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What’s opening Friday, July 17?
Well, not a lot is opening Friday, really. It goes without typing that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is all the rage, so all the other studios are basically saying “DUCK!!!”
And with good reason, too - the movie banked $22 million from midnight showings alone, besting the midnight record set by The Dark Knight. My review of the film is over here, where the discussion is getting increasingly interesting.
If you’re looking for something new at the theater besides Harry & Co., you’ll have to turn to the arthouses, or to downtown Dayton. The Neon opens Every Little Step, a documentary about the legendary Broadway show A Chorus Line. I’m very anxious to see this one. The theater also hangs on to Away We Go (reviewed here) and Woody Allen’s Whatever Works (reviewed here).
Over in Yellow Springs, the Little Art hangs on to Moon and adds Whatever Works. The Saturday Picture show for kids is Dr. Dolittle: Million-Dollar Mutts.
I’ve been remiss by not including Victoria Theatre’s classic film series in these posts. This weekend, it’s Paul Newman and Robert Redford in the The Sting, the 1973 Best Picture winner (though I would have picked either The Exorcist or Cries and Whispers from the nominees.) In an interesting coincidence, Columbus’ similar series opens this weekend with the other big Redford/Newman hit, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.)
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By SRCputt
July 16, 2009 7:56 PM | Link to this
I don’t know why an art house is wasting its time booking Dr. Dolittle 5 (from the esteemed director of Inspector Gadget 2). There are better children’s movies.