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ATTACK THE BLOCK (R) A teen
named Moses (John Boyega) and his
gang attempt to protect their housing
estate. Wyndham Tower, during an
alien invasion The feature debut of
comedian turned filmmaker turned
heads at South by Southwest, but no
one has heard much about it since.
Still, the sci-fi flick, taglined “Inner City
vs Outer Space," sounds much more
intriguing than recent alien invasions
entries such as Skyline and Bottle. Los
Angeles
BAD TEACHER (R) Nothing humor
ously new is said in Bod Teacher.
another in a popular line of adults
behaving badly around/toward children
(a subgenre academically known as
a Billy Bob comedy) As very bad
teacher Elizabeth Halsey. Cameron Diaz
reminds the moviegoing public that
there was something about Mary, and
sh? had a lot to do with it. I thought
was the summers funniest comedy
behind Bridesmaids
THE BLUE ANGEL (NR) 1930
Director Josef von Sternberg catapulted
the inimitable Marlene Dietrich a lover
he directed six more tunes into the
international spotlight with this clas
sic of German Weimar cinema After
following his students to a speakeasy
Professor Immanuel Rath (Emit
Jannings) becomes obsessed with
dancer Lola Lola (Dietrich) Based on
the novel by Heinrich Mann, Der Bioue
Engel was filmed simultaneously in
English
BRIDESMAIDS (R) Considering its
competition, calling Bridesmoids the
funniest movie of 2011 may be as
much an insult as a compliment to this
hilarious comedy, written by and star
ring Kristen Wiig (winner of the year's
It's About Time Award) This female-
driven flick needs to be judged and
compared to its raunchy, hearty broth
ers all raised under the banner of the
House of Apatow These bridesmaids
prove to be just as funny and dirty as
the groomsmen of The 40 Yeor Old
Virgin. Knocked Up. etc.
• CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE
FIRST AVENGER (PG 13) Do you
remember The Rocketeer? I do. and
so does Coptom America director Joe
Johnston, who should, seeing as he
directed the 1991 throwback. Johnston
smartly gives Captain America The
First Avenger (talk about unnecessary
subtitles) the same sort of Saturday
matinee serial feel. Ninety-pound
weakling Steve Rogers (Chris Evans)
wants to do his part in WWII, but
army doctors keep 4Fing him until Dr.
Abraham Erskme (the ever wonderful
Stanley Tucci) approaches with his
super soldier serum. Soon, Steve
Rogers turns into a muscl^L up super
hero called Captain America, who must
stop rogue Nazi, the Red Skull (Hugo
Weaving), from devastating the worid
Like Green Lanterris Ryan Reynolds,
likable beefcake Evans was born to
play a superhero, he’s as All-American
as you can get But Captain America
works a lot better than Green Lantern
Fighting Nazis iri WWII also places
Caplam America in a world stylisti
cally foreign from that of his modern
Avengers teammates—Iron Mari.
Thor and the Hulk The old-fashioned
adventuring becomes Cap Be sureto
slick around through the credits for an
Avengers leaser
CARS 2(G) Ca r s 2 is an above-aver
age children's cartoon Unfortunately,
an above-averaqe children's cartoon
is way below Pixar's capabilities Any
other animation house can make a Cars
or a Cars 2. Pixar should leave the
kiddie entertainment to DreamWorks/
Sony and concentrate on singular mas
terpieces like WALL-Eand Up
CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS
(NR) 2010 A lot has been said and
written about legendary filmmaker
Werner Herzog's documentary, filmed
m France's Chauvet Cave, where the
oldest known pictorial representations
of mankind can be found (Even more
has been made about him shooting this
documentary in uncharacteristic 3D.)
Closed to the general public, Herzog
had to receive special permission to
film inside the cave. Along with footage
inside the cave itself, Herzog inter
viewed expert scientists and historians
and snapped pictures of the nearby
Pont d'Arc natural bridge
COWBOYS & ALIENS (PG-13)
Cowboys & Aliens stars Daniel Craig
and Harrison Ford in a Wild West
showdown with extraterrestrials This
neo-western is directed by Iron Man's
Jon Favreau and written by "Lost’ s
Damon Lindelof and the Roberto
Orci/ Alex Kurtzman collaborative
Surrounding Craig and Ford are Olivia
Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano.
