Archive for September, 2012

Locomotive, Points West Pictures, Red Granite Pictures,

Adam Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd, Megan Fox, Edward Burns, Lee Bryant, Michael Dean, Ilana Levine, Derek Cecil

Two best friends, Jason Fryman (Adam Scott) and Julie Keller (Jennifer Westfeldt) are happy just being friends. But both see an advantage to having a baby, but don’t want to mess up their friendship with romance. So they decide to have a baby as partners, and to share the responsibilities without the hassles of romance. Looking at their friends who are married, none of them seem to be really happy. But when Jason meets a really perfect girl in Mary Jane (Megan Fox) and Julie decides it’s time to settle down with her new flame, complications in the arrangement pop up all over the place. Is it right to raise a child without a family? Can child rearing be a business venture? These questions are answered with lots of humor and comedy mixed in for good measure.

I was not highly impressed with this film, but at the same time, it wasn’t all that bad. This is definitely a rental, no doubt about it, but as a simple date night DVD, it’s not half bad. The acting is decent and the dynamics of the married folks (especially between husband Jon Hamm and wife Kristin Wiig) is pretty funny. I was amused throughout the film, but it was never over the top funny. Basically it’s pretty good. The timing between these two is really awful, and every time one of them nearly gets it together, the other one screws up. This gives us a lot to watch and enjoy and a lot of realization that life isn’t all that easy. The casting is really well done, and the script isn’t bad, so it’s a nice little romantic comedy that is a different look at the situation that I’ve seen before, and I think it’s well worth the price of a rental. I enjoyed it.

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Movie Rentals Releasing Tuesday September 18, 2012

  • The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
  • The Cabin in the Woods
  • Katy Perry:Part of Me
  • Hysteria
  • Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
  • Battlefield America
  • The Woman in the Fifth
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Latitude Entertainment, Pantelion Films, Anxiety Productions,

Eva Mendes, Matthew Modine, Cierra Ramirez, Patricia Arquette, Eugenio Derbez, Landon Liboiron, Russell Peters, Brenna O’Brien, Tiera Skovbye, Kendall Cross, Jocelyne Loewen, Margot Berner

Grace (Eva Mendes) is the troubled mother of a teen age girl Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez) who has issues herself. She is anxious to grow up while she can’t seem to connect to her mother who is always absent. Grace also has issues of her own. Ansiedad is studying in her schools English class about “coming of age” stories, and concocts, along with her best friend, a hair brained plan to grow up and leave home and become a real grown up. Troubles mount as things get more and more screwed up while both Grace and Ansiedad try to find their way.

This is a pretty decent story of troubles in the mother/daughter relationship between these two. Cierra Ramirez is really good as the daughter, and her troubles seem very real and believable. Sometimes adolescents come up with some really stupid ideas on how to grow up too fast. This is one of those times. Ansiedad is simply looking for something else, some attention and assistance from her Mom perhaps, and acting out in a bad way. The performances are really pretty good in this film, and the story is a typical coming of age film about coming of age stories, and is pretty decent as well. All in all it’s a nicely done film for older teens (the PG-13 is there for a good reason) and will capture and keep your attention. It’s not more than what it sets out to be, but all in all it’s a pretty solid film, nicely done all around.

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Walt Disney Pictures, Monsterfoot Productions, Scott Sanders Productions,

Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, CJ Adams, Ron Livingston, Dianne Wiest, Odeya Rush, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, M. Emmet Walsh, Lois Smith, David Morse, Common

Jim and Cindy Green (Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Garner) are a couple who desperately want a child. But through all their attempts and at great expense, they’ve learned that it’s time to give up. In one last attempt before letting it go, they write down all the qualities they want in a child and put it in a box and bury it in the back yard. That night, during a freak rain storm, Timothy appears, and announces that he is theirs. But Timothy is not your normal little boy. He has a very strange secret, and Jim and Cindy have a lot to learn about themselves and their relationships. This is a very unusual fairy tale story.

First of all, this is MY kind of story, and my kind of film. It’s been a while since I’ve seen what I call a 5 star film! This one did it! Now this is very subjective, and many folks will be bored to death with this. But I was simply blown away. The heartfelt story, or really multiple stories for that matter, make it very interesting. There is a bit of mystery and magic, a lot of lessons to be learned, and some great personal battles to be fought. In the back story, this small town has a single industry, and it’s failing due to a change in technology. Then there’s the story of Jim and his dad, played fabulously by David Morse, who have a very strained relationship. There are so many colorful characters in this film, that you never lose interest. In doing a fairy tale-like movie, it can get boring for adults, but this has so much going on, on so many different levels, that it’s really fascinating. This is such a darling film, but it is kind of dying at the box office. This is such a slow season, that if you get a chance to catch it on the big screen, I highly recommend you do. If not, for sure, wait till it’s on DVD, but don’t miss this wonderful film. One bit of warning though if you are lucky enough to catch it in the theater. It’s a bit of a tear jerker in the end, and you either have to wait through the closing credits, or risk someone seeing a moist eye as you walk out.

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New in theaters this weekend Friday September 1, 2012

  • The Master
  • Resident Evil: Retribution
  • Finding Nemo 3D
  • Liberal Arts
  • Arbitrage
  • 10 Years
  • Stolen
  • Snowman’s Land

The biggest excitement for me is a re-release of “Finding Nemo”. It’s been a while since I’ve seen this stunning Pixar animated feature and now it’s in 3D on the big screen. Gotta love Dory. The other major release is “Resident Evil: Retribution” another in the long series of video game to big screen films. This fits in with the fall horror movie schedule, but it has it’s fans and fanatics. I’m not really one, and I generally don’t get too exited over these. I guess this is number 5 in the series and Mila Jovovich does look pretty good fighting the zombies! “The Master” is a post WWII film about those wandering about without purpose. Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman star in this one, and both of those guys fit into a film like this. It’ll be relatively slow, and very literary, I’m sure. “Liberal Arts” is about a college graduate who is bored with his job and missed the college days. He’s afraid the best years of his life are behind him, so when he’s invited back to the college for his professor’s retirement party as a speaker, he jumps at the chance to relive the good old days. Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Roth are in “Arbitrage”, a story of the financial world mixed with a love story! Over his head in debt, but appearing to the world as highly successful, Robert Miller (Gere) tries to sell the company before his fraudulent debt ridden situation is uncovered. “10 Years” features an ensemble cast in a familiar story about a bunch of friends who have never grown up getting back together for a 10 year school reunion. Hilarity ensues, as they say. “Stolen” is a wild action film featuring both Nick Cage and New Orleans. This should be a roller-coaster ride! “Snowman’s Land” is a story about a successful hit man who screws up a job, and is sent on a cake walk to knock off an aged kingpin of an organized crime organization way up in the mountains. Rather than a walk in the park as he is promised, it turns into a fight for survival in this crime action film.

Last Weeks top Box Office:

1 – The Posession
2 – Lawless
3 – The Expendables 2
4 – The Words
5 – ParaNorman

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