filmland / By Charlie Myers

My Kind of Fluff

Owen and Roberts charm their way through Gilroy’s Duplicity

(March 26, 2009) Previews

The big opening on Friday, March 27 is the computer-animated Monsters vs. Aliens, which is being released in 3-D. Susan Murphy (voiced by Reese Witherspoon) grows to 49′1″ after being conked by space junk on the way to her wedding. Captured by the military, she is housed with other monsters who become assets when an alien lands in a UFO. Other voices include Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, Kiefer Sutherland. Rated PG for sci-fi action, some crude humor and mild language. 94m. At the Broadway, Mill Creek, Fortuna and Minor.

A change of pace is provided by Two Lovers, a romantic comedy set in Brooklyn starring Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow as two troubled people struggling to find a relationship. Trouble is, they don’t know where to look. Also starring Vinessa Shaw and Isabella Rossellini. Rated R for language, some sexuality and brief drug use. 110m. At the Minor.

The Haunting in Connecticut is another horror thriller “based on the true story” of a family’s brush with the paranormal. Starring Virginia Madsen. Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of terror and disturbing images. 92m. At the Broadway and Mill Creek.

12 Rounds stars professional wrestler John Cena as a detective who must solve 12 puzzles in order to get his kidnapped girlfriend back from a terrorist. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action. 108m. At the Broadway.

Reviews

I LOVE YOU, MAN: Based on the trailer and other information I had garnered before this film’s opening, I had high hopes. After all, I was the weirdo in the orphanage who could pronounce the long words in books the other kids brought me. In high school, I was the odd man out from the wrong side of the tracks with no car, a job as a soda jerk, and no dates. In college, I quickly discovered that majoring in math just put me in the company of other loser geeks. Then, in my senior year, I was asked to leave the local frat I had managed to join for being caught making out in the chapel. I mean, I thought that was a guy thing. As a coup de grace, my acquaintances during my working life have been a bunch of effete intellectuals and women.

So, a film about a guy on the verge of marriage who has to go on “man dates” in order to find a Best Man for his wedding seemed tailored for someone like me. Finally, I thought, I was going to learn guy speak and discover a world that had long eluded me.

1 2 3 4 NEXT PAGE >SHARE