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Clancy Brown, Keith Carradine and
Walton Goggms. How could this not
be the summer blockbuster for which
you re saving your midnight showing?
CRAZY. STUPID, LOVE. (PG-13)
Steve Carell stars as Cal Weaver, a
married man struggling to balance his
wife (Julianne Moore), marriage coun
seling (with counselor Ryan Gosling)
and a relationship with his kids Bad
Santa scripters and / Love You Phillip
Morris directors Glenn Ficarra and
John Requa bring Dan Fogelman's
script to the screen. (Fogelman's
previous credits include a lot of work
for Disney including Cars. Bolt and
Tangled.) With rising star Emma Stone.
Kevin Bacon and Marisa Tomei.
FAST FIVE (PG-13) As the "plot"
goes, Dorn (Vin Diesel). Brian (Paul
Walker) and Dorn's sister/Brian's
squeeze Mia (Jordana Brewster), are
on the lam after a daring, non-fata!
prison break Other stuff goes on to set
up the Ocean's 11 on wheels heist that
climaxes the movie Most of the other
stuff is boring, but when the car-based
action gets moving, it is a pedal to the
metal blast.
•FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (R)
No, you didn't like this movie better
when it starred Natalie Portrnan and
Ashton Kutcher Just act like No Strings
Attached doesn't exist', and enjoy the
far superior genre stylings of Friends
with Benefits Two pals. Dylan (Justin
Timberlake) and Jamie (Mila Kunis),
decide to add sex to their BFF to Do
List. Naturally, it gets complicated by
emotions arid standard "Will they or
won t they?" subdrama The comedy
thinks a bit highly of itself. It's still
just a romantic comedy that makes
all the same moves it ridicules in the
Jason Segei/Rashida Jones in-movie
romcom But JT and Kunis bedazzle the
movie with sparkly comic rhinestones
that easily outshine that other similarly
themed romcom starring two former
Kunis costars
THE FUTURE (NR) Popular inde
pendent filmmaker, Miranda July (her
debut. Me and You and Everyone
We Know, was all the rage in 2005),
returns with her second feature.
Adopting a stray cat changes the
course ot time and space for a couple
(July and Hamish Linklater) The film,
narrated by the cat. Paw-Paw (v. July),
sounds a bit more intriguing and
original than much of the indie fare
that emerges from the festival scene
Nominated tor the Golden Bear at the
Berlin International Film Festival
HARRY POTTER AND THE
DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2
(PG-13) It's over The final battle
rages over and through the hallowed
halls of Hogwarts as Harry (Daniel
Radcliffe). Hermione (Emma Watson)
and Ron (Rupert Grint) attempt to end
Voldemorl's (Ralph Fiennes) evil reign.
The last few Horcruxes must be found
and destroyed if Harry is ever to truly
defeat You-Know-Who HP7.2 is filled
with blood, death and violence yet is
still fit for the entire family (besides the
littlest ones).
HORRIBLE BOSSES (R) Horrible
Bosses is the summer's funniest
movie (since the last time I crowned
a lilm such) Nick (Jason Bateman)
works for an evil corporate shark
played perfectly by Kevin Spacey (with
a wink and a nod to the darkly fun
Swimming with Sharks) Dale (Charlie
Day) is getting seriously sexually
harassed by his seriously hot dentist
boss (Jennifer Aniston). Kurt (Jason
Sudeikis) answers to a cokehead
douchebag that resembles a balding
Colin Farrell (Farrell) With the help of
a murder consultant with a very blue
name (Jamie Foxx), these three friends
decide to murder each other's boss.
JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13)
Jumping the Broom has all the familial
melodrama of a Tyler Perry production
without Madea's tonal aggression.
