Previews THE OTHER GUYS. Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg star in a parody of cop/buddy/action flicks directed and co-written by longtime Ferrell collaborator Adam McKay (Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers). Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson show up as a macho cop duo. 108 m. Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content, language, […]
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Très Jolie
Previews DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS. Director Jay Roach (Austin Powers, Meet the Parents) starts with the premise from the French comedy Le Diner de Cons: Upscale businessmen compete to bring the most mock-worthy schmuck to dinner. Tim (Paul Rudd) joins the game to curry favor and finds wacky Barry (Steve Carell from The Office), who uses […]
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I Got Incepted!
Previews “Who is Salt?” The question is the tagline for Salt, an action thriller from Aussie director Phillip Noyce (Rabbit-Proof Fence, Catch a Fire) with Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent accused of being a KGB sleeper sent to assassinate the President. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action. Opening Friday […]
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Douglas Does Doom
Previews Opening Friday, July 16, is The Dark Knight-director Christopher Nolan’s Inception, which has to be my pick for most intriguing trailer of the summer, at least. If you haven’t seen it, imagine a city folding in on itself. Pretty eye-popping stuff. Nolan has been coy with plot details, but as Inception‘s release date approaches […]
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Shyamalan: A Ding-Dong
Previews The summer of 3-D continues with Despicable Me, a CGI cartoon based on a story idea from a Spanish animator, written by an American, rendered and directed by French animators. The despicable one is Gru, voiced by Steve Carell, an evil genius with many minions (cute ones) and a scheme to steal the moon. […]
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Cruise Control
Previews As noted here last week, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, next in the teen vampire/werewolf franchise, hits multiple screens early for Fourth of July weekend and will likely dominate multiplex box offices nationwide. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and some sensuality. At the Broadway, Fortuna, the Minor and Mill Creek. Eclipse‘s primary […]
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Stages of Man
Previews Call Grown Ups a reunion comedy. Producer/co-writer Adam Sandler reunited his buddies from Saturday Night Live class of 1990 — Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider — along with Kevin James (King of Queens) for the story of five guys who played on a championship basketball team in junior high gathering at a […]
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The Kid Kicks Ass
Previews: The big opening this weekend is Toy Story 3, the three-quel (in 3D) in the über-successful Pixar/Disney franchise. At this point the boy, Andy, is going off to college and Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen) and the other toys end up (accidentally) donated to a daycare center ruled by a stuffed bear (Ned […]
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One Real Woman
Previews Coming this weekend: Get Him to the Greek, a sequel/spin-off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall from writer/director Nicholas Stoller and producer Judd Apatow, with Russell Brand returning as narcissistic, hedonist Brit rock star Aldous Snow. Jonah Hill plays an idealistic record company intern assigned to get him from London to L.A.’s Greek Theater for a […]
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Little Benito
Previews Opening this weekend: Shrek Forever After, the fourth and perhaps final episode in DreamWorks’ lovable ogre franchise. The usual crew is back: Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers), Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), sidekicks Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas). The story finds an older but not wiser Shrek mired in domestic life, […]
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Cherry Bomb!
Previews Opening this weekend at the Broadway, Mill Creek, the Fortuna and the Minor: A Nightmare on Elm Street, a remake bringing back prototypical slasher villain Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley) to menace the dreams of frightened teens. Director Samuel Bayer has a long history in rock vids — from Nirvana’s "Smells Like Teen Spirit" […]
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Meet the Fosters
Previews Opening Friday, April 16, is the much-hyped Kick-Ass, based on the comic of the same name. Giving hope to nerdy high school students everywhere, the film features Aaron Johnson as Dave Lizewski, a high school student of little note who decides he can become a superhero by donning an outfit, creating a MySpace page […]