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Thursday, June 18, 2009
What’s opening Friday, June 19?
Summer’s big fireworks return next week with the opening of Transformers:ROTF (god, I love that acronym). So for now, the slate serves up a couple of comedies this week.
The Proposal: Sandra Bullock stars as an ice queen book editor who blackmails her put-upon assistant (Ryan Reynolds) into marrying her so she won’t be deported to Canada. From Anne Fletcher, the director of the not-bad 27 Dresses. Early buzz on this is good; I will offer my take Friday.
Year One: Michael Cera and Jack Black star in a cavemen movie, that, thankfully, has nothing to do with Geico, so far as I know. The early ads for this underwhelmed me, and one can never rule out a movie if Harold Ramis (Groundhog Day) is directing. Although then again, he can turn out clunkers like Bedazzled too …
At the arthouses
Neon hangs on to The Brothers Bloom (which I review back here) and opens Easy Virtue, a comedy of manners (or lack of same) starring Kristin Scott-Thomas, Colin Firth and Jessica Biel. It hasn’t been that well reviewed, but Neon is certainly extolling its virtues (rim shot).
The Little Art plays the best film of the year, Pixar’s Up, and has a special screening of the underrated Serenity Saturday, preceded by a special sing-along of “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.”
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