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What’s opening Friday, August 21?
Quentin Tarantino’s fifth film (or maybe sixth and-a half, depending on how you count Kill Bill and Death Proof) is the big ticket this week; the other tickets look mostly small.
Inglourious Basterds: Review posts Friday. Short review’s of QT’s other films post later today.
Post Grad: Gilmore Girl Alexis Bledel seems to be one of those appealing actresses who has trouble finding a good vehicle; this one, in which she plays a graduate forced to move back home, apparently continues her unfortunate trouble.
Shorts: Tarantino’s Grindhouse buddy Robert Rodriguez returns with a film that’s a little more … family friendly than his partner’s offering. Word is split on whether this is more akin to Spy Kids or to The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl.
X-Games 3D: The Movie: Sir Critic: I’ve been interested in most 3D movies that have come out. This is not one of them.
At the arthouses
Neon hangs on to 500 Days of Summer and Food Inc. and adds Summer Hours, a Juliette Binoche-led film about two brothers and a sister who have to relinquish family belongings to ensure their deceased mother’s succession.
Little Art opens 500 Days of Summer.
At Victoria Theatre’s Cool Films Series
American Graffiti: A long time ago, George Lucas traveled to a galaxy not so far away with this excellent movie that sparked the 50s nostalgia craze in the 70s. Marvel at a very young Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford and Suzanne Sommers, and at a stellar soundtrack.
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By SRCputt
August 21, 2009 10:58 AM | Link to this
So looking forward to American Graffiti. My daughter is a major Star Wars geek, so I am taking her Saturday to show her what got Lucas the funding to make Star Wars.