Friday movie roundup - July 25
This is a lull week in the summer blockbuster schedule. Only a couple of wide releases that no one’s all that excited about anyway have been tossed out as sacrificial lambs against “The Dark Knight,” which has made so much money that you could stack the cash into a pyramid and set it on fire with a Chinese man tied to a chair on top of it. Hypothetically speaking, I mean.
Today we have “Step Brothers,” which is a sub-par Will Ferrell effort that, predictably, made me laugh anyway. And then we also have “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” (reviewed at Film.com), which is approximately as good as an average “X-Files” TV episode. Meh.
In limited release, though, is “American Teen,” a fantastically entertaining documentary that I saw at Sundance. It will be expanding in the coming weeks, so watch for it. It’s wonderful.
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July 25th, 2008 at 1:57 am
Was Lau tied to the top of that cash stack? Ah, the gruesome little details I didn’t pay attention to.
July 25th, 2008 at 2:31 am
I think you refer to Gillian Anderson as Armstrong at the end of your review of the X-Files movie. If this is a mistake you may want to fix it.
July 25th, 2008 at 11:49 am
I really want to see “American Teen,” but once again, Phoenix proves to be not the greatest place to live if you love independent cinema. (ExxonMobile’s gotta be making a killing off of all my trips over to Scottsdale…)