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Summer Guide 2007: August Movies
Ray Pride
The Bourne Ultimatum
Post-"United 93," director Paul Greengrass returns to making
movies that audiences don't cringe at the prospect of; equally inspired
and adept at both the small movies like that and "Bloody Sunday" and
his earlier "Bourne" entry, this ought to be another clever eyeful.
2 Days In Paris
Writer-director-star Julie Delpy wreaks her own variation on the
"Sunrise/Sunset" films in her comic feature.
The Hottest State
Writer-director Ethan Hawke wreaks his own variation on 1970s
mope-fest movies; with Mark Webber, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Laura
Linney, Michelle Williams. Based upon the novel by Mr. Hawke.
The Invasion
Nicole Kidman stars in a troubled remake of "Invasion of the Body
Snatchers," begun by "The Experiment"'s Oliver Hirschbiegel and
completed by the Wachowski brothers and their "V for Vendetta"
director. Soul-snatching terror meets an all-ages, all-races-welcome
pansexual boogie-down in a cavern!
Becoming Jane
"The Devil Wears Prada"'s Anne Hathaway portrays Jane Austen as a
romantic young blossom.
Superbad
Long MIA comedy director Greg Mottola ("The Daytrippers") finds
salvation from the Apatow camp of charming fucktard comedies; "Knocked
Up"'s Seth Rogen is co-writer and co-star of this tale of one long
night for two high-school seniors three weeks before graduation day.
Rush Hour 3
C'mon, you've been missing your Chris Tucker. And Jackie Chan meets
Max von Sydow? Indeed.
Halloween
Rob Zombie makes a stab at the long-suffering series, and oh, why
the hell not. He's got a good eye. I wonder if there'll still be a
mountain in the middle of central Illinois like in John Carpenter's
original.
Stardust
Matthew Vaughn, director of the criminally underrated Netflix
favorite "Layer Cake," bowed out of "X-Men 3," and the former Guy
Ritchie producer wound up with this: an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's
novel about an Englishman (Charlie Cox) searching for a real, true
fallen star (Claire Danes). As in "celestial body." With Robert De
Niro as a pirate with a taste for ladies' finery, Michelle Pfeiffer and
Sienna Miller.
The King of Kong
As in "Donkey Kong." Cringe-worthy Sundance fave doc about arcade
game champions and their quest to be... ubernerds?
(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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