Go (limited) – Sam Mendes directs this story about a couple (played by John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph) who travel the US looking for a place to lay down roots as they’re expecting their first child.
Friday June 12
Imagine That – Eddie Murphy plays a father whose daughter can predict the success of business in the stock market. For further plot information, see the episode “Lisa the Greek” from the third season of The Simpsons.
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 – Tony Scott remakes the 1974 film casting Denzel Washington in the Walter Matthau role of the police officer negotiating with hostage taker John Travolta (subbing for Robert Shaw) for the return of hostages aboard a New York City subway train.
Friday June 19
My Life in Ruins – Nia Vardalos returns to what’s worked: going Greek, as an American tour guide dealing with typical single girl life predicaments in the land of Zeus and Ouzo.
The Proposal – Because the idea of a mismatched shotgun wedding for benefit of a green card is an idea not completely exploited by Hollywood, comes this Sandra Bullock vehicle. Ryan Reynolds co-stars as the hapless victim… I mean romantic lead.
Year One – Harold Ramis takes us back, all the way back to, well, year one. Jack Black and Michael Cera play a pair of Old Testament slackers encountering some of the biggest names from the Bible in their travels.
Wednesday June 24
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Shia LaBeauf and his busted hand finds out a big secret from the Transformers’ past on Earth. Look for more robots, bigger fights, and new reasons to objectify Megan Fox.
Friday June 26
My Sister's Keeper – Topics in medical ethics and moral questions are at the heart of this family drama based on the novel by Jodi Picoult and directed by The Notebook’s Nick Cassavetes.
Whatever Works (limited) – Woody Allen returns to New York with Larry David playing a Greenwich Village curmudgeon who gets wrapped up in a series of romantic entanglements.
Wednesday July 1
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs – Not a prequel, apparently the Dinosaurs came back after being thought extinct. At least, I believe that’s the point of this second sequel in the animated franchise.
Public Enemies – Johnny Depp plays John Dillinger while Christian Bale is the FBI agent pursuing him in this all-star adaptation of Bryan Burrough's non-fiction book, Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34. And who better than cinematic crime boss Michael Mann to bring the story to life.
Friday July 10
Bruno – From the makers of Borat, comes a film that’s like Borat when you replace the bigoted, ignorant, Kazakhstani journalist with a flamboyantly homosexual Austrian journalist.
I Love You, Beth Cooper – Paul Rust is a nerdy kid who admits his love for Beth Cooper (Heroes’ Hayden Panettiere) during his valedictorian speech. The spontaneous admission leads to all-night debauchery as only cinema can offer.
Wednesday July 15
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – The penultimate chapter of the Potter saga begins with the escalation of violence by the Death
Eaters and ends with the shattered reality that things will never been the same again. They also occasionally get in some Quiddich. Friday July 17
(500) Days of Summer - Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel play a young couple with opposite views of romance; he’s a hopeful romantic and she’s a doubting Thomas. The film’s name comes from the plot where in their 500 day relationship is chronicled in non-linear fashion.
Friday July 24
G-Force – In an example of the military industrial complex run amok, guinea pigs are given super-smarts and high tech weapons to serve as government spies. Your tax dollars at work, and you patience taxed as you see this with the kids.
Orphan – “There’s something wrong with Esther.” You’re telling me. Where do they dig up these creepy kids? I’m sure I don’t want to know.
The Ugly Truth – Gerard Butler plays an unruly man with the manners of a barbarian; Katherine Heigl is a TV producer that believes in unrequited love and background checks on a first date. Obviously, they were made for each other.
The Hurt Locker (limited) – Kathyrn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama’s got some good buzz from the festival rounds thanks to the bravado performance by Jeremy Renner. Renner plays a bomb disposal expert that takes increasing garish risks as US Army Bravo Company winds down its rotation in the war torn country.
Friday July 31
Funny People – The latest from Judd Apatow teams Adam Sandler as a dying comedian with young buck Seth Rogen helping him find the meaning of life, not to mention finding the funny. It should be a hit with anyone who like Apatow’s first two, The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up.
They Came From Upstairs – A group of diminutive aliens claim a Maine summer house as their own and terrorize the family vacationing there. And the only one that can save us all is Sharpay from High School Musical.
Friday August 7
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra – Well that pretty much says it all. Directed by Stephen Sommers of The Mummy fame.
Julie & Julia – A woman (played by Amy Adams) decides to cook her way through Julia Child’s classic book Mastering the Art of French Cooking, blogs about her efforts and develops an internet following.
Shorts – In what will hopefully be more Spy Kids 1 than Shark Boy and Lava Girl, Robert Rodriguez tells another tale of childish imagination and whimsy as opposed to working on the $#@%ing Sin City sequel.
Friday August 14
District 9 – From Neill Blomkamp and Peter Jackson, who were originally supposed to be making Halo together, comes another alien invasion story. But this is more Alien Nation then Independence Day as the story looks at aliens landing in South Africa and becoming a slave class serving a multinational corporation.
A Perfect Getaway – A double entendre of a title as a honeymooning couple (Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich) find themselves being stalked by a pair of killers (Timothy Olyphant and Kiele Sanchez).When the perfect getaway turns deadly, can Cliff and Cydney make… The Perfect Getaway? No charge.
The Post Grad Survival Guide – Alexis Bledel plays a college grad that discovers post-campus life is harder than she thought it was going to be. A frightening look at things to come university grads. Actually, it’s a comedy.
The Time Traveler's Wife – After months of delays it looks like we’ll finally get a look at this film based on the popular book about a librarian that travels through time when he’s stressed and the artist he’s pursuing romantically despite his affliction. Rachel McAdams co-stars.
Friday August 21
Inglourious Basterds – Brad Pitt wants 100 Nazi scalps from the eight men under his command as they massacre their way through German occupied France. It’s World War II as only Quentin Tarantino can bring it to you.
It Might Get Loud (limited) – In this documentary, The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White talk about the advent of the electric guitar and its impact on rock music.
Friday August 28 Final Destination: Death Trip 3D – No, you’re not crazy. There was, in fact, a Final Destination 3, so this one is actually part 4. But because 4-D is ridiculous, we’ll have to sit with this bout of confusion.
H2: Halloween 2 – Rob Zombie “completes” his “terrifying vision” of a “movie legend” as he continues to plumb the depth of Michael Myers pro-mask, anti-babysitting psychosis. Malcolm McDowell returns as Dr. Loomis with Scout Taylor-Compton, Laurie Strode and Tyler Mane, Brad Dourif, Danielle Harris and Sheri Moon Zombie
The Boat That Rocked – Think Pump Up the Volume in 1960s Britain, but on a boat in international waters with middle-aged Philip Seymour Hoffman in place of teenaged Christian Slater. On second thought, don’t think that. Ever.
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