Friday movie roundup - May 2
And the 2008 Summer Blockbuster Season officially begins with “Iron Man,” a slick and funny comic book flick that gets the season off to a good start.
For counter-programming, the womenfolk get a big ol’ piece of crap called “Made of Honor.” It has a pun title, and it’s the worst kind of pun title: the kind that doesn’t actually mean anything. Y’all know I don’t exactly go into romantic comedies expecting the moon, but this one is bad even by the terribly low standards of romantic comedies. Also, despite being marketed exclusively to women, all the female characters are shallow imbeciles. My review is at Film.com.
In limited release, there are a few films worth checking out: David Mamet’s “Redbelt,” David Gordon Green’s “Snow Angels,” and foreign-language Oscar winner “The Counterfeiters” (which, yes, I’ve just barely gotten around to seeing).
Finally, the podcast has a review of “Son of Rambow,” which is terrific, one of the best films of the year, and it opens in limited release today. But ignore the podcast, because the review’s not actually going up until next week. Sorry about that.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 10:38 pm
“Son of Rambow” looks really good……….I hope it comes to my city soon.
May 6th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
I saw the funniest thing the other day. If you all have not seen the show “The Soup” you so have to!! Anyway, they had their review of “Made of Honor” on it & kept switching between pretty much all of Julia Roberts movies & this one. It was freaking hilarious & I’m thinking that the clip was funnier than the movie. Why do we keep sucking into them girls?!?! Don’t we know how they all end?!!? Why do they keep making them this dumb?!?! Go see “Baby Mama” & call it a good weekend instead!!!