When uptown girl Sabrina (Paula
Patton) meets downtown boy Jason
(Laz Alonso), they quickly get engaged
The wedding on Martha's Vineyard
highlights the divide between the two
families, led by tough-verging-on-
unlikable matriarchs played by Angela
Bassett and Loretta Devine.
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG-13) Owen
Wilson stars as the iatest Woody stand-
in. Gil. a Hollywood hack trying to fin
ish a novel while on a family business
trip to Pans On a magical midnight
walk. Gil runs into Scott and Zelda
Fitzgerald (Tom Hiddleston and Alison
Piil). gets writing advice from Papa
Hemingway (Corey Stoll) and Gertrude
Stein (Kathy Bates) and falls for
Picasso's girlfriend. Adriana (Marion
Cotillard) This funny, heartwarming
charmer should please lit teachers and
anyone looking for an intelligent breeze
to freshen up the romcom genre.
MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS (PG)
Tom Popper (Jim Carrey) is a ruthless
real estate something-or-other. who's a
rather sorry husband (to Carla Gugino)
and father (to Swing Votds wonderful
Madeline Carroll and Maxwell Perry
Cotton), that is, until he inherits six
penguins from his late absentee father.
Then Popper becomes the best poppa a
penguin or progeny could pray for.
QUESTIONING FAITH (NR) 2002
After his fellow seminarian, Alan Smith,
died of AIDS, Macky Alston attempted
to answer the question, “Why does
God permit such senseless tragedies?"
His crisis of faith led him to interview
people from a wide range of religious
faiths, from born-again Christians to
Muslims to atheists to Orthodox Jews
RIO (G) Another week, another aver
age animated children’s movie that
won't quite pain the adults forced to
accompany them. After Rango. 2011's
animated output has some minor big.
quirky boots to fill. Rio isn't quirky It
mashes together several popular car
toon plotlines
THE SMURFS (PG) I already smurf
this movie Why, ch why. must the
Smurfs be moved to New York City?
The voice cast is full-on familiar
Jonathan Winters as Papa Smurf, Katy
Perry as Smurfette. Alan Cumming as
Gutsy Smu4, George Lopez as Grouchy
Smurf. Paul "Pee Wee Herman"
Reubens as Jokey Smurf. Kenan
Thompson as Greedy Smurl and B J
Novak (“The Office") as Baker Smurf
•THE TREE OF LIFE (PG-13)
Terence Malick films are not simple
entertainment to be gulped down,
digested and evacuated in one two-
hour sitting. The Tree of Lite certainly
lends itself to interpretation and lengthy
post-film dissection A man (Sean
Penn) must come to terms with his
dead brother, coldly caring father (Brad
Pitt, whose jaw is clenched so tautly
he has an overbite) and loving mother
(Jessica Chastain). He relives his '50s
childhood through the fragmented
memories of his mind's scrapbook The
narrative of Jack's childhood is recalled
in snatches of imagery. The result is
a gorgeous, interconnected series of
moving Impressionism. Too bad Malick
indulges in the most egregious of art
house pretension in the film's prologue
and coda. Between those two esoteric
bookends is a funny, heartfelt, tough
coming-of-age tale that is the best film
I have seen this year.
VISIBLE SILENCE—MARSDEN
HARTLEY, PAINTER AND POET
(NR) Through the use of over 60
of Marsden Hartley’s paintings and
drawings and an equal number of
photographs from around the world,
the artist's life is traced from its origins
in Lewiston. Maine to Europe and
across the United States until his
secluded end in a small Maine fishing
village. Director Michael Maglaras
and Paul Manoguerra will provide an
introduction.
WINNIE THE POOH (G) Disney
brings Winnie the Pooh and all the
other denizens of the Hundred Acre
Wood back to the big screen in the
hand-drawn animated tradition of old
Walt himself. Five of Pooh creator
A A. Milne's stories are being retold,
and the voice cast is refreshingly non-
starstudded.
ZOOKEEPER (PG) James is Griffin, a
nice guy who nicely takes care of nice
animals for a nice living A pretty girl,
Stephanie (Leslie Bibb), broke his nice
heart because he's a nice zookeeper.
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