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Summer Guide 2007: July Movies
Ray Pride
Harry Potter And The Order of the Phoenix
Newcomer David Yates, a vet BBC hand, has his plate full trying to
match up with the highs of some of the earlier entries, but the
production team behind the series seems to have the vast machinery
under
control.
License to Wed
One of the regular director-producers of the American "The
Office," Ken Kwapis brings some regulars on board in this family
comedy
with Robin Williams fearful of the impending nuptials of daughter Mandy
Moore.
Rescue Dawn
Supposedly, this Werner Herzog pic will finally see the light of
day; legalisms have tied up his Christian Bale-starring remake of his
own doc, "Little Dieter Needs to Fly," for months.
Interview
Steve Buscemi directs a remake of a film by the murdered Dutch
director and journalist Theo van Gogh; he stars as an interviewer
cat-and-mousing with celebrity Sienna Miller.
Smiley Face
A Star Is Baked: gifted comic sidekick Anna Faris takes center stage
as a Los Angeleno trying to get through her day after accidentally
ingesting a raft of pot brownies. From Gregg Araki, feeling a little
less serious than with "Mysterious Skin."
Transformers
Michael Bay's musical remake of Bergman's "Smiles of A Summer
Night" are intercut with rock-em-sock-em robots being manipulated by
small, slow children from Indiana. Wouldn't it be great if this movie
were actually good?
Hairspray
Is John Travolta in a fat suit and a dress a trial run for
drag-embracing Rudy Giuliani's run for the White House?
The Simpsons Movie
Doh!
Manufactured Landscapes
Deborah Baichwal's documentary follows Canadian landscape
photographer Edward Burtynsky to China, where he captures beautiful
images of the damage man wreaks on the natural world. Nicely shot by
filmmaker Peter Mettler, it's more than thought-provoking.
(2007-05-22)
Also by Ray Pride
One Dish
There's a great Thursday night pizza special at a place on my block, but
it's their Monday night ten-cent wing special that somehow gets stuck in
my mind (and later, in my teeth). If it's eight or nine o'clock and I
haven't heard the barman ask upon my approach, "Kirin, twelve teriyaki
crispy?" something just seems wrong
(2007-05-18)
Film Review
The charmless, innocuous, overpopulated, hardly written "Shrek the
Third" is the first depiction of a trainwreck I've ever witnessed set
to "mute"
(2007-05-18)
How goes the Jihad?
A wicked bedazzlement and some sort of fucked-up treasure, Hal Hartley's
comedy-turned-terror "Fay Grim" is as misunderstood (and darkly
subversive) as the deepest runnels of American foreign policy
(2007-05-15)
Tip of the Week
Chicago's one of the lucky cities to get Winnipeg anachronist Guy
Maddin's latest rumpus as a live event
(2007-05-15)
One Dish
(2007-05-14)
Tip of the Week
(2007-05-08)
The Tyranny of Distance
(2007-05-08)
One Dish
(2007-05-07)
Beer in Gear
(2007-05-07)
Franchise This
(2007-05-01)
Tip of the Week
(2007-05-01)
Love, Truly Love
(2007-04-27)
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